Politics & Economy audiobooks

The Highest Glass Ceiling

By: Ellen Fitzpatrick

Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Since Victoria Woodhull launched her symbolic bid for the presidency in 1872, dozens of women have sought the presidency over the past 150 years. Their quest began long before women won the vote and it unfolded over decades when a woman's pursuit of any higher political office was met with prejudice, mockery, and hostility. Even after women... Read more

Home Of The Brave

By: Les Rolston

Narrated by: Kevin Charles

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Taken directly from affidavits stored at the National Archives in Washington, District of Columbia, immigrant soldiers and witnesses attest to the events that resulted in 26 soldiers of these soldiers being awarded the medal of honor. Read more

'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?'

By: Spike Milligan

Narrated by: Spike Milligan

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Penguin Presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Rommel? 'Gunner Who?' written and read by Spike Milligan.

'Keep talking, Milligan. I think I can get you out on Mental Grounds.''That's how I got in, sir.''Didn't we all.'

The second volume of Spike Milligan's legendary recollections of life as a gunner in World War Two sees our... Read more

Adolf Hitler

By: Spike Milligan

Narrated by: Spike Milligan

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Spike Milligan's legendary war memoirs are a hilarious and subversive first-hand account of the Second World War, as well as a fascinating portrait of the formative years of this towering comic genius, most famous as writer and star of The Goon Show. They have sold over 4.5 million copies.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook... Read more

Peace Work

By: Spike Milligan

Narrated by: Spike Milligan

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Peace work, written and read by Spike Milligan.

'I had not informed my parents of my return, I wanted it to be a lovely surprise; it was, for me, they were away ...'

The seventh and last volume of Spike Milligan's memoirs sees our hero returning from war and Italy ... but to what?... Read more

The Black Presidency

By: Michael Eric Dyson

Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A provocative, lively deep-dive into the meaning of America's first black president and first black presidency, from "one of the most graceful and lucid intellectuals writing on race and politics today" (Vanity Fair) Read more

Exit Right

By: Daniel Oppenheimer

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In Exit Right, Daniel Oppenheimer tells the stories of six major political figures whose journeys away from the left reshaped the contours of American politics in the twentieth century. By going deep into the minds of six apostates—Whittaker Chambers, James Burnham, Ronald Reagan, Norman Podhoretz, David Horowitz, and Christopher... Read more

Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies

By: Seth Holmes

Narrated by: Paul Costanzo

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies provides an intimate examination of the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrants in our contemporary food system. An anthropologist and MD in the mold of Paul Farmer and Didier Fassin, Seth M. Holmes shows how market forces, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine health and health care. Holmes's... Read more

The Industries of the Future

By: Alec Ross

Narrated by: Alec Ross

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestseller, from leading innovation expert Alec Ross, a “fascinating vision” (Forbes) of what’s next for the world and how to navigate the changes the future will bring.

While Alec Ross was working as Senior Advisor for Innovation to the Secretary of State, he traveled to forty-one countries, exploring the latest advances... Read more

Heartificial Intelligence

By: John C. Havens

Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

As we program machines to be more like humans, how will they know what we value, if we don't know ourselves? The notion of robots gaining consciousness is beginning to become a reality, but the future of human happiness is dependent on our ability to teach machines what we value the most today. Featuring pragmatic solutions drawing on economics,... Read more

United States of Jihad

By: Peter Bergen

Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting, panoramic look at “homegrown” Islamist terrorism from 9/11 to the present
 
Since 9/11, more than three hundred Americans—born and raised in Minnesota, Alabama, New Jersey, and elsewhere—have been indicted or convicted of terrorism charges. Some have taken the fight abroad: an American was among those who planned the attacks in... Read more

The Firebrand and the First Lady

By: Patricia Bell-Scott

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

An important, groundbreaking book--two decades in work--that tells the story of the unlikely but history-changing twenty-eight-year bond forged between Pauli Murray (granddaughter of a mulatto slave, who, against all odds, as a lesbian black woman, became a lawyer, civil rights pioneer, Episcopal priest, poet, and activist) and Eleanor Roosevelt... Read more

America the Beautiful

By: Ben Carson, M.D.

Narrated by: Brandon Hirsch

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

What is America becoming? Or, more importantly, what can she be if we reclaim a vision for the things that made her great in the first place?In America the Beautiful, Dr. Ben Carson helps us learn from our past in order to chart a better course for our future. From his personal ascent from inner-city poverty to international medical and... Read more

Children of Paradise

By: Laura Secor

Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò

Length: 17 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The drama that shaped today’s Iran, from the Revolution to the present day.
 
In 1979, seemingly overnight—moving at a clip some thirty years faster than the rest of the world—Iran became the first revolutionary theocracy in modern times. Since then, the country has been largely a black box to the West, a sinister presence looming over the... Read more

Auctions

By: Timothy P. Hubbard & Harry J. Paarsch

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Although it is among the oldest of market institutions, the auction is ubiquitous in today's economy, used for everything from government procurement to selling advertising on the Internet to course assignment at MIT's Sloan School. And yet beyond the small number of economists who specialize in the subject, few people understand how auctions... Read more

Great Speeches by the Presidents of the United States, 1933–2015

By: SpeechWorks

Narrated by: SpeechWorks

Length: 29 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A day that will live in infamy … Nothing to fear but fear itself … Ask not what your country can do for you … Ich bin ein Berliner … Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.From Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Barack Obama, this collection features original speeches by the presidents of the United States.*These are actual historic recordings, the sound... Read more

Abraham Lincoln

By: Michael Burlingame

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 48 hours 46 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

Too Dumb to Fail

By: Matt K. Lewis

Narrated by: Matt K. Lewis

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From a leading voice among young conservatives, an impassioned argument that to stay relevant the Republican Party must look beyond short-term electoral gains and re-commit to historic conservative values.

In 1963 Richard Hofstadter published his landmark book Anti-Intellectualism in American Life. Today, Matt Lewis argues, America's inclination... Read more

Subversive Southerner

By: Catherine Fosl

Narrated by: Sara Morsey

Length: 19 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Anne McCarty Braden (1924–2006) rejected her segregationist, privileged past to become one of the civil rights movement’s staunchest white allies.In 1954 she was charged with sedition by McCarthyist politicians who played on fears of communism to preserve southern segregation. Though Braden remained controversial―even within the civil rights... Read more

Cybersecurity and Cyberwar

By: P.W. Singer & Allan Friedman

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know®, New York Times bestselling author P. W. Singer and noted cyber expert Allan Friedman team up to provide the kind of deeply informative resource book that has been missing on a crucial issue of twenty-first-century life. Written in a lively, accessible style, filled with engaging... Read more

The Great Escape

By: Angus Deaton

Narrated by: Matthew Brenher

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many has left gaping inequalities between people and nations. In The Great Escape, Angus Deaton—one of the foremost experts on economic development and on poverty—tells the remarkable story of how, beginning... Read more

Dark Money

By: Jane Mayer

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 16 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to address climate change, have even modest environmental efforts been defeated again and again? Why have protections for employees been decimated? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax rate than middle-class workers?
     The... Read more

The Lost Airman

By: Seth Meyerowitz & Peter F. Stevens

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The remarkable, untold story of World War II American Air Force turret-gunner Staff Sergeant Arthur Meyerowitz, who was shot down over Nazi-occupied France and evaded Gestapo pursuers for more than six months before escaping to freedom.

Bronx-born top turret-gunner Arthur Meyerowitz was one of only two crewmen who escaped death or immediate... Read more

Thomas Jefferson

By: Jonathan Sistine

Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

To study Jefferson is to ascend a mountain, its peak awash in veiling mists. He was the embodiment of the Enlightment man, the perfect synthesis of classicist, scientist, and visionary. How can we hope to understand such a towering figure? The Sage of Monticello, deified in American politics, speaks across the ages like a patriotic Moses, or... Read more