Politics & Economy audiobooks

The Inequality of Wealth

By: Liam Byrne

Narrated by: Keith Wickham

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A wide-ranging and compelling account of the historical and current causes of wealth inequality, offering prescriptions for lasting solutions to an intractable problem, and for a more equitable distribution of wealth and resources.
Is equality possible in the 21st century? In The Inequality of Wealth, Liam Byrne, a former Treasury minister in... Read more

Everybody's Guide to Money Matters

By: William Cotton

Narrated by: Kenny Davis

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Everybody’s Guide to Money Matters by William Cotton is a book that offers a description of the various investments chiefly dealt in on the stock exchange. The author, with a banking experience of over forty years, presents this work to the public, hoping that it may prove useful to many people, especially women, who are often brought up in... Read more

Readings in Money and Banking

By: Chester Arthur Phillips

Narrated by: Jason Smith (Male Synthesized Voice)

Length: 22 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

"Readings in Money and Banking" by Chester Arthur Phillips is a classic text that provides a comprehensive overview of key concepts in the field of money and banking. Unfortunately, as of my last knowledge update in January 2022, I don't have specific details about this particular book. However, I can provide you with a general idea of what you... Read more

The Decisive Decade

By: Jonathan D.T. Ward

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Decisive Decade, Dr. Jonathan D. T. Ward offers a comprehensive framework for how the US can, and must, defeat China on the world stage economically, diplomatically, militarily, and ideologically. International security and American supremacy are at stake—and now is the time for the US to take action. China's global power and influence... Read more

The Spirit of Our Politics

By: Michael R. Wear

Narrated by: Michael Wear

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.For those discouraged and exhausted by the bitterness and rage in our politics, Michael Wear offers a new paradigm of political involvement rooted in the teachings of Jesus and drawing insights from Dallas Willard's approach to spiritual formation.When political division shows up not only on the campaign trail but also at our... Read more

Everyday Freedom

By: Philip K. Howard

Narrated by: Bill Thatcher

Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Something basic is missing in our culture. Americans know it. Nothing much works as it should. Simple daily choices seem impossible, or fraught with peril. In the workplace, we walk on eggshells. Big projects get stalled in years of review. Endemic social problems such as homelessness become, well, more endemic.



Everyday Freedom offers a radical... Read more

Disillusioned

By: Benjamin Herold

Narrated by: Benjamin Herold & Bethany Smith

Length: 13 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

"Astonishingly important.” —Alex Kotlowitz, The Atlantic

Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools

Outside Atlanta, a middle-class Black family faces off with a school system seemingly bent on punishing their teenage son. North... Read more

Amateur Hour

By: Charlie Spiering

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The ultimate, comprehensive investigation into the life and career of Vice President Kamala Harris from former Washington Examiner and Breitbart News political reporter Charlie Spiering.

Who is the real Kamala Harris? And how did she ascend to the second highest office in the country? Despite her limited experience in national politics and... Read more

No Miracles Needed

By: Mark Z. Jacobson

Narrated by: Mike Lenz

Length: 18 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The world needs to turn away from fossil fuels and use clean, renewable sources of energy as soon as we can. Failure to do so will cause catastrophic climate damage sooner than you might think, leading to loss of biodiversity and economic and political instability. But all is not lost! We still have time to save the planet without resorting to... Read more

1947-1957, India

By: Chandrachur Ghose

Narrated by: Dev J Haldar

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The first decade after India's independence, 1947-1957, was probably the most crucial in the nation's history. Opening a window to this period, this book weaves a story out of the complex ideas and events that have largely remained beneath the surface of public discourse. The transfer of power, the framing of the Constitution and the formation... Read more

Black Women Taught Us

By: Jenn M. Jackson

Narrated by: Jenn M. Jackson

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A reclamation of essential history and a hopeful gesture toward a better political future, this is what listening to Black women looks like—from a professor of political science and columnist for Teen Vogue.

“Jenn M. Jackson is a beautiful writer and excellent scholar. In this book, they pay tribute to generations of Black women organizers and... Read more

Tommy's Field

By: Nikki Mark

Narrated by: Nikki Mark

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In April 2018, Nikki and Doug Mark’s perfectly healthy twelve-year-old-son, Tommy, went to sleep one night and never woke up. They’re still not exactly sure why. Devastated, Nikki embarked on an unconventional journey to create a legacy for Tommy and to heal her heart. She created a plan to transform neglected land in a Los Angeles public park... Read more

Gun Country

By: Andrew C. McKevitt

Narrated by: Bob Johnson

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Just as World War II transformed the United States into a global military and economic superpower, so too did it forge the gun country America is today. After 1945, war-ravaged European nations possessed large surpluses of mass-produced weapons, and American entrepreneurs seized the opportunity to buy used munitions for pennies on the dollar and... Read more

Ella persistió: Pura Belpré

By: Meg Medina, Marilisa Jiménez García & Chelsea C...

Narrated by: Jane Santos

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspirada en el bestseller #1 del New York Times Ella persistió / She Persisted de Chelsea Clinton y Alexandra Boiger, llega esta serie en Chapter Books sobre mujeres que sobresalieron, lucharon y se levantaron contra viento y marea, como Pura Belpré.
 
Pura Belpré se mudó de Puerto Rico a la ciudad de Nueva York y se hizo bibliotecaria en un... Read more

Why Does Everything Have to Be About Race?

By: Keith Boykin

Narrated by: Keith Boykin

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Fight back against misinformation and ignorance as New York Times bestselling author Keith Boykin debunks 25 of the most common claims used to refute America’s racist past and present.
 
The most toxic racial arguments share one of five traits. They try to erase Black history, prioritize white victimhood, deny Black oppression, promote myths of... Read more

The Showman

By: Simon Shuster

Narrated by: Daniel Gamburg

Length: 14 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed journalist Simon Shuster gives us the first inside account of the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the perspective of President Volodymyr Zelensky and his team, who granted him unprecedented access. Time correspondent Simon Shuster chronicles the life and wartime leadership of Volodymyr Zelensky from the dressing rooms of his variety... Read more

Mirrors of Greatness

By: David Reynolds

Narrated by: Ethan Kelly

Length: 17 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A new biography of Winston Churchill, revealing how his relationships with the other great figures of his age shaped his own triumphs and failures as a leader

Winston Churchill remains one of the most revered figures of the twentieth century, his name a byword for courageous leadership. But the Churchill we know today is a mixture of history and... Read more

Die Kindersklaven der Staatsmatrix

By: Dawid Snowden

Narrated by: Dawid Snowden

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Wenn wir auf die Welt kommen, sind wir wie eine unformatierte Festplatte. Wir haben keine Ahnung, wer wir sind, welche Potentiale in uns stecken und was wir mit all der Hardware, die an uns klebt, noch alles anstellen könnten. Wir leben jeden Tag, ohne daran zu denken, dass wir eines Tages stürzen, krank werden oder sterben könnten. Unsere... Read more

Raising the Nation

By: Paul Lindley

Narrated by: Richard Pryal, Ali Vowles, Lissa Berry, Quentin...

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Children today grow up in an increasingly volatile, complex and uncertain world. Theirs is a generation disempowered from steering their lives while society’s systems are failing to provide the support they need. Yet, a country only prospers when its children – from all walks of life – thrive, meaning that the United Kingdom now faces some... Read more

When Science Meets Power

By: Geoff Mulgan

Narrated by: Michael Langan

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Science and politics have collaborated throughout human history and science is repeatedly invoked today in political debates, from pandemic management to climate change.



Leading policy analyst Geoff Mulgan here calls attention to the growing frictions caused by the expanding—and unsolicited—authority being heaped upon science. As science... Read more

American Epic

By: Garrett Epps

Narrated by: Lee Goettl

Length: 12 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1987, E. L. Doctorow celebrated the Constitution's bicentennial by reading it. "It is five thousand words long but reads like fifty thousand," he said. Distinguished legal scholar Garrett Epps disagrees. It's about 7,500 words. And Doctorow "missed a good deal of high rhetoric, many literary tropes, and even a trace of, if not wit, at least... Read more

Reclaiming Our Democracy

By: Sam Daley-Harris

Narrated by: Sam Daley-Harris

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Almost everyone shies away from advocacy as a way to make a difference. We donate to climate change organizations, but we don’t meet with a member of Congress or write a letter to the editor. We donate to groups working to end gun violence, anti-hunger organizations, groups dedicated to racial justice, and many others, but we don’t become... Read more

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions

By: Charles Mackay

Narrated by: Jason Smith (Male Synthesized Voice)

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

"Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" is a classic work written by Charles Mackay, first published in 1841. The book explores various historical instances of mass hysteria, irrational behavior, and financial manias. Mackay delves into the psychology of crowds and examines cases such as the South Sea Bubble, the... Read more

Hedwig Dohm: Die wissenschaftliche Emanzipation der Frau

By: Hedwig Dohm

Narrated by: Lea Pfeiffer

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Hedwig Dohm (1831-1919) war eine deutsche Schriftstellerin, Frauenrechtlerin und eine der ersten feministischen Theoretikerinnen. Die Großmutter von Katia Mann, der Gattin Thomas Manns, war sie obendrein.   Im Jahr1874 veröffentlichte sie ihr Essay "Die wissenschaftliche Emanzipation der Frau",  das unter anderem die Fragen behandelt, ob Frauen... Read more