Politics & Economy audiobooks

Woodrow Wilson

By: Christopher Cox

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 25 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A timely reassessment of Woodrow Wilson and his role in the long national struggle for racial equality and women’s voting rights.

More than a century after he dominated American politics, Woodrow Wilson still fascinates. With panoramic sweep, Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn reassesses his life and his role in the movements for racial equality... Read more

Ballad of the Whiskey Robber

By: Julian Rubinstein

Narrated by: Hachette Assorted Authors

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

An award-wining and "outrageously entertaining" true crime story (San Francisco Chronicle) about the professional hockey player-turned-bank robber whose bizarre and audacious crime spree galvanized Hungary in the decade after the fall of the Iron Curtain.

During the 1990s, while playing for the biggest hockey team in Budapest, Attila Ambrus took... Read more

On Killing

By: Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman

Narrated by: Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The revised and updated edition of Lt. Col. Dave Grossman's modern classic about the psychology of combat, hailed by the Washington Post as "an illuminating account of how soldiers learn to kill and how they live with the experiences of having killed." In World War II, only 15 to 20 percent of combat infantry were willing to fire their rifles.... Read more

The Moscow Rules

By: Antonio J. Mendez & Jonna Mendez

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A “devilishly fun” (New York Times Book Review) account of a deadly serious business: the undercover spies and the tactics they developed to survive the Cold War in Moscow, from legendary former-CIA operatives.
Antonio Mendez and his future wife Jonna were CIA operatives working to spy on Moscow in the late 1970s, at one of the most dangerous... Read more

Abortion

By: Jessica Valenti

Narrated by: Jessica Valenti

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In a stirring and succinct examination of post-Roe America, “one of the most successful and visible feminists of her generation” (Washington Post) takes on what’s become the country’s most resonant political issue.
 
In her most urgent book yet, New York Times bestselling author Jessica Valenti shines a light on the... Read more

Goddess of Anarchy

By: Jacqueline Jones

Narrated by: Nylsa Smallwood

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

From a prize-winning historian, a new portrait of an extraordinary activist and the turbulent age in which she lived

Goddess of Anarchy recounts the formidable life of the militant writer, orator, and agitator Lucy Parsons. Born to an enslaved woman in Virginia in 1851 and raised in Texas-where she met her husband, the Haymarket "martyr" Albert... 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

Long Walk to Freedom - Abridged

By: Nelson Mandela

Narrated by: Danny Glover

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: Yes

Read by Danny Glover, with an introduction by Kofi Annan.


Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from... Read more

Revolutionary Witchcraft

By: Sarah Lyons

Narrated by: Rebecca Mitchell

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A fiery, intersectional guide for activists and witches alike, Revolutionary Witchcraft is an empowered introduction to the history and practice of politically-motivated magic.



From the politically charged origins of the word "witch" to the present-day magical resistance, this bold handbook explores the role of witchcraft in our modern world.... Read more

The New Silk Roads

By: Peter Frankopan

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes an updated, timely, and visionary book about the dramatic and profound changes our world is undergoing right now—as seen from the perspective of the rising powers of the East.  

"All roads used to lead to Rome. Today they lead to Beijing." So argues Peter Frankopan in this revelatory new book.

In... Read more

Grateful American

By: Gary Sinise

Narrated by: Gary Sinise

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the moving, entertaining, never-before-told story of how one man found his calling: to see that those who defend this country and its freedoms are never forgotten.As a kid in suburban Chicago, Gary Sinise was more interested in sports and rock 'n' roll than reading or schoolwork. But when he impulsively auditioned for a school... 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

Net Positive

By: Andrew Winston & Paul Polman

Narrated by: Andrew Winston, Paul Polman & Tom Parks

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Runaway climate change and gross inequality are ravaging the world. Who can help lead us to a better future? Business.



These and other massive challenges threaten our very existence on the planet. Yet division and discord risk undermining our response, just when we need to come together.



At this critical time in history, the imperative to... Read more

Gorbachev

By: William Taubman

Narrated by: Henry Strozier

Length: 32 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in BiographyLonglisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionThe definitive biography of the transformational Russian leader by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Khrushchev.When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the USSR. was one of the... Read more

Nimitz at War

By: Craig L. Symonds

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

From America's preeminent naval historian, the first full-length portrait in over fifty years of the man who won the war in the Pacific in World War Two.

Only days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt tapped Chester W. Nimitz to assume command of the Pacific Fleet. Nimitz transformed the devastated and... Read more

We Are Home

By: Ray Suarez

Narrated by: Ray Suarez

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From a veteran broadcaster and historian comes a richly reported portrait of the newest Americans, immigrants from all over the globe who are living all across the country, filled with their own voices. We are a nation of immigrants, never more than now. In recent decades, the numbers have skyrocketed, thanks to people coming from many... Read more

Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power

By: Amy Sonnie & James Tracy

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Some of the most important and little-known activists of the 1960s were poor and working-class radicals. Inspired by the Civil Rights movement, the Black Panthers, and progressive populism, they started to organize significant political struggles against racism and inequality during the 1960s and into the 1970s.



Historians of the period have... Read more

Bobby Kennedy

By: Larry Tye

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 19 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

“A multilayered, inspiring portrait of RFK . . . [the] most in-depth look at an extraordinary figure whose transformational story shaped America.”—Joe Scarborough, The Washington Post

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Soon to be a Hulu original series starring Chris Pine. Larry Tye appears on CNN’s American Dynasties: The Kennedys.

“We are in Larry... Read more

The Value of a Whale

By: Adrienne Buller

Narrated by: Anu Anand

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Public understanding of, and outcry over, the dire state of the climate and environment is greater than ever before. Parties across the political spectrum claim to be climate leaders, and overt denial is on the way out. Yet when it comes to slowing the course of the climate and nature crises, despite a growing number of pledges, policies and... Read more

The Good Ally

By: Nova Reid

Narrated by: Nova Reid

Length: 13 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

‘I invite you to be courageous and get comfortable with being uncomfortable, because any discomfort you feel is temporary and pales in comparison to what black and brown people often have to experience on a daily basis. Are you ready?  Let’s get started,... Read more

Philip and Alexander

By: Adrian Goldsworthy

Narrated by: Neil Dickson

Length: 20 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This definitive biography of one of history's most influential father-son duos tells the story of two rulers who gripped the world -- and their rise and fall from power.
Alexander the Great's conquests staggered the world. He led his army across thousands of miles, overthrowing the greatest empires of his time and building a new one in their... Read more

Fire and Fortitude

By: John C. McManus

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 24 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

An engrossing, epic history of the US Army in the Pacific War, from the acclaimed author of The Dead and Those About to Die

“This eloquent and powerful narrative is military history written the way it should be.”—James M. McPherson, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian
 
"Out here, mention is seldom seen of the achievements of the Army ground troops,"... Read more

Our History Has Always Been Contraband

By: Colin Kaepernick, Robin D.G. Kelley & Keeanga-Y...

Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln Smith

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Since its founding as a discipline, Black Studies has been under relentless attack by social and political forces seeking to discredit and neutralize it. Our History Has Always Been Contraband was born out of an urgent need to respond to the latest threat: efforts to remove content from an AP African American Studies course being piloted in high... Read more

Teardown

By: Dave Meslin

Narrated by: Dave Meslin

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

As seen on TVO’s adaptation Unrigged

A handbook of democratic solutions in troubled times, from the activist the media call a "wizard," a "mastermind," "the ultimate ideas guy," a "mad scientist," a "start-up genius."

Our democracy is a trainwreck. Our elections feel hollow and our legislatures have become toxic. Fierce partisanship, centralized... Read more