Politics & Economy audiobooks

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

The Boy Who Runs

By: John Brant

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation by way of Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run, this is the inspirational true story of the Ugandan boy soldier who became a world-renowned runner, then found his calling as director of a world-renowned African children’s charity.

“Julius can’t remember who first saw the men. He heard no... Read more

Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei

By: Karl Marx

Narrated by: Thorben Odenholz

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Das Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei, auch Das Kommunistische Manifest genannt, wurde von Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels um die Jahreswende 1847/48 im Auftrag des Bundes der Kommunisten verfasst. Es ist am 21. Februar 1848 in London erschienen, kurz vor der Februarrevolution in Frankreich und vor der Märzrevolution im Deutschen Bund und in... Read more

Upside Down

By: Mark Davis

Narrated by: Mark Davis

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Fossil fuels are bad. Illegal immigration is necessary for the economy. Free markets are arbitrary and cruel. Christians are intolerant. Men and women are exactly the same. The dogma preached by the far left has gone mainstream and the results are frightening: Most of what you hear these days is flat-out wrong. Mark Davis pulls apart the tenets... Read more

The Burning of the White House

By: Jane Hampton Cook

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Told from multiple points of view—including James and Dolley Madison and a British admiral—this is the true story of the burning of the White House in 1814.It’s unimaginable today, even for a generation that saw the Twin Towers fall and the Pentagon attacked. It’s unimaginable because in 1814, enemies didn’t fly overhead; they marched through... Read more

High Rents Force Some in Silicon Valley to Live in Vehicles

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Faced with some of the most expensive rental housing in the nation, some Bay Area residents are feeling priced out and are seeking low-cost alternatives. In Silicon Valley, a hub of computer and technology companies, some people are even turning to cars, vans and RVs for housing. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Joanne Elgart Jennings has... Read more

A History of Modern Britain

By: Andrew Marr

Narrated by: David Timson

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification. In each decade, political leaders think they... Read more

Signals

By: Pippa Malmgren

Narrated by: Pippa Malmgren

Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

SIGNALS is the story of the world economy, told in the language of everyday objects, places and events - from magazine covers and supermarkets to public protests.

'A tour de force' Lord Rose, former CEO and Chairman of Marks & Spencer
'Dr Pippa Malmgren's book is essential reading' Dr Liam Fox, former British Defence Minister
'Better than... Read more

Way of the Reaper

By: Nicholas Irving & Gary Brozek

Narrated by: Jeff Gurner

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

From the legendary special operations sniper and bestselling author of The Reaper comes a rare and powerful audiobook on the art of being a sniper.

Way of the Reaper is a step-by-step accounting of how a sniper works, through the lens of Irving's 10 most significant kills - none of which have been told before. Each mission is an in-depth look at... Read more

How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything

By: Rosa Brooks

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

“A dynamic work of reportage” (The New York Times) written “with clarity and...wit” (The New York Times Book Review) about what happens when the ancient boundary between war and peace is erased.

Once, war was a temporary state of affairs. Today, America’s wars are everywhere and forever: our enemies change constantly and rarely wear uniforms, and... Read more

Partners in Crime

By: Jerome Corsi

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In Partners in Crime, two-time #1 New York Times bestselling author Jerome R. Corsi, PhD, presents detailed research and expert testimony proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Clinton Foundation is a vast, criminal conspiracy.



Corsi exposes how the Clintons amassed hundreds of millions of dollars in personal net worth, while building a $2... Read more

Known and Strange Things

By: Teju Cole

Narrated by: Peter Fernandez

Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The 40-plus essays will span art, literature, and politics, with topics from Virginia Woolf and James Baldwin to President Obama and Boko Haram. The collection will include pre-published essays that gone viral, like "The White Industrial Savior Complex," first published in The Atlantic. Read more

It’s Even Worse Than It Looks

By: Thomas E. Mann & Norman J. Ornstein

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Hyperpartisanship has gridlocked the American government. Congress’ approval ratings are at record lows, and both Democrats and Republicans are disgusted by the government’s inability to get anything done. In It’s Even Worse Than It Looks, Congressional scholars Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein present a grim picture of how party... Read more

Blind Man's Bluff

By: Sherry Sontag & Christopher Drew

Narrated by: George Wilson

Length: 15 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

No espionage missions have been kept more secret than those involving American submarines. Now, Blind Man's Bluff shows for the first time how the Navy sent submarines wired with self-destruct charges into the heart of Soviet seas to tap crucial underwater telephone cables. It unveils how the Navy's own negligence might have been responsible for... Read more

The Last Days of Hitler, 7th Edition

By: Hugh Trevor-Roper

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In late 1945 the fate of Adolf Hitler was a complete mystery. Missing for four months, he had simply vanished. Hugh Trevor-Roper, a British intelligence officer, was given the task of solving the mystery. With access to American counterintelligence files and German prisoners, his brilliant detective work proved finally that Hitler had killed... Read more

The “Narrative Intelligence” of the Greek Myths

By: Carol Pearson, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Most of us are trapped in the stories we tell ourselves; they guide what we pay attention to. When we expand that story, our possibilities increase. Archetypes, such as found in the Greek myths, can help us identify and change a debilitating tale into a powerful one that shifts our perspective and changes what we are noticing. This can enhance... Read more

The Great Suppression

By: Zachary Roth

Narrated by: Zach Villa

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A deeply reported look inside the new conservative movement working to undermine American democracy.Control of the country is up for grabs—and Republicans have been rigging the game in their favor. Twenty-two states have passed restrictions on voting. Ruthless gerrymandering has given the GOP a long-term grip on Congress. Meanwhile, the Supreme... Read more

Liars

By: Glenn Beck

Narrated by: Jeremy Lowell

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Glenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset, reveals the cold truth behind the ideology of progressivism and how the tenets of this dangerous belief system are eroding the foundation of this country.

Politics is no longer about pointing to a shining city on the hill; it’s about promising you a shiny new car for your... Read more

Whistlestop

By: John Dickerson

Narrated by: John Dickerson

Length: 13 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

From Face the Nation moderator and contributing editor for The Atlantic John Dickerson come the stories behind the stories of the most memorable moments in American presidential campaign history.

The stakes are high. The characters full of striving and ego. Presidential campaigns are a contest for control of power in the most powerful country on... Read more

Who Is Hillary Clinton?

By: Heather Alexander

Narrated by: Nan McNamara

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Who Is Hillary Clinton? Readers of our New York Times best-selling series can find out now!

At age fourteen, Hillary Clinton thought it would be thrilling to become an astronaut, so she sent an application to NASA. The reply was a flat out rejection: the space program didn't take women. It was a critical moment for the young girl, one that made... Read more

Please Enjoy Your Happiness

By: Paul Brinkley-Rogers

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A beautiful and evocative memoir based on the author’s summer-long love affair with a remarkable older Japanese woman in the wake of World War II—“the most romantic memoir you’re likely to read in a lifetime” (New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand).

Pulitzer Prize–winning war correspondent Paul Brinkley‑Rogers has lived an... Read more

The War on Guns

By: John R. Lott

Narrated by: John McLain

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Gun-rights advocate John Lott, author of More Guns, Less Crime, rebuts recent antigun “factoids” with real statistics.When it comes to the gun control debate, there are two kinds of data: data that’s accurate, and data that left-wing billionaires, politicians, and media want you to believe is accurate. In The War on Guns, economist and... Read more

Dark Winter

By: John L. Casey

Narrated by: David Stifel

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Climate change has been a perplexing problem for years. Casey's research into the Sun's activity, which began almost a decade ago, resulted in discovery of a solar cycle that is now reversing from its global warming phase to that of dangerous global cooling for the next thirty years or more. This new cold climate will dramatically impact the... Read more

50 Politics Classics

By: Tom Butler-Bowdon

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Featuring texts by Saul Alinsky, Edmund Burke, Rachel Carson, Carl von Clausewitz, Francis Fukuyama, Mahatma Gandhi, Friedrich Hayek, Thomas Hobbes, Martin Luther King, Niccolo Machiavelli, Karl Marx, J. S. Mill, George Orwell, Thomas Paine, Plato, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Alexis De Tocqueville, Mary Wollstonecraft, and many more. 50 Politics... Read more