Politics & Economy audiobooks

Eleanor Roosevelt

By: Blanche Wiesen Cook

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 22 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Eleanor Roosevelt was born into the privileges and prejudices of American aristocracy and into a family ravaged by alcoholism. She overcame debilitating roots: in her public life, fighting against racism and injustice and advancing the rights of women; and in her private life, forming lasting intimate friendships with some of the great men and... Read more

Founding Brothers

By: Joseph J. Ellis

Narrated by: Bob Walter

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

An illuminating study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American republic--John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington.

During the 1790s, which Ellis calls the most decisive decade in our nation's history, the greatest statesmen of their generation--and... Read more

Five Easy Theses

By: James Stone

Narrated by: Christopher Grove

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A business leader and esteemed economic thinker outlines simple solutions to America’s five most pressing public policy issues, from healthcare to education to inequality.

America today confronts a host of urgent problems, many of them seemingly intractable, but some we are entirely capable of solving. In Five Easy... Read more

Eleanor Roosevelt

By: Blanche Wiesen Cook

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 28 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The central volume in the definitive biography of America's most important First Lady. "Engrossing" (Boston Globe).

The captivating second volume of this Eleanor Roosevelt biography covers tumultuous era of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the gathering storms of World War II, the years of the Roosevelts' greatest challenges and finest... Read more

Miami and the Siege of Chicago

By: Norman Mailer

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

1968. The Vietnam War was raging. President Lyndon Johnson, facing a challenge in his own Democratic Party from the maverick antiwar candidate Eugene McCarthy, announced that he would not seek a second term. In April, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated and riots broke out in inner cities throughout America. Bobby Kennedy was killed after... Read more

The Mind of Terror

By: Tass Saada

Narrated by: Marco Prentice

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

What motivates Islamic terrorists? What's in the mind of terror?

News reports cover the tragic events — the bombings, the massacres, and the suicide attacks. Our newscasters take time to explain who the players are — from Hezbollah to the Iranian Quds, from ISIS to the Palestinian National Authority. But what is behind these events that fuels... Read more

Anarchy, State, and Utopia

By: Robert Nozick

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 14 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Translated into 100 languages, winner of the National Book Award, and named one of the 100 Most Influential Books since World War II by the Times Literary Supplement, Anarchy, State and Utopia remains one of the most theoretically trenchant and philosophically rich defenses of economic liberalism to date, as well as a foundational text in... Read more

How the Post Office Created America

By: Winifred Gallagher

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A masterful history of a long underappreciated institution, How the Post Office Created America examines the surprising role of the postal service in our nation’s political, social, economic, and physical development. The founders established the post office before they had even signed the Declaration of Independence, and for a very long time,... Read more

Our Separate Ways

By: Dana H. Allin & Steven N. Simon

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The future of the relationship between Israel and America is deeply uncertain: the current political leadership of both countries is hostile to the other, there is no longer a sense of shared strategic focus, and demographic changes are forcing the countries further apart with every passing year.


Undermining the relationship between Israel and... Read more

La sonrisa de Mandela

By: John Carlin

Narrated by: Juan Antonio Bernal

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Escucha este retrato íntimo del hombre que inspiró al mundo, Nelson Mandela, por el autor del libro en el que se basó la película Invictus. Las biografías más apasionantes disponibles para escuchar. Entre el 11 de febrero de 1990 y el 10 de mayo de 1994, Nelson Mandela pasó de ser el prisionero político más famoso del mundo a presidente de su... Read more

American Underdog

By: David Brat

Narrated by: Jim Meskimen

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From David Brat, the college professor who made political headlines when he unseated Majority Leader Eric Cantor, comes his plan for restoring fiscal liberty for America.

Congressman David Brat's odds-defying win against Eric Cantor -- a triumph of a modest $200,000 campaign fund against a $5 million war chest -- immediately brought David Brat,... Read more

Jackson, 1964

By: Calvin Trillin

Narrated by: Robert Fass & Calvin Trillin

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling author and beloved New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin, a deeply resonant, career-spanning collection of articles on race and racism, from the 1960s to the present

In the early sixties, Calvin Trillin got his start as a journalist covering the Civil Rights Movement in the South. Over the next five decades of reporting, he often... Read more

The Best Worst President

By: Mark Hannah

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Political analyst and Democratic campaign veteran Mark Hannah and renowned New Yorker illustrator Bob Staake give Barack Obama the victory lap he deserves in this compendium that takes the president’s critics head-on and celebrates the president’s many underappreciated triumphs.Barack Obama’s election in 2008 was a watershed moment in American... Read more

Government Gone Wild

By: Kristin Tate

Narrated by: Avalon Kingsbury

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

With humor and a modern perspective, young conservative journalist Kristin Tate points out what's broken in our government and shows readers how they can fix it.

Do you really think you're "free?" #LOL.

D.C. politicians ship our friends and family overseas to fight in wars we shouldn't be fighting. They monitor our emails, record our phone calls,... Read more

Hillbilly-Elegie - Die Geschichte meiner Familie und einer Gesellschaft in der Krise (Ungekürzt)

By: J.D. Vance

Narrated by: Dominic Kolb

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

J. D. Vance erzählt die Geschichte seiner Familie - eine Geschichte vom gescheiterten Aufstieg und von der Resignation einer ganzen Bevölkerungsschicht. Seine Großeltern, echte Hillbillys, das heißt Angehörige der weißen Arbeiterschaft, versuchten, mit Fleiß und Mobilität der Armut zu entkommen und sich in der Mitte der Gesellschaft zu... Read more

Crisis of Character

By: Gary J. Byrne

Narrated by: Brian Troxell

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In this runaway #1 New York Times bestseller, former secret service officer Gary Byrne, who was posted directly outside President Clinton's oval office, reveals what he observed of Hillary Clinton's character and the culture inside the White House while protecting the First Family in CRISIS OF CHARACTER, the most anticipated book of the 2016... Read more

Wake Up America

By: Eric Bolling

Narrated by: Eric Bolling

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Instant New York Times Bestseller
America was built on nine distinct virtues which shaped the character of our nation and made it great. Grit, manliness, individualism, merit, profit and providence, dominion over our environment, thrift, and above all pride in our country—these qualities define us, and are the reason that hundreds of... Read more

The Invention of Russia

By: Arkady Ostrovsky

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The end of communism and breakup of the Soviet Union was a time of euphoria around the world, but Russia today is violently anti-American and dangerously nationalistic. So how did we go from the promise of those days to the autocratic police state of Putin's new Russia?



The Invention of Russia reaches back to the darkest days of the cold war to... Read more

Company Commander

By: Charles B. MacDonald

Narrated by: Tristan Morris

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

As a newly commissioned captain of a veteran US Army regiment, MacDonald’s first combat experience was war at its most hellish―the Battle of the Bulge.In this plainspoken but eloquent narrative, we live each minute at MacDonald’s side, sharing in all of combat’s misery, terror, and drama. How this green commander gains his men’s loyalty in the... Read more

Foreign-born workers in UK share fears for future

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Uncertainty prevails in Britain after Brexit has left immigrants feeling vulnerable. The service sector, a large part of the British economy, is also a big employer of foreigners, which means these workers may be hit hard. Hari Sreenivasan reports from London about some of their worries. Read more

Wings on My Sleeve

By: Eric Brown

Narrated by: Cameron Stewart

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

THE WORLD'S GREATEST TEST PILOT TELLS HIS STORY
'When you read through his life story, it makes James Bond seem like a bit of a slacker'
Kirsty Young, Desert Island Discs

'The greatest test pilot who ever lived. A true inspiration'
Tim Peake, astronaut and former regular British Army Air Corps officer

'The stories beggar... Read more

The Intimidation Game

By: Kimberley Strassel

Narrated by: Jennifer Edges

Length: 13 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

From Kim Strassel-one of the preeminent political columnists writing today and member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board-comes an insightful, alarming look at how the Left, once the champion of civil liberties, is today orchestrating a coordinated campaign to bully Americans out of free speech.

For nearly 40 years, Washington and much of... Read more

Barons of the Beltway

By: Michelle Fields

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Our Founding Fathers rejected the notion of royalty and fought against extravagance, pomp, and circumstance. Today in Washington, members of the United States government live like royalty and enjoy lifestyle perks that would make Marie Antoinette envious. This book exposes our government's shocking waste, its corruption, and the serious... Read more

Photographs of My Father

By: Paul Spike

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews & Paul Spike

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

At the National Council of Churches, Robert Spike had organized American churches to support the passage of both the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act, to march in Selma and to organize in Mississippi. An important white leader in the black civil rights struggle, he helped the LBJ White House pass legislation and write crucial civil rights... Read more