Politics & Economy audiobooks

American Heritage History of the Presidents

By: Michael R. Beschloss

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 25 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From George Washington's reluctant oath-taking through George W. Bush's leadership challenges after September 11, 2001, we view ambitious and fallible men through the new lens of the twenty-first century. Where did they succeed? Where did they fail? And what do we know now that we could not have known at the time? Read more

Notes on Saul D. Alinsky's Rules for Radicals by Instaread

By: Instaread

Narrated by: Dwight Equitz

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Saul D. Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals and NOT the original book.
Preview:
Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals (1971) by Saul D. Alinsky is a how-to guide for political organizers who want to make real, lasting changes to a political system. Alinksy draws on decades of his own organizing... Read more

Notes on Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince by Instaread

By: Instaread

Narrated by: Dwight Equitz

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince and NOT the original book.
Preview:
The Prince (1532) is a guide to success in statecraft for heads of state, whom author Niccolò Machiavelli refers to as “princes” throughout the text. Machiavelli argues that princes should cultivate the appearance of virtue, but that they... Read more

The Worst President in History

By: Matt Margolis & Mark Noonan

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

As Barack Obama's presidential failures keep adding up, remembering them all can be a challenge. Matt Margolis and Mark Noonan have compiled everything you need to know about the presidency of Barack Obama (so far) into one book. Now you can easily find all the information that was ignored by the media and that Barack Obama would like you to... Read more

Jefferson and the Rights of Man

By: Dumas Malone

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 18 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The second volume in this Pulitzer Prize–winning six-volume biography tells the story of the eventful middle years in the life of Thomas Jefferson: his ministry to France in the years just before the French Revolution and during the early stages of that conflict; his service as secretary of state in President George Washington’s first cabinet;... Read more

The Women Who Shaped Politics

By: Sophy Ridge

Narrated by: Julie Teal

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From royalty to suffragettes and from campaigners to contemporary rebels, Sky News Presenter Sophy Ridge explains the ways that women have changed the face of politics.

Sophy Ridge, presenter for Sky News, has uncovered the extraordinary stories of the women who have shaped British politics.

Never has the role of women in the political world ever... Read more

The Defiant Agents

By: Andre Norton

Narrated by: Arthur Vincet

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The Defiant Agents tells of an encounter between Western heroes, and the Russian Communists, and a mysterious alien race that has used time travel to alter Earth. The alien library discovered in the previous novel (Galactic Derelict, published in 1959) proved to have locations of many unknown worlds. Finding the secure location of planet Topaz... Read more

The Spider Network

By: David Enrich

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 15 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The Wall Street Journal's award-winning business reporter unveils the bizarre and sinister story of how a math genius named Tom Hayes, a handful of outrageous confederates, and a deeply corrupt banking system ignited one of the greatest financial scandals in history.In 2006, an oddball group of bankers, traders and brokers from some of the... Read more

Revolution for Dummies

By: Bassem Youssef

Narrated by: Bassem Youssef

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

""The Jon Stewart of the Arabic World""—the creator of The Program, the most popular television show in Egypt’s history—chronicles his transformation from heart surgeon to political satirist, and offers crucial insight into the Arab Spring, the Egyptian Revolution, and the turmoil roiling the modern Middle East.Bassem Youssef’s incendiary... Read more

The Best of American Heritage: Lincoln

By: Edwin S. Grosvenor

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Some of America's foremost historians—including James M. McPherson, Allan Nevins, and Stephen B. Oates—recount the extraordinary life of Abraham Lincoln in this collection of the best essays from sixty years of American Heritage. Lincoln, the book argues, ". . . evolved into nothing less than an apostle for the sanctity of the Union, the ethic... Read more

Dictators Without Borders

By: Alexander A. Cooley, PhD & John Heathershaw

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Weak, corrupt, and politically unstable, the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are dismissed as isolated and irrelevant to the outside world. But are they? This hard-hitting book argues that Central Asia is in reality a globalization leader with more extensive involvement in economics, politics, and... Read more

Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?

By: Alyssa Mastromonaco

Narrated by: Alyssa Mastromonaco

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

If your funny older sister were the former deputy chief of staff to President Barack Obama, her behind-the-scenes political memoir would look something like this . . .
Alyssa Mastromonaco worked for Barack Obama for almost a decade, and long before his run for president. From the then-senator's early days in Congress to his years in the Oval... Read more

Thomas Jefferson

By: Henry Moscow

Narrated by: Pete Simonelli

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

President Thomas Jefferson wrote America's Declaration of Independence, but he also was an anthropologist, architect, astronomer, botanist, diplomat, farmer, inventor, lawyer, mathematician, and musician. He spoke French, Greek, Italian, Latin, and Spanish. He founded the University of Virginia and today's Democratic Party. During his eight... Read more

Reclaiming Israel’s History

By: David Brog

Narrated by: Paul Heitsch

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

There was a time when Israel could do no wrong in America’s eyes. That time is long past, and justly so—no nation is absolutely perfect, particularly not one who is engaged in a conflict as long as the Arab-Israeli conflict. But the myth of the perfect Israel has been supplanted by a far more deleterious myth: the myth of the evil Israel. This... Read more

Notes on Bruce Bueno de Mesquita's & et al The Dictator's Handbook by Instaread

By: Instaread

Narrated by: Sam Scholl

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Bruce Bueno de Mesquita's & et al The Dictator’s Handbook and NOT the original book.
Preview:
The Dictator’s Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics (2011) is an examination of what motivates leaders in democracies and dictatorships. Authors Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith argue... Read more

Jón Gnarr - vom Outlaw zum Bürgermeister - lit.COLOGNE live (ungekürzt)

By: Jón Gnarr & Seán McDonagh

Narrated by: Kristof Magnusson

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Einer der schillerndsten Politiker des letzten Jahrzehnts erzählt in "Outlaw" seine Jugend. In den 1980er-Jahren gilt Jón Gnarr als schwer erziehbar, wird an den nordwestlichsten Rand Islands ins Internat geschickt und verlebt die schmerzlichste Phase seines Lebens. Als Außenseiter stigmatisiert, flüchtet er sich in Punkmusik und entdeckt dort... Read more

Cop Under Fire

By: Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr.

Narrated by: Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr.

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

David A. Clarke, Jr., known by many as "America's sheriff," navigates the choppy waters of race relations, religion, politics, and law enforcement, sharing what it will take to once again become a great nation under God, with liberty and justice for all.

America has become increasingly divided and polarized in recent years. With growing... Read more

Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy

By: Nicholas Reynolds

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A former CIA officer and curator of the CIA Museum unveils the shocking, untold story of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway’s secret life as a spy for both the Americans and the Soviets before and during World War II.While he was the curator of the CIA Museum, Nicholas Reynolds, a longtime military intelligence expert, began to discover... Read more

Jackson

By: Ralph K. Andrist

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Once in the White House, Andrew Jackson stood for the rights of common citizens, founded the Democratic Party, expanded the powers of the presidency, paid off the national debt, and postponed civil war by prevailing against the advocates of states' rights. By today's standards, however, Jackson was hardly politically correct: he also owned many... Read more

Trump's War

By: Michael Savage

Narrated by: Holden Still

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The wall, taxes, tariffs, deportations, Obamacare, guns, military strength, schools, abortion, religion - what will the new president do?

The "Godfather of Trumpmania," Michael Savage, examines the initial appointments, speeches, tweets and history of Donald Trump and offers his insights and analysis. The man many... Read more

Everything Under the Heavens

By: Howard W. French

Narrated by: Nicholas Hormann

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From the former New York Times Asia correspondent and author of China's Second Continent, an incisive investigation of China's ideological development as it becomes an ever more aggressive player in regional and global diplomacy.

For many years after its reform and opening in 1978, China maintained an attitude of false modesty about its... Read more

The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution

By: Ganesh Sitaraman

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In this original, provocative contribution to the debate over economic inequality, Ganesh Sitaraman argues that a strong and sizable middle class is a prerequisite for America’s constitutional system.

A New York Times Notable Book of 2017
 
For most of Western history, Sitaraman argues, constitutional thinkers assumed economic inequality was... Read more

The Shipwrecked Mind

By: Mark Lilla

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

We don't understand the reactionary mind. As a result, argues Mark Lilla in this timely book, the ideas and passions that shape today's political dramas are unintelligible to us.



The reactionary is anything but a conservative. He is as radical and modern a figure as the revolutionary, someone shipwrecked in the rapidly changing present, and... Read more

The Benedict Option

By: Rod Dreher

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The light of the Christian faith is flickering out all over the West, and only the willfully blind refuse to see it. From the outside, American churches are beset by challenges to religious liberty in a rapidly secularizing culture. From the inside, they are being hollowed out by the departure of young people and a watered-down... Read more