Politics & Economy audiobooks

The Counterrevolution

By: Bernard E. Harcourt

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Militarized police officers with tanks and drones. Pervasive government surveillance and profiling. Social media that distract and track us. All of these, contends Bernard E. Harcourt, are facets of a new and radical governing paradigm in the United States—one rooted in the modes of warfare originally developed to suppress anticolonial... Read more

Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data

By: Viktor Mayer-Schönberger & Thomas Ramge

Narrated by: John Chancer

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Big Data, a prediction for how data will revolutionize the market economy and make cash, banks, and big companies obsolete

In modern history, the story of capitalism has been a story of firms and financiers. That's all going to change thanks to the Big Data revolution. As Viktor Mayer-Schörger,... Read more

Movie Nights with the Reagans

By: Mark Weinberg

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The former special advisor and press secretary to President Ronald Reagan shares a “sentimental but often revealing…enjoyable walk down Memory Lane” (Kirkus Reviews)—told through the movies he watched with the Reagans every week at Camp David.

Over the course of eight years, Mark Weinberg travelled to Camp David with Ronald and Nancy Reagan as... Read more

Skin in the Game

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Narrated by: Joe Ochman

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A bold work from the author of The Black Swan that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility

In his most provocative and practical book yet, one of the foremost thinkers of our time redefines what it means to understand the world,... Read more

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change

By: Marc Morano

Narrated by: John McLain

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Less freedom. More regulation. Higher costs. Make no mistake: those are the surefire consequences of the modern global warming campaign waged by political and cultural elites, who have long ago abandoned fact-based science for dramatic fearmongering in order to push increased central planning. The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change... Read more

Make Oz Great Again

By: Gregory Inkelaar

Narrated by: Stephanie Barton-Farcas

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The latest in the Correctly Political Tales series takes a satrical look at the L. Frank Baum classic 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.' Read the story of how Dorothy deals with three nuts while trying to get back home for reasons no one understands. Read more

Women leading Danish mosque challenge patriarchy and right-wing religious control

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Along with Scandinavia’s first female imam, Mariam mosque in Copenhagen is reinterpreting the Koran with a focus on women’s rights, including the right to marry outside the faith and file for divorce. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Malcolm Brabant reports on how these Muslim women are not just fighting patriarchy, but those who use... Read more

Unterwegs in Nordkorea

By: Rüdiger Frank

Narrated by: Mark Bremer

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Entfernung zu uns ist nicht nur in Kilometern zu messen. Nordkorea ist ein diktatorisches System, das vor markigen Drohungen an den Rest der Welt und auch vor der Verhaftung von Touristen nicht zurückschreckt. Wenn überhaupt, dann sollte man keineswegs ohne gründliche Vorbereitung dorthin fahren. Doch wenn man sich dafür entscheidet, dann... Read more

Estados Unidos Confidencial

By: William M. Arkin & Dana Priest

Narrated by: Maria del Carmen Siccardi

Length: 13 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Después del 11 de septiembre, el gobierno de los Estados Unidos dio inicio a un esfuerzo sin precedentes para proteger el país. El resultado ha sido calamitoso: después de 10 años de continuo desarrollo e inversiones sin paralelo, ahora existe un sistema para proteger a los Estados Unidos que bien puede estar poniendo al país en mayor peligro-... Read more

Making Sense of the Alt-Right

By: George Hawley

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

During the 2016 election, a new term entered the American political lexicon: the "alt-right," short for "alternative right." Despite the innocuous name, the alt-right is a white-nationalist movement. Yet it differs from earlier racist groups: it is youthful and tech-savvy, obsessed with provocation and trolling, amorphous, predominantly online,... Read more

It's Better Than It Looks

By: Gregg Easterbrook

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

Length: 14 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Is civilization teetering on the edge of a cliff? Or are we just climbing higher than ever?

Most people who read the news would tell you that 2017 is one of the worst years in recent memory. We're facing a series of deeply troubling, even existential problems: fascism, terrorism, environmental collapse, racial and economic inequality, and more.

... Read more

Fair Shot

By: Chris Hughes

Narrated by: Chris Hughes

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In this fascinating audiobook, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes argues that the best way to fight income inequality is with a radically simple idea: a guaranteed income for working people, paid for by the one percent.

The first half of Chris Hughes’s life played like a movie reel right out of the “American Dream.” He grew up in a small town in... Read more

Fair Play

By: James M. Olson

Narrated by: Joel Richards

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Revolutionary War officer Nathan Hale, one of America's first spies, said, "Any kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary." A statue of Hale stands outside CIA headquarters, and the agency often cites his statement as one of its guiding principles. But who decides what is necessary for the public good, and... Read more

The Science of Getting Rich

By: Wallace D. Wattles

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The Science of Getting Rich is the classic guide to creating wealth through the Law of Attraction. First published in 1910, a hundred years later it inspired Rhonda Byrne’s bestselling book and movie, The Secret.According to Wallace D. Wattles, “There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are... Read more

The Watergate

By: Joseph Rodota

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Since its opening in 1965, the Watergate complex has been one of Washington’s chicest addresses, a home to power brokers from both political parties and the epicenter of a scandal that brought down a president. In The Watergate, writer and political consultant Joseph Rodota paints a vivid portrait of this landmark and the movers and shakers who... Read more

Everything You Love Will Burn

By: Vegas Tenold

Narrated by: Vegas Tenold

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The dark story of the shocking resurgence of white supremacist and nationalist groups, and their path to political power

Six years ago, Vegas Tenold embedded himself among the members of three of America's most ideologically extreme white nationalist groups-the KKK, the National Socialist Movement, and the Traditionalist Workers Party. At the... Read more

In the Enemy's House

By: Howard Blum

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of Dark Invasion and The Last Goodnight once again illuminates the lives of little-known individuals who played a significant role in America’s history as he chronicles the incredible true story of a critical, recently declassified counterintelligence mission and two remarkable agents whose story has been... Read more

Political Tribes

By: Amy Chua

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Yale Law School Professor Amy Chua offers a bold new prescription for reversing our foreign policy failures and overcoming our destructive political tribalism at home
 
Humans are tribal.  We need to belong to groups.  In many parts of the world, the group identities that matter most –... Read more

Dressed Up for a Riot

By: Michael Idov

Narrated by: Michael Idov

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In this crackling memoir, the journalist and novelist Michael Idov recounts the tempestuous years he spent living alongside—and closely observing—the media and cultural elite of Putin's Russia. After accepting a surprise offer to become the editor in chief of GQ Russia, Idov and his family arrive in a Moscow still seething from a dubious... Read more

Let's Move On

By: Vicente Fox

Narrated by: Thom Rivera

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Vicente Fox, the former president of Mexico, issues both a denunciation of the current state of American politics and a call to unity and resistance in the face of rising ethnocentric and anti-democratic sentiments.Vicente Fox offers his unique viewpoint as a former head of state, avid historian, and true admirer of America’s constitutional... Read more

Puesto Fronterizo

By: Jake Tapper

Narrated by: Hector Almenara

Length: 25 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A las 5:58 am del 3 de octubre de 2009, a justo 14 millas de distancia de la frontera con Pakistán, fue despiadadamente atacado el Puesto de Combate Keating, ubicado en un aterradoramente vulnerable terreno en Afganistán. A pesar de que 53 norteamericanos hicieron frente a casi 400 guerrilleros del Taliban, sus muertes convirtieron esta batalla... Read more

The Common Good

By: Robert B. Reich

Narrated by: Robert B. Reich

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert B. Reich makes a powerful case for the expansion of America’s moral imagination. Rooting his argument in common sense and everyday reality, he demonstrates that a common good constitutes the very essence of any society or nation. Societies, he says, undergo virtuous cycles that reinforce the common good as well as vicious cycles that... Read more

Gideon's Trumpet

By: Anthony Lewis

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic bestseller from a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist that tells the compelling true story of one man's fight for the right to legal counsel for every defendent. 

A history of the landmark case of Clarence Earl Gideon's fight for the right to legal counsel. Notes, table of cases, index. The classic backlist bestseller. More... Read more

Feuer und Zorn - Im weißen Haus von Donald Trump (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Michael Wolff

Narrated by: Richard Barenberg

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Es ist das Enthüllungsbuch, das die Präsidentschaft von Donald Trump erschüttert: Michael Wolffs "Feuer und Zorn" ist ein eindrucksvolles Sittengemälde der amerikanischen Politik unter Trump. Im Mittelpunkt ein Präsident, den seine Mitarbeiter wie ein kleines Kind behandeln, und der umgeben ist von Inkompetenz, Intrigen und Verrat. Der... Read more