Politics & Economy audiobooks

Oil and Honey

By: Bill McKibben

Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben recounts the personal and global story of the fight to build and preserve a sustainable planet

Bill McKibben is not a person you'd expect to find handcuffed and behind bars, but that's where he found himself in the summer of 2011 after leading the largest civil disobedience in thirty... Read more

The Message

By: Richard Wolffe

Narrated by: Richard Wolffe

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

They had 99 problems but Mitt Romney wasn't one.

At the start of an epic election, the team trying to reelect President Obama faced a mountain of challenges: a dismal economy, the faded hopes of the first campaign, and a struggle to raise enough cash to compete. No president had risen so fast, or fallen so far, in the modern era. And no... Read more

Command and Control

By: Eric Schlosser

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 20 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A myth-shattering exposé of America’s nuclear weapons.

Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America’s nuclear arsenal. A groundbreaking account of accidents, near misses, extraordinary heroism, and technological breakthroughs, Command and Control explores the dilemma that has existed... Read more

Floating City

By: Sudhir Venkatesh

Narrated by: Sudhir Venkatesh

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed Columbia University sociologist and author of Gang Leader for a Day returns to the streets to connect the dots of New York’s divergent economic worlds and crack the code of the city’s underground economy. Based on Venkatesh’s interviews with prostitutes and socialites, immigrants and academics, high-end drug bosses and street-level... Read more

Breach of Trust

By: Andrew Bacevich

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A blistering critique of the gulf between America's soldiers and the society that sends them off to war, from the bestselling author of The Limits of Power and Washington Rules

The United States has been "at war" in Iraq and Afghanistan for more than a decade. Yet as war has become normalized, a yawning gap has opened between America's soldiers... Read more

American Coup

By: William M. Arkin

Narrated by: William M. Arkin

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning exploration of the subtle erosion of freedom in an age of concocted fear and de facto military authority.

When we think of a military coup, the first image that comes to mind is a general, standing at a podium with a flag behind him, declaring the deposing of elected leaders and the institution of martial law.

Think again. In... Read more

A House in the Sky

By: Amanda Lindhout & Sara Corbett

Narrated by: Amanda Lindhout

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling memoir of a woman whose curiosity led her to the world’s most remote places and then into fifteen months of captivity: “Exquisitely told…A young woman’s harrowing coming-of-age story and an extraordinary narrative of forgiveness and spiritual triumph” (The New York Times Book Review).

As a child, Amanda Lindhout... Read more

Ten Billion

By: Stephen Emmott

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Deforestation. Desertification. Species extinction. Global warming. Growing threats to food and water. The driving issues of our times are the result of one huge problem: Us.
 
As the population continues to grow, our problems will increase. And this means that every way we look at it, a planet of ten billion people is likely to be a... Read more

The Brotherhood

By: Erick Stakelbeck

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The Muslim Brotherhood, or Ikhwan, has engaged in terrorism, assassinations, and anti-Western, anti-Semitic rhetoric and violence for almost a century—yet few Americans realize how powerful they really are. While we focus on al Qaeda, Hamas, and Hezbollah, it's actually the Muslim Brotherhood, the world's oldest, most influential, and most... Read more

The Business Solution to Poverty

By: Paul Polak & Mal Warwick

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The nearly three billion people living on two dollars a day are not just the world's greatest challenge—they represent an extraordinary market opportunity. The key is what Paul Polak and Mal Warwick call Zero-Based Design: starting from scratch to create innovative products and services tailored for the very poor, armed with a thorough... Read more

Under Fire: The Untold Story of the Attack in Benghazi

By: Fred Burton & Samuel M. Katz

Narrated by: Jeff Gurner

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling inside account of the attack against the U.S. diplomatic and intelligence outposts in Benghazi, Libya.

On the night of September 11, 2012, the American diplomatic mission at Benghazi, Libya, came under ferocious attack by a heavily armed group of Islamic terrorists. The prolonged firefight, and the attack hours... Read more

Enemies Within

By: Matt Apuzzo & Adam Goldman

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Two Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists take an unbridled look into one of the most sensitive post-9/11 national security investigations, a breathtaking race to avert a second devastating terrorist attack on American soil.In Enemies Within Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman lay bare the complex and often contradictory state of counterterrorism and... Read more

Emily Gets Her Gun

By: Emily Miller

Narrated by: Carla Mercer-Meyer

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In the wake of tragic shootings in Newtown and Aurora, the anti-gun lobby has launched a campaign of lies, distortion, misrepresentation, and emotional manipulation that is breathtaking in its vitriol and its denial of basic facts. Their goal is to take away our Second Amendment rights and then disarm law-abiding Americans.

Emily Miller tells... Read more

Hanns and Rudolf

By: Thomas Harding

Narrated by: Mark Meadows

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The untold story of the man who brought a mastermind of the final solution to justiceMay 1945. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the first British War Crimes Investigation Team is assembled to hunt down the senior Nazi officials responsible for the greatest atrocities the world has ever seen. One of the lead investigators is Lieutenant... Read more

The Middle Road

By: Christopher Collier & James Lincoln Collier

Narrated by: Jim Manchester

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

History is dramatic—and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier demonstrate this in a compelling series aimed at young readers. Covering American history from the founding of Jamestown through present day, these volumes explore far beyond the dates and events of a historical chronicle to present a moving... Read more

The Immigrant Exodus

By: Vivek Wadhwa

Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A 2012 ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR Many of the United States’ most innovative entrepreneurs have been immigrants, from Andrew Carnegie, Alexander Graham Bell, and Charles Pfizer to Sergey Brin, Vinod Khosla, and Elon Musk. Nearly half of Fortune 500 companies and one-quarter of all new small businesses were founded by immigrants, generating... Read more

Taylor Branch and Shukree Hassan Tilghman

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifty years after the March on Washington, African-Americans still confront high rates of unemployment, segregation in education and race-based partisan gridlock. In what areas have we seen progress? Gwen Ifill discusses the advances and what's left to be done with historian Taylor Branch and filmmaker Shukree Hassan Tilghman. Read more

John Lewis: 50th Anniversary of The March on Washington

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifty years ago, 23-year-old John Lewis raised his voice to a crowd of more than 200,000 people at a protest march that would come to represent "the best of America." Gwen Ifill talks to the congressman about what motivated him to become a young civil rights leader and the current state of civil rights and equality in America. Read more

Cleveland Sellers and Bakari Sellers

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

For civil rights leader Cleveland Sellers, the significance and power of the March on Washington transcends generations. Sellers, who was on the National Mall that historic day, and son Bakari Sellers, a S.C. state representative, join Gwen Ifill to reflect on what the March has meant to their family and to all Americans. Read more

Eleanor Holmes Norton

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Decades before delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton would represent her district as a congresswoman on Capitol Hill, she worked as one of the original organizers for the March on Washington. Fifty years later, Holmes Norton reflects with Gwen Ifill on her efforts, part of a series of discussions on the legacy of August 28, 1963. Read more

Rising Tide

By: Randy Roberts & Ed Krzemienski

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 15 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinary story of how Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant and Joe Namath, his star quarterback at the University of Alabama, led the Crimson Tide to victory and transformed football into a truly national pastime.

During the bloodiest years of the civil rights movement, Bear Bryant and Joe Namath-two of the most iconic and controversial figures in... Read more

Do Innocent Citizens Risk Police Seizure of Their Property?

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Property seizure is a profitable practice for local law enforcement agencies, long used to deprive mobsters and drug kingpins. But the police can also take personal goods away from citizens who haven't been proven guilty of a crime. Ray Suarez talks to Sarah Stillman who investigated civil forfeiture for The New Yorker. Read more

Strictly Ann

By: Ann Widdecombe

Narrated by: Jilly Bond

Length: 16 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

With characteristic verve and integrity, Ann Widdecombe recalls her life and highlights the people and events that most influenced her along the way.

From her early family life in Singapore and her convent school days to her student ambitions at Birmingham and Oxford, and her long-serving years as an MP, this is the life story of one of our most... Read more

Iris Berben liest: Eilige Nacht

By: Verlag Herder

Narrated by: Iris Berben

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Ein wundervolles Weihnachtspäckchen für alle, die die immer gleichen Geschichten rund um die Heilige Nacht nicht mehr hören mögen und sich ein respektlos-schrulliges Weihnachtsbuch wünschen. "Eilige Nacht" - das sind Geschichten und Gedichte von Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Tucholsky, Heinrich Böll, Axel Hacke, Hanns-Dieter Hüsch, Tomi Ungerer und... Read more