Politics & Economy audiobooks

End of The Good Life

By: Riva Froymovich

Narrated by: Simone Lewis

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

Financial journalist Riva Froymovich has good reason to be anxious about the financial turmoil facing Generation Y. This is her generation.Indeed, Generation Y has suffered the brunt of the financial crisis and great recession. For those in the U.S. born after 1976, the American dream is a is becoming a nightmare. Swamped in student loan debt... Read more

Dirty Wars

By: Jeremy Scahill

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 24 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In this groundbreaking book of new reportage, sure to stir a global debate, journalist Jeremy Scahill—author of the acclaimed international bestseller Blackwater—takes us into the heart of the War on Terror's most dangerous battlefields as he chases down the most important foreign policy story of our time.From Afghanistan and Pakistan to Yemen,... Read more

The Life and Legend of Chris Kyle: American Sniper, Navy SEAL

By: Michael J. Mooney

Narrated by: Brian Troxell

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller: The life story of Chris Kyle, the American Sniper.

A brutal warrior but a gentle father and husband, Chris Kyle led the life of an American hero. His renowned courage and skill in military service earned him two nicknames -- The Devil among insurgents and The Legend among his Navy SEAL brethren -- but his impact... Read more

Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right

By: Erica Grieder

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Texas may well be America's most controversial state. Evangelicals dominate the halls of power, millions of its people live in poverty, and its death row is the busiest in the country. Skeptical outsiders have found much to be offended by in the state's politics and attitude, and yet, according to journalist, and Texan, Erica Grieder, the United... Read more

Beyond War

By: David Rohde

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Beyond War: Reimagining American Influence in a New Middle East distills eleven years of expert reporting for the New York Times, Reuters, and the Atlantic into a clarion call for change. Here Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist David Rohde exposes how a dysfunctional Washington squandered billions on contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, neglected... Read more

The Dispensable Nation

By: Vali Nasr

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In a brilliant and revealing book destined to drive debate about the future of American power, Vali Nasr questions America’s dangerous choice to engage less and matter less in the world.

Vali Nasr, author of the groundbreaking The Shia Revival, worked closely with Hillary Clinton at the State Department on Afghan and Pakistani affairs. In The... Read more

Abraham Lincoln: A Life 1861-1862

By: Michael Burlingame

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Publishers Weekly describes this book as "the most meticulously researched Lincoln biography ever written. Burlingame's Lincoln comes alive as the author unfolds vast amounts of new research while breathing new life into familiar stories. It is the essential title for the bicentennial." Publishers Weekly also notes, "The book need not be heard... Read more

Letter from Birmingham Jail

By: Martin Luther King Jr.

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

April 16th. The year is 1963. Birmingham, Alabama has had a spring of non-violent protests known as the Birmingham Campaign, seeking to draw attention to the segregation against blacks by the city government and downtown retailers. The organizers longed to create a non-violent tension so severe that the powers that be would be forced to address... Read more

The Ultimate Obama Survival Guide

By: Wayne Allyn Root

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Build your wealth, protect your faith and family, secure your freedom.Don't just survive Obama—learn how to outsmart his big-government socialist system and thrive!Wayne Allyn Root is no stranger to risks and challenges. From his career as a businessman and television host to his emergence as a mega-pundit on virtually every major news outlet,... Read more

Media Control

By: Noam Chomsky

Narrated by: Noam Chomsky

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Noam Chomsky’s backpocket classic on wartime propaganda and opinion control begins by asserting two models of democracy—one in which the public actively participates, and one in which the public is manipulated and controlled. According to Chomsky, "propaganda is to democracy as the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state," and the mass media is the... Read more

The Alchemists

By: Neil Irwin

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

When the first fissures became visible to the naked eye in August 2007, suddenly the most powerful men in the world were three men who were never elected to public office. They were the leaders of the world's three most important central banks: Ben Bernanke of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Mervyn King of the Bank of England, and Jean-Claude Trichet... Read more

The Democracy Project

By: David Graeber

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A bold rethinking of the most powerful political idea in the world—democracy—and the story of how radical democracy can yet transform America, from the co-author of The Dawn of Everything

Democracy has been the American religion since before the Revolution—from New England town halls to the multicultural democracy of Atlantic pirate ships. But... Read more

The Way of the Knife

By: Mark Mazzetti

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times journalist Mark Mazzetti has won numerous awards, including a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. In The Way of the Knife, Mazzetti offers a riveting account of how the CIA and special ops forces have been transformed to accommodate the new American way of war. From killer drones to clandestine spy networks, today's... Read more

The Alchemists

By: Neil Irwin

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 14 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

When the first fissures became visible to the naked eye in August 2007, suddenly the most powerful men in the world were three men who were never elected to public office. They were the leaders of the world’s three most important central banks: Ben Bernanke of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Mervyn King of the Bank of England, and Jean-Claude Trichet... Read more

The Favored Daughter

By: Nadene Ghouri & Fawzia Koofi

Narrated by: Emily Durante

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The nineteenth daughter of a local village leader in rural Afghanistan, Fawzia Koofi was left to die in the sun after birth by her mother. But she survived, and perseverance in the face of extreme hardship has defined her life ever since. Despite the abuse of her family, the exploitative Russian and Taliban regimes, the murders of her father and... Read more

Texas Murders

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Law enforcement officials in Kaufman County, Texas, are investigating whether a white supremacist prison gang can be linked to the recent murders of assistant district attorney Mark Hasse and district attorney Mike McLelland and his wife Cynthia. Judy Woodruff interviews Tanya Eiserer of The Dallas Morning News. Read more

Conviction Overturned

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Louis Taylor was a teenager when he was convicted of murder for supposedly starting a fire that killed 29 people. Now 58, Taylor has been released from an Arizona prison after new information cast doubt on the evidence he committed arson. Judy Woodruff talks to Richard Ruelas of the Arizona Republic, who was in the courtroom. Read more

World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements

By: John Hunter

Narrated by: John Hunter

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In John Hunter’s classroom, students fearlessly tackle global problems and discover surprising solutions by playing his groundbreaking World Peace Game. These kids—from high school all the way down to fourth grade, in schools both well funded and underresourced—take on the roles of politicians, tribal leaders, diplomats, bankers, and military... Read more

Down the Up Escalator

By: Barbara Garson

Narrated by: Jeanine Kane

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

One of our most incisive and committed journalists—author of the classic All the Livelong Day—shows us the real human cost of our economic follies.The Great Recession has thrown huge economic chal┬¡lenges at almost all Americans save the superaffluent few, and we are only now beginning to reckon up the human toll it is taking. Down the Up... Read more

The Great Deformation

By: David A. Stockman

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 36 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A coruscating, brilliantly insightful exegesis of where capitalism went wrong, how it was corrupted, and how it might be restored, by outspoken former Reagan budget director and bestselling author David StockmanDavid Stockman was the architect of the Reagan Revolution meant to restore sound money principles to the United States government. It... Read more

Lady Bird Johnson

By: Joe Bevilacqua

Narrated by: Joe Bevilacqua

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

As heard on Sirius XM Radio and NPR stations!Lady Bird Johnson: Legacy of a First Lady was written, produced, directed, and narrated by veteran NPR producer Joe Bevilacqua. One of the most licensed audiobooks on The Public Radio Exchange and iTunes, it is Bevilacqua's award-winning audio documentary examining the challenges and achievements of... Read more

The Secretary

By: Kim Ghattas

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 15 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In November 2008, Hillary Clinton agreed to work for her former rival. As President Barack Obama's secretary of state, she set out to repair America's image around the world—and her own. For the following four years, BBC foreign correspondent Kim Ghattas had unparalleled access to Clinton and her entourage, and she weaves a fast-paced, gripping... Read more

The Quakers, Forging America's Identity

By: Susan Sachs Goldman

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Quakers, also known as "the Society of Friends", have been part of American history for over 300 years. America's whole moral fabric has been affected by their commitment to peace and societal equality. Hear how they have inspired fundamental characteristics such as: democracy, egalitarianism, religious tolerance, and women's rights. Read more

Refresh Irish Economy After Global Recession

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Ireland was hit hard during the global recession, suffering dramatic job losses and a mass exodus of skilled workers. Though the Irish are still cautious, a recovery is being driven by locally-grown businesses, startups and new takes on heritage industries. Ray Suarez reports from Dublin on pioneering businesses sprouting up. Read more