Politics & Economy audiobooks

Citizen Newt

By: Craig Shirley

Narrated by: John McLain

Length: 17 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In one way or another Newt Gingrich has been leading a revolution for most of his life. Citizen Newt is the definitive account of that struggle. Writing with the full cooperation of Speaker Gingrich and the players around him, New York Times bestselling author Craig Shirley captures the events, ideas, failures, and successes of Newton Leroy... Read more

A First-Class Catastrophe

By: Diana B. Henriques

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive account of the crash of 1987, a cautionary tale of how the US financial system nearly collapsed—from the bestselling author of The Wizard of LiesMonday, October 19, 1987, was by far the worst day in Wall Street history. The market fell 22.6 percent—almost twice as bad as the worst day of 1929—equal to a one-day loss of nearly... Read more

A Force So Swift

By: Kevin Peraino

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Winner of the 2018 Truman Book Award

A gripping narrative of the Truman Administration's response to the fall of Nationalist China and the triumph of Mao Zedong's Communist forces in 1949--an extraordinary political revolution that continues to shape East Asian politics to this day.
 
In the opening... Read more

From Global to Local

By: Finbarr Livesey

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

This brilliantly original book dismantles the underlying assumptions that drive the decisions made by companies and governments throughout the world, to show that our shared narrative of the global economy is deeply flawed. If left unexamined, they will lead corporations and countries astray, with dire consequences for us all.

For the past fifty... Read more

Empty Hands, A Memoir

By: Sister Abegail Ntleko

Narrated by: Julisa Rowe

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Empty Hands is the inspiring memoir of Zulu nurse and healthcare activist Sister Abegail Ntleko. Growing up poor in a rural village with a father who didn't believe in educating girls, against seemingly insurmountable odds Sister Abegail earned her nursing degree and began work as a community nurse and educator, dedicating her life to those in... Read more

Pretty Powerful

By: Eboni K. Williams

Narrated by: Eboni K. Williams

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Women have been told that being pretty comes at the expense of being taken seriously. If a woman is physically attractive, there is often a presumption that she lacks the substance and smarts necessary to provide leadership in business and other endeavors. This narrative implies that being pretty and being capable are mutually exclusive. But in... Read more

And the Weak Suffer What They Must?

By: Yanis Varoufakis

Narrated by: Yanis Varoufakis & Leighton Pugh

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A #1 Sunday Times bestseller [UK]

A titanic battle is being waged for Europe's integrity and soul, with the forces of reason and humanism losing out to growing irrationality, authoritarianism, and malice, promoting inequality and austerity. The whole world has a stake in a victory for rationality, liberty, democracy, and humanism.

In January... Read more

Man of the Hour

By: Jennet Conant

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 24 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

“Gripping…an outstanding portrait” (The Wall Street Journal) of one of the most influential men of the greatest generation, James B. Conant—a savvy architect of the nuclear age and the Cold War—told by his granddaughter, New York Times bestselling author Jennet Conant.

James Bryant Conant was a towering figure. He was at the center of the mammoth... Read more

The Patch

By: Chris Turner

Narrated by: Stephen Graybill

Length: 14 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Chris Turner brings readers onto the streets of Fort McMurray, showing the myriad ways the oil sands impact our lives and demanding that we ask the question: To both fuel the world and to save it, what do we do about the Patch?The Patch is the story of Fort McMurray and the oil sands in northern Alberta, the world’s second... Read more

One Nation After Trump

By: E.J. Dionne, Jr., Norman J. Ornstein & Thomas E...

Narrated by: E.J. Dionne, Jr., Norman J. Ornstein & Thomas E...

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER — read by the authors.

A call to action from three of Washington's premier political scholar-journalists, One Nation After Trump offers the definitive work on the threat posed by the Trump presidency and how to counter it.

American democracy was never supposed to give the nation a president like Donald Trump.... Read more

Between Past and Future

By: Hannah Arendt

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Hannah Arendt’s insightful observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, constitute an impassioned contribution to political philosophy. In Between Past and Future Arendt describes the perplexing crises modern society faces as a result of the loss of meaning of the traditional key words of politics: justice,... Read more

Flooding into Bangladesh, Rohingya refugees flee harrowing violence

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingyas have fled to Bangladesh in the past three weeks after suffering violent attacks by Myanmar troops and Buddhist vigilantes. The sudden influx of Rohingyas is causing tensions with local Bengalis, who fear becoming the minority. Special correspondent Tania Rashid explains the origins of this mass exodus... Read more

Jackie Kennedy Onassis

By: Michael W. Simmons

Narrated by: Alan Munro

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was, for much of her life, the most famous woman in the world. First as the chic, sophisticated wife of President John F. Kennedy, she was the woman who brought Paris to its heels and turned the White House into the living museum of American history that it is today. After her husband’s assassination, she served as a... Read more

George Romney

By: Patrick Foster

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

George W. Romney was a remarkable person. As chairman of American Motors Corporation from 1954 to 1962, he saved that company from sure destruction and led it to its greatest success. He later became the most popular governor in Michigan history, a Republican stalwart beloved in a Democratic state. He ran for the presidency in 1967 and served as... Read more

Über den Anstand in schwierigen Zeiten und die Frage, wie wir miteinander umgehen

By: Axel Hacke

Narrated by: Axel Hacke

Length: 4 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Wir leben in aufgewühlten und aufwühlenden Zeiten, die Grundlagen unseres bisherigen Zusammenlebens sind bedroht: Zeit, sich wieder einmal ein paar wichtige Fragen zu stellen. Was bedeutet es eigentlich für jeden Einzelnen, wenn Lüge, Rücksichtslosigkeit und Niedertracht an die Macht drängen oder sie schon errungen haben? Wenn so erfolgreich... Read more

Windfall

By: Meghan L. O'Sullivan

Narrated by: Eliza Foss

Length: 13 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Windfall is the boldest profile of the world's energy resources since Daniel Yergin's The Quest. Harvard professor and former Washington policymaker Meghan L. O'Sullivan reveals how fears of energy scarcity have given way to the reality of energy abundance. This abundance is transforming the geo-political order and boosting American power. As a... Read more

World Without Mind

By: Franklin Foer

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 • One of the best books of the year by The New York Times, LA Times, and NPR

Franklin Foer reveals the existential threat posed by big tech, and in his brilliant polemic gives us the toolkit to fight their pervasive influence.

Over the past few decades there has been a revolution in terms of who... Read more

Istanbul

By: Bettany Hughes

Narrated by: Bettany Hughes

Length: 24 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Istanbul has long been a place where stories and histories collide, where perception is as potent as fact.

From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three names--Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul -- resonates as an idea and a place, real and imagined. Standing as the gateway between East and West, North and South, it has been the capital... Read more

What Happened

By: Hillary Rodham Clinton

Narrated by: Hillary Rodham Clinton

Length: 18 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

“An engaging, beautifully synthesized page-turner” (Slate). The #1 New York Times bestseller and Time #1 Nonfiction Book of the Year: Hillary Rodham Clinton’s most personal memoir yet, about the 2016 presidential election.

In this “candid and blackly funny” (The New York Times) memoir, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking and... Read more

Unbelievable

By: Katy Tur

Narrated by: Katy Tur

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERCalled ""Disgraceful,"" ""third-rate,"" and ""not nice"" by Donald Trump, NBC News correspondent Katy Tur reported on—and took flak from—the most captivating and volatile presidential candidate in American history. Tur lived out of a suitcase for a year and a half, following Trump around the country, powered by packets... Read more

The Internationalists

By: Oona A. Hathaway & Scott J. Shapiro

Narrated by: Amanda Carlin

Length: 19 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

“An original book…about individuals who used ideas to change the world” (The New Yorker)—the fascinating exploration into the creation and history of the Paris Peace Pact, an often overlooked but transformative treaty that laid the foundation for the international system we live under today.

In 1928, the leaders of the world assembled in Paris to... Read more

No Room for Small Dreams

By: Shimon Peres

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1934, eleven-year-old Shimon Peres emigrated to the land of Israel from his native Poland, leaving behind an extended family who would later be murdered in the Holocaust. Few back then would have predicted that this young man would eventually become one of the towering figures of the twentieth century. Peres would indeed go on to serve the... Read more

Fractured Continent

By: William Drozdiak

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Fractured Continent is an urgent examination of how the political and social volatility in Europe impacts the United States and the rest of the world.



The dream of a United States of Europe is unraveling in the wake of several crises now afflicting the continent. The single Euro currency threatens to break apart amid bitter arguments between rich... Read more

Bloodlines

By: Melissa del Bosque

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The riveting and suspenseful account of two young FBI agents in a pursuit of a drug cartel's most fearsome leader, Miguel Treviño.Drugs, money, cartels: this is what FBI rookie Scott Lawson expected when he was sent to the border town of Laredo, but instead he’s deskbound writing intelligence reports about the drug war. Then, one day, Lawson is... Read more