Politics & Economy audiobooks

American Presidents in Diplomacy and War

By: Thomas R. Parker

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

American Presidents in Diplomacy and War chronicles the major foreign policy crises faced by twelve American presidents in order to uncover the reoccurring patterns of successful and less successful uses of diplomatic, economic, and military power. In this book, Thomas R. Parker reveals how America's most successful leaders manage events instead... Read more

Attack from Within

By: Barbara McQuade

Narrated by: Barbara McQuade

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

MSNBC's legal expert breaks down the ways disinformation has become a tool to drive voters to extremes, disempower our legal structures, and consolidate power in the hands of the few.



American society is more polarized than ever before. We are strategically being pushed apart by disinformation—the deliberate spreading of lies disguised as... Read more

The Economics of Poverty

By: Martin Ravallion

Narrated by: Bruce Mann

Length: 32 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than thirty years ago. While that is an achievement, continuing progress for poor people is far from assured. Inequalities in access to key resources threaten to stall growth and poverty reduction in many places. The world's poorest have made only a small absolute gain over... Read more

Georgy Zhukov: The Life and Legacy of the Soviet Union’s Greatest General during World War II

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Steve Knupp

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In the warm predawn darkness of June 22, 1941, 3 million men waited along a front hundreds of miles long, stretching from the Baltic coast of Poland to the Balkans. Ahead of them in the darkness lay the Soviet Union, its border guarded by millions of Red Army troops echeloned deep throughout the huge spaces of Russia. This massive gathering of... Read more

THE SECRET POLICE OF RUSSIA

By: Marc Booth

Narrated by: Evan Brown

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1918, Paul Nazaroff was the ringleader of a desperate plot to overthrow the Bolsheviks in Central Asia.  He was betrayed by the Secret Police, who labeled him "the most dangerous counter-revolutionary at large in the Tashkent region." As he fled from Lenin's men, he was aided by the indigenous peoples of the region, the Kirghiz and the Sarts,... Read more

The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx

Narrated by: Liam Johnson

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The Communist Manifesto is a political pamphlet written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848. The document presents an analysis of capitalism and its effects on society, as well as a call for the overthrow of the capitalist system and the establishment of a communist society. The Manifesto begins by describing the historical development... Read more

Das Ich im Du

By: Christian Roos & Tanja Roos

Narrated by: Christian Roos & Tanja Roos

Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Lieben und Wachsen – das Potenzial einer erfüllten Partnerschaft Eine erfüllte Beziehung kann das Schönste sein, was das Leben zu bieten hat. Eine Erfahrung von Vertrauen, Liebe und Wertschätzung. Doch viele Paare verbleiben in einer anstrengenden Schleife von Streit, Vorwurf und Enttäuschung, wissen die Beziehungs-Coaches Tanja und Christian... Read more

El cártel judicial

By: J. Jesús Lemus

Narrated by: Rafa Serrano

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

El Cártel Judicial puede ser tan letal como el más violento de los grupos delictivos; una sentencia a modo -infundada, a la ligera, sin elementos de prueba, con pruebas viciadas o para satisfacer intereses personales- puede llegar a ser peor que la muerte. Al más puro estilo de las organizaciones criminales, como si se tratara de un cártel, así... Read more

Wall Street's War on Workers

By: Les Leopold

Narrated by: Madison Niederhauser

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Layoffs upend people’s lives, cause enormous stress, and lead to debilitating personal debt. The societal harm caused by mass layoffs has been known for decades. Yet, we do little to stop them. Why? Why do we allow whole communities to be destroyed by corporate decision-makers? Why do we consider mass layoffs a natural, baked-in feature of... Read more

The Mark Steel Solution

By: Mark Steel

Narrated by: Mark Steel

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Mark Steel uses his unique logic to propose subversive solutions to society's problems

What if the Royal Family was chosen by weekly lottery?
Why should giving to charity be illegal?
Could government economic policy be decided by sport?

Award-winning writer and comedian Mark Steel aims to put the world to rights in these 15 episodes, as he comes up... Read more

Friedrich Schiller: Die Schaubühne als eine moralische Anstalt betrachtet

By: Friedrich Schiller

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Friedrich Schiller, frisches Mitglied der "Deutschen Gesellschaft", einer Vereinigung, die sich um die deutsche Sprache bemühte, wollte sich 1784 um die Stelle des Sekretärs der Gesellschaft bewerben. Er hielt bei seiner Bewerbung eben diese Rede über die "Schaubühne als moralische Anstalt." Seiner Meinung nach diente die Bühne als eine... Read more

Las dos izquierdas

By: Jorge G. Castañeda & Joel Ortega Juárez

Narrated by: Ricardo Estrada

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

La historia de la izquierda en México es la historiade dos corrientes: la que proviene de la Revolución mexicana y la que ha buscado deslindarse de ella y de los gobiernos que de ella emanaron. En una de las naciones más desiguales del planeta, la lucha por abatir la injusticia ha moldeado su historia, sus instituciones, su carácter y, por ello,... Read more

Feeling Their Pain

By: Jared McDonald

Narrated by: Christopher P. Brown

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The 2020 presidential election in the United States marked, for many, a return to "compassionate politics." Joe Biden had run on a platform of empathy, emphasizing his personal history as a means of connecting with everyone, from American workers who had lost jobs to military families who had lost loved ones. Although perceptions of candidate... Read more

Warrior Life

By: Pamela Palmater

Narrated by: Pamela Palmater

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In a moment where unlawful pipelines are built on Indigenous territories, the RCMP make illegal arrests of land defenders on unceded lands, and anti-Indigenous racism permeates on social media; the government lie that is reconciliation is exposed. Renowned lawyer, author, speaker and activist, Pamela Palmater returns to wade through media... Read more

A Real Right to Vote

By: Richard L. Hasen

Narrated by: Daniel Henning

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Throughout history, too many Americans have been disenfranchised or faced needless barriers to vote. Part of the blame falls on the Constitution, which does not contain an affirmative right to vote. The Supreme Court has made matters worse by failing to protect voting rights and limiting Congress's ability to do so. The time has come for voters... Read more

War Made Invisible

By: Norman Solomon

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

More than twenty years ago, 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan set into motion a hugely consequential shift in America's foreign policy: a perpetual state of war that is almost entirely invisible to the American public. War Made Invisible, by the journalist and political analyst Norman Solomon, exposes how this happened, and what its consequences... Read more

Basic Economics, Fifth Edition

By: Thomas Sowell

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 28 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In this fifth edition of Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell revises and updates his popular book on commonsense economics, bringing the world into clearer focus through a basic understanding of the fundamental economic principles and how they explain our lives. Drawing on lively examples from around the world and from centuries of history, Sowell... Read more

The Unit

By: Adam Gamal & Kelly Kennedy

Narrated by: Adam Gamal & Peter Ganim

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features an introduction narrated by the author. It has been modified to maintain the author's anonymity.

The first and only audiobook by a member of America's most secret military unit―an explosive and unlikely story of immigration, service, and sacrifice.

Inside our military is a team of operators whose work is so secretive that the... Read more

America Last

By: Jacob Heilbrunn

Narrated by: Kent Klineman

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In America Last, Jacob Heilbrunn, a highly respected observer of the American Right, demonstrates that the infatuation of American conservatives with foreign dictators is not a new phenomenon. It dates to WWI, when some conservatives, enthralled with Kaiser Wilhelm II, openly rooted for him to defeat the forces of democracy. In the 1920s and... Read more

Nationaler Block

By: Márton Békés

Narrated by: Beat Zirpel

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Márton Békés, Kulturfunktionär und rechter Theoretiker, erläutert den spezifischen historisch-sozialen Hintergrund, der die Ära Orbán möglich machte, und wie es gelang, diese von einer bloßen Amtszeit zu einer regelrechten Epoche auszubauen. Geschult am italienischen Philosophen Antonio Gramsci denkt Békés die gewohnte »neurechte« Vision der... Read more

The Internationalists

By: Alexander Ward

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The inside story of Biden’s foreign policy team and their struggle to restore America’s global influence in the aftermath of Trump

When Joe Biden assumed the United States presidency, he brought with him a team of all-star talent, perhaps the most experienced ensemble of policy experts in modern U.S. history. Their mission: repair America’s... Read more

I Never Did Like Politics

By: Terry Golway

Narrated by: Jon Vertullo

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

Fiorello LaGuardia was one of the twentieth century's most colorful politicians—on the New York and national stage. He was also quintessentially American: the son of Italian immigrants, who rose in society through sheer will and chutzpah. Almost one hundred years later, America is once again grappling with issues that would have been familiar to... Read more

Catching Up to FTX

By: Ben Armstrong

Narrated by: Ben Armstrong

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In Catching Up to FTX: Lessons Learned In My Crusade Against Corruption, Fraud, and Bad Hair, celebrated YouTuber and podcaster Ben Armstrong delivers the extraordinary and compelling story of the rise and fall of FTX and its well-known founder Sam Bankman-Fried. Tracking the history of crypto exchanges from the original Mt. Gox to FTX and... Read more

Bitcoin or Death

By: Matt Haslem

Narrated by: Stephanie Murphy

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Bitcoin or Death… it’s a question we all face.A question that’s hurtled towards us, faster than comfort allowed.Trapped in a cycle of endless wars, sky-high inflation, wealth erosion, and environmental destruction; humanity has become oblivious to the slow decay of its currency. But as darkness creeps in, a choice emerges between two diverging... Read more