Politics & Economy audiobooks

We Are Afghan Women

By: George W. Bush Institute

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Afghanistan has been described as "the worst nation in the world to be a woman." More than fifty percent of girls who are forced into marriage are sixteen or younger. Too many women live in fear, and in many areas education and employment for women are still condemned. The women featured in We Are Afghan Women are fighting to change all that.... Read more

When Women Win

By: Ellen R. Malcolm & Craig Unger

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The dramatic inside story of the rise of women in elected office over the past quarter-century, from the pioneering founder of three-million-member EMILY's List—one of the most influential players in today’s political landscapeIn 1985, aware of the near-total absence of women in Congress, Ellen R. Malcolm launched EMILY’s List, a powerhouse... Read more

Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus

By: Douglas Rushkoff

Narrated by: Douglas Rushkoff

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Why doesn’t the explosive growth of companies like Facebook and Uber deliver more prosperity for everyone?
 
What is the systemic problem that sets the rich against the poor and the technologists against everybody else?
 
When protesters shattered the windows of a bus carrying Google employees to work, their anger may have been justifiable, but it... Read more

A Time for Action

By: Rafael Cruz

Narrated by: D. X. Black

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In A Time for Action, Rafael Cruz presents a simple underlying message: For Christians, Jesus Christ should be the foundation of the lives they build, and they should be active in making a difference in the world around them. In practical terms, that means that we should strive for a free society that respects each of God's children; we should... Read more

Negotiator

By: Philip J. Bigger

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The first and only biography of intrepid attorney James B. Donovan, who was recruited by the CIA during the Cold War to broker near-impossible negotiations—now the basis for Steven Spielberg’s Cold War film, Bridge of SpiesCharming, bold, and good-humored, James Donovan was a larger-than-life figure who led a fascinating and magnificently varied... Read more

The Hacked World Order

By: Adam Segal

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The Internet today connects roughly 2.7 billion people around the world, and booming interest in the "Internet of things" could result in 75 billion devices connected to the web by 2020. The myth of cyberspace as a digital utopia has long been put to rest. Governments are increasingly developing smarter ways of asserting their national authority... Read more

Who Was Ben Franklin?

By: Dennis Brindell Fradin

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Ben Franklin was the scientist who, with the help of a kite, discovered that lightning is electricity. He was also a statesman, an inventor, a printer, and an author-a man of such amazingly varied talents that some people claimed he had magical powers! Full of all the details kids will want to know, the true story of Benjamin Franklin is by... Read more

Abraham Lincoln

By: Michael Burlingame

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 53 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of America’s greatest presidents. Incorporating the field notes of earlier biographers, along with decades of research in multiple manuscript archives and long-neglected newspapers, this... Read more

The Reunited States of America

By: Mark Gerzon

Narrated by: Jeff Hoyt

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

Out of Many, One

In this era of poisonous partisanship, The Reunited States of America is a lifesaving antidote. At a time when loyalty to party seems to be overpowering love of country, it not only explains how we can bridge the partisan divide but also tells the untold story of how our fellow citizens already are doing it.

This book, a manifesto... Read more

Why the Right Went Wrong

By: E. J. Dionne, Jr.

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 20 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Why the Right Went Wrong offers a historical view of the right since the 1960s. Its core contention is that American conservatism and the Republican Party took a wrong turn when they adopted Barry Goldwater's worldview during and after the 1964 campaign.



Since 1968, no conservative administration could live up to the rhetoric rooted in the... Read more

Sketches New and Old

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Robin Field

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Sketches New and Old is a compilation of fictional stories written by Mark Twain. Among them is "A Ghost Story". In each story, one can catch a great sense of Twain's humor and creativity. These classic sketches from Twain are no longer than 10 minutes, but all show his quick witted humor in response to the events of the day.A real storyteller... Read more

Playing to the Edge

By: Michael V. Hayden

Narrated by: Michael V. Hayden

Length: 16 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

An unprecedented high-level master narrative of America's intelligence wars, demonstrating in a time of new threats that espionage and the search for facts are essential to our democracy
 
For General Michael Hayden, playing to the edge means playing so close to the line that you get chalk dust on your cleats. Otherwise, by playing back, you may... Read more

Nemesis

By: Misha Glenny

Narrated by: Zach Villa

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Nemesis is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel, and perhaps Brazil's most wanted criminal. It's a gripping tale of gold-hunters and evangelical pastors, bent police and rich-kid addicts, quixotic politicians and drug lords with math degrees. Traversing through rain forests and... Read more

United

By: Cory Booker

Narrated by: Cory Booker

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • United States Senator Cory Booker makes the case that the virtues of empathy, responsibility, and action must guide our nation toward a brighter future.

Raised in northern New Jersey, Cory Booker went to Stanford University on a football scholarship, accepted a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, then studied at... Read more

Peacerunner

By: Penn Rhodeen

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the true story of an unknown American politician who played a critical role in ending centuries of conflict in Northern Ireland. Without the president’s permission, and breaking every conventional rule about how to deal with terrorists, former congressman Bruce Morrison helped end a conflict that most observers thought would continue... Read more

Abraham Lincoln

By: Michael Crawley

Narrated by: Alan Munro

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Abraham Lincoln: he brought freedom to the slaves, and held the Union together during the Civil War. His profound and poetic speeches are famous around the world, evidence of the greatness of American’s most beloved leader.
But did you know that the sixteenth president of the United States was also a backwoods hillbilly from America’s western... Read more

The Golden Lad

By: Eric Burns

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Theodore Roosevelt is one of the most fascinating and written-about presidents in American history—yet the most poignant tale about this larger-than-life man has never been told.More than a century has passed since Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, but he still continues to fascinate. Never has a more exuberant man been our nation’s... Read more

Redeeming the Great Emancipator

By: Allen C. Guelzo

Narrated by: Will Damron

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The larger-than-life image Abraham Lincoln projects across the screen of American history owes much to his role as the Great Emancipator during the Civil War. Yet this noble aspect of Lincoln's identity is precisely the dimension that some historians have cast into doubt. Redeeming the Great Emancipator enumerates Lincoln's anti-slavery... Read more

Breakthrough

By: Nancy L. Cohen

Narrated by: Randye Kaye

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Why Americans have never elected a woman president, how we changed to make it possible, and why it matters.




From Hollywood to the halls of Congress, a lively conversation about women's leadership, equal pay, and family-work balance is underway. On the cusp of a historic breakthrough—the potential election of America's first woman president—Nancy... Read more

I, Spy

By: Daniel Ribacoff & Dina Santorelli

Narrated by: Fred Berman

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you ever wanted to be your own private eye? Have you ever wanted to track down long-lost relatives or people who've scammed you? Have you ever wanted to know if your kids really are where they say they are? Or if your significant other is cheating on you? Or how to locate assets in order to collect on a judgment?

World-renowned private... Read more

One Child

By: Mei Fong

Narrated by: Janet Song

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

When Communist Party leaders adopted the one-child policy in 1980, they hoped curbing birth-rates would help lift China's poorest and increase the country's global stature. But at what cost? Now, as China closes the book on the policy after more than three decades, it faces a population grown too old and too male, with a vastly diminished supply... Read more

What Happened, Miss Simone?

By: Alan Light

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by the Academy Award-nominated Netflix documentary What Happened, Miss Simone?, an intimate and vivid look at the legendary life of Nina Simone, the classically trained pianist who evolved into a chart-topping chanteuse and committed civil rights activist. 
 
From music journalist and former Spin and Vibe editor-in-chief Alan Light comes... Read more

Incarceration Nations

By: Baz Dreisinger

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Beginning in Africa and ending in Europe, Incarceration Nations is a first-person odyssey through the prison systems of the world. Baz Dreisinger, a professor, journalist, and the founder of the Prison-to-College Pipeline, looks into the human stories of incarcerated men and women and those who imprison them, creating a jarring, poignant view of... Read more

Postcapitalism

By: Paul Mason

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

We know that our world is undergoing seismic change—but how can we emerge from the crisis a fairer, more equal society?Over the past two centuries or so, capitalism has undergone profound changes—economic cycles that veer from boom to bust—from which it has always emerged transformed and strengthened. Surveying this turbulent history, Paul... Read more