Politics & Economy audiobooks

Washington's Revolution

By: Robert Middlekauff

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 13 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A vivid new portrait of the formative years that made George Washington a great leader, from a highly respected and accomplished historian who is a Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist.George Washington was famously unknowable, but Robert Middlekauff penetrates the mystique to reveal the fears, values, and passions that drove him.... Read more

Future Smart

By: James Canton

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 18 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A forecast of the most important game-changing trends—and how to manage and profit from them to improve your life. We live in a time of complex and radical change. Those that are ill-prepared for the seismic shifts set to occur over the next thirty years will be in for a rough ride. From leading global futurist and advisor James Canton, the... Read more

Keeping young offenders out of jail

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Juvenile offenders kept under supervision close to home, rather than in secure, state-run facilities, are significantly less likely to be arrested again or commit more serious crimes, according to a new study. Judy Woodruff discusses the findings with Xavier McElrath-Bey of the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth and Michael Thompson of... Read more

Margot at War

By: Anne de Courcy

Narrated by: Patricia Gallimore

Length: 16 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Margot Asquith was perhaps the most daring and unconventional Prime Minister's wife in British history. Known for her wit, style and habit of speaking her mind, she transformed 10 Downing Street into a glittering social and intellectual salon. Yet her last five years at Number 10 were a period of intense emotional and political turmoil in her... Read more

Team Dog

By: Mike Ritland

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author and former Navy SEAL Mike Ritland teaches you how to give your dog the exceptional training and loyalty of a combat dog. In Team Dog, Mike taps into fifteen years' worth of experience and shares, in accessible and direct language, the science behind the importance of gaining a dog's trust. He also offers... Read more

No Good Men Among the Living

By: Anand Gopal

Narrated by: Assaf Cohen

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Told through the lives of three Afghans, the stunning tale of how the United States had triumph in sight in Afghanistan—and then brought the Taliban back from the dead.

In a breathtaking chronicle, acclaimed journalist Anand Gopal traces in vivid detail the lives of three Afghans caught in America's war on terror. He follows a Taliban... Read more

Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee

By: Robert E. Lee

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert E. Lee, the famed Confederate forces commander and icon of the South, is a towering figure in U.S. and military history. The son of a famed Revolutionary War officer, his path to greatness included graduating at the top of his class at West Point, serving with distinction in the Mexican-American War, and being asked to command the Union... Read more

88 Days to Kandahar

By: Robert L. Grenier

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 15 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The "first" Afghan War, the CIA's war in response to 9/11, was approved by President Bush and directed by the author, Robert Grenier, the CIA station chief in Islamabad. Forging separate alliances with warlords, Taliban dissidents, and Pakistani intelligence, Grenier defeated the Taliban and put Hamid Karzai in power in eighty-eight days. Later,... Read more

The Reaper

By: Nicholas Irving & Gary Brozek

Narrated by: Jeff Gurner

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The Instant New York Times Bestseller by Co-Star of Fox's American Grit and Legendary Ranger Nicholas Irving.

Groundbreaking, thrilling and revealing, The Reaper is the astonishing memoir of Special Operations Direct Action Sniper Nicholas Irving, the 3rd Ranger Battalion's deadliest sniper with 33 confirmed kills, though his remarkable career... Read more

Flashpoints

By: George Friedman

Narrated by: Bruce Turk & George Friedman

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A major new book by New York Times bestselling author and geopolitical forecaster George Friedman (The Next 100 Years), with a bold thesis about coming events in Europe. This provocative work examines “flashpoints,” unique geopolitical hot spots where tensions have erupted throughout history, and where conflict is due to emerge again.

“There is a... Read more

The Nonviolence Handbook

By: Michael N Nagler , Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael N Nagler , Ph.D.

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

“Nonviolence is not the recourse of the weak but actually calls for an uncommon kind of strength; it is not a refraining from something but the engaging of a positive force,” renowned peace activist Michael Nagler writes. Here he offers a step-by-step guide to creatively using nonviolence to confront any problem and to build change movements... Read more

Whipping Boy

By: Allen Kurzweil

Narrated by: Allen Kurzweil

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Edgar® Award for Best Fact CrimeThe true account of one boy’s lifelong search for his boarding-school bully.Equal parts childhood memoir and literary thriller, Whipping Boy chronicles prize-winning author Allen Kurzweil’s search for his twelve-year-old nemesis, a bully named Cesar Augustus. The obsessive inquiry, which spans some... Read more

Back Channel to Cuba

By: William M. LeoGrande & Peter Kornbluh

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 20 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Since 1959, conflict and aggression have dominated the story of U.S.-Cuban relations. From John F. Kennedy's offering of an olive branch to Fidel Castro after the missile crisis, to Henry Kissinger's top-secret quest for normalization, to Barack Obama's promise of a "new approach," William M. LeoGrande and Peter Kornbluh reveal a fifty-year... Read more

Thomas Jefferson

By: Maira Kalman

Narrated by: Susie Berneis

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas Jefferson is perhaps best known for writing the Declaration of Independence - but there's so much more to discover. This energetic man was interested in everything. He played violin, spoke seven languages and was a scientist, naturalist, botanist, mathematician and architect. He designed his magnificent home, Monticello, which is full of... Read more

Looking at Lincoln

By: Maira Kalman

Narrated by: Elizabeth Cottle

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Lincoln's legacy is everywhere - there he is on your penny and five-dollar bill. And we are still the United States because Lincoln helped hold them together. But who was he, really? The little girl in this video wants to find out. Among the many other things, she discovers our sixteenth president was a man who believed in freedom for all, had a... Read more

Guantánamo Diary

By: Mohamedou Ould Slahi

Narrated by: Peter Ganim

Length: 14 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

An unprecedented international publishing event: the first and only diary written by a still-imprisoned Guantv°namo detainee.

Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned at the detainee camp at Guantv°namo Bay, Cuba. In all these years, the United States has never charged him with a crime. Although he was ordered released by a federal judge,... Read more

God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy

By: Mike Huckabee

Narrated by: Mike Huckabee

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy, Mike Huckabee asks, "Have I been taken to a different planet than the one on which I grew up?" The New York Times bestselling author explores today's fractious American culture, where divisions of class, race, politics, religion, gender, age, and other fault lines make polite conversation dicey, if not downright... Read more

Thieves of State

By: Sarah Chayes

Narrated by: Sarah Chayes

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A former adviser to the Joint Chiefs of Staff explains how government's oldest problem is its greatest destabilizing force. Thieves of State argues that corruption is not just a nuisance; it is a major source of geopolitical turmoil. Since the late 1990s, corruption has grown such that some governments now resemble criminal gangs, provoking... Read more

The Burma Spring

By: Rena Pederson

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 24 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's "woman of destiny" and one of the most admired voices for freedom in the world today, comes alive through this brilliant rendering of Burma's tumultuous history.Award-winning journalist and former State Department speechwriter Rena Pederson brings to light fresh details about the charismatic Nobel Peace Prize winner... Read more

Dad's Army: Complete Radio Series Two

By: Jimmy Perry & David Croft

Narrated by: Arthur Lowe, Full Cast & John Le Mesurier

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Twenty episodes from the second BBC Radio series, starring Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn.

In 1973 the BBC adapted its hit TV series for radio, featuring the original TV cast and characters. Three series were broadcast between 1974 and 1976, with episodes adapted from their TV counterparts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles.

Now you... Read more

Immediate Action

By: Andy McNab

Narrated by: Paul Thornley

Length: 16 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Immediate Action is a no-holds-barred account of an extraordinary life, from the day Andy McNab was found in a carrier bag on the steps of Guy's Hospital to the day he went to fight in the Gulf War.

As a delinquent youth he kicked against society. As a young soldier he waged war against the IRA in the streets and fields of South Armagh. As a... Read more

Rise

By: Daniel Rodriguez

Narrated by: Andrew Eiden

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The unforgettable story of a young soldier who survived one of the bloodiest battles in Afghanistan and lived to pursue his dream of playing Division I college footballAt five foot eight, 175 pounds, Daniel Rodriguez was an unlikely recruit for the gridiron. But on the battlefield, under the daily rain of sniper fire, he made a promise to his... Read more

The Last Warrior

By: Andrew Krepinevich & Barry Watts

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Andrew Marshall is a Pentagon legend. For more than four decades he has served as Director of the Office of Net Assessment, the Pentagon's internal think tank, under twelve defense secretaries and eight administrations. Yet Marshall has been on the cutting edge of strategic thinking even longer than that. At the Rand Corporation during its... Read more

Crucible of Command

By: William C. Davis

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 21 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A dual biography of two iconic leaders: how they fought a bloody, brutal war then forged a lasting peace that fundamentally changed our nationThey met in person only four times, yet these two men determined the outcome of the Civil War and cast competing styles for the reunited nation. Each the subject of innumerable biographies, Generals... Read more