Politics & Economy audiobooks

President Carter

By: Stuart E. Eizenstat

Narrated by: Brian Troxell, Madeleine Albright & Stuart E. E...

Length: 37 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes a forward written and read by Madeleine Albright, with a preface and introduction read by Stuart E. Eizenstat.

The definitive history of the Carter Administration from the man who participated in its surprising number of accomplishments—drawing on his extensive and never-before-seen notes.

Stuart E. Eizenstat was at Jimmy... Read more

Troll Nation

By: Amanda Marcotte

Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A Senior Political Reporter examines how Trump, a man with no detectable personal qualities outside of resentment and the will to dominate, could appeal to millions of Americans and win the highest office in the land.The election of Donald Trump in 2016, like most of his campaign, came as a shock to many Americans. How could a man so lacking in... Read more

Live Work Work Work Die

By: Corey Pein

Narrated by: Corey Pein

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A scathing, sardonic exploration of Silicon Valley tech culture, laying bare the greed, hubris, and retrograde politics of an industry that aspires to radically transform society for its own benefit. This enlightening audiobook is a must-listen for anyone interested or involved in the tech industry.

At the height of the startup boom, journalist... Read more

Marx and Marxism

By: Gregory Claeys

Narrated by: Michael Gould

Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A new biography of Karl Marx, tracing the life of this titanic figure and the legacy of his work

Karl Marx remains the most influential and controversial political thinker in history. He died quietly in 1883 and a mere eleven mourners attended his funeral, but a year later he was being hailed as "the Prophet himself" whose name and writings... Read more

The People vs. Democracy

By: Yascha Mounk

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

“We can no longer assume that liberal democracy is the wave of the future… This splendid book is an invaluable contribution to the debate about what ails democracy, and what can be done about it.” ―Michael J. Sandel, author of Justice“Everyone worried about the state of contemporary politics should read this book.” ―Anne-Marie Slaughter,... Read more

The Moralist

By: Patricia O'Toole

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 23 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed author Patricia O’Toole’s “superb” (The New York Times) account of Woodrow Wilson, one of the most high-minded, consequential, and controversial US presidents. A “gripping” (USA TODAY) biography, The Moralist is “an essential contribution to presidential history” (Booklist, starred review).

“In graceful prose and deep scholarship,... Read more

The American Political Tradition

By: Richard Hofstadter

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

Length: 17 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The American Political Tradition is one of the most influential and widely read historical volumes of our time. First published in 1948, its elegance, passion, and iconoclastic erudition laid the groundwork for a totally new understanding of the American past. By writing a "kind of intellectual history of the assumptions behind American... Read more

The Capitalist Comeback

By: Andrew Puzder

Narrated by: James Edward Thomas

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Andy Puzder, the former CEO of Carl's Jr. and Hardee's, says that "capitalism" is not a dirty word, and thankfully President Trump understands this; his pro-business policies will bring back economic growth and secure our future.

As a successful CEO in the restaurant industry, Andy Puzder uniquely understands how important the profit motive is to... Read more

Monash's Masterpiece

By: Peter FitzSimons

Narrated by: Michael Carman

Length: 15 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The Battle of Le Hamel on 4 July 1918 was an Allied triumph, and strategically very important in the closing stages of WWI. A largely Australian force, commanded by the brilliant Sir John Monash, fought what has been described as the first modern battle - where infantry, tanks, artillery and planes operated together as a coordinated force.

Monash... Read more

Breakpoint

By: Jeremy B. C. Jackson & Steve Chapple

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Eminent ecologist Jeremy B. C. Jackson and award-winning journalist Steve Chapple traveled the length of the Mississippi River interviewing farmers, fishermen, scientists, and policymakers to better understand the mounting environmental problems ravaging the United States. Along their journey, which quickly expands to California, Florida, and... Read more

The View from Flyover Country

By: Sarah Kendzior

Narrated by: Sarah Kendzior

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES and MIBA BESTSELLER

From the St. Louis–based journalist often credited with first predicting Donald Trump’s presidential victory.

"A collection of sharp-edged, humanistic pieces about the American heartland...Passionate pieces that repeatedly assail the inability of many to empathize and to humanize." — Kirkus

In 2015, Sarah Kendzior... Read more

Suicide of the West

By: Jonah Goldberg

Narrated by: Jonah Goldberg

Length: 16 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgent argument that America and other democracies are in peril because they have lost the will to defend the values and institutions that sustain freedom and prosperity.
 
“Epic and debate-shifting.”—David Brooks, New York Times
 
Only once in the last 250,000 years have humans stumbled upon a way to lift... Read more

Great American Outpost

By: Maya Rao

Narrated by: Ellen Archer

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A surreal, lyrical work of narrative nonfiction that portrays how the largest domestic oil discovery in half a century transformed a forgotten corner of the American West into a crucible of breakneck capitalism.

As North Dakota became the nation's second-largest oil producer, Maya Rao set out in steel-toe boots to join a wave of drifters,... Read more

Edge of Chaos

By: Dambisa Moyo

Narrated by: Pamala Tyson

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From an internationally acclaimed economist, a provocative call to jump-start economic growth by aggressively overhauling liberal democracy

Around the world, people who are angry at stagnant wages and growing inequality have rebelled against established governments and turned to political extremes. Liberal democracy, history's greatest engine of... Read more

The Dictator Pope

By: Marcantonio Colonna

Narrated by: Chris Abell

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Marcantonio Colonna’s The Dictator Pope has rocked Rome and the entire Catholic Church with its portrait of an authoritarian, manipulative, and politically partisan pontiff. Occupying a privileged perch in Rome during the tumultuous first years of Francis’ pontificate, Colonna was privy to the shock, dismay, and even panic that the reckless new... Read more

Death in Ten Minutes

By: Fern Riddell

Narrated by: Fern Riddell

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The never before told story of radical suffragette Kitty Marion. Historian Fern Riddell finds a hidden diary and uses Kitty's own words to tell the story of her sensational life and explosive actions.

Kitty Marion was sent across the country by the Pankhurst family to carry out a nationwide campaign of bombings and arson attacks, as women fought... Read more

La historia de la república

By: Chumel Torres

Narrated by: Chumel Torres

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Acompáñenme a repasar los sucesos que nos dieron patria, bueno sí, ya sé, ¡que nos dieron en toda la madre!, desde el mundo prehispánico hasta la transición a la democracia... Chumel Torres, con su mirada ácida sobre el México que nos tocó vivir, analiza los desastres de nuestro país y sus gobernantes. El pulso de la república tiene más de 1.7... Read more

Digital Work Design

By: Isabell M. Welpe, Prisca Brosi & Tanja Schwarzm...

Narrated by: Matthias Lühn

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Unternehmen richtig aufstellen für die digitale Zukunft Bislang sprechen wir über Digitalisierung im Kontext von Menschen und Führungsaufgaben, aber nie in Bezug auf Organisationen. Es müssen aber auch die strukturellen Voraussetzungen gegeben sein, wenn ein Unternehmen seine Kultur ändern soll. Das Team um Isabell Welpe hat in einem... Read more

Wir sind ja nicht zum Spaß hier

By: Deniz Yücel

Narrated by: Josef Vossenkuhl

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

»Dieser Ort«, schreibt Deniz Yücel im Februar 2017 aus dem Polizeigewahrsam in Istanbul, »hat keine Erinnerung. Alle, die ich hier kennengelernt habe – kurdische Aktivisten, Makler, Katasterbeamte, festgenommene Richter und Polizisten, Gangster – alle haben mir gesagt: ›Du musst das aufschreiben, Deniz Abi.‹ Ich habe gesagt: ›Logisch, mach ich.... Read more

Above and Beyond

By: Casey Sherman & Michael J. Tougias

Narrated by: Maxwell Hamilton

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

From the authors of the bestselling The Finest Hours comes the riveting, deeply human story of President John F. Kennedy and two U-2 pilots, Rudy Anderson and Chuck Maultsby, who risked their lives to save America during the Cuban Missile Crisis

During the ominous two weeks of the Cold War's terrifying peak, two things saved humanity: the... Read more

West Winging It

By: Pat Cunnane

Narrated by: Pat Cunnane

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The West Wing meets The Office in this “funny, moving story about working in the White House that is a must read for anyone who misses having Barack Obama as President” (Dan Pfeiffer, cohost of Pod Save America), directly from his senior writer and former Deputy Director of Messaging.

West Winging It is the “fitfully funny…warm and observant”... Read more

The Golden Thread

By: Colin Meloy

Narrated by: Colin Meloy

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

With dazzling, lyrical verse in the folk revival style, Colin Meloy pays tribute to Pete Seeger, a visionary who changed the world with song.Pete Seeger once sang that if he had a golden thread, he would use it to weave people from all over the world to one another. That golden thread, for Pete, was music.Born into a family of traveling... Read more

A Higher Loyalty

By: James Comey

Narrated by: James Comey

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

"Comey's conversational tone instantly connects with the listener, and hearing him deliver the book's highly charged contents in his own voice brings authenticity and immediacy to the presentation...This greatly anticipated, revelatory memoir needs to be heard." — AudioFile Magazine

The #1 New York Times Bestseller, now with a new preface!

In his... Read more

Panzer Gunner

By: Bruno Friesen

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Panzer Gunner is a unique memoir of a Canadian serving in a German armored division. Bruno Friesen explains what it was like to fight in a tank on the Eastern Front and provides details on the battlefield performance of the Panzer IV tank.

Six months before World War II erupted in 1939, Bruno Friesen was sent to Germany by his father in hopes... Read more