Politics & Economy audiobooks

Discrimination and Disparities

By: Thomas Sowell

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

An empirical examination of how economic and other disparities ariseEconomic and other outcomes differ vastly among individuals, groups, and nations. Many explanations have been offered for the differences. Some believe that those with less fortunate outcomes are victims of genetics. Others believe that those who are less fortunate are victims... Read more

New World, Inc.

By: John Butman & Simon Targett

Narrated by: Chris Kipiniak

Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Three generations of English merchant adventurers-not the Pilgrims, as we have so long believed-were the earliest founders of America. Profit-not piety-was their primary motive.

Some seventy years before the Mayflower sailed, a small group of English merchants formed "The Mysterie, Company, and Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers for the... Read more

Seven Fallen Feathers

By: Tanya Talaga

Narrated by: Michaela Washburn

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner, 2017 Shaughnessy Cohen Writers' Trust Prize for Political Writing
Winner, 2017 RBC Taylor Prize
Winner, 2017 First Nation Communities Read: Young Adult/Adult
Winner, 2024 Blue Metropolis First Peoples Prize, for the whole of her work
Finalist, 2017 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction The groundbreaking and multiple... Read more

Por qué los ricos se vuelven más ricos

By: Robert T. Kiyosaki

Narrated by: Rubén Hernández

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Hace mucho tiempo los ahorradores eran ganadores.
Hace mucho tiempo el ahorrador podía ahorrar y enriquecerse.
Hoy los ahorradores son perdedores. Por qué los ricos se vuelven más ricos trata de la educación financiera real, no del cuento de hadas que afirma: "Ir a la escuela, conseguir un trabajo, trabajar duro, ahorrar, comprar una casa, salir... Read more

Russian Roulette

By: Michael Isikoff & David Corn

Narrated by: Peter Ganim

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The incredible, harrowing account of how American democracy was hacked by Moscow as part of a covert operation to influence the U.S. election and help Donald Trump gain the presidency.

"Russian Roulette is...the most thorough and riveting account." -- The New York Times

Russian Roulette is a story of political skullduggery unprecedented in... Read more

Boomerang

By: L. Brent Bozell & Tim Graham

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

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Andrew Jackson

By: Teri Kanefield

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Born in the Carolina backwoods, Andrew Jackson joined the American Revolutionary War at the age of thirteen. After a reckless youth of gunfights, gambling, and general mischief, he rose to national fame as the general who defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans. Afterwards, Jackson ran for president as a political outsider, championing... Read more

Journey

By: General Norty Schwartz & Suzie Schwartz

Narrated by: Grover Gardner & Donna Postel

Length: 14 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

An uncensored account of General Schwartz's term as the wartime US Air Force Chief of Staff under presidents Bush and Obama. The General’s dysfunctional home life drove him to apply to the Air Force Academy almost 40 years ago, where he was provided with a new family and sense of worth he had never gotten from his own father. This purpose has... Read more

The Reluctant Communist

By: Charles Robert Jenkins

Narrated by: John McLain

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

In January of 1965, twenty-four-year-old U.S. Army sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins abandoned his post in South Korea, walked across the DMZ, and surrendered to communist North Korean soldiers standing sentry along the world's most heavily militarized border. He believed his action would get him back to the States and a short jail sentence.... Read more

China's Great Wall of Debt

By: Dinny McMahon

Narrated by: Jamie Jackson

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning inside look at how and why the Chinese economy is barreling towards disaster and the impact its collapse would have on the rest of the world Read more

Mothers, Sisters, Daughters, Wives

By: Mimi Swartz

Narrated by: Lydia Mackay

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Mimi Swartz's "Mothers, Sisters, Daughters, Wives" is now available as an audio download, where the length and timeliness of a podcast meets the high-quality production of a full-length audio program.

Many Americans today feel they don't hold the reins to their own healthcare; for American women, healthcare is... Read more

Killing the Deep State

By: Jerome R. Corsi, , PhD

Narrated by: Dan Crue

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

At 2:45 AM on Nov. 8, 2016, television networks announced to a stunned nation that Pennsylvania had gone for Donald Trump, making him the president-elect of the United States, defying all odds in a surreal victory that sent the Deep State-well-funded hard-left extremists, the mainstream media, Obama/Clinton holdovers in the government... Read more

A Fierce Discontent

By: Michael McGerr

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The Progressive Era witnessed the nation's most convulsive upheaval, a time of radicalism far beyond the Revolution or anything since. In response to the birth of modern America, one small group of middle-class Americans seized control of the nation and attempted to remake society from bottom to top. They accomplished an astonishing range of... Read more

History Teaches Us to Resist

By: Mary Frances Berry

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Historian and civil rights activist proves how progressive movements can flourish even in conservative times.

Despair and mourning after the election of an antagonistic or polarizing president, such as Donald Trump, is part of the push-pull of American politics. But in this incisive book, historian Mary Frances Berry shows that resistance to... Read more

Deutschland außer Rand und Band

By: Petra Paulsen

Narrated by: Beate Müller

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Sie schrieb einen emotionalen Brief an Bundeskanzlerin Merkel, der durch die Medien ging. Über eine Million Menschen sahen ihre Botschaft auf YouTube. Spätestens seit ihrer Teilnahme an der ZDF Sendung “Wie geht's Deutschland“ wurde sie einem breiten Publikum bekannt. Die Rede ist von Petra Paulsen. Als eine unübersehbare Zahl von Menschen aus... Read more

Ihr kriegt den Arsch nicht hoch

By: Evi Hartmann

Narrated by: Claudia Burges

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Zukunft ohne Leistungsethos? Wo sind die Macher geblieben? Jede Menge intelligente und gut ausgebildete junge Menschen wollen Status und Geld, aber keine Anstrengung und bloß nicht zu viel Verantwortung im Job. Posen statt Performen: Eine Pseudo-Elite, vermeintliche Säule der Zukunftsgesellschaft, ist selbstzufrieden, gierig und überschätzt... Read more

The Infernal Library

By: Daniel Kalder

Narrated by: Chris Ciulla

Length: 15 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The Infernal Library is a harrowing audiobook tour of “dictator literature” in the twentieth-century, featuring the soul-killing prose and poetry of Hitler, Mao, and many more, which shows how books have sometimes shaped the world for the worse.

Since the days of the Roman Empire dictators have written books. But in the twentieth-century despots... Read more

Tomorrow Will Be Different

By: Sarah McBride

Narrated by: Sarah McBride

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

“A brave, powerful memoir” (People) that will change the way we look at identity and equality in this country, from the activist elected as the first openly transgender state senator in U.S. history

“The energy and vigor Sarah has brought to the fight for equality is ever present in this book.”—Vice President Kamala Harris

“If you’re living your... Read more

Political Scandals

By: the Speech Resource Company

Narrated by: the Speech Resource Company

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Politicians, government officials, lobbyists, party officials, and others have been accused—and some prosecuted—of various illegal, corrupt, or unethical practices throughout the years. Political Scandals includes speeches from the accused and the accusers in the political arena.Produced by the Speech Resource Company and fully narrated by... Read more

The Return of Marco Polo's World

By: Robert D. Kaplan

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A bracing assessment of U.S. foreign policy and world disorder over the past two decades from the bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography and The Coming Anarchy
 
“[Kaplan] has emerged not only as an eloquent defender of foreign-policy realism but as a grand strategist to whom the Pentagon turns for a tour d’horizon.”—The Wall Street... Read more

Can It Happen Here?

By: Cass R. Sunstein

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“What makes Trump immune is that he is not a president within the context of a healthy Republican government. He is a cult leader of a movement that has taken over a political party – and he specifically campaigned on a platform of one-man rule. This fact permeates “Can It Happen Here? . . . which concludes, if you read between the lines, that... Read more

Dancing Bears

By: Witold Szabłowski

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

For hundreds of years, Bulgarian Gypsies trained bears to dance, welcoming them into their families and taking them on the road to perform. In the early 2000s, with the fall of Communism, they were forced to release the bears into a wildlife refuge. But even today, whenever the bears see a human, they still get up on their hind legs to dance.In... Read more

Separate and Unequal

By: Steven M Gillon

Narrated by: Ryan Vincent Anderson

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From a New York Times bestselling author, the definitive history of the Kerner Commission, whose report on urban unrest reshaped American debates about race and inequality

In Separate and Unequal, New York Times bestselling historian Steven M. Gillon offers a revelatory new history of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders --... Read more

Protecting the President

By: Dan Bongino

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Being a Secret Service agent is one of the most treacherous jobs in the world and never more so than in today's highly polarized America. Facing threats from fence jumpers and manifesto writers, and from murderous terrorists and sophisticated spies, protecting the president is harder than ever. In an age of hyper-partisan politics, emotions are... Read more