Politics & Economy audiobooks

Three Cups of Tea

By: Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 13 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of an impoverished Pakistani village, Mortenson promised to return one day and build them a school. From... Read more

Police Search

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that evidence may be used even when police enter a suspect's home illegally by failing to knock on the door or announce their presence. Margaret Warner speaks with Marcia Coyle, Washington bureau chief for the National Law Journal, regarding the divided 5-4 decision. Read more

Godless

By: Ann Coulter

Narrated by: Elizabeth White

Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

"If a martian landed in America and set out to determine the nation's official state religion, he would have to conclude it is liberalism, while Christianity and Judaism are prohibited by law.

Many Americans are outraged by liberal hostility to traditional religion. But as Ann Coulter reveals in this, her most explosive book yet, to focus solely... Read more

Godless - Abridged

By: Ann Coulter

Narrated by: Ann Coulter

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"If a martian landed in America and set out to determine the nation's official state religion, he would have to conclude it is liberalism, while Christianity and Judaism are prohibited by law.

Many Americans are outraged by liberal hostility to traditional religion. But as Ann Coulter reveals in this, her most explosive book yet, to focus solely... Read more

Armed Madhouse - Abridged

By: Greg Palast, Brod Bagert, Medea Benjamin, Jello...

Narrated by: Greg Palast & Jerry Quickley

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The bestselling author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy offers his most provocative and funniest book yet!

Greg Palast has spent the last thirty years getting the goods on corporate con men and political hucksters. Now he and his special guests cut through the TV news babytalk in Armed Madhouse. Armed with more than fifty classified... Read more

House of War

By: James Carroll

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 26 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In House of War, the bestselling author James Carroll has created a history of the Pentagon that is both epic and personal. Through Carroll we see how the Pentagon, since its founding, has operated beyond the control of any force in government or society, undermining the very national security it is sworn to protect.From its "birth" on September... Read more

The Good Fight - Abridged

By: Peter Beinart

Narrated by: David Slavin

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Once upon a time, liberals knew what they believed. They believed America must lead the world by persuasion, not command. And they believed that by championing freedom overseas, America itself could become more free. That liberal spirit won America's trust at the dawn of the Cold War. Then it collapsed in the wake of Vietnam. Now, after 9/11,... Read more

Power Struggle

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Ray Suarez reports on the FBI raid on Louisiana Democratic Rep. William Jefferson's office and the constitutional debate it has sparked on Capitol Hill. Then, Suarez speaks with Jonathan Turley, a professor at George Washington University School of Law and Stephen Gillers, a professor at New York University Law School. Read more

F.U.B.A.R. - Abridged

By: Sam Seder & Stephen Sherrill

Narrated by: Sam Seder

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The United States has survived clueless presidential administrations before. But no matter how enormous the crisis -- the Great Depression, Vietnam, Watergate, Monica Lewinsky's thong -- America's always come out looking like, well, America.This time, however, something's different. Things aren't just screwed up; they're f!d up beyond all... Read more

Revolutionary Characters

By: Gordon S. Wood

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In this brilliantly illuminating group portrait of the men who came to be known as the Founding Fathers, the incomparable Gordon Wood has written a book that seriously asks, ?What made these men great???and shows us, among many other things, just how much character did in fact matter. The life of each?Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin,... Read more

Tiger Force - Abridged

By: Mitch Weiss & Michael Sallah

Narrated by: Harry Chase

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

At the outset of the Vietnam War, the Army created an experimental fighting unit that became known as "Tiger Force." The Tigers were to be made up of the cream of the crop-the very best and bravest soldiers the American military could offer. They would be given a long leash, allowed to operate in the field with less supervision. Their mission... Read more

All Together Now

By: Jared Bernstein

Narrated by: Donald H. Beckwith

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

As the new century unfolds, we face a host of economic and social challenges--jobs lost to "off shoring," a huge and growing number of Americans without health insurance coverage, an expanding gap between rich and poor, stagnant wages, decaying public schools, and many others. These are difficult and complex problems, but our government's... Read more

Madeleine Albright on the Role of Religion in World Politics

By: Madeleine Albright

Narrated by: James Hoge

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Madeleine Albright, the former Secretary of State, offers a thoughtful and often surprising look at the role of religion in shaping America's approach to the world during this vist to New York's 92nd Street Y. Read more

Ballad of the Whiskey Robber

By: Julian Rubinstein

Narrated by: Hachette Assorted Authors

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

An award-wining and "outrageously entertaining" true crime story (San Francisco Chronicle) about the professional hockey player-turned-bank robber whose bizarre and audacious crime spree galvanized Hungary in the decade after the fall of the Iron Curtain.

During the 1990s, while playing for the biggest hockey team in Budapest, Attila Ambrus took... Read more

Mayflower

By: Nathaniel Philbrick

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"Vivid and remarkably fresh...Philbrick has recast the Pilgrims for the ages."
--The New York Times Book Review

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history
New York Times Book Review Top Ten books of the Year

How did America begin? That simple question launches the acclaimed author of Bunker Hill and Valiant Ambition on an extraordinary journey... Read more

Now It's My Turn - Abridged

By: Mary Cheney

Narrated by: Mary Cheney

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Who is Mary Cheney?

In the most eagerly awaited political memoir of the season, Mary Cheney, who served as a top campaign aide to her father, the vice president, presents a behind-the-scenes look at the high-intensity world of presidential politics and talks for the first time about her life, her family, and her role in the campaigns of 2000... Read more

The Mighty and the Almighty

By: Madeleine Albright

Narrated by: Madeleine Albright

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Does America have a special mission, derived from God, to bring liberty and democracy to the world? How much influence does the Christian right have over U.S. foreign policy? And how should America deal with violent Islamist extremists? Madeleine Albright, the former Secretary of State and bestselling author of Madam Secretary, offers a... Read more

House of War - Abridged

By: James Carroll

Narrated by: James Carroll

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In House of War, the bestselling author James Carroll has created a history of the Pentagon that is both epic and personal. Through Carroll we see how the Pentagon, since its founding, has operated beyond the control of any force in government or society, undermining the very national security it is sworn to protect.From its "birth" on September... Read more

Mark Felt

By: Mark Felt & John O'Connor

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1974, Mark Felt was given the code name "Deep Throat" and shared intelligence on the Watergate break-in with a young reporter from the Washington Post named Bob Woodward. Thus began the greatest political scandal in the twentieth century, which would besmirch an entire administration and bring down a presidency.

A patriotic man, Felt only... Read more

Revolutionary Wealth

By: Alvin Toffler & Heidi Toffler

Narrated by: Melissa Edris

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Starting with the publication of their seminal bestseller, Future Shock, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have given millions of readers new ways to think about personal life in today’s high-speed world with its constantly changing, seemingly random impacts on our businesses, governments, families and daily lives. Now, writing with the same rare grasp... Read more

Revolutionary Wealth - Abridged

By: Alvin Toffler & Heidi Toffler

Narrated by: Kevin Gray & Laura Dean

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Starting with the publication of their seminal bestseller, Future Shock, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have given millions of readers new ways to think about personal life in today’s high-speed world with its constantly changing, seemingly random impacts on our businesses, governments, families and daily lives. Now, writing with the same rare grasp... Read more

Guests of the Ayatollah - Abridged

By: Mark Bowden

Narrated by: Mark Bowden

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students, inspired by revolutionary Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini, stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran. They took fifty-two Americans hostage and kept nearly all of them captive 444 days.

The Iran hostage crisis was a watershed moment in American history. It was America's first showdown with... Read more

America Back on Track - Abridged

By: Edward M. Kennedy

Narrated by: Edward M. Kennedy

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With America Back on Track, his first major policy book in more than forty years, Senator Edward Kennedy reveals a critical plan to revive the lapsed values of our nation.

Abridged CDs - 5 CDs, 6 hours Read more

Politics Lost

By: Joe Klein

Narrated by: Terence McGovern

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

People on the right are furious. People on the left are livid. And the center isn’t holding. There is only one thing on which almost everyone agrees: there is something very wrong in Washington. The country is being run by pollsters. Few politicians are able to win the voters’ trust. Blame abounds and personal responsibility is nowhere to be... Read more