Politics & Economy audiobooks

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

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

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

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

The RBG Way

By: Rebecca Gibian

Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Given her incredible tenure as a Supreme Court justice as well as her monumental impact on the modern women’s rights movement, Ruth Bader Ginsburg has become one of the most prominent political leaders of today. To complement her judicial significance, she has also become one of the most culturally popular political figures in US history. Not... Read more

Shooting History - Abridged

By: Jon Snow

Narrated by: Jon Snow

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The compelling autobiography of one of the great and most committed newsmen of our time: full, frank, and occasionally very funny, Jon Snow’s memoirs are as revealing about the great and the not-so-good as about his own passionate involvement in the reporting of world affairs Read by the author. Jon Snow is perhaps... Read more

Price of Prosperity

By: Peter L. Bernstein

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

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La désobéissance civile

By: Henry Thoreau

Narrated by: Nicolas Planchais

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

La résistance et la désobéissance civile ? Un sujet toujours d'actualité. De nos jours, les Indignés, les Anonymous, les Zadistes et tant d'autres citoyens engagés et parfois révoltés veulent exprimer leurs convictions citoyennes en s'affranchissant des traditionnels relais politiques, dans un désir de démocratie directe engagée. Tous ces... Read more

Gérard Philipe lit Karl Marx et Engels

By: Karl Marx

Narrated by: Gérard Philipe

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Les Pages De Karl Marx Qu'il Faut Connaître - Manifeste Du Parti Communiste (Fragments) & Lettre De Marx à J. Weydemayer (6 Mars 1852), Fragments. Comédien reconnu, tant sur le plan national qu'international, Gérard Philipe débute très jeune sa carrière au théâtre en 1942, dans 'Une grande fille toute simple' d'André Roussin au casino de... Read more

The Missile Next Door

By: Gretchen Heefner

Narrated by: Susan Boyce

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Between 1961 and 1967 the United States Air Force buried one thousand Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles in pastures across the Great Plains. The Missile Next Door tells the story of how rural Americans of all political stripes were drafted to fight the Cold War by living with nuclear missiles in their backyards—and what that story... Read more

Last Chance Justice

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

NewsHour Weekend takes a look at an NYPD program called the Juvenile Robbery Intervention Program (JRIP). Its aim is to mentor and monitor teens who have been arrested for a robbery. The report's focus is on two New York City neighborhoods. Read more

Marcia Gates: Angel of Bataan

By: Melissa Bowersock

Narrated by: Adrianne Price

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Marcia L. Gates was an Army nurse and prisoner of war during WWII. As an "Angel of Bataan," she spent three years in a Japanese internment camp in the Philippines. This is her story, told through her letters and the newspaper clippings, photos and letters collected by her mother. The book was awarded a biography medal by the Military Writers... Read more

Things That Matter

By: Charles Krauthammer

Narrated by: Charles Krauthammer & George Newbern

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

From America’s preeminent columnist, named by the Financial Times the most influential commentator in the nation, a must-have collection of Charles Krauthammer’s essential, timeless writings.
 
A brilliant stylist known for an uncompromising honesty that challenged conventional wisdom at every turn, Krauthammer dazzled readers for decades with his... Read more

Heir to the Empire City

By: Edward P. Kohn

Narrated by: Nick Sullivan

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Theodore Roosevelt is best remembered as America's prototypical "cowboy" president—a Rough Rider who derived his political wisdom from a youth spent in the untamed American West. But while the great outdoors certainly shaped Roosevelt's identity, historian Edward P. Kohn argues that it was his hometown of New York that made him the progressive... Read more

William Shakespeare: History in an Hour

By: Sinead Fitzgibbon

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. In a writing career that spanned over twenty years during the explosion of poetic and theatrical creativity of late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods, William Shakespeare produced a body of work that has become the bedrock of human thought, literature and language... Read more

Rich Dad Advisors: Start Your Own Corporation

By: Garrett Sutton

Narrated by: Author & Steve Stratton

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

We live in a highly litigious world. As you live your life you must keep your guard up. As you grow your wealth you must protect it. For those who don't, predators await, and their attorneys will use every trick in the toolbox to get at your unprotected assets.
Start Your Own Corporation educates you on an action plan to protect your life's... Read more

The Unarmed Truth

By: John Dodson

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

After the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, John Dodson pulled bodies out of the wreckage at the Pentagon. In 2007, following the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech, Dodson walked through the classrooms, heartbroken, to cover up the bodies of the victims.Then came Arizona—the American border.Ten days before Christmas, 2010, ATF agent John... Read more

The Sting Man

By: Robert W. Greene

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The true story behind the film AMERICAN HUSTLE
 
The Sting Man is the amazing inside story of Mel Weinberg, one of the most fascinating fast-buck operators to ever live, and the incredible scandals he masterminded. Hustling his way from the streets of the Bronx to hawking bogus businesses around the world, Weinberg netted millions and famously... Read more

Five Days in November

By: Clint Hill & Lisa McCubbin Hill

Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Secret Service agent Clint Hill reveals the stories behind the iconic images of the five tragic days surrounding President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in this 60th anniversary edition of the New York Times bestseller.

On November 22, 1963, three shots were fired in Dallas, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and the world stopped for... Read more

Unintimidated

By: Scott Walker & Marc Thiessen

Narrated by: Scott Walker

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A controversial governor recounts his fight to reform his state and issues a call to action for the whole country
 
In 2010, Scott Walker was elected governor of Wisconsin with a mandate to improve its economy and restore fiscal responsibility. With the state facing a $3.6 billion budget deficit, he proposed a series of reforms to limit the... Read more

Civilian Warriors

By: Erik Prince

Narrated by: Jeff Gurner

Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The founder of Blackwater offers the gripping, previously untold story of the world’s most controversial military contractor
Blackwater is one of the most misunderstood companies of our time. As Erik Prince, its founder and former CEO, writes:
“Hundreds of American citizens employed by private military contractors, or PMCs, would lose their lives... Read more

The Crash of 2016

By: Thom Hartmann

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The United States is more vulnerable today than ever before-including during the Great Depression and the Civil War-because the pillars of democracy that once supported a booming middle class have been corrupted, and without them, America teeters on the verge of the next Great Crash.

The United States is in the midst of an economic implosion... Read more

The Right Path

By: Joe Scarborough

Narrated by: George Newbern & Joe Scarborough

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Joe Scarborough—former Republican congressman and the always insightful host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe—takes a nuanced and surprising look at the unexpected rise and self-inflicted fall of the Republican Party. Dominant in national politics for forty years under the influence of the conservative but pragmatic leadership of Dwight Eisenhower and... Read more