Politics & Economy audiobooks

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

King Rules

By: Alveda King

Narrated by: Jackie Schlicher

Length: 4 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In King Rules, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. shares that message in a deeply personal collection of hard-learned lessons, timeless truths, and foundational principles.Dr. Alveda King’s words are lovingly crafted yet refreshingly blunt at a time when bluntness is needed to counter the forces of moral drift and empty relativism.Beginning... Read more

The Zhivago Affair

By: Petra Couvée & Peter Finn

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In May of 1956, an Italian publishing scout took a train to the Russian countryside to visit the country’s most beloved poet, Boris Pasternak. He left concealing the original manuscript of Pasternak’s much anticipated first novel, entrusted to him with these words from the author: “This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the... Read more

Redeeming the Dream

By: David Boies & Theodore B. Olson

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The riveting inside story of the Supreme Court's landmark rulings on the Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8—by the two lawyers who argued the caseOn June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a pair of landmark decisions, striking down the Defense of Marriage Act and eliminating California's discriminatory Proposition 8,... Read more

Churchill and Empire

By: Lawrence James

Narrated by: Michael Healy

Length: 17 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

One of our finest narrative historians, Lawrence James has written an illuminating, genuinely new biography of Winston Churchill that focuses solely on his contradictory relationship with the British Empire. As a young army officer in the late nineteenth century serving in conflicts in India, South Africa, and the Sudan, his attitude toward the... Read more

Money

By: Elizabeth Ames & Steve Forbes

Narrated by: Steve Forbes

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

***Updated content to coincide with the public television documentary, In Money We Trust*** Why a return to sound money is our only hope for a true recovery and a healthy global economy Few topics are as misunderstood today as the subject of money. Since the U.S. abandoned a gold-linked dollar more than four decades ago, the world's... Read more

Uncertain Justice

By: Laurence Tribe & Joshua Matz

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 15 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Harvard Law School scholars Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz reveal how Chief Justice John Roberts is shaking the foundation of our nation’s laws in Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution.

From Citizens United to its momentous rulings regarding Obamacare and gay marriage, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts has... Read more

America

By: Dinesh D'Souza

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Is America a source of pride, as Americans have long held, or shame, as Progressives allege? Beneath an innocent exterior, are our lives complicit in a national project of theft, expropriation, oppression, and murder, or is America still the hope of the world?New York Times bestselling author Dinesh D'Souza says these questions are no mere... Read more

China's Second Continent

By: Howard W. French

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

An exciting, hugely revealing account of China’s burgeoning presence in Africa—a developing empire already shaping, and reshaping, the future of millions of people. A prizewinning foreign correspondent and former New York Times bureau chief in Shanghai and in West and Central Africa, Howard French is uniquely positioned to tell the... Read more

China's Second Continent

By: Howard W. French

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

An exciting, hugely revealing account of China's burgeoning presence in Africa-a developing empire already shaping, and reshaping, the future of millions of people.

A prizewinning foreign correspondent and former New York Times bureau chief in Shanghai and in West and Central Africa, Howard French is uniquely positioned to tell the story of... Read more

Falling in Love with America Again

By: Jim DeMint

Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In his new role as president and CEO of The Heritage Foundation, Jim DeMint has travelled the country talking to Americans about how to return to our founding principles and restore and protect our economy and culture for future generations. He's realized that he-and all of us as fellow citizens-must fall in love with America-again. In this... Read more

Success in Africa

By: Jonathan Berman

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In an era of slowing growth, Africa is home to a trillion-dollar, resource-rich economy, and six of the ten fastest growing markets in the world. Success in Africa introduces the ambitious CEOs who are building the continent. These stories of growth, technology, and tradition bring life to one of the most important stories of the global economy:... Read more

Separate is Never Equal

By: Duncan Tonatiuh

Narrated by: Adriana Sananes

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Almost 10 years before Brown vs. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez and her parents helped end school segregation in California. An American citizen of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage who spoke and wrote perfect English, Mendez was denied enrollment to a Whites only school. Her parents took action by organizing the Hispanic community and filing... Read more

A Nation's Hope

By: Matt de la Pena

Narrated by: J. D. Jackson

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

On the eve of World War II, African American boxer Joe Louis fought German Max Schmeling in a bout that had more at stake than just the world heavyweight title; for much of America their fight came to represent America's war with Germany. This elegant and powerful picture book biography centers around the historic fight in which Black and White... Read more

The Good Spy

By: Kai Bird

Narrated by: René Ruiz

Length: 14 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird’s compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important operatives in CIA history – a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and the West.
 
On April 18, 1983, a bomb exploded outside the American Embassy in Beirut, killing 63... Read more

One Nation

By: Ben Carson, MD & Candy Carson

Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Dear Reader, 

In February 2013 I gave a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast. Standing a few feet from President Obama, I warned my fellow citizens of the dangers facing our country and called for a return to the principles that made America great.

Many Americans heard and responded, but our nation’s decline has continued. Today the danger... Read more

Sons of Wichita

By: Daniel Schulman

Narrated by: Allen O'Reilly

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Like the Rockefellers and the Kennedys, the Kochs are one of the most influential dynasties of the modern age, but they have never been the subject of a major biography -- until now.

Not long after the death of his father, Charles Koch, then in his early 30s, discovered a letter the family patriarch had written to his sons. "You will receive... Read more

American Panic

By: Sheila C. Bair & Mark Stein

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

What political panics—from the Salem witch trials to the Tea Party—can tell us about our modern societyIn American Panic, New York Times bestselling author Mark Stein traces the history and consequences of American political panics through the years. Virtually every American, on one level or another, falls victim to the hype, intensity, and... Read more

The Fourth Revolution

By: John Micklethwait & Adrian Wooldridge

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling authors of The Right Nation , a visionary argument that our current crisis in government is nothing less than the fourth radical transition in the history of the nation-state Dysfunctional government: It' s become a clichE, and most of us are resigned to the fact that nothing is ever going to change. As John Micklethwait and... Read more

U.S. Marshals

By: Mike Earp & David Fisher

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Blending history and memoir, retired U.S. Marshal Mike Earp—a descendant of the legendary lawman Wyatt Earp—offers an exclusive and fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the most storied law enforcement agency in America, illuminating its vital role in the nation’s development for more than two hundred years.Mike Earp spent his career with the... Read more

Sergeant Stubby

By: Ann Bausum

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Told for the first time, here is the story of a stray dog who eventually became affectionately known as Sergeant Stubby, the most famous war dog of World War I. Beloved award-winning children's author Ann Bausum brings her friendly writing style and in-depth research to her first book for adults.Stubby's story begins in 1917 when America is... Read more

Stress Test

By: Timothy F. Geithner

Narrated by: Timothy F. Geithner

Length: 18 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller

Washington Post Bestseller

Los Angeles Times Bestseller

Stress Test is the story of Tim Geithner’s education in financial crises.
 
As president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and then as President Barack Obama’s secretary of the Treasury, Timothy F. Geithner helped the United States navigate the worst financial... Read more

Churchill and Empire

By: Lawrence James

Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong

Length: 14 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

One of our finest narrative historians, and journalist for the SUNDAY TIMES and LITERARY REVIEW, Lawrence James, has written a genuinely new biography of Winston Churchill, set within a fully detailed historical context, but solely focusing on his relationship with the British Empire. As a young army officer in the late 19th century, Churchill's... Read more