Politics & Economy audiobooks

Assata Taught Me

By: Donna Murch

Narrated by: Patryce Williams

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Black Panther and Cuban exile, Assata Shakur, has inspired multiple generations of radical protest, including our contemporary Black Lives Matter movement. Drawing its title from one of America’s foremost revolutionaries, this collection of thought-provoking essays by award-winning Panther scholar Donna Murch explores how social protest is... Read more

Lost Prophet

By: John D'Emilio

Narrated by: Scott R. Pollak

Length: 20 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Before Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, Bayard Rustin was working to bring the civil rights movement to the forefront of America's consciousness. A teacher to King, an international apostle of peace, and the organizer of the historic 1963 March on Washington, he brought Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolence to America and helped launch the civil... Read more

Worm

By: Mark Bowden

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Worm: The First Digital World War tells the story of the Conficker worm, a potentially devastating piece of malware that has baffled experts and infected more than twelve million computers worldwide.When Conficker was unleashed in November 2008, cybersecurity experts did not know what to make of it. Exploiting security flaws in Microsoft... Read more

Power, Pleasure, and Profit

By: David Wootton

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

We pursue power, pleasure, and profit. We want as much as we can get, and we deploy instrumental reasoning—cost-benefit analysis—to get it. We judge ourselves and others by how well we succeed. It is a way of life and thought that seems natural, inevitable, and inescapable. As David Wootton shows, it is anything but. In Power, Pleasure, and... Read more

The Lions’ Den

By: Susie Linfield

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 16 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A lively intellectual history that explores how prominent midcentury public intellectuals approached Zionism and then the State of Israel itself and its conflicts with the Arab worldCultural critic Susie Linfield investigates how eight prominent twentieth-century intellectuals struggled with the philosophy of Zionism, and then with Israel and... Read more

A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit

By: Noliwe Rooks

Narrated by: Danielle Lee James

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

An intimate and searching account of the life and legacy of one of America’s towering educators, a woman who dared to center the progress of Black women and girls in the larger struggle for political and social liberation

When Mary McLeod Bethune died, tributes in newspapers around the country said the same thing: she should be on the Mount... Read more

Lincoln

By: David Herbert Donald

Narrated by: Dick Estell

Length: 30 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A masterful work by Pulitzer Prize–winning author David Herbert Donald, Lincoln is a stunning portrait of Abraham Lincoln’s life and presidency.

Donald brilliantly depicts Lincoln’s gradual ascent from humble beginnings in rural Kentucky to the ever-expanding political circles in Illinois, and finally to the presidency of a country divided by... Read more

The Sky is No Limit

By: Nicola Winter

Narrated by: Nicola Winter

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Was kann passieren, wenn du mal richtig Gas gibst?" Nicola Winter findet es heraus: Als eine der ersten Jetpilotinnen Deutschlands verwirklicht sie ihren Traum, das Fliegen zum Beruf zu machen. Sie lernt, in Extremsituationen ruhig zu bleiben und erkennt, dass die Fähigkeiten, die im Cockpit entscheidend sind, auch im Berufs- und Alltagsleben... Read more

God and Ronald Reagan

By: Paul Kengor

Narrated by: Bob Souer

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Ronald Reagan is hailed today for a presidency that restored optimism to America, engendered years of economic prosperity, and helped bring about the fall of the Soviet Union. Yet until now little attention has been paid to the role Reagan's personal spirituality played in his political career, shaping his ideas, bolstering his resolve, and... Read more

Say Their Names

By: Curtis Bunn, Michael H. Cottman, Patrice Gaines...

Narrated by: Wayne Carr, Tre Hall & Tracey Leigh

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

This definitive guide to America's present-day racial reckoning examines the forces that pushed our unjust system to its breaking point after the death of George Floyd.

For many, the story of the weeks of protests in the summer of 2020 began with the horrific nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds when Police Officer Derek Chauvin killed George... Read more

Operaatio Stella Polaris – Suuri suomalainen vakoilutarina

By: Johanna Parikka Altenstedt

Narrated by: Pertti Huuskonen

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Suomalaisen vakoiluhistorian vaiettu tarina. Syksyllä 1944 suomalaisella tiedustelutoiminnalla oli pelissä enemmän kuin koskaan aikaisemmin. Suomen neuvostomiehitys näytti mahdolliselta, ja sen varalta toteutettiin huippusalainen operaatio Stella Polaris. Operaatiolla pyrittiin turvaamaan Suomelle elintärkeä tiedustelutoiminta sekä tukemaan... Read more

A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961–2021

By: Alan S. Blinder

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

Length: 15 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author, the fascinating story of US economic policy from Kennedy to COVID—filled with lessons for today



In this book, Alan Blinder, one of the world's most influential economists and one of the field's best writers, draws on his deep firsthand experience to provide an authoritative account of sixty years of... Read more

The Ones We've Been Waiting For

By: Charlotte Alter

Narrated by: Charlotte Alter

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

An optimistic look at the future of American leadership by a brilliant young reporter

A new generation is stepping up. There are now twenty-six millennials in Congress--a fivefold increase gained in the 2018 midterms alone. They are governing Midwestern cities and college towns, running for city councils, and serving in state legislatures. They... Read more

The Joy of Politics

By: Amy Klobuchar

Narrated by: Amy Klobuchar

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

An intimate and revelatory memoir—on personal challenges, political turmoil, and the state of American democracy—narrated by one of the most effective voices in politics, Amy Klobuchar.

During the past few years, as our country has faced unprecedented challenges, Senator Klobuchar has been in the room where it happens—on the Senate floor for... Read more

A Thousand Days

By: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 43 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner: "Of all the Kennedy books . . . this is the best." —Time



Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. served as special assistant to President John F. Kennedy throughout his presidency—from the long and grueling campaign to Kennedy's tragic and unexpected assassination by Lee Harvey Oswald. In A Thousand Days,... Read more

Sanctuary Cities, Communities, and Organizations

By: Melvin Delgado

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The term "sanctuary city" gained a new level of national recognition during the 2016 United States presidential election, and immigration policies and debates have remained a top issue since Donald Trump was elected President. The battle over immigration and deportation will be waged on many fronts in the coming years, but sanctuary cities—... Read more

American Exceptionalism and American Innocence

By: Roberto Sirvent & Danny Haiphong

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Did the U.S. really “save the world” in World War II? Should black athletes stop protesting and show more gratitude for what America has done for them? Are wars fought to spread freedom and democracy? Or is this all fake news? American Exceptionalism and American Innocence examines the stories we’re told that lead us to think that the U.S. is a... Read more

The Origin Story of India's States

By: Venkataraghavan Srinivasan

Narrated by: Venkataraghavan Srinivasan

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of the birth of India's states is the story of the birth and continuing rebirth of India, the nation. It is a story that everyone in India must know, from young to old. This rigorously researched book lays out the fascinating political and historical circumstances of the birth of India's states and union territories. Read more

Ich bin ostdeutsch und gegen die AfD

By: Susan Arndt

Narrated by: Janna Ambrosy

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

EINE KRITISCHE INTERVENTION
Die AfD ist in Ostdeutschland auf dem Vormarsch. In Umfragen ist sie oftmals die stärkste Partei, und liegt in einigen Bundesländern gar bei 35 Prozent. Doch das heißt: zwei Drittel der Ostdeutschen wählen nicht AfD. Susan Arndt gibt dieser oft übersehenen Mehrheit in ihrem sehr persönlichen Buch eine Stimme und zeigt,... Read more

Financial Independence

By: Richard Sodin

Narrated by: Chad Shoppa

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

If you or someone you know is still struggling to attain financial freedom, then you know exactly how depressing such an experience can be. Financial problems don’t just cause painful emotional problems; they can take a devasting toll on your health and cause you to lose your self-image.But did you know that there are simple things you can do to... Read more

NOT Accountable

By: Philip K. Howard

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

"Elected leaders come and go, but public unions just say no." Hiding in plain sight is a fatal defect of modern democracy. Public employee unions have a death grip on the operating machinery of government. Schools can't work, bad cops can't be fired, and politicians sell their souls for union support. With this searing five-point indictment,... Read more

Five Nickels

By: Jim "Boots" Demarest

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

On February 15, 1991, Captain Steve Phillis was leading his wingman, Lieutenant Rob Sweet, on their thirtieth combat mission of Desert Storm flying the A-10 Warthog. They were tasked with attacking Iraq's vaunted Medina Division of the Republican Guards—by far their most dangerous mission of the war.



Near the end of their attacks, Rob was forced... Read more

Worthy Fights

By: Leon Panetta & Jim Newton

Narrated by: Leon Panetta

Length: 19 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling autobiography of a legendary political and military leader.
 
It could be said that Leon Panetta has had two of the most consequential careers of any American public servant in the past 50 years. His first career, beginning as an Army intelligence officer and including a distinguished run as one of the most powerful... Read more

Wir sind doch alle längst gleichberechtigt

By: Alexandra Zykunov

Narrated by: Alexandra Zykunov

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Bullshitsätze wie »Viele Frauen wollen doch gar keine Karriere machen.« oder »Vermisst du dein Kind nicht, wenn du alleine wegfährst?« bekommen wir wohlwollend von unseren Freundinnen zu hören oder werden uns von engsten Familienmitgliedern heimtückisch ins Ohr geflüstert, bis wir ihnen glauben und das Patriarchat sich freudestrahlend die Hände... Read more