Politics & Economy audiobooks

Parliamentary America

By: Maxwell L. Stearns

Narrated by: Maxwell L. Stearns

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Americans face increasingly stark choices each presidential election and a growing sense that our government can't solve the nation's most urgent challenges. Our eighteenth-century system is ill-suited to our twenty-first-century world. Information-age technology has undermined our capacity to face common problems together and turned our... Read more

Triumph of the Yuppies

By: Tom McGrath

Narrated by: Stacy Carolan

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The “entertaining and insightful” first history of the Yuppie phenomenon, chronicling the roots, rise, triumph and (seeming) fall of the young urban professionals who radically altered American life between 1980 and 1987 (New York Times bestselling author Ben Mezrich). 

By the time their obituary was being written in the late 1980s, Yuppies—the... Read more

I Have Your Back

By: Tom Sileo

Narrated by: Roger Wayne

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Michael Ollis, who became an international hero for his courage and selflessness.

Ever since he was a young boy growing up on the streets of Staten Island, New York, Michael Ollis wanted to be a soldier. Inspired by his father, who fought in Vietnam, Mike’s deep desire to serve was cemented on the day his beloved... Read more

The Hidden History of the White House

By: Corey Mead

Narrated by: Lindsay Graham & Jeremy Arthur

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Presented by the hit podcast American History Tellers, The Hidden History of the White House reveals the behind-the-scenes stories of some of the most dramatic events in American history—set right inside the house where it happenedFor more than two centuries, the White House in Washington, DC, has been the stage for some of the most climactic... Read more

Liberalism as a Way of Life

By: Alexandre Lefebvre

Narrated by: Christopher Douyard

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Where do you get your values and sensibilities from? If you grew up in a Western democracy, the answer is probably liberalism. Conservatives are right about one thing: liberalism is the ideology of our times, as omnipresent as religion once was. Yet, as Alexandre Lefebvre argues in Liberalism as a Way of Life, many of us are liberal without... Read more

Birds Aren't Real

By: Peter McIndoe & Connor Gaydos

Narrated by: Connor Gaydos & Peter McIndoe

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the authors.

The true story of the greatest conspiracy in US history—and how to fight back.

Have you ever seen a baby pigeon? You haven’t, have you? No one has, not in many, many years. They used to be everywhere. You couldn’t walk out of your front door in New York City in the 1930s without seeing dozens of those little... Read more

The Death of Truth

By: Steven Brill

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

How did we become a world where facts—shared truths—have lost their power to hold us together as a community, as a country, globally? How have we allowed the proliferation of alternative facts, hoaxes, even conspiracy theories, to destroy our trust in institutions, leaders, and legitimate experts? Best-selling journalist Steven Brill documents... Read more

Hiding for My Life

By: Karen Solt

Narrated by: Karen Solt

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Karen Solt, an eighteen-year-old nonconformist with an alcohol problem, is working at a gas station when a slick Navy recruiter railroads her into enlisting in the military. Before she knows it, she is on a ship in the Deep South, struggling to navigate not only a world much different from her small Northern Arizona hometown but also her new... Read more

In the Shadows

By: Mickey Bergman & Ellis Henican

Narrated by: Assaf Cohen & Mickey Bergman

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A top negotiator in countless high-stakes missions to free Americans captured abroad and held in the world's scariest prisons takes readers inside the dramatic and shadowy world of international hostage rescue.

Who else are their desperate loved ones supposed to call? Mickey and his tight team of savvy negotiators at the Richardson Center for... Read more

The War on Warriors

By: Pete Hegseth

Narrated by: Pete Hegseth

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERReal men fought for our freedoms. It’s time we fought for theirs.Pete Hegseth joined the Army to fight extremists. Then that same Army called him one. The military Pete joined twenty years ago was fiercely focused on lethality, competency, and color blindness. Today our brass are following the rest of our... Read more

In Service of the Republic

By: Vijay Kelkar & Ajay Shah

Narrated by: Bhuvana Anand

Length: 14 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

As a $3-trillion economy, India is on her way to becoming an economic superpower. Between 1991 and 2011, the period of our best growth, there was also a substantial decline in the number of people below the poverty line.Since 2011, however, there has been a marked retreat in the high growth performance of the previous two decades.What happened... Read more

May Contain Lies

By: Alex Edmans

Narrated by: Alex Edmands

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Our lives are minefields of misinformation. It ripples through our social media feeds, our daily headlines, and the pronouncements of politicians, executives, and authors. Stories, statistics, and studies are everywhere, allowing people to find evidence to support whatever position they want. Many of these sources are flawed, yet by playing on... Read more

The Light of Battle

By: Michel Paradis

Narrated by: Jacques Roy

Length: 16 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A thrilling new biography of Dwight Eisenhower set in the months leading up to D-Day, when he grew from a well-liked general into one of the singular figures of American history.""This is hands-down the most deeply researched, sensitive, intimate, and nuanced portrait of Eisenhower."" —DAVID KENNEDY, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for History |... Read more

The Fall of Roe

By: Elizabeth Dias & Lisa Lerer

Narrated by: Lipica Shah

Length: 16 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“The most important book in the lead up to this election.” —Nicolle Wallace, MSNBC

“As Dias and Lerer write, the fight against legal abortion is tied inextricably to the fight for America’s soul.” —New York magazine

“A tour de force. However you read books, hardcover, ebook, audio… Just read it.” —Alex Wagner on Alex Wagner Tonight

This program... Read more

I Have a Dream - 60th Anniversary Edition

By: Martin Luther King

Narrated by: Martin Luther King, Bernice A. King & Blair Und...

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

With new forewords and an afterword by Martin Luther King III, Dr. Bernice A. King, and Dexter Scott KingCelebrating the 60th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s legendary speech at the March on Washington, part of Dr. King’s archives published exclusively by HarperCollinsOn August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood before... Read more

The Originalism Trap

By: Madiba K. Dennie

Narrated by: Madiba K. Dennie

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A rallying cry for a more just approach to the law that bolsters social justice movements by throwing out originalism—the theory that judges should interpret the Constitution exactly as conservatives say the Founders meant it

“The greatest trick conservatives ever pulled was convincing the world that originalism exists. This book is vital for... Read more

Inteligencia Artificial. La tecnología que cambiará el mundo - Abridged

By: Roberto Velasco

Narrated by: Sergio Huescar (voz digital)

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Los avances tecnológicos invaden velozmente nuestras vidas y desbordan las capacidades normativas de las Administraciones públicas, todo bajo el control remoto de unos gigantes empresariales que pretenden rediseñar los hábitos sociales en función de sus intereses económicos. En este mundo de escasas reglas, se presenta la Inteligencia... Read more

The Anti-Coup (Unabridged)

By: Gene Sharp

Narrated by: Carolyn Cooper, Marcia Kim & Juanita Morrison

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In the face of tyranny, nonviolent resistance emerges as a formidable weapon. "The Anti-Coup" unveils the strategies and tactics that have empowered countless individuals to overthrow oppressive regimes without resorting to violence. Gene Sharp, a renowned scholar and activist, provides a comprehensive guide to nonviolent resistance, empowering... Read more

Banking on Slavery

By: Sharon Ann Murphy

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook version of this book.

A sobering excavation of how deeply nineteenth-century American banks were entwined with the institution of slavery.

It’s now widely understood that the fullest expression of nineteenth-century American capitalism was found in the structures of chattel slavery. It’s also understood that... Read more

Bloody Tuesday

By: John M. Giggie

Narrated by: Christopher Grove

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The dramatic story of one of the most violent episodes of the civil rights movement and its role in the ongoing reckoning with racial injustice in the United States.



On Tuesday, June 9, 1964, police attacked more than 600 Black men, women, and children inside First African Baptist Church (Tuscaloosa, Alabama), where Reverend Martin Luther King... Read more

General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester W. Nimitz: The Lives and Careers of America’s Commanders-in-Chief in the Pacific Theater during World War II

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Bill Caufield

Length: 3 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Despite fighting in North Africa and the Atlantic, the United States still had the resources and manpower to fight the Japanese in the Pacific. Though the Japanese had crippled the American fleet at Pearl Harbor, its distance from Japan made an invasion of Pearl Harbor impossible, and Japan had not severely damaged important infrastructure.... Read more

The Mount Rushmore Presidents

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Jim Walsh

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In the 1920s, plans were made to carve the figures of America's greatest presidents into Mount Rushmore, the tallest spot in the Black Hills of the Dakotas. By 1939 the faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt had been carved into the rock, and one of America's greatest national monuments was born.The... Read more

Machtübernahme - Was passiert, wenn Rechtsextreme regieren | Eine Anleitung zum Widerstand (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Arne Semsrott

Narrated by: Alexander Pensel

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Demokratie in Gefahr - und was wir dagegen tun können Es sind beunruhigende Zeiten: Vor wenigen Jahren waren Rechtsextremisten im Parteienspektrum noch weitgehend isoliert. Heute denken Teile der Union offen über eine Koalition mit ihnen nach. Und während antidemokratische Positionen in der Breite der Gesellschaft stetig an Zustimmung gewinnen,... Read more

Conspiracy

By: Charlotte Greig

Narrated by: Nick Landrum

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

22 November 1963: Dallas, Texas. US President John F Kennedy is assassinated as his motorcade passes through the city's streets. The assassin is soon captured, and revealed to be disaffected Communist sympathizer Lee Harvey Oswald. Did Oswald act alone, or did he have help? Is the Bilderberg Group simply a group of international financiers... Read more