Politics & Economy audiobooks

Unmanned

By: William M. Arkin

Narrated by: William M. Arkin

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Unmanned is an in-depth examination of why seemingly successful wars never seem to end. The problem centers on drones, now accumulated in the thousands, the front end of a spying and killing machine that is disconnected from either security or safety.

Drones, however, are only part of the problem. William Arkin shows that security is actually... Read more

A Thousand Miles to Freedom

By: Sebastien Falletti & Eunsun Kim

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the modern world. As a child Eunsun loved her country...despite her school field trips to public executions, daily self-criticism sessions, and the increasing gnaw of hunger as the country-wide famine escalated.




By the time she was eleven years old, Eunsun's... Read more

The Nurture Effect

By: Anthony Biglan

Narrated by: Stephen Paul Aulridge, Jr.

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating look at the evolution of behavioral science, the revolutionary way it's changing the way we live, and how nurturing environments can increase people's well-being in virtually every aspect of our society, from early childhood education to corporate practices. If you want to know how you can help create a better world, listen to this... Read more

North Korea Undercover

By: John Sweeney

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

An authoritative and frightening investigation into the dark side of North Korean societyNorth Korea is like no other tyranny on earth. Its citizens are told their home is the greatest nation in the world, and big brother is always watching. It is Orwell’s 1984 made reality.Award-winning BBC journalist John Sweeney is one of the few foreign... Read more

ZeroZeroZero

By: Roberto Saviano

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 16 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

From the author of the #1 international bestseller Gomorrah comes an electrifying investigation of the international cocaine trade, as vicious as it is powerful, and its hidden role in the global economy

In many countries, “000” flour is the finest on the market. It is hard to find, but it is soft, light, almost impalpable—like the purest,... Read more

The Conservative Heart

By: Arthur C. Brooks

Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The prominent economist and president of the American Enterprise Institute—the leading intellectual think tank on the right—offers a bold new vision for conservatism as a movement for social and economic justice.In The Conservative Heart, Arthur C. Brooks contends that after years of focusing on economic growth and traditional social values, it... Read more

The Speechwriter

By: Barton Swaim

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone knows this kind of politician: a charismatic maverick who goes up against the system and its ways, but thinks he doesn't have to live by the rules. Using his experience as a speechwriter, Barton Swaim tells the story of a band of believers who attach themselves to this sort of ambitious narcissist—what makes them invest in these... Read more

The Last to Die

By: Stephen Harding

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

On August 18, 1945, US Army sergeant Anthony J. Marchione bled to death in the clear, bright sky above Tokyo. Marchione, a gunner in the US Air Force, died like so many before him in World War II-quietly, cradled in the arms of a buddy. Though tragic, Marchione's death would have been no more notable than any other had he not had the dubious... Read more

Ich weiß nicht, warum ich noch lebe - Abridged

By: Friedrich Orter

Narrated by: Friedrich Orter, Christina Trefny & Florentin G...

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Fritz Orter hat weit mehr gesehen, als seinem Publikum zugemutet werden konnte. Viele Jahrzehnte lang berichtete er als Reporter von den gefährlichsten Orten der Welt. In einem bewegenden Rückblick skizziert er seine Erlebnisse, erzählt von seinen Grenzerfahrungen und von ergreifenden Schicksalen. Und von einer großen Hoffnung, die seine Arbeit... Read more

ISIS

By: Michael Weiss

Narrated by: Qarie Marshall

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Initially dismissed by US President Barack Obama, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has shocked the world by conquering massive territories in both countries and promising to create a vast new Muslim caliphate that observes the strict dictates of Sharia law. In ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror, American journalist Michael Weiss and... Read more

Wages of Rebellion

By: Chris Hedges

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Revolutions come in waves and cycles. We are again riding the crest of a revolutionary epic, much like 1848 or 1917, from the Arab Spring to movements against austerity in Greece to the Occupy movement. In Wages of Rebellion, Chris Hedges—who has chronicled the malaise and sickness of a society in terminal moral decline in his books Empire of... Read more

Battlefield America

By: John W. Whitehead

Narrated by: Eric G. Dove

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the follow-up to his award-winning book A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead paints a terrifying portrait of a nation at war with itself and which is on the verge of undermining the basic freedoms guaranteed to the citizenry... Read more

The Billion Dollar Spy

By: David E. Hoffman

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history The Dead Hand comes the riveting story of a spy who cracked open the Soviet military research establishment and a penetrating portrait of the CIA’s Moscow station, an outpost of daring espionage in the last years of the Cold War
 
   While driving out of the American embassy in Moscow on the... Read more

A Full Life

By: Jimmy Carter

Narrated by: Jimmy Carter

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

GRAMMY AWARD–WINNER FOR BEST SPOKEN WORD ALBUM!

In his major New York Times bestseller, Jimmy Carter looks back from ninety years of age and “reveals private thoughts and recollections over a fascinating career as businessman, politician, evangelist, and humanitarian” (Booklist).

At ninety, Jimmy Carter reflects on his public and private life with... Read more

The Girl with Seven Names

By: Hyeonseo Lee

Narrated by: Josie Dunn

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships – and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom. As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee was one of millions... Read more

The Quiet Man

By: John H. Sununu

Narrated by: Qarie Marshall

Length: 12 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In this unique insider account, John H. Sununu pays tribute to his former boss - an intelligent, thoughtful, modest leader - and his overlooked accomplishments. Though George H. W. Bush is remembered for orchestrating one of the largest and most successful military campaigns in history - the Gulf War - Sununu argues that conventional wisdom... Read more

Jimmie Lee and James

By: Adar Cohen & Steve Fiffer

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

"Bloody Sunday"—March 7, 1965—was a pivotal moment in the civil rights struggle. The national outrage generated by scenes of Alabama state troopers attacking peaceful demonstrators fueled the drive toward the passage of the Voting Rights Acts later that year. But why were hundreds of activists marching from Selma to Montgomery that... Read more

The Gettysburg Address

By: Sean Conant

Narrated by: Dermot Mulroney, Edoardo Ballerini, David Pittu...

Length: 13 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

It remains without question the most memorable and memorized speech in American history. On November 19, 1863, in 272 words delivered among the freshly dug graves of Union dead upon the country's bloodiest battlefield, Abraham Lincoln redefined American liberty and forever altered the course of the nation.

This volume aims to place the... Read more

A Time for Truth

By: Ted Cruz

Narrated by: Ted Cruz & Jason Culp

Length: 12 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Liberals love to hate Ted Cruz. The outspoken Texas Senator has a knack for getting under their skin. His quotable remarks - and even more, his principled stands on numerous national issues -- have made him a political lightning rod and the most googled man in Washington. There is a simple reason Senator Cruz has dominated so much of the... Read more

Gray Work

By: Jamie Smith

Narrated by: Jeff Gurner

Length: 15 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The first ever, first-person story of America's private, paramilitary contractors at work around the world-from a man who performed these missions himself and has decades of stories to tell. This is a fascinating tale-and potentially the first-to describe the work of American contractors, men who run highly dangerous missions deep inside foreign... Read more

When Corporations Rule the World

By: David C. Korten

Narrated by: Kevin Pierce

Length: 16 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Our Choice: Democracy or Corporate Rule

A handful of corporations and financial institutions command an ever-greater concentration of economic and political power in an assault against markets, democracy, and life. It's a “suicide economy,” says David Korten, that destroys the very foundations of its own existence.

The bestselling 1995 edition... Read more

How to Catch a Russian Spy

By: Naveed Jamali & Ellis Henican

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

With an epilogue on recent Russian spying, a “page-turner of a memoir” (Publishers Weekly) about an American civilian with a dream, who worked as a double agent with the FBI in the early 2000s to bring down a Russian intelligence agent in New York City.

For three nerve-wracking years, from 2005 to 2008, Naveed Jamali spied on America for the... Read more

Ally

By: Michael B. Oren

Narrated by: Michael B. Oren

Length: 16 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Michael B. Oren’s memoir of his time as Israel’s ambassador to the United States—a period of transformative change for America and a time of violent upheaval throughout the Middle East—provides a frank, fascinating look inside the special relationship between America and its closest ally in the region.
 
Michael Oren... Read more

Universal Man

By: Richard Davenport-Hines

Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie

Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In Universal Man, noted biographer and historian Richard Davenport-Hines revives our understanding of John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), the twentieth century's most charismatic and revolutionary economist. Keynes helped FDR launch the New Deal, saved Britain from financial crisis twice over the course of two World Wars, and instructed Western... Read more