Politics & Economy audiobooks

Plowshares into Swords

By: David Ekbladh

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an Auto-narrated audiobook version of this book. An in-depth look at how the ideas formulated by the interwar League of Nations shaped American thinking on the modern global order.
 
In Plowshares into Swords, David Ekbladh recaptures the power of knowledge and information developed between World War I and World War II by an... Read more

The Burning of the World

By: Scott W. Berg

Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins

Length: 13 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE MIDLAND AUTHORS AWARD FOR HISTORY • LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • The "illuminating" (New Yorker) story of the Great Chicago Fire: a raging inferno, a harrowing fight for survival, and the struggle for the soul of a city—told with the "the clarity—and tension—of a... Read more

A New Capitalism

By: Frank Altman

Narrated by: Zak Griffin

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In A New Capitalism, Frank Altman, a legendary figure in the Community Development Finance industry, offers a systematic argument for why and how American capitalism can be extended to people from every walk of life, including those from low-income census tracks. He explores the history and cultural realities that have created an unequal... Read more

Kindness Economy

By: Oona Horx Strathern

Narrated by: Madeleine Coco Sanders & Andreas Falk

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

People, planet, profit Oona Horx Strathern, Co-Founder Zukunftsinstitut Horx, betreibt eine kluge und erhellende Gegenwartsanalyse mit hohem Unterhaltungswert. Mit viel Einfallsreichtum und Scharfsinn beschreibt die Zukunftsforscherin die aktuelle Umwälzung in Wirtschaft und auf dem Arbeitsmarkt. Die Kindness-Revolution wird Einfluss haben auf... Read more

Democracies in America

By: Gregory Laski & D. Berton Emerson

Narrated by: James Babson, Lisa Larsen, Mia Ellis, Amir Abdu...

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Ask someone their thoughts about "democracy" and you'll get many different responses. Some may presume it a thing once established yet now under threat. Others may believe that democracy has always been compromised by the empowered few. In the contemporary United States, marked by constituencies across the political spectrum believing that their... Read more

Polska na podsłuchu. Jak Pegasus, najpotężniejszy szpieg w historii, zmienił się w narzędzie brudnej polityki

By: Michał Kokot

Narrated by: Bartosz Głogowski

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

To miał być tajny zakup. 33 miliony złotych z publicznych pieniędzy na narzędzie śledzące terrorystów i szpiegów. Narzędzie, które jednym kliknięciem pozwala całkowicie przejąć zawartość telefonu, łącznie z szyfrowanymi wiadomościami czy hasłami, a jego właściciel nigdy się o tym nie dowie.
Jak to możliwe, że polskie służby zostały uprawnione, by... Read more

Raising Conservative Kids in a Woke City

By: Stacy Manning & Katy Faust

Narrated by: Stacy Manning

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Practical, age-appropriate strategies every parent can employ to train kids capable of resisting leftist indoctrination and fight the raging culture war. In Raising Conservative Kids in a Woke City, two moms living in the bluest of cities offer practical guidance, parenting strategies, and humorous commentary to help parents immunize their... Read more

The Year That Broke Politics

By: Luke A. Nichter

Narrated by: Kent Klineman

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The unknown story of the election that set the tone for today's fractured politics



The 1968 presidential race was a contentious battle between Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Republican Richard Nixon, and former Alabama governor George Wallace. The United States was reeling from the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy... Read more

Enough

By: Cassidy Hutchinson

Narrated by: Cassidy Hutchinson

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Cassidy Hutchinson’s desk was mere steps from the most controversial president in recent American history, and she provides a riveting account of her extraordinary experience as an idealistic young woman thrust into the middle of a national crisis, where she risked everything to tell the truth about President Trump... Read more

What’s Killing America

By: Jason Rantz

Narrated by: Jason Rantz

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning book about how America’s biggest cities are being destroyed by progressive policies and woke Democrats.

Many Americans have no idea how badly our largest, Democrat-run cities have deteriorated. We've been complacent for far too long, assuming that the craziest elements of the radical Left would stay confined to the East and West... Read more

Take Your Company Global

By: Nataly Kelly

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

If you're on the internet, you're already global. Now, get access to an innovative data-driven model for profitably expanding the international presence you already have.

Companies looking to expand used to think about entering international markets, but today you're global from the moment you create a website. Nataly Kelly, Chief Growth Officer... Read more

A Short History of European Law

By: Tamar Herzog

Narrated by: Ana Clements

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A Short History of European Law brings to life 2,500 years of legal history, tying current norms to the circumstances of their conception. Tamar Herzog describes how successive legal systems built upon one another, from ancient times through the European Union. Roman law formed the backbone of each configuration, though the way it was used and... Read more

Struggle Makes Us Human

By: Vijay Prashad

Narrated by: Shawn K. Jain

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

An incisive and inspiring call to look beyond capitalism to chart a road map for a planet ravaged by pandemics, climate crisis, and wars.



Prompted by trenchant questions by international solidarity organizer Frank Barat, renowned author and activist Vijay Prashad shows that the path toward hope and liberation lies in looking closely at myriad,... Read more

The Last Colony

By: Philippe Sands

Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh & Philippe Sands

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The moving, inspiring David-and-Goliath true story of freedom and justice involving one tiny nation in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa, and the extraordinary woman, a descendant of slaves, who dared to take on the Crown and the United Kingdom—and win a historic victory

In 1973, on the Chagos Islands off the coast of Africa, Liseby... Read more

A Walk to the Store

By: Judeah Reynolds, Sheletta Brundidge & Lily Coyle

Narrated by: Judeah Reynolds & Sheletta Brundidge

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Many children see bad things happen on TV or online. Some children see bad things happen in real life.When nine-year-old Judeah Reynolds walked to the store to buy candy one day, she saw a man named George Floyd get killed by the police. Judeah was very scared and sad. She talked to her family about what happened, and that helped. She talked... Read more

Wounds into Wisdom

By: Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, PhD

Narrated by: Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, PhD & Barry Abrams

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Our past does not simply disappear. The painful history of our ancestors and their rich cultural wisdom intertwine within us to create the patterns of our future. Even when past trauma remains unspoken or has long been forgotten, it becomes part of us and our children—a legacy of both strength and woundedness that shapes our lives.

In this... Read more

Thanks for Your Service

By: Peter D. Feaver

Narrated by: Lee Goettl

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A definitive study on the decades-long run of high public confidence in the military and why it may rest on some shaky foundations.

What explains the high levels of public confidence in the US military and does high confidence matter? In Thanks for Your Service, the eminent civil-military relations scholar Peter D. Feaver addresses this... Read more

The Fall

By: Michael Wolff

Narrated by: Michael Wolff

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
—Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Michael Wolff’s books were my foundation and port of entry for working on Succession.”
—Jeremy Strong (“Kendall Roy”)

Meet the Murdochs and the disastrously dysfunctional family of Fox News. Until recently, they... Read more

Betty Friedan

By: Rachel Shteir

Narrated by: Kim Niemi

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The feminist writer and activist Betty Friedan (1921–2006), pathbreaking author of The Feminine Mystique, was powerful and polarizing. In this biography, the first in more than twenty years, Rachel Shteir draws on Friedan's papers and on interviews with family, colleagues, and friends to create a nuanced portrait.



Friedan, born Bettye Naomi... Read more

The Identity Trap

By: Yascha Mounk

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Financial Times, Inc., Prospect Magazine, and The Conversation

“The most comprehensive and reasonable story of this shift that has yet been attempted . . . Mounk has told the story of the Great Awokening better than any other writer who has attempted to make sense of it.” —The Washington Post

"An... Read more

How Do We Get Out of Here

By: R. Emmett Tyrell Jr.

Narrated by: Frank Block

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

When R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. was a conservative college student in 1968, he watched as Senator Robert Kennedy gave a rousing campaign speech. When Senator Kennedy asked him, "How do we get out of here?" Tyrrell—the only other person onstage—not only escorted the candidate to his car but boldly pressed a "Reagan for President" button into the... Read more

The Bodies Keep Coming

By: Dr. Brian H. Williams

Narrated by: Dr. Brian H. Williams

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Trauma surgeon Dr. Brian H. Williams has seen it all—gunshot wounds, stabbings, traumatic brain injuries—and ushers us into the trauma bay, where the wounds of a national emergency amass. As a Harvard-trained physician, he learned to keep his head down and his scalpel ready. As a Black man, he learned to swallow rage when patients told him to... Read more

Target Tehran

By: Yonah Jeremy Bob & Ilan Evyatar

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year/Politics
Winner of the Jewish Book Council’s Natan Notable Book Prize

“One of the most accurate and fascinating books so far” (Michael Bar-Zohar, coauthor of Mossad) about how Israel used sabotage, assassination, cyberwar—and diplomacy—to thwart Iran’s development of nuclear weapons and, in the... Read more

Richard Nixon

By: Paul Carter

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 13 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Modern biographies of Richard Nixon have been consumed with Watergate. All have missed arguably the most important perspective on Nixon as California's native son, the only U.S. president born and raised in California. By shifting the focus from Watergate and Washington to Nixon's deep, defining roots in California, Paul Carter boldly challenges... Read more