Politics & Economy audiobooks

Stronger Together

By: Hillary Rodham Clinton & Tim Kaine

Narrated by: Kathleen Chalfant & Cotter Smith

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

For more than a year, Hillary Clinton has laid out an ambitious agenda to improve the lives of the American people and make our country stronger and safer. Stronger Together presents that agenda in full, relating stories from the American people and outlining the Clinton/Kaine campaign’s plans on everything from apprenticeships to the Zika... Read more

The Gatekeeper

By: Kathryn Smith

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The first biography of arguably the most influential member of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration, Marguerite “Missy” LeHand, FDR’s de facto chief of staff, who has been misrepresented, mischaracterized, and overlooked throughout history … until now. Widely considered the first female presidential chief of staff, Marguerite “Missy”... Read more

Weapons of Math Destruction

By: Cathy O'Neil

Narrated by: Cathy O'Neil

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A former Wall Street quant sounds the alarm on Big Data and the mathematical models that threaten to rip apart our social fabric—with a new afterword
 
“A manual for the twenty-first-century citizen . . . relevant and urgent.”—Financial Times
 
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The... Read more

Jesse Ventura's Marijuana Manifesto

By: Jesse Ventura & Jen Hobbs

Narrated by: Paul Woodson

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Any way you look at it, for whoever is using it, marijuana is a medicinal plant, in abundant supply. Every month and every year that goes by, we find out more positive things about it. Marijuana has been demonized through the years but obviously this plant has a great deal of positive attributes, and it's also a renewable resource. Being a cash... Read more

True Believer

By: Kati Marton

Narrated by: Amanda Carlin

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

“Kati Marton’s True Believer is a true story of intrigue, treachery, murder, torture, fascism, and an unshakable faith in the ideals of Communism….A fresh take on espionage activities from a critical period of history” (Washington Independent Review of Books).

True Believer reveals the life of Noel Field, once a well-meaning and privileged... Read more

Decades on, millions of unexploded U.S. bombs left in Laos

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The United States dropped 270 million bombs on Laos between 1964 and 1973. On Tuesday, President Obama became the first U.S. president to visit the country, promising to provide the Laotian people to remove the unexploded bombs that remain. Special correspondent Mike Cerre offers a glimpse of life in Laos today and the mission to end the deadly... Read more

Nimble, Focused, Feisty

By: Sara Roberts

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Leaders have talked about the importance of corporate culture for decades, but the success of iconic companies like GE, Apple, and Google shows how culture is a strategic lever that can be utilized for driving growth, change, and innovation. In this new age of globalization, rapid technology shifts, and constant disruption, the 21st century... Read more

How Not to Network a Nation

By: Benjamin Peters

Narrated by: Dana Hickox

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Between 1959 and 1989, Soviet scientists and officials made numerous attempts to network their nation -- to construct a nationwide computer network. None of these attempts succeeded, and the enterprise had been abandoned by the time the Soviet Union fell apart. Meanwhile, ARPANET, the American precursor to the Internet, went online in 1969. Why... Read more

The Carnival Campaign

By: Ronald G. Shafer

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Americans have come to expect that the nation’s presidential campaigns will be characterized by a carnival atmosphere emphasizing style over substance. But this fascinating account of the pivotal 1840 election reveals how the now-unavoidable traditions of big money, big rallies, shameless self-promotion, and carefully manufactured candidate... Read more

We're Still Right, They're Still Wrong

By: James Carville

Narrated by: James Carville & Tom Stechschulte

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In his 1996 #1 New York Times bestseller We’re Right, They’re Wrong, political strategist James Carville eviscerated the Republican economic agenda and debunked many of the GOP’s ludicrous positions on national issues such as health care, welfare, tax reform, and economic growth.

Now, twenty years after the book’s publication, Carville... Read more

Thomas Merton, A Mystic Lover of Life

By: Matthew Fox, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas Merton was an American Catholic writer, mystic, and Trappist monk who died mysteriously in Bangkok, Thailand when he was 53 years old. The gifts he left behind from his short life were immense. He combined deep contemplation with social action. Here Fr. Matthew Fox shares his profound intersection with Merton via Creation Spirituality. It... Read more

The Iran Wars

By: Jay Solomon

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

From Qasem Soleimani to the nuclear deal, a deeply reported exploration of Iran’s decades-long power struggle with the United States—in the tradition of Steve Coll’s Ghost Wars and Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower
 
“A front-row view of the spy games, assassinations, political intrigue and high-stakes diplomacy that have defined relations with... Read more

Clean House

By: Tom Fitton

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Corruption Chronicles comes a devastating expose of the scandals of Obama's second term. Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton reveals what the largest watchdog agency in America has uncovered in its battles against Obama secrecy.

Clean House takes us through incriminating documents from the attack... Read more

Second Shift

By: David Closs, David Hollister, G. Tomas M. Hu...

Narrated by: John Alexander Brancy

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The dynamic, collaborative management model that saved a U.S. manufacturing city When car-making giant General Motors decided to close its plant in Lansing, Michigan, in 1996, one person-the city’s newly elected mayor-stood up and said “no.” Initially, it was the cry of a man in the wilderness. Not once in its century-long history had GM... Read more

In Trump We Trust

By: Ann Coulter

Narrated by: Ann Coulter

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Donald Trump won the presidency by being a one-man wrecking ball against our dysfunctional and corrupt establishment. 

Now Ann Coulter, with her unique insight, candor, and sense of humor, makes the definitive case for why we should all join his revolution.
 
The media have twisted themselves in knots, trying to grasp how Donald Trump won over... Read more

Connectography

By: Parag Khanna

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 16 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Connectivity is the most revolutionary force of the twenty-first century. Mankind is reengineering the planet, investing up to ten trillion dollars per year in transportation, energy, and communications infrastructure linking the world's burgeoning megacities together. This has profound consequences for geopolitics, economics, demographics, the... Read more

The 15:17 to Paris

By: Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos, Spencer Stone &...

Narrated by: Peter Ganim

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

An ISIS terrorist planned to kill more than 500 people. He would have succeeded except for three American friends who refused to give in to fear.

On August 21, 2015, Ayoub El-Khazzani boarded train #9364 in Brussels, bound for Paris. There could be no doubt about his mission: he had an AK-47, a pistol, a box cutter, and enough ammunition to... Read more

The Fractured Republic

By: Yuval Levin

Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Americans today are frustrated and anxious. Our economy is sluggish and leaves workers insecure. Income inequality, cultural divisions, and political polarization increasingly pull us apart. Our governing institutions often seem paralyzed. And our politics has failed to rise to these challenges.
No wonder, then, that Americans - and the... Read more

The Terror Years

By: Lawrence Wright

Narrated by: John H. Mayer & Lawrence Wright

Length: 17 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

With the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. Here, in ten powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker, he recalls the path that terror in the Middle East has taken, from the rise of al-Qaeda in the 1990s to the... Read more

Trump Revealed

By: Michael Kranish & Marc Fisher

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 15 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Bestseller
A Philadelphia Inquirer Best Book of the Year
A Los Angeles Times Most Important Book of the Year

Hailed as “authoritative” and “essential,” and based on the work of two dozen reporters and twenty hours of interviews with Trump, Trump Revealed is the indispensable and now updated biography of the 45th president of the... Read more

Moondrop to Gascony

By: Anne-Marie Walters

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

On a cold, moonlit night in January 1944, Anne-Marie Walters, just twenty years old, parachuted into southwest France to work with the Resistance in preparation for the long-awaited Allied invasion. The daughter of a British father and a French mother, she was to act as a courier for George Starr, head of the “Wheelwright” circuit of the Special... Read more

Living with No Excuses

By: Noah Galloway

Narrated by: Noah Galloway

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Military hero and beloved Dancing with the Stars alum Noah Galloway shares his life story, and how losing his arm and leg in combat forced him to relearn how to live--and live to the fullest.
Inspirational, humorous, and thought provoking, Noah Galloway's LIVING WITH NO EXCUSES sheds light on his upbringing in rural Alabama, his military... Read more

The Last Punisher

By: Kevin Lacz, Lindsey Lacz & Ethan E. Rocke

Narrated by: Timothy Phillips

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The Last Punisher is a bold, no-holds-barred first-person account of the Iraq War. With wry humor and moving testimony, Kevin Lacz tells the story of his tour in Iraq with SEAL Team Three, the warrior elite of the Navy. This legendary unit, known as "The Punishers," included Chris Kyle (American Sniper), Mike Monsoor, Ryan Job, and Marc Lee.... Read more

Republic, Lost

By: Lawrence Lessig

Narrated by: Lawrence Lessig

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig investigates the most vexing problem in American democracy: how money corrupts our nation's politics, and the critical campaign to stop it.

In an era when special interests funnel huge amounts of money into our government-driven by shifts in campaign-finance rules and brought to new levels by the... Read more