Politics & Economy audiobooks

Truth - Abridged

By: Mary Mapes

Narrated by: Mary Mapes

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mary Mapes's Truth (previously published as Truth & Duty) was made into the 2015 film Truth, starring Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford, Topher Grace and Elizabeth Moss.

A riveting play-by-play of a reporter getting and defending a story that recalls All the President's Men, Truth puts readers in the center of the "60 Minutes II" story on... Read more

Nixon's Gamble

By: Ray Locker

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

Length: 14 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

After being sworn in as president, Richard Nixon told the assembled crowd that government will listen. Those who have been left out, we will try to bring in. But that same day, he obliterated those pledges of greater citizen control of government by signing National Security Decision Memorandum 2, a document that made sweeping changes to the... Read more

Beyond Measure

By: Vicki Abeles

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Now in paperback, the New York Times bestseller from Race to Nowhere director Vicki Abeles about how our schools can revolutionize learning, prioritize children’s health, and re-envision success for a lifetime.

Race to Nowhere, Vicki Abeles’s groundbreaking documentary about our educational system, tapped into a widespread problem in our nation’s... Read more

Disciples

By: Douglas Waller

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 16 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“A fantastic book, one of the very finest accounts of wartime spookery” (The Wall Street Journal)—a spellbinding adventure story of four secret OSS agents who would all later lead the CIA and their daring espionage and sabotage in wartime Europe from the author of the bestselling Wild Bill Donavan.

They are the most famous and controversial... Read more

The Outsider

By: Frederick Forsyth

Narrated by: Robert Powell

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From Frederick Forsyth, the grand master of international suspense, comes his most intriguing story ever—his own.
 
 
For more than forty years, Frederick Forsyth has been writing extraordinary real-world novels of intrigue, from the groundbreaking The Day of the Jackal to the prescient The Kill List. Whether writing about the murky world of arms... Read more

Rosemary

By: Kate Clifford Larson

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

They were the most prominent American family of the twentieth century. The daughter they secreted away made all the difference.Joe and Rose Kennedy’s strikingly beautiful daughter Rosemary attended exclusive schools, was presented as a debutante to the queen of England, and traveled the world with her high-spirited sisters. And yet, Rosemary was... Read more

PT 109

By: William Doyle

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinary World War II story of shipwreck and survival that paved John F. Kennedy's path to power – hailed as a “breathtaking account” by James Patterson, “masterfully written” by historian Douglas Brinkley, and “the finest book” ever written on the subject by Lt. Commander William Liebenow, the man who rescued JFK and the PT 109 crew in... Read more

Stars Between the Sun and Moon

By: Lucia Jang & Susan McClelland

Narrated by: Janet Song

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Born in 1970s North Korea, Lucia Jang grew up in a typical household - her parents worked in the factories and the family scraped by on rations. Nightly, she bowed to her photo of Kim Il-Sung. It was the beginning of a chaotic period with a decade-long famine. Jang married an abusive man who sold their baby. She left him and went home to help... Read more

The Courage to Act

By: Ben S. Bernanke

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 22 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Bestseller“A fascinating account of the effort to save the world from another [Great Depression]. . . . Humanity should be grateful.”—Financial TimesIn 2006, Ben S. Bernanke was appointed chair of the Federal Reserve, the unexpected apex of a personal journey from small-town South Carolina to prestigious academic appointments... Read more

A Common Struggle

By: Patrick J. Kennedy & Stephen Fried

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In this New York Times bestseller Patrick J. Kennedy, the former congressman and youngest child of Senator Ted Kennedy, details his personal and political battle with mental illness and addiction, exploring mental health care's history in the country alongside his and every family's private struggles. 

On May 5, 2006, the New York Times ran two... Read more

On Liberty

By: Shami Chakrabarti

Narrated by: Shami Chakrabarti

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of On Liberty, written and read by Shami Chakrabarti.

On 11 September 2001, our world changed. The West's response to 9/11 has morphed into a period of exception. Governments have decided that the rule of law and human rights are often too costly.

In On Liberty, Shami Chakrabarti -... Read more

Other People's Money

By: John Kay

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The finance sector of Western economies is too large and attracts too many of the smartest college graduates. Financialization over the past three decades has created a structure that lacks resilience and supports absurd volumes of trading. The finance sector devotes too little attention to the search for new investment opportunities and the... Read more

Street Smart

By: Samuel I. Schwartz

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

With wit and sharp insight, former Traffic Commissioner of New York City, Sam Schwartz a.k.a. “Gridlock Sam,” one of the most respected transportation engineers in the world and consummate insider in NYC political circles, uncovers how American cities became so beholden to cars and why the current shift away from that trend will forever alter... Read more

From the Other Side of the World

By: Elmira Bayrasili

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Why the next Steve Jobs is just as likely to come from Lagos, Acapulco, Lahore, or Mumbai as from Silicon Valley. Elmira Bayrasli’s colorful narrative brings readers inside the world of high-growth entrepreneurs as they overcome vexing obstacles to build businesses that create jobs and economic growth and—perhaps most important—shift mindsets.... Read more

Kissinger: Volume I

By: Niall Ferguson

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 34 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive biography of Henry Kissinger, based on unprecedented access to his private papersNo American statesman has been as revered and as reviled as Henry Kissinger. Once hailed as “Super-K”—the “indispensable man” whose advice has been sought by every president from Kennedy to Obama—he has also been hounded by conspiracy theorists,... Read more

Plunkitt of Tammany Hall

By: George Washington Plunkitt

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In the days of Tammany Hall, politicians like George Washington Plunkitt spent their careers in service to the city--but first and foremost in the service of the political machine. Plunkitt seems never to have doubted exactly where he stood on the deeply corrupt, yet amazingly effective politics and government in which he spent his life; he was... Read more

Henry Clay

By: Harlow Giles Unger

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A compelling new biography of America’s most powerful Speaker of the House, who held the divided nation together for three decades and who was Lincoln’s guiding lightIn a little known chapter of early American history, a fearless Kentucky lawyer rids Congress of corruption and violence in an era when congressmen debated with bullets as well as... Read more

The New Tsar

By: Steven Lee Myers

Narrated by: René Ruiz

Length: 22 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“A riveting, immensely detailed biography of Putin that explains in full-bodied, almost Shakespearian fashion why he acts the way he does.” –Robert D. Kaplan
 
The New Tsar is the book to read if you want to understand how Vladimir Putin sees the world and why he has become one of the gravest threats to American security.The epic tale of the... Read more

Saving Capitalism

By: Robert B. Reich

Narrated by: Robert B. Reich

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A Netflix Original Documentary

America was once celebrated for and defined by its large and prosperous middle class. Now, this middle class is shrinking, a new oligarchy is rising, and the country faces its greatest wealth disparity in eighty years. Why is the economic system that made America strong suddenly failing us, and how can it be... Read more

Black Flags

By: Joby Warrick

Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra

Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE 2016 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION

“A Best Book of 2015”—The New York Times, The Washington Post, People Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Kansas City Star, and Kirkus Reviews

In a thrilling dramatic narrative, awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind... Read more

Jack Kemp

By: Morton Kondracke & Fred Barnes

Narrated by: Morton Kondracke & Fred Barnes

Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

"THE PURPOSE OF POLITICS IS NOT TO DEFEAT YOUR OPPONENT AS MUCH AS IT IS TO PROVIDE SUPERIOR LEADERSHIP AND BETTER IDEAS THAN THE OPPOSITION." —JACK KEMP

The late 1970s were miserable for America. It was the post–Vietnam, post–Watergate era, a time of high unemployment, ruinous inflation, gasoline lines, Communist advances, and bottomed-out U.S.... Read more

Show Me A Hero

By: Lisa Belkin

Narrated by: Jay Snyder

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

NOW AN HBO MINISERIES

Not in my backyard -- that's the refrain commonly invoked by property owners who oppose unwanted development. Such words assume a special ferocity when the development in question is public housing. Lisa Belkin penetrates the prejudices, myths, and heated emotions stirred by the most recent trend in public housing as she... Read more

Furchtlos - Abridged

By: Eric Blehm

Narrated by: Michael J. Diekmann

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die Navy SEALs sind die Elitetruppe der US-Streitkräfte. Sie durchlaufen die härteste Ausbildung der Welt und werden nur in den gefährlichsten Missionen eingesetzt. Das SEAL Team Six ist die Einheit, die Osama bin Laden tötete. Navy SEAL Adam Brown starb im März 2010 im Kampf, während eines Einsatzes in Afghanistan. Furchtlos erzählt die... Read more

Unlikeable

By: Edward Klein

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers The Amateur and Blood Feud.…Unlikeable is the stunning, powerful exposé of Hillary Clinton and her floundering race for the White House. With unprecedented access to longtime associates of the Clintons and the Obamas, investigative reporter Edward Klein meticulously recreates conversations and... Read more