Politics & Economy audiobooks

Guide to Chris Hayes's A Colony in a Nation by Instaread

By: Instaread

Narrated by: Dwight Equitz

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Chris Hayes’s A Colony in a Nation and NOT the original book.
Preview:
A Colony in a Nation is Chris Hayes’s treatise against police brutality, which persisted and continued to develop after Jim Crow laws were dismantled in the 1960s. This police brutality has been endured mostly by people of color...
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Janesville

By: Amy Goldstein

Narrated by: Joy Osmanski

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

* Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize​ * 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2017 * An Economist Best Book of 2017 * A Business Insider Best Book of... Read more

Mandela

By: Donna Faulkner

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Nelson Mandela led a long and remarkable life. From his earliest days herding cows in a South African village, he became a child of privilege, a rebellious runaway, an impoverished student, a father, a successful lawyer, a political dissident, a rising star in the African nationalist movement, an underground saboteur, the chief defendant in... Read more

The American Spirit

By: David McCullough

Narrated by: David McCullough

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Bestseller

A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States—winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among many others—that reminds us of fundamental American principles.

“Insightful and inspirational, The American Spirit... Read more

This Fight Is Our Fight

By: Elizabeth Warren

Narrated by: Elizabeth Warren

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

"Senator Elizabeth Warren narrates her new audiobook on the state of the nation with passion and conviction...This fascinating and informative audiobook offers an accessible explanation of the development and consequences of our nation's social and economic policies." — AudioFile Magazine

This program is read by the author.

The fiery U.S. Senator... Read more

Elizabeth I

By: Abigail Archer

Narrated by: Sarah Nichols

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

England’s first Queen Elizabeth gave her name to an age.Inheriting a bankrupt, famished, and powerless country, she healed its religious rifts, replenished its treasury, redefined diplomatic guile, defeated the Spanish Armada, and inspired a new flowering of English culture.Her father, Henry VIII, beheaded her mother, Anne Boleyn, and Elizabeth... Read more

Locking Up Our Own

By: James Forman, Jr.

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Former public defender James Forman, Jr., is a leading critic of mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of color. In Locking Up Our Own, he seeks to understand the war on crime that began in the 1970s and why it was supported by many African American leaders in the nation’s urban centers.

Forman shows us that the first... Read more

Vote First or Die

By: Scott Conroy

Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

New Hampshire-a small state with a small, distinct population-is nevertheless the beacon of American democracy. Since 1920, its residents have been the first in the nation to cast their votes in the presidential primaries. History has shown that if you want to be commander in chief, you have to win, or at least place a strong second, in New... Read more

The Case for Impeachment

By: Allan J. Lichtman

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Lichtman has written what may be the most important book of the year.”  —The HillWhat are the ranges and limitations of presidential authority? What are the standards of truthfulness that a president must uphold? What will it take to impeach Donald J. Trump? Professor Allan J. Lichtman, who has correctly forecasted thirty... Read more

Our Latest Longest War

By: Aaron B. O'Connell

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 14 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The first rule of warfare is to know one's enemy. The second is to know thyself. More than fifteen years and three quarters of a trillion dollars after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, it's clear that the United States followed neither rule well.

America's goals in Afghanistan were lofty to begin with: dismantle al Qaeda, remove the Taliban... Read more

Climate of Hope

By: Michael Bloomberg & Carl Pope

Narrated by: Michael Bloomberg, Carl Pope & Charles Pellett

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by Carl Pope and Charles Pellett with an introduction read by the author.

From Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former head of the Sierra Club Carl Pope comes a manifesto on how the benefits of taking action on climate change are concrete, immediate, and immense. They explore climate change solutions that will make the world... Read more

Defending Beef: The Case for Sustainable Meat Production

By: Nicolette Hahn Niman

Narrated by: Nicolette Hahn Niman

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

For decades it has been nearly universal dogma among environmentalists and health advocates that cattle and beef are public enemy number one.

But is the matter really so clear cut? Hardly, argues environmental lawyer turned rancher Nicolette Hahn Niman in her new book, Defending Beef.

The public has long been led to believe that livestock,... Read more

When the World Stopped to Listen

By: Stuart Isacoff

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

April of 1958—the Iron Curtain was at its heaviest, and the outcome of the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition seemed preordained. Nonetheless, as star musicians from across the globe descended on Moscow, an unlikely favorite emerged: Van Cliburn, a polite, lanky Texan whose passionate virtuosity captured the Russian spirit.This is the... Read more

The CIA as Organized Crime

By: Douglas Valentine

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 16 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of three books on CIA operations, Douglas Valentine began his research into the agency’s activities when CIA director William Colby gave him free access to interview agency officials who had been involved in various aspects of the Phoenix program in South Vietnam. It was a permission Colby was to regret. The CIA would eventually... Read more

Three Minutes to Doomsday

By: Joe Navarro

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

An intense cat-and-mouse game played between two brilliant men in the last days of the Cold War, this shocking insider’s story shows how a massive giveaway of secret war plans and nuclear secrets threatened America with annihilation.

In 1988 Joe Navarro, one of the youngest agents ever hired by the FBI, was dividing his time between SWAT... Read more

Shattered

By: Jonathan Allen & Amie Parnes

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 16 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

It was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the riveting story of a sure thing gone off the rails. For every Comey revelation or hindsight acknowledgment about the electorate, no explanation of defeat can begin with... Read more

Notes on Bret Baier's Three Days in January by Instaread

By: Instaread

Narrated by: Sam Scholl

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Bret Baier’s Three Days in January and NOT the original book.
Preview:
Bret Baier’s Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower’s Final Mission is a laudatory evaluation of Eisenhower’s career in the military and subsequent presidency. The book is framed around Eisenhower’s 1961 Farewell Address and the January... Read more

Stolen Girls

By: Wolfgang Bauer

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

One night in April 2014, members of the terrorist organization Boko Haram raided the small town of Chibok in northeast Nigeria and abducted 276 young girls from the local boarding school. The event caused massive, international outrage. Using the hashtag "Bring Back Our Girls," politicians, activists, and celebrities from all around the... Read more

Mission

By: Robert Matzen

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In March 1941, Jimmy Stewart, America’s boy next door and recent Academy Award winner, left fame and fortune behind and joined the United States Army Air Corps to fulfill his family mission and serve his country. He rose from private to colonel and participated in twenty often-brutal World War II combat missions over Germany and France. In mere... Read more

The Land of Enterprise

By: Benjamin C. Waterhouse

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

This groundbreaking account of the development of American business from the colonial period to the present explains that the history of the United States can best be understood not as a search for freedom—but as a search for wealth and prosperity.

The Land of Enterprise charts the development of American business from the colonial period to the... Read more

This Is an Uprising

By: Mark Engler & Paul Engler

Narrated by: Graham Halstead

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Strategic nonviolent action has reasserted itself as a potent force in shaping public debate and forcing political change. Whether it is an explosive surge of protest calling for racial justice in the United States or a demand for democratic reform in Hong Kong or Mexico, when mass movements erupt onto our television screens, the media portrays... Read more

Drain the Swamp

By: Ken Buck

Narrated by: Brian Holsopple

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Lavish parties. Commitee chairmanships for sale. Pay-to-play corruption. Backroom arm-twisting. Votes on major legislation going to the highest bidder.Congressman Ken Buck (R-CO) is blowing the whistle on the real-life House of Cards going on behind the scenes in our nation’s capital. Elected in 2014 as president of one of the largest Republican... Read more

An American Sickness

By: Elisabeth Rosenthal

Narrated by: Nancy Linari

Length: 13 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller/Washington Post Notable Book of 2017/NPR Best Books of 2017/Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2017 

"This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene  

At a moment of drastic... Read more

Building the New American Economy

By: Jeffrey D. Sachs

Narrated by: Rudy Sanda

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

With a nation seemingly more divided than ever, many worry that Americans risk losing ground on solving the complex, interrelated problems the country faces—including rising inequality, the specter of climate change, astronomical health care costs, and economic stagnation. The renowned economist Jeffrey D. Sachs offers a practical approach to... Read more