Politics & Economy audiobooks

@War

By: Shane Harris

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A surprising, page-turning account of how the wars of the future are already being fought todayThe United States military currently views cyberspace as the "fifth domain" of warfare—alongside land, sea, air, and space—and the Department of Defense, National Security Agency, and CIA all field teams of hackers who can—and do—launch computer virus... Read more

The Stranger

By: Chuck Todd

Narrated by: Chuck Todd

Length: 16 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Chuck Todd's gripping, fly-on-the-wall account of Barack Obama's tumultuous struggle to succeed in Washington.

Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008 partly because he was a Washington outsider. But if he'd come to the White House thinking he could change the political culture, he soon discovered just how difficult it was to swim against an... Read more

No Hero

By: Mark Owen & Kevin Maurer

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The companion volume to the multimillion-copy bestseller No Easy Day by former Navy SEAL Mark Owen reveals the evolution of a SEAL Team Six operator.

Mark Owen’s instant #1 New York Times bestseller, No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden, focused on the high-profile targets and headline-grabbing chapters... Read more

Lone Star Nation

By: Richard Parker

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Parker delivers a provocative and eye-opening look at the most explosive and controversial state in America, where everything is bigger, bolder-and is shaping the future of America. Americans today are reckoning with a new Texas-that love-it-or-hate-it giant slice of America that has sparked controversy, bred presidents, and fomented... Read more

Napoleon

By: Andrew Roberts

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 32 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of The Storm of War

Austerlitz, Borodino, Waterloo: his battles are among the greatest in history, but Napoleon Bonaparte was far more than a military genius and astute leader of men. Like George Washington and his own hero Julius Caesar, he was one... Read more

The Last Rescue

By: Howard Wasdin

Narrated by: Daniel Butler

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In the aftermath of war, a Navy SEAL finds faith, hope, and love.Howard Wasdin, author of SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper (twenty-two weeks on the New York Times best-seller list), survived the firestorm made famous in Black Hawk Down only to return to a world without support, without a mission, and soon without his family.... Read more

Revolution

By: Russell Brand

Narrated by: Russell Brand

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

We all know the system isn’t working. Our governments are corrupt and the opposing parties pointlessly similar. Our culture is filled with vacuity and pap, and we are told there’s nothing we can do: “It’s just the way things are.”
 
In this book, Russell Brand hilariously lacerates the straw men and paper tigers of our... Read more

Citizen Coke

By: Bartow J. Elmore

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Coke's insatiable thirst for resources shapes the company and reshapes the globe in this absorbing history.Coca-Cola's success in building a global empire out of sugary water drew on more than a secret formula and brilliant advertising. The real secret to Coke's success was its strategy, from the beginning, to offload production costs and risks... Read more

The Conscience Economy

By: Steven Overman

Narrated by: Dana Hickox

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A generation of people around the world, from Boston to Bangkok, from New York to New Delhi, are making everyday choices in ways that defy traditional logic. They are judging where and how their clothes were made, not just how they fit. They are thinking global but buying local. They are spending their money and their time, forming loyalties,... Read more

How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life

By: Russ Roberts

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A forgotten book by one of history's greatest thinkers reveals the surprising connections between happiness, virtue, fame, and fortune. Adam Smith may have become the patron saint of capitalism after he penned his most famous work, The Wealth of Nations. But few people know that when it came to the behavior of individuals—the way we perceive... Read more

Right for a Reason

By: Miriam Weaver & Amy Jo Clark

Narrated by: Miriam Weaver & Amy Jo Clark

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

"It's time for a real, snarktastic, humor-filled look at what makes conservatism right. We conservatives have truth and rationality and logic on our side. We just need to remind ourselves why we are right, and we need that reminder delivered in a way that's not a lecture, not a history lesson, and not a complicated political diatribe."If you... Read more

The Perfect Kill

By: Robert B. Baer

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

What is the definition of assassination? Robert B. Baer’s boss at the CIA once told him, “It’s a bullet with a man’s name on it.” Sometimes assassination is the senseless act of a psychotic, a bloodletting without social value. Other times, it can be the sanest and most humane way to change the course of conflict—one bullet, one death, case... Read more

Dreamers and Deceivers

By: Glenn Beck

Narrated by: Jeremy Lowell

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From Glenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset, comes the powerful follow-up to his national bestseller Miracles and Massacres, which was praised as “moving, provocative, and masterful” (Michelle Malkin, bestselling author of Culture of Corruption).

Everyone has heard of a “Ponzi scheme,” but do you know what Charles... Read more

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: The Untold Story

By: Barbara Leaming

Narrated by: Eliza Foss

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The untold story of how one woman's life was changed forever in a matter of seconds by a horrific trauma.

Barbara Leaming's extraordinary and deeply sensitive biography is the first book to document Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' brutal, lonely and valiant thirty-one year struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that followed JFK's... Read more

The Good Son

By: Christopher Andersen

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Day John Died delivers another dramatic installment in the lives of the Kennedys—including new details about JFK Jr., his relationship with his mother, his many girlfriends, and the night of his tragic death.Critically acclaimed author Christopher Andersen is a master of celebrity... Read more

Conversations with Major Dick Winters

By: Colonel Cole C. Kingseed USA, (Ret.)

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

On the hellish battlefields of World War II Europe, Major Dick Winters led his Easy Company—the now-legendary Band of Brothers—from the confusion and chaos of the D-day invasion to the final capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest.But Winters' story didn't end there; it was only the beginning.He was a quiet, reluctant hero whose modesty and strength... Read more

Parachute Infantry

By: David Kenyon Webster

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 17 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

David Kenyon Webster's memoir is a clear-eyed, emotionally charged chronicle of youth, camaraderie, and the chaos of war. Relying on his own letters home and recollections he penned just after his discharge, Webster gives a firsthand account of life in E Company, 101st Airborne Division, crafting a memoir that resonates with the immediacy of a... Read more

When Lions Roar

By: Thomas Maier

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 21 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The first comprehensive history of the deeply entwined personal and public lives of the Churchills and the Kennedys and what their special relationship meant for Great Britain and the United StatesWhen Lions Roar begins in the mid-1930s at Chartwell, Winston Churchill's country estate, with new revelations surrounding a secret business deal... Read more

Submission

By: Ayaan Hirsi Ali & Bret Stephens

Narrated by: Thane Rosenbaum

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s been 10 years since Submission’s director, Theo van Gogh, was murdered in retaliation for making this controversial short film that confronts the violence against women that is permitted under the Koran and practiced in conservative Islamic cultures. Thane Rosenbaum leads a discussion with the film’s screenwriter, human rights activist... Read more

Kidnapped by the Taliban

By: Dilip Joseph, M.D.

Narrated by: Vikas Adam

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Being abducted and held captive by the Taliban isn't a tale many survive to tell. An American doctor shares the harrowing story about the four days he spent with his captors after being abducted on a humanitarian mission and his incredible rescue by SEAL Team Six.On December 5, 2012, American medical doctor Dilip Joseph and two colleagues are... Read more

On His Own Terms

By: Richard Norton Smith

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 40 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE BOSTON GLOBE, BOOKLIST, AND KIRKUS REVIEWS • From acclaimed historian Richard Norton Smith comes the definitive life of an American icon: Nelson Rockefeller—one of the most complex and compelling figures of the twentieth century.
 
Fourteen years in the making, this magisterial biography of the... Read more

Hands Off My Gun

By: Dana Loesch

Narrated by: Dana Loesch

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Respected conservative talk show host, blogger and TV commentator Dana Loesch gives her views on the history and intent of the Second Amendment and discusses what she believes gun confiscation would mean to Americans' basic rights as citizens.

How many people in America today are truly well-versed in the history of the Second Amendment, and why... Read more

The Snowden Files

By: Luke Harding

Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In a tour de force of investigative journalism that reads like a spy novel, award-winning Guardian reporter Luke Harding tells Edward Snowden’s astonishing story

Edward Snowden was a 29-year-old computer genius working for the National Security Agency when he shocked the world by exposing the near-universal mass surveillance programs of the... Read more

Knife Fights

By: John A. Nagl

Narrated by: Brian Hutchison

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the most important army officers of his generation, a memoir of the revolution in warfare he helped lead, in combat and in Washington When John Nagl was an army tank commander in the first Gulf War of 1991, fresh out of West Point and Oxford, he could already see that America's military superiority meant that the age of conventional... Read more