Politics & Economy audiobooks

How To Stop Brexit (And Make Britain Great Again)

By: Nick Clegg

Narrated by: Nick Clegg

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Random House presents the audiobook edition of How To Stop Brexit (And Make Britain Great Again) written and read by Nick Clegg.

Keep calm – but do not carry on.

There is nothing remotely inevitable about Brexit – except that it will be deeply damaging if it happens. Extricating Britain from Europe will be the greatest challenge this country has... Read more

The Life of a Scilly Sergeant

By: Colin Taylor

Narrated by: Kris Dyer

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Life of a Scilly Sergeant by Colin Taylor, read by Kris Dyer.

‘Policing is like this everywhere but not everywhere is Scilly’

Meet Sergeant Colin Taylor, he has been a valuable member of the police force for over twenty years, five of which have been spent policing the ‘quiet’ Isles of Scilly, a... Read more

Billionaire at the Barricades

By: Laura Ingraham

Narrated by: Laura Ingraham

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

Americans didn’t just go to the polls in 2016. They joined a movement that swept the unlikeliest of candidates, Donald Trump, into the Oval Office. Can he complete his agenda? Or will his opponents in the media, protester class, and political establishment block his efforts and choke off the movement he... Read more

The Grouchy Historian

By: Ed Asner & Ed. Weinberger

Narrated by: Ed Asner

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In “an unabashedly biased, deeply researched book” (SF Gate), Ed Asner—the actor who starred as Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show—reclaims the Constitution from the right-wingers who think that they and only they know how to interpret it.

Ed Asner, a self-proclaimed dauntless Democrat from the old days, figured that if the right-wing wackos... Read more

The Mighty Eighth

By: Gerald Astor

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

Length: 23 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Europe has fallen. Pearl Harbor is in flames. Enter: the Eighth.

In 1941 the RAF fought a desperate battle of survival against the Luftwaffe over Britain. Then, from across the Atlantic, came a new generation of American pilots, gunners, and bombardiers, a new generation of flying machines called the B-17 Flying Fortress, the B-24 Liberator, the... Read more

The Climate Swerve

By: Robert Jay Lifton

Narrated by: Rudy Sanda

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Over his long career as witness to an extreme twentieth century, National Book Award–winning psychiatrist, historian, and public intellectual Robert Jay Lifton has grappled with the profound effects of nuclear war, terrorism, and genocide. Now he shifts to climate change, which, Lifton writes, "presents us with what may be the most demanding and... Read more

Before the Storm

By: Rick Perlstein

Narrated by: Kiff VandenHeuvel

Length: 28 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed historian Rick Perlstein chronicles the rise of the conservative movement in the liberal 1960s. At the heart of the story is Barry Goldwater, the renegade Republican from Arizona who loathed federal government, despised liberals, and mocked "peaceful coexistence" with the USSR. Perlstein's narrative shines a light on a whole world of... Read more

Grant

By: Ron Chernow

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 47 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2017

“Eminently readable but thick with import . . . Grant hits like a Mack truck of knowledge.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic

Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents,... Read more

The Future of War

By: Lawrence Freedman

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Questions about the future of war are a regular feature of political debate, strategic analysis, and popular fiction. Where should we look for new dangers? What cunning plans might an aggressor have in mind? What are the best forms of defense? How might peace be preserved or conflict resolved?

From the French rout at Sedan in 1870 to the... Read more

Hoover

By: Kenneth Whyte

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 27 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"An exemplary biography—exhaustively researched, fair-minded and easy to read. It can nestle on the same shelf as David McCullough’s Truman, a high compliment indeed." —The Wall Street Journal

The definitive biography of Herbert Hoover, one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century—a wholly original account that will forever... Read more

50 Economics Classics

By: Tom Butler-Bowdon

Narrated by: John Chancer

Length: 15 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Economics drives the modern world and shapes our lives, but few of us feel we have time to engage with the breadth of ideas in the subject. 50 Economics Classics is the smart person's guide to two centuries of discussion of finance, capitalism and the global economy. From Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations to Thomas Piketty's bestseller Capital in... Read more

The Apparitionists

By: Peter Manseau

Narrated by: Jefferson Mays

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A story of faith and fraud in post-Civil War America, told through the lens of a photographer who claimed he could capture images of the dead In the early days of photography, in the death-strewn wake of the Civil War, one man seized America's imagination. A "spirit photographer," William Mumler took portrait photographs that featured the... Read more

Spy Schools

By: Daniel Golden

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Grounded in extensive research and reporting, Spy Schools reveals how academia has emerged as a frontline in the global spy game. In a knowledge-based economy, universities are repositories of valuable information and research, where brilliant minds of all nationalities mingle freely with few questions asked. Intelligence agencies have always... Read more

The Art of the Donald

By: Christopher Bedford

Narrated by: Christopher Bedford

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Motivational self-help advice from President Donald Trump, covering everything from leadership and self-confidence to how to succeed in business.

President Donald Trump knows about living the good life and achieving success. With his election to the presidency, he added to a life that already includes billions of dollars, worldwide celebrity, and... Read more

WTF?

By: Tim O'Reilly

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 16 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Silicon Valley’s leading intellectual and the founder of O’Reilly Media explores the upside and the potential downsides of our future—what he calls the ""next economy.""Tim O’Reilly’s genius is to identify and explain emerging technologies with world shaking potential—the World Wide Web, Open Source Software, Web 2.0, Open Government data, the... Read more

Schlesinger

By: Richard Aldous

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 18 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (1917–2007), known today as the architect of John F. Kennedy's presidential legacy—and the myth of Camelot—blazed an extraordinary path from Harvard University to wartime London to the West Wing. The son of a pioneering historian—and a two-time Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner in his own right—Schlesinger... Read more

Ulysses S. Grant

By: Michael W. Simmons

Narrated by: Alan Munro

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Apart from Abraham Lincoln the most famous name of the Civil War is undoubtedly that of Ulysses S. Grant. He was the first Lieutenant General created by the American army since George Washington. After the war, he was the only president between Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson to be elected to two successive terms in office. His legacy as a military... Read more

Lost Kingdom

By: Serhii Plokhy

Narrated by: Peter Ganim

Length: 16 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

From a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe and the prizewinning author of Chernobyl, the essential history of Russian imperialism.

In 2014, Russia annexed the Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine -- only the latest iteration of a centuries-long effort to expand Russian boundaries and create a pan-Russian nation. In Lost Kingdom,... Read more

Beyond the Messy Truth

By: Van Jones

Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A passionate manifesto that exposes hypocrisy on both sides of the political divide and points a way out of the tribalism that is tearing America apart—by the CNN political contributor and host hailed as “a star of the 2016 campaign” (The New York Times) who coined the term “whitelash”

Van Jones burst into the American consciousness during the... Read more

Ein Leben ist zu wenig - Die Autobiographie (Gekürzt) - Abridged

By: Gregor Gysi

Narrated by: Gregor Gysi

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

So offen und persönlich wie noch nie: die Autobiographie Gregor Gysi hat linkes Denken geprägt und wurde zu einem seiner wichtigsten Protagonisten. Hier erzählt er von seinen zahlreichen Leben: als Anwalt, Politiker, Autor, Moderator und Familienvater. Seine Autobiographie ist ein Geschichts-Buch, das die Erschütterungen und Extreme, die... Read more

A Moonless, Starless Sky

By: Alexis Okeowo

Narrated by: Kamali Minter

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE 2018 PEN OPEN BOOK AWARD

"A rich and urgently necessary book" (New York Times Book Review), A Moonless, Starless Sky is a masterful, humane work of journalism by Alexis Okeowo--a vivid narrative of Africans who are courageously resisting their continent's wave of fundamentalism.

In A Moonless, Starless Sky Okeowo weaves together... Read more

Dear World

By: Bana Alabed

Narrated by: Lameece Issaq

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“A story of love and courage amid brutality and terror, this is the testimony of a child who has endured the unthinkable.” —J.K. Rowling

“I’m very afraid I will die tonight.” —Bana Alabed, Twitter, October 2, 2016
“Stop killing us.” —Bana Alabed, Twitter, October 6, 2016
“I just want to live without fear.” —Bana Alabed, Twitter, October 12,... Read more

Scalia Speaks

By: Antonin Scalia

Narrated by: Christopher J. Scalia

Length: 13 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

This definitive collection of beloved Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's finest speeches covers topics as varied as the law, faith, virtue, pastimes, and his heroes and friends. Featuring a foreword written and narrated by longtime friend Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and an intimate introduction by his youngest son, this volume includes... Read more

Rally Point

By: Chris Gibson

Narrated by: Chris Gibson

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A smart and surprising political inventory for how America can reunite and revitalize in a time of crisis.

Written by an admired leader of the Republican party, Rally Point: Five Tasks to Unite the Country and Revitalize the American Dream looks past the 2016 election, past the finger pointing and conventional political thinking, to focus on... Read more