Politics & Economy audiobooks

God Is in the House

By: Virginia Foxx

Narrated by: various narrators, Elijah Alexander, Traber Bur...

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspired and original compilation for the 2016 election year, God Is in the House is a collection of essays by members of Congress who reflect on their deep faith and how it guides them as legislators.Compiled by Representative Virginia Foxx, who personally asked for contributions from congressional colleagues and coworkers, God Is in the... Read more

Covering

By: Kenji Yoshino

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone covers. To cover is to downplay a disfavored trait so as to blend into the mainstream. Because all of us possess stigmatized attributes, we all encounter pressure to cover in our daily lives. Given its pervasiveness, we may experience this pressure to be a simple fact of social life.



Against conventional understanding, Kenji Yoshino... Read more

Forty Autumns

By: Nina Willner

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In this illuminating and deeply moving memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family—of five women separated by the Iron Curtain for more than forty years, and their miraculous reunion after the fall of the Berlin Wall.Forty Autumns makes visceral the... Read more

Trial Of "Athens Three"

By: John Montgomery

Narrated by: John Montgomery

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In May, 1986, at the Court of Appeals in Athens, Dr. Montgomery successfully defended three evangelical missionaries who had been given three-and-a half year prison terms for "proselytizing." The President of the United States and many congressional leaders had written to the Greek government in support of the defendants. Following the trial,... Read more

Utopia Is Creepy

By: Nicholas Carr

Narrated by: Steven Menasche

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A freewheeling, sharp-shooting indictment of a tech-besotted culture. With a razor wit, Nicholas Carr cuts through Silicon Valley’s unsettlingly cheery vision of the technological future to ask a hard question: Have we been seduced by a lie? Gathering a decade’s worth of posts from his blog, Rough Type, as well as his seminal essays, Utopia Is... Read more

Imperfect Union

By: Chuck Raasch

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

On the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, Union artillery lieutenant Bayard Wilkeson fell while bravely spurring his men to action. His father, Sam, a New York Times correspondent, was already on his way to Gettysburg when he learned of his son’s wounding but had to wait until the guns went silent before seeking out his son, who... Read more

How this Farming Project Helps Afghan Women Grow Financial Independence

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In the 15 years since the U.S. went into Afghanistan, $1.5 billion has been spent to develop women’s rights in the country. But even with significant improvements, there remain many hardships, including domestic violence and the lack of educational opportunity. Special correspondent Jennifer Glasse visits a farming project that aims to provide... Read more

Parachuting Cats into Borneo

By: Axel Klimek & Alan AtKisson

Narrated by: Joel Richards

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A toolkit of proven strategies and practices for building capacity and creating transformation Recent years have seen a proliferation of information on how to make change—in business, in social and environmental movements, and on a more personal scale. But, even with all this attention, two out of three change efforts fail to achieve their... Read more

Eleanor and Hick

By: Susan Quinn

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A warm, intimate account of the love between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok—a relationship that, over more than three decades, transformed both women's lives and empowered them to play significant roles in one of the most tumultuous periods in American history

In 1932, as her husband assumed the presidency, Eleanor Roosevelt entered... Read more

Common Sense for the Common Good

By: Gary E. Johnson

Narrated by: Gary E. Johnson

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

With the contentious 2016 U.S. presidential election cycle spinning into its final phases, only one thing seems clear: the American people are less than satisfied with the two major political parties’ candidates. Gary Johnson, Libertarian Party candidate for president and former two-term Republican governor of New Mexico, stakes his claim to the... Read more

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Jihad

By: William Kilpatrick

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Back by popular the demand, the bestselling Politically Incorrect Guides provide an unvarnished, unapologetic overview of the topics every American needs to know. The Politically Incorrect Guide to Jihad delves into the dark world of radical Islam, exposing the most violent menace of the twenty-first century. Read more

Trump vs. Clinton: In Their Own Words

By: James Patterson

Narrated by: Allan Edwards & Janet Metzger

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

"Our commander in chief has to be able to defend our country, not embarrass it."*-Hillary Clinton

"She doesn't have strength. She doesn't have the stamina. . . . I think she's an embarrassment."**-Donald Trump

In this presidential contest of diametric opposites, nothing is certain on the path to the polls-except that every word matters. Direct... Read more

How America Was Lost

By: Paul Craig Roberts

Narrated by: Bob Brown

Length: 17 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Even as the view of America as a rogue state consolidates abroad, American's appear largely bystanders at the spectacle of their government running amok. People forget the myriad instances of their government's flouting of the Constitution and international legal norms. If ever they were aware of them in the first place, accepting to live in the... Read more

Unholy Alliance

By: Jay Sekulow

Narrated by: Jay Sekulow

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of Rise of ISIS exposes the dangers of radical Islam and the effects it has on the American way of life in this informative and eye-opening new book.

In Unholy Alliance, Jay Sekulow highlights and defines the looming threat of radical Islam. A movement born in Iran during the Islamic Revolution in 1979,... Read more

How the Other Half Banks

By: Mehrsa Baradaran

Narrated by: Priya Ayyar

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The United States has two separate banking systems today―one serving the well-to-do and another exploiting everyone else. How the Other Half Banks contributes to the growing conversation on American inequality by highlighting one of its prime causes: unequal credit. Mehrsa Baradaran examines how a significant portion of the population, deserted... Read more

Dagger 22

By: Michael Golembesky

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The thrilling true story of a Marine special operations unit in a battle for their lives in Afghanistan.

Level Zero Heroes, Michael Golembesky's New York Times bestselling account of Marine Special Operations Team 8222 in Bala Murghab, Afghanistan, was just the beginning for these now battle-hardened special operations warriors.

The unforgiving... Read more

Backstabbing for Beginners

By: Michael Soussan

Narrated by: Maxwell Hamilton

Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Ben Kingsley and Theo James, the gripping true story of a young program coordinator at the United Nations who stumbles upon a conspiracy involving Iraq's oil reserves.

"What made this episode in our collective history possible was not so much the lies we told one another, but the lies we told... Read more

A Kingdom of Their Own

By: Joshua Partlow

Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan

Length: 18 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The key to understanding the calamitous Afghan war is the complex, ultimately failed relationship between the powerful, duplicitous Karzai family and the United States, brilliantly portrayed here by the former Kabul bureau chief for The Washington Post.

The United States went to Afghanistan on a simple mission: avenge the September 11 attacks... Read more

The Fix

By: Jonathan Tepperman

Narrated by: Dan Woren & Jonathan Tepperman

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A provocative look at the world’s most difficult, seemingly ineradicable problems—and the surprising stories of the countries that solved them.
 
We all know the bad news. The heady promise of the Arab Spring has given way to repression, civil war, and an epic refugee crisis. Economic growth is sputtering. Income inequality is rising around the... Read more

Eyes on the Street

By: Robert Kanigel

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 19 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The first major biography of the irrepressible woman who changed the way we view and live in cities, and whose influence can still be felt in any discussion of urban planning to this day.

Eyes on the Street is a revelation of the phenomenal woman who raised three children, wrote seven groundbreaking books, saved neighborhoods, stopped... Read more

Alexander Hamilton's Guide to Life

By: Jeff Wilser

Narrated by: Johnathan McClain

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

An entertaining look at the life and wisdom of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who mastered the arts of wit, war, and wealth, long before becoming the subject of the runaway Broadway hit Hamilton: An American Musical. 
 
Two centuries after his death, Alexander Hamilton is shining once more under the world’s spotlight—and we need him now... Read more

Crossing the Thinnest Line

By: Lauren Leader-Chivee

Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

FROM THE VERY FOUNDING OF OUR NATION, diversity has been one of our greatest strengths but also the greatest source of conflict. In less than a generation, America will become "minority-majority," and the world economy, already interconnected, will be even more globalized. The stakes for how we handle this evolution couldn't be higher. Will... Read more

You Have the Right to Remain Innocent

By: James Duane

Narrated by: James Duane

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

An urgent, compact manifesto that will teach you how to protect your rights, your freedom, and your future when talking to police.Law professor James J. Duane became a viral sensation thanks to a 2008 lecture outlining the reasons why you should never agree to answer questions from the police—especially if you are innocent and wish to stay out... Read more

How the Scots Invented the Modern World

By: Arthur Herman

Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie

Length: 18 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics-contributions that... Read more