Politics & Economy audiobooks

Chinas Bosse

By: Wolfgang Hirn

Narrated by: Josef Vossenkuhl

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Wer steckt hinter den Unternehmensgiganten aus China? Sie erobern die Weltmärkte, positionieren China als digitale Supermacht und prägen die entscheidenden Zukunftsindustrien. Gleichwohl wissen wir fast nichts über sie. Wie ticken Chinas Bosse? Wer steckt hinter den immer mächtigeren und aggressiven Unternehmensgiganten? Was sind das für Leute,... Read more

Das Ende der Banken

By: Jonathan McMillan

Narrated by: Sebastian Pappenberger

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Kein Platz für Banken im digitalen Zeitalter Finanzkrise hin, Eurokrise her. Kaum jemand glaubt, dass sich das Finanzsystem inzwischen wesentlich verbessert hat. Das Problem sind die Banken. Ihre Finanzinnovationen der Vergangenheit wurden zum Brandbeschleuniger der letzten Finanzkrise. Und jetzt sind sie drauf und dran, sich die aufstrebende... Read more

Türkei, die unfertige Nation

By: Inga Rogg

Narrated by: Sebastian Pappenberger

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Erdogans Traum vom Osmanischen Reich Ein gescheiterter Putschversuch und mehrere Terroranschläge erschüttern 2016 die Türkei. Trotz der explosiven Lage kommt Recep Tayyip Erdogan seinem Ziel, als Präsident uneingeschränkter Herrscher über die Türkei zu werden, immer näher. Inga Rogg zeichnet Erdogans Werdegang vom Reformer zum Autokraten nach.... Read more

The Moral Basis of Democracy

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

With the threat of the Third Reich looming, Eleanor Roosevelt employs the history of human rights to establish the idea that at the core of democracy is a spiritual responsibility to other citizens. Roosevelt then calls on all Americans, especially the youth, to prioritize the well-being of others and have faith that their fellow citizens will... Read more

The Marshall Plan

By: Benn Steil

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 16 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2019 New-York Historical Society Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History
Winner of the 2018 American Academy of Diplomacy Douglas Dillon Award
Shortlisted for the 2018 Duff Cooper Prize in Literary Nonfiction
Honorable Mention (runner-up) for the 2019 ASEEES Marshall D. Shulman Prize

“[A] brilliant book…by far... Read more

The Impossible Presidency

By: Jeremi Suri

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Impossible Presidency, celebrated historian Jeremi Suri charts the rise and fall of the American presidency, from the limited role envisaged by the Founding Fathers to its current status as the most powerful job in the world. He argues that the presidency is a victim of its own success—the vastness of the job makes it almost impossible to... Read more

Our Damaged Democracy

By: Joseph A. Califano

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

“A Washington insider draws on decades of experience to deliver a blistering critique of the state of American government” (Kirkus Reviews) in an authoritative scrutiny of the forces that run our society and a call to fix our democracy before it’s too late.

If you’ve been watching the news and worrying that our democracy no longer works, this... Read more

The Divide

By: Jason Hickel

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Sixty percent of humanity?some 4.3 billion people?live in debilitating poverty. The standard development narrative suggests that alleviating poverty in poor countries is a matter of getting the internal policies right, combined with aid from rich countries. But anthropologist Jason Hickel argues that this approach misses the broader political... Read more

Shoe Dog - Abridged

By: Phil Knight

Narrated by: Stefan Lehnen

Length: 15 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Als junger, abenteuerlustiger Business-School-Absolvent auf der Suche nach einer Herausforderung lieh Phil Knight sich von seinem Vater 50 Dollar und gründete eine Firma mit einer klaren Mission: qualitativ hochwertige, aber preiswerte Laufschuhe aus Japan importieren. In jenem ersten Jahr, 1963, verkaufte Knight Laufschuhe aus dem Kofferraum... Read more

Unmaking of the President 2016

By: Lanny J. Davis

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The first comprehensive account that proves that James Comey threw the 2016 election to Donald Trump. “Compelling criticism…lapsed Trump supporters might well open their minds to this attorney’s scholarly, entirely convincing proof of the damage done” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

During the week of October 24, 2016, Hillary Clinton was... Read more

The Trade

By: Jere Van Dyk

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 16 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2008, American journalist Jere Van Dyk was kidnapped and held for forty-five days. At the time, he had no idea who his kidnappers were. They demanded a ransom and the release of three of their comrades from Guantanamo, yet they hinted at their ties to Pakistan and to the Haqqani network, a uniquely powerful group that now holds the balance of... Read more

Full Battle Rattle

By: Changiz Lahidji & Ralph Pezzullo

Narrated by: Eric Pollins

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

With over 100 combat missions, and 24 years as a Green Beret, Changiz Lahidji is an expert in military operations. Full Battle Rattle is the legendary audiobook memoir of a soldier who served America in every war since Vietnam.

Master Sergeant Changiz Lahidji served on Special Forces A teams longer than anyone in history, completing over a... Read more

Directorate S

By: Steve Coll

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 28 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction • Nominated for the National Book Award for Nonfiction

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars and The Achilles Trap, the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan... Read more

Like It Happened Yesterday

By: Ravinder Singh

Narrated by: Dev J. Haldar

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Has anyone ever asked you—What were the best days of your life?

That one period of your life you always wanted to go back to? And live that life . . . one more time?

When asked this, I closed my eyes and went back in my own past. And I thought . . .

. . . of the days, when life's most complex choices had a simple solution of Akkad Bakkad Bambey... Read more

Rise and Kill First

By: Ronen Bergman

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 25 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The first definitive history of Israel’s targeted killing programs, which have shaped the Israeli nation, the Middle East, and the larger world—from the man hailed by David Remnick as “arguably [Israel’s] best investigative reporter.”

“An exceptional work, a humane book about an incendiary subject . . . full of... Read more

When Montezuma Met Cortes

By: Matthew Restall

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 16 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cortés that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the AmericasOn November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan. This introduction—the prelude to... Read more

Billionaire Democracy

By: George R. Tyler

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

This isn’t your America. No matter who the president is.We’re told that when we vote, when we elect representatives, we’re gaining a voice in government and the policies it implements. But if that’s true, why don’t American politics actually translate our preferences into higher living standards for the majority of us?The answer is that, in... Read more

Broken

By: Ira Shapiro

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

While the hyper-partisanship in Washington that has stunned the world has been building for decades, Ira Shapiro argues that the U.S. Senate has suffered most acutely from the loss of its political center. In Broken, Ira Shapiro, a former senior Senate staffer and author of the critically-acclaimed book The Last Great Senate, offers an expert's... Read more

Can Finance Save the World?

By: Bertrand Badré

Narrated by: Wayne Shepherd

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

How to Make Finance a Force for Good

Just as Thomas Piketty offered a sweeping critique and progressive reassessment of capitalism, former World Bank Group chief financial officer Bertrand Badré looks at the destructive role finance played in the global economic crisis of 2007–2008 and offers a bold prescription for making it a force for good.... Read more

This Narrow Space

By: Elisha Waldman

Narrated by: Barry Abrams

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Waldman's years at Hadassah were filled in equal measure with a deep sense of accomplishment, with frustration when regional politics sometimes got in the way of his patients' care, and with tension over the fine line he would have to walk when the religious traditions of some of his patients' families made it difficult for him to give these... Read more

Building the Great Society

By: Joshua Zeitz

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 16 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of Lincoln's Boys takes us inside Lyndon Johnson's White House to show how the legendary Great Society programs were actually put into practice: Team of Rivals for LBJ. The personalities behind every burst of 1960s liberal reform - from civil rights and immigration reform, to Medicare and Head Start.

"Absorbing, and astoundingly... Read more

Alexander the Great

By: Jacob Abbott

Narrated by: Donald Corren

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Alexander the Great is a towering figure in ancient history because of his legendary conquests throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa. He was born in 356 BC to the noble family of Macedon. As such, he was afforded with great luxuries growing up including having Aristotle as his private tutor. After his father was assassinated, he took over the... Read more

The Growth Delusion

By: David Pilling

Narrated by: Elliot Hill

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A provocative critique of the pieties and fallacies of our obsession with economic growth

We live in a society in which a priesthood of economists, wielding impenetrable mathematical formulas, set the framework for public debate. Ultimately, it is the perceived health of the economy which determines how much we can spend on our schools,... Read more

A More Beautiful and Terrible History

By: Jeanne Theoharis

Narrated by: Kim Staunton

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Praised by The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Bitch Magazine; Slate; Publishers Weekly; and more, this is “a bracing corrective to a national mythology” (New York Times) around the civil rights movement.

The civil rights movement has become national legend, lauded by presidents from Reagan to Obama to Trump, as proof of the power of... Read more