Politics & Economy audiobooks

James Madison

By: Lynne Cheney

Narrated by: Eliza Foss

Length: 18 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A major new biography of the fourth U.S. president, from New York Times–bestselling author Lynne Cheney

James Madison was a true genius of the early republic, the leader who did more than any other to create the nation we know today. This majestic new biography tells his story.

Outwardly reserved, Madison was the intellectual driving force behind... Read more

Reagan at Reykjavik

By: Ken Adelman

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The dramatic, first-hand account of the historic 1986 Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Iceland—the definitive weekend that was the key turning point in the Cold War—by President Reagan’s arms control director, Ken Adelman.In October 1986, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev met for a forty-eight-hour summit in Reykjavik, Iceland. Planned as a short,... Read more

Rich Dad Advisors: Start Your Own Corporation

By: Garrett Sutton

Narrated by: Horacio Mancilla & Hugo Landaverde

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

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Conform

By: Glenn Beck

Narrated by: Jeremy Lowell

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Glenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset, considers the hot-button issue of education in the US, exposing the weaknesses of the Common Core school curriculum and examining why liberal solutions fail.

Public education is never mentioned in the constitution. Why? Because our founders knew that it was an issue for state... Read more

Thirty Years of Treason, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Eric Bentley

Narrated by: Claire Bloom, Nathan Dana Aldrich, Theodore Bik...

Length: 13 hours 18 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 1: 1938–1948 includes the testimonies of Hallie Flanagan, Ayn Rand, Adolphe... Read more

The Death of Money

By: James Rickards

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

"The next financial collapse will resemble nothing in history. . . . Deciding upon the best course to follow will require comprehending a minefield of risks, while poised at a crossroads, pondering the death of the dollar."


The international monetary system has collapsed three times in the past hundred years, in 1914, 1939, and 1971. Each... Read more

The Death of Money

By: James Rickards

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

“The next financial collapse will resemble nothing in history. . . . Deciding upon the best course to follow will require comprehending a minefield of risks, while poised at a crossroads, pondering the death of the dollar.” The international monetary system has collapsed three times in the past hundred years, in 1914, 1939, and 1971. Each... Read more

National spike in incarcerations affects communities

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

What to do about a decades-long growth in the number of Americans behind bars.That was the subject of a gathering of policy-makers, academics and law enforcement officials meeting in Washington today. It’s also the focus of new research released this week that questions how effective government has been at reducing crime.Jeffrey Brown looks... Read more

Conscious Capitalism

By: John Mackey & Raj Sisodia

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In this New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, Whole Foods Market cofounder John Mackey and professor and Conscious Capitalism, Inc. cofounder Raj Sisodia argue for the inherent good of both business and capitalism. Featuring some of today’s best-known and most successful companies, they illustrate how these two forces can—and... Read more

The Solution Revolution

By: William Eggers & Paul Macmillan

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

World hunger. Climate change. Crumbling infrastructure. It’s clear that in today’s era of fiscal constraints and political gridlock the government alone can no longer tackle these and other towering social problems. What’s required is a new, more collaborative and productive economic system. The Solution Revolution brings hope—revealing a new... Read more

Where the Wind Leads

By: Dr. Vinh Chung

Narrated by: Josh Aaron

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From the harrowing experiences of their journey across the South China Sea in the aftermath of the Vietnam War to the heartwarming account of their successful restaurant venture in America, the refugee story of Vinh Chung and his family is riveting. In a time where the current topics are immigration and human rights, this first-hand account... Read more

Blue Collar Conservatives

By: Rick Santorum

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Working class, blue-collar voters are staying home in droves instead of going to the polls to support Republicans. The reason? Despite their deeply conservative values, they don't think Republicans speak for them and their interests. In Blue Collar Conservatives, former presidential candidate Rick Santorum explains how we can reenergize the... Read more

Game Plan

By: Kevin D. Freeman

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Game Plan is the first "how to" investment handbook of its type. It will explain the emerging risks and provide a complete game plan of response for investors at all levels. Freeman will explain that there is no "one size fits all" solution as events are happening quickly and the challenges can morph suddenly. Just as a football team must plan... Read more

Churchill: History in an Hour

By: Andrew Mulholland

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour… Sir Winston Churchill was a soldier, journalist, writer, Nobel Prize winner and, above all, a leader. Conservative then Liberal then Conservative again, his political instincts won him a sustained career at the summit of British government, while his resolve and politics... Read more

D-Day: History in an Hour

By: Rupert Colley

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. Midnight, Tuesday 6 June 1944: the beginning of D-Day, the operation to invade Nazi-occupied Western Europe and initiate the final phase of World War II. A vast undertaking, it involved 12,000 aircraft and an amphibious assault of almost 7,000 vessels. 160,000 troops... Read more

Abraham Lincoln: History in an Hour

By: Kat Smutz

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States, is an American icon. To many, he is a symbol of values, sacrifice and determination. Modern notions of nationalism, liberty, and constitution all owe their debt to Lincoln, as does the unity of the American... Read more

Coming Up Trumps: A Memoir

By: Jean Trumpington

Narrated by: Sarah Badel

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In this witty, candid and utterly fascinating memoir, Baroness Trumpington looks back on her long and remarkable life. The daughter of an officer in the Bengal Lancers and an American heiress, she was born in 1922 into a world of privilege and luxury. But her mother lost most of her inheritance in the Wall Street Crash and the family retrenched... Read more

How Much Does it Really Cost to Live in a City Like Seattle?

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In Seattle, there is a growing push to raise the minimum wage 62 percent to $15 an hour, which the University of Washington has calculated as the minimum cost of living for an adult with one child. But would the benefits of the wage hike actually outweigh the costs? Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports. Read more

Six Amendments

By: Justice John Paul Stevens

Narrated by: Daniel Hagen

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

For the first time ever, a retired Supreme Court Justice offers a manifesto on how the Constitution needs to change.

By the time of his retirement in June 2010, John Paul Stevens had become the second longest serving Justice in the history of the Supreme Court. Now he draws upon his more than three decades on the Court, during which he was... Read more

A Fighting Chance

By: Elizabeth Warren

Narrated by: Elizabeth Warren

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In A Fighting Chance, an unlikely political star tells the inspiring story of the two-decade journey that taught her how Washington really works—and really doesn't

As a child in small-town Oklahoma, Elizabeth Warren yearned to go to college and then become an elementary school teacher—an ambitious goal, given her family's modest means. Early... Read more

Forcing the Spring

By: Jo Becker

Narrated by: Jamie Leonhart

Length: 14 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Forcing the Spring begins on Election Night 2008, when a controversial California ballot initiative called Proposition 8—which removed the right of gay men and women to marry—passed alongside Barack Obama’s stunning victory.

Forcing the Spring details how a small but determined group of political and media insiders took the fight for marriage... Read more

Dinner with Churchill

By: Cita Stelzer

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A friend once said of Churchill: "He is a man of simple tastes; he is quite easily satisfied with the best of everything." But dinners for Churchill were about more than good food, excellent champagnes, and Havana cigars. "Everything" included the opportunity to use the dinner table both as a stage on which to display his brilliant... Read more

Overcome obstacles to effective climate policy?

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The latest UN report on climate change suggests ways to potentially ward off the worst impacts of rising emissions. But these scenarios come with real costs, and have faced political opposition as well as reluctance from the American public. Judy Woodruff learns more from Robert Stavins of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Maura... Read more

Guardian of the Republic

By: Allen West

Narrated by: Allen West

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the course of the past few decades, Allen West has had many titles bestowed on him, among them Lt. Colonel, U.S. Representative, "Dad," and Scourge of the Far Left. He rose from humble beginnings in Atlanta where his father instilled in him a code of conduct that would inform his life ever after. Throughout his years leading troops, raising... Read more