Politics & Economy audiobooks

Beware Euphoria

By: George Fisher

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 21 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Beware Euphoria uncovers the roots of America's moral obsession with drug regulation, offering a lively and fascinating history of the nation's racialized fear of intoxication. Challenging the idea that early antidrug laws in the United States arose from racial animus, George Fisher instead shows in textured detail how United States drug laws... Read more

Fifty-Three Days on Starvation Island

By: John R Bruning

Narrated by: Brian Troxell

Length: 19 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The pivotal true story of the first fifty-three days of the standoff between Imperial Japanese and a handful of Marine aviators defending the Americans dug in at Guadalcanal, from the New York Times bestselling author of Indestructible and Race of Aces.

On August 20, 1942, twelve Marine dive-bombers and nineteen Marine fighters landed at... Read more

The Struggle for Taiwan

By: Sulmaan Wasif Khan

Narrated by: Austin Yang

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A concise, definitive history of the precarious relationship among the US, China, and Taiwan

As tensions over Taiwan escalate, the United States and China stand on the brink of a catastrophic war. Resolving the impasse demands we understand how it began. In 1943, the Allies declared that Japanese-held Taiwan would return to China at the... Read more

The Perilous Fight

By: Ben Carson, M.D.

Narrated by: Ben Carson & Candy Carson

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by Dr. Ben Carson.Learn from one of our leading conservative voices how we can return to the biblical values our nation was founded upon, especially the vital importance of the family, in order to secure a prosperous future for generations to come.Does America no longer feel like home? Widespread divorce rates, the erosion of traditional... Read more

Kennan

By: Frank Costigliola

Narrated by: Paul Brion

Length: 22 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The diplomat and historian George F. Kennan (1904–2005) ranks as one of the most important figures in American foreign policy. Drawing on many previously untapped sources, Frank Costigliola's biography offers a new picture of a man of extraordinary ability and ambition whose idea of containing the Soviet Union helped ignite the Cold War but who... Read more

On Antisemitism

By: Jewish Voice for Peace

Narrated by: Dina Pearlman

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

When the State of Israel claims to represent all Jewish people, defenders of Israeli policy redefine antisemitism to include criticism of Israel. Antisemitism is harmful and real in our society. What must also be addressed is how the deployment of false charges of antisemitism or redefining antisemitism can suppress the global progressive fight... Read more

Growth

By: Daniel Susskind

Narrated by: Daniel Susskind

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Economic growth has freed billions from the struggle for subsistence. Yet prosperity has come at a price: environmental destruction, desolation of local cultures, the rise of vast inequalities, and destabilizing technologies. Faced with such damage, many now claim that the only way forward is through "degrowth," deliberately shrinking our... Read more

American Disgust

By: Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer

Narrated by: Lee Goettl

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

American Disgust shows how perceptions of disgust and fears of contamination are rooted in the country's history of colonialism and racism. Drawing on colonial, corporate, and medical archives, Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer argues that microbial medicine is closely entwined with changing cultural experiences of digestion, excrement, and disgust that are... Read more

The United States Constitution Simplified

By: Timothy Harper

Narrated by: Robert G. Slade

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most revered, imitated, and controversial governmental documents in the world, the US Constitution serves as the foundation for the American government and shapes the lives of Americans every day. But how many of us know its history and the impact it has on guiding our ever-evolving nation?

This book provides you with a clear look at... Read more

A Map of the New Normal

By: Jeff Rubin

Narrated by: Jeff Rubin

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Bestselling economist Jeff Rubin warns that the shock inflation of 2021 is the front of a perfect storm of war, supply-chain disruption, geopolitical realignment, domestic upheaval, and energy scarcity that will change everything.

During the pandemic, government deficits skyrocketed to record highs while central banks primed... Read more

They Came for the Schools

By: Mike Hixenbaugh

Narrated by: Mike Hixenbaugh

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas suburb inspired a Christian nationalist campaign now threatening to undermine public education in America—from an NBC investigative reporter and co-creator of the Peabody Award–winning and Pulitzer Prize finalist Southlake... Read more

Breaking the Mold - Abridged

By: Rohit Lamba & Raghuram G. Rajan

Narrated by: Homer Todiwala

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This audiobook narrated by Homer Todiwala charts the new path for economic development that India must create The whole world has a stake in India's future, and that future hinges on whether India can develop its economy and deliver for its population—now the world's largest—while staying democratic. India's economy has overtaken the United... Read more

ZOV: L'homme qui a dit non à la guerre

By: Pavel Filatiev

Narrated by: Philippe Sollier

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

« Mon Dieu, si je survis, je ferai tout pour changer ça. » C'est sous le feu nourri de l'artillerie ukrainienne que Pavel Filatiev s'est fait cette promesse. Membre du 56e régiment d'assaut aéroporté russe, il participe dès le 24 février 2022 à la guerre déclenchée par le Kremlin. Blessé à l'oeil, il est évacué et demande à démissionner pour... Read more

Plato's Republic

By: Plato

Narrated by: Ron Welch

Length: 13 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Dive into the timeless wisdom of one of the most influential works of philosophy with "Plato's Republic" by Plato, now available as a captivating audiobook.In this groundbreaking dialogue, Plato takes listeners on a journey through the intricacies of justice, morality, and the ideal state. Through thought-provoking discussions and vivid... Read more

Les dictateurs - Partie III - Abridged

By: Jacques Bainville

Narrated by: Daniel Franck

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Qu'elles soient anciennes ou plus récentes, les dictatures, comme le note Jacques Bainville, sont le plus souvent imposées par les circonstances. L'académicien s'intéresse ainsi dans ce volume aux causes qui, à travers l'Histoire, ont permis l'essor des dictatures les plus remarquables, diverses dans leurs formes mais possédant toutes des points... Read more

Les dictateurs - Partie II - Abridged

By: Jacques Bainville

Narrated by: Daniel Franck

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Qu'elles soient anciennes ou plus récentes, les dictatures, comme le note Jacques Bainville, sont le plus souvent imposées par les circonstances. L'académicien s'intéresse ainsi dans ce volume aux causes qui, à travers l'Histoire, ont permis l'essor des dictatures les plus remarquables, diverses dans leurs formes mais possédant toutes des points... Read more

Les Dictateurs - Partie I - Abridged

By: Jacques Bainville

Narrated by: Daniel Franck

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Qu'elles soient anciennes ou plus récentes, les dictatures, comme le note Jacques Bainville, sont le plus souvent imposées par les circonstances. L'académicien s'intéresse ainsi dans ce volume aux causes qui, à travers l'Histoire, ont permis l'essor des dictatures les plus remarquables, diverses dans leurs formes mais possédant toutes des points... Read more

"Today You Are A Citizen of the United States of America.."

By: Anonymous

Narrated by: philip chenevert

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a recording of a booklet given to new naturalized American citizens, it contains an explanation of fundamental documents, symbols and anthems of the United States. "Today you are a citizen of the United States of America— becoming “a peer of kings” as President Calvin Coolidge once said. This occasion is a defining moment that should not... Read more

Carta de Jamaica

By: Simón Bolívar

Narrated by: José Peña Coto

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

"El destino de la América se ha fijado irrevocablemente; el lazo que la unía a la España está cortado." Simón BolívarDESCUBRE LA HISTORIA, ESCRITA POR SU PROTAGONISTA.La Carta de Jamaica es un documento esencial para comprender el desarrollo histórico de América Latina. Escrito por Simón Bolívar en 1815, durante su exilio en Kingston, Jamaica,... Read more

Democracy

By: Ayele Teklemariam

Narrated by: AG Smith

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

"Democracy: The Political Tale" pulls readers into an exciting exploration of government complexities, directed by the author's own intimate experiences with democracy and tyranny. Leaning upon real-life events, the account digs deep into the profound effects of being forced out from a dictatorship nation and thereafter growing up in a... Read more

Presidenta

By: Yuriria Sierra

Narrated by: Yuriria Sierra, Vivir Quintana, Hidalgo Yunuenn...

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A lo largo de más de doscientos años de existencia como país, México ha sido gobernado por una larga sucesión de presidentes varones, jamás una mujer. Eso, sin embargo, está por cambiar: el 2 de junio de este 2024, los mexicanos nos iremos a dormir con la noticia de quién será la primera presidenta de nuestra historia. Ante este parteaguas en la... Read more

How to Think Like an Economist

By: Robbie Mochrie

Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents How to Think Like an Economist by Robbie Mochrie, read by Ben Onwukwe.

Capturing the essence of history’s most influential economists in enjoyable and illuminating biographical sketches, this book shows how the great economic thinkers are still relevant today.

We live in the economy – and we are part of it. Living through a... Read more

Literature for the People

By: Sarah Harkness

Narrated by: Sarah Harkness

Length: 13 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author, Sarah Harkness.

From an impoverished childhood in the Scottish highlands to Victorian London, this is the inspiring story of brothers Daniel and Alexander Macmillan who built a publishing empire - and brought Alice in Wonderland to the world. Their remarkable achievements are revealed in this entertaining, superbly researched... Read more

America's Plan for the Young Black Male

By: Raymond Sturgis

Narrated by: Raymond Sturgis

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

As the government continues to trap black males into abnormal and senseless lives, black men are revolting against authority and common sense. They must be numb or dumb to the positive legacy their black leaders presented to them. Black-on-black crime is outrageous, and black men need to understand as long as they live, white Americans and this... Read more