Politics & Economy audiobooks

Day of Reckoning

By: Mike Wendling

Narrated by: Mike Wendling

Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The United States has become an almost unrecognizable country—with millions in thrall to conspiracy theories, toxic populism, and the far right edging closer to total power—a dire threat to civil society and democratic institutions. While the MAGA movement was in remission due to Donald Trump's defeat in 2020, the fascist fringes have not just... Read more

La Ley

By: Frédéric Bastiat

Narrated by: José Peña Coto

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“La gente no sólo quiere que la Ley sea justa; también quiere que sea filantrópica.” Frédéric BastiatOBRA FUNDAMENTAL DEL PENSAMIENTO ECONÓMICO Y POLÍTICO.Este clásico escrito por el economista y legislador francés Frédéric Bastiat, publicado en 1850, se centra en los principios del derecho y la economía, abogando por la justicia, la libertad y... Read more

Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson: The Lives of the Wild West’s Most Famous Lawmen

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Jim Walsh

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Space may be the final frontier, but no frontier has ever captured the American imagination like the “Wild West”, which still evokes images of dusty cowboys, outlaws, gunfights, gamblers, and barroom brawls over 100 years after the West was settled. A constant fixture in American pop culture, the 19th century American West continues to be... Read more

The Floating University

By: Tamson Pietsch

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book. The Floating University sheds light on a story of optimism and imperialist ambition in the 1920s.

In 1926, New York University professor James E. Lough—an educational reformer with big dreams—embarked on a bold experiment he called the Floating University. Lough believed that taking five... Read more

Государство

By: Платон

Narrated by: Руслан Драпалюк

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

«Государство» — диалог Платона, посвящённый проблеме идеального государства. Написан в 360 г. до н. э. С точки зрения Платона, государство является выражением идеи справедливости. В диалоге впервые отчётливо определяются философы как люди,  способные постичь то, что вечно тождественно самому себе. В диалоге содержится систематика и краткий... Read more

The United States and the Armenian Genocide

By: Julien Zarifian

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

During the first World War, over a million Armenians were killed as Ottoman Turks embarked on a bloody campaign of ethnic cleansing. Scholars have long described these massacres as genocide, one of Hitler's prime inspirations for the Holocaust, yet the United States did not officially recognize the Armenian Genocide until 2021.



This is the first... Read more

Gustave Le Bon: Psychologie der Massen / The Crowd

By: Gustave le Bon

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Gustave Le Bons Meisterwerk in zweisprachiger Ausgabe! Gustave Le Bon's masterpiece in a bilingual edition! Deutsch: Was passiert mit dem Individuum, wenn es sich in einer Gruppe wiederfindet? Wie ist es zu erklären, dass intelligente Menschen sich in der Masse zu Dingen hinreißen lassen, die sie als Einzelne niemals tun würden? Gustave le Bon... Read more

The Quizmaster

By: Jay Flynn

Narrated by: Jay Flynn

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

THE REMARKABLE TRUE STORY OF QUIZZING SENSATION JAY FLYNN: NOW A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER!

Readers have been LOVING The Quizmaster:
'I read this in one sitting . . . I cried, laughed and hugged my Kindle!!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Absolutely incredible read. We have followed Jay since the first quiz right up to now and I honestly cannot believe how truly... Read more

El derechairo que vendió su ferrari

By: Jairo Calixto Albarrán

Narrated by: Erick Jam

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Con su sonrisa forzada y su inocultable asquito a los pobres, los derechairos salen a las calles a expresar su inconformidad por los demonios comunistas que solo aparecen en sus pesadillas, mítines y borracheras; como no se les da la simulación lloran cual desoladas Magdalenas por las injusticias que laceran al país y la violencia sin freno;... Read more

Becoming Bulletproof

By: Otto Bulletproof

Narrated by: Philipp Oehme

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Im Leben eines Soldaten ist der Tod jederzeit nah. Otto Bulletproof machte diese Erfahrung, als er als Teil einer Fallschirmjägereinheit der Bundeswehr in Afghanistan in Lebensgefahr geriet. Von Raketenbeschuss und heiklen Missionen bis zum Tod eines Kameraden erzählt er in »Becoming Bulletproof« Geschichten aus dieser Zeit und davon, was ihn... Read more

The Political Development of American Debt Relief

By: Emily Zackin & Chloe N. Thurston

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook version of this book.

A political history of the rise and fall of American debt relief. Americans have a long history with debt. They also have a long history of mobilizing for debt relief. Throughout the nineteenth century, indebted citizens demanded government protection from their financial burdens,... Read more

Prohibida en Normandía

By: Rosario Raro

Narrated by: Neus Sendra

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

- La reportera Martha Gellhorn colabora con The Ghost Army, un ejército fantasma creado en Hollywood para engañar a los nazis. Ella y su marido, el famoso Ernest Hemingway, inventan las vidas de soldados que no existen. Pero Martha aspira a más; quiere cruzar el Atlántico y relatar de primera mano la etapa definitiva de la guerra. Para... Read more

The Klansman's Son

By: R. Derek Black

Narrated by: R. Derek Black

Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From the former heir apparent to White nationalism, an astonishing memoir of a childhood built on fear, and of breaking from a community of hateDerek Black was raised to take over the White nationalist movement in the United States. Derek’s father, Don Black, was a former Grand Wizard in the Ku Klux Klan and started Stormfront, the internet’s... Read more

Morning After the Revolution

By: Nellie Bowles

Narrated by: Nellie Bowles

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people in America lost their minds—and how she almost did, too.

As a Hillary voter, a New York Times reporter, and frequent attendee at her local gay bars, Nellie Bowles fit right in with her San Francisco  neighbors and... Read more

The Court v. The Voters

By: Joshua A. Douglas

Narrated by: Chris Baetens

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

An urgent and gripping look at the erosion of voting rights and its implications for democracy, told through the stories of 9 Supreme Court decisions—and the next looming case

In The Court v. The Voters, law professor Joshua Douglas takes us behind the scenes of significant cases in voting rights—some surprising and unknown, some familiar—to... Read more

At the Table

By: Katherine Miller

Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

When Katherine Miller was first asked to train chefs to be advocates, she thought the idea was ludicrous. But she quickly learned that chefs and other leaders in the restaurant industry are some of the most powerful forces for change in our troubled food system. Chefs are leading hunger relief efforts, supporting local farmers, fighting food... Read more

The Wannabe Fascists

By: Federico Finchelstein

Narrated by: Tom Beyer

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet today's almost fascists and learn the warning signs to intercept them on the road from populism to dictatorship.



With The Wannabe Fascists, historian Federico Finchelstein offers a precise explanation of why Trumpism and similar movements across the world belong to a new political breed, the last outcome of the combined histories of fascism... Read more

The Situation Room

By: George Stephanopoulos

Narrated by: George Stephanopoulos, Peter Ganim & Elisabeth ...

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

George Stephanopoulos, the legendary political news host and former advisor to President Clinton, recounts the history-making crises from the place where twelve presidents made their highest-pressure decisions: the White House Situation Room. 

No room better defines American power and its role in the world than the White House Situation Room.... Read more

The Profiteers

By: Christopher Marquis

Narrated by: Simon Vance & Christopher Marquis

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

An exposé of how society pays for corporations' "free lunch" and the cost of environmental damage, low wages, systemic discrimination, and cheap goods.

In an age when business leaders solemnly profess dedication to principles of environmental and social justice, Christopher Marquis’s provocative investigation into the real costs of doing... Read more

The Parent Revolution

By: Dr. Corey A. DeAngelis

Narrated by: Chris Abell

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

From the leader of the online army in America's parental rights movement comes the real story of how moms and dads across the country are turning the tide against radical activists in public schools.

It’s no secret that our government-run public education system has held generations of Americans hostage. The teachers unions—the government’s... Read more

Fat Leonard

By: Craig Whitlock

Narrated by: Dan Bittner

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestselling author Craig Whitlock’s masterful account of one of the biggest public corruption scandals in American history—exposing how a charismatic Malaysian defense contractor bribed scores of high-ranking military officers, defrauded the US Navy of tens of millions of dollars, and jeopardized our nation’s security.

All the... Read more

The Infernal Machine

By: Steven Johnson

Narrated by: Steven Johnson

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

“A fast-burning fuse of a book, every page bursting with revelatory detail.”—ERIK LARSON

A sweeping account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York and the detective duo who transformed policing to meet the threat—a tale of fanaticism, forensic science, and dynamite from the bestselling author of The Ghost Map

LONGLISTED FOR THE... Read more

A Seat at the Table

By: F. Erik Brooks & Drs. Glenn L. Starks

Narrated by: Kim Staunton

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisolm rose from being the child of immigrants to running for the highest office in the land. She was both the first African American woman elected to the US Congress and the first African American woman of a major political party to make a serious run for president of the United States.These achievements were not in... Read more

Trabajo sucio

By: Eyal Press

Narrated by: Javier Lacroix

Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Una denuncia innovadora y urgente desde la primera línea del "trabajo sucio", el trabajo que la sociedad considera esencial pero moralmente comprometido.

Pilotos de drones que llevan a cabo asesinatos selectivos. Inmigrantes indocumentados que trabajan en los mataderos industriales. Guardias que patrullan los pabellones de las prisiones más... Read more