Politics & Economy audiobooks

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

America's Bitter Pill

By: Steven Brill

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 17 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “A tour de force . . . a comprehensive and suitably furious guide to the political landscape of American healthcare . . . persuasive, shocking.”—The New York Times 

America’s Bitter Pill is Steven Brill’s acclaimed book on how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was written, how it is... Read more

The Gen Z Effect

By: Dan Keldsen & Tom Koulopoulos

Narrated by: Dan Keldsen & Tom Koulopoulos

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most profound changes in business and society is the emergence of the post-Millennial generation, Gen Z. While every new generation has faced its share of disruption in technology, economics, politics and society, no other generation in the history of mankind has had the ability to connect every human being on the planet to each other... Read more

Stonewalled

By: Sharyl Attkisson

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 15 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Seasoned CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson reveals how she has been electronically surveilled while digging deep into the Obama Administration and its scandals, and offers an incisive critique of her industry and the shrinking role of investigative journalism in today’s media.Americans are at the mercy of powerful figures in business and government... Read more

A New Era in Banking

By: Angel Berges, Mauro F. Guillen, Juan Pedro More...

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The financial crisis that began in 2007 triggered a break with banking practices of the past. Even as the crisis occurred, a broader set of economic, geopolitical, and technological forces were already reshaping the financial industry’s transition from the twentieth to the twenty-first century. While these changes in the financial and global... Read more

Doing Business In Foreign Countries

By: Trevor Clinger

Narrated by: Gary Roelofs

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Explore the essence of global business excellence and why international trade is essential for success. Discover the profound benefits of expanding business horizons across borders: heightened customer reach, increased sales, and amplified profits. Delve into strategies for streamlining foreign business operations in this acclaimed scholarly... Read more

Whistleblowers win with False Claims Act

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Last year alone, the federal government and its whistleblowers -- people incentivized by the False Claims Act to expose fraud in companies that work with the government -- recovered nearly $6 billion in lawsuits that exposed wrongdoing. But some question whether the False Claims Act actually prevents fraud or merely incentivizes people with... Read more

The Tycoons

By: Charles R. Morris

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 14 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The modern American economy was the creation of four men: Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan. They were the giants of the Gilded Age, a moment of riotous growth that established America as the richest, most inventive, and most productive country on the planet.Acclaimed author Charles R. Morris vividly brings these... Read more

“Strict Father” And “Nurturant” Parenting Styles

By: George Lakoff, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

George Lakoff compares two opposing political ideologies with two distinct parenting styles. He explains that the strict disciplinarian parent parallels conservative ideology while the nurturant empathetic parent imitates progressive ideology. Lakoff identifies the strengths and weaknesses in their communication systems and the framing of their... Read more

Modern American Snipers

By: Chris Martin & SOFREP

Narrated by: Peter Larkin

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

An inside look at today's special operations sniper and an in depth look at the career of Chris Kyle from those who knew him and fought alongside him.

Most people think of snipers as shooters perched in urban hides, dealing out death unseen from a considerable distance. But this description barely scratches the surface. Special operations... Read more

Once in Golconda

By: John Brooks

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Once in Golconda "In this book, John Brooks-who was one of the most elegant of all business writers-perfectly catches the flavor of one of history's best-known financial dramas: the 1929 crash and its aftershocks. It's packed with parallels and parables for the modern reader." -From the Foreword by Richard Lambert Editor-in-Chief, The Financial... Read more

Cicero

By: Anthony Everitt

Narrated by: John Curless

Length: 15 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

- John Adams said of Cicero, "All ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher combined." Voltaire said of Cicero, "He taught us how to think." And yet Anthony Everitt's authoritative yet accessible work is the first one-volume biography of the Roman statesman in over 25 years. - "Using Cicero's letters to his good... Read more

The Establishment

By: Owen Jones

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 14 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

'Fantastic, timely, eye-opening' Armando Iannucci, New Statesman, Books of the Year
'Captures a collective sense of anger and awakening' Matt Haig, Observer, Books of the Year
Behind our democracy lurks a powerful but unaccountable network of people who wield massive power and reap huge profits in the process. In exposing this shadowy and complex... Read more

America in Retreat

By: Bret Stephens

Narrated by: Sean Pratt & Bret Stephens

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

“A world in which the leading liberal-democratic nation does not assume its role as world policeman will become a world in which dictatorships contend, or unite, to fill the breach. Americans seeking a return to an isolationist garden of Eden—alone and undisturbed in the world, knowing neither good nor evil—will soon find themselves living... Read more

Can technology and training strengthen policing?

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

President Obama called for $260 million in response funds to build trust between police and minorities, including purchasing body cameras for officers. Judy Woodruff talks to former New York City Police commissioner Raymond Kelly and Malik Aziz of the National Black Police Association about whether more technology will help prevent another... Read more

The Resilience Dividend

By: Judith Rodin

Narrated by: Cyndee Maxwell

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Building resilience—the ability to bounce back more quickly and effectively—is an urgent social and economic issue. Our interconnected world is susceptible to sudden and dramatic shocks and stresses: a cyber-attack, a new strain of virus, a structural failure, a violent storm, a civil disturbance, an economic blow. Through an astonishing range... Read more

Showbiz Politics

By: Kathryn Cramer Brownell

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Conventional wisdom holds that John F. Kennedy was the first celebrity president, in no small part because of his innate television savvy. But as Kathryn Brownell shows, Kennedy capitalized on a tradition and style rooted in California politics and the Hollywood studio system. Since the 1920s, politicians and professional showmen have developed... Read more

The ISIS Solution

By: Jack Murphy, Brandon Webb & Peter Nealen

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling authors and former Special Operations veterans, Brandon Webb, Jack Murphy, and Peter Nealen details the dangers of ISIS and how America can stop the religious extremist threat at last

"It's too soon to say what steps the United States will take against ISIS. I don't want to put the cart before the horse," Obama told... Read more

Spam Nation

By: Brian Krebs

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

There is a Threat Lurking Online with the Power to Destroy Your Finances, Steal Your Personal Data, and Endanger Your Life.In Spam Nation, investigative journalist and cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs unmasks the criminal masterminds driving some of the biggest spam and hacker operations targeting Americans and their bank accounts. Tracing the... Read more

Good Hunting

By: Jack Devine

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A master class in spycraft from one of its greatest practitionersJack Devine ran Charlie Wilson's War in Afghanistan. It was the largest covert action of the Cold War, and it was Devine who put the brand-new Stinger missile into the hands of the mujahideen during their war with the Soviets, paving the way to a decisive victory against the... Read more

Thirty Years of Treason, Vol. 3 - Abridged

By: Eric Bentley

Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir, a full cast, Nathan Dana Ald...

Length: 15 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A chilling reenactment of the federal government’s anti-Communist investigationsThe testimony that the author 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 readable and absorbing collection of significant... Read more

Citizens of the Green Room

By: Mark Leibovich

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Author of the groundbreaking #1 New York Times bestseller This Town, Mark Leibovich returns with a masterly collection of portraits of Washington’s elite, and wannabe elites. Hailed by The Washington Post as a “master of the political profile,” Leibovich has spent his career writing memorable, buzz-worthy, and often jaw-dropping features about... Read more

Countdown to Zero Day

By: Kim Zetter

Narrated by: Joe Ochman

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A top cybersecurity journalist tells the story behind the virus that sabotaged Iran’s nuclear efforts and shows how its existence has ushered in a new age of warfare—one in which a digital attack can have the same destructive capability as a megaton bomb. 

“Immensely enjoyable . . . Zetter turns a complicated and technical cyber story into an... Read more

41

By: George W. Bush

Narrated by: George W. Bush

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, has authored a personal biography of his father, George H. W. Bush, the 41st President.
 
Forty-three men have served as President of the United States. Countless books have been written about them. But never before has a President told the story of his... Read more