Politics & Economy audiobooks

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

Eigentlich bin ich nur außen alt

By: Ingrid Huber

Narrated by: Ingrid Huber

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Berührende, unterhaltsame Kurzgeschichten, die in Lebenswelt und Alltag alter Menschen den Zauber der kleinen Dinge zum Vorschein bringen. Ideal zum Zuhören. Die Geschichten sind ganz nah am Lebensalltag alter, oft vergessener Menschen. Sie lassen mal schmunzeln, sie regen zum Nachdenken an, sogar Krimis sind vertreten - allen gemeinsam ist die... Read more

William Jones: The March on Washington

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Historian William P. Jones joins Gwen Ifill to offer an overview of how the March on Washington came to be, why President Kennedy feared it would cause negative aftermath and what roles women of color played on that historic day. Their discussion is one a series of conversations looking back at the legacy of August 28, 1963. Read more

Liberty Amendments

By: Mark R. Levin

Narrated by: Jason Culp & Mark R. Levin

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The long-awaited new book on how to fix our broken government by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Liberty and Tyranny and Ameritopia.

In his #1 bestsellers Liberty and Tyranny and Ameritopia, Mark R. Levin has all but predicted the current assault on our individual liberties, state sovereignty, and the social compact—the inevitable... Read more

50th Anniversary of the March on Washington

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifty years after the March on Washington, the vision of the civil rights movement has expanded beyond black and white, but what is left to be done? Gwen Ifill sits down with Peniel Joseph of Tufts University and filmmaker Bonnie Boswell Hamilton on how the goals of the March translate to the needs of today. Read more

Prosecuting drug crimes

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Nearly half of the nation’s prisoners are serving time for drug related crimes. Judy Woodruff gets debate from Mary Price of Families Against Mandatory Minimums and William Otis of Georgetown Law School on Attorney General Eric Holder’s push to scale back mandatory minimum sentences for low-level, non-violent drug offenders. Read more

The Underdog in American Politics

By: Karl G. Trautman

Narrated by: Karl G. Trautman

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

One major party in American politics, the Democrats, has consciously identified itself with underdogs. This book analyzes the relationship between the party and the main political ideology of its base, which is liberalism. It also analyzes culture and the enduring appeal of underdogs as well as specific Democratic presidential candidates, their... Read more

These Few Precious Days

By: Christopher Andersen

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

They were the original power couple—outlandishly rich, impossibly attractive, and endlessly fascinating. Now, in this rare behind-the-scenes portrait of the Kenne┬¡dys in their final year together, #1 New York Times bestselling biographer Christopher Andersen shows us a side of JFK and Jackie we've never seen before. Tender, intimate, complex,... Read more

It's Not as Bad as You Think

By: Brian S. Wesbury

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

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Infiltrated

By: Jay W. Richards

Narrated by: Tim Lundeen

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

What Every American Needs to Know About the War on Free Enterprise--and Freedom Itself America: be warned.
A new wave of financial reformers has infiltrated our public institutions at both the state and national levels. A growing army of self-proclaimed activists, philanthropists, and politicians has infiltrated not only the Consumer Financial... Read more

Guns Debate

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

California’s Armed and Prohibited Persons program has recovered more than 10,000 guns that were purchased legally, but by people who are now prohibited from owning them. Critics say the program is expensive and time-consuming. NewsHour correspondent Spencer Michels reports on whether other states could use the same model. Read more

My Greek Drama

By: Gianna Angelopoulos

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Standing alone in the VIP box of the Olympic Games in 2004, Gianna Angelopoulos began to dance. The world had doubted Greece's ability to successfully stage this global event. She danced to celebrate the efforts of all Greeks—and her own—to host a phenomenally successful event, an effort that showed the world a new Greece, a Greece worthy of its... Read more

Carve Her Name With Pride

By: R. J. Minney

Narrated by: Poppy Manley

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Carve Her Name With Pride is the inspiring story of the half-French Violette Szabo who was born in Paris in 1921 to an English motorcar dealer, and a French Mother. She met and married Etienne Szabo, a Captain in the French Foreign Legion in 1940. Shortly after the birth of her daughter, Tania, her husband died at El Alamein. She became a FANY... Read more

Were Snowden's Actions Justified?

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

When Edward Snowden exposed the existence of some of the National Security Agency’s intelligence gathering operations, did he help or harm America? Jeffrey Brown gets debate from Daniel Ellsberg, co-author of the famous internal Defense Department study The Pentagon Papers, and former Attorney General Michael Mukasey. Read more

JFK's Last Hundred Days

By: Thurston Clarke

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 14 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A revelatory, minute-by-minute account of JFK’s final days that asks what might have been

Fifty years after his assassination, President John F. Kennedy’s legend endures. Noted author and historian Thurston Clarke reexamines the last months of the president’s life to show a man in the midst of great change, both in his family and in the key... Read more

This Town

By: Mark Leibovich

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the nation's most acclaimed journalists, the New York Times' Mark Leibovich, presents a blistering, penetrating, controversial--and often hysterical--look at Washington's incestuous "media industrial complex." Read more

Zealot

By: Reza Aslan

Narrated by: Reza Aslan

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A lucid, intelligent page-turner” (Los Angeles Times) that challenges long-held assumptions about Jesus, from the host of Believer
 
Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher walked across the Galilee, gathering followers to establish what he called the “Kingdom of God.” The revolutionary movement he... Read more

Kissinger

By: Walter Isaacson

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 34 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

By the time Henry Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973, he had become, according to a Gallup poll, the most admired person in America and one of the most unlikely celebrities ever to capture the world's imagination. Yet Kissinger was also reviled by large segments of the American public, ranging from liberal intellectuals to... Read more

Simpler

By: Cass R. Sunstein

Narrated by: Joel Leffert

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Simpler government arrived four years ago. It helped put money in your pocket. It saved hours of your time. It improved your children' s diet, lengthened your life span, and benefited businesses large and small. It did so by issuing fewer regulations, by insisting on smarter regulations, and by eliminating or improving old regulations. Cass R.... Read more

The Lexus and the Olive Tree

By: Thomas L. Friedman

Narrated by: Thomas L. Friedman

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

As the Foreign Affairs columnist for The New York Times, Thomas L. Friedman has traveled to the four corners of the globe, interviewing people from all walks of contemporary life -- peasants in the Amazon rain forest, new entrepreneurs in Indonesia, Islamic students in Teheran, and the financial wizards on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley.
Now... Read more

The Secret Lives Codebreakers

By: Sinclair McKay

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A remarkable look at day-to-day life of the codebreakers whose clandestine efforts helped win World War II Bletchley Park looked like any other sprawling country estate. In reality, however, it was the top-secret headquarters of Britain’s Government Code and Cypher School—and the site where Germany’s legendary Enigma code was finally cracked.... Read more

The Perfect 36

By: Carol Lynn Yellin & Dr. Janann Sherman

Narrated by: Dr. Janann Sherman

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Authors Carol Lynn Yellin and Dr. Janann Sherman bring to life the lengthy struggle of suffragists to win the right to vote for women which culminated with the final vote needed for ratification in the Tennessee legislature. The Perfect 36: Tennessee Delivers Woman Suffrage gives voice to those who were for and against the right of women to... Read more

Andrew Jackson’s America

By: Christopher Collier & James Lincoln Collier

Narrated by: Jim Manchester

Length: 2 hours 2 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

A Piece of the Sun

By: Daniel Clery

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Our rapidly industrializing world has an insatiable hunger for energy and conventional sources are struggling to meet demand. Oil is running out, coal is damaging our climate, many nations are abandoning nuclear, yet solar, wind, and water will never be a complete replacement. The solution, says Daniel Clery in this deeply researched and... Read more