Politics & Economy audiobooks

In the Shadows of the American Century

By: Alfred W. McCoy

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In a completely original analysis, prizewinning historian Alfred W. McCoy explores America’s rise as a world power—from the 1890s through the Cold War—and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the twenty-first century through a fusion of cyberwar, space warfare, trade pacts, and military alliances. McCoy then analyzes the marquee instruments... Read more

The Making of a Dream

By: Laura Wides-Muñoz

Narrated by: Almarie Guerra

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

“A sweeping chronicle of the immigrant rights movement. . . . Wides-Muñoz reminds us that thanks to the ability of young people to dream, what seems impossible today may yet prove achievable tomorrow.” —New York Times Book ReviewA journalist chronicles the next chapter in civil rights—the story of a movement and a nation, witnessed through the... Read more

Marley Dias Gets It Done: And So Can You!

By: Marley Dias

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Marley Dias, the powerhouse girl-wonder who started the #1000blackgirlbooks campaign, speaks to kids about her passion for making our world a better place, and how to make their dreams come true!In this accessible guide with an introduction by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Ava DuVernay, Marley Dias explores activism, social justice,... Read more

Media Madness

By: Howard Kurtz

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

According to the media, Donald Trump could never become president. Now many are on a mission to prove he shouldn’t be president. The Trump administration and the press are at war—and as in any war, the first casualty has been truth. Bestselling author Howard Kurtz, host of Fox News’s Media Buzz and former Washington Post columnist, offers a... Read more

Pipe Dreams

By: Erin Banco

Narrated by: Laura Jennings

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

When the Bush Administration invaded Iraq in 2003, it was promised that Iraqi Kurdistan would be developed into one of the most productive oil and natural gas regions in the world, and the profits would be used to win the war and rebuild the country. More than ten years later, those dreams lie in tatters. What happened to the oil wealth?Based on... Read more

What Makes a Terrorist?

By: Alan B. Krueger

Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Why we need to think more like economists to successfully combat terrorism If we are to correctly assess the root causes of terrorism and successfully address the threat, we must think more like economists do. This is the argument of Alan Krueger's What Makes a Terrorist, a book that explains why our tactics in the fight against terrorism must... Read more

To Fight Against This Age

By: Rob Riemen

Narrated by: Liam Gerrard

Length: 3 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In "The Eternal Return of Fascism," Rob Riemen explores the theoretical weakness of fascism, which depends on a politics of resentment, the incitement of anger and fear, xenophobia, the need for scapegoats, and its hatred of the life of the mind. He draws on history and philosophy as well as the essays and novels of Thomas Mann and Albert Camus... Read more

The Wall and the Gate

By: Michael Sfard

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 21 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A farmer from a village in the occupied West Bank, cut off from his olive groves by the construction of Israel's controversial separation wall, asked Israeli human rights lawyer Michael Sfard to petition the courts to allow a gate to be built in the wall. While the gate would provide immediate relief for the farmer, would it not also confer... Read more

Der betrogene Patient - Abridged

By: Gerd Reuther

Narrated by: Gerd Reuther

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nie waren die Heilungsversprechen größer als heute und doch ist die ärztliche Behandlung zu unserer häufigsten Todesursache geworden. Wer den Therapieempfehlungen der Mediziner rückhaltlos vertraut, schadet sich häufiger, als er sich nützt. Erschreckend viele Behandlungen sind ohne nachgewiesene Wirksamkeit und oft wäre das Abwarten des... Read more

A Dictionary of American Presidents Vol. 1

By: Michael W. Simmons

Narrated by: Alan Munro

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A Dictionary of American Presidents Vol. 1: Presidents 1-24 George Washington to Grover Cleveland offers an introductory glimpse into the background, upbringing, education, and political agendas of every American president from the years following the Revolutionary War to the end of the 19th century and Reconstruction. The first in a two-volume... Read more

Trumpocracy

By: David Frum

Narrated by: David Frum & James Anderson Foster

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author, former White House speechwriter, and Atlantic columnist and media commentator David Frum explains why President Trump has undermined our most important institutions in ways even the most critical media has missed, in this thoughtful and hard-hitting book that is a warning for democracy and America’s future.""From Russia to... Read more

How Democracies Die

By: Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Comprehensive, enlightening, and terrifyingly timely.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)

WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITH BOOK PRIZE • SHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • Time • Foreign Affairs • WBUR • Paste

Donald Trump’s presidency has... Read more

The Square and the Tower

By: Niall Ferguson

Narrated by: Elliot Hill

Length: 17 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The instant New York Times bestseller.

A brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we're living through, as a collision between old power hierarchies and new social networks.

“Captivating and compelling.” —The New York Times

"Niall Ferguson has again written a brilliant book...In 400 pages you will have... Read more

Horsemen of the Trumpocalypse

By: John Nichols

Narrated by: Matt Kugler

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A line-up of the dirty dealers and defenders of the indefensible who are definitely not "making America great again"

Donald Trump has assembled a rogue's gallery of alt-right hatemongers, crony capitalists, immigrant bashers, and climate-change deniers to run the American government. To survive the next four years, we the people need to know... Read more

It's Even Worse Than You Think

By: David Cay Johnston

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From David Cay Johnston, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the bestselling The Making of Donald Trump, comes his New York Times bestseller about how the Trump Administration’s policies will affect our jobs, savings, taxes, and safety—completed revised and updated.

New York Times bestselling author and longtime Trump observer... Read more

Infinite Hope

By: Anthony Graves

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Written by a wrongfully convicted man who spent 16 years in solitary confinement and 12 years on death row, a powerful memoir about fighting for—and winning—exoneration.

In the summer of 1992, a grandmother, a teenage girl, and four children under the age of ten were beaten and stabbed to death in Somerville, Texas. The perpetrator set the house... Read more

Stand Up!

By: Gordon Whitman

Narrated by: Tom Dheere

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

“Grassroots organizing is our best hope. If you're serious about making change from the bottom up, read Stand Up! and pass it on.”
—Congressman Keith Ellison

Each of us faces a moment of truth—at a time of crisis, do we stand up and speak out or retreat into our private lives? This book is for those frustrated by what they see happening in the... Read more

Together We Rise

By: The Women's March Organizers & Condé Nast

Narrated by: The Women's March Organizers, Ashley Judd, Kate...

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

An audiobook for the ages featuring the voices of Women's March Organizers, as well as Ashley Judd, Jia Tolentino, Cindi Leive, Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Sister Aisha Al-Adawiya, Melanie Campbell, Judith LeBlanc, Ai-Jen Poo, Robin Miles, January LaVoy, Thérèse Plummer, and James Fouhey.   In celebration of the one-year anniversary of Women’s March,... Read more

King Truths

By: Alveda King

Narrated by: Bernadette Simms

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Unlock Your Spiritual Potential There is power inside of you, power to discover, heal, and accomplish so much more in your life. Alveda King, niece of the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., shares twenty-one keys to help you unlock your spiritual potential. As your tour guide on this journey of discovery, she reveals how her famous... Read more

American Pravda

By: James O'Keefe

Narrated by: James O'Keefe

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The one real difference between the American press and the Soviet state newspaper Pravda was that the Russian people knew they were being lied to. To expose the lies our media tell us today, controversial journalist James O’Keefe created Project Veritas, an independent news organization whose reporters go where traditional journalists dare not.... Read more

DIY Rules for a WTF World

By: Krista Suh

Narrated by: Krista Suh

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From the creator of the Pussyhat Project comes a manifesto for every woman to create her own distinct and original path to joy, success, and impact.

On January 21, 2017, millions of protestors took part in the Women's March, and many of them created a "sea of pink" when they wore knitted pink "pussyhats" in record numbers. The pussyhat swiftly... Read more

Facing Frederick

By: Tonya Bolden

Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) is best known for the telling of his own emancipation. But there is much more to Douglass's story than his time spent enslaved and his famous autobiography. Facing Frederick captures the whole complicated and, at times, perplexing person that he was. Statesman, suffragist, writer, and newspaperman, this book... Read more

The Despot’s Apprentice

By: Brian Klaas

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

An ex–US campaign advisor who has sat with the world’s dictators explains Donald Trump’s increasingly authoritarian tactics and the threat they pose to American democracy.Donald Trump isn’t a despot. But he is increasingly acting like the “despot’s apprentice,” an understudy in authoritarian tactics that threaten to erode American democracy,... Read more

Reflections by Rosa Parks

By: Rosa Parks

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was not trying to start a movement. She was simply tired of the social injustice. Yet, her simple act of courage started a chain of events that forever shaped the landscape of American race relations.Now, decades after her quiet defiance... Read more