Politics & Economy audiobooks

Drums in the Distance

By: Joe Mulhall

Narrated by: Finlay Robertson

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A terrifying and timely look at the spread of far-right movements across the globe
Joe Mulhall knows what it's like to stare fascism in the face. For a decade, often undercover at significant personal risk, he has investigated hate groups.
He infiltrated a US white supremacist militia, set up a fake Ku Klux Klan branch, has been on countless... Read more

Touching the Jaguar

By: John Perkins

Narrated by: Tom Taylorson

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

“This eloquent book inspires us to create a new reality of what it means to be humans on this magnificent planet.”
—Deepak Chopra

This all happened while Perkins was a Peace Corps volunteer. Then he became an "economic hit man" (EHM), convincing developing countries to build huge projects that put them perpetually in debt to the World Bank and... Read more

When Character Was King - Abridged

By: Peggy Noonan

Narrated by: Peggy Noonan

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the bestselling author of What I Saw at the Revolution comes an elegiac tribute to one of America's most beloved leaders.

It is twenty years—a full generation—since Ronald Reagan first walked into the White House and ignited a revolution. From the beginning, he enjoyed the American people's affection but now, as he approaches the end of his... Read more

The Revolution Will Not Be Funded

By: INCITE! Women Of Color Against Violence

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A trillion-dollar industry, the US non-profit sector is one of the world's largest economies. From art museums and university hospitals to think tanks and church charities, over 1.5 million organizations of staggering diversity share the tax-exempt 501(c)(3) designation, if little else. Many social justice organizations have joined this world,... Read more

Common Sense

By: Thomas Paine

Narrated by: Emma

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Common Sense by Thomas Paine is a powerful and persuasive pamphlet that played a pivotal role in advocating for American independence from British rule. Written in 1776, Paine’s clear and compelling arguments challenged the authority of the British monarchy and promoted the idea of self-governance. His accessible language and logical reasoning... Read more

Science and Politics

By: Ian Boyd

Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The recent coronavirus pandemic proved that the time-old notion seems now truer than ever: that science and politics represent a clash of cultures. But why should scientists simply "stick to the facts" and leave politics to the politicians when the world seems to be falling down around us?



Drawing on his experience as both a research scientist... Read more

Forex Trading Fundamentals

By: Michael Lewis

Narrated by: Michael Lewis

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Expertly written, "Forex Trading Fundamentals: A Comprehensive Guide to Currency Market Success" aims to simplify the intricacies of the foreign exchange market. This book is for both experienced traders trying to improve their tactics and novices ready to start trading Forex. It provides a complete foundation in the ideas and procedures... Read more

Centrism

By: Ian Dunt & Dorian Lynskey

Narrated by: Dorian Lynskey & Ian Dunt

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

AN ORIGIN STORY BOOK

'Provides clarity, scholarship, wit and essential insight into why our world is the way it is' Adam Rutherford
'I wish I could make Ian and Dorian's work mandatory' Sathnam Sanghera

A coherent political philosophy or a vacuous cop-out? A pragmatic middle way between the extremes of left and right or a cynical strategy to secure... Read more

Un pequeño empujón

By: Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein

Narrated by: Leto Dugatkin

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

El libro que inspiró a Barack Obama los fundamentos de la política al demostrar el poder de un pequeño empujón. Por el Premio Nobel de Economía 2017 Richard H. Thaler. En Un pequeño empujón, considerado ya un clásico y uno de los mejores libros sobre economía y política de las últimas décadas, Cass R. Sunstein y Richard H. Thaler, premio Nobel... Read more

Palo Alto

By: Malcolm Harris

Narrated by: Patrick Harrison

Length: 28 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The history of Silicon Valley, from railroads to microchips, is an “extraordinary” story of disruption and destruction, told for the first time in this comprehensive, jaw-dropping narrative (Greg Grandin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The End of the Myth). Palo Alto’s weather is temperate, its people are educated and enterprising, its... Read more

Opinions

By: Roxane Gay

Narrated by: Roxane Gay

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, “a strikingly fresh cultural critic” (Washington Post) comes an exhilarating collection of her essays on culture, politics, and everything in between. Since the publication of the groundbreaking Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling... Read more

Alexander Hamilton

By: Ron Chernow

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 35 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton! 

In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, National Book Award winner Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. According to historian Joseph Ellis, Alexander Hamilton is “a robust... Read more

Why Nations Fail

By: Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 17 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • From two winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, “who have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity”

“A wildly ambitious work that hopscotches through history and around the world to answer the very big question of why some countries get rich... Read more

True Gretch

By: Gretchen Whitmer

Narrated by: Gretchen Whitmer

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From trailblazing Michigan governor and rising Democratic star Gretchen Whitmer comes an unconventionally honest, personal, and funny account of her remarkable life and career, full of insights that guided her through a global pandemic, showdowns with high-profile bullies, and even a kidnapping and assassination plot.

When Gretchen Whitmer was... Read more

On Call

By: Anthony Fauci, M.D.

Narrated by: Anthony Fauci, M.D.

Length: 19 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times Bestseller

The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and whose six-decade career in high-level public service put him in the room with seven presidents

“An eventful autobiography [and] a classic American story…Gripping.”—The Washington Post

“One of the most consequential and most... Read more

What's Next

By: Melissa Fitzgerald & Mary McCormack

Narrated by: Melissa Fitzgerald & Mary McCormack

Length: 16 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A behind-the-scenes look into the creation and legacy of The West Wing as told by cast members Melissa Fitzgerald and Mary McCormack, with compelling insights from cast and crew exploring what made the show what it was and how its impassioned commitment to service has made the series and relationships behind it endure.

Step back inside the... Read more

The Power Broker: Volume 2 of 3

By: Robert A. Caro

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 23 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man’s incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping of twentieth-century New York.  One of the Modern Library’s hundred greatest books of the twentieth century.

Robert Caro's... Read more

The Quiet Damage

By: Jesselyn Cook

Narrated by: Jesselyn Cook

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The “gripping” (The Atlantic) story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how we might set ourselves free from a crisis that could haunt American life for generations.

“Excellent . . . This is the intimate side of the cold civil war America has been stuck in for nearly a decade.”—Michelle Goldberg, The New... Read more

The 48 Laws of Power

By: Robert Greene

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 23 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control—from the author of The Laws of Human Nature.



In the book that People magazine proclaimed "beguiling" and "fascinating," Robert Greene and Joost... Read more

King: A Life

By: Jonathan Eig

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 20 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2024 Audie Award for Best Nonfiction Narrator!

This program is narrated by Dion Graham, narrator of over 300 audiobooks and an AudioFile Golden Voice. Dion has won multiple Earphones and Audie Awards.

"Dion Graham superbly narrates this riveting audiobook, emulating the majestic cadence of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, speeches. He... Read more

Black AF History

By: Michael Harriot

Narrated by: Michael Harriot

Length: 15 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans.America’s backstory is a whitewashed mythology implanted in our collective memory. It is the story of the pilgrims on... Read more

The Myth of American Idealism

By: Noam Chomsky & Nathan J. Robinson

Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

“For anyone wanting to find out more about the world we live in . . . there is one simple answer: read Noam Chomsky.” —The New Statesman

From one of the world’s most prominent thinkers comes an urgent warning of the threat that U.S. power poses to humanity’s future as well as a sharp indictment of both American foreign policy and the national... Read more

Culture Warlords

By: Talia Lavin

Narrated by: Talia Lavin

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

One reporter takes an immersive dive into white supremacy's explosive online presence, exploring the undercurrents of propaganda, racism, misogyny, and history that led us to where we are now. Talia Lavin is every skinhead's worst nightmare: a loud and unapologetic Jewish woman, acerbic, smart, and profoundly antiracist, with the investigative... Read more

Why We're Polarized

By: Ezra Klein

Narrated by: Ezra Klein

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022

One of Bill Gates’s “5 books to read this summer,” this New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller shows us that America’s political system isn’t broken. The truth is scarier: it’s working exactly as designed. In this “superbly researched” (The Washington Post) and timely book, journalist Ezra... Read more