Politics & Economy audiobooks

Entscheidung in Kiew - Ukrainische Lektionen (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Karl Schlögel

Narrated by: Timo Weisschnur

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Seit vielen Jahren ist Karl Schlögel in der Ukraine unterwegs. Lemberg, Odessa, Czernowitz, Kiew, Charkiw, Donezk und Dnipropetrowsk: All diese Namen stehen für einst blühende Städte, für eine Kultur von eigenem Rang. Der Westen hat sie viel zu lange ignoriert, auch das ermunterte Putin zu seiner Expansionspolitik. Über 70 Jahre nach dem Ende... Read more

1944

By: Jay Winik

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 21 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

**New York Times Bestseller**

Jay Winik brings to life in “gripping” detail (The New York Times Book Review) the year 1944, which determined the outcome of World War II and put more pressure than any other on an ailing yet determined President Roosevelt.

1944 was a year that could have stymied the Allies and cemented Hitler’s waning power.... Read more

The ISIS Apocalypse

By: William McCants

Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Based almost entirely on primary sources in Arabic-including ancient religious texts and secret al-Qaeda and Islamic State letters that few have seen - William McCants's The ISIS Apocalypse explores how religious fervor, strategic calculation, and doomsday prophecy shaped the Islamic State's past and foreshadow its dark future.

The Islamic... Read more

Killing Reagan

By: Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff & Bill O'Reilly

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling team of Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard comes Killing Reagan, a page-turning epic account of the career of President Ronald Reagan that tells the vivid story of his rise to power--and the forces of evil that conspired to bring him down.

The basis for the 2016 television movie available on streaming.

Just two months into... Read more

RFK Jr.

By: Jerry Oppenheimer

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 13 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Jerry Oppenheimer comes a sensational biography of the son of the legendary Senator and troubled standard bearer of America's most fabled political dynasty.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. inherited his assassinated father's piercing blue eyes and Brahmin style, earning a reputation as the nation's foremost... Read more

The Deleted E-Mails of Hillary Clinton

By: John Moe

Narrated by: John Moe, Kimberly Farr, Jim Meskimen, Sarah Sc...

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The explosive secret e-mails Hillary Clinton doesn’t want you to read
(Or maybe she does…She’s crafty like that.)
 
Remember that time Hillary Clinton admitted that she deleted thousands of e-mails from her ultra-secret personal e-mail address while Secretary of State? Thousands of e-mails, she claimed, about her daughter’s wedding? Well, people... Read more

Never Enough

By: Michael D'Antonio

Narrated by: Eric Pollins

Length: 16 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 2015, as he vaulted to the lead among the many GOP candidates for president, Donald Trump was the only one dogged by questions about his true intentions. This most famous American businessman had played the role of provocateur so often that pundits, reporters, and voters struggled to believe that he was a serious contender.... Read more

America the Strong

By: William J Bennett & John T. E. Cribb

Narrated by: John McLain

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

What is F.L.I.N.T.? It's what makes America strong.

We live in a culture that often dismisses and ridicules conservative values. By the time liberal professors, the news media, and Hollywood get through with them, many young Americans are convinced “conservative” means extremist and intolerant. It’s a distortion that endangers America’s future.... Read more

The Double Life of Fidel Castro

By: Juan Reinaldo Sanchez & Axel Gyldén

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Double Life of Fidel Castro, one of Castro's soldiers of 17 years breaks his silence and shares his memoir of years of service, and eventual imprisonment and torture for displeasing the notorious dictator, and his dramatic escape from Cuba.Responsible for protecting the Lider maximo for two decades, Juan Reinaldo Sanchez was party to his... Read more

Rising to the Challenge

By: Carly Fiornia

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“There are all kinds of reasons why people fail to fulfill their potential. Perhaps they lack opportunity, perhaps they lack support, perhaps they lack tools or training or education. But everyone has potential. This I know. Our Founders knew it too. They had the radical insight that the right to fulfill your potential— to use your God-given... Read more

Objective Troy

By: Scott Shane

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 14 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

    Objective Troy tells the gripping and unsettling story of Anwar al-Awlaki, the once-celebrated American imam who called for moderation after 9/11, a man who ultimately directed his outsized talents to the mass murder of his fellow citizens. It follows Barack Obama’s campaign against the excesses of the Bush counterterrorism programs and his... Read more

The Court and the World

By: Stephen Breyer

Narrated by: Stephen Breyer

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In this original, far-reaching, and timely book, Justice Stephen Breyer examines the work of the Supreme Court of the United States in an increasingly interconnected world, a world in which all sorts of activity, both public and private—from the conduct of national security policy to the conduct of international trade—obliges the Court to... Read more

Killing the Messenger

By: David Brock

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

David Brock is the ultimate happy warrior. Once a leading right-wing hit man, Brock is now the Left's pre-eminent defender and truth-teller.

In this incisive, personal account, Brock disarms the major tentacles of the Republican Leviathan: the Koch Brothers, the Clinton haters, and the Fox Noise Machine. With the acumen of a seasoned political... Read more

Operation Overflight

By: Francis Gary Powers & Curt Gentry

Narrated by: Jon Lindstrom

Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is a central character in the movie “Bridge of Spies” starring Tom Hanks.  In his classic 1970 memoir, Powers reveals the full story behind what happened in the most sensational espionage case in Cold War history.  After his U-2 reconnaissance plane was shot down, Powers was captured on May 1, 1960 and endured 61... Read more

Krieg um jeden Preis

By: James Risen

Narrated by: Andreas Denk

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Eine beängstigende Lektüre Johanna Adorján FAS Unter dem Deckmantel der Terrorismusbekämpfung führt die US-Regierung einen Krieg, der in keinem Verhältnis mehr zur tatsächlichen Bedrohung durch terroristische Organisationen steht. Es geht um ein Milliardengeschäft und das Interesse einiger Menschen, diesen Krieg am Laufen zu halten – koste es,... Read more

The Dream Shall Never Die

By: Alex Salmond

Narrated by: Alex Salmond

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In a riveting daily diary, written in his trademark ebullient style, Salmond takes us into the heart of the YES campaign, revealing what was said and done behind the scenes as the vote reached its nail-biting climax. Alex Salmond has been a passionate supporter of Scottish independence his whole life. In September 2014, he... Read more

Suffragette

By: Emmeline Pankhurst

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The gripping memoir of the leader of the British suffragette movement who was named by Time as one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century

With insight and great wit, Emmeline’s autobiography chronicles the beginnings of her interest in feminism through to her militant and controversial fight for women’s right to vote. While Emmeline... Read more

Vigilance

By: Ray Kelly

Narrated by: Ray Kelly

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Two-time New York City police commissioner Ray Kelly opens up about his remarkable life, taking us inside fifty years of law enforcement leadership, offering chilling stories of terrorist plots after 9/11, and sharing his candid insights into the challenges and controversies cops face today.

The son of a milkman and a Macy's dressing room... Read more

The Essential Bernie Sanders and His Vision for America

By: Jonathan Tasini

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet the essential Bernie Sanders an authentic and uncompromising champion of the people.Independent United States Senator Bernie Sanders with a thirty-five-year career in public service, first as Burlington, Vermont’s mayor, then as Vermont’s sole representative to Congress, and currently as a United States senator is now campaigning to become... Read more

The Promise of Francis

By: David Willey

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

With more than four decades of firsthand experience reporting from Vatican City, David Willey explores the religious and personal background of Pope Francis and his ability to fulfill the promises of reform made during the first two years of his papacy.

Sex crimes and cover-ups, financial scandal, declining membership, and the unprecedented... Read more

Police State

By: Gerry Spence

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 16 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

How does America, founded on the promise of freedom for all, find itself poised to become a police state?

In Police State, legendary "country lawyer" Gerry Spence reveals the unnerving truth of our criminal justice system. In his more than sixty years in the courtroom, Spence has never represented a person charged with a crime in which the police... Read more

Wealth, Poverty, and Politics

By: Thomas Sowell

Narrated by: David Cochran Heath

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In Wealth, Poverty, and Politics, Thomas Sowell, one of the foremost conservative public intellectuals in the country, argues that political and ideological struggles have led to dangerous confusion about income inequality in America. Pundits and politically motivated economists trumpet ambiguous statistics and sensational theories while... Read more

The World is My Home

By: James A. Michener

Narrated by: Alexander Adams

Length: 21 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Literary legend James A. Michener was “a Renaissance man, adventurous, inquisitive, unpretentious and unassuming, with an encyclopedic mind and a generous heart” (The New York Times Book Review). In this exceptional memoir, the man himself tells the story of his remarkable life and describes the people, events, and ideas that shaped it. Moving... Read more

Fracture

By: Joy-Ann Reid

Narrated by: Joy-Ann Reid

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Barack Obama's speech on the Edmund Pettus Bridge to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery marches should have represented the culmination of Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of racial unity. Yet, in Fracture, MSNBC national correspondent Joy-Ann Reid shows that, despite the progress we have made, we are still a nation... Read more