Politics & Economy audiobooks

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

Six Years in the Hanoi Hilton

By: Amy Shively Hawk

Narrated by: Traber Burns, Caroline Shaffer & Michael Braun

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1967, US Air Force fighter pilot James Shively was shot down over North Vietnam. After ejecting from his F-105 Thunderchief aircraft, he landed in a rice paddy and was captured by the North Vietnamese Army. For the next six years, Shively endured brutal treatment at the hands of the enemy in Hanoi prison camps. Back home, his beloved... 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

Born on Third Base

By: Chuck Collins

Narrated by: Chuck Collins

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

As inequality grabs headlines, steals the show in presidential debates, and drives deep divides between the haves and have nots in America, class war brews. On one side, the wealthy wield power and advantage, wittingly or not, to keep the system operating in their favor—all while retreating into enclaves that separate them further and further... Read more

Die Getriebenen

By: Robin Alexander

Narrated by: Helmut Winkelmann

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Grenzöffnung für Flüchtlinge im Herbst 2015 hat das Land gespalten - die einen preisen Angela Merkels moralische Haltung, die andern geißeln die Preisgabe von Souveränität. Doch was als planvolles Handeln erscheint, ist in Wahrheit eine Politik des Durchwurstelns, des Taktierens und Lavierens, befeuert von hehren Idealen und Opportunismus.... Read more

Rules for Revolutionaries

By: Becky Bond & Zack Exley

Narrated by: Tia Rider

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Lessons from the groundbreaking grassroots campaign that helped launch a new political revolution Rules for Revolutionaries is a bold challenge to the political establishment and the “rules” that govern campaign strategy. It tells the story of a breakthrough experiment conducted on the fringes of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign: A... Read more

Attack of the 50 Ft. Women

By: Catherine Mayer

Narrated by: Tanya Moodie

Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

‘Buy it for yourself, your husband or partner. Most importantly, buy it for your children’ Sunday Express Essential reading from Catherine Mayer, recently named one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Global Policy on Gender Equality. ... Read more

Wish Lanterns

By: Alec Ash

Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

There are more than 320 million Chinese between the ages of sixteen and thirty. Children of the one-child policy, born after Mao, with no memory of the Tiananmen Square massacre, they are the first net native generation to come of age in a market-driven, more international China. Their experiences and aspirations were formed in a radically... Read more

Madame President

By: Helene Cooper

Narrated by: Marlene Cooper Vasilic

Length: 12 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

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The harrowing, but triumphant story of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, leader of the Liberian women’s movement, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first democratically elected female president in African history.

When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf won the 2005 Liberian presidential... Read more

Napoleon

By: J. Christopher Herold

Narrated by: Paul Woodson

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Napoleon Bonaparte's rise from common origins to the pinnacle of power, as well as his defeat at Waterloo, still influences our daily lives, from the map of Europe to the metric system. Here's the fascinating story of the great soldier-statesman. Read more

Slavery’s Capitalism

By: Sven Beckert & Seth Rockman

Narrated by: William Hughes, Kevin Kenerly, Bahni Turpin, Pa...

Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world’s most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage.This was no mere coincidence. Slavery’s Capitalism argues for slavery’s centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades... Read more

A Rabble of Dead Money

By: Charles R. Morris

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

There is no single theory of what caused the Great Depression, and never will be, Morris argues. Macreconomics is a social science, and such a massive event always takes its shape from a terrible confluence of factors. The mismanagement of the gold standard, the growth in consumer credit, the insistence on deflation by some of the best minds in... Read more

Adams

By: Francis Russell

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 15 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

John and Abigail Adams and their descendants have profoundly influenced life in the United States for more than two centuries. From the great political and philosophical contributions of Founding Father and President John Adams, the roster of Adams luminaries is unprecedented: diplomat and sixth president, John Quincy Adams; pre-Civil War "Voice... Read more

Chasing Utopia

By: David Leach

Narrated by: Richard Clarkin

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Say the word “Israel” today and it sparks images of walls and rockets and a bloody conflict without end. Yet for decades, the symbol of the Jewish State was the noble pioneer draining the swamps and making the deserts bloom: the legendary kibbutznik. So what ever happened to the pioneers’ dream of founding a socialist utopia in the land called... Read more

A Little History of Economics

By: Niall Kishtainy

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and the ideas of great thinkers in the fieldWhat causes poverty? Are economic crises inevitable under capitalism? Is government intervention in an economy a helpful approach or a disastrous idea? The answers to such basic economic questions... Read more

A Generation of Sociopaths

By: Bruce Cannon Gibney

Narrated by: Wayne Pyle

Length: 14 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In his "remarkable" (Men's Journal) and "controversial" (Fortune) book -- written in a "wry, amusing style" (The Guardian) -- Bruce Cannon Gibney shows how America was hijacked by the Boomers, a generation whose reckless self-indulgence degraded the foundations of American prosperity. In A Generation of Sociopaths, Gibney examines the disastrous... Read more

Shoot Like a Girl

By: Major Mary Jennings Hegar

Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

On June 29, 2009, Air National Guard major Mary Jennings "MJ" Hegar was shot down while on a Medevac mission on her third tour in Afghanistan. Despite being wounded, she fought the enemy and saved the lives of her crew and their patients. But soon she would face a new battle: to give women who serve on the front lines the credit they deserve. .... Read more

The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby

By: Colonel John S. Mosby

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In the American Civil War, or the War between the States, three dashing cavalry leaders—Stuart, Forrest, and Mosby—so captured the public imagination that their exploits took on a glamour, which we associate—as did the writers of the time—with the deeds of the Waverley characters and the heroes of chivalry. Of the three leaders, Colonel John S.... Read more

Allein unter Flüchtlingen

By: Tuvia Tenenbom

Narrated by: Stefan Krause

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Seit Herbst 2015, als zahlreiche Flüchtlinge nach Deutschland kamen, hat sich das Land grundlegend verändert. Viele erleben die Migrationsbewegung als eine Zäsur, deren Folgen noch längst nicht abzusehen sind. Um zu verstehen, was da in den letzten Monaten eigentlich genau passiert ist, ist Tuvia Tenenbom einmal mehr kreuz und quer durch die... Read more

How Change Happens

By: Duncan Green

Narrated by: Christopher Preece

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Human society is full of would-be "change agents," a restless mix of campaigners, lobbyists, and officials, both individuals and organizations, set on transforming the world. They want to improve public services, reform laws and regulations, guarantee human rights, get a fairer deal for those on the sharp end, achieve greater recognition for any... Read more

Notas sobre el nacionalismo

By: George Orwell

Narrated by: Juan Antonio Bernal

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

George Orwell ofrece en este audiolibro una de las reflexiones más lúcidas sobre los nacionalismos. En tiempos como los que estamos viviendo, los nacionalismos y los extremismos en todas sus formas resurgen con fuerza. En este extraordinario ensayo, publicado en mayo de 1945, en los estertores de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, y disponible ahora en... Read more

The Death Money

By: James Rickards

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

“The next financial collapse will resemble nothing in history. . . . Deciding upon the best course to follow will require comprehending a minefield of risks, while poised at a crossroads, pondering the death of the dollar.” The international monetary system has collapsed three times in the past hundred years, in 1914, 1939, and 1971. Each... Read more

Killing Sacred Cows

By: Garrett B. Gunderson

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

What Will You Learn From this audiobook? Tackling 9 specific financial myths, Killing Sacred Cows is a must for mission-driven individuals. It plainly reveals these shocking truths kept hidden by the traditional financial industry: • A 401(k) is not the “safe” and “smart” plan that you have been told it is; in fact, it’s an extremely risky... Read more

On Tyranny

By: Timothy Snyder

Narrated by: Timothy Snyder

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “bracing” (Vox) guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism, from “a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present” (The New York Times)

“Timothy Snyder reasons with unparalleled clarity, throwing the past and future into sharp relief. He has... Read more