Politics & Economy audiobooks

The First Family Detail

By: Ronald Kessler

Narrated by: Michael Bybee

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  • “Ron Kessler appears to get everything first.”—Slate

As in a play, presidents, vice presidents, and presidential candidates perform onstage for the public and the media. What the nation’s leaders are really like and what goes on behind the scenes remain hidden. Secret Service agents have a front-row seat on their... Read more

The Republic

By: Plato

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Long regarded as the most accurate rendering of Plato’s Republic that has yet been published, this widely acclaimed work is the first strictly literal translation of a timeless classic. This second edition includes a new introduction by Professor Bloom, whose careful translation and interpretation of The Republic was first published in 1968. In... Read more

Political Ideals - Abridged

By: Bertrand Russell

Narrated by: Peter Bishop

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Russell sets forth the idea that political ideals must be based upon the ideals that best benefit the individual to create the best life possible. He details the issues that his current economic system and the unequal distribution of wealth present in achieving said ideals. He puts forth his beliefs on what the purposes of an economic system... Read more

The Nixon Defense

By: John W. Dean

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 26 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on Nixon’s overlooked recordings, New York Times bestselling author John W. Dean connects the dots between what we’ve come to believe about Watergate and what actually happened
 
Watergate forever changed American politics, and in light of the revelations about the NSA’s widespread surveillance program, the scandal has taken on new... Read more

Rand Paul, Cory Booker team up for REDEEM Act

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The political odd couple of Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., have introduced new legislation in hopes of reforming the nation’s criminal justice system. They join Judy Woodruff to discuss why former prisoners should be given more opportunity to re-enter the workforce, the chances of this bill becoming law and the benefits of... Read more

The Hole in Our Gospel Special Edition

By: Richard Stearns

Narrated by: Tommy Cresswell

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

ECPA 2010 Christian Book of the Year Award Winner! What Does God Expect of Us?Is our faith only about going to church, studying the Bible, and avoiding the most serious sins—or does God expect more? Have we embraced the whole gospel or a gospel with a hole in it?More than twenty years ago Rich Stearns came face-to-face with that question as he... Read more

Thirty Years of Treason, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Eric Bentley

Narrated by: Nathan Dana Aldrich, Paul Boehmer, Scott Brick,...

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A chilling reenactment of the Federal government’s anti-Communist investigationsEric Bentley has chosen highlights from the thirty-year record of the House Un-American Activities Committee to demonstrate HUAC’s focus on artists, intellectuals, and performers. Volume 2: 1951–1952 includes the testimonies of Clifford Odets, Edward G. Robinson,... Read more

Take No Prisoners

By: David Horowitz

Narrated by: John McLain

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Battle-scarred political warrior David Horowitz says it's time for conservatives to take the gloves off—and take our country back.America is at a crucial turning point in its history, and Republicans have been losing ground to Democrats for too long. In Take No Prisoners, Horowitz sounds a clarion call for conservatives to use liberals'... Read more

The Clinton, Inc.

By: Daniel Halper

Narrated by: Harvey Betancourt

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Weekly Standard editor Daniel Halper provides a meticulously researched account of the brilliant calculations, secret deals, and occasionally treacherous maneuverings that led to the Clintons’ return to political prominence.In the twelve years since the Clintons left the White House, they have gone from being virtually penniless to... Read more

Double Agent

By: Peter Duffy

Narrated by: George Newbern & Peter Duffy

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The never-before-told tale of the German-American who infiltrated New York’s Nazi underground in the days leading up to World War II: “Thrilling, well-researched, well-told, fascinating” (Minneapolis Star Tribune).

He was the first hero of World War II and yet the American public has never seen his face. William G. Sebold, a naturalized American... Read more

Good Morning, Mr Mandela

By: Zelda la Grange

Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A white Afrikaner, Zelda la Grange grew up in segregated South Africa, supporting the regime and the rules of apartheid. Her conservative family referred to the imprisoned Nelson Mandela as “a terrorist.” Yet just a few years after his release and the end of apartheid, she would be traveling the world by Mr. Mandela's side, having grown to... Read more

Operation Shakespeare

By: John Shiffman

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In Operation Shakespeare, investigative journalist John Shiffman traces a high-risk undercover operation launched by an elite undercover Homeland Security unit created to stop the Iranians, Russians, Chinese, Pakistanis, and North Koreans from acquiring sophisticated American-made electronics capable of guiding missiles, jamming radar, and... Read more

The Murder of the Middle Class

By: Wayne Allyn Root

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

President Obama's goal is to create a two-class society: the poor and the superrich.Decades of liberals—and even a few supposed "Republicans"—have helped push America toward this goal, and President Obama hopes to finish their work. Why? Because this two-class society cements the crony capitalism that feeds big government and keeps corrupt big... Read more

Washington Journal

By: Elizabeth Drew

Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin

Length: 22 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Unfolding over the course of a single year, from September 1973 to August 1974, Washington Journal is the record of the near-dissolution of a nation's political conscience—told from within. In this book, we see corruption in its most prosaic and grandest forms, along with occasional flashes of decency, ethics, and humanity, and other sights... Read more

Why "Doctor Zhivago" was dangerous

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

When Boris Pasternak finished his novel Dr. Zhivago in 1956, Soviet authorities refused to publish the tale of an individual’s struggle amid the Russian Revolution. A new book, The Zhivago Affair, tells the story of how Pasternak’s novel came to be published and smuggled back into the Soviet Union — with help from the CIA. Jeffrey Brown talks to... Read more

The Greatest Comeback

By: Patrick J. Buchanan

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Patrick J. Buchanan, bestselling author and senior advisor to Richard Nixon, tells the definitive story of Nixon's resurrection from the political graveyard and his rise to the presidency.

After suffering stinging defeats in the 1960 presidential election against John F. Kennedy, and in the 1962 California gubernatorial election, Nixon's career... Read more

I Said Yes to Everything

By: Lee Grant

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir by Academy Award–winning actress Lee Grant, detailing her starring roles in Valley of the Dolls and Shampoo, her twelve years on the Hollywood blacklist, and a singularly unpredictable life. Read more

To Fight Alongside Friends

By: author

Narrated by: Finlay Robertson

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The First World War Diaries of Manchester Pals Captain Charlie May – written and kept in secret and published now for the first time. A born storyteller, Charlie May’s vivid eye for detail and warm good humour brings his experience in the trenches (and the experience of millions of ordinary men like him) to life for a 21st-century... Read more

How the Civil Rights Act Changed America

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

July 2, 2014 marked 50 years since President Lyndon Johnson signed the landmark Civil Rights Act, outlawing discrimination based on race, ethnicity and sex. Gwen Ifill is joined by Todd Purdum to discuss his new book, An Idea Whose Time Has Come, which tells the story of how the legislation came to be. Read more

Fierce Patriot

By: Robert L. O'Connell

Narrated by: Andrew Garman

Length: 14 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

With a unique, witty, and conversational voice historian Robert O'Connell breaks down the often paradoxical, easily caricatured character of General William T. Sherman for the most well-rounded portrait of the man yet written. There were many Shermans, according to O'Connell. Most prominently was Sherman the military strategist (indeed, one of... Read more

Dear Leader

By: Jang Jin-sung

Narrated by: Daniel York

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

THE STORY THEY COULDN'T HACK: In this international bestseller, a high-ranking counterintelligence agent describes his life as a former poet laureate to Kim Jong-il and his breathtaking escape to freedom.

As North Korea’s State Poet Laureate, Jang Jin-sung led a charmed life. With food provisions (even as the country suffered through its great... Read more

Big Tent

By: Mallory Factor & Elizabeth Factor

Narrated by: various narrators, David Cochran Heath, John Pr...

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author, professor, and pundit Mallory Factor illuminates the conservative tradition in American politics with essays from leading figures in the conservative movement.Ambitious in its breadth and depth, Big Tent provides a fresh and surprising treatment of the conservative movement as told by the leaders themselves. In this unique... Read more

How the Poor Can Save Capitalism

By: John Hope Bryant

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook has a simple message for business leaders: your primary goal must be to serve and raise the poor. The poor need to enter the economic system to buy products, put money in banks, and move into the middle class. This is the only approach that can possibly save the American Dream.John Hope Bryant, successful self-made businessman and... Read more

Blood Feud

By: Edward Klein

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In this highly anticipated follow-up to his blockbuster New York Times bestseller The Amateur, former New York Times Magazine editor-in-chief Edward Klein delves into the rocky relationship between the Obamas and the Clintons. An old-school reporter with incredible insider contacts, Klein reveals just how deep the rivalry between the Obamas and... Read more