Politics & Economy audiobooks

Lincoln's Gamble

By: Todd Brewster

Narrated by: Todd Brewster

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant, authoritative, and riveting account of the most critical six months in Abraham Lincoln’s presidency, when he penned the Emancipation Proclamation and changed the course of the Civil War.On July 12, 1862, Abraham Lincoln spoke for the first time of his intention to free the slaves. On January 1, 1863, Lincoln signed the Emancipation... Read more

Forgetting to Be Afraid

By: Wendy Davis

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspiring memoir by one of the country’s brightest new political stars and hero to women’s rights supporters everywhere

In June of 2013, Texas state senator Wendy Davis became an overnight political sensation when she singlehandedly filibustered Governor Rick Perry’s sweeping anti-abortion bill. Her personal story is just as remarkable. The... Read more

The Terrorist's Son

By: Zak Ebrahim

Narrated by: Zak Ebrahim

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

An extraordinary story, never before told: The intimate, behind-the-scenes life of an American boy raised by his terrorist father—the man who planned the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

What is it like to grow up with a terrorist in your home? Zak Ebrahim was only seven years old when, on November 5th, 1990, his father El-Sayyid Nosair shot and... Read more

Eisenhower

By: Paul Johnson

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed historian Paul Johnson's lively, succinct biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower explores how his legacy endures today. In the rousing style he's famous for, celebrated historian Paul Johnson offers a fascinating biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower, focusing particularly on his years as a five-star general and his two terms as president of... Read more

Level Zero Heroes

By: Michael Golembesky & John R. Bruning

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

An elite Marine special operations team, a battle to save downed soldiers in Afghanistan, a fight for survival—an incredible true story of war that became a New York Times bestseller.

In Level Zero Heroes, Michael Golembesky follows the members of U.S. Marine Special Operations Team 8222 on their assignment to the remote and isolated Taliban... Read more

Wisconsin group wants to turn student borrowers into activists

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Through the recession, college tuition skyrocketed at public universities to make up for flagging state funding. Some students who borrowed to keep up with rising costs face crushing debt repayments. Hari Sreenivasan travelled to Wisconsin to report on one group hoping to turn the state's student borrowers into a powerful voting bloc. Read more

The Dark Side of the Game

By: Tim Green

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Sportscaster and former National Football League defensive end Tim Green reveals what it's really like to play in the NFL in The Dark Side of the Game. In this-the Super Bowl champion of tell-all novels-an eight-year NFL veteran exposes the game he loves, warts and all. This audiobook is packed with hard-hitting inside information only a former... Read more

I Am Malala

By: Malala Yousafzai

Narrated by: Neela Vaswani & Malala Yousafzai

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling memoir by Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai.

I Am Malala. This is my story.

Malala Yousafzai was only ten years old when the Taliban took control of her region. They said music was a crime. They said women weren't allowed to go to the market. They said girls couldn't go to school.

Raised in a once-peaceful area of... Read more

The Way Forward

By: Paul Ryan

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

THE WAY FORWARD challenges conventional thinking, outlines his political vision for 2014 and beyond, and shows how essential conservatism is for the future of our nation.

Beginning with a careful analysis of the 2012 election--including a look at the challenge the GOP had in reaching a majority of voters and the prevalence of identity... Read more

The Way Forward

By: Paul Ryan

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From the intellectual leader of the Republican party, an unvarnished look into the state of the conservative movement today and a clear plan for what needs to be done to save the American Idea.

The Way Forward challenges conventional thinking, outlines his political vision for 2014 and beyond, and shows how essential conservatism is for the... Read more

Sharp black-white divide on perceptions of Ferguson

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Unrest continues to grip Ferguson, Missouri as the National Guard struggles to help restore order. Meanwhile, a new poll conducted by the Pew Research Center has found a stark racial divide in reactions to the Michael Brown shooting and the ongoing protests and violence in Ferguson. Judy Woodruff explores the situation with Carroll Doherty, the... Read more

The Invisible Soldiers

By: Ann Hagedorn

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The urgent truth about the privatization of America’s national security that exposes where this industry came from, how it operates, where it's heading—and why we should be concerned.Thirty years ago there were no private military and security companies (PMSCs); there were only mercenaries. Now the PMSCs are a bona-fide industry, an... Read more

Behind the Indictment: Did Texas Gov Rick Petty Abuse the Power of His Office?

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 2 minutes

Abridged: No

One day after a grand jury indicted Texas Gov. Rick Perry on two felony counts, charging that he abused the power of his office last year, questions remain about the governor's actions and what comes next. Tony Plohetski of the Austin American-Statesman newspaper joins Hari Sreenivasan from Austin. Read more

True Courage - Abridged

By: Made for Success, Gerald Coffee, Kelly Estes & ...

Narrated by: Gerald Coffee, Dan McGowan & Bill Chandler

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Full of action-packed experiences from world conflicts, this collection of war stories—some true, some not—tells tales of POWs surviving in Vietnam, World War II, and Cambodia. These stories of grit and strength put you in the middle of the action and will leave you with a respect for true war heroes.Beyond Survival is a journey into the... Read more

The Last Stalinist

By: Paul Preston

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 15 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The life of the complex, ruthless adversary of General Franco, whose life spanned much of Spain’s turbulent 20th century. From 1939 to 1975, the Spanish Communist Party, effectively lead for two decades by Santiago Carrillo, was the most determined opponent of General Franco’s Nationalist regime. Admired by many on the left... Read more

Dad’s Army

By: Jimmy Perry, David Croft & BBC

Narrated by: Arthur Lowe, Clive Dunn, Full Cast & John Le Me...

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Twenty episodes from the first BBC Radio series plus an hour-long Christmas special, 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... Read more

Darkwater

By: W. E. B. Du Bois

Narrated by: Bernard K. Addison, Dion Graham, Lisa Reneé Pit...

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

The distinguished American civil rights leader, W. E. B. Du Bois first published these fiery essays, sketches, and poems individually in 1920 in the Atlantic, the Journal of Race Development, and other periodicals. Reflecting the author's ideas as a politician, historian, and artist, this volume has long moved and inspired readers with its... Read more

Alexanderplatz, Berlin

By: Georg Diez

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Alexanderplatz has long survived as the symbol of a city burdened by its ruinous past. In 2012, twenty-year-old Jonny K. was beaten to death on this infamous Berlin square—and Germany’s first multicultural murder brought another shock to a country that’s seen its share. Before the trial, the question of guilt already had an ideological slant:... Read more

The Rush

By: Edward Dolnick

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A riveting portrait of the Gold Rush, by the award-winning author of Down the Great Unknown and The Forger's Spell.

In the spring of 1848, rumors began to spread that gold had been discovered in a remote spot in the Sacramento Valley. A year later, newspaper headlines declared "Gold Fever!" as hundreds of thousands of men and women borrowed... Read more

Killing of a Missouri teenager by police triggers unrest

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a police officer in a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, has sparked outrage and protests. Brown, a young African-American man, was unarmed. Jeffrey Brown gets reaction from Sherrilyn Ifill of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and Greg Meyer, former captain of the Los Angeles Police Department. Read more

The Future of the Gun

By: Frank Miniter

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The history of the American gun is intricately entwined with the history of America itself, and the potential future developments in gun technology could change the world. However, the radical anti-gun lobby stands between innovation and the American people. Bestselling author Frank Miniter describes amazing breakthroughs waiting to happen in... Read more

Debating criminal justice reforms

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The calls to address prison crowding and conditions have intensified as American inmate populations have grown. Jeffrey Brown gets debate on the shifting perceptions of the criminal justice system from Bill McCollum, former attorney general of Florida, Bryan Stevenson of Equal Justice Initiative, and Pat Nolan of the American Conservative Union... Read more

Adolescents at Rikers Island face excessive force

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

There’s a deep-seated culture of violence against teen inmates at one of the country’s largest municipal jails, Rikers Island in New York City. That’s how the U.S. attorney in Manhattan described practices and conduct there in a report.It also said staff at Rikers Island — quote — “routinely utilize force not as a last result, but instead as a... Read more

Brave Girl

By: Michelle Markel

Narrated by: Lesa Lockford

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

When Clara arrived in America, she couldn't speak English. She didn't know that young women had to go to work, that they traded an education for long hours of labor, that she was expected to grow up fast. But that didn't stop Clara. She went to night school, spent hours studying English, and helped support her family by sewing in a shirtwaist... Read more