Politics & Economy audiobooks

Mandela: An Audio History

By: author

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Recognized as one of the most comprehensive oral histories of apartheid ever broadcast (NPR, BBC, CBC, SABC), Mandela: An Audio History tells the story of the struggle against apartheid through rare sound recordings. The series weaves together more than 50 first-person interviews with an unprecedented collection of archival sound: a rare... Read more

Dark Invasion

By: Howard Blum

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Combining the pulsating drive of Showtime's Homeland with the fascinating historical detail of such of narrative nonfiction bestsellers as Double Cross and In the Garden of Beasts, Dark Invasion is Howard Blum’s gritty, high-energy true-life tale of German espionage and terror on American soil during World War I, and the NYPD Inspector who... Read more

The Twilight of the American Enlightenment

By: George M. Marsden

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In the aftermath of World War II, the United States stood at a precipice. The forces of modernity unleashed by the war had led to astonishing advances in daily life, but technology and mass culture also threatened to erode the country's traditional moral character. As award-winning historian George M. Marsden explains in The Twilight of the... Read more

Code Name: Johnny Walker

By: Johnny Walker & Jim DeFelice

Narrated by: Peter Ganim

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In this unforgettable memoir, the Navy SEALs’ most trusted translator—a man who is credited with saving countless American lives and became a legend in the special-ops community—tells his inspiring story for the first time.As the insurgency in Iraq intensified following the American invasion, U.S. Navy SEALs were called upon to root terrorists... Read more

HRC

By: Jonathan Allen & Amie Parnes

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 15 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The mesmerizing story of Hillary Clinton's political rebirth, based on eyewitness accounts from deep inside her inner circle

Hillary Clinton’s surprising defeat in the 2008 Democratic primary brought her to the nadir of her political career, vanquished by a much younger opponent whose message of change and cutting-edge tech team ran circles... Read more

Defiant

By: Alvin Townley

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 14 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of the indomitable American POWs who endured "Alcatraz," the Hanoi prison camp where North Vietnam locked its most dangerous and subversive prisoners, and the wives who fought to bring them homeDuring the Vietnam War, hundreds of American prisoners of war faced years of brutal conditions and horrific torture at the hands of communist... Read more

Lincoln's Boys

By: Joshua Zeitz

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A timely and intimate look into Abraham Lincoln’s White House through the lives of his two closest aides and confidants

Lincoln’s official secretaries John Hay and John Nicolay enjoyed more access, witnessed more history, and knew Lincoln better than anyone outside of the president’s immediate family. Hay and Nicolay were the gatekeepers of the... Read more

The Party's Over

By: Charlie Crist & Ellis Henican

Narrated by: Charlie Crist

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Charlie Crist, the former Republican governor of Florida, spent years in the party’s inner circle. In this no-holds-barred memoir, he shows why he switched sides and became a Democrat.

After serving as a Republican governor—one who was on the short list for the vice presidency in 2008—Charlie Crist made headlines when he decided to run for the... Read more

Game-Changer

By: David McAdams

Narrated by: Grover Gardner & David McAdams

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A radically new, and easily learned, way to outstrategize your rivals. “The wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.” So wrote Zhuge Liang, the great Chinese military strategist. He was referring to battlefield tactics, but the same can be said about any strategic situation. Even seemingly certain defeat can be turned into... Read more

The Upside of Down

By: Charles Kenny

Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

America is in decline, and the rise of the East suggests a bleak future for the world's only superpower - so goes the conventional wisdom. But what if the traditional measures of national status are no longer as important as they once were? What if America's well-being was assessed according to entirely different factors?



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The Upside of Down

By: Charles Kenny

Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

America is in decline, and the rise of the East suggests a bleak future for the world’s only superpower – so goes the conventional wisdom. But what if the traditional measures of national status are no longer as important as they once were? What if America’s well-being was assessed according to entirely different factors? In The Upside of... Read more

ARIK

By: David Landau

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 19 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

From the former editor in chief of Haaretz, the first in-depth, comprehensive biography of Ariel Sharon, the most dramatic and imposing Israeli political and military leader of the last forty years. The life of Ariel Sharon spans much of modern Israel’s history. A commander in the Israeli Army from its inception in 1948, Sharon participated in... Read more

Windfall

By: McKenzie Funk

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Global warming’s physical impacts can be separated into three broad categories: melt, drought, and deluge. Funk travels to two dozen countries to profile entrepreneurial people who see a potential windfall in each of these forces.

The melt is a boon for newly arable, mineral rich regions of the Arctic, such as Greenland—and for the man-made snow... Read more

Eating Local Food As An Act Of Belonging

By: Vicki Robin

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Robin shares how industrial agriculture has distanced us from the hands that grow and process our food. She explores why eating from your bioregion is good for you, good for your community, and good for the planet. As we commit, in some small way, to eating within a radius of where we live, we help turn the tide toward sustainable living and... Read more

The Undercover Economist Strikes Back

By: Tim Harford

Narrated by: Cameron Stewart & Gavin Osborne

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A provocative and lively exploration of the increasingly important world of macroeconomics, by the author of the bestselling The Undercover Economist.

Thanks to the worldwide financial upheaval, economics is no longer a topic we can ignore. From politicians to hedge-fund managers to middle-class IRA holders, everyone must pay attention to how and... Read more

The Undercover Economist Strikes Back

By: Tim Harford

Narrated by: Cameron Stewart & Gavin Osborne

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Thanks to the worldwide financial upheaval, economics is no longer a topic we can ignore. From politicians to hedge-fund managers to middle-class IRA holders, everyone must pay attention to how and why the global economy works the way it does. Enter Financial Times columnist and bestselling author Tim Harford. In this new book that demystifies... Read more

Beyond Survival - Abridged

By: Gerald Coffee

Narrated by: Gerald Coffee

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When life loses its meaning, when suddenly the world is turned upside down, when there's nothing left that resembles life as we've known it, where do we find the strength and sustenance to go on? For naval aviator Jerry Coffee and others who were held as prisoners of war in North Vietnam, there was only one choice: go within.Beyond Survival is a... Read more

Duty

By: Robert M. Gates

Narrated by: George Newbern & Robert M Gates

Length: 25 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

From the former secretary of defense, a strikingly candid, vivid account of serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

When Robert M. Gates received a call from the White House, he thought he’d long left Washington politics behind: After working for six presidents in both the CIA and the National... Read more

Words Will Break Cement

By: Masha Gessen

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The heroic story of Pussy Riot, who resurrected the power of truth in a society built on liesOn February 21, 2012, five young women entered the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. In neon-colored dresses, tights, and balaclavas, they performed a "punk prayer" beseeching the "Mother of God" to "get rid of Putin." They were quickly shut down... Read more

The Demographic Cliff

By: Harry S. Dent, Jr.

Narrated by: Harry S. Dent, Jr.

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author and financial guru Harry Dent shows why we’re facing a “great deflation” after five years of desperate stimulus—and what to do about it nowThroughout his long career as an economic forecaster, Harry Dent has relied on a not-so-secret weapon: demographics. Studying the predictable things people do as they age is the ultimate... Read more

Stocks for the Long Run 5/E

By: Jeremy J. Siegel

Narrated by: Scott Pollak

Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The stock-investing classic--UPDATED TO HELP YOU WIN IN TODAY'S CHAOTIC GLOBAL ECONOMY
Much has changed since the last edition of Stocks for the Long Run. The financial crisis, the deepest bear market since the Great Depression, and the continued growth of the emerging markets are just some of the contingencies directly affecting every... Read more

Upheaval

By: Lou Dobbs

Narrated by: Lou Dobbs

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author and host of Lou Dobbs Tonight offers his illuminating views on some of our nation’s most intractable problems.

In 2012, Lou Dobbs Tonight celebrated its one-year anniversary and a steadily growing viewership. Now, expanding on the “Chalk Talks” segment from his popular program, Dobbs gives his take on some of the country’s most... Read more

Our One Common Country

By: James B. Conroy

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Our One Common Country explores the most critical meeting of the Civil War. Given short shrift or overlooked by many historians, the Hampton Roads Conference of 1865 was a crucial turning point in the War between the States. In this well written and highly documented book, James B. Conroy describes in fascinating detail what happened when... Read more

Love & War

By: James Carville & Mary Matalin

Narrated by: James Carville & Mary Matalin

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestseller

Twenty years after the publication of the bestselling All’s Fair, James Carville and Mary Matalin look at how they—and America—have changed in the last two decades.
 
James Carville and Mary Matalin have long held the mantle of the nation’s most ideologically mismatched and intensely opinionated political couple. In this... Read more