Politics & Economy audiobooks

Churchill

By: Jacob Bannister

Narrated by: Tim Bruce

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Winston Churchill possessed an iron will and a subtle conscience. His staunch patriotism, tenacity, appetite for a fight, and, above all, his towering rhetoric inspired the British people to mount a gallant defense of their island nation. Having set a new bar for national heroism, he earned a place in the pantheon of the world’s greatest... Read more

The Plot to Hack America

By: Malcolm Nance

Narrated by: Gregory Itzin

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In April 2016, computer technicians at the Democratic National Committee discovered that someone had accessed the organization’s computer servers and conducted a theft that is best described as Watergate 2.0. In the weeks that followed, the nation’s top computer security experts discovered that the cyber thieves had helped themselves to... Read more

The Brain Defense

By: Kevin Davis

Narrated by: Jim Frangione

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Called “the best kind of nonfiction” by Michael Connelly, this riveting new book combines true crime, brain science, and courtroom drama.

In 1991, the police were called to East 72nd St. in Manhattan, where a woman's body had fallen from a twelfth-story window. The woman’s husband, Herbert Weinstein, soon confessed to having hit and strangled his... Read more

Why Wall Street Matters

By: William D. Cohan

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A timely, counterintuitive defense of Wall Street and the big banks as the invisible—albeit flawed—engines that power our ideas, and should be made to work better for all of us

Maybe you think the banks should be broken up and the bankers should be held accountable for the financial crisis in 2008. Maybe you hate the greed of Wall Street but... Read more

The Well-Tempered City

By: Jonathan F. P. Rose

Narrated by: Barry Abrams

Length: 14 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Cities are birthplaces of civilization; centers of culture, trade, and progress; cauldrons of opportunity—and the home of eighty percent of the world's population by 2050. As the 21st century progresses, metropolitan areas will bear the brunt of global megatrends such as climate change, natural resource depletion, population growth, income... Read more

Vorwärts

By: Karmers

Narrated by: Frank Roder, Frank Arnold, Erik Schäffler, Pete...

Length: 3 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Vertonung des sozialdemokratischen VORWÄRTS (Berliner Morgenausgabe) erinnert an den Moment das Scheiterns der Demokratie in Deutschland in der Nacht zum 28. Februar 1933. Der Reichstagsbrand war der NSDAP-dominierten Regierung willkommener Anlass zum Verbot aller missliebigen Presse. So auch des letzten offiziell erschienenen VORWÄRTS der... Read more

Portraits of Courage

By: George W. Bush

Narrated by: George W. Bush

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

*This audiobook download includes a bonus full-color PDF of all of the portraits and murals featured in the book.

A vibrant collection of oil paintings and stories by President George W. Bush honoring the sacrifice and courage of America’s military veterans.  With forewords written and read by former First Lady Laura Bush and General Peter Pace,... Read more

Game of Thorns

By: Doug Wead

Narrated by: Doug Wead

Length: 13 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is the first, insider, account of the precipitous fall of Hillary Clinton. How the scandals of a lifetime finally reached critical mass. How, in the last few days of the campaign, some on her staff saw the ghostly shroud of defeat creeping over them but were helpless to act, frozen by the self-denial of the group.

Here is an explanation of... Read more

How Trump Won

By: Joel B. Pollak & Larry Schweikart

Narrated by: Jack Griffin

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From the moment Donald Trump announced his candidacy for the White House until very late on election night, media and pollsters kept insisting Trump wouldn’t—couldn’t—be president. But for Larry Schweikart—one of a ragtag group of amateur politicos called the “Deplorables,” who had been publishing shockingly accurate polls and predictions, and... Read more

Der stille Raub

By: Gerald Hörhan

Narrated by: Matthias Lühn

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Binnen weniger Jahre wird die digitale Revolution die Gesellschaft komplett verändern. Wenige werden reich, viele arm, und die Mittelschicht wird es nur noch in den Geschichtsbüchern geben. Gerald Hörhan, Harvard-Absolvent, Investmentbanker und Internet-Unternehmer, zeigt, was die künftigen Gewinner der digitalen Revolution jetzt tun müssen und... Read more

Notes on Michael Eric Dyson's Tears We Cannot Stop by Instaread

By: Instaread

Narrated by: Jeff Jorgensen

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Michael Eric Dyson's Tears We Cannot Stop and NOT the original book.
Preview:
Michael Eric Dyson’s Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America is a book about racism in the United States. Dyson argues that white Americans need to understand the privilege and power whiteness grants them. They can then take... Read more

Notes on Richard Haass's A World in Disarray by Instaread

By: Instaread

Narrated by: Dwight Equitz

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Richard Haass's A World in Disarray and NOT the original book.
Preview:
In A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order, diplomat Richard Haass argues that since the end of the Cold War, the world has become more disordered. Haass believes the United States should renew its... Read more

Bullies

By: Ben Shapiro

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Ben Shapiro uncovers the simple strategy used by liberals and their friends in the media: bully the living hell out of conservatives. Play the race card, the class card, the sexism card. Use any and every means at your disposal to demonize your opposition—to shut them up. Then pretend that such bullying is justified, because, after all,... Read more

Political Conventions

By: the Speech Resource Company

Narrated by: the Speech Resource Company

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Featured speeches from past political conventions include candidates, presidents, senators, and members of Congress, mayors, governors, Hollywood celebrities, and more. This product includes such famous addresses as JFK’s acceptance speech, Ronald Reagan and Ted Kennedy’s concession speeches, Mario Cuomo’s “Tale of Two Cities,” and Clint... Read more

Rivals Unto Death

By: Rick Beyer

Narrated by: Rick Beyer

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of The Greatest Stories Never Told series, the epic history of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr's illustrious and eccentric political careers and their fateful rivalry.

The famous duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr was the culmination of a story three decades in the making. Rivals unto Death vividly... Read more

The Six-Day War

By: Guy Laron

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 15 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

One fateful week in June 1967 redrew the map of the Middle East. Many scholars have documented how the Six-Day War unfolded, but little has been done to explain why the conflict happened at all. As we approach its fiftieth anniversary, Guy Laron refutes the widely accepted belief that the war was merely the result of regional friction, revealing... Read more

The President Will See You Now

By: Peggy Grande

Narrated by: Peggy Grande

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"Peggy Grande's memoir is the book to read on Ronald Reagan's post-presidential years . . . Among the most unique and touching [books] ever done on the man . . . Wonderful." -- The AmericanSpectator In The President Will See You Now, devoted Reagan insider Peggy Grande shares behind-the-scenes stories, intimate moments, and insights into one of... Read more

A Night in the Pech Valley

By: Grant McGarry

Narrated by: Corey M. Snow

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A Night in the Pech Valley is Grant McGarry's account of what it takes to become an Army Ranger and what life is like in the 75th Ranger Regiment. More importantly it is about an operation in the most dangerous terrain for U.S. forces anywhere in the world. The Pech Valley is surrounded by Taliban-filled mountains on the Pakistan border in the... Read more

Three Years with Quantrill

By: John McCorkle & O. S. Barton

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

This famous memoir by John McCorkle is the best published account by a scout who “rode with Quantrill.” John McCorkle was a young Missouri farmer of Southern sympathies. After serving briefly in the pro-Confederate Missouri State Guard, he became a prominent member of William Clarke Quantrill’s infamous guerrillas, who took advantage of the... Read more

Unwarranted

By: Barry Friedman

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 13 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In June 2013, documents leaked by Edward Snowden sparked widespread debate about secret government surveillance of Americans. Just over a year later, the shooting of Michael Brown, a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, set off protests and triggered concern about militarization and discriminatory policing. In Unwarranted, Barry Friedman argues... Read more

Between vegetarian café and Trump café, a political chasm in Texas

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Three months since the election and a few weeks into the new Trump administration, recent public opinion polls show we live in a deeply divided country. So what are voters saying about the new president? William Brangham has a tale of two cafes in Texas, where he found strikingly different views and emotions about the state of politics. Read more

Manifest der kommunistischen Partei

By: Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels

Narrated by: Burkhard Behnke

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

"Ein Gespenst geht um in Europa - das Gespenst des Kommunismus." Mit diesen Worten beginnt ein Text, der die Welt veränderte! Er endet mit dem bekannten Aufruf: "Proletarier aller Länder vereinigt euch!" Das Kommunistische Manifest wurde von Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels 1847 im Auftrag des Bundes der Kommunisten verfasst und ist im Februar... Read more

Blood Year

By: David Kilcullen

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

2014 has the potential to go down as a crucial year in modern world history. A resurgent and bellicose Russia took over Crimea and fueled a civil war in Eastern Ukraine. Post-Saddam Iraq, in many respects a creature of the United States because of the war that began in 2003, lost a third of its territory to an army of hyper-violent... Read more

American Heritage History of the Indian Wars

By: Robert M. Utley & Wilcomb E. Washburn

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed historians Robert M. Utley and Wilcomb E. Washburn examine both small battles and major wars—from the Native rebellion of 1492 to Crazy Horse and the Sioux War to the massacre at Wounded Knee. Read more