Politics & Economy audiobooks

Ein Deutschlandcoaching

By: Maria Oskar Demos

Narrated by: Maria Oskar Demos

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Dürfen wir von einer Demokratie in unserem Land sprechen? Demokratie heißt Volksherrschaft. Falls wir eine echte Demokratie haben, warum bestimmen dann nur die Parteien unsere Politik? Welche weiteren Probleme sind dadurch von den Parteien und der Politik zu verantworten? Wie könnte eine Lösung aussehen? In diesem Deutschlandcoaching werden ganz... Read more

Still Lucky

By: Rebecca Huntley

Narrated by: Rebecca Huntley

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Rebecca Huntley, one of Australia's most experienced and knowledgeable social researchers, tackles the biggest social questions facing Australia now: Why do we fear asylum seekers? Why are women still underpaid and overworked? Why do we over-parent? Why do we worry even though we are lucky? Still Lucky is a broad-ranging, wise and compelling... Read more

Your Call

By: Jeremy Vine

Narrated by: Jeremy Vine & Peter Kenny

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

This title was previously published in 2017 with the original title, 'What I Learnt'

Jeremy Vine has been presenting a BBC Radio 2 show since 2003 that attracts more than seven million listeners. In that time he calculates he has taken more than 25,000 calls on topical subjects - big issues and small ones: on life, love, lollipop ladies and... Read more

If Only They Didn't Speak English

By: Jon Sopel

Narrated by: Jon Sopel

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

As the BBC’s North America Editor, Jon Sopel has had a pretty busy time of it lately. In the 18 months it’s taken for a reality star to go from laughingstock to leader of the free world, Jon has travelled the length and breadth of the United States, experiencing it from a perspective that most of us could only dream of: he has flown aboard Air... Read more

Courage

By: Paul T. Dean

Narrated by: Paul T. Dean

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In May of 1918, nineteen-year-old Roy Blanchard marched toward the sound of artillery with the American 126th Infantry Regiment on a narrow French road thousands of miles from his home in Grand Rapids, Michigan. World War I had been raging for nearly four years, sending millions of young men to an early grave. America’s inexperienced... Read more

Roosevelt

By: Brett Harper

Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

He was one of America’s greatest presidents and certainly our most colorful. Theodore Roosevelt, known to all but his friends as Teddy, was born a sickly child but transformed himself into an outdoorsman, a cowboy, and a warrior who led his Rough Riders up the San Juan Heights of Cuba in a charge that still ranks among the world’s military... Read more

The Cold War

By: Odd Arne Westad

Narrated by: Julian Elfer

Length: 22 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Cold War, Odd Arne Westad offers a new perspective on a century when a superpower rivalry and an ideological war transformed every corner of our globe. We traditionally think of the Cold War as a post-World War II diplomatic and military conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. But in this major new work, Westad argues... Read more

What I Found in a Thousand Towns

By: Dar Williams

Narrated by: Dar Williams

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A beloved folk singer presents an impassioned account of the fall and rise of the small American towns she cherishes.

Dubbed by the New Yorker as "one of America's very best singer-songwriters," Dar Williams has made her career not in stadiums, but touring America's small towns. She has played their venues, composed in their coffee shops, and... Read more

Reagan

By: Brett Harper

Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

He was the unlikeliest of presidential candidates—dismissed by opponents as a movie actor, a right-winger trying to undo the work of liberals stretching back to Franklin Roosevelt. Yet Ronald Reagan made it to the White House, taking office in a time of economic turmoil, waning prestige abroad, and a general dampening of the American spirit.... Read more

1900: Or; The Last President

By: Ingersoll Lockwood

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

This near-future political satire about the election of a new president argues that socialism and populism will eventually give rise to chaos and disaster. Authored by Ingersoll Lockwood-around whom conspiracy theories concerning the sci-fi/fantasy character Baron Trump now abound-1900; or, The Last President is notable for both its clairvoyance... Read more

Gorbachev

By: William Taubman

Narrated by: Henry Strozier

Length: 32 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
The definitive biography of the transformational Russian leader by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Khrushchev.

When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the USSR. was one of the... Read more

Jumping at Shadows

By: Sasha Abramsky

Narrated by: Matthew Waterson

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Why is an unarmed young black woman who knocks on a stranger's front door to ask for help after her car breaks down perceived to be so threatening that he shoots her dead? Why do we fear infrequent acts of terrorism more far more common acts of violence? Why does a disease like Ebola, which killed only a handful of Americans, provoke panic,... Read more

Twilight of American Sanity

By: Allen Frances

Narrated by: Christopher Grove

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

“Unravel[s] the national psyche that brought our politics to this moment.” — Evan Osnos, The New YorkerA landmark book, from “one of the world’s most prominent psychiatrists” (The Atlantic): Allen Frances analyzes the nation, viewing the rise of Donald J. Trump as darkly symptomatic of a deeper societal distress that must be understood if we are... Read more

We Rise

By: Xiuhtezcatl Martinez & Justin Spizman

Narrated by: Drew Caiden

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Sixteen-year-old climate activist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez and his group the Earth Guardians believe that choices made now will have a lasting impact on the world of tomorrow, and they want to ensure a positive, just, and sustainable future. Beginning with their empowering story, We Rise explores many aspects of effective activism and provides... Read more

Fantasyland

By: Kurt Andersen

Narrated by: Kurt Andersen

Length: 19 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The single most important explanation, and the fullest explanation, of how Donald Trump became president of the United States . . . nothing less than the most important book that I have read this year.”—Lawrence O’Donnell

How did we get here?

In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, Kurt Andersen shows that... Read more

The Quest for Cosmic Justice

By: Thomas Sowell

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is about the great moral issues underlying many of the headline-making political controversies of our times. It is not a comforting book but a book about disturbing and dangerous trends. The Quest for Cosmic Justice shows how confused conceptions of justice end up promoting injustice, how confused conceptions of equality end up... Read more

Daniel Berrigan

By: Daniel Berrigan

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

“Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children, the angering of the orderlies in the front parlor of the charnel house. We could not, so help us God, do otherwise.”Daniel Berrigan was a Jesuit priest, poet, and peacemaker whose words and actions over fifty years have offered a powerful... Read more

Accidental Activists

By: David Collins

Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin

Length: 14 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In early 2013 same-sex marriage was legal in only ten states and the District of Columbia. That year the Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Windsor appeared to open the door to marriage equality. In Texas, Mark Phariss and Vic Holmes, together for sixteen years and deeply in love, wondered why no one had stepped across the threshold to... Read more

Asia's Reckoning

By: Richard McGregor

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 16 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A Financial Times Best Book of 2017

“A shrewd and knowing book.” —Robert D. Kaplan, The Wall Street Journal

“A compelling and impressive read.” —The Economist

“Skillfully crafted and well-argued.” —Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Financial Times

“An excellent modern history. . . . provides the context needed to make sense of the region’s present and... Read more

The New Education

By: Cathy N. Davidson

Narrated by: Carolyn Cook

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A leading educational thinker argues that the American university is stuck in the past -- and shows how we can revolutionize it for our era of constant change

Our current system of higher education dates to the period from 1865 to 1925. It was in those decades that the nation's new universities created grades and departments, majors and minors,... Read more

On Revolution

By: Hannah Arendt

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Hannah Arendt’s penetrating observations on the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, have been fundamental to our understanding of our political landscape. On Revolution is her classic exploration of a phenomenon that has reshaped the globe.From the eighteenth-century rebellions in America and France to the explosive changes... Read more

Crossings

By: Jon Kerstetter

Narrated by: Paul Woodson

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In Iraq, as a medic and officer, Jon Kerstetter balanced two impossibly conflicting imperatives—to heal and to kill. When he suffered an injury and then a stroke during his third tour, he wound up back home in Iowa, no longer able to be either a doctor or a soldier. In this gorgeous memoir that moves from his impoverished upbringing on an Oneida... Read more

Im nächsten Leben ist zu spät

By: Sina Trinkwalder

Narrated by: Luise Schubert

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Viele Menschen leben in einem Gefühl der Unzufriedenheit. Sie leiden vielleicht unter ihrem Gewicht, ihrem Job, ihrer Beziehung, vielleicht wünschen sie sich, mehr aus ihrem Leben zu machen. Doch bei vielen bleibt es auch dabei, sie kommen über das Wünschen nicht hinaus., , Sina Trinkwalder ist eine Macherin. Sie hat keine Scheu, Neues... Read more

The Last Christians

By: Andreas Knapp

Narrated by: Brett A. Barry

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A Westerner’s travels among the persecuted and displaced Christian remnant in Iraq and Syria teach him much about faith under fire.

Gold Medal Winner, 2018 IPPY Book of the Year Award
Silver Medal Winner, 2018 Benjamin Franklin Award
Finalist, 2018 ECPA Christian Book Award

Inside Syria and Iraq, and even along the refugee trail, they’re a religious... Read more