Politics & Economy audiobooks

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Burning Shores

By: Frederic Wehrey

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The death of Colonel Muammar Qadhafi freed Libya from forty-two years of despotic rule, raising hopes for a new era. But in the aftermath, the country descended into bitter rivalries and civil war, paving the way for the Islamic State and a catastrophic migrant crisis.

In a fast-paced narrative that blends frontline reporting, analysis, and... Read more

God Save Texas

By: Lawrence Wright

Narrated by: Lawrence Wright

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower—and a Texas native—takes us on a journey through the most controversial state in America. • “Beautifully written…. Essential reading [for] anyone who wants to understand how one state changed the trajectory of the country.” —NPR

The inspiration... Read more

Monique and the Mango Rains

By: Kris Holloway

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

What is it like to live and work in a remote corner of the world and befriend a courageous midwife who breaks traditional roles? Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Mali Midwife is the inspiring story of Monique Dembele, an accidental midwife who became a legend, and Kris Holloway, the young Peace Corps volunteer who became her closest... Read more

The Great Equalizer

By: David Smick

Narrated by: Kiff VandenHeuvel

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The experts say that America's best days are behind us, that mediocre long-term economic growth is baked in the cake, and that politically, socially, and racially, the United States will continue to tear itself apart. But David Smick-hedge fund strategist and author of the 2008 bestseller The World Is Curved-argues that the experts are wrong.

In... Read more

A Blueprint for War

By: Susan Dunn

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In the cold winter months that followed Franklin Roosevelt’s election in November 1940 to an unprecedented third term in the White House, he confronted a worldwide military and moral catastrophe. Almost all the European democracies had fallen under the ruthless onslaught of the Nazi army and air force. Great Britain stood alone, a fragile... 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

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

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

What's Wrong with China

By: Paul Midler

Narrated by: George Spelvin

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

What's Wrong with China is the widely anticipated follow-up to Paul Midler's Poorly Made in China, an exposé of China manufacturing practices. Applying a wider lens in this account, he reveals many of the deep problems affecting Chinese society as a whole. Once again, Midler delivers the goods by rejecting commonly held notions, breaking down... 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

Making the Arab World

By: Fawaz A. Gerges

Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart

Length: 18 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2013, just two years after the popular overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian military ousted the country's first democratically elected president—Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood—and subsequently led a brutal repression of the Islamist group. These bloody events echoed an older political rift in Egypt and the Middle East: the... Read more

The how and why of buying bitcoin

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The basic idea of bitcoin is simple: Instead of a financial institution holding a bank ledger, a chain of computers linked through the internet are all using the same software to record and verify every transaction. But how can a cryptocurrency be worth anything in the first place? Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports. Read more

The Bill of Rights

By: Linda R. Monk

Narrated by: Susan Larkin

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

With a foreword by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court.

An Engaging, Accessible Guide to the Bill of Rights for Everyday Citizens.

In The Bill of Rights: A User's Guide, award-winning author and constitutional scholar Linda R. Monk explores the remarkable history of the Bill of Rights amendment by amendment, the Supreme Court's... Read more

The Final Days

By: Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 19 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

“An extraordinary work of reportage on the epic political story of our time” (Newsweek)—from Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthors of All the President’s Men.

The Final Days is the #1 New York Times bestselling, classic, behind-the-scenes account of Richard Nixon’s dramatic last months as president. Moment by moment,... Read more

Integration - Ein Protokoll des Scheiterns (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Hamed Abdel-Samad

Narrated by: Julian Mehne

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Ein Protokoll des Scheiterns Millionen Muslime sind in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten als Gastarbeiter überwiegend aus der Türkei, als Flüchtlinge aus Syrien und anderen Staaten des Nahen Ostens nach Deutschland gekommen. Hamed Abdel-Samad rechnet ab mit der Politik, die die Integration zu lange konterkariert und der Muslime, die sich in... Read more

Fascism: A Warning

By: Madeleine Albright

Narrated by: Madeleine Albright

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the most admired international leaders, comes a timely, considered, and personal look at the history and current resurgence of fascism today and the virulent threat it poses to international freedom, prosperity, and peace.At the end of the 1980s, when the Cold War ended, many, including former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright,... Read more

This Land Is Our Land

By: Ken Ilgunas

Narrated by: Andrew Eiden

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Private property is everywhere. Almost anywhere you walk in the United States, you will spot “No Trespassing” and “Private Property” signs on trees and fence posts. In America, there are more than a billion acres of grassland pasture, cropland, and forest, and miles and miles of coastlines that are mostly closed off to the public. Meanwhile,... Read more