Politics & Economy audiobooks

Jefferson

By: John B. Boles

Narrated by: Michael Johnson

Length: 24 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From an eminent scholar of the American South, the first full-scale biography of Thomas Jefferson since 1970

Not since Merrill Peterson's Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation has a scholar attempted to write a comprehensive biography of the most complex Founding Father. In Jefferson, John B. Boles plumbs every facet of Thomas Jefferson's life,... Read more

Incendiary

By: Michael Cannell

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Long before the specter of terrorism haunted the public imagination, a serial bomber stalked the streets of 1950s New York. The race to catch him would give birth to a new science called criminal profiling.

Grand Central, Penn Station, Radio City Music Hall—for almost two decades, no place was safe from the man who signed his anonymous letters... Read more

The Angel

By: Uri Bar-Joseph

Narrated by: Neil Shah

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

As the son-in-law of Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser and a close advisor to his successor, Anwar Sadat, Ashraf Marwan had access to the deepest secrets of the country's government. But he himself had a secret: he was a spy for the Mossad, Israel's intelligence service. Under the codename "The Angel," Marwan turned Egypt into an open book... Read more

Two Paths

By: John Kasich

Narrated by: John Kasich

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

When former Ohio governor John Kasich ran for president, his powerful message of hope and togetherness struck a chord with American voters. In Two Paths: America Divided or United, he carries that message forward by reflecting on the tumultuous 2016 campaign, sharing his concerns for America and his hopes for... Read more

The Islamic Enlightenment

By: Christopher deBellaigue

Narrated by: Charles Armstrong

Length: 15 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This absorbing account of the political and social reformations that transformed the lands of Islam during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries offers a game-changing assessment of the Middle East. Beginning his account in 1798, de Bellaigue demonstrates how the Middle East has long welcomed modern ideals and practices, including the... Read more

Sometimes Amazing Things Happen

By: Elizabeth Ford

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Elizabeth Ford went through medical school unsure of where she belonged. It wasn’t until she did her psychiatry rotation that she found her calling—to care for one of the most vulnerable populations of mentally ill people, the inmates of New York City’s jails, including Rikers Island, who are so sick that they are sent to the Bellevue Hospital... Read more

Last Hope Island

By: Lynne Olson

Narrated by: Arthur Morey & Kimberly Farr

Length: 18 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking account of how Britain became the base of operations for the exiled leaders of Europe in their desperate struggle to reclaim their continent from Hitler, from the New York Times bestselling author of Citizens of London and Those Angry Days

When the Nazi blitzkrieg rolled over continental Europe in the early days of World War II,... Read more

Superfast Primetime Ultimate Nation

By: Adam Roberts

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Who can foretell India's future? Mr. Joshi is a fortune teller in a slum in south Delhi who uses a soothsaying green parrot to make predictions. When Adam Roberts visited him in 2012, Joshi's parrot declared that India was destined to become the most powerful nation under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The parrot also foretold that India would... Read more

The Soul of the First Amendment

By: Floyd Abrams

Narrated by: James Foster

Length: 3 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A lively and controversial overview by the nation’s most celebrated First Amendment lawyer of the unique protections for freedom of speech in AmericaThe right of Americans to voice their beliefs without government approval or oversight is protected under what may well be the most honored and least understood addendum to the US Constitution—the... Read more

The Operator

By: Robert O'Neill

Narrated by: Robert O'Neill

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

This instant New York Times bestseller—“a jaw-dropping, fast-paced account” (New York Post) recounts SEAL Team Operator Robert O’Neill’s incredible four-hundred-mission career, including the attempts to rescue “Lone Survivor” Marcus Luttrell and abducted-by-Somali-pirates Captain Richard Phillips, and which culminated in the death of the world’s... Read more

A Path Out of Poverty

By: Paul Farmer

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

"If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together."
—Lilla Watson, Aboriginal activist and artist

World-renowned physician and public health pioneer Dr. Paul Farmer has long been devoted to caring and advocating for the world's... Read more

Two Paths

By: John Kasich

Narrated by: John Kasich

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Two paths. One choice—the path that exploits anger, encourages resentment, turns fear into hatred and divides people. This path solves nothing, demeans our history, weakens our country and cheapens each of us. It has but one beneficiary and that is to the politician who speaks of it. The other path is the one America has been down before. It... Read more

Guide to Chris Hayes's A Colony in a Nation by Instaread

By: Instaread

Narrated by: Dwight Equitz

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Chris Hayes’s A Colony in a Nation and NOT the original book.
Preview:
A Colony in a Nation is Chris Hayes’s treatise against police brutality, which persisted and continued to develop after Jim Crow laws were dismantled in the 1960s. This police brutality has been endured mostly by people of color...
Inside this... Read more

Elizabeth I

By: Abigail Archer

Narrated by: Sarah Nichols

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

England’s first Queen Elizabeth gave her name to an age.Inheriting a bankrupt, famished, and powerless country, she healed its religious rifts, replenished its treasury, redefined diplomatic guile, defeated the Spanish Armada, and inspired a new flowering of English culture.Her father, Henry VIII, beheaded her mother, Anne Boleyn, and Elizabeth... Read more

Manufacturing Consent

By: Noam Chomsky & Edward S. Herman

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 15 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In this pathbreaking work, now with a new introduction, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political agendas of the privileged groups... Read more

Our Latest Longest War

By: Aaron B. O'Connell

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 14 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The first rule of warfare is to know one's enemy. The second is to know thyself. More than fifteen years and three quarters of a trillion dollars after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, it's clear that the United States followed neither rule well.

America's goals in Afghanistan were lofty to begin with: dismantle al Qaeda, remove the Taliban... Read more

Three Minutes to Doomsday

By: Joe Navarro

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

An intense cat-and-mouse game played between two brilliant men in the last days of the Cold War, this shocking insider’s story shows how a massive giveaway of secret war plans and nuclear secrets threatened America with annihilation.

In 1988 Joe Navarro, one of the youngest agents ever hired by the FBI, was dividing his time between SWAT... Read more

The American Spirit

By: David McCullough

Narrated by: David McCullough

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Bestseller

A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States—winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among many others—that reminds us of fundamental American principles.

“Insightful and inspirational, The American Spirit... Read more

Janesville

By: Amy Goldstein

Narrated by: Joy Osmanski

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

* Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize​ * 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2017 * An Economist Best Book of 2017 * A Business Insider Best Book of... Read more

When the World Stopped to Listen

By: Stuart Isacoff

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

April of 1958—the Iron Curtain was at its heaviest, and the outcome of the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition seemed preordained. Nonetheless, as star musicians from across the globe descended on Moscow, an unlikely favorite emerged: Van Cliburn, a polite, lanky Texan whose passionate virtuosity captured the Russian spirit.This is the... Read more

The Case for Impeachment

By: Allan J. Lichtman

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Lichtman has written what may be the most important book of the year.”  —The HillWhat are the ranges and limitations of presidential authority? What are the standards of truthfulness that a president must uphold? What will it take to impeach Donald J. Trump? Professor Allan J. Lichtman, who has correctly forecasted thirty... Read more

Mandela

By: Donna Faulkner

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Nelson Mandela led a long and remarkable life. From his earliest days herding cows in a South African village, he became a child of privilege, a rebellious runaway, an impoverished student, a father, a successful lawyer, a political dissident, a rising star in the African nationalist movement, an underground saboteur, the chief defendant in... Read more

Vote First or Die

By: Scott Conroy

Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

New Hampshire-a small state with a small, distinct population-is nevertheless the beacon of American democracy. Since 1920, its residents have been the first in the nation to cast their votes in the presidential primaries. History has shown that if you want to be commander in chief, you have to win, or at least place a strong second, in New... Read more

Locking Up Our Own

By: James Forman, Jr.

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Former public defender James Forman, Jr., is a leading critic of mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of color. In Locking Up Our Own, he seeks to understand the war on crime that began in the 1970s and why it was supported by many African American leaders in the nation’s urban centers.

Forman shows us that the first... Read more