Politics & Economy audiobooks

Unaccountable

By: Janine R. Wedel

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking book that challenges Americans to reevaluate our views on how corruption and private interest have infiltrated every level of societyFrom the Tea Party to Occupy Wall Street, however divergent their political views, these groups seem united by one thing: outrage over a system of power and influence that they feel has stolen... Read more

Give Me Liberty

By: Christopher L. Webber

Narrated by: Jim Manchester

Length: 20 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

"Give me liberty," demanded Patrick Henry, "or give me death!" Henry's words continue to echo in American history, and that quote, and the speech it comes from, remains one of the two or three known to almost every American. The other speeches that have become part of our American collective consciousness all have one theme in common: liberty.... Read more

All Things Possible

By: Andrew M. Cuomo

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 14 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In this frank memoir—a story of duty, family, justice, politics, and resilience—Andrew Cuomo, New York State's fifty-sixth governor, reflects on his rise, fall, and rise again in politics, and the tough (but necessary) lessons he has learned along the way.Born to first-generation American parents in the working-class neighborhood of Queens, New... Read more

Pay Any Price

By: James Risen

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

War corrupts. Endless war corrupts absolutely.Ever since 9/11 America has fought an endless war on terror, seeking enemies everywhere and never promising peace. In Pay Any Price, James Risen reveals an extraordinary litany of the hidden costs of that war: from squandered and stolen dollars, to outrageous abuses of power, to wars on normalcy,... Read more

Without You, There Is No Us

By: Suki Kim

Narrated by: Janet Song

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A haunting account of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign
 
Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea: Without you, there is no motherland. Without you, there is no us. It is a chilling scene, but... Read more

The Miracle of the Kurds

By: Stephen Mansfield

Narrated by: Stephen Mansfield

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Kurdistan is what America wanted Iraq to be. It’s America’s reward.Hundreds of thousands of Kurds were murdered under the tyrannical regime of Saddam Hussein. Some four thousand Kurdish villages were destroyed. Betrayed again and again by the nations of the world, the Kurds were as decimated as any people in history.Then came the Kurdish... Read more

Take Command

By: Jake Wood

Narrated by: Bo Foxworth

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In this groundbreaking book on high-stakes leadership, Co-founder and CEO of Team Rubicon and former Marine Sniper Jake Wood, shows how to apply hard-learned lessons in leadership and teamwork from the battlefield and disaster zone to your professional life.

What do elite members of the military, first responders in the disaster zone, and... Read more

Worthy Fights

By: Leon Panetta & Jim Newton

Narrated by: Leon Panetta

Length: 19 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling autobiography of a legendary political and military leader.
 
It could be said that Leon Panetta has had two of the most consequential careers of any American public servant in the past 50 years. His first career, beginning as an Army intelligence officer and including a distinguished run as one of the most powerful... Read more

Stolen

By: Cecil Murphey & Katariina Rosenblatt

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Sex trafficking is currently a hot news topic, but it is not a new problem or just a problem in "other" countries. Every year, an estimated 80,000 American children are lured into the sex trade, some as young as eight years old. It is thought that up to 90 percent of victims are never rescued. Stolen is the true story of one survivor who... Read more

Stop the Coming Civil War

By: Michael Savage

Narrated by: Barry Baer

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In the book that predicted our current political climate, conservative talk-show host and #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Savage shows how true patriots can defend America's freedoms before it's too late.

The split between the right and the left is growing every day, and our country is in real trouble. Not between the states, but... Read more

Bloody Ridge and Beyond

By: Marlin Groft & Larry Alexander

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A story of sacrifice and defiance at Guadalcanal, from the New York Times bestselling coauthor of A Higher Call and Biggest BrotherOn the killing ground that was the island of Guadalcanal, a two-thousand-yard-long ridge rose from the jungle canopy. Behind it lay the all-important air base of Henderson Field. And if Henderson Field fell, it would... Read more

Don’t Wait for the Next War

By: Wesley K. Clark

Narrated by: Donald Corren

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

With the end of the Cold War came not the end of history, but the end of America's sense of its strategic purpose in the world. Then, after a decade of drift, the United States was violently dragged back into international conflict. Its armed forces responded magnificently, but its leaders' objectives were substantially flawed. We fought the... Read more

Losing Our Way

By: Bob Herbert

Narrated by: Bob Herbert

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From longtime New York Times columnist Bob Herbert comes a wrenching portrayal of ordinary Americans struggling for survival in a nation that has lost its way

In his eighteen years as an opinion columnist for The New York Times, Herbert championed the working poor and the middle class. After filing his last column in 2011, he set off on a journey... Read more

American General

By: John S.D. Eisenhower

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From respected historian John S. D. Eisenhower comes a surprising portrait of William Tecumseh Sherman, the Civil War general whose path of destruction cut the Confederacy in two, broke the will of the Southern population, and earned him a place in history as "the first modern general." Yet behind his reputation as a fierce warrior was a... Read more

The Shifts and the Shocks

By: Martin Wolf

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 14 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From the chief economic commentator for the Financial Times, a brilliant tour d’horizon of the new global economy and its trajectory There have been many books that have sought to explain the causes and courses of the financial and economic crisis which began in 2007–8. The Shifts and the Shocks is not another detailed history of the crisis,... Read more

Enough

By: Gabrielle Giffords & Mark Kelly

Narrated by: Mark Kelly

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Gabrielle Giffords's documentary Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down is now in theaters nationwide!

Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, astronaut and Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, share their impassioned argument for responsible gun ownership.

After the 2011 Tucson shooting that nearly took her life, basic questions consumed... Read more

Putin's Kleptocracy

By: Karen Dawisha

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The raging question in the world today is who is the real Vladimir Putin and what are his intentions. Karen Dawisha’s brilliant Putin’s Kleptocracy provides an answer, describing how Putin got to power, the cabal he brought with him, the billions they have looted, and his plan to restore the Greater Russia.

Russian scholar Dawisha describes and... Read more

Rise of ISIS

By: Jay Sekulow

Narrated by: Jay Sekulow

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

THE DEFINITIVE BOOK ON ISIS
Jay Sekulow, one of America’s most influential attorneys, closely examines the rise of the terrorist groups ISIS and Hamas, explains their objectives and capabilities and how, if left undefeated, their existence could unleash a genocide of historic proportions.

Recently, the world has been shaken by gruesome photos and... Read more

How We Got to Now

By: Steven Johnson

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Look out for Johnson’s new book, Wonderland, on sale November 15, 2016.

From the New York Times–bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Everything Bad Is Good for You, a new look at the power and legacy of great ideas.
 
In this illustrated history, Steven Johnson explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing facets of... Read more

Rebel Yell

By: S. C. Gwynne

Narrated by: Cotter Smith

Length: 24 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the epic New York Times bestselling account of how Civil War general Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson became a great and tragic national hero.

Stonewall Jackson has long been a figure of legend and romance. As much as any person in the Confederate pantheon—even Robert E. Lee—he embodies the romantic... Read more

Seven Bad Ideas

By: Jeff Madrick

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the widely praised Age of Greed now gives us a bold indictment of some of our most accepted economic theories - why they're wrong, the harm they've done, and the theories that would vastly improve them. Jeff Madrick, a former columnist for The New York Times, is an economics columnist for Harper's, a regular contributor to The New... Read more

The Front Runner (All the Truth Is Out Movie Tie-in)

By: Matt Bai

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a major motion picture "The Front Runner" starring Hugh Jackman

An NPR Best Book of the Year

In May 1987, Colorado Senator Gary Hart—a dashing, reform-minded Democrat—seemed a lock for the party’s presidential nomination and led George H. W. Bush by double digits in the polls. Then, in one tumultuous week, rumors of marital infidelity and a... Read more

John Marshall

By: Harlow Giles Unger

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A soul-stirring biography of John Marshall, the young Republic's great chief justice who led the Supreme Court to power and brought law and order to the nationIn the political turmoil that convulsed America after George Washington's death, the surviving Founding Fathers went mad—literally pummeling each other in Congress and challenging one... Read more

The All New Don't Think of an Elephant!

By: George Lakoff

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Ten years after writing the definitive, international bestselling book on political debate and messaging, George Lakoff returns with new strategies about how to frame today’s essential issues.

Called the “father of framing” by The New York Times, Lakoff explains how framing is about ideas—ideas that come before policy, ideas that make sense of... Read more