Politics & Economy audiobooks

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

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

The Fourth Way

By: Hugh Hewitt

Narrated by: Hugh Hewitt

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Hugh Hewitt, “the nearly professorial power-baron of conservative media” (Bloomberg News), shares his handbook for how a united GOP government can solve problems and guarantee political success in “an agenda that departs—sometimes radically—from the typical Republican orthodoxy of the last sixteen years” (The Weekly Standard).

In this practical... 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

Audacity

By: Jonathan Chait

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

An unassailable case that, in the eyes of history, Barack Obama will be viewed as one of America’s best and most accomplished presidents.Over the course of eight years, Barack Obama has amassed an array of outstanding achievements. His administration saved the American economy from collapse, expanded health insurance to millions who previously... Read more

The Next Pandemic

By: Dr. Ali S Khan & William Patrick

Narrated by: Ben Sullivan

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

An inside account of the fight to contain the world's deadliest diseases -- and the panic and corruption that make them worse.
Throughout history, humankind's biggest killers have been infectious diseases: the Black Death, the Spanish Flu, and AIDS alone account for over one hundred million deaths. We ignore this reality most of the time, but... Read more

My Life, My Love, My Legacy

By: Coretta Scott King & Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds

Narrated by: Phylicia Rashad & January LaVoy

Length: 14 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

"...this audiobook, which was dictated in the last year of King’s life, put’s both her and her husband’s struggles in cultural and historical context. This is a must-listen." -- The Berkshire Edge

The life story of Coretta Scott King—wife of Martin Luther King Jr., founder of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, and singular... Read more

Reclaiming Hope

By: Michael R. Wear

Narrated by: Stu Gray

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

"An important and extremely timely book...Get it, read it, and talk to others about it." --Timothy Keller, author of Reason for God"A warm, engaging read of the author’s experience with faith, politics, and the intersection (and sometimes collision) of the two. Reclaiming Hope is an important contribution in this age of religious and political... Read more

Insane Clown President

By: Matt Taibbi

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Dispatches from the 2016 election that provide an eerily prescient take on our democracy’s uncertain future, by the country’s most perceptive and fearless political journalist.

In twenty-five pieces from Rolling Stone—plus two original essays—Matt Taibbi tells the story of Western civilization’s very own train wreck,... Read more

How America Lost Its Secrets

By: Edward Jay Epstein

Narrated by: Michael Bybee

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking exposé that convincingly challenges the popular image of Edward Snowden as hacker turned avenging angel, while revealing how vulnerable our national security systems have become--as exciting as any political thriller, and far more important.

After details of American government surveillance were published in 2013, Edward Snowden,... Read more

Hope in the Dark

By: Rebecca Solnit

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

With Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argued that radicals have a long, neglected history of transformative victories, that... Read more

To Rule the Waves

By: Arthur Herman

Narrated by: John Curless

Length: 29 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

To Rule the Waves tells the extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in history. From the navy's beginnings under Henry VIII to the age of computer warfare and special ops, historian Arthur Herman tells the spellbinding tale of great battles at sea, heroic sailors, violent... Read more

Wer regiert das Geld?

By: Paul Schreyer

Narrated by: Sebastian Pappenberger

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Wer das Geld regiert, regiert die Welt Geld regiert die Welt – aber wer regiert das Geld? Woher kommt es und was gibt ihm seinen Wert? Warum sind Banken so mächtig geworden? Wie sind sie überhaupt entstanden? Und wie kann die „marktkonforme“ Demokratie zu einem System werden, das seinen Bürgern dient? Denn mittlerweile scheint es egal zu sein,... Read more

A World in Disarray

By: Richard Haass

Narrated by: Dan Woren & Richard Haass

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“A valuable primer on foreign policy: a primer that concerned citizens of all political persuasions—not to mention the president and his advisers—could benefit from reading.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

An examination of a world increasingly defined by disorder and a United States unable to shape the world in its image, from the... Read more

The Trump Survival Guide

By: Gene Stone

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

National BestsellerDon’t despair. Don’t retreat. Fight back.A call-to-action for Democrats, moderate Republicans, and other anti-Trump dissenters, detailing the history of social and political policies, how Obama treated them, how Trump has the power to undermine them, and what people can do to fight back.The stunning election of Donald J. Trump... Read more

Washington's Farewell

By: John Avlon

Narrated by: John Avlon

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

“A vivid portrait…and thoughtful consideration of George Washington’s wisdom that couldn’t be timelier” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). A revealing look at the first President’s Farewell Address, a still-relevant warning against partisan politics and foreign entanglements.

George Washington’s Farewell Address was a prophetic letter he wrote to... Read more

The Genius of Judaism

By: Bernard-Henri Lévy

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From world-renowned public intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy comes an incisive and provocative look at the heart of Judaism.

“A smart, revealing, and essential book for our times.”—The Washington Post

For more than four decades, Bernard-Henri Lévy has been a singular figure on the world stage—one of the great moral voices of our time. Now Europe's... Read more

Three Days in January

By: Bret Baier & Catherine Whitney

Narrated by: Bret Baier & Danny Campbell

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The blockbuster #1 national bestsellerBret Baier, the Chief Political Anchor for Fox News Channel and the Anchor and Executive Editor of Special Report with Bret Baier, illuminates the extraordinary yet underappreciated presidency of Dwight Eisenhower by taking readers into Ike’s last days in power.“Magnificently rendered. … Destined to take its... Read more

The Meaning of Michelle

By: Veronica Chambers

Narrated by: January LaVoy & Prentice Onayemi

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“Whenever I think about Michelle Obama, I think, ‘When I grow up, I want to be just like her. I want to be that intelligent, confident, and comfortable in my own skin’.” ―Roxane Gay

“Even after eight years of watching them daily in the press, the fact that the most powerful man in the world is a Black man is still breathtaking to me. The fact... Read more

Economism

By: James Kwak

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is a bracing deconstruction of the framework for understanding the world that is learned as gospel in Economics 101, regardless of its imaginary assumptions and misleading half-truths.

Economism: an ideology that distorts the valid principles and tools of introductory college economics, propagated by self-styled experts, zealous lobbyists,... Read more

The New Odyssey

By: Patrick Kingsley

Narrated by: Thomas Judd

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In the humane tradition of Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers comes a searing account of the international refugee crisis.

On the day of his son’s fourteenth birthday, Hashem al-Souki lay somewhere in the Mediterranean, crammed in a wooden dinghy. His family was relatively safe―at least for the time being―in Egypt, where they had only... Read more

Seven Steps to Achieve Limited Liability

By: Garrett Sutton

Narrated by: Garrett Sutton

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

How can you protect your assets? By following these 7 easy steps.

A selection from the bestselling Rich Dad Advisors: Start Your Own Corporation. Read more

The Revolution Where You Live

By: Sarah van Gelder

Narrated by: Natalie Hoyt

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the Real Revolution Unfolding across America

America faces huge challenges—climate change, social injustice, racist violence, economic insecurity. Journalist Sarah van Gelder suspected that there were solutions, and she went looking for them, not in the centers of power, where people are richly rewarded for their allegiance to the status... Read more

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents, Part 1

By: Larry Schweikart

Narrated by: John McLain

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Back by popular demand, the bestselling Politically Incorrect Guides provide an unvarnished, unapologetic overview of the topics every American needs to know. The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents, Part 1 profiles America’s early presidents, from George Washington to William Howard Taft. Read more