Politics & Economy audiobooks

Over the Top

By: Arthur Guy Empey

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1915, the British ocean liner Lusitania was making its way from New York to Liverpool when it was sunk by a German U-boat, shocking the world with the massive death toll. Infuriated by the tragedy, Arthur Guy Empey, an American citizen, traveled to England to enlist in the Royal Fusiliers, as the United States had not yet entered the war.... Read more

The Unwinding

By: George Packer

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 18 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
AN NPR BEST BOOK

Selected by New York Times' critic Dwight Garner as a Favorite Book
A Washington Post Best Political Book
A New Republic Best Book

A riveting examination of a nation in crisis, from one of the finest political journalists of our generation ... Read more

Cool War

By: Noah Feldman

Narrated by: Noah Feldman

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A bold and thought-provoking look at the future of U.S.-China relations, and how their coming power struggle will reshape the competitive playing field for nations around the world
 
The Cold War seemingly ended in a decisive victory for the West. But now, Noah Feldman argues, we are entering an era of renewed global struggle: the era of Cool... Read more

Intellectuals and Race

By: Thomas Sowell

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Intellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense—one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals in racial strife is explored in an international context that puts the American experience in a wholly new light.Intellectuals have played a major role in racial issues throughout the centuries. Though their... Read more

Cronkite's War

By: Walter Cronkite IV & Maurice Isserman

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A giant in American journalism in the vanguard of "The Greatest Generation" reveals his World War II experiences in this National Geographic book. Walter Cronkite, an obscure twenty-three-year-old United Press wire service reporter, married Betsy Maxwell on March 30, 1940, following a four-year courtship. She proved to be the love of his life,... Read more

Pope Francis

By: The Staff of The Wall Street Journal

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

On March 13, the cardinals of the Catholic Church, gathered to elect a successor to a living Pope for the first time in 600 years, announced a dramatic shift. By elevating Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina to become Pope Francis the 266th Pontiff, the cardinals were naming the first-ever Pope from the growing New World to take the helm... Read more

Impossible Odds

By: Jessica Buchanan, Erik Landemalm & Anthony Flacco

Narrated by: Anthony Flacco, Candace Thaxton & George Newbern

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A harrowing and heartwrenching memoir of humanitarian aid worker Jessica Buchanan’s kidnapping by Somali land pirates, her three months in captivity, her rescue by the Navy SEALs, and her husband’s extraordinary efforts to help bring her home.

In 2006, twenty-seven-year-old Jessica Buchanan arrived in Nairobi, Kenya, with a teaching degree and... Read more

Rumsfeld's Rules

By: Donald Rumsfeld

Narrated by: Donald Rumsfeld

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The man once named one of America’s ten “toughest” CEOs by Fortune magazine offers current and future leaders practical advice on how to make their companies and organizations more effective.Throughout his distinguished career—as a naval aviator, a U.S. Congressman, a top aide to four American presidents, a high-level diplomat, a CEO of two... Read more

Fighting for Common Ground

By: Olympia Snowe

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

An outspoken centrist, Senator Snowe stunned Washington in February 2012 when she announced she would not seek a fourth term and offered a sharp rebuke to the Senate, citing the dispiriting gridlock and polarization. After serving in the legislative branch at the state and federal levels for forty years, including eighteen years in the US... Read more

Anyone Who Had a Heart

By: Burt Bacharach

Narrated by: Tony Call, Jeff Woodman & Therese Plummer

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the greatest songwriters of all time finally shares his story. From his tumultuous marriages and the tragic loss of his daughter to his collaborations with Dionne Warwick and the surprising stories behind the songs that generations have come to know and love, Burt Bacharach offers a frank, moving account of an unparalleled life.Over the... Read more

the Axmann Conspiracy

By: Scott Andrew Selby

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A trusted member of Hitler’s inner circle, Artur Axmann, the head of the Hitler Youth, witnessed the Führer commit suicide in Berlin—but he would not let the Reich die with its leader. Evading capture, and with access to remnants of the regime’s wealth, Axmann had enough followers to reestablish the Nazi party in the very heart of... Read more

The Roberts Court

By: Marcia Coyle

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Seven minutes after President Obama put his signature to a landmark national health care insurance program, a lawyer in the office of Florida GOP attorney general Bill McCollum hit a computer key, sparking a legal challenge to the new law that would eventually reach the nation's highest court. Health care is only the most visible and recent... Read more

Chain of Blame

By: Mathew Paul & Padilla Muolo

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

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The Body Economic

By: Sanjay Basu & David Stuckler

Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Politicians have talked endlessly about the seismic economic and social impacts of the recent financial crisis, but many continue to ignore its disastrous effects on human health—and have even exacerbated them, by adopting harsh austerity measures and cutting key social programs at a time when constituents need them most. The result, as... Read more

Roger Ailes

By: Zev Chafets

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“When you’ve got Roger Ailes on your side, you do not lose.”—Rush Limbaugh Roger Ailes is the quintessential man behind the curtain. He more or less invented modern political consulting and helped Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush win their races for the White House. Then he reinvented himself as a master of cable television,... Read more

Back in the Fight

By: Joseph Kapacziewski & Charles W. Sasser

Narrated by: Johnny Heller & Jo Anna Perrin

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The inspiring and thrilling combat memoir of the only Army Ranger serving in direct combat operations with a prosthetic limb.

On October 3, 2005, Kapacziewski and his soldiers were coming to the end of their tour in Northern Iraq when their convoy was attacked by enemy fighters. A grenade fell through the gunner's hatch and exploded, shattering... Read more

Keep It Pithy

By: Bill O'Reilly

Narrated by: Bill O'Reilly & Dan Woren

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Killing Lincoln and host of Fox News' top show The O'Reilly Factor, the best of Bill O’Reilly’s provocative writing—reflecting his ideas, wisdom, and core values

Bill O’Reilly is one of the most recognized and talked-about journalists of our time. With an unparalleled track record as an author and with the #1-rated... Read more

The Price of Justice

By: Laurence Leamer

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

This nonfiction legal thriller traces the fourteen-year struggle of two lawyers to bring the most powerful coal baron in American history to justice.Don Blankenship, head of Massey Energy since the early 1990s, ran an industry that provides nearly half of America's electric power. But wealth and influence weren't enough for Blankenship and his... Read more

The Battle of the Frogs and the Mice

By: George Martin

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

You will never see war the same way after reading this extraordinary retelling of an ancient Greek fable about a tragically unnecessary battle between mice and frogs. With haunting illustrations, this miniature masterpiece ranks with Animal Farm as one of the greatest parables of human foibles.  Originally published in 1962, The Battle of the... Read more

Josephus Daniels

By: Lee Craig

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 19 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

As a longtime leader of the Democratic Party and key member of Woodrow Wilson's cabinet, Josephus Daniels was one of the most influential progressive politicians in the country, and as secretary of the navy during the First World War, he became one of the most important men in the world. Before that, Daniels revolutionized the newspaper industry... Read more

Control

By: Glenn Beck

Narrated by: Jeremy Lowell & Glenn Beck

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Glenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset, makes a passionate, fact-based case for guns that reveals why gun control isn’t really about controlling guns at all; it’s about controlling us.

When our founding fathers secured the Constitutional “right of the people to keep and bear arms,” they also added the admonition that... Read more

Strange Rebels

By: Christian Caryl

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 17 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Few moments in history have seen as many seismic transformations as 1979. That one year marked the emergence of revolutionary Islam as a political force on the world stage, the beginning of market revolutions in China and Britain that would fuel globalization and radically alter the international economy, and the first stirrings of the... Read more

The Red Line

By: John Nichol

Narrated by: Andrew Wincott

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

From best-selling author of Tail-End Charlie and Tornado Down comes this powerful and deeply moving account of Bomber Command’s 1944 Nuremberg Raid – the RAF’s bloodiest night of the Second World War More men from Royal Air Force Bomber Command died on one single night of the Second World War than the total RAF aircrew... Read more

George Washington: History in an Hour

By: David B. McCoy

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. George Washington – a figure synonymous with American history. His image is known worldwide, marked on American currency, postage stamps – even a state is named after him. George Washington in an Hour explores the man beneath the symbol. This is the essential chronicle... Read more