Politics & Economy audiobooks

End of Days

By: James L. Swanson

Narrated by: Richard Thomas

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Here, for the first time in decades, is a gripping, minute-by-minute account of the day President John F. Kennedy was shot. In End of Days, James Swanson reveals Lee Harvey Oswald's bizarre history of violence and follows John and Jacqueline Kennedy on their fateful Dallas motorcade ride. Swanson takes us to the sixth-floor Texas Book Depository... Read more

Good Tidings and Great Joy

By: Sarah Palin

Narrated by: Sarah Palin

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In her New York Times bestsellers Going Rogue and America by Heart, Sarah Palin revealed the strong Christian faith that has guided her life and family. In Good Tidings and Great Joy she calls for bringing back the freedom to express the Christian values of the season. She asserts the importance of preserving Jesus Christ in Christmas—in public... Read more

The Trident

By: Jason Redman & John Bruning

Narrated by: Erik Bergmann

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Decorated Navy SEAL Lieutenant Jason Redman served his country courageously and with distinction in Columbia, Peru, Afghanistan and Iraq, where he commanded mobility and assault forces. But his journey was not without its supreme challenges. He was critically wounded in 2007 when he was struck by machine-gun fire at point blank range. During his... Read more

You Are Not Forgotten

By: Bryan Bender

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Major George Eyster V comes from a family of military officers dating back to the Revolutionary War. His tour of duty in Iraq, however, left him disillusioned and questioning. Then he accepted a posting to J-PAC, an elite division whose mission is to fulfill the most solemn promise of the military code: bring all fallen soldiers home to the... Read more

The Ministry of Guidance Invites You to Not Stay

By: Hooman Majd

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

It was an annus horribilis for Iran's Supreme Leader. The Green Movement had been crushed, but the regime was on edge, anxious lest democratic protests resurge. International sanctions were dragging down the economy while talk of war with the West grew. Hooman Majd was there for all of it. A new father at age fifty, he decided to take his... Read more

Double Down

By: Mark Halperin & John Heilemann

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 19 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times:
"Those hungry for political news will read Double Down for the scooplets and insidery glimpses it serves up about the two campaigns, and the clues it offers about the positioning already going on among Republicans and Democrats for 2016 ... The book testifies to its authors’ energetic legwork and insider... Read more

The Bully Pulpit

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 36 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2015 Audie Award for History/Biography and Finalist for Audiobook of the Year

Pulitzer Prize–winning author and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s dynamic history of Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft and the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous time when the nation was coming unseamed and reform was in... Read more

Magnificent Delusions

By: Husain Haqqani

Narrated by: Ralph Lister

Length: 14 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A character-driven history that describes the bizarrely ill-suited alliance between America and Pakistan, written by a uniquely insightful participant: Pakistan's former ambassador to the USThe relationship between America and Pakistan is based on mutual incomprehension, and always has been. Pakistan—to American eyes—has gone from being a... Read more

The Bully Pulpit - Abridged

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 16 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Winner of the 2015 Audie Award for History/Biography and Finalist for Audiobook of the Year

Pulitzer Prize–winning author and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s dynamic history of Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft and the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous time when the nation was coming unseamed and reform was in... Read more

Doctors' Role in Military Interrogation

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A new report claims that U.S military medical personnel violated ethics by designing and participating in "inhumane and degrading treatment" of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and other detention sites. Jeffrey Brown speaks with former DOJ official Lee Casey and Dr. Stephen Xenakis, a member of the task force that issued the report. Read more

Breakout

By: Newt Gingrich

Narrated by: David Cochran Heath

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Newt Gingrich proposes a bold vision of the future: America is on the cusp of a renaissance, a new birth of technological and scientific innovation that will dramatically transform the prosperity and quality of life of every American. Our biggest enemy? Special interest groups, powerful lobbyists, and government bureaucrats... Read more

The Death of Santini

By: Pat Conroy

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 15 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A painful, lyrical, addictive read” (People) by the cherished author of The Great Santini that brings his extraordinary career full circle
 
Pat Conroy’s great success as a writer has always been intimately linked with the exploration of his family history. As the oldest of seven children who were dragged from... Read more

Lincoln in the World

By: Kevin Peraino

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 14 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A captivating look at how Abraham Lincoln evolved into one of our seminal foreign-policy presidents-- and helped point the way to America' s rise to world power. This is the story of one of the most breathtaking feats in the annals of American foreign policy-- performed by one of the most unlikely figures. Abraham Lincoln is not often remembered... Read more

“Mr. President”

By: Harlow Giles Unger

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Although the framers gave the president little authority, Washington knew whatever he did would set precedents for generations of his successors. To ensure their ability to defend the nation, he simply ignored the Constitution when he thought it necessary and reshaped the presidency into what James Madison called a "monarchical presidency."... Read more

The War That Ended Peace

By: Margaret MacMillan

Narrated by: Richard Burnip

Length: 31 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The New York Times Book Review • The Economist • The Christian Science Monitor • Bloomberg Businessweek • The Globe and Mail

From the bestselling and award-winning author of Paris 1919 comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, a fascinating portrait of Europe from 1900 up to the outbreak of World War... Read more

A Cruel and Shocking Act

By: Philip Shenon

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 23 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking, explosive account of the Kennedy assassination that will rewrite the history of the 20th century's most controversial murder investigation

The questions have haunted our nation for half a century: Was the President killed by a single gunman? Was Lee Harvey Oswald part of a conspiracy? Did the Warren Commission discover the whole... Read more

A Blaze of Autumn Sunshine

By: Tony Benn

Narrated by: Michael Jayston

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In this final volume of diaries, Tony Benn reflects on the compensations and the disadvantages of old age.
With the support of a small circle of friends and his extended family, he continues his activities on behalf of social justice, peace and accountability in public life, to a background of political change and the international economic... Read more

My Father, My President

By: Doro Bush Koch

Narrated by: Doro Bush Koch

Length: 25 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Revised and updated with six new chapters and many new photographs following his death at age 94, this is the definitive account of George H.W. Bush's life and career written by his only daughter with his full cooperation.

Much happened to George H.W. Bush and the country since the initial publication of My Father, My President: His nemesis,... Read more

If Kennedy Lived

By: Jeff Greenfield

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the country’s most brilliant political commentators, the bestselling author of Then Everything Changed, an extraordinary, thought-provoking look at Kennedy’s presidency—after November 22, 1963.

November 22, 1963: JFK does not die. What would happen to his life, his presidency, his country, his world?

In Then Everything Changed, Jeff... Read more

Power Thoughts Devotional

By: Joyce Meyer

Narrated by: Jodi Carlisle

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Tap into God's power in your daily life by thinking and speaking His way with this devotional based on Joyce Meyer's New York Times bestseller Power Thoughts.
Based on Joyce Meyer's New York Times bestseller Power Thoughts, this devotional includes 365 opportunities to tap into God's power in your daily life by thinking and speaking His way. The... Read more

The Map and the Territory

By: Alan Greenspan

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of The Age of Turbulence and Capitalism in America

Like all of us, though few so visibly, Alan Greenspan was forced by the financial crisis of 2008 to question some fundamental assumptions about risk management and economic forecasting. No one with any meaningful role in economic decision making in the world saw... Read more

Days of Fire

By: Peter Baker

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 29 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In Days of Fire, Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times, takes us on a gripping and intimate journey through the eight years of the Bush and Cheney administration in a tour-de-force narrative of a dramatic and controversial presidency.

Theirs was the most captivating American political partnership since Richard Nixon... Read more

Heart

By: Dick Cheney & Jonathan Reiner

Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Edward Herrmann & Jonathan Reiner

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his longtime cardiologist, Dr. Jonathan Reiner, share the story of Cheney’s thirty-five-year battle with heart disease—providing insight into the incredible medical breakthroughs that have changed cardiac care over the last four decades.

For as long as he has served at the highest levels of business and... Read more

Once a Marine

By: Nick Popaditch & Mike Steere

Narrated by: Denny Delk

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

May 6, 1986: Nick Popaditch arrives at the Receiving Barracks, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, California.April 9, 2003: An AP photographer captures a striking image seen around the world of the Gunny Sergeant smoking a victory cigar in his tank, the haunting statue of Saddam Hussein hovering in the background. Popaditch is immortalized... Read more