Politics & Economy audiobooks

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

Our Republican Constitution

By: Randy E. Barnett

Narrated by: Barry Abrams

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The Constitution of the United States begins with the words: "We the People." But from the earliest days of the American republic, there have been two competing notions of "the People," which lead to two very different visions of the Constitution.



Those who view "We the People" collectively think popular sovereignty resides in the people as a... Read more

Reskilling America

By: Katherine S. Newman

Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

After decades of off-shoring and downsizing that have left blue collar workers obsolete, the United States is now on the verge of an industrial renaissance. We don't have a skilled labor pool to fill the positions that will be created, which are technically demanding and require specialized skills. A decades-long series of idealistic educational... Read more

The Humane Economy

By: Wayne Pacelle

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A major new exploration of the economics of animal exploitation and a practical roadmap for how we can use the marketplace to promote the welfare of all living creatures, from the renowned animal-rights advocate Wayne Pacelle, President/CEO of the Humane Society of the United States and New York Times bestselling author of The Bond.In the... Read more

Unequal Gains

By: Peter H. Lindert & Jeffrey G. Williamson

Narrated by: Brian O'Neill

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Unequal Gains offers a radically new understanding of the economic evolution of the United States, providing a complete picture of the uneven progress of America from colonial times to today. While other economic historians base their accounts on American wealth, Peter Lindert and Jeffrey Williamson focus instead on income-and the result is 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

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

Success and Luck

By: Robert H. Frank

Narrated by: Robert H. Frank

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

How important is luck in economic success? No question more reliably divides conservatives from liberals. As conservatives correctly observe, people who amass great fortunes are almost always talented and hardworking. But liberals are also correct to note that countless others have those same qualities yet never earn much. In recent years,... Read more

Far and Away

By: Andrew Solomon

Narrated by: Andrew Solomon

Length: 22 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

From the winner of the National Book Award and the National Books Critics’ Circle Award—and one of the most original thinkers of our time—“Andrew Solomon’s magisterial Far and Away collects a quarter-century of soul-shaking essays” (Vanity Fair).

Far and Away chronicles Andrew Solomon’s writings about places undergoing seismic shifts—political,... Read more

Building the Future

By: Amy Edmondson & Susan Salter Reynolds

Narrated by: Anna Crowe

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Building the Future

Machiavelli famously wrote, “There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.”

That's what this book is about—innovation far more audacious than a new way to find a restaurant or a smart phone you can... Read more

How Rust Belt City Youngstown Hopes to Overcome Decades of Decline

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Youngstown, Ohio is an upper-midwest city that has come to symbolize the nation’s distress of deindustrialization with high unemployment and crime rates. But after decades of decline, the city has plans to rebuild, remove blight and attract employers. On issues of poverty and opportunity in America, this is part of an ongoing series of reports... Read more

History of Engineering

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Tracy Tupman

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The idea of engineering has been present since prehistoric times when humans started shaping important creations like lever, wheel and pulley. Every invention is reliable with the contemporary explanation of engineering manipulating basic principles of mechanics to develop useful tools and objects.The word engineering has been derived from the... Read more

Lincoln's Last Speech

By: Louis P. Masur

Narrated by: Stephen Paul Aulridge, Jr.

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

What did Abraham Lincoln envision when he talked about "reconstruction?" Assassinated in 1865, the president did not have a chance to begin the work of reconciling the North and South, nor to oversee Reconstruction as an official postwar strategy. Yet his final speech, given to thousands gathered in the rain outside the White House on April 11,... Read more

The Killing of Osama Bin Laden

By: Seymour M. Hersh

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

An electrifying investigation of the White House’ lies about the assassination of Osama bin Laden—from a Pulitzer Prize winner hailed as “the greatest investigative journalist of his era” (New Yorker).

“An explosive account.” —Los Angeles Times

In 2011, an elite group of US Navy SEALS stormed an enclosure in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad and... Read more

True Reagan

By: James Rosebush

Narrated by: James Rosebush

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

WHAT MADE RONALD REAGAN TICK? What was the secret to his greatness, the source of his influence, the key to his character, the strength behind his leadership?

And why does it matter to the nation today?

Just the mention of his name still evokes deep admiration and affection among Americans of every stripe, on both sides of the aisle. Many have... Read more

Democracy Now!

By: Amy Goodman

Narrated by: Amy Goodman

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A celebration of the revolutionary change Amy and David Goodman have witnessed during the two decades of their acclaimed television and radio news program Democracy Now!—and how small individual acts from progressive heroes have produced lasting results.

In 1996 Amy Goodman began hosting a show called Democracy Now! to focus on the issues and... Read more

Down for the Count

By: Andrew Gumbel

Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Down for the Count explores the tawdry history of elections in the United States—a chronicle of votes bought, stolen, suppressed, lost, miscounted, thrown into rivers, and litigated up to the U.S. Supreme Court—and uses it to explain why we are now experiencing the biggest backslide in voting rights in more than a century. This thoroughly... Read more

The Naturalist

By: Darrin Lunde

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the inaugural Theodore Roosevelt Association Book Prize

A captivating account of how Theodore Roosevelt’s lifelong passion for the natural world set the stage for America’s wildlife conservation movement and determined his legacy as a founding father of today’s museum naturalism.
 
No U.S. president is more popularly associated with... Read more

Going Red

By: Ed Morrissey

Narrated by: Ed Morrissey

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The 2016 election is conservatives’ last, best chance to take back the country. How can they win? 
 
The answer, conservative columnist and analyst Ed Morrissey says, depends on seven battleground counties in swing states Republicans must win. Each county pulled for Obama in one or both of the last two elections, but after eight years of... Read more

Defeating Jihad

By: Dr. Sebastian Gorka

Narrated by: Russell Wade

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

America's fight against radical Islam could soon be over, and a top secret plan from the Cold War is the key to our victory. Dr. Sebastian Gorka, counterinsurgency expert and Distinguished Chair of Military Theory at Marine Corps University, explains how America can win the war on terror quickly and decisively by delegitimizing the enemy in the... Read more

Economic History

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Cyrus Nilo

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Economic history is mainly the study of past economies.It combines historical and statistical methods along with the application of economic theory to different times in history and to various institutions. While it primarily includes financial and business history, some of it overlaps with social history which helps us get an insight to the... Read more

Political Theory

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Doing and evolving with a political theory becomes easier for the students when they are reading the concepts presented here, in this book. Social and political philosophies learning become easier for the students where the mainstream academic political philosophies, take lead in the normative issues, across the nations. Universal content is... Read more

Consequence

By: Eric Fair

Narrated by: Eric Fair

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Named one of "8 Books You Need to Read" by Vulture

A man questions everything--his faith, his morality, his country--as he recounts his experience as an interrogator in Iraq; an unprecedented memoir and "an act of incredible bravery" (Phil Klay, author of Redeployment).

In 2004, after several months as an interrogator, Eric Fair’s call to serve... Read more

Who Was Frederick Douglass?

By: April Jones Prince

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Born into slavery in Maryland in 1818, Frederick Douglass was determined to gain freedom--and once he realized that knowledge was power, he secretly learned to read and write to give himself an advantage. After escaping to the North in 1838, as a free man he gave powerful speeches about his experience as a slave. He was so impressive that he... Read more