Politics & Economy audiobooks

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

Eugenics and Other Evils

By: G.K. Chesterton

Narrated by: Ray Clare

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can't play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all." 'Eugenics and Other Evils' (1922) is a magnificent takedown of the entire basis of... Read more

Bucharins upprop

By: Nikolaj Bucharin

Narrated by: Frej Stansvik

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

"Till alla arbetare och arbeterskor. Till alla som utföra arbete. Kamrater, i Petersburg, den röda huvudstaden, har en avskyvärd förbrytelse blivit förövad. Revolutionens heliga stad har blivit skändad genom skott från beväpnade mördare som skjutit ner sina klass- och partikamrater. Sina kamrater i kampen mot den borgerliga världen ..."Nikolaj... Read more

Världslägets Problematik

By: Nikolaj Bucharin

Narrated by: Frej Stansvik

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Socialdemokratins eller kommunismens väg? Har världsrevolutionen gått och lagt sig? Eller är det en tid för utveckling och uppror? 1928 publicerades en koncentrerad analys av världslägets problem av den ryska politikern och teoretikern Nikolaj Bucharin. Han lyfter bland annat de kapitalistiska motsättningarnas problematik och näringslivets... Read more

Jonathan Swift

By: John Stubbs

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 31 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Jonathan Swift's world-famous books?from Gulliver's Travels to A Modest Proposal?are unparalleled in their piercing critique of modern society. Half-orphaned, a Dubliner by birth, but a man who would always insist he was English, Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) was a figure of great contradictions. An essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric... Read more

iWar

By: Bill Gertz

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover how the United States can beat China, Russia, Iran, and ISIS in the coming information-technology wars from the New York Times bestselling author and veteran Washington Times columnist Bill Gertz.

America is at war, but most of its citizens don’t realize it.

Covert information warfare is being waged by world powers, rogue states—such as... Read more

The Fourth Industrial Revolution

By: Klaus Schwab

Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolu­tion, which will fundamentally alter how we live and work.

Schwab argues that this revolution is different in scale, scope and complexity from any that have come before.... Read more

His Father's Son

By: Tim Brady

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., a fortunate son who proved himself on the battlefields of two world wars. General Omar Bradley said of him, "I have never known a braver man or a more devoted soldier." But for much of his life, Theodore Roosevelt's son Ted seemed born to live in his father's shadow. With the same wide smile, winning charm,... Read more

A Consequential President

By: Michael D'Antonio

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Once a most unlikely candidate, Barack Obama’s successful campaign for the White House made him a worldwide sensation and a transformative figure even before he was inaugurated. Elected as the Iraq War and Great Recession discouraged millions of Americans, Obama’s promise of hope revived the national spirit. Had he only saved the economy, Obama... Read more

600 citations de philosophie politique

By: Machiavel, Spinoza, Rousseau, Thoreau, Sun Tzu ...

Narrated by: Nicolas Justamon, Patrick Blandin & Elodie Huber

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Plongez au coeur de la philosophie politique en vous familiarisant avec ses penseurs incontournables. Nicolas Machiavel, penseur humaniste de la Renaissance, a laissé derrière lui une légende noire avec Le Prince, traité qui fait résonner douloureusement la politique et la morale. Spinoza, celui que Deleuze appelait "le Prince des philosophes",... Read more

The Bourgeois Virtues

By: Deirdre N. McCloskey

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 23 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

For a century and a half, the artists and intellectuals of Europe have scorned the bourgeoisie. And for a millennium and a half, the philosophers and theologians of Europe have scorned the marketplace. The bourgeois life, capitalism, Mencken’s “booboisie” and David Brooks’s “bobos”—all have been, and still are, framed as being responsible for... Read more

Shadow Warriors of World War II

By: Gordon Thomas & Greg Lewis

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

They were told that the only crime they must never commit was to be caught. Women of enormous cunning and strength of will, the Shadow Warriors’ stories have remained largely untold—until now. In a dramatic tale of espionage and conspiracy in World War II, Shadow Warriors of World War II unveils the history of the courageous women who... Read more

Diario de Anne Frank

By: Anne Frank

Narrated by: Laura Prats

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Un testimonio único sobre el horror y la barbarie nazi, y sobre los sentimientos y experiencias que vivió una niña judía recluida con su familia para huir del Holocausto, ahora en audiolibro. Uno de los 100 mejores libros Young Adult de todos los tiempos según la revista
TIME. Tras la invasión de Holanda, los Frank, comerciantes judíos alemanes... Read more

The Sale a Lifetime

By: Harry S. Dent

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

After the Roaring '20s came the Great Depression. After the Roaring 2000s came the Great Recession. We're now entering the winter season of the 80-Year Four Season Economic Cycle. It's during this season that we'll clear the decks with a devastating crash and debilitating deflation. The economy and markets will shed the excesses created during... Read more

Radicalized

By: Peter R.

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The 2015 Paris and San Bernardino terrorist attacks heralded the beginning of a new wave of terrorism―one rooted in the ongoing conflict in Syria and Iraq that shows the possibility of foreign attackers working with citizens of the country. As ISIS seeks to expand its reach in the Middle East, its territory serves as a training and operations... Read more

Worst. President. Ever.

By: Robert Strauss

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Worst. President. Ever. flips the great presidential biography on its head, offering an enlightening—and highly entertaining—account of poor James Buchanan's presidency to prove once and for all that, well, few leaders could have done worse.



But author Robert Strauss does much more, leading listeners out of Buchanan's terrible term in... Read more

Why Are We at War?

By: Norman Mailer

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Beginning with his debut masterpiece, The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer has repeatedly told the truth about war. Why Are We at War? returns Mailer to the gravity of the battlefield and the grand hubris of the politicians who send soldiers there to die. First published in the early days of the Iraq War, Why Are We at War? is an explosive... Read more

The Big Stick

By: Eliot A. Cohen

Narrated by: Bill Thatcher

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

“Speak softly and carry a big stick” Theodore Roosevelt famously said in 1901, when the United States was emerging as a great power. It was the right sentiment, perhaps, in an age of imperial rivalry. But today many Americans doubt the utility of their global military presence, thinking it outdated, unnecessary, or even dangerous.In The Big... Read more

Debriefing the President

By: John Nixon

Narrated by: John Nixon

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Debriefing the President presents an astounding, candid portrait of one of our era’s most notorious strongmen. John Nixon, the first man to conduct a prolonged interrogation of Hussein after his capture, offers expert insight into the history and mind of America’s most enigmatic enemy. 

In December 2003, after one of the largest, most aggressive... Read more

Blind Ambition

By: John W. Dean

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 14 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

This New York Times bestseller is an insider's account of the fall of Richard Nixon and has remained an indispensable source into Nixon's presidency. Blind Ambition is an autobiographical account of a young lawyer who accelerated to the top of the Federal power structure to become Counsel to the President at thirty years of age, only to discover... Read more

The War on Cops

By: Heather Mac Donald

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Violent crime has been rising sharply in many American cities after two decades of decline. Homicides jumped nearly 17 percent in 2015 in the largest fifty cities, the biggest one-year increase since 1993. The reason is what Heather Mac Donald first identified nationally as the "Ferguson effect": Since the 2014 police shooting death of Michael... Read more

Joseph McCarthy

By: Arthur Herman

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 16 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Was Joe McCarthy a bellicose, shameless witch-hunter who whipped up hysteria, ruined the reputation of innocents, and unleashed a destructive carnival of smears and guilt-by-association accusations? Were McCarthy and McCarthyism the worst things to happen to American politics in the postwar era? Or was McCarthy just a well-intentioned politician... Read more

Preaching to the Chickens

By: Jabari Asim

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Critically acclaimed author Jabari Asim and Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator E. B. Lewis team up to give readers a fascinating glimpse into the boyhood of Civil Rights leader John Lewis. Even as a very young boy, John Lewis knew he wanted to be a preacher when he grew up. He wanted to be the kind of leader who could use his passionate... Read more

Fuck You, 2016

By: Bob A. N. Grypants

Narrated by: Bob A. N. Grypants

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of F*ck You, 2016 by Bob A. N. Grypants, read by Bob A.N. Grypants.

In the year that David Bowie died, Brexit shocked us, 'Hiddleswift' was a thing and Trump trumped, we are all asking ourselves was 2016 really the worst year ever?

Find out in this special* commemorative... Read more