Politics & Economy audiobooks

Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil

By: Lezley McSpadden

Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

This revelatory memoir by the mother of Michael Brown, the African American teenager killed by the police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, sheds light on one of the landmark events in recent history.“I wasn’t there when Mike Mike was shot. I didn’t see him fall or take his last breath, but as his mother, I do know one thing... Read more

It's Dangerous to Believe

By: Mary Eberstadt

Narrated by: Margaret Winston

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Mary Eberstadt, “one of the most acute and creative social observers of our time,” (Francis Fukuyama) shines a much-needed spotlight on a disturbing trend in American society: discrimination against traditional religious belief and believers, who are being aggressively pushed out of public life by the concerted efforts of militant secularists.In... Read more

Flyover Nation

By: Dana Loesch

Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Blaze TV and top radio host Dana Loesch explains that the biggest political problem today is that the people who run this country have no idea what life is really like for ordinary Americans. In fact, they have contempt for the very people they claim to represent.When the owners of a small pizza parlor in Indiana were asked by the local press... Read more

Conspiracies of the Ruling Class

By: Lawrence B. Lindsey

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A Ruling Class have emerged in America against the hopes and designs of our Founding Fathers. Over the last hundred years, they have rejected the Constitution and expanded their own power, slowly at first and now rapidly. These people believe their actions are justified because they think they are smarter than the rest of us—so smart they can... Read more

Armageddon

By: Dick Morris

Narrated by: Ian Patterson

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Timed for the critical presidential election season, New York Times bestselling author and noted political commentator Dick Morris provides a strategy and position on the issues for Republicans to attract crucial new voters to the party in order to win back the White House in 2016 and put an end to the Obama agenda of ruinous socialism. By using... Read more

Eve of a Hundred Midnights

By: Bill Lascher

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The unforgettable true story of two married journalists on an island-hopping run for their lives across the Pacific after the Fall of Manila during World War II—a saga of love, adventure, and danger.On New Year’s Eve, 1941, just three weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese were bombing the Philippine capital of Manila, where... Read more

Why Vote Leave

By: Daniel Hannan

Narrated by: Daniel Hannan

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Why Vote Leave written and read by Daniel Hannan.

POST-REFERENDUM EDITION OF THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, WITH A NEW PREFACE.

'Confused about the EU referendum? In the dark about which way to vote? Daniel Hannan's invaluable vade mecum will illuminate the whole question, showing why voting to leave is a leap back into the... Read more

Code Warriors

By: Stephen Budiansky

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 14 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping, in-depth history of NSA, whose famous “cult of silence” has left the agency shrouded in mystery for decades
 
The National Security Agency was born out of the legendary codebreaking programs of World War II that cracked the famed Enigma machine and other German and Japanese codes, thereby turning the tide of Allied victory. In the... Read more

If You Can Keep It

By: Eric Metaxas

Narrated by: Eric Metaxas

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas delivers an extraordinary book that is part history and part rousing call to arms, steeped in a critical analysis of our founding fathers' original intentions for America. 

In 1787, when the Constitution was drafted, a woman asked Ben Franklin what the founders had given the American people. "A... Read more

The Way to the Spring

By: Ben Ehrenreich

Narrated by: Ben Ehrenreich

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“The Way to the Spring is a riveting and powerful work . . . . Readers near and far who seek greater understanding of how Palestinians live—and the violence they endure—are well served by Ehrenreich’s book.” —Haaretz

“Ehrenreich's haunting, poignant and memorable stories add up to a weighty contribution to the Palestinian side of the scales of... Read more

Love Wins

By: Debbie Cenziper & Jim Obergefell

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The fascinating and very moving story of the lovers, lawyers, judges and activists behind the groundbreaking Supreme Court case that led to one of the most important, national civil rights victories in decades—the legalization of same-sex marriage.In June 2015, the Supreme Court made same-sex marriage the law in all fifty states in a decision as... Read more

Black Man, White House

By: D. L. Hughley

Narrated by: Mia Barron, Cherise Boothe, Ron Butler, Greg It...

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

From legendary comedian D.L. Hughley comes a bitingly funny send-up of the Obama years, as “told” by the key political players on both sides of the aisle.What do the Clintons, Republicans, fellow Democrats, and Obama’s own family really think of President Barack Obama? Finally, the truth is revealed in this raucously funny “oral history”... Read more

Commander in Chief

By: Nigel Hamilton

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

Length: 14 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In the next installment of the "splendid memoir Roosevelt didn't get to write" (New York Times), Nigel Hamilton tells the astonishing story of FDR's year-long, defining battle with Churchill, as the war raged in Africa and Italy. Nigel Hamilton's Mantle of Command, long-listed for the National Book Award, drew on years of archival research and... Read more

The Price of Prosperity

By: Todd G. Buchholz

Narrated by: Todd G. Buchholz

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In this bold history and manifesto, a former White House director of economic policy under President George H. W. Bush exposes the economic, political, and cultural cracks that wealthy nations face and makes the case for transforming those same vulnerabilities into sources of strength—and the foundation of a national renewalAmerica and other... Read more

Conversations with Lincoln

By: Gordon Leidner

Narrated by: Graham Winton

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspiring collection of stories from ordinary Americans who sought Lincoln's help during the Civil War. What was it like to meet our 16th President? Was he really as kind and honest as we perceive him to be today? This astonishing new book is an inspiring and eye-opening collection of stories, anecdotes and quotes from people who sought out... Read more

The Rise and Fall of Nations

By: Ruchir Sharma

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 16 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This pioneering work demystifies the drivers behind political, economic, and social change.Shaped by his twenty-five years traveling the world and enlivened by encounters with tycoons, presidents, and villagers from Rio to Beijing, Ruchir Sharma’s The Rise and Fall of Nations rethinks the “dismal science” of economics as a practical... Read more

To Protect and Serve

By: Norm Stamper

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

American policing is in crisis. The last decade witnessed a vast increase in police aggression, misconduct, and militarization, along with a corresponding reduction in transparency and accountability. Nowhere is this more noticeable and painful than in African American and other ethnic minority communities. Racism—from raw, individualized... Read more

The Pivot

By: Kurt Campbell

Narrated by: Marc Vietor

Length: 15 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From former assistant secretary of state Kurt M. Campbell comes the definitive analysis and explanation of the new major shift in American foreign policy, its interests and assets, to Asia.

There is a quiet drama playing out in American foreign policy far from the dark contours of upheaval in the Middle East and South Asia and the hovering drone... Read more

There Goes My Social Life

By: Stacey Dash

Narrated by: Stacey Dash

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Stacey Dash didn't have the ideal American childhood. Growing up in the South Bronx, her friends were the hustlers, hookers, and gang members who struggled in the face of futility, who sold drugs instead of living on food stamps, who settled matters with fists, knives, and guns because it seemed their only option, who stood tall against broken... Read more

Absolute Power

By: Mark Tavener

Narrated by: John Bird & Stephen Fry

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Stephen Fry and John Bird star in all four series of the BBC Radio 4 satirical comedy, plus the 2006 special episode.

Set in the Machiavellian world of modern PR, Absolute Power introduces us to London-based 'government-media relations consultancy' Prentiss McCabe, whose partners Charles Prentiss and Martin McCabe are frequently embroiled in the... Read more

Naked Diplomacy

By: Tom Fletcher

Narrated by: Roger May

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Who will be in power in the 21st century? Governments? Big business? Internet titans? And how do we influence the future? Digital technology is changing power at a faster rate than any time in history. Distrust and inequality are fuelling political and economic uncertainty. The scaffolding built around the global order is... Read more

Charmed Life

By: Damian Collins

Narrated by: Thomas Judd

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of a fascinating man who connected the great politicians, artists and thinkers at the height of British global power and influence. A famed aesthete, politician and patron of the arts, Philip Sassoon lived in a world of English elegance and oriental flair. Gathering a social set that would provide inspiration for... Read more

The Greatest Speeches of Great Politicians

By: SpeechWorks

Narrated by: SpeechWorks

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The Greatest Speeches of Great Politicians features historical speeches given by those aspiring to win over voters and gain positions of power. Well-known candidates for a variety of offices address campaign rallies, press conferences, and the general public. This collection includes speeches by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Bill Clinton, Barry... Read more

Lessons My Father Taught Me

By: Michael Reagan

Narrated by: Milton Jeffers

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Noted political commentator Michael Reagan, the son of Ronald Reagan and first wife Jane Wyman, has traveled across America, giving speeches and meeting the public. Time and time again, people tell him how much they love and miss his father, and what his presidency meant to them. In a world where role models are few and far between, Ronald... Read more