Politics & Economy audiobooks

Of Paradise and Power

By: Robert Kagan

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

From Robert Kagan, a leading scholar of American foreign policy, comes an insightful analysis of the state of European and American foreign relations. At a time when relations between the United States and Europe are at their lowest ebb since World War II, this brief but cogent book is essential reading. Kagan forces both sides to see... Read more

The Majesty of the Law - Abridged

By: Sandra Day O'Connor

Narrated by: Sandra Day O'Connor

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In The Majesty of the Law, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor explores the law, her life as a Justice, and how the Court has evolved and continues to function, grow, and change as an American institution. Tracing some of the origins of American law through history, people, and ideas, O’Connor sheds new light on the basics, and through... Read more

What Kind of Nation

By: James F. Simon

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The bitter and protracted struggle between President Thomas Jefferson and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall defined the basic constitutional relationship between the executive and judicial branches of government. More than 150 years later, their clashes still reverberate in constitutional debates and political battles.In this dramatic... Read more

The Crisis of Islam

By: Bernard Lewis

Narrated by: Bernard Lewis

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In his first book since What Went Wrong? Bernard Lewis examines the historical roots of the resentments that dominate the Islamic world today and that are increasingly being expressed in acts of terrorism. He looks at the theological origins of political Islam and takes us through the rise of militant Islam in Iran, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia,... Read more

Ich sollte der Nächste sein (Ungekürzt)

By: Leoluca Orlando

Narrated by: Moritz Bleibtreu

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Wenn Palermo heute so sicher ist wie andere Großstädte auch, wenn die Mafia zwar nicht besiegt ist, aber doch ihre Macht über die öffentliche Meinung verloren hat, dann ist dies vor allem der Zivilcourage von Leoluca Orlando zu verdanken. Als der Rechtswissenschaftler 1985 zum Bürgermeister von Palermo gewählt wurde, war er der erste... Read more

Sleeping with the Devil

By: Robert Baer

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

“Saudi Arabia is more and more an irrational state—a place that spawns global terrorism even as it succumbs to an ancient and deeply seated isolationism, a kingdom led by a royal family that can’t get out of the way of its own greed. Is this the fulcrum we want the global economy to balance on?”

In his explosive New York Times bestseller, See No... Read more

Platoon Leader - Abridged

By: James R. McDonough

Narrated by: Joel Rooks

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A remarkable memoir of small-unit leadership and the coming of age of a young soldier in combat in Vietnam.'

"Using a lean style and a sense of pacing drawn from the tautest of novels, McDonough has produced a gripping account of his first command, a U.S. platoon taking part in the 'strategic hamlet' program. . . . Rather than present a potpourri... Read more

Blood on the Risers - Abridged

By: John Leppelman

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

In three straight years he was a paratropper, and army seaman, and a LRRP—and he lived to tell about it. 

As an FNG paratrooper in the 173d Airborne, John Leppelman made that unit's only combat jump in Vietnam. Then he spent months in fruitless search of the enemy, watching as his buddies died because of poor leadership and lousy weapons. Often... Read more

13 Cent Killers - Abridged

By: John Culbertson

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“It’s not easy to stay alive with a $1,000 bounty on your head.”

In 1967, a bullet cost thirteen cents, and no one gave Uncle Sam a bigger bang for his buck than the 5th Marine Regiment Sniper Platoon. So feared were these lethal marksmen that the Viet Cong offered huge rewards for killing them. Now noted Vietnam author John J. Culbertson, a... Read more

Theodore Roosevelt

By: Louis Auchincloss

Narrated by: Ira Claffey

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

An intimate portrait of the first president of the 20th century

The warm and knowing biography traces Roosevelt's involvement in the politics of New York City and New York State, his celebrated, military career, and his ascent to the national political stage. Caricatured through history as the "bull moose", Roosevelt was in fact a man of... Read more

William McKinley

By: Kevin Phillips

Narrated by: Richard Rohan

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A bestselling historian and political commentator reconsiders McKinley's overshadowed legacy

By any serious measurement, bestselling historian Kevin Phillips argues, William McKinley was a major American president. It was during his administration that the United States made its diplomatic and military debut as a world power. McKinley was one of... Read more

Grover Cleveland

By: Henry F. Graff

Narrated by: Ira Claffey

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A fresh look at the only president to serve nonconsecutive terms.

Though often overlooked, Grover Cleveland was a significant figure in American presidential history. Having run for President three times and gaining the popular vote majority each time -- despite losing the electoral college in 1892 -- Cleveland was unique in the line of... Read more

Supreme Command

By: Eliot A. Cohen

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The relationship between military leaders and political leaders has always been a complicated one, especially in times of war. When the chips are down, who should run the show, the politicians or the generals?In Supreme Command, Eliot Cohen examines four great democratic war statesmen, Abraham Lincoln, Georges Clemenceau, Winston Churchill, and... Read more

Longitudes and Attitudes - Abridged

By: Thomas L. Friedman

Narrated by: Thomas L. Friedman

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

America's leading observer of the international scene on the minute-by-minute events of September 11, 2001--before, during and after.

As the Foreign Affairs columnist for the The New York Times, Thomas L. Friedman is in a unique position to interpret the world for American readers. Twice a week, Friedman's celebrated commentary provides the most... Read more

Vote.com - Abridged

By: Dick Morris

Narrated by: Dick Morris

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

As the print and broadcast media-commonly referred to as the Fourth Estate-falters and fails, a new social and political force is rising in power. The Fifth Estate, as Morris has dubbed it, is made up of the rapidly growing number of voters who use Internet technology. This army of younger citizens with easy access to information and a direct... Read more

Adventure Capitalist

By: Jim Rogers

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Drive . . . and grow rich!

The bestselling author of Investment Biker is back from the ultimate road trip: a three-year drive around the world that would ultimately set the Guinness record for the longest continuous car journey. In Adventure Capitalist, legendary investor Jim Rogers, dubbed “the Indiana Jones of finance” by Time magazine, proves... Read more

What Liberal Media? - Abridged

By: Eric Alterman

Narrated by: Eric Alterman

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Is media bias keeping us from getting the whole story? If so, who is at fault? Is it the Liberals who are purported to be running the newsrooms, television and radio stations of this country, duping an unsuspecting public into mistaking their party line for news? Or is it the conservatives who have identified media bias as a rallying cry around... Read more

Serdar Somuncu liest E.A. Poe

By: Serdar Somuncu

Narrated by: Serdar Somuncu

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Die unerforschten Tiefen menschlicher Abgründe für den 21st Century Hörer. Mit Musik von Holger Czukay und Doc Walker. Read more

Condi - Abridged

By: Antonia Felix

Narrated by: Antonia Felix

Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This is the remarkable and galvanizing true story of Condoleezza Rice—sixty-sixth United States Secretary of State under President George W. Bush, who once said about his close confidante, “Dr. Rice is not only a brilliant person, she is an experienced person. . . . America will find that she is a wise person.”With the current release of her own... Read more

The Majesty of the Law

By: Sandra Day O'Connor

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Shows us why Sandra Day O’Connor is so compelling as a human being and so vital as a public thinker.”—Michael Beschloss

In this remarkable book, Sandra Day O’Connor explores the law, her life as a Supreme Court Justice, and how the Court has evolved and continues to function, grow, and change as an American institution.... Read more

When You Ride Alone You Ride with Bin Laden

By: Bill Maher

Narrated by: Bill Maher

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Political provocateur Bill Maher tells it like it is in a useful and hilarious guide for the many Americans who want to do more here at home to help the war effort, but are at a loss as to what. Thirty-three dynamic posters and several classics from our government's archive—accompanied by text from one of our leading pundits and cutting-edge... Read more

American

By: Chris Matthews

Narrated by: Chris Matthews

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From Chris Matthews, former host of MSNBC’s Hardball and NBC’s The Chris Matthews Show, and New York Times bestselling author of Bobby Kennedy, Jack Kennedy, and Tip and the Gipper, comes a definitive work on the lifeblood of America—its enduring spirit.

People have often wondered what makes America truly great. With a citizenry of vastly... Read more

Bush at War - Abridged

By: Bob Woodward

Narrated by: James Naughton

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With his unmatched investigative skill, Bob Woodward tells the behind-the-scenes story of how President George W. Bush and his top national security advisers, after the initial shock of the September 11 attacks, led the nation to war.
Extensive quotations from the secret deliberations of the National Security Council - -- and firsthand... Read more

No Such Thing as a Bad Day - Abridged

By: Hamilton Jordan

Narrated by: Hamilton Jordan

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Since serving in the Carter White House in the late 1970s, Hamilton Jordan has survived non-Hodgkins lymphoma, melanoma, and prostate cancer. Read more