Politics & Economy audiobooks

A Stone of Hope

By: Jim St. Germain & Jon Sternfeld

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of The Other Wes Moore and Just Mercy, a searing memoir and clarion call to save our at-risk youth by a young black man who himself was a lost cause—until he landed in a rehabilitation program that saved his life and gave him purpose.Born into abject poverty in Haiti, young Jim St. Germain moved to Brooklyn’s Crown Heights, into... Read more

News from Nowhere

By: William Morris

Narrated by: Alice Johnson

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

This fascinating work centers around the encounter between a visitor from the nineteenth century, William Guest, and a decentralized and humane socialist future without class segregation and with direct democracy without government al empowerment... Inspired by the work of John Ruskin and Karl Marx; this novel is not only a statement of... Read more

Bourgeois Dignity

By: Deirdre N. McCloskey

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 20 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and liberty to the bourgeoisie they had denied for so long. The result was an explosion in economic growth and proof that economic change depends less on foreign trade,... Read more

Progress

By: Johan Norberg

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

From an examination of official data from such institutions as the United Nations, the World Bank, and the World Health Organization, Cato Institute Senior Fellow Johan Norberg paints a portrait of a better future ahead.It’s on the television, in the papers, and in our minds. Every day we’re bludgeoned by news of how bad everything is—financial... Read more

Bourgeois Equality

By: Deirdre N. McCloskey

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 29 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

There’s little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argues in the concluding volume of her trilogy celebrating the oft-derided virtues of the bourgeoisie. The poorest of humanity, McCloskey shows, will soon be joining the comparative riches of Japan and... Read more

The Swamp

By: Eric Bolling

Narrated by: Eric Bolling

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

When Washington D.C. was first built, it was on top of a swamp that had to be drained. Donald Trump says it's time to drain it again.

In The Swamp, bestselling author and Fox News Channel host Eric Bolling presents an infuriating, amusing, revealing, and outrageous history of American politics, past and... Read more

Rediscovering Americanism

By: Mark R. Levin

Narrated by: Jeremy Lowell & Mark R. Levin

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From five-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, radio host, and “one of the conservative moment’s most influential voices” (The Washington Times) Mark R. Levin comes a searing plea for a return to America’s most sacred values.

In Rediscovering Americanism, Mark R. Levin revisits the founders’ warnings about the perils of overreach by the... Read more

The Convenient Terrorist: Two Whistleblowers’ Stories of Torture, Terror, Secret Wars, and CIA Lies

By: John Kiriakou & Joseph Hickman

Narrated by: Eric Martin

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A startling spotlight on the darkest corners of America’s “War on Terror,” where nothing is quite what it seems.

The Convenient Terrorist is the definitive inside account of the capture, torture, and detention of Abu Zubaydah, the first “high-value target” captured by the CIA after 9/11. But was Abu Zubaydah, who is still being indefinitely... Read more

Drone Warrior

By: Brett Velicovich & Christopher S. Stewart

Narrated by: Brett Velicovich & Roger Wayne

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A former Delta Force black ops member takes us inside America’s covert drone war in this headline-making, never-before-told account for fans of Zero Dark Thirty and Lone Survivor, told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal writer and filled with eye-opening and sure to be controversial details.For nearly a decade Brett Velicovich was... Read more

The Smear

By: Sharyl Attkisson

Narrated by: Sharyl Attkisson

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Ever wonder how politics turned into a take-no-prisoners blood sport? The New York Times bestselling author of Stonewalled pulls back the curtain on the shady world of opposition research and reveals the dirty tricks those in power use to influence your opinions.Behind most major political stories in the modern era, there is an agenda; an effort... Read more

The Hello Girls

By: Elizabeth Cobbs

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of how America's first women soldiers helped win World War I, earned the vote, and fought the U.S. Army. In 1918, the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France. They were masters of the latest technology: the telephone switchboard. General John Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces, demanded female... Read more

Utopia for Realists

By: Rutger Bregman

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Universal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. Does it sound too good to be true? One of Europe's leading young thinkers shows how we can build an ideal world today.

"A more politically radical Malcolm Gladwell." -- New York Times

After working all day at jobs we often dislike, we buy things we don't need. Rutger Bregman, a Dutch... Read more

White Working Class

By: Joan C. Williams

Narrated by: Liisa Ivary

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Around the world, populist movements are gaining traction among the white working class. Meanwhile, members of the professional elite―journalists, managers, and establishment politicians―are on the outside looking in, left to argue over the reasons. In White Working Class, Joan C. Williams, described as having “something approaching rock star... Read more

Working Class Republican

By: Henry Olsen

Narrated by: Derek Shetterly

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In this sure to be controversial book in the vein of The Forgotten Man, a political analyst argues that conservative icon Ronald Reagan was not an enemy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal, but his true heir and the popular program’s ultimate savior.Conventional political wisdom views the two most consequential presidents of the... Read more

Escaping Oz: An Observer's Reflections

By: Jim Mosquera

Narrated by: Jim Mosquera

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In today's economic and political climate, protecting yourself means asking the right questions. You can't ask the right questions if your mind's encumbered by what you think you may understand. Who's the man behind the curtain? What's this thing we call money? It's not what you think. We've burdened government with all our problems but do they... Read more

Escaping Oz: An Observer's Reflections

By: Jim Mosquera

Narrated by: Jim Mosquera

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In today’s economic and political climate, protecting yourself means asking the right questions. You can’t ask the right questions if your mind’s encumbered by what you think you may understand. Who’s the man behind the curtain? What’s this thing we call money? It’s not what you think.We’ve burdened government with all our problems but do they... Read more

El Color de la Justicia

By: Michelle Alexander, Carmen Valle & Ethel Odriozola

Narrated by: Adriana Sananes

Length: 17 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The "Bible of a social movement" (San Francisco Chronicle) to end mass incarceration in the United States--now available in a Spanish language edition En este revolucionario trabajo que ha permanecido por mas de dos anos en la lista de los libros mas vendidos del New York Times, Michelle Alexander argumenta que "no hemos erradicado las castas... Read more

Porfirio Díaz. Su vida y su tiempo I

By: Carlos Tello Díaz

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

De Carlos Tello, ganador del Premio Mazatlán de Literatura 2016. Porfirio Díaz. Su vida y su tiempo es la biografía definitiva sobre esta figura indiscutible de nuestra historia. Sin redimir ni satanizar, este libro es el mayor esfuerzo por contar las cosas como en realidad sucedieron. Héroe para unos, villano para otros. Una biografía más... Read more

The Putin Interviews

By: Oliver Stone

Narrated by: Pete Cross & Qarie Marshall

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

WITH SUBSTANTIAL MATERIAL NOT INCLUDED IN THE DOCUMENTARY Academy Award winner Oliver Stone was able to secure what journalists, news organizations, and even other world leaders have long coveted: extended, unprecedented access to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Putin Interviews are culled from more than a dozen interviews with Putin over... Read more

The End of Money

By: New Scientist

Narrated by: Mark Elstob

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The End of Money is an essential introduction to cryptocurrencies and the blockchain revolution which has been hailed as the greatest advancement since the invention of the internet.

Murder for hire. Drug trafficking. Embezzlement. Money laundering. These might sound like plot lines of a thriller, but they are true stories from the short history... Read more

Guide to Scott Anderson's Lawrence in Arabia by Instaread

By: Instaread

Narrated by: Sam Scholl

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Scott Anderson’s Lawrence in Arabia and NOT the original book.
Preview:
Scott Anderson’s Lawrence in Arabia (2014) is a consideration of the colonial designs of the Western imperial powers during the First World War and how their actions shaped the current political situation in the Middle East. The book follows... Read more

Russia

By: Gregory Carleton

Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

No nation is a stranger to war, but for Russians war is a central part of who they are. Their "motherland" has been the battlefield where some of the largest armies have clashed, the most savage battles have been fought, the highest death tolls paid. Having prevailed over Mongol hordes and vanquished Napoleon and Hitler, many Russians believe no... Read more

Over Here

By: David M. Kennedy

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 17 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The Great War of 1914–1918 confronted the United States with one of the most wrenching crises in the nation's history. It also left a residue of disruption and disillusion that spawned an even more ruinous conflict scarcely a generation later.



Over Here is the single most comprehensive discussion of the impact of World War I on American society.... Read more

From the Ruins of Empire

By: Pankaj Mishra

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A little more than a century ago, as the Japanese navy annihilated the giant Russian one at the Battle of Tsushima, original thinkers across Asia, working independently, sought to frame a distinctly Asian intellectual tradition that would inform and inspire the continent's anticipated rise to dominance.



Asian dominance did not come to pass, and... Read more