Politics & Economy audiobooks

Understanding Democracy in America

By: Ken Masugi

Narrated by: Ken Masugi

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The coauthor, editor, or coeditor of seven books on American politics, Ken Masugi of Johns Hopkins University has been a speechwriter for two cabinet members. Examining the founding of the American political system through the classic works of Democracy in America author Alexis de Tocqueville, this course explores the big ideas of the American... Read more

Roosevelt and Churchill

By: David Stafford

Narrated by: Richard McGonagle

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

An intriguing look behind the congenial fa├ºade of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, this work reveals how each leader jealously guarded knowledge from the other in pursuit of separate national interests. David Stafford's masterly study shows that at the heart of their complicated relationship—which was always dynamic—was an... Read more

Badass: Ultimate Deathmatch

By: Ben Thompson

Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby

Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Unstoppable true stories of the most hardcore showdowns, last stands, and military engagements of all time! When only one can live, it's an Ultimate Deathmatch!This ain't no table tennis. You're not here to skip rope with your niece. You're here to witness the catastrophically awesome exploits of history's greatest badasses. Not only that,... Read more

Bringing Mulligan Home

By: Dale Maharidge

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Sgt. Steve Maharidge, like many of his generation, hardly ever talked about the war. The only sign he’d served in it was a single black and white photograph of himself and another soldier tacked to the wall of his basement workshop.

After Steve Maharidge’s death, his son Dale, now an adult, began a twelve-year quest to understand his father’s... Read more

Genuine Sustainable Abundance

By: Bernard Lietaer & Jacqui Dunne

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Does our present system of economics truly serve the needs of the 21st century world? What are the stepping stones to a new economic structure? Lietaer and Dunne give many examples of successful, large scale, cooperative and complementary currencies in place today offering various communities resilience and sustainability and making for more... Read more

Young Titan

By: Michael Shelden

Narrated by: John Curless

Length: 14 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In modern memory, Winston Churchill remains the man with the cigar and the equanimity among the ruins. Few can remember that at the age of 40, he was considered washed up, his best days behind him. In Young Titan, historian Michael Shelden has produced the first biography focused on Churchill's early career, the years between 1901 and 1915 that... Read more

Battle Ready

By: Mark L. Donald & Scott Mactavish

Narrated by: Fred Berman

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The gripping memoir of Navy Cross, Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart recipient SEAL Lieutenant Mark L. Donald, Battle Ready.

As A SEAL and combat medic, Mark served his country with valorous distinction for almost twenty-five years and survived some of the most dangerous combat actions imaginable.

From the rigors of BUD/S training to... Read more

Red Scarf Girl

By: Ji-li Jiang

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Publishers Weekly Best Book
ALA Best Book for Young Adults
ALA Notable Children's Book
ALA Booklist Editors' Choice

In the tradition of The Diary of Anne Frank and I Am Malala, this is the incredible true story of one girl’s courage and determination during one of the most terrifying eras of the twentieth century.

It's 1966, and twelve-year-old... Read more

Immigration Wars

By: Jeb Bush & Clint Bolick

Narrated by: Skipp Sudduth

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

From the former Republican governor of Florida and a leading constitutional litigator comes a timely and provocative look at one of the most divisive issues facing the nation today—“a must-read for every citizen, wannabe citizen, legal working resident, and those illegally working in the shadows of our economy” (The Washington Times).

The... Read more

The Great Convergence

By: Kishore Mahbubani

Narrated by: Wes Talbot

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The twenty-first century has seen a rise in the global middle class that brings an unprecedented convergence of interests and perceptions, cultures and values. Kishore Mahbubani is optimistic. We are creating a new global civilization. Eighty-eight percent of the world's population outside the West is rising to Western living standards, and... Read more

Out of Order

By: Sandra Day O'Connor

Narrated by: Sandra Day O'Connor

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“I called this book Out of Order because it reflects my goal, which is to share a different side of the Supreme Court. Most people know the Court only as it exists between bangs of the gavel, when the Court comes to order to hear arguments or give opinions. But the stories of the Court and the Justices that come from the ‘out of order’ moments... Read more

Law and Disorder

By: John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 13 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling authors of Mindhunter—former FBI agent John Douglas and Emmy Award–winning filmmaker Mark Olshaker—comes an explosive look at how a high-profile murder case can test the limits of even the most seasoned investigator.For twenty-five years, John E. Douglas worked for the FBI, where he headed the elite... Read more

Global Tilt

By: Ram Charan

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Ram Charan gives business leaders the guidance they need to succeed in a world in which economic power has shifted.
 
The global tilt is nothing less than an irreversible shift of economic power—jobs, wealth, and market opportunities—from a small part of the world to its entirety. It is improving the lives of... Read more

Case on Police Collecting DNA from Criminals Reaches Supreme Court

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A man was arrested in Maryland and police officers took a DNA sample that connected him to an unrelated crime. The Supreme Court is now weighing whether the Fourth Amendment should protect him from that kind of search. Ray Suarez gets analysis and context on the case from Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal. Read more

Sojourner Truth

By: Peter Krass

Narrated by: Caroline Clay

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

From Chelsea House's Black Americans of Achievement series comes this biography of the legendary anti slavery activist. Read more

The Great Persuasion

By: Angus Burgin

Narrated by: Derek Shetterly

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Just as today’s observers struggle to justify the workings of the free market in the wake of a global economic crisis, an earlier generation of economists revisited their worldviews following the Great Depression. The Great Persuasion is an intellectual history of that project. Angus Burgin traces the evolution of postwar economic thought in... Read more

Gardens of Stone: My Boyhood in the French Resistance

By: Stephen Grady & Michael Wright

Narrated by: Gordon Griffin & Luke Thompson

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

An extraordinary wartime memoir, combining the best kind of adventure story with a coming of age testimony of unforgettable resonance and poignancy.

September 2011, Halkidiki, Northern Greece.
A solitary 86 year-old man gazes across an Aegean headland, knowing that he must finally confront his past. He begins to write...

September 1939, Nieppe,... Read more

Coolidge

By: Amity Shlaes

Narrated by: Terence Aselford

Length: 21 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Amity Shlaes, author of The Forgotten Man, delivers a brilliant and provocative reexamination of America’s thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge, and the decade of unparalleled growth that the nation enjoyed under his leadership. In this riveting biography, Shlaes traces Coolidge’s improbable rise from a tiny town in New England to a youth so... Read more

Reducing Gun Violence in America

By: Daniel W. Webster & Jon S. Vernick

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Amid a growing consensus that the staggering toll of gun violence in the United States is an urgent public health issue, the Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health has convened experts on gun policy and violence from the United States and selected other countries to summarize relevant research and its implications for... Read more

Street Smarts

By: Jim Rogers

Narrated by: Michael Bybee

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Wall Street legend and bestselling author Jim Rogers offers investing insights and economic, political, and social analysis, drawing on lessons and observations from his lifetime in the markets. 

Jim Rogers, whose entertaining accounts of his travels around the world--studying the markets from Russia to Singapore from the ground up--has... Read more

The Payoff

By: Jeff Connaughton

Narrated by: Jeff Connaughton

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Beginning in January 2009, The Payoff lays bare Washington's culture of power and plutocracy. It's the story of the twenty-month struggle by Senator Ted Kaufman and Jeff Connaughton, his chief of staff, to hold Wall Street executives accountable for securities fraud, stop stock manipulation by high-frequency traders, and break up... Read more

Thaddeus Stevens

By: Hans L. Trefousse

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most controversial figures in nineteenth-century American history, Thaddeus Stevens is best remembered for his role as congressional leader of the radical Republicans and as a chief architect of Reconstruction. Long painted by historians as a vindictive "dictator of Congress," out to punish the South at the behest of big business and... Read more

The $10 Trillion Prize

By: Carol Liao, David Michael, Michael J. Silverste...

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet your new global consumer You’ve heard of the burgeoning consumer markets in China and India that are driving the world economy. But do you know enough about these new consumers to convert them into customers? Do you know that: • There will be nearly one billion middle-class consumers in China and India within the next ten years? • More... Read more

The Wise Men

By: Walter Isaacson & E. Thomas

Narrated by: Jonathan Reese

Length: 33 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Six close friends shaped the role their country would play in the dangerous years following World War II.They were the original best and brightest, whose towering intellects, outsize personalities, and dramatic actions would bring order to the postwar chaos, and whose strong response to Soviet expansionism would leave a legacy that dominates... Read more