Politics & Economy audiobooks

Who Was Nelson Mandela?

By: Meg Belviso & Pam Pollack

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

As a child he dreamt of changing South Africa; as a man he changed the world.  Nelson Mandela spent his life battling apartheid and championing a peaceful revolution.  He spent twenty-seven years in prison and emerged as the inspiring leader of the new South Africa.  He became the country’s first black president and went on to live his dream of... Read more

The Gray Rhino

By: Michele Wucker

Narrated by: Christine Marshall

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 English-language bestseller in China--the book that is shaping China's planning and policy for the future.

A "gray rhino" is a highly probable, high impact yet neglected threat: kin to both the elephant in the room and the improbable and unforeseeable black swan. Gray rhinos are not random surprises, but occur after a series of warnings... Read more

America's War for the Greater Middle East

By: Andrew J. Bacevich

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro & Andrew J. Bacevich

Length: 15 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Retired army colonel and New York Times bestselling author Andrew J. Bacevich provides a searing reassessment of U.S. military policy in the Middle East over the past four decades.

From the end of World War II until 1980, virtually no American soldiers were killed in action while serving in the Greater Middle East. Since 1990, virtually no... Read more

The New Case for Gold

By: James Rickards

Narrated by: James Rickards

Length: 4 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

**USA Today bestseller and Wall Street Journal business bestseller**

They say John Maynard Keynes called gold a "barbarous relic."
They say there isn’t enough gold to support finance and commerce.
They say the gold supply can’t increase fast enough to support world growth.

They’re wrong.

In this bold manifesto, bestselling author and eco­nomic... Read more

The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe

By: Elaine Showalter

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Julia Ward (1819–1910) was an heiress and aspiring poet when she married Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, an internationally acclaimed pioneer in the education of the blind. Together the Howes knew many of the key figures of their era, from Charles Dickens to John Brown. But Samuel also wasted Julia's inheritance, isolated and discouraged her, and... Read more

Believers, Thinkers, and Founders

By: Kevin Seamus Hasson

Narrated by: John McLain

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In Believers, Thinkers, and Founders: How We Came to Be One Nation Under God, Kevin Seamus Hasson — founder and president emeritus of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty — offers a refreshing resolution to a familiar conundrum: If there is real religious freedom in America, how is it that our government keeps invoking God? He’s everywhere —... Read more

Understanding Karl Marx

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Megan Mateer

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Karl Marx named as socialism father advocated equality for all, sought tribalists rights to operatives and that there were state-owned enterprises to private lives of which profits are distributed to society for the welfare of all. He developed the idea that the nation excluding capitalism that benefited the worker and discards when this is not... Read more

Learn and Understand Economic History

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Economic compositions date from prior to Mesopotamian, Greek, and Roman, Indian subcontinent, Chinese, Persian, and Arab developments. Eminent authors from old times through the fourteenth century incorporate Aristotle, Xenophon, Chanakya (otherwise called Kautilya), Qin Shi Huang, Thomas Aquinas, and Ibn Khaldun. Joseph Schumpeter portrayed... Read more

Learn and Understand Theory of War

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

“Theory of war” is a bit complex to understand yet all the efforts have been made to make is easy to comprehend. It comprises of several chapters which talks on the following topics:Introduction to warWhat is war?Causes of warWar and human naturePolitical and moral story of war Read more

Understand Financial Crisis

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

This world has faced financial crisis since the time period of World War II, however, this book specifically talks on the financial crisis of 2008 to 2009. The financial crisis of this time period left banks, businesses and everyone else bank corrupt. Where people had to face huge losses in businesses, many had to give up their homes in order to... Read more

Tudor

By: Leanda de Lisle

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 16 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The Tudors are England’s most notorious royal family. But, as Leanda de Lisle’s gripping new history reveals, they are a family still more extraordinary than the one we thought we knew. The Tudor canon typically starts with the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, before speeding on to Henry VIII and the Reformation. But this leaves out the family’s... Read more

How to Survive (and Thrive) During the Great Gold Bust Ahead

By: Harry S. Dent

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the years, bestselling author and renowned Harvard economist Harry Dent has accurately predicted the dot com bust of the early 2000's, the crash of the U.S. housing market in 2006, the financial meltdown of 2008 and the plummet in crude oil prices in 2015. Now he's back with a bold new forecast - one that calls for gold to take a... Read more

The Kennedys

By: SpeechWorks

Narrated by: SpeechWorks

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From the White House, Senate chambers, campaign stops, and press conferences, The Kennedys features over seven hours of original speeches from members of the nation’s most famous political family.Listen as President John F. Kennedy delivers his famous inauguration speech in 1961 as well as speeches on the Cuban Missile Crisis, Berlin crisis,... Read more

The Only Game in Town

By: Mohamed A. El-Erian

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A roadmap to what lies ahead and the decisions we must make now to stave off the next global economic and financial crisis, from one of the world’s most influential economic thinkers and the author of When Markets Collide

“The one economic book you must read now . . . If you want to understand [our] bifurcated world... Read more

I Love You, Ronnie

By: Nancy Reagan

Narrated by: Leo Burmester & Allison Daugherty

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

No matter what else was going on in his life or where he was--travelling to make movies for G.E., in the California governor's office, at the White House, or on Air Force One, and sometimes even from across the room--Ronald Reagan wrote letters to Nancy Reagan, to express his love, thoughts, and feelings, and to stay in touch. Through letters... Read more

American Amnesia

By: Jacob S. Hacker & Paul Pierson

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 17 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A “provocative” (Kirkus Reviews), timely, and topical work that examines what’s good for American business and what’s good for Americans—and why those interests are misaligned.

In American Amnesia, bestselling political scientists Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson trace the economic and political history of the United States over the last century... Read more

Equal Is Unfair

By: Don Watkins & Yaron Brook

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

We’ve all heard that the American Dream is vanishing, and that the cause is rising income inequality. The rich are getting richer by rigging the system in their favor, leaving the rest of us to struggle just to keep our heads above water. To save the American Dream, we’re told that we need to fight inequality through tax hikes, wealth... Read more

The Smartest Places on Earth

By: Antoine van Agtmael & Fred Bakker

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Antoine van Agtmael coined the term “emerging markets” and built a career and a multibillion-dollar investing firm centered on these surging economies that would, over time, supplant the West as engines of wealth and prosperity. The trend held for decades, but a few years ago van Agtmael and Alfred Bakker, a renowned European journalist, began... Read more

Spain in Our Hearts

By: Adam Hochschild

Narrated by: Henry Strozier

Length: 15 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed, best-selling author Adam Hochschild, a sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War, told through a dozen characters, including Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell: a tale of idealism, heartbreaking suffering, and a noble cause that failed For three crucial years in the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in America... Read more

American Character

By: Colin Woodard

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The struggle between individual rights and the good of the community has been the basis of nearly every major disagreement in our history, from the debates at the Constitutional Convention to the fights surrounding the agendas of the Federalists, the Progressives, and the Tea Party. In American Character, Colin Woodard traces these key strands... Read more

Listen, Liberal

By: Thomas Frank

Narrated by: Thomas Frank

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of What's the Matter With Kansas, a scathing look at the standard-bearers of liberal politics -- an audiobook that asks: what's the matter with Democrats?

It is a widespread belief among liberals that if only Democrats can continue to dominate national elections, if only those awful Republicans are beaten into... Read more

The Vanishing of Flight MH370

By: Richard Quest

Narrated by: Richard Quest

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

CNN Aviation Correspondent Richard Quest offers a gripping and definitive account of the disappearance of Malaysian Airline Flight MH370 in March 2014.

On March 8, 2014, Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared with barely a trace, carrying 239 people on board—seemingly vanishing into the dark night. The airplane’s whereabouts and fate would... Read more

Pale Horse

By: Jimmy Blackmon

Narrated by: Brian Troxell & Jimmy Blackmon

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The preface is read by the author, Jimmy Blackmon.

Pale Horse is the remarkable never-before-told true story of an army aviation task force during combat in the Afghan War, told by the commanding officer who was there.

Set in the very valleys where the attacks of 9/11 were conceived, and where ten Medals of Honor have been earned since that... Read more

Jihad Academy

By: Nicolas Hénin

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A former Islamic State hostage and veteran Middle East journalist explores misperceptions of Islamic State and their consequences.For more than a decade, French journalist Nicolas Hénin has reported from the front lines of conflict in the Middle East, much of his time spent in Iraq and Syria. He witnessed the events leading to the rise of... Read more