Politics & Economy audiobooks

Invisibility Toolkit

By: Lance Henderson

Narrated by: James C. Lewis

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Your sovereignty is under attack. We all see it. It's all around you and your rights are being stripped away at warp speed by those who wish to take what you earned. But sometimes you have to cut your losses. Kickstart a backup plan. Start over. Move abroad. Or just hunker down and survive. Within this book lies top secrets known only to the FBI... Read more

Lenin's Tomb

By: David Remnick

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 29 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times 

From the editor of The New Yorker: a riveting account of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which has become the standard book on the subject. Lenin’s Tomb combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism.... Read more

The Hidden Wealth Nations

By: Gabriel Zucman

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 3 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

We are well aware of the rise of the 1% as the rapid growth of economic inequality has put the majority of the world’s wealth in the pockets of fewer and fewer. One much-discussed solution to this imbalance is to significantly increase the rate at which we tax the wealthy. But with an enormous amount of the world’s wealth hidden in tax havens—in... Read more

Bound for the Promised Land

By: Kate Clifford Larson

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history—a fearless visionary who led scores of her fellow slaves to freedom and battled courageously behind enemy lines during the Civil War. And yet in the century since her death, next to nothing has been written about this extraordinary woman aside from juvenile biographies. The truth about... Read more

The Wilderness

By: McKay Coppins

Narrated by: John Glouchevitch

Length: 14 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The explosive story of the Republican Party's intensely dramatic and fractious efforts to find its way back to unity and national dominance.

After the 2012 election, the GOP was in the wilderness. Lost and in disarray. And doggedly determined to do whatever it took to get back to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. McKay Coppins has had unparalleled... Read more

The Maisky Diaries

By: Gabriel Gorodetsky

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 24 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The terror and purges of Stalin's Russia in the 1930s discouraged Soviet officials from leaving documentary records let alone keeping personal diaries. A remarkable exception is the unique diary assiduously kept by Ivan Maisky, the Soviet ambassador to London between 1932 and 1943. This selection from Maisky's diary grippingly documents... Read more

Sweet Freedom

By: Sarah Palin

Narrated by: Sarah Palin

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

"The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit." —John 3:8In Sweet Freedom, Sarah Palin invites you to draw strength and inspiration from 260 meditations based on guiding Biblical verses. You are not alone in your doubts and... Read more

The Triumph of William McKinley

By: Karl Rove

Narrated by: Karl Rove

Length: 15 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A fresh look at President William McKinley from New York Times bestselling author and political mastermind Karl Rove—“a rousing tale told by a master storyteller whose love of politics, campaigning, and combat shines through on every page” (Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Team of Rivals).

The 1896 political environment... Read more

The Rise and Fall of H&H Bagels

By: Marc Zirogiannis

Narrated by: Dennis St. John

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In September, 2015 President Barack Obama informed The Forward, in a historic interview, of his shock at learning of the closing of his favorite NYC Bagel eatery, H&H Bagels, in January of 2012. While the President was shocked by the closing of the world's most famous, and recognizable, bagel brand, what was truly shocking were the... Read more

The Goon Show Compendium Volume 11: Series 9, Part 2 & Series 10

By: Spike Milligan

Narrated by: Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers & Spike Milligan

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Twelve classic episodes of The Goon Show, plus the complete series of The Omar Khayyam Show, The Army Show, The Naughty Navy Show and a wealth of bonus material.

Immensely popular and hugely influential, the groundbreaking series The Goon Show changed the face of British comedy. Now, for the first time, this box set collection presents the... Read more

Stealing America

By: Dinesh D'Souza

Narrated by: Dinesh D'Souza & Andrew Klavan

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

WHY HILLARY, OBAMA, AND THE ENTIRE DEMOCRATIC PARTY ARE NO BETTER THAN A GANG OF THIEVESIn the fall of 2014, outspoken author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza found himself hauled into federal court for improperly donating money to an old friend’s Senate campaign. D’Souza pleaded guilty and was sentenced to eight months in a state-run confinement... Read more

The Emperor of Sound

By: Timbaland & Veronica Chambers

Narrated by: William Harper

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The long-anticipated inside look at the extraordinary career of the man who brought Sexy Back, the legendary producer in the pantheon of music greats as influential and groundbreaking as Motown’s Berry Gordy and a memoir of the creative process.Hailed by the New Yorker as “the eminence grise behind half of what is great in the Top Forty these... Read more

Great Speeches by the Presidents of the United States, Vol. 1

By: SpeechWorks

Narrated by: SpeechWorks

Length: 10 hours 9 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

The Rift

By: Alex Perry

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A vivid, powerful and controversial look at how the world gets Africa wrong, and how a resurgent Africa is forcing it to think again.

Africa has long been misunderstood--and abused--by outsiders. Correspondent Alex Perry traveled the continent for most of a decade, meeting with entrepreneurs and warlords, professors and cocaine smugglers,... Read more

The Case for Israel

By: Alan M. Dershowitz

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Widely respected as a civil libertarian, legal educator, and defense attorney extraordinaire, Alan M. Dershowitz has also been a passionate though not uncritical supporter of Israel. In this book, he presents an ardent defense of Israel's rights, supported by indisputable evidence. Dershowitz takes a close look at what Israel's accusers and... Read more

Thirsty Dragon

By: Mustacich Suzanne

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

An inside view of China's quest to become a global wine power and Bordeaux attempt to master the thirsty dragon it helped create. The wine merchants of Bordeaux and the rising entrepreneurs of China would seem to have little in common old world versus new, tradition versus disruption, loyalty versus efficiency. And these two communities have... Read more

The Generals

By: Winston Groom

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 16 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Celebrated historian Winston Groom tells the intertwined and uniquely American tales of George Patton, Douglas MacArthur, and George Marshall—from the World War I battle that shaped them to their greatest achievement: leading the allies to victory in World War II.These three remarkable men-of-arms, who rose from the gruesome hell of the First... Read more

Sold Out

By: Michelle Malkin & John Miano

Narrated by: Juliet St. John

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestselling author and firebrand syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin sets her sights on the corrupt businessmen, politicians, and lobbyists flooding our borders and selling out America’s best and brightest workers.

In Sold Out, Michelle Malkin and John Miano name names and expose the lies of those who pretend to champion... Read more

The Brave Ones

By: Michael J. MacLeod

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

How does the US Army mold a video-game generation with its thumbs on the joystick into a proud fighting force with its fingers on the trigger—and lives on the line—in America’s War on Terror? Michael J. MacLeod, already an accomplished professional photographer and journalist, decided to find out the hard way: by enlisting in the armed forces at... Read more

Hunting Season

By: James Harkin

Narrated by: Paul Fox

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on his groundbreaking reporting for Vanity Fair, Hunting Season is award-winning journalist James Harkin's harrowing investigation into the abduction, captivity, and execution of James Foley, at the hands of the masked militant known as "Jihadi John" (Mohammed Emwazi), and the fate of more than two-dozen other ISIS hostages.

On August 19,... Read more

Stolen Years

By: Reuven Fenton

Narrated by: Will Damron, JD Jackson & Bahni Turpin

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

There is a grisly murder in your neighborhood. You stand outside with your neighbors and watch, or maybe you peek out your curtains. Hours pass, then days, maybe years. Then one day there is a knock at your door and the police take you in for questioning. Do you remember what happened? Do you have an alibi? Can you take countless hours of... Read more

Merchants in the Temple

By: Gianluigi Nuzzi

Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From a bestselling author with unprecedented access to Pope Francis, an investigative look at the recent financial scandals at the highest levels of the Vatican

A veritable war is waging in the Church: on one side, there is Pope Francis’s strong message for one church of the poor and all; on the other, there is the old Curia with its endless... Read more

Destiny and Power

By: Jon Meacham

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 25 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this “illuminating” (USA Today) biography, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jon Meacham chronicles the life of George Herbert Walker Bush.

“Destiny and Power reflects the qualities of both subject and biographer: judicious, balanced, deliberative, with a deep appreciation of history and the personalities who shape... Read more

Europa im Erdölrausch

By: Daniele Ganser

Narrated by: Markus Böker

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

88 Millionen Fässer Erdöl werden weltweit täglich verbraucht. Das sind 44 Supertanker. Woher kommt das Öl? Wie hat es die europäische Geschichte in den letzten 150 Jahren beeinflusst? Und vor allem: Warum geht es uns jetzt aus? Daniele Ganser, Peak-Oil-Experte und Friedensforscher, legt die erste Gesamtdarstellung zu Europas Erdöl-Abhängigkeit... Read more