Politics & Economy audiobooks

An Hour Before Daylight - Abridged

By: Jimmy Carter

Narrated by: Jimmy Carter

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“An American classic.” —The New Yorker

In An Hour Before Daylight, Jimmy Carter, bestselling author of Living Faith and Sources of Strength, recreates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm before the civil rights movement forever changed it and the country.

Carter writes about the powerful rhythms of countryside and community in a... Read more

Evan Thomas - Robert Kennedy: His Life

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Margaret Warner speaks with Evan Thomas, the author of a new book about the life of Robert F. Kennedy. Read more

Cochrane

By: Robert Harvey

Narrated by: Richard Matthews

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The life and adventures of Thomas Cochrane, a young man who rose from midshipman to admiral, are so extraordinary that, to paraphrase Patrick O’Brian, one has to suspend disbelief. In fact, O’Brian admitted to using Cochrane as the model for his character Jack Aubrey. Second only to Nelson among the heroes of the Royal Navy, Cochrane became a... Read more

Everything You Think You Know About Politics...and Why You Were Wrong - Abridged

By: Kathleen Hall Jamieson

Narrated by: Kathleen Hall Jamieson

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From a media expert and network commentator, an engaging guide through the welter of misinformation-generated by politicians and the media alike-that surrounds political campaigns
Here, at last, is the book for anyone who ever wondered how the media extravaganzas we call political campaigns really work. Everything You Think You Know About... Read more

Maestro - Abridged

By: Bob Woodward

Narrated by: James Naughton

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Perhaps the last Washington secret is how the Federal Reserve and its enigmatic chairman, Alan Greenspan, operate. What do they do? Why precisely do they do it? Who is Greenspan? How does he think? What is the basis for his decisions? Why is he so powerful? What kind of relationships has he had with Reagan, Bush, and Clinton -- presidents during... Read more

The Power of Gold - Abridged

By: Peter L. Bernstein

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Over the centuries, gold had stirred the passions for power and glory, for beauty and security, and even for immortality.  No other object has commanded so much veneration over such a long period of time.  The most striking feature of this long history is that gold led most of the protagonists in the drama into the ditch.  Gold had them, rather... Read more

Lives of Moral Leadership - Abridged

By: Robert Coles

Narrated by: Harry Goz

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this rich and illuminating book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author Robert Coles creates a portrait of moral leadership--what it is, and how it is achieved--through stories of people who have led and inspired him: Robert Kennedy, Dorothy Day, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Erik Erikson, a Boston bus driver, teachers in college, medical... Read more

The O'Reilly Factor - Abridged

By: Bill O'Reilly

Narrated by: Bill O'Reilly

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The million-copy New York Times bestseller from the Fox News anchor who’s brought new excitement–and massive amounts of populist common sense and rock-solid honesty–to television news.

Now four seasons strong, Bill O’Reilly’s nightly cable news program, “The O’Reilly Factor,” is one of the hottest shows on the air. In book form, The O’Reilly... Read more

Das Manifest der kommunistischen Partei (Ungekürzt)

By: Karl Marx

Narrated by: Christian Brückner

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Ein Text von 1848, Utopie und Programm einer Bewegung, angetreten, die Welt zu verändern. Illusion und Hoffnung von Millionen.... Christian Brückner liest ein Stück Weltliteratur, liest an gegen das Vergessen, läßt Fragen und Nach-Denken entstehen, wo alle Antworten gegeben und das Urteil der Geschichte gefällt scheint. Read more

Do I Stand Alone? - Abridged

By: Jesse Ventura

Narrated by: Jesse Ventura

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With jackhammer force and candor, Governor Ventura issues an urgent wake-up call to America -- a resounding indictment of our creeping national cynicism, and how our political system rewards mediocrity while turning a blind eye to accountability.
In Do I Stand Alone? Ventura decries the ease with which most Americans surrender their freedoms... Read more

A Culture Emerges

By: Sherry Ruth Anderson & Paul Ray

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

An American sub-culture dubbed "Cultural Creatives" has been growing, quietly revolutionizing American life.  This group has been creating new social systems, world views and ways of life.  Sherry Ruth Anderson and Paul Ray, who have spent thirteen years researching this emerging sub-culture explain how this group has reached critical mass,... Read more

Keep It Simple

By: Janet Luhrs

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover how to make your home a sanctuary, talk and listen from your heart, make financial peace with your partner, and keep that loving connection going when children become part of the family. Read more

The Greatest Generation Speaks - Abridged

By: Tom Brokaw

Narrated by: Tom Brokaw

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful selection of the letters Tom Brokaw received in response to his towering #1 bestseller The Greatest Generation.
 
“When I wrote about the men and women who came out of the Depression, who won great victories and made lasting sacrifices in World War II and then returned home to begin building the world we have... Read more

I Rant, Therefore I Am - Abridged

By: Dennis Miller

Narrated by: Dennis Miller

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Once again there's good news for those of us who rage at the evening news, shake our heads at Washington's business-as-usual, or watch as politicians carom helplessly between political crises and sex scandals: Dennis Miller is back with his third installment of hilarious observations, I Rant, Therefore I Am.

Dennis Miller first gained national... Read more

The Greatest Generation - Abridged

By: Tom Brokaw

Narrated by: Tom Brokaw

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The instant classic that changed the way we saw World War II and an entire generation of Americans, from the beloved journalist whose own iconic career has lasted more than fifty years.

In this magnificent testament to a nation and her people, Tom Brokaw brings to life the extraordinary stories of a generation that gave new meaning to courage,... Read more

Rants Redux - Abridged

By: Dennis Miller

Narrated by: Dennis Miller

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Why are Americans so disinterested in politics? Because we can be. Democracy is voluntary. And our lack of interest hasn't happened overnight. It can be traced directly back to our ever-decreasing attention spans. We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez-small, sweet, and coming out of a funny plastic head.

Why has flying in... Read more

Why Not Me? - Abridged

By: Al Franken

Narrated by: Al Franken

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Updated with more on the real race in 2000!

First came Theodore White's The Making of the President, 1960. Then All the President's Men. Now the searing chronicle that will forever change the way we view the man and the office...

Why Not Me?

...chronicles the dramatic rise and dizzying fall of Al Franken, who would become the first Jewish president... Read more

Flags of Our Fathers - Abridged

By: James Bradley & Ron Powers

Narrated by: Barry Bostwick

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Now abridged for young people, Flags of Our Fathers is the unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history: the raising of the U. S. flag at Iwo Jima. Here is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America.

In February 1945, American... Read more

The Future of Success - Abridged

By: Robert B. Reich

Narrated by: Robert B. Reich

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

If you think it’s getting harder to both make a living and make a life, economist and former secretary of labor Robert Reich agrees with you. Americans may be earning more than ever before, but we’re paying a steep price: we’re working longer, seeing our families less, and our communities are fragmenting.

With the clarity and insight that are his... Read more

Hillary's Choice - Abridged

By: Gail Sheehy

Narrated by: Gail Sheehy

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

This is the story of a woman and a marriage, both so famous the world over, we think we know everything there is to know. But Hillary's Choice renders America's First Lady fully human for the first time.
        
Gail Sheehy uncovers the lifelong imprint of Hillary's drillmaster father and the frustrated mother who taught her to bottle up her... Read more

Stalin - Abridged

By: Edvard Radzinsky

Narrated by: David McCallum

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the author of The Last Tsar, the first full-scale life of Stalin to have what no previous biography has fully obtained: the facts. Granted privileged access to Russia's secret archives, Edvard Radzinsky paints a picture of the Soviet strongman as more calculating, ruthless, and blood-crazed than has ever been described or imagined. Stalin... Read more

The Book of Honor - Abridged

By: Ted Gup

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A national bestseller, this extraordinary work of investigative reporting uncovers the identities, and the remarkable stories, of the CIA secret agents who died anonymously in the service of their country.

In the entrance of the CIA headquarters looms a huge marble wall into which seventy-one stars are carved-each representing an agent who has... Read more

Actual Innocence - Abridged

By: Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld & Jim Dwyer

Narrated by: Michael Boatman

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Extraordinarily powerful stories of ordinary people locked up for crimes they did not commit, and how they were freed against great odds.

A nightmare from a thousand B-movies: a horrible crime is committed in your neighborhood, and the police knock at your door. A witness swears you are the perpetrator; you have no alibi, and no one believes your... Read more

HOMICIDE - Abridged

By: David Simon

Narrated by: Reed Diamond

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Through wonderfully descriptive writing, Simon details the work of fifteen detectives, three sergeants and a lieutenant charged with investigating dozens of Baltimore's 234 murders that year. Simon takes listeners inside the detectives' lives, describing the frustration of departmental red tape and politics, the bursts of energy and moments of... Read more