Politics & Economy audiobooks

The Death of Democracy

By: Benjamin Carter Hett

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

"[Narrator Steven Crossley's] British accent gives his narration an academic-sounding quality fitting for the text. He is clear and precise in pronunciation and enunciation and is suitably expressive throughout." — AudioFile Magazine

The Death of Democracy is a riveting audiobook account of how the Nazi Party came to power, and how the failures... Read more

The War on Normal People

By: Andrew Yang

Narrated by: Andrew Yang

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

***New York Times Bestseller***

From 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, a captivating account of how "a skinny Asian kid from upstate" became a successful entrepreneur, only to find a new mission: calling attention to the urgent steps America must take, including Universal Basic Income, to stabilize our economy amid rapid... Read more

Cold War Navy SEAL

By: James M. Hawes & Mary Ann Koenig

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

For the first time, a Navy SEAL tells the story of the US's clandestine operations in North Vietnam and the Congo during the Cold War.Sometime in 1965, James Hawes landed in the Congo with cash stuffed in his socks, morphine in his bag, and a basic understanding of his mission: recruit a mercenary navy and suppress the Soviet- and Chinese-backed... Read more

The Final Race

By: Eric T. Eichinger

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

On July 19, 1924, Eric Liddell was on top of the world.He was the most famous Briton at the time, having just won the gold in the Olympic 400-meter race. The story of that race―and the one he didn’t run―was told in the popular movie classic Chariots of Fire. But what most of us don’t know is what became of Eric Liddell in the years after the... Read more

La hoja del olmo no es perfecta

By: Javier López Facal

Narrated by: David Morales

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

La Tierra no es perfectamente redonda, pero la circunferencia creada por los hombres sí lo es. Lo malo es que cuando intentaban medir esa circunferencia inventada con su diámetro, salía un número irracional, un número desconcertante, el número pi. Otros conceptos ideales creados también por los hombres, como la simetría, la ortodoxia, la... Read more

Christian

By: Matthew Bowman

Narrated by: Bob Souer

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

As Christian: The Politics of a Word in America shows, for many American Christians, concepts like liberty and equality are rooted in the transcendent claims about human nature that Christianity offers. Democracy, equality under the law, and other basic principles of American government are seen as depending on the Christian faith's sustenance... Read more

Meditaciones desde el subsuelo

By: Guillermo Fadanelli

Narrated by: Mauricio Meléndez

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

¿Qué causas pueden sustentar a la escritura? ¿Tiene sentido seguir escribiendo en el mundo contemporáneo? Para responder, recurre a una cita E. L. Doctorow: "[La ficción] enseña las leyes de la comunidad y distribuye el sufrimiento". A partir de ella construye distintos argumentos a favor de la producción de ficciones y su consumo. La literatura... Read more

Surviving the Future

By: David Fleming & Shaun Chamberlin

Narrated by: Shaun Chamberlin

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Surviving the Future is a story drawn from the fertile ground of the late David Fleming’s extraordinary Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It. That hardback consists of four hundred and four interlinked dictionary entries, inviting readers to choose their own path through its radical vision. Recognizing that Lean Logic’s... Read more

Wie viele Sklaven halten Sie?

By: Evi Hartmann

Narrated by: Claudia Burges

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Moral lässt sich nicht outsourcen! Wenn Sie Kleidung tragen, Nahrung zu sich nehmen, ein Auto fahren oder ein Smartphone haben, arbeiten derzeit ungefähr 60 Sklaven für Sie und mich. Ob wir wollen oder nicht. Und ohne dass wir das veranlasst hätten. Wie fühlen Sie sich damit? Dies fragt BWL-Professorin Evi Hartmann und meint es nicht... Read more

A History of Fascism, 1914–1945

By: Stanley G. Payne

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 21 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Focusing mostly on Italy and Germany but also considering Spain, Romania, Japan, and movements in other countries, Payne (history, U. of Wisconsin) describes fascism as revolutionary ultranationalism based on national rebirth, extreme elitism, mass mobilization, and the promotion of violence and military virtues. He also suggests that the early... Read more

Where There's Hope

By: Elizabeth Smart

Narrated by: Elizabeth Smart

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

"[Elizabeth] Smart turns her story of despair amazingly into one of hope...The audiobook, beautifully narrated by the author, has an extra dimension of truth and emotion." — Library Journal on My Story

This program is read by the author

Elizabeth Smart follows up her #1 New York Times bestseller, My Story—about being held in captivity as a... Read more

Unscaled

By: Hemant Taneja

Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Unscaled identifies the forces that are reshaping the global economy and turning one of the fundamental laws of business and society -- the economies of scale -- on its head.

An innovative trend combining technology with economics is unraveling behemoth industries -- including corporations, banks, farms, media conglomerates, energy systems,... Read more

Dear Madam President

By: Jennifer Palmieri

Narrated by: Jennifer Palmieri

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Redefine the expectations for women in leadership roles with this #1 New York Times bestselling volume of inspiring advice by the former communications director for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Framed as an empowering letter from former Hillary Clinton Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri to the first woman president, and by extension,... Read more

Advice and Dissent

By: Alan S. Blinder

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A bestselling economist tells us what both politicians and economists must learn to fix America's failing economic policies
American economic policy ranks as something between bad and disgraceful. As leading economist Alan S. Blinder argues, a crucial cultural divide separates economic and political civilizations. Economists and politicians often... Read more

Im Zeichen der Wahrheit

By: Heiko Schrang

Narrated by: Jacob Stark

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Vier Jahre nach dem Kultbuch „Die Jahrhundertlüge, die nur Insider kennen“ erscheint endlich Heiko Schrangs lang ersehntes Werk „Im Zeichen der Wahrheit“. Dieses Buch ist ein Lichtblick in einer Welt, die viele als immer dunkler empfinden. Es beleuchtet zum ersten Mal geheimes Wissen, das jahrhundertelang unter Verschluss gehalten wurde. „Im... Read more

Ask a North Korean

By: Daniel Tudor

Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan & Greta Jung

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Understanding North Korean Through the Eyes of Defectors.The weekly column Ask a North Korean, published by NK News, invites readers from around the world to pose questions to North Korean defectors. By way of these fascinating interviews, the North Koreans themselves provide authentic firsthand testimonies about what is happening inside the... Read more

How Do I Tax Thee?

By: Kristin Tate

Narrated by: Katheryn Holloway Woods & Kristin Tate

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In this new audiobook, Libertarian journalist Kristin Tate provides a look into the wild world of frivolous taxation, aimed at educating members of her own generation in the evils of big government.

In How Do I Tax Thee?, libertarian commentator and rising media star Kristin Tate takes us on a tour of the ways the government bleeds us dry in... Read more

The Age of Eisenhower

By: William I Hitchcock

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 25 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller, this is the “outstanding” (The Atlantic), insightful, and authoritative account of Dwight Eisenhower’s presidency.

Drawing on newly declassified documents and thousands of pages of unpublished material, The Age of Eisenhower tells the story of a masterful president guiding the nation through the great crises of the... Read more

U.S. Armed Forces Nuclear, Biological And Chemical Survival Manual

By: Dick Couch

Narrated by: Brian Troxell

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In this comprehensive guide, military experts teach you how to survive an attack on American soil, from North Korean missiles to weaponized smallpox

North Korean nukes. Dirty bombs in train stations. Chemical warfare. Americans have more reasons than ever to be afraid. If a nuclear missile strikes, will you know what to do? If a nerve agent is... Read more

The Resurrection of the Romanovs

By: Greg King & Penny Wilson

Narrated by: Peter Kenny

Length: 13 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The passage of more than ninety years and the publication of hundreds of books in dozens of languages has not extinguished an enduring interest in the mysteries surrounding the 1918 execution of the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his family. The Resurrection of the Romanovs draws on a wealth of new information from previously unpublished... Read more

Hunting the Truth

By: Beate Klarsfeld & Serge Klarsfeld

Narrated by: Marisa Calin & Raphael Corkhill

Length: 14 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

*Winner of the 2018 National Book Award*

In this dual audiobook memoir, Beate and Serge Klarsfeld tell the dramatic story of fifty years devoted to bringing Nazis to justice

They were born on opposite sides of the Second World War: Beate grew up in the ruins of a defeated Weimar Germany, while Serge, a Jewish boy in France, was hiding in a... Read more

Secret Empires

By: Peter Schweizer

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times Bestseller!America's top politicians have discovered the scam to end all scams. Peter Schweizer has been fighting corruption—and winning—for years. In Throw Them All Out, he exposed insider trading by members of Congress, leading to the passage of the STOCK Act. In Extortion, he uncovered how politicians use mafia-like tactics... Read more

Fools, Frauds and Firebrands

By: Roger Scruton

Narrated by: Rory Barnett

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the leading critics of leftist orientations comes a study of the thinkers who have most influenced the attitudes of the New Left. Beginning with a ruthless analysis of New Leftism and concluding with a critique of the key strands in its thinking, Roger Scruton conducts a reappraisal of such major left-wing thinkers as E. P. Thompson,... Read more

The Heavens Might Crack

By: Jason Sokol

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A vivid portrait of how Americans grappled with King's death and legacy in the days, weeks, and months after his assassination

On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. At the time of his murder, King was a polarizing figure -- scorned by many white Americans,... Read more