Politics & Economy audiobooks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Winner's Curse

By: Richard H. Thaler

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

While the rationale behind economics always seems to be at the forefront of political and institutional life, many economic theories in relation to consumer behavior have not been studied in detail. Here, in The Winner’s Curse, Richard Thaler challenges today’s accepted economic wisdom by... 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

What Happened to Bernie Sanders

By: Jared H. Beck, Esq.

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

For the first time, the definitive answer to the relative disappearance of Bernie Sanders and his political revolution in our new Trumpocracy. One year into Donald Trump’s presidency, the US 2016 presidential election is still being fought by both parties. As the case of Russian hacking and collusion is investigated, and Hillary Clinton... 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

Alexander Hamilton

By: Teri Kanefield

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 3 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

When most of us go for a walk, a single sense-sight- tends to dominate our experience. But when New York Times-bestselling author and expert navigator Tristan Gooley goes for a walk, he uses all five senses to read everything nature has to offer. A single lowly weed can serve as his compass, calendar, clock, and even pharmacist. In How to Read... Read more

Tell Me How It Ends

By: Valeria Luiselli

Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A damning confrontation between the American dream and the reality of undocumented children seeking a new life in the US.

Structured around the forty questions Luiselli translates and asks undocumented Latin American children facing deportation, Tell Me How It Ends (an expansion of her 2016 Freeman's essay of the same name) humanizes these young... 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

Fire in the Lake

By: Frances FitzGerald

Narrated by: Jeff Bottoms

Length: 22 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Frances FitzGerald's landmark history of Vietnam and the Vietnam War, "A compassionate and penetrating account of the collision of two societies that remain untranslatable to one another." (New York Times Book Review)

This magisterial work, based on Frances FitzGerald's many years of research and travels, takes us inside the history of... Read more

Putinomics

By: Chris Miller

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

When Vladimir Putin first took power in 1999, he was a little-known figure ruling a country that was reeling from a decade and a half of crisis. In the years since, he has reestablished Russia as a great power. How did he do it? What principles have guided Putin’s economic policies? What patterns can be discerned? In this new analysis of Putin’s... Read more

Armed in America

By: Patrick J. Charles

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 12 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This accessible legal history describes the way in which the right to bear arms was interpreted throughout most of American history and shows that today's gun-rights advocates have drastically departed from the long-held interpretation of the Second Amendment.This illuminating study traces the transformation of the right to arms from its... Read more

Capital

By: Karl Marx

Narrated by: Derek Le Page

Length: 43 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

It can be said of very few books that the world was changed as a result of its publication - but this is certainly the case of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx (1818-1883). Volume 1 appeared (in German) in 1867, and the two subsequent volumes appeared at later dates after the author's death - completed from extensive notes... Read more

There Are No Dead Here

By: Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno

Narrated by: Sylvia Gonzalez

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The bloody story of the rise of paramilitaries in Colombia, told through three characters -- a fearless activist, a dogged journalist, and a relentless investigator -- whose lives intersected in the midst of unspeakable terror.

Colombia's drug-fueled cycle of terror, corruption, and tragedy did not end with Pablo Escobar's death in 1993. Just... Read more

The Reactionary Mind

By: Corey Robin

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Reactionary Mind, Robin traces conservatism back to its roots in the reaction against the French Revolution. He argues that the right was inspired, and is still united, by its hostility to emancipating the lower orders. Some conservatives endorse the free market; others oppose it. Some criticize the state; others celebrate it. Underlying... Read more

Straight Talk on Trade

By: Dani Rodrik

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In Straight Talk on Trade, Dani Rodrik, an early and outspoken critic of economic globalization taken too far, goes beyond the populist backlash and offers a more reasoned explanation for why our elites' and technocrats' obsession with hyper-globalization made it more difficult for nations to achieve legitimate economic and social objectives at... Read more

"We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now"

By: Annelise Orleck

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of low-wage workers rising up around the world to demand respect and a living wage.

Tracing a new labor movement sparked and sustained by low-wage workers from across the globe, “We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now” is an urgent, illuminating look at globalization as seen through the eyes of workers-activists: small farmers, fast-food... Read more

A Girl's Guide to Joining the Resistance

By: Emma Gray

Narrated by: Andi Arndt

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

""If not you, then who?  If not now, then when? We need more women to speak up and make their voices heard. Young women have valuable experiences and perspectives.  We need you in this fight.” Senator Elizabeth Warren, from a Girl’s Guide to Joining the Resistance  So—the presidential election of 2016 happened. You cried, you ranted, you... Read more