Politics & Economy audiobooks

Wenn nur das Böse übrig bleibt

By: Zantke

Narrated by: Michael A. Grimm

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Ein brutaler Drogensüchtiger, der Rentner verprügelt und selbst vor seinen eigenen Großeltern nicht haltmacht. Amtsrichter Stephan Zantke hat tagtäglich mit unglaublichen Fällen wie diesem zu tun und trifft dabei auf menschliche Abgründe, die nur schwer zu ertragen sind – und bei denen manchmal nur das Böse übrig bleibt. Nach dem großen Erfolg... Read more

The Cheka: The History of the Soviet Agency that Eventually Became the KGB

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Steve Knupp

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The KGB is one of the most famous abbreviations of the 20th century, and it has become synonymous with the shadowy and often violent actions of the Soviet Union’s secret police and internal security agencies. In fact, it is often used to refer to the Soviet state security agencies throughout its history, from the inception of the inception of... Read more

Undiplomatic

By: Deesha Dyer

Narrated by: Deesha Dyer

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Without credentials, connections or a college degree, a hip-hop journalist and community leader conquered her imposter syndrome while landing one of the most exclusive, sought-after and fun positions in the White House.
 
From the most unlikely person to end up as a senior official to President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama comes a... Read more

The Invented State

By: Emily Thorson

Narrated by: Emily Durante

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Invented State, Emily Thorson argues that a problematic and understudied aspect of political misinformation reflects widespread public misperception about what the government does. Because much of public policy is invisible to the public, there is fertile ground for false beliefs to flourish, leading to what Thorson terms the "invented... Read more

The Road to Freedom

By: Joseph E. Stiglitz

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Forces on the political Right have justified exploitation by cloaking it in the rhetoric of freedom, leading to pharmaceutical companies freely overcharging for medication, a Big Tech free from oversight, politicians free to incite rebellion, corporations free to pollute, and more. How did we get here?



In The Road to Freedom, Nobel prize winner... Read more

Marshall's Great Captain

By: Kathy Wilson

Narrated by: Kitty Hendrix

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

On May 3, 1943, dozens of planes could be seen flying in and out of Royal Air Force Bovingdon Airfield. Among the aircraft seen that day was a B-24D bomber named Hot Stuff, which carried the Commanding General of US Forces in Europe, Lieutenant General Frank M. Andrews—the officer charged with formulating a plan to invade Europe. Speculation was... Read more

Fridays of Rage

By: Sam Cherribi

Narrated by: Shawn K. Jain

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Fridays of Rage provides a glimpse into how Al Jazeera strategically cast its journalists as martyrs in the struggle for Arab freedom while promoting itself as the mouthpiece and advocate of the Arab public.

In addition to heralding a new era of Arab democracy, Al Jazeera has become a major influence over Arab perceptions of American... Read more

The Great Abolitionist

By: Stephen Puleo

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 17 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tempestuous mid-nineteenth century, as slavery consumed Congressional debate and America careened toward civil war and split apart–when the very future of the nation hung in the balance–Charles Sumner's voice rang strongest, bravest, and most unwavering. Where others preached compromise and moderation, he denounced slavery's evils to all... Read more

The After Party

By: Curtis Chang & Nancy French

Narrated by: Greg Stafford & Curtis Chang

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

For the exhausted, the hurting, and the faithful, The After Party helps reframe our political identity away from the “what” of political positions and toward the “how” being centered on Jesus.This paradigm-shifting book complements The After Party Project--a six-part, video-based, highly interactive curriculum that provides churches, small... Read more

Putins Olygarch

By: Thomas Kistner & Johannes Aumüller

Narrated by: Bodo Henkel

Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Sport, Geld, Macht – Thomas Bach Das Gesicht des IOC ist ein Deutscher. Seine Geschichte und die des immer wieder kriminellen IOC laufen seit Jahrzehnten parallel. Hier wird sie erstmals erzählt. Thomas Bach ist der Mann arabischer Scheichs und chinesischer Staatskommunisten, und vor allem: der Olygarch Putins. Dieser investigative Report... Read more

We Are Home

By: Ray Suarez

Narrated by: Ray Suarez

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From a veteran broadcaster and historian comes a richly reported portrait of the newest Americans, immigrants from all over the globe who are living all across the country, filled with their own voices. We are a nation of immigrants, never more than now. In recent decades, the numbers have skyrocketed, thanks to people coming from many... Read more

Confesiones desde el exilio: Enrique Peña Nieto

By: Mario Maldonado

Narrated by: Paris Roa

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Los secretos y escándalos del último gobierno del PRI A través de entrevistas exclusivas con el propio Enrique Peña Nieto, quien durante años no había hablado con ningún medio, y de una amplia investigación que incluye personas cercanas al exmandatario, Mario Maldonado presenta un trabajo periodístico de primer nivel en el que revela todos los... Read more

My Journeys in Economic Theory

By: Edmund Phelps

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Edmund Phelps is among the most important economists of his generation. He developed a new understanding of unemployment and inflation and went on to rethink the roots of innovation.



In this book, Phelps tells the story of his role in reshaping economic theory, offering a powerful personal account of a creative and rewarding career. My Journeys... Read more

The Moment

By: Bakari Sellers

Narrated by: Bakari Sellers

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

“Toni Morrison once said, ‘The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction.’ In The Moment, Bakari Sellers brilliantly and precisely cuts through the noise of the calculated, well-financed, and relentless campaign by conservative media, think tanks, and politicians to end the post-George Floyd ‘racial reckoning’ and reverse the... Read more

Las heridas

By: Felipe de la Mata

Narrated by: Carlos Garza

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

El año en que la democracia se perdió, una mujer lo dejó todo para impedirlo Mientras Alfonso maneja hacia Tixtla donde agoniza Ubalda, una maestra rural y luchadora social, recuerda el momento en que la conoció, así como los acontecimientos políticos y sociales que sacudieron la vida democrática de México en los años ochenta y que,... Read more

The White Bonus

By: Tracie McMillan

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

This unflinching book from award-winning investigative reporter Tracie McMillan examines what white privilege delivers—in dollars and cents—not only to white people of wealth but also to white people from the poor to the middle class.



McMillan begins with her own downwardly mobile middle-class family and takes us through a personal history marked... Read more

Kingdom of Rage

By: Elizabeth Neumann

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A former counterterrorism official explores how modern evangelicalism and right-wing conservatism intermingled to form the combustible ideology that resulted in the January 6 attacks on the Capitol—and which threatens to destroy the American Church from within.   How did a Church that purports to follow the teachings of Jesus - the Prince of... Read more

The Yemen Model

By: Alexandra Stark

Narrated by: Emily Durante

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A close look at failed US policies in the Middle East, offering a fresh perspective on how best to reorient goals in the region

In this book Alexandra Stark argues that the US approach to Yemen offers insights into the failures of American foreign policy throughout the Middle East. Stark makes the case that despite often being drawn into... Read more

Minority Rule

By: Ari Berman

Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, represented an extreme form of the central danger facing American democracy today: a blatant disregard for the will of the majority. Through voter suppression, election subversion, gerrymandering, dark money, the takeover of the courts, and the whitewashing of history, reactionary white... Read more

Covert City

By: Vince Houghton & Eric Driggs

Narrated by: Eric Driggs & Vince Houghton

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Secret operations, corruption, crime, and a city teeming with spies: why Miami was as crucial to winning the Cold War as Washington DC or Moscow.

The Cuban Missile Crisis was perhaps the most dramatic and dangerous period of the Cold War. What's less well known is that the city of Miami, mere miles away, was a pivotal, though less well known,... Read more

Ascent to Power

By: David L. Roll

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 20 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From Franklin Roosevelt’s final days through Harry Truman’s extraordinary transformation, this is the enthralling story behind the most consequential presidential transition in US history. 

When Roosevelt, in failing health, decided to run for a fourth term, he gave in to the big city Democratic bosses and reluctantly picked Senator Truman as... Read more

Mannerheim, Marshal of Finland

By: Henrik Meinander

Narrated by: Bruce Mann

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Field marshal and statesman Gustaf Mannerheim (1867-1951) was the most acclaimed and the most hated Finn of the twentieth century. After three decades of loyal and distinguished service in the Russian Tsarist army, he returned to his homeland in 1917 to defend its new independence. This iconic figure led the Finnish forces as Commander-in-Chief... Read more

The Longevity Imperative

By: Andrew J. Scott

Narrated by: Michael Chance

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

From a leading expert on longevity, an urgent call for individuals, institutions, and society to adapt to the reality of living longer lives

Thanks to increases in life expectancy, we can now expect to live for a long time. Most of us would welcome an extra day in the week, so why do so many of us view the prospect of additional years with fear... Read more

Redesigning Education: A New Paradigm for Success

By: Frank “Bud” O’Lery

Narrated by: Jeffrey Brandon

Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In "Redesigning Education: A New Paradigm for Success," author Frank "Bud" O'Lery presents a compelling exploration of the challenges facing humanity in the modern era. Drawing parallels to the metaphorical "Four Horsemen of Apocalypse," O'Lery delves into the pressing issues of overcrowding, authoritarianism, greed, and environmental crises.... Read more