Politics & Economy audiobooks

Recondo: LRRPs in the 101st Airborne - Abridged

By: Larry Chambers

Narrated by: Brian Hallas

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For firefights in the swamps, ambushes in the jungle, or just facing the enemy dead-on, Recondo trained LRRPs to win.

They will never be able to duplicate the 5th Special Forces Recondo School and the training that gave its grads something they desperately needed—the skills to survive Long Range Patrol missions in the jungle that NVA considered... Read more

Murdering Mr. Lincoln

By: Charles Higham

Narrated by: Dan Cashman

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In this startling and original work, best-selling author Charles Higham (Howard Hughes: The Secret Life) addresses one of the greatest historical mysteries: Did John Wilkes Booth act alone on the night of Good Friday, 1865, or was he part of a wide conspiracy? Drawing from letters, diaries, previously unstudied records of official hearings,... Read more

Bush Country - Abridged

By: John Podhoretz

Narrated by: John Podhoretz

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Combining acerbic wit with insider political savvy, one of America's most entertaining journalists tells readers why George W. Bush is not only the Right Man at the Right Time, but has become the greatest Leader of the Age

George W. Bush arrived in the White House an untested governor with an unfortunate habit of tripping over his own tongue,... Read more

Circles, Conversation and Community

By: Vicki Robin, Juanita Brown, Ph.D. & Leif Utne

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

These three guests believe that if Americans, both progressive and conservative, take time to speak freely and truly listen to one another we’ll find that our views have much more in common than we realize. At a time when our democracy seems threatened, these wisdom leaders inspire us to join together to move beyond the middle ground and find a... Read more

Tour of Duty - Abridged

By: Douglas Brinkley

Narrated by: Douglas Brinkley

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

One of our most acclaimed historians explores the decorated military service of one of America’s most intriguing politicians—the leading Democratic presidential candidate for 2004—and its profound effects on his career and lifeIn Tour of Duty, Brinkley explores Senator John Kerry’s career and deftly deals with such explosive issues as U.S.... Read more

How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life - Abridged

By: Peter Robinson

Narrated by: Peter Robinson

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On February 6, 2001, my nine-year-old daughter happened to wander into the room during a television segment marking Ronald Reagan's ninetieth birthday. She watched for a moment. Then she turned to me and asked, ""Dad, is that the President you worked for?""What answer could I give her? How could I make her see? I wanted my daughter to recognize... Read more

Why Courage Matters

By: John McCain & Mark Salter

Narrated by: Dan Cashman

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this inspiring meditation on courage, Senator John McCain shares his most cherished stories of ordinary individuals who have risked everything to defend the people and principles they hold most dear.

“We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear but the capacity for action... Read more

The Bushes

By: Peter Schweizer & Rochelle Schweizer

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 23 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Get the inside story on America’s most powerful political dynasty.


President George W. Bush leads our nation in a time of unprecedented peril. But how well do we really know him or his remarkable family, whose history often mirrors the history of America? Now, in the first full-scale biography of the Bushes, Peter and Rochelle Schweizer trace... Read more

George Washington - Abridged

By: James MacGregor Burns & Susan Dunn

Narrated by: Richard Rohan

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Leading scholars define the special contributions and qualifications of our first president
Washington's legacy is a successful experiment in collective leadership, great initiatives in establishing a strong executive branch and the formulation of innovative and lasting economic and foreign policies. Along with highlighting these accomplishments,... Read more

Das Abschiedskonzert

By: Rainald Grebe

Narrated by: Rainald Grebe

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Seine Lieder folgen einer eigenen Logik fernab von allen sattsam bekannten Fahrrinnen. Sie sind voller Widersprüche und Widerhaken, voller Doppelbödigkeiten und überraschender Einsichten. Sein Song "Dörte" ("... du bist der Ausweg aus der Spaßgesellschaft") wurde zum Ohrwurm der deutschen Comedy-Szene. Dabei läuft Grebes unnachahmliche... Read more

Democracy Matters

By: Cornel West

Narrated by: Cornel West

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“Uncompromising and unconventional . . . Cornel West is an eloquent prophet with attitude.” — Newsweek“

"A timely analysis about the current state of democratic systems in America." — The Boston Globe

In Democracy Matters, Cornel West argues that if America is to become a better steward of democratization around the world, we must first wake up to... Read more

The 9/11 Commission Report

By: Multiple Authors

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 22 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the course of 20 months, the bipartisan 9/11 Commission, five Democrats and five Republicans held 12 public hearings and received testimony from 160 witnesses. Dozens of government agencies and other entities provided the Commission with more than 2.5 million pages of documents and other material. The report and its recommendations can save... Read more

America’s Secret War

By: George Friedman

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Dubbed by Barron’s as “The Shadow CIA,” Stratfor is one of the world’s most respected private global intelligence firms with an unmatched ability to provide clear perspective on the current geopolitical map. Here, drawing on Stratfor’s vast information-gathering network, George Friedman delivers the geopolitical story that the mainstream media... Read more

Mornings On Horseback - Abridged

By: David McCullough

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The National Book Award–winning biography that tells the story of how young Teddy Roosevelt transformed himself from a sickly boy into the vigorous man who would become a war hero and ultimately president of the United States, told by master historian David McCullough.

Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore... Read more

An End to Evil

By: David Frum & R. Perle

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

An End to Evil charts the agenda for what’s next in the war on terrorism, as articulated by David Frum, former presidential speechwriter and bestselling author of The Right Man, and Richard Perle, former assistant secretary of defense and one of the most influential foreign-policy leaders in Washington.

This world is an unsafe place for... Read more

An End to Evil - Abridged

By: David Frum & Richard Perle

Narrated by: Richard M. Davidson

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An End to Evil charts the agenda for what’s next in the war on terrorism, as articulated by David Frum, former presidential speechwriter and bestselling author of The Right Man, and Richard Perle, former assistant secretary of defense and one of the most influential foreign-policy leaders in Washington.

This world is an unsafe place for... Read more

All the Shah's Men

By: Stephen Kinzer

Narrated by: Michael Prichard & Jonathan Yen

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Half a century ago, the United States overthrew the democratically elected prime minister of Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, whose "crime" was nationalizing the country's oil industry.



In a cloak-and-dagger story of spies, saboteurs, and secret agents, Kinzer reveals the involvement of Eisenhower, Churchill, Kermit Roosevelt, and the CIA in... Read more

David Herbert Donald: We Are Lincoln Men

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Margaret Warner speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Herbert Donald about his book We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends. Read more

Pigs at the Trough - Abridged

By: Arianna Huffington

Narrated by: Alison Fraser

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Arianna Huffington turns the spotlight on the tough reforms we must demand from Washington that go beyond the Corporate Responsibility Act. Read more

I Am a Soldier, Too - Abridged

By: Rick Bragg

Narrated by: Rick Bragg

Length: 3 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On March 23, 2003, Private First Class Jessica Lynch was crossing the Iraqi desert with the 507th Maintenance Company when the convoy she was traveling in was ambushed, caught in enemy crossfire. All four soldiers traveling with her died in the attack. Lynch, perhaps the most famous P.O.W. this country has ever known, was taken prisoner and held... Read more

Like No Other Time - Abridged

By: Tom Daschle

Narrated by: Tom Daschle

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Tom Daschle, the Majority Leader of the historic 107th Senate, presents a candid insider’s account of the workings of the U.S. government during two of the most tumultuous years in the nation’s history.

The 107th Congress faced a time like no other in the life of the nation. This was the era of the first presidential election to be decided by the... Read more

An Imperfect God - Abridged

By: Henry Wiencek

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A major new biography of Washington, and the first to explore his engagement with American slavery

When George Washington wrote his will, he made the startling decision to set his slaves free; earlier he had said that holding slaves was his "only unavoidable subject of regret." In this groundbreaking work, Henry Wiencek explores the founding... Read more

There Must Be a Pony In Here Somewhere - Abridged

By: Kara Swisher & Lisa Dickey

Narrated by: Kara Swisher

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In her acclaimed AOL.COM, Kara Swisher chronicled the unlikely ascent of a group of underdog entrepreneurs and their influence on American net culture. This book picks up where the previous one left off, investigating AOL's merger with Time Warner and its aftermath. Journalists Swisher and Dickey have an ear for the comic and an appreciation... Read more

Franklin and Winston - Abridged

By: Jon Meacham

Narrated by: Len Cariou

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this “beautifully written and superbly researched dual biography” (Los Angeles Times Book Review), Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham “paints a powerful portrait of the enormous friendship between World War II allies [Franklin] Roosevelt and [Winston] Churchill” (Vanity Fair).
 
“Intense and compelling... Read more