Politics & Economy audiobooks

Imperial Life in the Emerald City

By: Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The Washington Post’s former Baghdad bureau chief, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, takes us into the Green Zone, headquarters for the American occupation in Iraq. In this bubble separated from wartime realities, the task of reconstructing a devastated nation competes with the distractions of a Little America—a half-dozen bars, a disco, a shopping... Read more

Goodbye, Darkness

By: William Manchester

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 15 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The nightmares began for William Manchester twenty-three years after World War II. In his dreams he lived with the recurring image of himself as a battle-weary youth "angrily demanding to know what had happened to the three decades since he had laid down his arms." To find out, Manchester visited those places in the Pacific where as a young... Read more

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Women, Sex, and Feminism

By: Carrie L. Lukas

Narrated by: Dianna Dorman

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

We’ve been duped. We were raised to think we could have it all. In college we were told that men weren’t necessary. Pop culture told us that career, not family, came first. The idea of being a stay-at-home mom was for losers. And yet, are we happier than our mothers or grandmothers, who grew up before women were “liberated” by the sexual... Read more

Objection!

By: Nancy Grace

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

As host of Closing Arguments on Court TV and Nancy Grace on CNN Headline News, Nancy Grace has won legions of devoted fans with her intelligent, plainspoken approach to the law. A passionate advocate of victims’ rights and outspoken critic of the often circus-like atmosphere surrounding high-profile cases, Grace addresses the critical issues at... Read more

Freedomnomics

By: John R. Lott

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Freedomnomics is everything you wanted to know about the world but didn't know economics could tell you.As the blockbuster bestseller Freakonomics demonstrated, economics can explain everything, from why people behave the way they do to how governments and businesses organize themselves. But are the basic assumptions and conclusions in... Read more

The Big Three in Economics

By: Mark Skousen

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The Big Three in Economics reveals the battle of ideas among the three most influential economists in world history: Adam Smith, representing laissez faire; Karl Marx, reflecting the radical socialist model; and John Maynard Keynes, symbolizing big government and the welfare state. History comes alive in this fascinating story of opposing views... Read more

The Compleated Autobiography

By: Benjamin Franklin

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 13 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Benjamin Franklin’s celebrated autobiography, published after his death, is one of the greatest autobiographies of all time—but it was incomplete. Franklin ended his life’s story in 1757, when he was only fifty-one. He lived another thirty-three full, eventful, and dramatic years, some of the most dramatic years in American history—years in... Read more

The Prince of the City

By: Fred Siegel

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In the dark days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Rudy Giuliani established himself as “America’s mayor.” This first post-9/11 account of his career shows how Giuliani’s successes in New York set a promising example for the rejuvenation of our major cities.As one who has worked with him as well as studied him, Fred Siegel regards Giuliani as a... Read more

The Coming Economic Collapse

By: Stephen Leeb

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

When Dr. Stephen Leeb speaks, smart investors take heed. In his previous books, Dr. Leeb predicted the great bull market of the 1990s and the collapse of technology shares in the new millennium. Now, in The Coming Economic Collapse, Dr. Leeb shows that the US economy is standing on the brink of the biggest crisis in history. As the fast-growing... Read more

Bankrupt

By: David Limbaugh

Narrated by: Raymond Todd

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The Democrat Party, says bestselling author David Limbaugh, has sold itself to left-wing extremists and has lost its mind and soul. Limbaugh charts how the Democrat Party, unable to come to grips with the Clinton scandals, unable to accept the defeat of Al Gore in 2000, and unable to accept its current minority status, has embraced a politics of... Read more

The Atomic Bazaar

By: William Langewiesche

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In his shocking and revelatory new work, celebrated journalist William Langewiesche investigates the burgeoning threat of nuclear-weapons production and the inexorable drift of nuclear-weapons technology from the hands of the rich into the hands of the poor. As more unstable and undeveloped nations acquire the ultimate arms, the stakes of... Read more

House to House

By: David Bellavia

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the personal side of battle, where emotion, courage, and strength are stretched to the limits.Bringing to searing life the terrifying intimacy of hand-to-hand infantry combat, House to House is far more than just another war story—it is one of the most compelling combat narratives ever written. Populated by an indelibly drawn cast of... Read more

God’s Harvard

By: Hanna Rosin

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Since 2000, America’s most ambitious young evangelicals have been making their way to Patrick Henry College in Virginia, a small Christian school that has earned the nickname “God’s Harvard.” Most of these students are homeschoolers whose idealism and discipline put the average American teenager to shame. The school grooms them to become the... Read more

Bill Clinton

By: Nigel Hamilton

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 23 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A decade and a half after William Jefferson Clinton first took the oath of office, biographer Nigel Hamilton tells the riveting story of what was possibly the greatest self-reinvention of a president in office in modern times. The Clinton presidency began disastrously and deteriorated in a series of fiascoes. How Bill Clinton faced up to his... Read more

America Alone

By: Mark Steyn

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s the end of the world as we know it. Someday soon, you might wake up to the call to prayer of a muezzin. Europeans already do.Liberals tell us that “diversity is our strength”—while Talibanic enforcers cruise Greenwich Village burning books and barber shops, the Supreme Court decides that sharia law doesn’t violate the “separation of church... Read more

Blooding at Great Meadows

By: Alan Axelrod

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

History celebrates George Washington as the leader of the American Revolution and the father of his country. But what has gone previously unexamined is Washington’s life as a twenty-two-year-old lieutenant colonel; he led four hundred American militiamen against a bigger, more experienced French army and paid a high price. Not only did... Read more

The Prince

By: Niccolò Machiavelli

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its candor, The Prince is a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to be a prince, a king, a president.When, in 1512, Machiavelli was removed from his post in his beloved Florence, he resolved to set down a treatise on leadership that... Read more

Free to Choose

By: Milton Friedman & Rose D. Friedman

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

All who listen to this masterful and lucid polemic for a free-market economy will never question Milton Friedman’s Nobel Prize in economics.Milton Friedman and his wife Rose team up to write a most convincing and readable guide that illustrates the crucial link between Adam Smith’s capitalism and the free society. They show how freedom has been... Read more

Bearing the Cross

By: David J. Garrow

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 34 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, this is the most comprehensive book ever written about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. David J. Garrow had unrestricted access to Martin Luther King's personal papers, to thousands of pages of newly released FBI documents, and to more than seven hundred... Read more

Bill Clinton - Abridged

By: Nigel Hamilton

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A decade and a half after William Jefferson Clinton first took the oath of office, biographer Nigel Hamilton tells the riveting story of what was possibly the greatest self-reinvention of a president in office in modern times. The Clinton presidency began disastrously and deteriorated in a series of fiascoes. How Bill Clinton faced up to his... Read more

Jawbreaker

By: Gary Berntsen

Narrated by: Ralph Pezzullo & Robertson Dean

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In Jawbreaker Gary Berntsen, until recently one of the CIA’s most decorated officers, comes out from under cover for the first time to describe his no-holds-barred pursuit of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda.

With his unique mix of clandestine knowledge and paramilitary training, Berntsen represents the new face of counterterrorism. Recognized... Read more

Jawbreaker - Abridged

By: Gary Berntsen & Ralph Pezzullo

Narrated by: Gary Berntsen

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Jawbreaker Gary Berntsen, until recently one of the CIA’s most decorated officers, comes out from under cover for the first time to describe his no-holds-barred pursuit of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda.

With his unique mix of clandestine knowledge and paramilitary training, Berntsen represents the new face of counterterrorism. Recognized... Read more

Patriot Act

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Congress is working to renew key provisions of the USA Patriot Act before they expire at the end of the year. Ray Suarez discusses Patriot Act renewal and the divisions that remain among lawmakers with Sens. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., and Russ Feingold, D-WI. Read more

One Woman's Army

By: General Janis Karpinski & Steven Strasser

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

When Janis Karpinski first saw the photos of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, she felt the walls of her Baghdad office closing in on her. She recognized that the soldiers shown grinning over the naked, cowering Iraqi detainees serves under her command. Military justice already had swept up the seven MPs charged in the abuse case–and Karpinski... Read more