Politics & Economy audiobooks

A Piece of the Sun

By: Daniel Clery

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

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

Carnivore

By: Dillard Johnson & James Tarr

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Amid ferocious fighting that many times nearly took his life, Sergeant Dillard "C. J." Johnson and his crew are recognized by Pentagon reports to have accounted for astonishing enemy KIA totals while battling inside and out of the "Carnivore," the Bradley Fighting Vehicle Johnson commanded during Operation Iraqi Freedom. After miraculously... Read more

Beautifully Unique Sparkleponies

By: Chris Kluwe

Narrated by: Chris Kluwe

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Hi. In your hands, right now, you hold the culmination of thousands of years of human intelligence, ingenuity, and brilliance. Now put your goddamn phone down and pay attention to my book.

What is in my book, you ask? (I'm really glad you asked, by the way, because now I get to tell you.)

Time travel. Gay marriage. Sportsballing. Futuristic... Read more

Kalte Enteignung

By: Walter Krämer

Narrated by: Matthias Lühn

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Wen rettet der Rettungsschirm? Uns jedenfalls lässt er im Regen stehen und bringt uns um unser Erspartes und unsere Rente. Der streitbare Ökonom Walter Krämer enthüllt, wie die deutschen Sparer und Rentner in den nächsten zehn Jahren enteignet werden und wer davon profitiert: die Gläubiger der europäischen Banken, griechische Milliardäre und... Read more

Clash!

By: Hazel Rose Markus & Alana Conner

Narrated by: Authors

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

As the world gets smaller, hotter, and flatter, people from different cultures are colliding like never before:
East Asian students now dominate Western schools and workplaces, yet crash into the so-called "bamboo ceiling" before reaching the top.Women are getting stuck as they rocket up the corporate ladder, while men are falling off the ladder... Read more

Clash!

By: Alana Conner & Hazel Rose Markus

Narrated by: Alana Conner & Hazel Rose Markus

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

As the world gets smaller, hotter, and flatter, people from different cultures are colliding like never before: 1) East Asian students now dominate Western schools and workplaces, yet crash into the so-called "bamboo ceiling" before reaching the top. 2) Women are getting stuck as they rocket up the corporate ladder, while men are falling off... Read more

The Great Degeneration

By: Niall Ferguson

Narrated by: Paul Slack

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author and world-renowned historian Niall Ferguson has won widespread acclaim for thought-provoking works such as Civilization and High Financier. The Great Degeneration tackles nothing less than the decline of Western civilization. Ferguson posits that slowing growth, outrageous debt, and antisocial behavior are contributing to the... Read more

How Big a Boost Do Working Seniors Give the Economy?

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Americans who work past traditional retirement age are extending their productive lives. They're also paying taxes longer, which may have big implications for the country's finances. As part of his Making Sen$e series, economics correspondent Paul Solman reports. Read more

With Patience and Fortitude

By: Christine Quinn

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Christine Quinn's improbable journeybegan long before she becameNew York City's second-most-powerfulelected official. The granddaughter of Irishimmigrants—including a grandmother whoescaped the sinking Titanic when most teenagegirls in steerage perished—Christinelearned early in life that challenges aremeant to be met and overcome, and thatthey... Read more

Currency Wars

By: James Richards

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In 1971, President Nixon imposed national
price controls and took the United States off the gold standard, an extreme
measure intended to end an ongoing currency war that had destroyed faith in
the U.S. dollar. Today we are engaged in a new currency war, and this time
the consequences will be far worse than those that confronted Nixon.



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Knowledge and Power

By: George Gilder

Narrated by: David Cochran Heath

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Just when our economy desperately needs a new direction, Ronald Reagan's most quoted living author—George Gilder—is back with an all-new paradigm-shifting theory of capitalism that will upturn conventional wisdom.America's struggling economy needs a better philosophy than the college student's lament, "I can't be out of money, I still have... Read more

Paul Krugman on Managing Financial Crisis

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Should we have let foundering financial firms fail in 2008? Economics correspondent Paul Solman sits down with economist Paul Krugman to discuss the provocative bestseller The Great Deformation by David Stockman and the government's role in mediating economic meltdowns. Read more

Honoring Civil Rights Hero Medgar Evers

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Nearly half a century after his murder, civil rights activist Medgar Evers was honored in a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. Gwen Ifill examines the life and legacy of Evers -- a World War II veteran and the NAACP's first field secretary in the South -- with Jerry Mitchell of Jackson, Mississippi's The Clarion-Ledger newspaper. Read more

An Atheist in the FOXhole

By: Joe Muto

Narrated by: Joe Muto

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The “Fox Mole”—whose dispatches for Gawker made headlines in Businessweek, The Hollywood Reporter, and even on The New York Times website—delivers a funny, opinionated memoir of his eight years at the unfair, unbalanced Fox News Channel working as an associate producer for Bill O'Reilly.

Imagine needing to hide your true beliefs just to keep a... Read more

The Center Holds

By: Jonathan Alter

Narrated by: Jonathan Alter

Length: 18 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of The Promise, the thrilling story of one of the most momentous contests in American history, the Battle Royale between Obama and his enemies from the 2010 midterms through the 2013 inauguration.

In The Center Holds, Jonathan Alter provides the first full account of America at the crossroads. With exclusive reporting... Read more

Duel with the Devil

By: Paul Collins

Narrated by: Mark Peckham

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In the closing days of 1799, the United States was still a young republic, its uncertain future contested by the two major political parties of the day: the well-moneyed Federalists, led by Alexander Hamilton, and the populist Republicans, led by Aaron Burr. The two finest lawyers in New York, Burr and Hamilton were bitter rivals both in and out... Read more

Tell My Sons

By: Lt. Col. Mark Weber

Narrated by: Lt. Col. Mark Weber

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

At the pinnacle of a soaring career in the U.S. Army, Lt. Col. Mark M. Weber was tapped to serve in a high-profile job within the Afghan Parliament as a military advisor. Weeks later, a routine physical revealed stage IV intestinal cancer in the thirty-eight-year-old father of three. Over the next two years he would... Read more

Abraham Lincoln

By: Carl Sandburg

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 44 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

“A Lincoln whom no other man than Carl Sandburg could have given us.” —Mark Van Doren, New York Herald Tribune Book ReviewOriginally published in six volumes, which sold more than one million copies, Carl Sandburg’s Abraham Lincoln was praised as the most noteworthy historical biography of Sandburg’s generation. He later distilled this... Read more

Patton

By: Michael Keane

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Patton: Blood, Guts, and Prayer“There is no question of personal courage in this war,” Colonel Patton’s commanding officer told him on the eve of battle in 1918. “It is a business proposition where every man must be in his place and performing his part.”No one in the history of warfare was less likely to follow that advice than George S. Patton... Read more

Creating the Constitution

By: Christopher Collier & James Lincoln Collier

Narrated by: Jim Manchester

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Using a narrative format, Creating the Constitution details the events leading up to the writing of the US Constitution and what American leaders went through to create it. The authors describe the conflicts between the new states and the delegates each sent to the Constitutional Convention, as well as the work that was done to resolve the many... Read more

Americans Still Struggling to Recover

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The Obama administration announced the U.S. Medicare program is projected to remain solvent until 2026. Despite the positive sign, a Federal Reserve Study found Americans are still struggling to recover from the recession. Judy Woodruff talks with William Emmons, chief economist at the Center for Household Financial Stability. Read more

Roosevelt's Centurions

By: Joseph E. Persico

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 24 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

“FDR’s centurions were my heroes and guides. Now Joe Persico has written the best account of those leaders I've ever read.”—Colin L. Powell

All American presidents are commanders in chief by law. Few perform as such in practice. In Roosevelt’s Centurions, distinguished historian Joseph E. Persico reveals how, during World War II, Franklin D.... Read more

A Bad Day On the Romney Campaign

By: Gabriel Schoenfeld

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Why did Romney lose? How can Republicans win?

In A Bad Day on the Romney Campaign: An Insider's Account, Gabriel Schoenfeld, a senior adviser to the Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney for nearly two years, for the first time speaks out about the internal failures of the 2012 campaign.

Why did Romney lose? The book illuminates the chain of... Read more

Comeback

By: Charles Morris

Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon

Length: 4 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Charles R. Morris’s The Trillion Dollar Meltdown (2008) was the first book to warn of the impending financial crash in all its horrific scale and speed. Now, with Comeback, Morris reveals that the United States is on the brink of a strong recovery that could last for twenty years or more. The great economic boom times in American history have... Read more