Politics & Economy audiobooks

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

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

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

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

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

Hillary

By: Sarah Marshall

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Hillary Rodham Clinton was born to parents determined to overcome obstacles and achieve success. She married Bill Clinton, a man from humble roots who rose to serve two terms as President of the United States. She ran for office against, and then worked for, President Barack Obama. She is not defined by those relationships, but rather by her... 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

The Anatomy of Fascism

By: Robert O. Paxton

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

What is fascism? By focusing on the concrete: what the fascists did rather than what they said, the esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers this question for the first time. From the first violent uniformed bands beating up “enemies of the state,” through Mussolini’s rise to power, to Germany’s fascist radicalization in World War II, Paxton... Read more

Zigzag

By: Nicholas Booth

Narrated by: Roger Davis

Length: 15 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Eddie Chapman was a womaniser, blackmailer and safecracker. He was also a great hero - the most remarkable double agent of the Second World War. Chapman became the only British national ever to be awarded an Iron Cross for his work for the Reich. He was also the only German spy ever to be parachuted into Britain twice. But it was all an... Read more

A Fine Mess

By: T. R. Reid

Narrated by: T.R. Reid

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestelling author T. R. Reid travels around the world to solve the urgent problem of America's failing tax code, unravelling a complex topic in plain English - and telling a rollicking story along the way. 

The U.S. tax code is a total write-off. Crammed with loopholes and special interest provisions, it works for no one except tax... Read more

My Fellow Soldiers

By: Andrew Carroll

Narrated by: Andrew Carroll

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of War Letters and Behind the Lines, Andrew Carroll’s My Fellow Soldiers draws on a rich trove of both little-known and newly uncovered letters and diaries to create a marvelously vivid and moving account of the American experience in World War I, with General John Pershing featured prominently in the... Read more

The Sex Effect

By: Ross Benes

Narrated by: Rudy Sanda

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping exploration of the relationship between sex and our society, with a foreword by bestselling author A. J. Jacobs

Why do political leaders become entangled in so many sex scandals? How did the U.S. military inadvertently help make San Francisco a mecca of gay culture? And what was the original purpose of vibrators? Find out the answers... Read more

The Gatekeepers

By: Chris Whipple

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Now with a chapter on the chaos in the Trump administration, the New York Times bestselling, behind-the-scenes look at the White House Chiefs of Staff, whose actions—and inactions—have defined the course of our country.

What do Dick Cheney and Rahm Emanuel have in common? Aside from polarizing personalities, both served as chief of staff to the... Read more

The Complacent Class

By: Tyler Cowen

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Since Alexis de Tocqueville, restlessness has been accepted as a signature American trait. Our willingness to move, take risks, and adapt to change have produced a dynamic economy and a tradition of innovation from Ben Franklin to Steve Jobs. The problem, according to legendary blogger, economist and best selling author Tyler Cowen, is that... Read more

Chaotics

By: John A. Caslione & Philip Kotler

Narrated by: Steven Menasche

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

We have entered into an entirely new era, an age of increasingly frequent and intense periods of turbulence in the global economy. Unlike past recessions, today's crises have precipitated a need for businesses to develop a new mindset, one that takes into account intermittent periods of disturbance, allowing them to thrive while under the... Read more

The 143rd in Iraq

By: Marc Youngquist

Narrated by: Marc Youngquist

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

As a former Commander of the 143rd MP Company (1997-1999), this bare-knuckle blow-by-blow account of how my former soldiers performed so magnificently in Iraq made me proud, made me laugh, and even made me cry. — Colonel (Ret.) Stephan Picard Operation Iraqi Freedom VeteranFrom April 2003 to April 2004, the primary mission of 143rd Military... Read more

Black Edge

By: Sheelah Kolhatkar

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A riveting, true-life legal thriller about the government’s pursuit of billionaire hedge fund manager Steven Cohen and his employees at SAC Capital—a revelatory look at the power and wealth of Wall Street
 
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—The New York Times and The Economist • “An essential exposé of our times—a work... Read more

Old School

By: Bill O'Reilly & Bruce Feirstein

Narrated by: Bill O'Reilly & Holter Graham

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes an introduction read by Bill O'Reilly.

Old School is in session....

You have probably heard the term Old School, but what you might not know is that there is a concentrated effort to tear that school down.

It’s a values thing. The anti–Old School forces believe the traditional way of looking at life is oppressive. Not... Read more

Raising the Floor

By: Andy Stern & Lee Kravitz

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Andy Stern, the former president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), spent four years traveling the country and asking economists, futurists, labor leaders, CEOs, investment bankers, entrepreneurs, and political leaders to help picture the U.S. economy twenty-five to thirty years from now. He vividly reports on people who are... Read more

Requiem for the American Dream

By: Noam Chomsky

Narrated by: Donald Corren

Length: 3 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

NOAM CHOMSKY is widely regarded as the most influential thinker of our time, but never before has he devoted a major book to one topic, income inequality: "During the Great Depression, things were much worse than they are today, but there was an expectation that things were going to get better. There was a real sense of hopefulness. There isn't... Read more

You're More Powerful than You Think

By: Eric Liu

Narrated by: Eric Liu

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Is this the America you want? If not, here's how to claim the power to change your country.

We are in an age of epic political turbulence in America. Old hierarchies and institutions are collapsing. From the election of Donald Trump to the upending of the major political parties to the spread of grassroots movements like Black Lives Matter and... Read more

Lenin on the Train

By: Catherine Merridale

Narrated by: Gordon Griffin

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In April 1917, as Tsar Nicholas II's abdication sent shockwaves across war-torn Europe, the future leader of the Bolshevik revolution, Vladimir Lenin, was far away, exiled in Zurich. To lead the revolt, Lenin needed to return to Petrograd immediately. But to get there, he would have to cross Germany, which meant accepting help from the deadliest... Read more

Democrazy

By: Trey Radel

Narrated by: Trey Radel

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

How the Washington sausage really gets made: a brutally honest, outrageous memoir by former GOP congressman Trey Radel.

"Radel, the former congressman busted on cocaine charges, has published a memoir that delves into the forgotten concept of shame." - Huffington Post

"DEMOCRAZY is the most puckish political memoir in recent memory ... enough to... Read more

Richard Nixon

By: John A. Farrell

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 28 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • From a prize-winning biographer comes the defining portrait of a man who led America in a time of turmoil and left us a darker age. We live today, John A. Farrell shows, in a world Richard Nixon made.
 
At the end of WWII, navy lieutenant “Nick” Nixon returned from the Pacific and set his cap at Congress, an idealistic... Read more