Politics & Economy audiobooks

The Pretender

By: Marc Ruskin

Narrated by: Francis J. Spieler

Length: 15 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Pretender, former FBI agent Marc Ruskin will pull listeners into the fascinating, elusive world of undercover operatives.

Of all the tools available to law enforcement, the living, breathing undercover operative remains the gold standard. This is true in TV shows and in the real world. In the era of electronic surveillance, UC work... Read more

The Saboteur

By: Paul Kix

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Agent Zigzag comes this breathtaking biography, as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the very best spy thrillers, which illuminates an unsung hero of the French Resistance during World War II—Robert de La Rochefoucald, an aristocrat turned anti-Nazi saboteur—and his daring exploits as a résistant trained by Britain’s... Read more

Goddess of Anarchy

By: Jacqueline Jones

Narrated by: Nylsa Smallwood

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

From a prize-winning historian, a new portrait of an extraordinary activist and the turbulent age in which she lived

Goddess of Anarchy recounts the formidable life of the militant writer, orator, and agitator Lucy Parsons. Born to an enslaved woman in Virginia in 1851 and raised in Texas-where she met her husband, the Haymarket "martyr" Albert... Read more

They Say We Are Infidels

By: Mindy Belz

Narrated by: Nan McNamara

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Everywhere militants were blowing up Christians, their churches, their shops. They threatened them with kidnapping. They promised to take their children. The message to these 'infidels': You have no place in Iraq. Pay a penalty to stay, leave, or be killed. Sweeping from Syria into Iraq, Islamic State fighters (ISIS) have been brutalizing and... Read more

Let Trump Be Trump

By: Corey R. Lewandowski & David N. Bossie

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Bestseller and #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller!

Let Trump be Trump: The Inside Story of His Presidency is the ultimate behind-the-scenes account of how he became President of the United States.

Donald Trump was a candidate, and now a president, like none that have come before. His startling rise to the White House is the... Read more

Grass Roots

By: Emily Dufton

Narrated by: Greg Baglia

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

How earnest hippies, frightened parents, suffering patients, and other ordinary Americans went to war over marijuana

In the last five years, eight states have legalized recreational marijuana. To many, continued progress seems certain. But pot was on a similar trajectory forty years ago, only to encounter a fierce backlash. In Grass Roots,... Read more

Minefields

By: Hugh Riminton

Narrated by: Hugh Riminton

Length: 12 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Minefields is a compelling exploration of a foreign correspondent's life - proof of Hugh's belief that 'if you go looking for trouble, you'll probably find it'.

Over nearly forty years as a journalist and foreign correspondent, Hugh Riminton has been shot at, blown up, threatened with deportation and thrown in jail. He has reported from nearly... Read more

Das kommunistische Manifest op Kölsch

By: Walter Stehling

Narrated by: Walter Stehling

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

E Jespens jeit eröm en Europa - et Jespens vum Kummenismus. Die Mächte vom ahle Europa han sech mallich zesamme jedon zor Hätzjach jäje dat Jesoens, d'r Paps, d'r Zar, d'r Metternich un d'r Guizot, fränzüsisch Radekale un de dütsche Schmier... Das Manifest der kommunistischen Partei op Kölsch. Der Klassiker von 1848 von Karl Marx und Friedrich... Read more

The Gifted Generation

By: David Goldfield

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 23 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping and path-breaking history of the post–World War II decades, during which an activist federal government guided the country toward the first real flowering of the American Dream

In The Gifted Generation, historian David Goldfield examines the generation immediately after World War II and argues that the federal government was... Read more

Doughnut Economics

By: Kate Raworth

Narrated by: Kate Raworth

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A Financial Times "Best Book of 2017: Economics” 800-CEO-Read “Best Business Book of 2017: Current Events & Public Affairs” Economics is the mother tongue of public policy. It dominates our decision-making for the future, guides multi-billion-dollar investments, and shapes our responses to climate change, inequality, and other... Read more

The Craft of Intelligence

By: Allen W. Dulles

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

If the experts could point to any single book as a starting point for understanding the subject of intelligence from the late twentieth century to today, that single book would be Allen W. Dulles's The Craft of Intelligence. This classic of spycraft is based on Allen Dulles's incomparable experience as a diplomat, international lawyer, and... Read more

Big Mind

By: Geoff Mulgan

Narrated by: Julian Elfer

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A new field of collective intelligence has emerged in the last few years, prompted by a wave of digital technologies that make it possible for organizations and societies to think at large scale. This "bigger mind"?human and machine capabilities working together?has the potential to solve the great challenges of our time. So why do smart... Read more

Antifa

By: Mark Bray

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In the wake of tragic events in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Donald Trump’s initial refusal to denounce the white nationalists behind it all, the “antifa” opposition movement is suddenly appearing everywhere. But what is it, precisely? And where did it come from?As long as there has been fascism, there has been anti-fascism—also known as... Read more

The Captive Mind

By: Czeslaw Milosz

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

The best-known prose work by the winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature examines the moral and intellectual conflicts faced by men and women living under totalitarianism of the left or right.Written in the early 1950s, when Eastern Europe was in the grip of Stalinism and many Western intellectuals placed their hopes in the new order of... Read more

The Book of Joe

By: Jeff Wilser

Narrated by: Johnathan McClain

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The aviators. The Amtrak. The ice cream cones. The memes. Few politicians are as iconic, or as beloved, as Joe Biden. Now, in The Book of Joe, Biden fans will finally have the definitive look at America's favorite vice president—and what he can teach us.



Structured around key moments in Biden's life and career—and filled with Biden-isms like... Read more

Vanishing New York

By: Jeremiah Moss

Narrated by: Paul Heitsch

Length: 15 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

An unflinching portrait of gentrification in the twenty-first century, and a love letter to lost New York, by the creator of the popular and incendiary blog Vanishing New York



New York City has long been a destination for rebels and rule breakers, artists, writers, and other hopefuls longing to be part of its rich cultural exchange and unique... Read more

Notorious RBG Young Readers' Edition

By: Irin Carmon & Shana Knizhnik

Narrated by: Andi Arndt

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

""A tribute to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg that does more than catalog her achievements; it conveys her spirit, one that will leave readers in awe.""*This acclaimed version of the New York Times bestselling biography Notorious RBG is an excellent way to share with middle grade readers just why Justice Ginsburg was such a powerful role model.... Read more

Exceptional America

By: Mugambi Jouet

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In this provocative book, Mugambi Jouet describes why Americans are far more divided than other Westerners over basic issues, including wealth inequality, health care, climate change, evolution, gender roles, abortion, gay rights, sex, gun control, mass incarceration, the death penalty, torture, human rights, and war.



Raised in Paris by a French... Read more

1917

By: Arthur Herman

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 16 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of two men, and the two decisions, that transformed world history in a single tumultuous year, 1917: Wilson’s entry into World War One and Lenin’s Bolshevik Revolution.In April 1917 Woodrow Wilson, champion of American democracy but also segregation; advocate for free trade and a new world order based on freedom and justice;... Read more

Becoming Kareem

By: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Raymond Obstfeld

Narrated by: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The first memoir for young readers by sports legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

At one time, Lew Alcindor was just another kid from New York City with all the usual problems: He struggled with fitting in, with pleasing a strict father, and with overcoming shyness that made him feel socially awkward. But with a talent for basketball, and an unmatched... Read more

Why Bob Dylan Matters

By: Richard F. Thomas

Narrated by: Nick Landrum

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged. Some celebrated, while many others questioned the choice.  How could the world’s most prestigious book prize be awarded to a famously cantankerous singer-songwriter who wouldn’t even deign to attend the medal ceremony?In Why Bob Dylan Matters, Harvard Professor... Read more

Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an

By: Denise A. Spellberg

Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin

Length: 13 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In this original and illuminating book, Denise A. Spellberg reveals a little-known but crucial dimension of the story of American religious freedom—a drama in which Islam played a surprising role. In 1765, eleven years before composing the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson bought a Qur'an. This marked only the beginning of his... Read more

God and Donald Trump

By: Stephen E. Strang

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

With pundits asking, “How did he win?” this book explores whether there was a supernatural element involved. Christian leaders prophesied before the election that God had raised up Donald Trump to lead the nation through a time of crisis. But could this billionaire reality-TV star actually convince the voters he was for real? If so, what is God... Read more

The Democrats

By: the Speech Resource Company

Narrated by: the Speech Resource Company

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Party leaders, officeholders, candidates, and advisors address the press and the American people. Includes the Kennedys, the Clintons, FDR, Truman, Carter, Obama, and many others explaining what the Democratic Party stands for and strategies for winning elections. Produced by the Speech Resource Company and fully narrated by Robert Wikstrom.Huey... Read more