Politics & Economy audiobooks

Werbung für die Wahrheit - Abridged

By: Thomas Laschyk

Narrated by: Loris Kubeng

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Keine Demokratie ohne Fakten! Wir alle fallen auf Fake News herein. Sie kommen oft als gute Geschichten daher, die in unser Weltbild passen. Aber wie gehen wir damit um, dass rechtsextreme Parteien und gewisse Boulevard-Medien das systematisch nutzen, um Desinformation zu verbreiten? Wie verhindern wir, dass Fakten keine Rolle mehr... Read more

This Time, This Place - Abridged

By: Jack Valenti

Narrated by: Michael Douglas

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With the nation at war in the 1940s, twenty-two-year-old Jack Valenti flew fifty-one combat missions as the pilot of a B-25 attack bomber with the 12th Air Force based in Italy. In the 1960s, with the nation reeling from the assassination of a beloved president and becoming embroiled in a far different kind of war in Vietnam, he was in that... Read more

A Soldier's Promise - Abridged

By: First Sgt. Daniel Hendrex

Narrated by: Lee Sellars

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An uplifting story of unlikely friendship and hope during the Iraq War.

After the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, First Sergeant Daniel Hendrex was dispatched along with his unit, Dragon Company, to Husaybah, a small town bordering Syria in the Sunni-dominated Al Anbar Province in Iraq. Their mission was to plug the bottleneck at the border... 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

Counselor - Abridged

By: Ted Sorensen

Narrated by: Ted Sorensen

Length: 14 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this gripping memoir, John F. Kennedy's closest advisor recounts in full for the first time his experience counseling Kennedy through the most dramatic moments in American history.Sorensen returns to January 1953, when he and the freshman senator from Massachusetts began their extraordinary professional and personal relationship. Rising from... Read more

Frost/Nixon - Abridged

By: David Frost

Narrated by: David Frost

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Following the resounding success of the eponymous West End and Broadway hit play, Frost/Nixon tells the extraordinary story of how Sir David Frost pursued and landed the biggest fish of his career—and how the series drew larger audiences than any news interview ever had in the United States, before being shown all over the world.This is Frost's... Read more

The Great Escape: Book Summary & Analysis - Abridged

By: Angus Deaton

Narrated by: Daniel Brooks

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Book summary by Loudly, this is an abridged version of the original title. The Great Escape explores humanity's remarkable progress in health, wealth, and well-being over the past centuries while also examining the disparities and challenges that have emerged alongside these advancements. From breakthroughs in medicine and technology to the... Read more

Surrounded by Idiots - Abridged

By: Mike Gallagher

Narrated by: Mike Gallagher

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The controvserial radio host speaks out on liberalism, grassroots politics, and the control of America in a polemic that is sure raise liberal hacklesIn the book his fans have long been clamoring for, conservative talk show host and commander in chief of “Gallagher’s Army,” Mike Gallagher chronicles the daily war between liberals and... Read more

Estados Des Unidos de America (abreviado) - Abridged

By: Julio Camino

Narrated by: Jose Duarte

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

FonoLibro se enorgullece en presentar el audiolibro Estados Des Unidos de Julio Camino, ¿En verdad los EEUU es el país más poderoso del mundo? ¿Es el llamado sueño americano una Utopía? ¿El comunismo y el socialismo de verdad son sistemas inservibles y ya desaparecidos? Julio Camino nos muestra con su obra "ESTADOS DESUNIDOS DE AMERICA: ENTRE EL... Read more

Furchtlos - Abridged

By: Eric Blehm

Narrated by: Michael J. Diekmann

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die Navy SEALs sind die Elitetruppe der US-Streitkräfte. Sie durchlaufen die härteste Ausbildung der Welt und werden nur in den gefährlichsten Missionen eingesetzt. Das SEAL Team Six ist die Einheit, die Osama bin Laden tötete. Navy SEAL Adam Brown starb im März 2010 im Kampf, während eines Einsatzes in Afghanistan. Furchtlos erzählt die... Read more

The Law - Abridged

By: Frédéric Bastiat

Narrated by: David Sterling

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Book summary by Loudly, this is an abridged version of the original title. The Law is a thought-provoking treatise that delves into the principles of justice, liberty, and the role of government in society. Written during a time of political upheaval, this concise yet profound work critiques the misuse of law to infringe on individual freedoms... Read more

ملخص كتاب الوزير المرافق - Abridged

By: غازي عبدالرحمن القصيبي

Narrated by: Sahla Books

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

يعرض لنا هذا الكتاب الفريد عددًا من اللقاءات السياسية التي حضرها القصيبي بصفته وزيرًا مرافقًا، ليحدثنا عن موقفه من الشخصيات التي التقى بها ويسرد بعضًا من أحداث لقاءاته الفريدة. غازي القصيبي هو شاعر سعودي وأستاذ جامعي عمل وزيرًا للصحة ووزيرًا للصناعة، وسفيرًا للسعودية في البحرين وفي بريطانيا، وله عدد من المؤلفات والكتب منها "سحيم" و"قراءة في وجه... Read more

It Takes a Village - Abridged

By: Hillary Rodham Clinton

Narrated by: Hillary Rodham Clinton

Length: 3 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In celebration of the tenth anniversary of It Takes a Village, this splendid edition includes photographs and a new Introduction by Hillary Rodham Clinton.

A decade ago, then First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton chronicled her quest—both deeply personal and, in the truest sense, public—to help make our society into the kind of village that enables... Read more

البرازيل الحمراء - Abridged

By: Jean-Christophe Rufin

Narrated by: سمعان فرزلي

Length: 21 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

تدور أحداث هذه الملحمة الحقيقية في عام 1555، على جزيرة صغيرة في خليج جوانابارا في ريو دي جانيرو، حيث قامت قوة استكشافية فرنسية، مكونة من بحارة وحرفيين وكهنة ومدانين سابقين وفارس. كانوا يهدفون إلى إنشاء مستعمرة فرنسية في هذه القارة الغنية البعيدة للتنافس مع البرتغاليين، وإلى تحويل الهنود إلى المسيحية. قاد الحملة الأدميرال الفرنسي «دو... Read more

Fast Food Nation - Abridged

By: Eric Schlosser

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Fast Food Nation - the groundbreaking work of investigation and cultural history that has changed the way America thinks about the way it eats - and spent nearly four months on the New York Times bestseller list - now available on cassette!

Are we what we eat? To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of... Read more

New Rules of Money - Abridged

By: Ric Edelman

Narrated by: Ric Edelman

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It's time to learn the new rules.You can't afford to manage your finances the way your parents did.While your parents and grandparents paid relatively little in taxes, you lose more than a third of your income to the tax collector. Prices for goods and services were stable for the first 60 years of this century, but you must buy today to avoid... Read more

Politik in den eigenen Händen - Abridged

By: Florian Hartleb

Narrated by: Ingo Bulgrin

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wir leben in turbulenten, hysterischen Zeiten. Für uns alle bedeutet die Revolution durch Echtzeitkommunikation eine ungeahnte Herausforderung, die herkömmliche Muster und Traditionen auf den Kopf stellt. Es schlägt die Stunde von Influencern und von YouTube-Stars. Die Covid-19-Pandemie verstärkt den globalen Wettbewerb der Nationalstaaten und... Read more

Schmucks! - Abridged

By: Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder

Narrated by: Jackie Mason

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Jackie Mason, one of the true kings of comedy, and his partner in crime, former federal prosecutor and celebrity attorney, Raoul Felder, go after America's lowlifes, scumbags, and everyone else who really gets on their nerves. Schmucks! combines Mason's and Felder's nails-to-the-wall political satire—impeccable timing with insightful... Read more

The Hill Fights - Abridged

By: Edward F. Murphy

Narrated by: Charles Stransky

Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

While the seventy-seven-day siege of Khe Sanh in early 1968 remains one of the most highly publicized clashes of the Vietnam War, scant attention has been paid to the first battle of Khe Sanh, also known as “the Hill Fights.” Although this harrowing combat in the spring of 1967 provided a grisly preview of the carnage to come at Khe Sanh, few... Read more

Without Hesitation - Abridged

By: Gen. Hugh Shelton, Ronald Levinson & Malcolm Mc...

Narrated by: Gen. Hugh Shelton

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The powerful unvarnished memoir of General Hugh Shelton, war hero, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during 9/11, and one of the leading military figures of our time.

Whether serving under a Democratic president or a Republican president, General Shelton was never afraid to speak out and tell it like it is. Shelton chronicles his incredible... Read more

Das Märchen vom reichen Land - Abridged

By: Daniel Stelter

Narrated by: Andi Königsmann

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wir leben in Deutschland in der scheinbar besten aller Welten, doch schon bald werden wir feststellen, dass wir nicht das reiche Land sind, das uns Medien und Politik glauben machen wollen. Denn der Boom der hiesigen Wirtschaft ist nicht unser Verdienst, sondern in erster Linie eine Folge der tiefen Zinsen, des schwachen Euro und des... Read more

Mike's Election Guide - Abridged

By: Michael Moore

Narrated by: Michael Moore

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

After a diastrous war, the failure to catch bin Laden, millions of families who have lost their homes, the Katrina debacle, soaring gas prices feeding record oil company profits, and the largest national debt caused by the biggest spending and borrowing administration in American history, the country has had it with conservatives, right-wingers... Read more

Wir denken neu – Damit sich Deutschland nicht weiter spaltet - Abridged

By: Verena Bentele, Philipp Stielow & Dr. Ines Vers...

Narrated by: Dagmar Bittner

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wir befinden uns in einer historisch einmaligen Situation. Die Corona-Pandemie verändert unser Land grundlegend – und sie zeigt uns in aller Schärfe, was gut und was schlecht ist. Viele Menschen befürchten, dass sich die Ungleichheit in Deutschland durch Corona weiter vertiefen wird. Mit der fortschreitenden Privatisierung des Sozialstaates... Read more

El espíritu de la esperanza - Abridged

By: Byung-Chul Han

Narrated by: Jordi Llovet

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Después de más de doce años de ensayos críticos con el régimen neoliberal, en esta nueva y novedosa obra el célebre filósofo Byung-Chul Han emprende no ya un viraje, sino una verdadera superación hacia una alentadora visión del hombre. De la desesperación más profunda nace también la esperanza más íntima. La esperanza nos lanza hacia lo... Read more