Politics & Economy audiobooks

50+ - Abridged

By: Bill Novelli & Boe Workman

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bill Novelli doesn't believe that retirement has to mean rocking one's way into the sunset. As the head of the strongest organization of retired people in the world, the AARP, Novelli believes that retirement can be a time of action and influence rather than one of illness and decline.
In this inspiring book, Bill Novelli will speak to... Read more

My Father, My President - Abridged

By: Doro Bush Koch

Narrated by: Doro Bush Koch

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Revised and updated with six new chapters and many new photographs following his death at age 94, this is the definitive account of George H.W. Bush's life and career written by his only daughter with his full cooperation.

Much happened to George H.W. Bush and the country since the initial publication of My Father, My President: His nemesis,... Read more

War on the Middle Class - Abridged

By: Lou Dobbs

Narrated by: Lou Dobbs

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Prominent CNN host and commentator Lou Dobbs unleashes his manifesto on the vanishing American dream.

Abridged CDs - 5 CDs, 6 hours Read more

Blood and Thunder - Abridged

By: Hampton Sides

Narrated by: Don Leslie

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Ghost Soldiers comes an eye-opening history of the American conquest of the West—"a story full of authority and color, truth and prophecy" (The New York Times Book Review).

In the summer of 1846, the Army of the West marched through Santa Fe, en route to invade and occupy the Western territories claimed... Read more

Conservatize Me - Abridged

By: John Moe

Narrated by: John Moe

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

What would happen to a liberal's mind if he subsisted entirely on conservative media and rhetoric? That's what critically acclaimed political humorist, NPR commentator, and McSweeney's contributor John Moe sets out to learn in Conservatize Me.We always hear how everyone in America is firmly planted in red or blue. They're permanently... Read more

Die Menschenrechte / Human Rights - Verkündet von den Vereinten Nationen am 1. Dezember 1948 (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Nomen Nominandum

Narrated by: Christian Brückner & Juli Zeh

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Jeder kennt die zehn Gebote. Aber kennt auch jeder jedes Gebot? Genauso ist es mit den Menschenrechten. Sie sind ständig in aller Mund, aber wer könnte die einzelnen Rechte aufzählen. Vielleicht noch das Recht auf ein Leben in Freiheit, in Würde, Gleichheit für alle, Folterverbot - viel mehr aber fällt uns dazu nicht ein. Und da die... Read more

Epicenter

By: Joel C Rosenberg

Narrated by: Joel C Rosenberg

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting audiobook about the dramatic changes that will transform the world as we know it. Americans are anxious about the future - the world's and their own. Rosenberg explains the enormous political, economic, and spiritual changes that are underway in the world's most important countries. He answers why these changes are happening, what... Read more

Diana

By: Sarah Bradford

Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren

Length: 15 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From The New York Times-bestselling author of America's Queen and Elizabeth- the definitive biography of Diana, Princess of Wales.

Unabridged CDs - 11 CDs, 14 hours Read more

Culture Warrior

By: Bill O'Reilly

Narrated by: Bill O'Reilly

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

With three straight #1 bestsellers and more than 4 million copies of his books in print, the most powerful traditional force in the American media now takes off his gloves in the ongoing struggle for America’s heart and soul.

Bill O’Reilly is the very embodiment of the idea of a Culture Warrior—and in this book he lives up to the title... Read more

The Greatest Story Ever Sold

By: Frank Rich

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times columnist Frank Rich reviews the trajectory of fictions spun by the Bush administration from 9/11 to Hurricane Katrina, revealing the most brilliant spin campaign ever conducted.

Unabridged CDs - 8 CDs, 10 hours Read more

Shopportunity!

By: Kate Newlin

Narrated by: Kimberly Schraf

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Today's shopping culture is turning the shopper into a zombie—and the thrill of the hunt into the robotic management of inventory. For millions of us, the sizzle of a daily shopping experience has devolved into a relentless acquisition of the okay, available, and cheap. Why are we willing to pay $3.50 for a latte at Starbucks, but bristle at a... Read more

The Confession - Abridged

By: James E. McGreevey

Narrated by: James E. McGreevey

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In August 2004, Governor James E. McGreevey of New Jersey made history when he declared ""My truth is that I am a gay American,"" and announced his resignation. Now, in this extraordinarily candid memoir, McGreevey shares his story of a life of ambition, moral compromise, and redemption. From childhood, McGreevey lived a kind of idealized... Read more

My American Journey - Abridged

By: Colin L. Powell & Joseph E. Persico

Narrated by: Colin L. Powell

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A great American success story . . . an endearing and well-written book.”—The New York Times Book Review

Colin Powell is the embodiment of the American dream. He was born in Harlem to immigrant parents from Jamaica. He knew the rough life of the streets. He overcame a barely average start at school. Then he joined... Read more

The Wonga Coup

By: Adam Roberts

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Equatorial Guinea is a tiny country roughly the size of the state of Maryland. Humid, jungle covered, and rife with unpleasant diseases, natives call it Devil Island. Its president in 2004, Obiang Nguema, had been accused of cannibalism, belief in witchcraft, mass murder, billion-dollar corruption, and general rule by terror. With so little to... Read more

State of Emergency - Abridged

By: Patrick J. Buchanan

Narrated by: Patrick J. Buchanan

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities," said Theodore Roosevelt. State of Emergency will demonstrate that this is exactly what is happening to America and may now be unstoppable.
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In the Name of the Father

By: Francois Furstenberg

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

A revelatory study of how Americans were bound together as a young nation by the words, the image, and the myth of George Washington and how slavery shaped American nationalism in ways that define and haunt us still.



How did people in our country—North and South, East and West—come to share a remarkably durable and consistent common vision of... Read more

Fiasco - Abridged

By: Thomas E. Ricks

Narrated by: James Lurie

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the Washington Post's two-time Pulitzer-winning senior Pentagon reporter, the definitive military chronicle of the Iraq War-and a searing judgment of its gross strategic blindness-drawing on the accounts of senior military officers giving voice to their anger for the first time.

Unabridged CDs - 20 CDs, 24 hours Read more

Conservatives Without Conscience

By: John W. Dean

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

On the heels of his national bestseller Worse Than Watergate, John Dean takes a critical look at the current conservative movement

In Conservatives Without Conscience, John Dean places the conservative movement's inner circle of leaders in the Republican Party under scrutiny. Dean finds their policies and mind- set to be fundamentally... Read more

The Long Tail

By: Chris Anderson

Narrated by: Christopher Nissley

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens when the bottlenecks that stand between supply and demand in our culture go away and everything becomes available to everyone? "The Long Tail" is a powerful new force in our economy: the rise of the niche. As the cost of reaching consumers drops dramatically, our markets are shifting from a one-size-fits-all model of mass appeal to... Read more

A Soldier's Promise - Abridged

By: First Sgt. Daniel Hendrex

Narrated by: Lee Sellars

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An uplifting story of unlikely friendship and hope during the Iraq War.

After the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, First Sergeant Daniel Hendrex was dispatched along with his unit, Dragon Company, to Husaybah, a small town bordering Syria in the Sunni-dominated Al Anbar Province in Iraq. Their mission was to plug the bottleneck at the border... Read more

Churchill Remembered

By: Mark Jones

Narrated by: Winston Churchill

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

‘We Churchills die at forty,’ said Winston in 1908, ‘and I want to put something more on the slate before then.’ By the time he died in 1965, the slate was full. From his earliest days Churchill was an ambitious character, eager for action. He achieved fame and popularity through his dispatches from the Boer War, and in 1900 was elected MP for... Read more

Behold a Pale Horse - Abridged

By: William Cooper

Narrated by: William Cooper

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Behold a Pale Horse, William Cooper reveals classified information kept in secret government files since the 1940s. In this eye-opening work—read by the author—Cooper explores the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the war on drugs, the Secret Government, and UFOs. His lucid presentation of information transcends partisan affiliations as he... Read more

Whose Freedom?

By: George Lakoff

Narrated by: George Lakoff

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Freedom is one of the most contested words in our deeply polarized nation. This eye-opening work reveals how this has happened and how it will continue on all fronts, economic, education, healthcare, religion, science, civil justice, and security, unless we reframe the debate with traditional progressive ideas of empathy, integrity, and... Read more

Thy Kingdom Come

By: Randall Balmer

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The distinguished author of Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory returns with a searing examination of a new generation of evangelical leaders who have hijacked the Christian faith on behalf of the Republican Party. Read more