Politics & Economy audiobooks

Pharmanomics

By: Nick Dearden

Narrated by: Gareth Richards

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In Pharmanomics, investigative journalist Nick Dearden digs down into the way we produce our medicines and finds that Big Pharma is failing us, with catastrophic consequences.



Big Pharma is more interested in profit than health. This was made clear as governments rushed to produce vaccines during the Covid pandemic. Behind the much-trumpeted... Read more

Stoic Foundations

By: Marcus Aurelius, Seneca & Epictetus

Narrated by: James Anderson Foster

Length: 13 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

An essential guide to the core texts of Stoic philosophy, featuring a new introduction from Massimo Pigliucci, author of How To Be A Stoic

Stoicism is a philosophy, a worldview, and a transformational practice. Throughout the centuries everyone from kings and presidents to Silicone Valley entrepreneurs have drawn inspiration and wisdom from... Read more

The True Believer

By: Eric Hoffer

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“Its theme is political fanaticism, with which it deals severely and brilliantly.” —New YorkerThe famous bestseller with “concise insight into what drives the mind of the fanatic and the dynamics of a mass movement” (Wall Street Journal) by the legendary San Francisco longshoreman.A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer... Read more

A Matter Of Trust

By: Meenakshi Ahamed

Narrated by: Deepa Samuel

Length: 20 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From Truman's remark to now, it has been a long journey. India and the United States, which share common values and should have been friends, found themselves caught in a cycle of resentment and mistrust for the first few decades following Indian independence. In A Matter of Trust, Meenakshi Ahamed reveals the personal prejudices and... Read more

Network of Lies

By: Brian Stelter

Narrated by: Brian Stelter

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Fox News paid almost a billion dollars in legal settlements to bury the contents of this “essential…grinding, momentum-building” (The New York Times) account of the network’s blatant attempts to manipulate the truth, mislead the public, and influence our elections—from the New York Times bestselling author of Hoax.

The ongoing criminal trials of... Read more

Zero Trust and Third-Party Risk

By: Gregory C. Rasner

Narrated by: Mike Lenz

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Dramatically lower the cyber risk posed by third-party software and vendors in your organization

In Zero Trust and Third-Party Risk, veteran cybersecurity leader Gregory Rasner delivers an accessible and authoritative walkthrough of the fundamentals and finer points of the zero trust philosophy and its application to the mitigation of... Read more

UFO

By: Garrett M. Graff

Narrated by: Jacques Roy

Length: 18 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

“One of the rare books on the topic that manages to be both entertaining and factually grounded.” —The Wall Street Journal

From the bestselling author of Raven Rock, The Only Plane in the Sky, and Watergate (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history) comes the first comprehensive and eye-opening exploration of our government’s decades-long... Read more

A Woman I Know

By: Mary Haverstick

Narrated by: Mary Haverstick

Length: 14 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The true story of a filmmaker whose investigation of her film’s subject opened a new window onto the world of Cold War espionage, CIA secrets, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Independent filmmaker Mary Haverstick thought she’d stumbled onto the project of a lifetime—a biopic of aviation pioneer Jerrie Cobb, the key figure in a group of... Read more

América Latina

By: Ernesto Che Guevara

Narrated by: Ignacio Rodriguez de Anca, Irene Machado, Ernes...

Length: 17 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

En una carta a su madre en 1954, un joven Ernesto Guevara escribió "Las Américas serán el teatro de mis aventuras de una manera mucho más significativa de lo que yo hubiera creído". En America Latina se narra la historia de esas aventuras, trazando la evolución del Che desde el joven e impresionable estudiante de medicina al "guerrillero... Read more

Borderline

By: Vincent Vargas

Narrated by: Jocko Willink & Vincent Vargas

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

An inside look at the U.S./Mexican border through the eyes of former U.S. Border Patrol agent, Vincent Vargas, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan with the U.S. Army’s 75th Ranger Regiment.

This program is read by the author and features a foreword written and read by #1 New York Times bestselling author Jocko Willink.

The U.S./Mexican border... Read more

The Flying Grunt

By: Alan E. Mesches

Narrated by: Chris Monteiro

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Edward Carey came from a broken home. Enlisting in the Corps in 1946 he later earned a commission, fighting at Inchon and Chosin in Korea before becoming a pilot. During his thirty-eight-year military career he witnessed and participated in major historical events, though a high school wrestling injury would eliminate him from the... Read more

Political Rumors

By: Adam J. Berinsky

Narrated by: Tom Campbell

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Political rumors and misinformation pollute the political landscape. This is not a recent phenomenon; before the currently rampant and unfounded rumors about a stolen election and vote-rigging, there were other rumors that continued to spread even after they were thoroughly debunked, including doubts about 9/11 (an "inside job") and the furor... Read more

Tired of Winning

By: Jonathan Karl

Narrated by: Jonathan Karl

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"The most important thing that has been written to date about what is in front of the American people in the next presidential election." —Nicolle Wallace

An extraordinary view into the politics of our times, Tired of Winning explores how Donald Trump remade the Republican Party in his own image—and the... Read more

When Harry Met Pablo

By: Matthew Algeo

Narrated by: Pat Grimes

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Harry Truman and Pablo Picasso were contemporaries and were both shaped by and shapers of the great events of the twentieth century—the man who painted Guernica and the man who authorized the use of atomic bombs against civilians. But in most ways, they couldn’t have been more different. Picasso was a communist, and probably the only thing... Read more

The Nature of Honour

By: David McBride

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Son of the renowned Sydney obstetrician, Dr William McBride, who raised the alarm on the anti-nausea drug thalidomide in the 1960s and was later struck off the medical register for falsifying research results in a bid to challenge the safety of another drug. David chose to study Law, firstly at Sydney University and then at Oxford. There he met... Read more

The Souls of Black Folk

By: W.E.B. Du Bois

Narrated by: Raymond Hearn

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Raymond Hearn, the narrator of this edition, did an incredible rendition similar to what he did for The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas

"EITHER AMERICA WILL DESTROY IGNORANCE OR IGNORANCE WILL DESTROY THE UNITED STATES." -W.E.B. Du Bois

This classic groundbreaking work of American literature first published in 1903 is a cornerstone of... Read more

The Adventurous Life of Theodore Roosevelt

By: Jim Weiss

Narrated by: Jim Weiss

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Cowboy, soldier, crusader against corruption, protector of wilderness wonders, American president, peacemaker–Theodore Roosevelt was all of these and more! Listen as Jim Weiss tells the incredible story of T.R.'s adventurous life. Theodore Roosevelt was a United States President, a war hero, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, an environmental... Read more

The Assassination of JFK

By: Jonathan Mayo

Narrated by: Russell Bentley

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed book by Jonathan Mayo, now available in paperback

"Reads like a pacey, page-turning, cold war political thriller." Dermot O'Leary

This is the story of JFK's assassination as told from the frontline: it is about the people - from the highest to the lowest - who were caught up in that four-day whirlwind in November 1963.

From Dallas... Read more

Electoral Apocalypses: The Complete Series

By: Jim Weiss

Narrated by: Jim Weiss

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

How America Survived Three Divisive Elections:  These three memorable audio episodes, written and narrated by Jim Weiss, make ideal listening for voters (and voters-to-be), lovers of history, and all concerned citizens. This three-part audio series sheds light on the stormy present by exploring the turbulent past. Through the surprising tales... Read more

King Josiah The Untold Story

By: Gerard Troise

Narrated by: Michael Later & Joseph Jackson

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The History of Kings is vividly brought to life in this emotionally charged narrative of King Josiah and his contemporaries. Although the major portion of this novel centers upon the life and reign of King Josiah in particular, his grandfather King Manasseh, and father King Amon, are also vividly portrayed in the early chapters of this book to... Read more

Michael Portillo: On Politics

By: Michael Portillo

Narrated by: Michael Portillo

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Michael Portillo presents these specially selected shows exploring the history of democracy and the modern political systemIn a parliamentary career spanning over 20 years, Michael Portillo served as a Conservative MP and held numerous Cabinet posts. Few people are better placed to comment on politics than him, and in these thought-provoking... Read more

The Cultural Revolution

By: Frank Dikötter

Narrated by: Daniel York Loh

Length: 15 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents The Cultural Revolution by Frank Dikötter, read by Daniel York Loh.

Acclaimed by the Daily Mail as 'definitive and harrowing', this is the final volume of ‘The People’s Trilogy', begun by the Samuel Johnson prize-winning Mao's Great Famine.

'The seminal English language work on the subject’ Sunday Times

‘A major contribution to... Read more

Facing the Beast

By: Naomi Wolf

Narrated by: Carolyn White

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Naomi Wolf, Facing the Beast is a devastating, detailed account of wrongthink, deplatforming, and an unexpected political, personal, and spiritual transformation that followed during one of the most divisive times in American history. In this uncompromising investigation into today’s most urgent issues,... Read more

Economics Reimagined:

By: Rick Teller

Narrated by: Richard Tensley

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Forget GDP, and focus instead on living standards, people’s ability to get what they want. When you do that you’ll see why, contrary to universal belief, capitalism helps the living standards of the less well-off much more than those of the rich. You’ll also see why no matter who or what the government taxes, or even if it taxes nobody, nearly... Read more