Politics & Economy audiobooks

Discontent and its Civilizations

By: Mohsin Hamid

Narrated by: Mohsin Hamid

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

From “one of his generation’s most inventive and gifted writers” (The New York Times), intimate and sharply observed commentary on life, art, politics, and “the war on terror.”
 
Mohsin Hamid’s brilliant, moving, and extraordinarily clever novels have not only made him an international bestseller, they have earned him a reputation as a “master... Read more

The Gettysburg Address & The Emancipation Proclamation

By: Abraham Lincoln

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

While the conflict over slavery was a factor in the Civil War, the abolition of slavery did not become a stated objective until President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which went into effect on January 1, 1863. Freeing the slaves held in the still Confederate controlled states, it is heralded as one of America's most significant... Read more

Love Your Sister

By: Samuel Johnson & Connie Johnson

Narrated by: Connie Johnson & Samuel Johnson

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Brothers and sisters often dare each other to do things - it's what siblings do. However, when Connie Johnson dared her brother Samuel to embark on a one-wheeled odyssey around Australia, she knew it was a big ask. But Connie knew exactly what she was doing and was sure he wouldn't say no. Not this time.
Born a year apart, Connie and Samuel... Read more

The Summit

By: Ed Conway

Narrated by: Ralph Lister

Length: 14 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The meeting of world leaders at Bretton Woods in 1944 was the only time countries from around the world agreed to overhaul the structure of the international monetary system. The system they set up presided over the longest, strongest, and most stable period of growth the world economy has ever seen.


At the very heart of the conference was the... Read more

Jesus, Jihad and Peace

By: Michael Youssef

Narrated by: Jon Gauger

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Is there any hope for peace in the world? Or is terror our destiny?
 In our post-9/11 world, Westerners in general—and Christians in particular—remain targets of Islamic terrorism. From the White House to 10 Downing Street, radical groups like the Muslim Brotherhood are appeased and allowed to operate freely in the West.
 In a world that cries out... Read more

Bella's Gift

By: Rick Santorum & Karen Santorum

Narrated by: Rick Santorum & Diana Batarseh

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Bella’s Gift details the peaks and valleys, the joys and sufferings, and the incredible value of life with a special needs child. In a world that often measures worth according to usefulness, Bella’s story is a reminder that our real value lies in our capacity to love.Four days after Rick and Karen Santorum welcomed their eighth baby into the... Read more

How poverty and mental illness are putting more people behind bars

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

More Americans than ever before are spending time in jail despite a drop in the crime rate in the past two decades. That's according to a new report that also found that a disproportionate number of people in jail suffer from mental illness. Judy Woodruff discusses the findings with Nicholas Turner of the Vera Institute of Justice and Margo... Read more

Eine Hand voll Sternenstaub

By: Lorenz Marti

Narrated by: Rudolf Guckelsberger

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Warum der blick zu den Sternen unsere seele berührt Wir sind Sternenstaub: Das sagen nicht nur die Dichter, sondern auch die Wissenschaftler. Das Universum spiegelt sich in uns - und wir uns in ihm. Wir entdecken uns dabei aus einer ganz neuen Perspektive. Sie kann unser Leben verändern. Leicht und flüssig erzählt, verbindet Lorenz Marti... Read more

Sterben sollst du für dein Glück

By: Sabatina James

Narrated by: Sabatina James

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Ihre Eltern sind Muslime. Sie leben in einem kleinen österreichischen Dorf. Hier wächst Sabatina auf. Doch dann wird sie 16 und ihre Eltern sind der Meinung, dass sie zu westlich geworden ist. Sie schicken sie in eine Koran-Schule nach Pakistan, wo sie geschlagen und misshandelt wird. Als Sabatina gegen ihren Willen heiraten soll, flieht sie und... Read more

American Sniper - Abridged

By: Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen & Jim DeFelice

Narrated by: Roman Roth

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Chris Kyle diente von 1999 bis 2009 bei den US Navy SEALs und verzeichnete in jener Zeit die höchste Zahl an tödlichen Treffern in der amerikanischen Militärgeschichte. 160 gezielte Liquidationen schreibt ihm das Pentagon offiziell zu. Seine Kameraden nannten ihn "Die Legende", seine Feinde "Teufel" … In dieser eindringlichen Autobiografie... Read more

Phantom Terror

By: Adam Zamoyski

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 22 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

For the ruling and propertied classes of the late eighteenth century, the years following the French Revolution were characterized by intense anxiety. Monarchs and their courtiers lived in constant fear of rebellion, convinced that their power—and their heads—were at risk. Driven by paranoia, they chose to fight back against every threat and... Read more

Madison's Gift

By: David O. Stewart

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 14 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Overshadowed by his fellow Founders, David O. Stewart restores James Madison to his proper place as the most significant framer of the new nation, through his successive partnerships with mentor George Washington, co-author Alexander Hamilton, political ally Thomas Jefferson, successor James Monroe, and his wife, Dolley. Stewart makes a... Read more

Believer

By: David Axelrod

Narrated by: David Axelrod

Length: 19 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

“A stout defense—indeed, the best I have read—of the Obama years.”—New York Times Book Review

A New York Times bestseller.

David Axelrod has always been a believer. Whether as a young journalist investigating city corruption, a campaign consultant guiding underdog candidates against entrenched orthodoxy, or as senior adviser to the president... Read more

The Library of Congress Timeline of the Civil War

By: Library of Congress & Margaret E. Wagner

Narrated by: Peter Coleman

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

With striking visuals from the Library of Congress' unparalleled archive, The Library of Congress Illustrated Timeline of the Civil War is an authoritative and engaging narrative of the domestic conflict that determined the course of American history. A detailed chronological timeline of the war captures the harrowing intensity of 19th-century... Read more

How do communities increase accountability and rebuild trust

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Around the nation, from Ferguson to Staten Island to Albuquerque, communities are grappling with the aftermath of deaths caused by police officers who used lethal force. Gwen Ifill talks to Cornell William Brooks of the NAACP and Richard Berry of the International Association of Chiefs of Police about how to repair strained relations and curb... Read more

Albuquerque holds police department accountable

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The Albuquerque Police Department has come under national scrutiny for shootings involving officers, including 28 fatal incidents in the last five years. In March, two policemen shot and killed a mentally ill homeless man, all captured on a body camera. Unlike other high-profile cases around the country, these officers were charged. Special... Read more

The Fierce Urgency of Now

By: Julian E. Zelizer

Narrated by: Andrew Garman

Length: 12 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A majestic big-picture account of the Great Society and the forces that shaped it, from Lyndon Johnson and members of Congress to the civil rights movement and the media. Between November 1963, when he became president, and November 1966, when his party was routed in the midterm elections, Lyndon Johnson spearheaded the most transformative... Read more

Thirty Years of Treason

By: Eric Bentley & various authors

Narrated by: Nathan Dana Aldrich, Theodore Bikel, Claire Blo...

Length: 41 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A chilling reenactment of the federal government’s anti-Communist investigationsThe testimony that Eric Bentley has gleaned for this book from the thirty-year record of the House Un-American Activities Committee focuses on HUAC’s treatment of artists, intellectuals, and performers. This highly dramatic and compelling collection of significant... Read more

Going to Pot

By: Dr. William J. Bennett & Robert A. White

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

William J. Bennett, former director of the National Drug Control policy under President George H.W. Bush and bestselling author of The Book of Virtues, and co-author Robert White provide strong societal and scientific arguments against the legalization of marijuana. Marijuana, once considered worthy of condemnation, has in recent years become a... Read more

Hack Attack

By: Nick Davies

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 18 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

At first, it seemed like a small story. The royal editor of the News of the World was caught listening to the voice mail messages of staff at Buckingham Palace. He and a private investigator were jailed, and the case was closed. But Nick Davies, special correspondent for the Guardian, knew it didn't add up. He began to investigate and ended up... Read more

Mama Koko and the Hundred Gunmen

By: Lisa J. Shannon

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

International human rights activist Lisa Shannon spent many afternoons at the kitchen table having tea with her friend Francisca Thelin, who often spoke of her childhood in Congo. Thelin would conjure vivid images of lush flower gardens, fish the size of small children, and of children running barefoot through her family's coffee plantation,... Read more

Notes of a Native Son

By: James Baldwin

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

At last, a new audio edition of the book many have called James Baldwin's most influential work!Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays collected in Notes of a Native Son capture a view of black life and black thought at the dawn of the civil rights movement and as the movement slowly gained... Read more

Power Forward

By: Reggie Love

Narrated by: Reggie Love

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A Washington Post bestseller, Power Forward is a compelling professional coming-of-age story from the man who spent more time with Barack Obama during his historic first presidential campaign and term than anyone else.

Reggie Love is a unique witness to history, whose introduction to Washington was working in Junior Senator Barack Obama’s... Read more

Beyond the Call

By: Lee Trimble & Jeremy Dronfield

Narrated by: Donald Corren

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

Near the end of World War II, thousands of Allied ex-POWs were abandoned to wander the war-torn Eastern Front. With no food, shelter, or supplies, they were an army of dying men. The Red Army had pushed the Nazis out of Russia. As they advanced across Poland, the prison camps of the Third Reich were discovered and liberated. In defiance of... Read more