Politics & Economy audiobooks

George Washington

By: Michael Crawley

Narrated by: Jodie Stapler

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Who was George Washington? You probably know him as the first president of the United States, the commander of the Continental army who led American farmers and innkeepers in a victorious eight-year war against the British. But where did he get his military experience? Why was picked to take command of the army? Why was he the only American... Read more

Radical

By: Maajid Nawaz

Narrated by: David Linski

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

An insightful account of one man’s drastic evolution from religious fervor to enlightened peace.Maajid Nawaz spent his teenage years listening to American hip-hop and learning about the radical Islamist movement spreading throughout Europe and Asia in the 1980s and ’90s. At sixteen, he was already a ranking member in Hizb ut-Tahrir, a... Read more

The President’s First Year

By: Douglas Alan Cohn

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

A fascinating new angle on presidential history, assessing the performances of all forty-four presidents in their freshman year of the toughest job in the worldGrouped by the issues the new presidents confronted in their first year in office, The President’s First Year takes listeners into the history, thought processes, and results on a... Read more

Failures of Imagination

By: Michael McCaul

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Chairman of the U. S. House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee, a gripping look at the most dangerous and unexpected threats to our national security—and the actions needed to protect us.

America is overwrought with fear. Serial killers, terrorist groups, nuclear attacks, deadly pandemics—every day a new headline hits,... Read more

Zero Footprint

By: Ralph Pezzullo & Simon Chase

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

This national bestseller is a dramatic insider account of the world of private military contracting.

Armored cars, burner phones, top-notch weaponry and top-secret missions -- this is the life of today's private military contractor. Like author Simon Chase, many PMCs were once the world's top military operatives, and since retiring from outfits... Read more

Great Speeches by the Presidents of the United States, Vol. 3

By: SpeechWorks

Narrated by: SpeechWorks

Length: 9 hours 43 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.George H. W. Bush: Inauguration Speech (1989), Panama (1989), Kuwait (1990), State of the Union (1991), End of Gulf War (1991), Gulf War (1991)William Jefferson Clinton: First... Read more

The Fight

By: Dan Bongino

Narrated by: Dan Bongino

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Fight shines a much needed light on the troubling games DC politicians and insiders play with the American people." -Sean Hannity

"The Fight is a lesson plan for fighting back against the Washington DC political machine." - Mark Levin

In The Fight, Dan Bongino picks up the story where his New York Times bestselling book Life Inside the... Read more

Crazy Town

By: Robyn Doolittle

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

His drug- and alcohol-fueled antics made world headlines and engulfed a city in unprecedented controversy. Toronto mayor Rob Ford’s personal and political troubles have occupied center stage in North America’s fourth-largest city since news broke that drug dealers were selling a videotape of Ford appearing to smoke crack cocaine. Reporter Robyn... Read more

Alexander Hamilton

By: Charles Arthur Conant

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Founding father Alexander Hamilton led a passionate and meaningful life. Nicknamed Little Lion for his short stature and bold ideas, Hamilton played an integral role in the founding of America's union after the Revolutionary War, as well the drafting and executing of America's Constitution. His life, chronicled in Charles Arthur Conant's... Read more

Con Job

By: Crystal Wright

Narrated by: Crystal Wright

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Black voters have overwhelmingly supported the Democratic Party for the last fifty years-and for their loyalty, black Americans have been rewarded with worsening schools, collapsed families, skyrocketed incarceration rates, disappearing jobs, and rising crime. Crystal Wright, editor of the blog Conservative Black Chick, exposes how the... Read more

When Money Talks

By: Derek Cressman

Narrated by: Derek Cressman

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Special-interest money is destroying our democratic process. But now that the Citizens United decision has thrown out campaign spending limits as abridgments of free speech, Americans want to know what they can do about it. Derek Cressman gives us the tools, both intellectual and tactical, to fight back.

There's nothing inherently... Read more

The Deep State

By: Mike Lofgren

Narrated by: Brian O'Neill

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of The Party Is Over delivers a no-holds-barred, House of Cards-style exposE of who really wields power in Washington Mike Lofgren is back with a book perfectly pitched for the frenzied circus of the primaries. His argument this time is that for all of the backstabbing and money grubbing of the campaign... Read more

The Lightless Sky

By: Gulwali Passarlay

Narrated by: Assaf Cohen & Susan Duerden

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping, inspiring, and eye-opening memoir of fortitude and survival—of a twelve-year-old boy’s traumatic flight from Afghanistan to the West—that puts a face to one of the most shocking and devastating humanitarian crises of our time.“To risk my life had to mean something. Otherwise what was it all for?”In 2006, after his father was killed,... Read more

Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars (Even When They Lose Elections)

By: Stephen Prothero

Narrated by: Tristan Morris

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In this timely, carefully reasoned social history of the United States, the New York Times bestselling author of Religious Literacy and God Is Not One places today’s heated culture wars within the context of a centuries-long struggle of right versus left and religious versus secular to reveal how, ultimately, liberals always win.Though they may... Read more

Sailor and Fiddler

By: Herman Wouk

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

“A sparkling memoir of a well-lived life of literature, fame, and love” (Booklist) by one of America’s most beloved authors, as he looks back over his 100 years.

In this remarkable memoir “full of adventure, wit, color, and detail” (Jewish Journal), Herman Wouk finally reflects on the life experiences that inspired his most enduring novels. With... Read more

Hillary Rodham Clinton: Do All the Good You Can

By: Cynthia Levinson

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspiring and meticulously researched middle grade biography of Hillary Rodham Clinton—First Lady, senator, secretary of state, and Democratic candidate for president in 2016.Hillary Rodham Clinton is a true leader. Growing up in Park Ridge, Illinois, Hillary was inspired by the philosophy of John Wesley, who urged his followers to "do all... Read more

Open Letter

By: Charb

Narrated by: Dean Olsher

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: No

An impassioned defense of the freedom of speech, from Stéphane Charbonnier, a journalist murdered for his convictions.

On January 7, 2015, two gunmen stormed the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. They took the lives of twelve men and women, but they called for one man by name: "Charb."

Known by his pen name, Stèphane... Read more

Political Animals

By: Rick Shenkman

Narrated by: Tom Zingarelli

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Can a football game affect the outcome of an election? What about shark attacks? Or a drought? In a rational world the answer, of course, would be no. But as bestselling historian Rick Shenkman shows in Political Animals, our world is anything but rational. This isn't because we aren't smart. Instead, modern cues are setting off ancient,... Read more

A Doctor in the House

By: Candy Carson

Narrated by: Candy Carson

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

 “The life of a neurosurgeon isn’t an easy one, and Ben has been required to go above and beyond the call of duty almost constantly. The life of a neu­rosurgeon’s wife isn’t much easier. But it’s all been worth it. Together, we’ve been through poverty, tragedy, wealth, and joy, and we’ve had each other’s backs. I love that guy!” —CANDY... Read more

The Wilmington Ten

By: Kenneth Robert Janken

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In February 1971 racial tension surrounding school desegregation in Wilmington, North Carolina, culminated in four days of violence and skirmishes between white vigilantes and black residents. The turmoil resulted in two deaths, six injuries, more than $500,000 in damage, and the firebombing of a white-owned store, before the National Guard... Read more

Serdar Somuncu liest aus dem Tagebuch eines Massenmörders "Mein Kampf" (Neuedition)

By: Serdar Somuncu

Narrated by: Serdar Somuncu

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

1996 begann Serdar Somuncu seine spektakuläre und ganze sechs Jahre andauernde szenische Lesereise mit Adolf Hitlers Mein Kampf. Mit mehr als 1.500 Auftritten, zum Teil mit Polizeischutz und kugelsicherer Weste, wurde er vor über einer halben Million Zuschauern europaweit bekannt. Im Jahr 2000 wurde sein Auftritt im NS-Dokumentationszentrum Köln... Read more

Reviving America

By: Elizabeth Ames & Steve Forbes

Narrated by: Steve Forbes

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Conservative icon Steve Forbes returns with his most powerful and provocative ideas yet The United States has been through one of the most tumultuous decades in recent history. Polls show people on both sides of the ideological divide believe that the country has gone off track. If something isn’t done quickly, Americans face a bleak... Read more

Great Speeches by the Presidents of the United States, Vol. 2

By: SpeechWorks

Narrated by: SpeechWorks

Length: 9 hours 36 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

Reden für die Freiheit (Ungekürzte Autorenlesung)

By: Navid Kermani

Narrated by: Navid Kermani

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Navid Kermani wurde für seine Arbeit und sein Engagement 2015 mit dem Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels ausgezeichnet. In der Begründung der Jury heißt es: "Der deutsche Schriftsteller, Orientalist und Essayist ist eine der wichtigsten Stimmen in unserer Gesellschaft, die sich mehr denn je den Erfahrungswelten von Menschen... Read more