Politics & Economy audiobooks

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

Average Is Over

By: Tyler Cowen

Narrated by: Andrew Garman

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The widening gap between rich and poor means dealing with one big, uncomfortable truth: If you' re not at the top, you' re at the bottom. The global labor market is changing radically thanks to growth at the high end-- and the low. About three quarters of the jobs created in the United States since the great recession pay only a bit more than... Read more

JFK, Conservative

By: Ira Stoll

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

John F. Kennedy is lionized by liberals. He inspired Bill Clinton to go into politics and Lyndon B. Johnson to push for landmark civil rights laws. His champions insist he would have done great liberal things had he not been killed by Lee Harvey Oswald.But what if we have completely misunderstood him? What if we judge him by the lengthy record... Read more

Never Trust a Liberal Over Three---Especially a Republican

By: Ann Coulter

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

You have NEVER seen Ann Coulter like this before! Coulter is uncensored, unapologetic, and unflinching in her ruthless mockery of liberals, sissies, morons, hypocrites, and all other species of politician.



Coulter doesn’t stop at the politicians, though. Hear her skewer pundits, salesmen, celebrities, and bureaucrats with ruthlessness and... Read more

Dallas 1963

By: Bill Minutaglio & Steven L. Davis

Narrated by: Bill Minutaglio, Steven L. Davis & Tony Messano

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In the months and weeks before the fateful November 22nd, 1963, Dallas was brewing with political passions, a city crammed with larger-than-life characters dead-set against the Kennedy presidency. These included rabid warriors like defrocked military general Edwin A. Walker; the world's richest oil baron, H. L. Hunt; the leader of the largest... Read more

Camelot's Court

By: Robert Dallek

Narrated by: James Lurie

Length: 16 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifty years after John F. Kennedy’s assassination, presidential historian Robert Dallek, whom The New York Times calls “Kennedy’s leading biographer,” delivers a riveting new portrait of this president and his inner circle of advisors—their rivalries, personality clashes, and political battles. In Camelot’s Court, Dallek analyzes the brain trust... Read more

Young Mr. Roosevelt

By: Stanley Weintraub

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In Young Mr. Roosevelt Stanley Weintraub evokes Franklin Delano Roosevelt's political and wartime beginnings. An unpromising patrician playboy appointed assistant secretary of the Navy in 1913, Roosevelt learned quickly and rose to national visibility during World War I. Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 1920, he lost the election but not... Read more

The Rejected Stone

By: Al Sharpton

Narrated by: Al Sharpton

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Lord knows, Reverend Al has had his personal and very public ups and downs, but he's come out bigger and better than ever—though the host of MSNBC's PoliticsNation is as fiery and outspoken as ever about the events and issues that matter most, he's learned that the only way we can get right as a nation is by getting right from within.

In his... Read more

The Why Axis

By: Uri Gneezy & John A. List

Narrated by: Eric Martin

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Uri Gneezy and John List are like the anthropologists who spend months in the field studying the people in their native habitats. But in their case they embed themselves in our messy world to try and solve big, difficult problems, such as the gap between rich and poor students and the violence plaguing inner city schools; the real reasons people... Read more

The Investigator

By: Terry Lenzner

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“A time capsule of adventuresome sleuthing [that] traces the contours of U. S. political history.” —The Washington Post

The Los Angeles Times once called Terry Lenzner “one of the most powerful and dreaded private investigators in the world.” Since graduating from Harvard Law School, Lenzner has investigated the infamous murder of three civil... Read more

Devotion

By: Dani Shapiro

Narrated by: Dani Shapiro

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In her midforties and settled into the responsibilities and routines of adulthood, Dani Shapiro found herself with more questions than answers. Was this all life was—a hodgepodge of errands, dinner dates, e-mails, meetings, to-do lists? What did it all mean?Having grown up in a deeply religious and traditional family, Shapiro had no personal... Read more

Silk Road

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Unlike other online commerce businesses, Silk Road offered sales of illegal drugs, fake IDs and even hitmen. How were buyers and sellers able to remain anonymous? Ray Suarez talks to Glenn Chapman of Agence France-Presse about how this widely known online drug market was able to evade law enforcement for so long. Read more

Preemptive Love

By: Jeremy Courtney

Narrated by: Jeremy Courtney

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Love first. Ask questions later.

In the middle of the Iraq War, Jeremy and Jessica Courtney found themselves with their two children caught up in the turmoil, just hoping to make a difference. After an encounter with a father whose little girl was dying from a heart defect, they began to investigate options for helping and learned that untold... Read more

The Prince

By: Niccolo Machiavelli

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

From his perspective in Renaissance Italy, Machiavelli's aim in this classic work was to resolve conflict with the ruling prince, Lorenzo de Medici. Machiavelli based his insights on the way people really are rather than an ideal of how they should be. This is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its... Read more

Tip and the Gipper

By: Chris Matthews

Narrated by: Chris Matthews

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestseller about the historic dealings between Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill—“A superb tribute to the neglected art of compromise” (Daily News (New York)).

Tip and the Gipper is an “entertaining and insightful” (The Wall Street Journal) history of a time when two great political opponents served together for the benefit of the... Read more

Goliath

By: Max Blumenthal

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 22 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In Goliath, New York Times bestselling author Max Blumenthal takes us on a journey through the badlands and high roads of Israel-Palestine, painting a startling portrait of Israeli society under the siege of increasingly authoritarian politics as the occupation of the Palestinians deepens.Beginning with the national elections carried out during... Read more

The Age Oversupply

By: Daniel Alpert

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Why Western capitalism is broken and how the U.S. can recover its global economic leadership status The governments and central banks of the developed world have tried every policy tool imaginable, yet our economies remain sluggish, or worse. How did we get here, and how can we emerge from the longest downturn in recent memory? Daniel... Read more

The Brothers

By: Stephen Kinzer

Narrated by: David Cochran Heath

Length: 13 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into an unseen war that decisively shaped today's worldDuring the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely powerful brothers led the United States into a series of foreign adventures whose effects are still shaking the world.John Foster Dulles was... Read more

The Prince

By: Niccolo Machiavelli

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From his perspective in Renaissance Italy, Machiavelli's aim in this classic work was to resolve conflict with the ruling prince, Lorenzo de Medici. Machiavelli based his insights on the way people really are rather than an ideal of how they should be. This is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its... Read more

The Age of Oversupply

By: Daniel Alpert

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Why Western capitalism is broken and how the U.S. can recover its global economic leadership status



The governments and central banks of the developed world have tried every policy tool imaginable, yet our economies remain sluggish, or worse. How did we get here, and how can we emerge from the longest downturn in recent memory?



Daniel... Read more

Why Good People Can't Get Jobs

By: Peter Cappelli

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Peter Cappelli confronts the myth of the skills gap and provides an actionable path forward to put people back to work. Even in a time of perilously high unemployment, companies contend that they cannot find the employees they need. Pointing to a skills gap, employers argue applicants are simply not qualified; schools aren't preparing students... Read more

In the Secret Service

By: Jerry Parr

Narrated by: Eric G. Dove

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

When Jerry Parr was eight years old, he knew he wanted to be a Secret Service agent when he grew up. Little did this eight-year-old dreamer know that he would become the agent responsible for saving the life of President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981.Jerry grew up surviving three fathers, and as a result he became his mother’s protector,... Read more

Countdown

By: Alan Weisman

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 18 hours

Abridged: No

A powerful investigation into the chances for humanity's future from the author of the bestseller The World Without Us.

In his bestselling book The World Without Us, Alan Weisman considered how the Earth could heal and even refill empty niches if relieved of humanity's constant pressures. Behind that groundbreaking thought experiment was his... Read more

The School Revolution

By: Ron Paul

Narrated by: Steve Coulter

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Twelve-term Texas Congressman, Presidential candidate, and #1 New York Times bestselling author Ron Paul returns with a highly provocative treatise about how we need to fundamentally change the way we think about America's broken education system in order to fix it.

Whether or not you have children, you know that education is vital to the... Read more