Politics & Economy audiobooks

Fed Up

By: Danielle DiMartino Booth

Narrated by: Danielle DiMartino Booth

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A Federal Reserve insider pulls back the curtain on the secretive institution that controls America’s economy

After correctly predicting the housing crash of 2008 and quitting her high-ranking Wall Street job, Danielle DiMartino Booth was surprised to find herself recruited as an analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, one of the regional... Read more

The Myth of the Strong Leader

By: Archie Brown

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 17 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Selected as one of the Best Books of 2016 by Bill Gates

All too frequently, leadership is reduced to a simple dichotomy: the strong versus the weak. Yet, there are myriad ways to exercise effective political leadership-as well as different ways to fail. We blame our leaders for economic downfalls and praise them for vital social reforms, but... Read more

Sex Scandal

By: Ashley McGuire

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to the troubling age of sex-denialism—the age of gender-neutral labels, rigidly enforced equality, unisex spaces, and the systematic eradication of sexual difference. In her debut book, Sex Scandal, journalist Ashley McGuire investigates the alarming nationwide push to ignore the natural, biological distinctions between men and women... Read more

New generation of war crimes investigators turn to high-tech methods

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Humanitarian crises like those in Syria’s Aleppo sometimes make headlines. But how do we identify such atrocities when they are occurring thousands of miles away? A new program at UC Berkeley is training students to leverage social media, geolocation and other high-tech tools to document human rights abuses, and their findings have been brought... Read more

Illegale Kriege – Wie die NATO-Länder die UNO sabotieren

By: Dr. Daniele Ganser

Narrated by: Dr. Daniele Ganser

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

"Wir, die Völker der Vereinten Nationen – fest entschlossen, künftige Geschlechter vor der Geißel des Krieges zu bewahren, die zweimal zu unseren Lebzeiten unsagbares Leid über die Menschheit gebracht hat –, haben beschlossen: Alle Mitglieder unterlassen in ihren internationalen Beziehungen jede gegen die territoriale Unversehrtheit oder die... Read more

Six Encounters with Lincoln

By: Elizabeth Brown Pryor

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr & Beverly Brown

Length: 17 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

From an award-winning historian, an engrossing look at how Abraham Lincoln grappled with the challenges of leadership in an unruly democracy

An awkward first meeting with U.S. Army officers, on the eve of the Civil War. A conversation on the White House portico with a young cavalry sergeant who was a fiercely dedicated abolitionist. A tense... Read more

Pretend I'm Not Here

By: Barbara Feinman Todd

Narrated by: Amanda Dolan

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

An accomplished former ghostwriter and book researcher who worked with Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Ben Bradlee, and Hillary Clinton goes behind-the-scenes of the national’s capital to tell the story of how she survived the exciting, but self-important and self-promoting world of the Beltway.Barbara Feinman Todd has spent a lifetime helping... Read more

Jimmy Hoffa

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: David Zarbock

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A century ago, if one were to come across a manual laborer from the early 20th century or the Roaring Twenties and relayed to them the possibility of one day sticking it to The Man, one would probably be laughed out of the century. However, this was exactly what one man with solid-gold aspirations and audacity set out to achieve. Jimmy Hoffa,... Read more

Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

By: Giles Milton

Narrated by: Giles Milton

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Six gentlemen, one goal: the destruction of Hitler's war machine

In the spring of 1939, a top-secret organization was founded in London: its purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitler's war machine through spectacular acts of sabotage.

The guerrilla campaign that followed was every bit as extraordinary as the six men who directed it. One... Read more

Age of Anger

By: Pankaj Mishra

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world—from American shooters and ISIS to Donald Trump, from a rise in vengeful nationalism to racism and misogyny on social media? In Age of Anger, Pankaj Mishra answers our bewilderment by casting his gaze back to the eighteenth century... Read more

Olive Witch

By: Abeer Y. Hoque

Narrated by: Abeer Y. Hoque

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In the 1970s, Nigeria is flush with oil money, building new universities, and hanging on to old colonial habits. Abeer Hoque is a Bangladeshi girl growing up in a small sunlit town, where the red clay earth, corporal punishment and running games are facts of life. At thirteen she moves with her family to suburban Pittsburgh and finds herself... Read more

Woman Walking Ahead

By: Eileen Pollack

Narrated by: Emily Beresford

Length: 15 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

This book restores a little-known advocate of Indian rights to her place in history. In June 1889, a widowed Brooklyn artist named Catherine Weldon traveled to the Standing Rock Reservation in Dakota Territory to help Sitting Bull hold onto land that the government was trying to wrest from his people. Her efforts were counterproductive; she was... Read more

Blue on Blue

By: Charles Campisi

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 15 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In one of the most illuminating portraits of police work ever, Chief Charles Campisi describes the inner workings of the world’s largest police force and his unprecedented career putting bad cops behind bars. “Compelling, educational, memorable…this superb memoir can be read for its sheer entertainment or as a primer on police work—or both”... Read more

Happy as a Dane

By: Malene Rydahl

Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

This international bestseller shows why the Danes are happy and how we can be, too. For decades Denmark has ranked at the top of the world’s happiness surveys. How is it that these 5.6 million Danes are so content when they live in a country that is dark and cold nine months of the year and where income taxes are at almost 60 percent? At a time... Read more

Political Science First Edition

By: Chukwunedum Amajioyi

Narrated by: Josh LeBrun

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a book on political science and political theory on American politics and West African politics. It discussed the systems of government, political behaviors, and analysis. It offers crucial political ideas and ways to achieving good governance, leadership, equality, and freedom. Political leadership in this modern era is corrupt and... Read more

Big Agenda

By: David Horowitz

Narrated by: Ian Patterson

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

One battle is over, but there are many more to come. This book is an indispensable guide to fighting the opponents of the conservative restoration. It identifies who the adversaries are as well as their methods, motivations, and agenda, including the particular issues with which they will try to advance their destructive goal—and it lays out a... Read more

We Should All Be Feminists

By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Narrated by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The highly acclaimed, provocative essay on feminism and sexual politics—from the award-winning author of Americanah

"A call to action, for all people in the world, to undo the gender hierarchy." —Medium

In this personal, eloquently-argued essay—adapted from the much-admired TEDx talk of the same name—Chimamanda Ngozi... Read more

Creating Freedom

By: Raoul Martinez

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 17 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A manifesto for deep and radical change, Creating Freedom explores the limits placed on freedom by human nature and society. It explodes myths, calling for a profound transformation in the way we think about democracy, equality, and our own identities.Free markets, free elections, free media, free thought, free speech, free will—the language of... Read more

Pill City

By: Kevin Deutsch

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

April 27, 2015 Mosher and Gilmore Streets, Baltimore, Maryland: Ground Zero in America’s Pill Wars.Near this crime-plagued corner, the death of Freddie Gray has triggered the worst domestic rioting in years - and created a terrifying new breed of criminal entrepreneur. Here, as looters and arsonists lay waste to parts of Baltimore, two of the... Read more

Ein gutes Leben

By: Zoni Weisz

Narrated by: Zoni Weisz

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Der 1937 in Den Haag geborene Sinto Zoni Weisz muss als Kind miterleben, wie seine Eltern und seine Geschwister von den Nazis deportiert werden, er selbst kann Dank der Hilfe eines niederländischen Polizisten in letzter Minute gemeinsam mit seiner Tante entkommen. Seine Eltern und seine Geschwister werden allesamt ermordet. Nach dem Krieg... Read more

Closing the Courthouse Door

By: Erwin Chemerinsky

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The Supreme Court's decisions on constitutional rights are well known and much talked about. But individuals who want to defend those rights need something else as well: access to courts that can rule on their complaints. And on matters of access, the Court's record over the past generation has been almost uniformly hostile to the enforcement of... Read more

Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved By Beauty

By: Kate Hennessy

Narrated by: Randye Kaye

Length: 13 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Dorothy Day (1897–1980) was a prominent Catholic, writer, social activist, and cofounder of a movement dedicated to serving the poorest of the poor. Her life has been revealed through her own writings as well as the work of historians, theologians, and academics. What has been missing until now is a more personal account from the point of view... Read more

Bill Clinton

By: Michael Tomasky

Narrated by: Paul Heitsch

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Bill Clinton: a president of contradictions. He was a Rhodes Scholar and a Yale Law School graduate, but he was also a fatherless child from rural Arkansas. He was one of the most talented politicians of his age, but he inspired enmity of such intensity that his opponents would stop at nothing to destroy him. He was the first Democrat since... Read more

Earning the Rockies

By: Robert D. Kaplan

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

As a boy, Robert D. Kaplan listened to his truck-driver father's evocative stories about traveling across America as a young man, travels in which he learned to understand the country from a ground-level perspective. In Earning the Rockies, Kaplan undertakes his own cross-country journey to recapture an appreciation and understanding of American... Read more