Politics & Economy audiobooks

Alive Day

By: Captain Sam Brown & Amy Brown

Narrated by: Adam Barr & Brooke Persoon

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

How long does it take to burn to death?
This question raced through Sam Brown’s mind as he burned alive alongside a dirt road in Afghanistan. At 24, he was pursuing his lifelong ambition of serving in the US military when his vehicle detonated one of the Taliban’s bombs. Sam was desperate for death to end his pain. Instead, a fellow soldier... Read more

Engage and Thrive: Culturally Responsive Teaching for Diverse Students

By: Julian F. Northwood

Narrated by: Nick Porter

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Engage and Thrive: Culturally Responsive Teaching for Diverse Students
⭐⭐ Simplified Guide & Explanations Included ⭐⭐
Are you looking to progress in your career and solidify your knowledge by successfully empowering diverse students through culturally responsive teaching?
Seeking a comprehensive guide that provides all necessary elements to... Read more

Keith Murdoch’s Gallipoli Letter

By: Sir Keith Murdoch

Narrated by: Sarah Bacaller

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The National Library of Australia describes Keith Murdoch’s Gallipoli Letter in the following way:“The Gallipoli letter is an 8000-word private report written by journalist Keith Arthur Murdoch, with the help of British war correspondent Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, after visiting the Gallipoli peninsula in September 1915. It describes the... Read more

I've Been to the Mountaintop

By: Martin Luther King

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's last speech ""I've Been to the Mountaintop,"" part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins.On April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood at the pulpit of Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee, and delivered what would be his final speech. Voiced in support of the Memphis... Read more

Proverb Masters

By: Raymond Summerville

Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In Proverb Masters: Shaping the Civil Rights Movement, author Raymond Summerville explores how proverbs and proverbial language played a significant role in the long civil rights era. Proverbs have been used throughout history to share and disseminate brief, powerful statements of truth and philosophical insight. Oftentimes, these sayings have... Read more

Homeland

By: Richard Beck

Narrated by: Patrick Harrison

Length: 21 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking history of how the decades-long war on terror changed virtually every aspect of American life, from the erosion of citizenship down to the cars we bought and TV we watched—by an acclaimed n+1 writer

“Richard Beck, like many people alive today, has spent his adult life living in the shadow of 9/11, and Homeland is a devastating... Read more

Disruption?

By: Sean M. Theriault

Narrated by: Dina Pearlman & Perry Daniels

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens when a tradition-bound institution encounters an iconoclastic president intent on changing how the government operates? In Disruption?, Sean M. Theriault has gathered nineteen leading authors from a range of subfields to provide a compelling understanding for if, how, and to what extent Trump disrupted the Senate. As the authors... Read more

The Spirit of Justice

By: Jemar Tisby

Narrated by: Jemar Tisby

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.The Black History You Never Knew: Uncovering Unsung Heroes in the Struggle for Racial Justice.The Spirit of Justice reveals the stories of the people who fought against racism and agitated for justice—and what we can learn from their example, their suffering, their methods, and their hope.How is it that people still work for... Read more

Follow the Science

By: Sharyl Attkisson

Narrated by: Sharyl Attkisson

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist and New York Times bestselling author Sharyl Attkisson exposes the corruption that has ruled the pharmaceutical industry for decades.Through blatant lies, deep cover-ups, and high-level collusion with government and media, Big Pharma has continuously put profits over people with dangerous results. Now,... Read more

The Heartbeat Drum

By: Deidre Havrelock

Narrated by: Kyla Garcia

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Nisôhkisinân …We are strong …Ninikamonân …We are singing …Mîna nika-âhkamêyimonân … And we will continue …Whenever young Carol sang along to her family’s music, her heart felt light and full of joy. Learning from her great-grandfather, Moshum, Carol listened closely to the drums’ heartbeat until one day, Moshum made her a drum of her very own.... Read more

The Greatest Generals of the Ancient World

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Ross Jenkins

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the last 2,000 years, ambitious men have dreamed of forging vast empires and attaining eternal glory in battle, but of all the conquerors who took steps toward such dreams, none were ever as successful as antiquity’s first great conqueror. Leaders of the 20th century hoped to rival Napoleon’s accomplishments, while Napoleon aimed to... Read more

History for Kids: The Lives of the Mount Rushmore Presidents

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Michelle Humphries

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In Charles River Editors’ History for Kids series, your children can learn about history’s most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way.  Every American is taught a pristine narrative of the life and legacy of George Washington and can easily recite the highlights of the “Father of Our Country”. The remarkable... Read more

No Road Leading Back

By: Chris Heath

Narrated by: Vas Eli

Length: 21 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

This by turns shattering and hope-giving account of prisoners who dug their way to freedom from the Nazis is both a stunning escape narrative and an object lesson in the ways we remember and continually forget the particulars of the Holocaust.

No Road Leading Back is the remarkable story of a dozen prisoners who escaped from the site where more... Read more

America's Deadliest Election

By: Dana Bash

Narrated by: Dana Bash

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

“Let chaos come.”

The violent election of 1872 that serves as a warning for today's divided politics.

From CNN’s Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash, the fast-paced story of the extraordinary election that led to hundreds of murders, warfare in the streets of New Orleans, two governors of Louisiana—and changed the course of politics in our... Read more

I Am Maroon

By: Russell Shoatz

Narrated by: Avery Kidd Waddell & Kanya D'Almeida

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In this cinematic memoir, follow one man's journey from gang member to Black liberation leader to political prisoner–and the justice and redemption he fought for along the way.

Inspired by Malcolm X, Russell Shoatz became a lifelong crusader for justice, a soldier in the most militant units of the Black Liberation Army. Shoatz was convicted to... Read more

Here to Stay

By: Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Janine Joseph & Est...

Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi, Emana Rachelle, Sura Siu, Ras...

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A lush tapestry of poetry and prose, Here to Stay is an invitation to engage with a new field of contemporary American poetry. “I cannot separate my work from my undocumented identity.” —Aline MelloFrom the indomitable writers and activists Janine Joseph, Esther Lin, and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo comes an anthology gathering some of the best... Read more

Limits to Growth

By: Jorgen Randers, Dennis Meadows & Donella Meadows

Narrated by: Tia Rider

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1972, three scientists from MIT created a computer model that analyzed global resource consumption and production. Their results shocked the world and created stirring conversation about global ‘overshoot,’ or resource use beyond the carrying capacity of the planet. Now, preeminent environmental scientists Donnella Meadows, Jorgen Randers,... Read more

How Economics Explains the World

By: Andrew Leigh

Narrated by: Stephen Graybill

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

“If you read just one book about economics, make it Andrew Leigh's clear, insightful, and remarkable (and short) work.” —Claudia Goldin, recipient of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics and Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard UniversityA sweeping, engrossing history of how economic forces have shaped the world—all in under 200 pagesIn How... Read more

She Persisted: Dolores Huerta

By: Monica Brown & Chelsea Clinton

Narrated by: Elena Rey & Chelsea Clinton

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger, a chapter book series about women who spoke up and rose up against the odds—including community activist Dolores Huerta!

Dolores Huerta always knew that helping others in her community was important. So when she became a teacher and saw how hard it... Read more

El espíritu de la esperanza - Abridged

By: Byung-Chul Han

Narrated by: Jordi Llovet

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Después de más de doce años de ensayos críticos con el régimen neoliberal, en esta nueva y novedosa obra el célebre filósofo Byung-Chul Han emprende no ya un viraje, sino una verdadera superación hacia una alentadora visión del hombre. De la desesperación más profunda nace también la esperanza más íntima. La esperanza nos lanza hacia lo... Read more

The Titans of the Twentieth Century

By: Michael Mandelbaum

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

An engaging and original historical portrait of eight of the most influential political figures of the twentieth century: Woodrow Wilson, Lenin, Hitler, Churchill, FDR, Gandhi, David Ben-Gurion, and Mao.



The Titans of the Twentieth Century addresses an age-old question: what is the impact of individuals on history? The first half of the twentieth... Read more

The Great Transformation

By: Karl Polanyi

Narrated by: David Pickering

Length: 13 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and social changes brought about by the great transformation of the Industrial Revolution. His analysis explains not only the deficiencies of the self-regulating market, but the potentially dire social consequences of untempered market capitalism. New... Read more

Considérations Sur La France

By: Joseph de Maistre

Narrated by: Baudouin Flament

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Les "Considérations sur la France" paraissent en 1797. Pour la première fois, les victimes de la Révolution parlent, non pour gémir et insulter, mais pour comprendre ce qui s'est passé et aussi envisager l'avenir probable. Joseph de Maistre est le premier à ne pas critiquer la Révolution pour l'une ou l'autre de ses mesures ou pour ses... Read more

Pardon Power

By: Kim Wehle

Narrated by: Holly Adams

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

If you've ever wondered about the constitutional basis for presidential pardons, this book explains it, offering examples from the recent and distant past. Follow constitutional law professor and popular newsroom commentator Kim Wehle through a fascinating rundown of how this executive power has been—and might be—used by American presidents. Read more