Politics & Economy audiobooks

The Greatest Generation Speaks

By: Tom Brokaw

Narrated by: Tom Brokaw

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Moussaka im Wigwam

By: Käthe Lachmann

Narrated by: Käthe Lachmann

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Ihr Stimmvolumen ist gewaltig, ihre Rollenvielfalt verblüfft. Schon der Titel kündigt eine enorme Themendichte an Read more

WWII Airmen

By: Multiple Authors

Narrated by: Various

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

These amazing accounts of airmen recorded during the war include stories of air combat, music of the time, and recordings made on bomb runs over Europe and Japan.

Eagles over Europe: (1) Introduction; (2) AAF Intro; (3) Bomb run over Germany, A-26; (4) Lt. Gilman, AT-9 Trainer; (5) Lt. Anderson, AT-7 Trainer; (6) Jack the Ripper air raid; (7)... Read more

The Kissinger Transcripts - Abridged

By: William Burr & Richard Gilliland

Narrated by: Theodore Bikel

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Henry Kissinger is one of the most controversial Secretaries of State in U.S. history— serving under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, never-before-seen transcripts of Kissinger's conversations, including top-secret talks with Beijing and Moscow, provide an unvarnished record of his... Read more

Money Well Spent: the Personal Path To Sustainability

By: Maria Nemeth

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

"A moment of humiliation is a small price to pay for enlightenment."  Maria Nemeth found this out for herself through a series of events that led to a complete personal transformation.  Her story revolved around money; but as she soon discovered, money and life are more closely intertwined than is at first apparent. Read more

All the Best, George Bush - Abridged

By: George H.W. Bush

Narrated by: Barbara Bush & George H.W. Bush

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Former President George H.W. Bush, revealed through his letters and writings from 1941 to 2010, is “worth its weight in gold…a valuable update of the life of an honorable American leader” (The Washington Post).

“Who knew that beneath George Bush’s buttoned-up propriety pulsed the warm heart of a prolific and occasionally poetic writer with a... Read more

Speaking My Mind - Abridged

By: Ronald Reagan

Narrated by: Ronald Reagan

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

One man, more than any other, has helped define the most important issues of our time. His name is Ronald Reagan -- one of our nation's most powerful and popular Presidents. This extraordinary audio collection includes historical excerpts from selected addresses that span his political career, laying out his vision for America and the world.... Read more

Newt Gingrich's Bedtime Stories for Orphans

By: Cathy Crimmins

Narrated by: Tom Maeder

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich continues to be a polarizing figure in America. But fear not! The coauthor of Contract with America is always good for another tale or two, regaling youngsters with “The Three Little Pigs and the Perils of Subsidized Housing,” “Cinderella and the Glass Ceiling,” and “Hillary the Snow Queen—to name just a... Read more

Activism for Ordinary People

By: Paul Loeb

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you have a burning desire to make the world a better place but are too afraid to try?  When you picture an activist, do you see a shrill, humorless figure angrily spewing out scary statistics?  Paul Loeb dispels this image with profiles of ordinary people who found the courage to step forward and engage themselves in their communities. Read more

Money Wisdom

By: Suze Orman

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Money can’t make you happy, but not having it can cause problems.  Why is it that so many of us experience trouble with our finances?  Financial planner Suze Orman has surprising answers for us.  "So many of us think that the amount of money you have ultimately determines your emotional state.  It’s your emotional state that determines how much... Read more

Nixon in Winter

By: Monica Crowley

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 18 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Monica Crowley served as a personal assistant to former president Richard M. Nixon from July 1990 until his death in April 1994. This remarkable story of his final public and private years is based on full reconstructions of the conversations she had with him at the time. Nixon in Winter puts the reader behind the scenes with the former... Read more

Creating a Better World:  The Choice is Yours

By: David Korten

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Even though we face a world of tremendous inequality, social breakdown, excessive consumerism and growing spiritual emptiness, there is a way out.  David Korten says, "The choice is in front of us.  We have the power and the right to make a choice that can open up a future beyond anything we can imagine now.  Or we can choose not to make that... Read more

Capitalism By and for the People

By: Jeff Gates

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Find out how you can use the properties of capitalism itself to help create a sustainable economic system that works for everyone - before the marketplace eventually collapses. Read more

Sustaining Earth Through Natural Capitalism

By: Paul Hawken

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

With every living system on Earth in danger, is it possible to create profitable businesses that do not destroy the natural world around us?  Paul Hawken says not only are business and government reasonable agents for such change, but the only vehicles that can make this happen. Read more

Y2K, the Problem and the Promise

By: Jay Earley & Tom Atlee

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

At midnight on December 31 of 1999, you might have been thinking about something besides New Year’s resolutions as you entered a new century.  You might have been wondering whether the world as you knew it would cease to exist.  Would travel arrangements become an impossibility?  Would your toaster, microwave, car or pacemaker suddenly be out of... Read more

Reconstruction

By: Eric Foner

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 30 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The period following the Civil War was one of the most controversial eras in American history. This comprehensive account of the period captures the drama of those turbulent years that played such an important role in shaping modern America.Eric Foner brilliantly chronicles how Americans, black and white, responded to the unprecedented changes... Read more

The Death of Outrage - Abridged

By: William J. Bennett

Narrated by: Charlton Heston

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this new, updated edition of a book heralded as a clarion call to the nation's conscience, William Bennett asks why we see so little public outrage in the fade of the evidence of deep corruption within Bill Clinton's administration.

The Death of Outrage examines the Monica Lewinsky scandal as it unfolded, from Clinton's denials that he had had... Read more

The Starr Report

By: Kenneth Starr & Tracy Brooks Swope

Narrated by: David Ackroyd

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

Following an unprecedented, relentless four-year investigation, Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr delivered 36 boxes of evidence against then-President Bill Clinton to the House of Representatives on September 9, 1998. Dubbed “The Starr Report,” the documents alleged—in lurid detail—that Clinton lied under oath in a sworn deposition about his... Read more

Deep Ecology for the 21st Century, Part 3: Deep Questioning: The Eight Principles of Deep Ecology

By: Arne Naess, George Sessions, Doug Tompkins, Fri...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

How can we begin to look at the deeper social, economic and spiritual questions behind the environmental crisis? In this program, Fritjof Capra, Arne Naess, and other environmentalists expand on the radical nature of Deep Ecology. Read more

Forgotten Heroes

By: Susan Ware

Narrated by: Susan Ware

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

For Forgotten Heroes, thirty-five prominent historians chose their favorite stories of unsung American figures. From Johnny Appleseed and John Quincy Adams to abolitionist Sojourner Truth and Margaret Anderson, the publisher of James Joyce's Ulysses, these profiles remind us that history depends upon the great deeds of women and men, whether... Read more

50 Years of Military Integration

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Journalist Haynes Johnson, historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Michael Beschloss, and retired Army Lt. Gen. Julius Becton discuss the 50th anniversary of President Harry S. Truman's executive order that formally integrated the armed forces. Read more

John Lewis: Walking With The Wind

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) remembers his experiences on the streets and in jail during the civil rights movement. His book is titled, Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement. Read more

Libertarianism

By: David Boaz

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Tens of millions of Americans are rediscovering libertarianism, a visionary alternative to the tired party orthodoxies of left and right. In 1995, a Gallup poll found that 52 percent of Americans said “the federal government has become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens.” Later... Read more

No Island of Sanity

By: Vincent Bugliosi

Narrated by: Joseph Campanella

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In a series called “ The Library of Contemporary Thought,” top opinion-makers explore the most provocative, fascinating, and momentous issues that have occurred in the United States. In this first volume, famed Los Angeles prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi takes on the Supreme Court. Considered by some to be an island of... Read more