Politics & Economy audiobooks

The Divide

By: Matt Taibbi

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 13 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, AND KIRKUS REVIEWS

A scathing portrait of an urgent new American crisis
 
Over the last two decades, America has been falling deeper and deeper into a statistical mystery:
 
Poverty goes up. Crime goes down. The prison population doubles.
Fraud by the... Read more

Mass Incarceration

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

During Michael Santos’ 26 years in federal prisons, he read books on history and law, earned undergraduate and master’s degrees and wrote seven books about the criminal justice system. Now, just six months after his release, Santos is imploring prisoners to follow his lead, and speaking out against the U.S. correctional system. Jeffrey Brown has... Read more

The Communist Manifesto

By: Friedrich Engels & Karl Marx

Narrated by: Joe Geoffrey

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Edited by Samuel H. Beer, with key selections from Capital and The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, this volume features an especially helpful introduction that serves as a guide to Marxist political and economic theory and to placing the specific writings in their contemporary setting. Included are a bibliography and list of important... Read more

Menachem Begin

By: Daniel Gordis

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Reviled as a fascist by his great rival Ben-Gurion, venerated by Israel’s underclass, the first Israeli to win the Nobel Peace Prize, a proud Jew but not a conventionally religious one, Menachem Begin was both complex and controversial. Born in Poland in 1913, Begin was a youthful admirer of the Revisionist Zionist Ze’ev Jabotinsky and soon... Read more

Bending Adversity

By: David Pilling

Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon

Length: 14 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In Bending Adversity, Financial Times Asia editor David Pilling presents a fresh vision of Japan, drawing on his own deep experience, as well as observations from a cross section of Japanese citizenry, including novelist Haruki Murakami, former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi, industrialists and bankers, activists and artists, teenagers and... Read more

Long Mile Home

By: Scott Helman & Jenna Russell

Narrated by: Jim Frangione

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The full story of the Boston Marathon bombing, the hunt for the Tsarnaev brothers, and a city's brave response to terror--drawing from Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the story in The Boston Globe.
 
When two bombs exploded at the densely crowded finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013, the whole world watched in shock as the story... Read more

The Evolution a Corporate Idealist

By: Christine Bader

Narrated by: Christine Bader & Rose Itzcovitz

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

There is an invisible army of people deep inside the world’s biggest and best-known companies, pushing for safer and more responsible practices. They are trying to prevent the next Rana Plaza factory collapse, the next Deepwater Horizon explosion, the next Foxconn labor abuses. Obviously, they don’t always succeed. Christine Bader was one of... Read more

What Works

By: Cal Thomas

Narrated by: Cal Thomas

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

We didn’t just crawl out of a cave. We know what works based on experience. Why must we constantly re-fight the same battles over and over? Our politics and even our spiritual lives too often resemble the film “Groundhog Day” in which actor Bill Murray wakes up and repeats the same event again and again and nothing ever changes, as in... Read more

American Spartan

By: Ann Scott Tyson

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Danny Campbell

Length: 15 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Lawrence of Arabia meets Sebastian Junger's War in this unique, incendiary, and dramatic true story of heroism and heartbreak in Afghanistan written by a Pulitzer Prize–nominated war correspondent.Army Special Forces Major Jim Gant changed the face of America’s war effort in Afghanistan. A decorated Green Beret who spent years in Afghanistan and... Read more

Stalin

By: Paul Johnson

Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Paul Johnson, the most celebrated popular historian of our time, takes a scalpel to Stalin, whom he considers “one of the outstanding monsters of history.” Johnson sets forth the essence of Stalin’s life, character, and career. “It has been a hateful task, which has caused me much pain and disgust,” he writes with characteristic candor. “But it... Read more

A Call to Action

By: Jimmy Carter

Narrated by: Jimmy Carter

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In the highly acclaimed bestselling A Call to Action, President Jimmy Carter addresses the world’s most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation of basic human rights: the ongoing discrimination and violence against women and girls.

President Carter was encouraged to write this book by a wide coalition of leaders of all faiths. His urgent report... Read more

Asia's Cauldron

By: Robert D. Kaplan

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the last decade, the center of world power has been quietly shifting from Europe to Asia. With oil reserves of several billion barrels, an estimated nine hundred trillion cubic feet of natural gas, and several centuries' worth of competing territorial claims, the South China Sea in particular is a simmering pot of potential conflict. The... Read more

La audacia de la esperanza (abreviado) - Abridged

By: Barack Obama

Narrated by: Erwin Dorado

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Reflexiones sobre como Restaurar el sueño Americano FonoLibro se complace en presentar el audiolibro en español "La audacia de la esperanza" del recién electo a la presidencia de los Estados Unidos de América, Barack Obama. En Julio de 2004, Barack Obama electrificó a la Convención Nacional Demócrata con un discurso que llegó a los Americanos de... Read more

Not Cool

By: Greg Gutfeld

Narrated by: Steve Kramer

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Behind every awful, dangerous decision lurks one evil beast: the Cool.  
 
From politics to the personal, from fashion to food, from the campus to the locker room, the desire to be cool has infected  all aspects of our lives. At its most harmless, it is annoying. At its worst, it is deadly, on a massive scale.  The Cool are the termites of life,... Read more

How to Fight Presidents

By: Daniel O'Brien

Narrated by: Richard McGonagle

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Make no mistake: Our founding fathers were more bandanas-and-muscles than powdered-wigs-and-tea.
 
As a prisoner of war, Andrew Jackson walked several miles barefoot across state lines while suffering from smallpox and a serious head wound received when he refused to polish the boots of the soldiers who had taken him captive. He was thirteen... Read more

Civil Disobedience

By: Henry David Thoreau

Narrated by: Jefferson Mays

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

American author, poet, and philosopher Henry David Thoreau was a passionate abolitionist. Inspired by his opposition to slavery, his illuminating essay "Civil Disobedience" presents the theory that "the government is best that governs least." A powerful testament that remains as important today as it was during its conception, this theory argues... Read more

Forgotten Voices Of The Great War

By: Max Arthur

Narrated by: Richard Bebb

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1960, the Imperial War Museum began a momentous task. A team of academics, archivists and volunteers set about tracing ordinary men and women who had lived through one of the most harrowing periods of modern history, the First World War. Veterans were interviewed in details about their day-to-day experiences, on and off the front. The project... Read more

Money

By: Felix Martin

Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From ancient currency to Adam Smith, from the gold standard to shadow banking and the Great Recession: a sweeping historical epic that traces the development and evolution of one of humankind’s greatest inventions.

What is money, and how does it work? In this tour de force of political, cultural and economic history, Felix Martin challenges... Read more

You Can Date Boys When You're Forty

By: Dave Barry

Narrated by: Dave Barry

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

If there’s one thing that New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Dave Barry is an expert on, it’s raising a daughter.

…which means he’s not an expert on much considering the breadth of his knowledge on that subject fills only a single chapter of a book. However, what Dave Barry is good at is giving unsolicited... Read more

Unleashing the Second American Century

By: Joel Kurtzman

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

Political gridlock in Washington... the lingering effects of the financial crisis... structural problems such as unemployment and the skills gap of our work force... the mediocre K-12 educational system. Are our best days behind us? Joel Kurtzman persuasively shows why all the talk about America’s decline is not only baseless but dead wrong.... Read more

Eyes on Target

By: Scott McEwen & Richard Miniter

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Told through the eyes of current and former Navy SEALs, EYES ON TARGET is an inside account of some of the most harrowing missions in American history-including the mission to kill Osama bin Laden and the mission that wasn't, the deadly attack on the US diplomatic outpost in Benghazi where a retired SEAL sniper with a small team held off one... Read more

Eyes on Target

By: Scott McEwen & Richard Miniter

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Told through the eyes of current and former Navy SEALs, EYES ON TARGET is an inside account of some of the most harrowing missions in American history-including the mission to kill Osama bin Laden and the mission that wasn't, the deadly attack on the US diplomatic outpost in Benghazi where a retired SEAL sniper with a small team held off one... Read more

Questioning solitary confinement for teens

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

At Rikers Island, New York City’s main jail complex, about a quarter of the underaged teenagers who are awaiting trial are in solitary confinement, spending 23 hours a day in a 6 by 8 ft cell. Daffodil Altan of the Center for Investigative Reporting takes a look at concern from city officials and others about the psychological effects of... Read more

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

By: Olive Gilbert

Narrated by: Bobbie Frohman

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth is a poignant biography as told to Olive Gilbert by Isabella Bomefree—a slave born at the end of the eighteenth century who later took the name of Sojourner Truth. She recounts the harshness of life under slavery, as well as what transpired after she won her freedom, when she became a vociferous abolitionist, a... Read more