Politics & Economy audiobooks

JFK

By: Stephen Kennedy Smith & Douglas Brinkley

Narrated by: Paul Michael, Kirsten Potter & Jim Meskimen

Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Published in commemoration of the centennial of President John F. Kennedy’s birth, here is the definitive compendium of JFK’s most important and brilliant speeches, accompanied by commentary and reflections by leading American and international figures—including Senator Elizabeth Warren, David McCullough, Kofi Annan, and the Dalai Lama—and... Read more

A Man and His Presidents

By: Alvin S. Felzenberg

Narrated by: Jim Meskimen

Length: 17 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

William F. Buckley Jr. is widely regarded as the most influential American conservative writer, activist, and organizer in the postwar era. In this nuanced biography, Alvin Felzenberg sheds light on little-known aspects of Buckley’s career, including his role as back-channel adviser to policy makers, his intimate friendship with both Ronald and... Read more

Radical Hope

By: Carolina De Robertis

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo & Kaleo Griffith

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Radical Hope is a collection of letters—to ancestors, to children five generations from now, to strangers in grocery lines, to any and all who feel weary and discouraged—written by award-winning novelists, poets, political thinkers, and activists. Provocative and inspiring, Radical Hope offers readers a kaleidoscopic view of the love and courage... Read more

Rebel Mother

By: Peter Andreas

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Carol Andreas was a traditional 1950s housewife from a small Mennonite town in central Kansas who became a radical feminist and Marxist revolutionary. From the late sixties to the early eighties, she went through multiple husbands and countless lovers while living in three states and five countries. She took her youngest son, Peter, with her... Read more

The Political Pope

By: George Neumayr

Narrated by: Holden Still

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The untold story of the left's efforts to politicize the Vatican and the battle to stop it-before the Catholic Church as we know it is destroyed.

Pope Francis is the most liberal pope in the history of the Catholic Church. He is not only championing the causes of the global Left, but also undermining centuries-old Catholic teaching and practice.... Read more

The Destruction Hillary Clinton

By: Susan Bordo

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A play-by-play of the political forces and media culture that vilified and ultimately brought down Hillary Clinton during her 2016 Presidential campaign The Destruction of Hillary Clinton is an answer to the question many have been asking: How did an extraordinarily well-qualified, experienced, and admired candidate—whose victory would have... Read more

Capitalists, Arise!

By: Peter Georgescu

Narrated by: Wes Bleed

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Peter Georgescu arrived in this country as a penniless Romanian refugee and rose to become the CEO of Young & Rubicam. This is why he's so heartsick that with flat wages, disappearing jobs, and a shrinking middle class, his kind of rags-to-riches story doesn't seem possible now. But he has a message for his fellow CEOs: we're the ones who... Read more

World Economy in 2017

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The election of Donald Trump as the President of the United States took the world by surprise. The Presidential win of Donald Trump will remain as one of the most dominant features of the economy of the world that happened in 2016 and will continue to embark itself in the global market for next series of years. Until now, the stocks of the... Read more

Completing Capitalism

By: Bruno Roche & Jay Jakub

Narrated by: Tom Kruse

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Proven, Profitable, and Sustainable

For the past fifty years, leaders in the business world have believed that their sole responsibility is to maximize profit for shareholders. But this obsessive focus was a major cause of the abuses that nearly sunk the global economy in 2008. In this analytically rigorous and eminently practical book, Bruno... Read more

Late Victorian Holocausts

By: Mike Davis

Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin

Length: 15 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Examining a series of El Niño–induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the nineteenth century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. Late Victorian Holocausts... Read more

Was Lehrer nicht dürfen! - Antworten auf die 50 wichtigsten Schülerfragen inklusive der dazugehörigen Paragraphen (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Fernando Rode, Rolf Tarneden & Dallan Sam

Narrated by: Philipp Möller

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Darf mich mein Lehrer anschreien? Darf er mir mein Smartphone wegnehmen und dann sogar darin herumsuchen? Kriege ich Schmerzensgeld, wenn ich mich im Sportunterricht verletze? Wie viele Klassenarbeiten dürfen pro Woche überhaupt geschrieben werden? Dieses Buch bietet leichtverständliche, fachkundige Antworten auf typische Fragen rund ums... Read more

The Soul of the First Amendment

By: Floyd Abrams

Narrated by: James Foster

Length: 3 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A lively and controversial overview by the nation’s most celebrated First Amendment lawyer of the unique protections for freedom of speech in AmericaThe right of Americans to voice their beliefs without government approval or oversight is protected under what may well be the most honored and least understood addendum to the US Constitution—the... Read more

The Islamic Enlightenment

By: Christopher deBellaigue

Narrated by: Charles Armstrong

Length: 15 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This absorbing account of the political and social reformations that transformed the lands of Islam during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries offers a game-changing assessment of the Middle East. Beginning his account in 1798, de Bellaigue demonstrates how the Middle East has long welcomed modern ideals and practices, including the... Read more

Superfast Primetime Ultimate Nation

By: Adam Roberts

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Who can foretell India's future? Mr. Joshi is a fortune teller in a slum in south Delhi who uses a soothsaying green parrot to make predictions. When Adam Roberts visited him in 2012, Joshi's parrot declared that India was destined to become the most powerful nation under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The parrot also foretold that India would... Read more

Two Paths

By: John Kasich

Narrated by: John Kasich

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Two paths. One choice—the path that exploits anger, encourages resentment, turns fear into hatred and divides people. This path solves nothing, demeans our history, weakens our country and cheapens each of us. It has but one beneficiary and that is to the politician who speaks of it. The other path is the one America has been down before. It... Read more

Two Paths

By: John Kasich

Narrated by: John Kasich

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

When former Ohio governor John Kasich ran for president, his powerful message of hope and togetherness struck a chord with American voters. In Two Paths: America Divided or United, he carries that message forward by reflecting on the tumultuous 2016 campaign, sharing his concerns for America and his hopes for... Read more

A Path Out of Poverty

By: Paul Farmer

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

"If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together."
—Lilla Watson, Aboriginal activist and artist

World-renowned physician and public health pioneer Dr. Paul Farmer has long been devoted to caring and advocating for the world's... Read more

Incendiary

By: Michael Cannell

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Long before the specter of terrorism haunted the public imagination, a serial bomber stalked the streets of 1950s New York. The race to catch him would give birth to a new science called criminal profiling.

Grand Central, Penn Station, Radio City Music Hall—for almost two decades, no place was safe from the man who signed his anonymous letters... Read more

Last Hope Island

By: Lynne Olson

Narrated by: Arthur Morey & Kimberly Farr

Length: 18 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking account of how Britain became the base of operations for the exiled leaders of Europe in their desperate struggle to reclaim their continent from Hitler, from the New York Times bestselling author of Citizens of London and Those Angry Days

When the Nazi blitzkrieg rolled over continental Europe in the early days of World War II,... Read more

The Angel

By: Uri Bar-Joseph

Narrated by: Neil Shah

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

As the son-in-law of Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser and a close advisor to his successor, Anwar Sadat, Ashraf Marwan had access to the deepest secrets of the country's government. But he himself had a secret: he was a spy for the Mossad, Israel's intelligence service. Under the codename "The Angel," Marwan turned Egypt into an open book... Read more

Jefferson

By: John B. Boles

Narrated by: Michael Johnson

Length: 24 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From an eminent scholar of the American South, the first full-scale biography of Thomas Jefferson since 1970

Not since Merrill Peterson's Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation has a scholar attempted to write a comprehensive biography of the most complex Founding Father. In Jefferson, John B. Boles plumbs every facet of Thomas Jefferson's life,... Read more

Sometimes Amazing Things Happen

By: Elizabeth Ford

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Elizabeth Ford went through medical school unsure of where she belonged. It wasn’t until she did her psychiatry rotation that she found her calling—to care for one of the most vulnerable populations of mentally ill people, the inmates of New York City’s jails, including Rikers Island, who are so sick that they are sent to the Bellevue Hospital... Read more

The Operator

By: Robert O'Neill

Narrated by: Robert O'Neill

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

This instant New York Times bestseller—“a jaw-dropping, fast-paced account” (New York Post) recounts SEAL Team Operator Robert O’Neill’s incredible four-hundred-mission career, including the attempts to rescue “Lone Survivor” Marcus Luttrell and abducted-by-Somali-pirates Captain Richard Phillips, and which culminated in the death of the world’s... Read more

The Golden Passport

By: Duff McDonald

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 21 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting and timely intellectual history of one of our most important capitalist institutions, Harvard Business School, from the bestselling author of The Firm.With The Firm, financial journalist Duff McDonald pulled back the curtain on consulting giant McKinsey & Company. In The Golden Passport, he reveals the inner workings of a singular... Read more