Politics & Economy audiobooks

The Way of the Strangers

By: Graeme Wood

Narrated by: Graeme Wood

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

What does ISIS really want? This is the definitive account of the strategy, psychology, and fundamentalism driving the Islamic State.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY FOREIGN AFFAIRS • “Worthy of Joseph Conrad . . . gripping, sobering and revelatory.”—Tom Holland, New Statesman

The Islamic State inspired a wave of true believers to... Read more

One Brief Shining Moment

By: William Manchester

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

William Manchester was friends with John F. Kennedy for two decades before the President’s assassination. In this work, the bestselling author of Portrait of a President and The Death of a President puts aside the tragedy of JFK’s death to celebrate the brightness of his life.Manchester recalls in intimate detail everything from family... Read more

Issues In Health Care

By: John Montgomery

Narrated by: John Warwick Montgomery

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY? An examination of legal and ethical issues surrounding the questions of suicide and assisted suicide. November 1997. ISSUES IN HEALTH CARE: RIGHTS OF THE UNBORN This lecture is based on the prize-winning essay, "The Rights of Unborn Children", in which the legal protection offered to the unborn in Canada, Germany, UK and... Read more

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

By: Henry David Thoreau

Narrated by: Edward Miller

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A work by the great Henry David Thoreau, originally published in 1849 as "Resistance to Civil Government". It is an essay in which Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents... Read more

Der Grüne Blackout

By: Alexander Wendt

Narrated by: Mark Bremer

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Energiewende steckt in einer tiefen Krise: Regierungspolitiker räumen mittlerweile ein, dass kaum etwas in dem deutschen Musterschülerprojekt nach Plan läuft. Millionen Stromkunden bringen mehr als 20 Milliarden Euro an jährlichen Subventionen auf, während nur wenige profitieren. Das grüne Jobwunder fand nur in Prognosen statt. Und zur... Read more

Der Grüne Blackout

By: Alexander Wendt

Narrated by: Mark Bremer

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Energiewende steckt in einer tiefen Krise: Regierungspolitiker räumen mittlerweile ein, dass kaum etwas in dem deutschen Musterschülerprojekt nach Plan läuft. Millionen Stromkunden bringen mehr als 20 Milliarden Euro an jährlichen Subventionen auf, während nur wenige profitieren. Das grüne Jobwunder fand nur in Prognosen statt. Und zur... Read more

Female Marines Part 2

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

For generations combat jobs in the U.S. military were blocked to women, but not anymore. The question now is can women meet the same rigorous standards as the men in order to qualify for frontline jobs? William Brangham has the second story on women in combat roles. Read more

Female Marines Part 1

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Until recently, women were barred from U.S. military combat jobs. Today females are volunteering for the most physically and mentally grueling Marine roles. But is the Corps helping or hurting women recruits' readiness by separating training from males? In a two-part series, William Brangham follows three female Marine recruits as they embark on... Read more

Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade

By: John O. Casler

Narrated by: Brian Holsopple

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever. But this is one of the clearest and most informative ever put to paper.As a commander in Stonewall Jackson’s brigade, John Casler experienced all the horrors and comedy of the American Civil War. His time was not so different... Read more

The Rise of Athens

By: Anthony Everitt

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 16 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Filled with tales of adventure and astounding reversals of fortune, The Rise of Athens celebrates the city-state that transformed the world—from the democratic revolution that marked its beginning, through the city's political and cultural golden age, to its decline into the ancient equivalent of a modern-day university town.

Anthony Everitt... Read more

The Wars of the Roosevelts

By: William J. Mann

Narrated by: Christopher Grove

Length: 21 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The award-winning author presents a provocative, thoroughly modern revisionist biographical history of one of America’s greatest and most influential families—the Roosevelts—exposing heretofore unknown family secrets and detailing complex family rivalries with his signature cinematic flair.Drawing on previously hidden historical documents and... Read more

Deutschland in Gefahr - Abridged

By: Rainer Wendt

Narrated by: Rainer Wendt

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ein schwacher Staat kann die Menschen nicht schützen, die in seinen Grenzen leben. Und deshalb muss Schluss sein damit, Deutschland weiter zu schwächen. Denn unser Land ist längst nicht mehr sicher, deshalb brauchen wir den starken Staat. Denn nur der hat die Macht, die Bürger zu schützen und gegen diejenigen anzutreten, die unsere Demokratie,... Read more

Cuban attitudes toward Castro range from devout to cynical

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In the week following Fidel Castro’s death, reactions have been mixed among those who remember his reign or are still influenced by it. For many, Castro was a symbol of Cuba's hope, following the Batista dictatorship, for strong leadership in a new era of prosperity. But for others, his legacy represents unfulfilled promises and relentless... Read more

Medical volunteers risk their lives to save Mosul's injured

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

On the front lines of Mosul, Iraq, two young American volunteers aid those injured in battle. Pete Reed and Derek Coleman treat Iraqi soldiers and civilians right in the path of fire, far closer than other medical providers. Without their proximity to the fighting, many more wounded would die. But their location also means they are at enormous... Read more

Lückenpresse

By: Ulrich Teusch

Narrated by: Andreas Denk

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Ist die Kritik an die etablierten Medien berechtigt oder Paranoia á la Lügenpresse“? Die etablierten Medien stecken in einer massiven Glaubwürdigkeitskrise. Teile des Publikums proben den Aufstand, öffentliche und veröffentlichte Meinung driften auseinander. Nicht nur hierzulande, auch in vielen Ländern geraten die angeblichen Leitmedien unter... Read more

Ghetto

By: Mitchell Duneier

Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in il geto―a closed quarter named for the copper foundry that once occupied the area. The term stuck.In this sweeping and original interpretation, Mitchell Duneier traces the idea of the ghetto from its beginnings in the sixteenth century and its revival by the... Read more

The Slave's Cause

By: Manisha Sinha

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 30 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period usually associated with abolitionism and recasting it as a radical social movement in which men and women, black and... Read more

When We Rise

By: Cleve Jones

Narrated by: Cleve Jones

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

This sweeping memoir tells the life story of longtime LGBTQ and AIDS activist Cleve Jones in a profoundly moving account from sexually liberated 1970s San Francisco, through the AIDS crisis, and up to his involvement with the marriage equality battle. Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering... Read more

The American Miracle

By: Michael Medved

Narrated by: Michael Medved

Length: 15 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author and radio host Michael Medved recounts some of the most significant events in America’s rise to prosperity and power, from the writing of the Constitution to the Civil War. He reveals a record of improbabilities and amazements that demonstrate what the Founders always believed: that events unfolded according to a master plan,... Read more

A Path to Peace

By: George Mitchell & Alon Sachar

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

George Mitchell knows how to bring peace to troubled regions. He was the primary architect of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement for peace in Northern Ireland. But when he served as U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace from 2009 to 2011—working to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—diplomacy did not prevail. Now, for the first time, Mitchell... Read more

Enhanced Interrogation

By: James E. Mitchell, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Ryan Rennot

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In the dark days immediately after 9/11, the CIA turned to Dr. James Mitchell to help craft an interrogation program designed to elicit intelligence from just-captured top al-Qa'ida leaders and terror suspects.  

A civilian contractor who had spent years training U.S. military members to resist interrogation should they be captured, Mitchell,... Read more

Inside the Middle East

By: Avi Melamed

Narrated by: Vikas Adam

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed Israeli intelligence analyst Avi Melamed has spent more than thirty years interpreting Middle East affairs. His long-awaited Inside the Middle East challenges widely accepted perceptions and provides a gripping and uniquely enlightening guide to make sense of the events unfolding in the region.



Melamed considers all the major power... Read more

Invasion Diary

By: Richard Tregaskis

Narrated by: Pat Grimes

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The Allied invasions of Sicily and Italy in 1943 were bloody and pivotal, securing the Mediterranean, capitalizing on the overthrow of Mussolini, and pinning down German troops that could have been used on the Russian Front or in France after D-Day. The men who made the Allied victories in Sicily and Italy possible-soldiers and officers,... Read more

American Commander

By: Ryan Zinke

Narrated by: Daniel Butler

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In recent years, the world has learned just what is required to bravely serve America through the navy’s most elite SEAL Team. Now, for the first time, we hear from their commander.For more than half a decade, Ryan Zinke was a commander at the most elite SEAL unit. A 23-year veteran of the US Navy SEALs, Zinke is a decorated officer and earned... Read more