Politics & Economy audiobooks

The World’s Most Dangerous Geek: And More True Hacking Stories

By: David Kushner

Narrated by: Nan McNamara

Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Every day, it seems, we hear stories about hackers. Hackers breaking into the computers of banks, governments, and corporations. Some are criminals, coding to exploit and destroy. Others are activists, using their tools to challenge institutions and fight for freedom. But often these characters linger in the shadows. Who are they? What makes... Read more

Indelible Ink

By: Richard Kluger

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

For months in early 1980, scientists, journalists, sightseers, and nearby residents listened anxiously to rumblings in Mount St. Helens, part of the chain of western volcanoes fueled by the 700-mile-long Cascadia fault. Still, no one was prepared when an immense eruption took the top off of the mountain and laid waste to hundreds of square miles... Read more

Man of the World

By: Joe Conason

Narrated by: Joe Conason

Length: 18 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A veteran political journalist takes listeners inside the fascinating post-presidential exploits of Bill Clinton, which are as colorful, controversial, and significant as ever.The extraordinary post-presidency of William Jefferson Clinton is unlike the second career of any other president. “Bill Clinton” is a global brand, ascending from the... Read more

Trotsky in New York, 1917

By: Kenneth D. Ackerman

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Lev Davidovich Trotsky burst onto the world stage in November 1917 as coleader of a Marxist Revolution seizing power in Russia. It made him one of the most recognized personalities of the twentieth century, a global icon of radical change. Yet just months earlier, this same Lev Trotsky was a nobody, a refugee expelled from Europe, writing... Read more

The Year of Voting Dangerously

By: Maureen Dowd

Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Maureen Dowd's incendiary takes and takedowns from 2016--the most bizarre, disruptive and divisive Presidential race in modern history.

Trapped between two candidates with the highest recorded unfavorables, Americans are plunged into The Year of Voting Dangerously. In this perilous and shocking campaign season, The New York Times columnist... Read more

Scorched Earth

By: Michael Savage

Narrated by: James Edward Thomas

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Michael Savage predicted the chaos that is Obama's legacy. Now he tells us whether the destruction can be stopped! The prophetic author of the bestselling Government Zero, Dr. Michael Savage is back with his most urgent and powerful work.

Listeners to Dr. Savage's top-rated radio talk show, The Savage Nation, know him to be an articulate and... Read more

America at the Crossroads

By: George Barna

Narrated by: Jim Seybert

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Today's Most Troubling Trends about Faith and Culture in America We live in a tumultuous time. Upheavals and reversals in culture, popular opinion, morality, race relations, socioeconomic status, and so much more have entire generations feeling off balance or out of touch. How do we keep pace with the breathtaking rate of change in our society... Read more

The Making of Donald Trump

By: David Cay Johnston

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The culmination of nearly thirty years of reporting on Donald Trump, Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter David Cay Johnston takes a revealingly close look at the mogul’s rise to power and prominence.Covering the long arc of Trump’s career, Johnston tells the full story of how a boy from a quiet section of Queens, New York, would become... Read more

The Upside of Inequality

By: Edward Conard

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Unintended Consequences comes another bold and contrarian book by the man who famously defended capitalism and the one percent at the height of the Occupy movement.
 
Conventional wisdom says income inequality is rising and harmful to nearly everyone, and the rich are to blame. But as Ed Conard shows,... Read more

Obama's Legacy

By: Michael I. Days

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

As President Obama's time in the White House draws to a close, this celebratory book documents his transformative accomplishments.

Evidence indicates President Barack Obama has been tremendously successful and effective by objective measures. On economic indicators alone, he is credited with the longest streak of job growth in U.S. history, a... Read more

The Gift of Anger

By: Joe Solmonese

Narrated by: Tom Dheere

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Under Joe Solmonese's leadership, the Human Rights Campaign became the model other organizations look toward to create effective social and political change. Against daunting odds, HRC was instrumental in passing landmark national legislation such as the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act; repealing “Don't Ask, Don't... Read more

Crash Bang Wallop

By: Iain Martin

Narrated by: Matt Addis

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Published to mark the 30th anniversary of the financial revolution known as 'Big Bang', Crash Bang Wallop will tell the gripping story of how the changes introduced in the 1980s in the City of London transformed our world.

Attitudes to money and the way we measure value and status were completely reshaped by Big Bang, and it had an extraordinary... Read more

The Curse of Cash

By: Kenneth S. Rogoff

Narrated by: Barry Abrams

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The world is drowning in cash—and it's making us poorer and less safe. In The Curse of Cash, Kenneth S. Rogoff makes a persuasive and fascinating case for an idea that until recently would have seemed outlandish: getting rid of most paper money.



Even as people in advanced economies are using less paper money, there is more cash in circulation—a... Read more

True Faith and Allegiance

By: Alberto R. Gonzales

Narrated by: Dave Hoffman

Length: 17 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

True Faith and Allegiance is the highly-anticipated personal history from Alberto R. Gonzales, former Attorney General of the United States and former Counsel to the President—the only lawyer and only Hispanic to hold both these positions—an ultimate insider in the most tumultuous events in recent history. Born to a poor but proud working-class... Read more

Danger Close

By: Amber Smith

Narrated by: Rachel Fulginiti

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Amber Smith flew into enemy fire in some of the most dangerous combat zones in the world. One of only a few women to fly the Kiowa Warrior helicopter, Smith rose to Pilot-in-Command and Air Mission Commander in the premier Kiowa unit in the Army, repeatedly flying into harm's way during her 2005 and 2008 deployments with the 101st Airborne... Read more

His Final Battle

By: Joseph Lelyveld

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 15 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Notable Book • A prizewinning author and journalist untangles the narrative threads of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s final months, showing how he juggled the strategic, political, and personal choices he faced as the war, his presidency, and his life raced in tandem to their climax.

"A gripping, deeply human account... Moving,... Read more

JFK and the Reagan Revolution

By: Lawrence Kudlow & Brian Domitrovic

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The little-known story of how JFK pioneered supply-side economics Who invented supply-side economics-the idea that cutting tax rates can result in more growth, more prosperity at all income levels, and even more tax revenue flowing into the IRS? Most people would credit the economic team that advised Ronald Reagan in the late 1970s and early... Read more

The Honor Was Mine

By: Elizabeth Heaney

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Nautilus Book Award and the Military Writers Society of America Gold Medal.A young combat veteran hides in his closet under a pile of clothes on bad nights. Another, home for five days, can’t figure out how to talk to his wife. And a commander’s spouse recounts the soul-draining effect of attending nearly one hundred memorial... Read more

The Pigeon Tunnel

By: John le Carré

Narrated by: John le Carré

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

DON’T MISS THE PIGEON TUNNEL DOCUMENTARY—IN SELECT THEATERS AND STREAMING ON AppleTV+ OCTOBER 20TH!

“Recounted with the storytelling élan of a master raconteur—by turns dramatic and funny, charming, tart and melancholy.” –Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

The New York Times bestselling memoir from John le Carré, the legendary author of Tinker,... Read more

Denial [Movie Tie-in]

By: Deborah E. Lipstadt

Narrated by: Kate Udall

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In her acclaimed 1993 book Denying the Holocaust, Deborah Lipstadt called David Irving, a prolific writer of books on World War II, “one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial.” The following year, after Lipstadt’s book was published in the United Kingdom, Irving led a libel suit against Lipstadt and her publisher. She prepared... Read more

The Italian Project

By: Alan Friedman

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

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This Brave New World

By: Anja Manuel

Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In the next decade and a half, China and India will become two of the world's indispensable powers—whether they rise peacefully or not. During that time, Asia will surpass the combined strength of North America and Europe in economic might, population size, and military spending. Both India and China will have vetoes over many international... Read more

Enough Said

By: Mark Thompson

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 14 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

There’s a crisis of trust in politics across the Western world. Public anger is rising, and faith in conventional political leaders and parties is falling. Antipolitics, and the antipoliticians, have arrived. In Enough Said, president and CEO of the New York Times Company, Mark Thompson, argues that one of the most significant causes of the... Read more

The Conservative Case for Trump

By: Phyllis Schlafly, Ed Martin & Brett M. Decker

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From Phyllis Schlafly, the woman whose celebrated classic A Choice, Not an Echo upended the 1964 Republican Convention, comes a persuasive new argument for a surprising conservative choice: Donald Trump.For the first time since 1980, a significant number of Republicans are considering abandoning their party’s nominee. This is a grave mistake,... Read more