Politics & Economy audiobooks

Truth and Lies (Unabridged)

By: Max Vanguard

Narrated by: Bruce Cullen

Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Details in scandals that go back decades will arouse your suspicions about her true motive and the pieces will fall into place. Read more

100 Deadly Skills: Survival Edition

By: Clint Emerson

Narrated by: Pete Simonelli

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From national bestselling author and retired Navy SEAL Clint Emerson comes the essential guide for surviving today’s emergencies—from navigating in the wild to staying alive in any disaster.

These 100 skills, adapted for civilians from actual field experiences of special forces operations, offer a complete hands-on and practical guide to help you... Read more

The Supreme Commander

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 32 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In this classic portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower the soldier, bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose examines the Allied commander’s leadership during World War II.
 
Ambrose brings Eisenhower’s experience of the Second World War to life, showing in vivid detail how the general’s skill as a diplomat and a military strategist contributed to... Read more

The Tunnels

By: Greg Mitchell

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A thrilling Cold War narrative of superpower showdowns, media suppression, and two escape tunnels beneath the Berlin Wall.
 
In the summer of 1962, the year after the rise of the Berlin Wall, a group of young West Germans risked prison, Stasi torture, and even death to liberate friends, lovers, and strangers in East Berlin by digging tunnels... Read more

Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman & Jim Frangione

Length: 17 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Doris Kearns Goodwin’s classic life of Lyndon Johnson, who presided over the Great Society, the Vietnam War, and other defining moments the tumultuous 1960s, is a monument in political biography. From the moment the author, then a young woman from Harvard, first encountered President Johnson at a White House dance in the spring of 1967, she... Read more

Madam President

By: William Hazelgrove

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

An up-close look at Edith Wilson, a first lady with unequaled responsibilities during her husband’s presidency.After President Woodrow Wilson suffered a paralyzing stroke in the fall of 1919, his wife, First Lady Edith Wilson, began to handle the day-to-day responsibilities of the chief executive. Mrs. Wilson had had little formal education and... Read more

Unspeakable: Chris Hedges on the most Forbidden Topics in America

By: Chris Hedges & David Talbot

Narrated by: Chris Hedges & Michael Quinlan

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

Chris Hedges on the most taboo topics in America, with David Talbot.

Chris Hedges has been telling truth to (and against) power since his earliest days as a radical journalist. He is an intellectual bomb thrower, who continues to confront American empire in the most incisive, challenging ways. The kinds of insights he provides into the deeply... Read more

Lost Soul

By: Les Rolston

Narrated by: Michael Christopher Gines

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Sam Postlethwaite was a Confederate soldier buried in an unmarked grave in Rhode Island. Beginning with nothing more than a handful of dirt, author Les Rolston's innocent curiosity about this mysterious soldier's grave became a journey of thousands of miles that eventually led him to the soldier's family. The result is this factual account of... Read more

Street Farm

By: Michael Ableman

Narrated by: Michael L. Caanan

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Street Farm is the inspirational account of residents in the notorious Low Track in Vancouver, British Columbia—one of the worst urban slums in North America—who joined together to create an urban farm as a means of addressing the chronic problems in their neighborhood. It is a story of recovery, of land and food, of people, and of the power of... Read more

Come and Take It

By: Cody Wilson

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A startling philosophical manifesto for the twenty-first century on freedom of information, Come and Take It is the controversial yet thrilling story of the first ever-3D printable gun, developed by self-described crypto-anarchist and rogue thinker Cody Wilson.

In Defense Distributed, Cody Wilson’s employees worked against all odds to defend... Read more

Sometimes Brilliant

By: Larry Brilliant

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

When a powerful mystic steps on the hand of a radical young hippie doctor from Detroit, it changes lives and the world. Sometimes Brilliant is the adventures of a philosopher, mystic, hippie, doctor, groundbreaking tech innovator, and key player in the eradication of one of the worst pandemics in human history. His story, of what happens when... Read more

Washington and Hamilton

By: Stephen F. Knott & Tony Williams

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In the wake of the American Revolution, the Founding Fathers faced a daunting task: overcome their competing visions to build a new nation, the likes of which the world had never seen. Washington and Hamilton chronicles the unlikely collaboration between two conflicting characters working together to protect their hard-won freedoms. Yet while... Read more

The General vs. the President

By: H. W. Brands

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 15 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II.

At the height of the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman committed a gaffe that sent shock waves around the... Read more

The Man Who Knew

By: Sebastian Mallaby

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 29 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

“Exceptional . . . Deeply researched and elegantly written . . . As a description of the politics and pressures under which modern independent central banking has to operate, the book is incomparable.” —Financial Times

The definitive biography of the most important economic statesman of our time, from the bestselling author of The Power Law and... Read more

Soldier Spy

By: Tom Marcus

Narrated by: Jason Langley

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Soldier Spy by Tom Marcus, read by Jason Langley.

In the boot were six homemade pipe bombs, all linked to detonate at the same time from a single call on a brand-new pay-as-you-go phone found on the target.

Special Branch also found Chinese Type 56 assault rifles with eight full... Read more

The Liberal Redneck Manifesto

By: Trae Crowder, Drew Morgan & Corey Ryan Forrester

Narrated by: Trae Crowder, Drew Morgan & Corey Ryan Forrester

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The Liberal Rednecks—a Southern-based stand-up comedy group known for their scathing political satire—celebrate all that’s good about Dixie while leading a progressive revolution toward a New South.

The American South is home to some of the best music, cuisine, athletics, whiskey, and weather the country has to offer, but its reputation as a... Read more

Bust Hell Wide Open

By: Samuel W. Mitcham

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

An intimate biography of Nathan Bedford Forrest, arguably the most interesting figure to emerge from the Civil War—widely admired as a military geniusAt fourteen he became the head of his impoverished family, responsible for feeding eleven on the rough American frontier. By thirty-nine he had established himself as a successful plantation owner... Read more

Guilty as Sin

By: Edward Klein

Narrated by: Lars Mikaelson

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

An exciting new book from #1 New York Times bestselling author Edward Klein!When FBI Director James Comey announced in July that Hillary Clinton would not be indicted for mishandling classified information, America was stunned.Had the scandal-happy Clintons escaped justice once again? Not so fast, says investigative reporter and bestselling... Read more

Another Day in the Death of America

By: Gary Younge

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

On an average day in America, seven young people aged nineteen or under will be shot dead. In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning Guardian journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during the course of a single day in the United States. It could have been any day, but Younge has chosen November 23, 2013. From... Read more

American Ulysses

By: Ronald C. White

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 27 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of A. Lincoln, a major new biography of one of America’s greatest generals—and most misunderstood presidentsFinalist for the Gilder-Lehrman Military History Book PrizeIn his time, Ulysses S. Grant was routinely grouped with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in the “Trinity of Great American... Read more

My Own Words

By: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Narrated by: Linda Lavin

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993—a witty, engaging, serious, and playful collection of writings and speeches from the woman who has had a powerful and enduring influence on law, women’s rights, and popular culture.

My Own Words offers Justice Ginsburg on wide-ranging topics, including gender... Read more

Alexander Hamilton: the Outsider

By: Jean Fritz

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed biographer Jean Fritz writes the remarkable story of Alexander Hamilton, one of America's most influential and fascinating founding fathers, and his untimely death in a duel with Aaron Burr.

Born in the British West Indies, Hamilton arrived in New York as an "outsider." He fought in the Revolution and became Washington's most valuable... Read more

The Hostage's Daughter

By: Sulome Anderson

Narrated by: Sulome Anderson

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In this gripping blend of reportage, memoir, and analysis, a journalist and daughter of one of the world’s most famous hostages, Terry Anderson, takes an intimate look at her father’s captivity during the Lebanese Hostage Crisis and the ensuing political firestorm on both her family and the United States—as well as the far-reaching implications... Read more

Herbert Hoover

By: Glen Jeansonne

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 16 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

“At last, a biography of Herbert Hoover that captures the man in full… [Jeansonne] has splendidly illuminated the arc of one of the most extraordinary lives of the twentieth century.”—David M. Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize-winning Author of Freedom from Fear

Prizewinning historian Glen Jeansonne delves into the life of our most misunderstood president,... Read more