Politics & Economy audiobooks

Hacks

By: Donna Brazile

Narrated by: Donna Brazile

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"Explosive... A blistering tell-all."---Washington Post

"People should sit up, take notes and change things."---Ace Smith, Los Angeles Times

"Brazile most certainly has a story to tell.... Vivid."---The Guardian

From Donna Brazile, former DNC chair and legendary political operative, an explosive and revealing... Read more

My Life, Our Times

By: Gordon Brown

Narrated by: Gordon Kennedy

Length: 19 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Random House presents the audiobook edition of My Life, Our Times by Gordon Brown, read by Gordon Kennedy.

As former Prime Minister and our longest-serving Chancellor, Gordon Brown has been a guiding force for Britain and the world over three decades. This is his candid, poignant and deeply relevant story.

In describing his upbringing in Scotland... Read more

All the Kremlin's Men

By: Mikhail Zygar

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 16 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

An extraordinary behind-the-scenes portrait of the court of Vladimir Putin, the oligarchs that surround it, and the many moods of modern Russia that reads like a "real House of Cards"(Lev Lurie).

All the Kremlin's Men is a gripping narrative of an accidental king and a court out of control. Based on an unprecedented series of interviews with... Read more

Playing with Fire

By: Lawrence O'Donnell

Narrated by: Lawrence O'Donnell

Length: 17 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestseller!

"A thriller-like, propulsive tour through 1968, told by a man who is in love with American politics and who knows how all the dots connect. Brilliant and totally engrossing."
-Rachel Maddow

"Delightful...brings to life the most fascinating election of modern times."
-Walter Isaacson

From the celebrated host of MSNBC’s... Read more

Warnings

By: Richard A. Clarke & R.P. Eddy

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Warnings is the story of the future of national security, threatening technologies, the U.S. economy, and possibly the fate of civilization.



In Greek mythology Cassandra foresaw calamities, but was cursed by the gods to be ignored. Modern-day Cassandras clearly predicted the disasters of Katrina, Fukushima, the Great Recession, the rise of ISIS,... Read more

The Know-It-Alls

By: Noam Cohen

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Beginning nearly a century ago and showcasing the role of Stanford University as the incubator of this new class of super geeks, Cohen shows how smart guys like Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Mark Zuckerberg fell in love with a radically individualistic ideal and then mainstreamed it. With these very rich men leading the... Read more

You Can't Spell America Without Me

By: Alec Baldwin & Kurt Andersen

Narrated by: Alec Baldwin, Kurt Andersen & Oliver Wyman

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Political satire as deeper truth: Donald Trump’s presidential memoir, as recorded by two world-renowned Trump scholars, and experts on greatness generally
 
"I have the best words, beautiful words, as everybody has been talking and talking about for a long time. Also? The best sentences and, what do you call them, paragraphs. My previous books... Read more

How a young Syrian girl's pleas for peace drew international attention

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Last year, Bana Alabed sparked a worldwide following for tweeting from Aleppo in Syria while it was under attack amid a years-long civil war. Now, the 8-year-old is authoring a book about surviving and escaping the conflict. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Marcia Biggs talked to Alabed and her mother in Ankara, Turkey, where they are... Read more

WTF?

By: Robert Peston

Narrated by: Luke Thompson & Robert Peston

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

THE TOP 10 BESTSELLER

'Richly argued and brilliantly written... a deeply thoughtful analysis that should be mandatory reading for anyone seeking to understand where we have gone wrong.' Vernon Bogdanor, Financial Times

In WTF? Robert Peston draws on his years of experience as a political, economics and business journalist to show us what has... Read more

The Commando

By: Ben Mckelvey

Narrated by: Nick Farnell

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

On 22 June 2013, Corporal Cameron Baird was a 2nd Commando Regiment Special Forces soldier when he led his platoon into a known Taliban stronghold to back-up another Australian unit under heavy fire. In the pronged firefight, Cameron was mortally wounded.

In 2014, Cameron's bravery and courage under fire saw him posthumously awarded the 100th... Read more

The Framers' Coup

By: Michael J. Klarman

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 31 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Americans revere their Constitution. However, most of us are unaware how tumultuous and improbable the drafting and ratification processes were. As Benjamin Franklin keenly observed, any assembly of men bring with them "all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views." One need not... Read more

Not a Crime to Be Poor

By: Peter Edelman

Narrated by: Eric G. Dove

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In addition to exposing racially biased policing, the Justice Department’s Ferguson Report exposed to the world a system of fines and fees levied for minor crimes in Ferguson, Missouri, that, when they proved too expensive for Ferguson’s largely poor, African American population, resulted in jail sentences for thousands of people.As former... Read more

The Ghost

By: Jefferson Morley

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

From World War II to the Cold War, Angleton operated beyond the view of the public, Congress, and even the president. He unwittingly shared intelligence secrets with Soviet spy Kim Philby, a member of the notorious Cambridge spy ring. He launched mass surveillance by opening the mail of hundreds of thousands of Americans. He abetted a scheme to... Read more

Go Back to Where You Came From

By: Sasha Polakow-Suransky

Narrated by: Jamie Renell

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

What if politicians pose a graver threat to liberal democracy than mass migration?

Brexit and Donald Trump's victory were just the beginning -- and Marine Le Pen's defeat does not signal a turning of the tide. From the Introduction

From Europe to the United States, opportunistic politicians have exploited the economic crisis, terrorist attacks,... Read more

I Hate the Internet

By: Jarrett Kobek

Narrated by: Kathryn Merry

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

What if you told the truth and the whole world heard you? What if you lived in a country swamped with Internet outrage? What if you were a woman in a society that hated women? Set in the San Francisco of 2013, I Hate the Internet offers a hilarious and obscene portrayal of life amongst the victims of the digital boom. As billions of tweets fuel... Read more

The Ideas Industry

By: Daniel W. Drezner

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The public intellectual, as a person and ideal, has a long and storied history. Writing in venues like the New Republic and Commentary, such intellectuals were always expected to opine on a broad array of topics, from foreign policy to literature to economics. Yet in recent years a new kind of thinker has supplanted that archetype: the thought... Read more

Alt-America

By: David Neiwert

Narrated by: Matthew Josdal

Length: 14 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Just as Donald Trump's victorious campaign for the US presidency shocked the world, the seemingly sudden national prominence of white supremacists, xenophobes, militia leaders, and mysterious "alt-right" figures mystifies many. But the American extreme right has been growing steadily in number and influence since the 1990s with the rise of... Read more

Bobby Kennedy

By: Chris Matthews

Narrated by: Chris Matthews

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In Chris Matthews’s New York Times bestselling portrait of Robert F. Kennedy, “Readers witness the evolution of Kennedy’s soul. Through tragedy after tragedy we find the man humanized” (Associated Press).

With his bestselling biography Jack Kennedy, Chris Matthews profiled of one of America’s most beloved Presidents and the patriotic spirit that... Read more

The Three Lives of James Madison

By: Noah Feldman

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 34 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping reexamination of the Founding Father who transformed the United States in each of his political “lives”—as a revolutionary thinker, as a partisan political strategist, and as a president

Over the course of his life, James Madison changed the United States three times: First, he designed the Constitution, led the struggle for its... Read more

Craig & Fred

By: Craig Grossi

Narrated by: Craig Grossi

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The uplifting and unforgettable true story of a US Marine, the stray dog he met on an Afghan battlefield, and how they saved each other and now travel America together, ""spreading the message of stubborn positivity.""In 2010, Sergeant Craig Grossi was doing intelligence work for Marine RECON—the most elite fighters in the Corps—in a remote part... Read more

Chasing Understanding in the Jungles of Vietnam

By: Douglas Beed

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Author Doug Beed relates his memories of the men and missions during his year (1968–69) as a combat soldier with the First Infantry Division in Vietnam. After two years of college he couldn't afford to continue, so he was forced to relinquish his student deferment and enter the draft. He tried various strategies to get a non-combat job;... Read more

Policing Ferguson, Policing America

By: Thomas Jackson

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the fatal shooting in broad daylight of unarmed African American Michael Brown by a white cop in August 2014, Ferguson, Missouri, became the scene of protests that pitted law enforcement against locals and Black Lives matter activists. The media firestorm has not waned, and, in fact, has grown stronger in light of all the recent... Read more

All Out War

By: Edward Klein

Narrated by: William LeRoy

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Since the moment Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign, powerful figures have been working to delegitimize the brash-talking businessman and drive him from office before he can drain the swamp and take away their power. Who are these determined and ruthless individuals who are waging all-out war against the president? Why have... Read more

Mountain climbing gives Afghan girls a chance to breathe free

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Few are brave enough to climb Afghanistan's rugged mountains. But for women, harassment from extremist groups make practicing outdoor sports even more difficult. A new organization is helping women find peace living in the war-stricken country by teaching them how to hike and rock climb. Julia Griffin reports on how women in Afghanistan are... Read more