Politics & Economy audiobooks

The Last Days of Stalin

By: Joshua Rubenstein

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A scholarly, absorbing narrative of Stalin’s last days and the turbulent wake of his dictatorship.Joshua Rubenstein’s riveting account takes us back to the second half of 1952, when no one could foresee an end to Joseph Stalin’s murderous regime. He was poised to challenge the newly elected US president Dwight Eisenhower with armed force and was... Read more

A Self-Made Man

By: Sidney Blumenthal

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 21 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The first in a sweeping, multi-volume history of Abraham Lincoln—from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, death, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War plan of reconciliation—“engaging and informative and…thought-provoking” (The Christian Science Monitor).

From his youth as a voracious newspaper reader, Abraham Lincoln became a free... Read more

MacArthur at War

By: Walter R. Borneman

Narrated by: David Baker

Length: 19 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive account of General Douglas MacArthur's rise during World War II, from the author of the bestseller The Admirals.

World War II changed the course of history. Douglas MacArthur changed the course of World War II. Macarthur at War will go deeper into this transformative period of his life than previous biographies, drilling into the... Read more

Teddy and Me

By: Michael Savage

Narrated by: Holden Still

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Michael Savage delivers a heartwarming book about his experiences and relationship with his dog Teddy.

Listeners know Teddy as the silent "other host" of The Savage Nation. He's at Michael Savage's side during every broadcast, guarding the radio equipment and nipping the engineer's sneakers. But the fun doesn't... Read more

Who Rules the World?

By: Noam Chomsky

Narrated by: Brian Jones

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Bestseller

The world’s leading intellectual offers a probing examination of the waning American Century, the nature of U.S. policies post-9/11, and the perils of valuing power above democracy and human rights

In an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky argues that the United States,... Read more

Gurkha

By: Kailash Limbu

Narrated by: Homer Todiwala

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In this Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling memoir that 'reads like a thriller', (Joanna Lumley) Colour-Sargent Kailash Limbu shares a riveting account of his life as a Gurkha soldier-marking the first time in its two-hundred-year history that a soldier of the Brigade of Gurkhas has been given permission to tell his story in his own words.


In the... Read more

The Assassination Complex

By: Jeremy Scahill & The Staff of The Intercept

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

“A searing, facts-driven indictment of America’s drone wars and their implications for US democracy and foreign policy. A must-read for concerned citizens” (Library Journal, starred review) from bestselling author Jeremy Scahill and his colleagues at the investigative website The Intercept.

Drones are a tool, not a policy. The policy is... Read more

In the Arena

By: Pete Hegseth

Narrated by: Pete Hegseth

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

This vigorous call-to-arms to reignite American citizenship at home and restore American power abroad by the Fox News contributor and decorated Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran uses the timeless truths of Teddy Roosevelt’s iconic “Man in the Arena” speech, and “is a must-read that underscores our collective responsibility to restore America’s... Read more

The Romanovs

By: Simon Sebag Montefiore

Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale

Length: 28 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world’s surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world’s greatest empire? And how did they lose it all?
 
This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all... Read more

Because We Say So

By: Noam Chomsky

Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Because We Say So presents more than thirty concise, forceful commentaries on U.S. politics and global power. Written between 2011 and 2015, Noam Chomsky's arguments forge a persuasive counter-narrative to official accounts of U.S. politics and policies during global crisis. Find here classic Chomsky on the increasing urgency of climate change,... Read more

Red Platoon

By: Clinton Romesha

Narrated by: Will Damron & Clinton Romesha

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The only comprehensive, firsthand account of the thirteen hour firefight at the Battle of Keating by Medal of Honor recipient Clinton Romesha, for readers of Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden and Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
 
"'It doesn't get better.' To us, that phrase nailed one of the essential truths, maybe even the essential truth, about... Read more

Missing Man

By: Barry Meier

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In late 2013, Americans were shocked to learn that a former FBI agent turned private investigator who disappeared in Iran in 2007 was there on a mission for the CIA. The missing man, Robert Levinson, appeared in pictures dressed like a Guantánamo prisoner and pleaded in a video for help from the United States.

Barry Meier, an award-winning... Read more

Five Presidents

By: Clint Hill & Lisa McCubbin Hill

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 14 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Kennedy and Me and Five Days in November reflects on his seventeen years on the Secret Service for presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford.

The assassination of one president, the resignation of another, and the swearing-in of the two who followed those traumatic events. Clint Hill... Read more

Assholes: A Theory of Donald Trump

By: Aaron James

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Make America Great Again? Donald Trump is an asshole is a fact widely agreed upon—even by his supporters, who actually like that about him. But his startling political rise makes the question of just what sort of asshole he is, and how his assholedom may help to explain his success, one not just of philosophical interest but of almost... Read more

Lies, Incorporated

By: Ari Rabin-Havt & Media Matters for America

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In today's post-truth political landscape, there is a carefully concealed but ever-growing industry of organized misinformation that exists to create and disseminate lies in the service of political agendas. Ari Rabin-Havt and Media Matters for America present a revelatory history of this industry—which they've dubbed Lies, Incorporated—and show... Read more

The Vanishing American Corporation

By: Gerald F. Davis

Narrated by: Jeff Hoyt

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

It may be hard to believe in an era of Walmart, Citizens United, and the Koch brothers, but corporations are on the decline. The number of American companies listed on the stock market dropped by half between 1996 and 2012. In recent years we've seen some of the most storied corporations go bankrupt (General Motors, Chrysler, Eastman Kodak) or... Read more

Alter Egos

By: Mark Landler

Narrated by: Jason Culp & Mark Landler

Length: 14 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A deeply-reported, firsthand account of how Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have come to embody two competing visions for the role of the United States in the world--and what that means for the 2016 presidential election. New York Times White House correspondent Mark Landler goes behind the speeches and press conferences, to the Situation Room... Read more

Off Script

By: Josh King

Narrated by: Josh King

Length: 15 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

From a former White House presidential events production director comes an illuminating journey through the most catastrophic scenes of political stagecraft since the “Age of Optics” in 1988. The responsibility of being a public figure is no walk in the park—the world highlights politicians’ every mistake. “Image collapse” can befall anyone... Read more

The Scandal of Money

By: George Gilder

Narrated by: Corey M. Snow

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

Why do conservatives have such a hard time winning the economic debate in the court of public opinion? Simple, George Gilder says: Conservatives misunderstand economics almost as badly as liberals do. Republicans have been running on tax cut proposals since the era of Harding and Coolidge without seriously addressing the key problems of a global... Read more

Political Suicide

By: Erin McHugh

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of entertaining and cautionary tales of political missteps in American history, from the birth of the nation through the present dayJust in time for the presidential election of 2016 comes Political Suicide, a history of the best and most interesting missteps, peccadilloes, bad calls, backroom hijinks, sordid pasts, rotten breaks,... Read more

The Black Door

By: Richard Aldrich & Rory Cormac

Narrated by: Tom Clegg

Length: 25 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The Black Door explores the evolving relationship between successive British prime ministers and the intelligence agencies, from Asquith’s Secret Service Bureau to Cameron’s National Security Council. Intelligence can do a prime minister’s dirty work. For more than a century, secret wars have been... Read more

Enter Helen

By: Brooke Hauser

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

“Engaging…. Nimble-footed…. Amusing….Throughout, Hauser weaves in passages connecting Brown to her contemporaries and the cultural landscape of the 1960s…[to] situate her life in the context of its times.”— New York Times Book ReviewThis female Mad Men-like story chronicles the legendary Cosmopolitan magazine editor’s rise to power as both a... Read more

Negotiating the Nonnegotiable

By: Daniel Shapiro

Narrated by: Daniel Shapiro

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

** Grand Prize Winner of the 2017 Nautilus Book Award **

Are you struggling to deal with conflict in your life? In Negotiating the Nonnegotiable, Harvard negotiation expert Daniel Shapiro introduces a groundbreaking method to bridge the toughest divides—whether with family members, colleagues, or in the polarized world of politics. He reveals the... Read more

The Great Presidential Debates

By: SpeechWorks

Narrated by: SpeechWorks

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The Great Presidential Debates features five pivotal debates in the race for the White House: John F. Kennedy versus Richard Nixon in 1960, Jimmy Carter versus Ronald Reagan in 1980, Bill Clinton versus George H. W. Bush versus Ross Perot in 1992, George W. Bush versus Al Gore in 2000, and Barack Obama versus Mitt Romney in 2012. Read more