Politics & Economy audiobooks

Why "Doctor Zhivago" was dangerous

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

When Boris Pasternak finished his novel Dr. Zhivago in 1956, Soviet authorities refused to publish the tale of an individual’s struggle amid the Russian Revolution. A new book, The Zhivago Affair, tells the story of how Pasternak’s novel came to be published and smuggled back into the Soviet Union — with help from the CIA. Jeffrey Brown talks to... Read more

Hitler

By: Lucas Hugo Pavetto

Narrated by: Corrado Niro

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

La spaventosa ma affascinante storia di come un misero provinciale venuto da un angolo remoto dell'Austria asburgica, sia riuscito a conquistare un potere senza precedenti; di come le idee improbabili e spregevoli di un ex studente di storia dell'arte perdigiorno siano riuscite a saldarsi in un'ideologia che per dodici anni segnò il destino di... Read more

Villains of All Nations

By: Marcus Rediker

Narrated by: Cornell Womack

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Villains of All Nations explores the 'Golden Age' of Atlantic piracy (1716-1726) and the infamous generation whose images underlie our modern, romanticized view of pirates.

Rediker introduces us to the dreaded black flag, the Jolly Roger; swashbuckling figures such as Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard; and the unnamed, unlimbed pirate who... Read more

12 Seconds in the Dark

By: John Mattingly

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

You might think you know what happened in the tragic shooting of Breonna Taylor, but no one knows that better than the lead officer on the scene, Sergeant John Mattingly. However, with the full support of the mainstream media, Black Lives Matter activists and other leftist groups immediately pounced on the tragedy, exploiting Breonna’s death and... Read more

Alarmstufe Rot

By: Alexander Görlach

Narrated by: Michael J. Diekmann

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Kampfjets über Taiwan, Kriegsschiffe in japanischen Gewässern, Militärbasen auf den Spratly-Inseln. China will sein Territorium im Ost- und Südchinesischen Meer ausweiten. Dabei ist besonders der Anspruch auf Taiwan explosiv, das China nicht als souveränen Staat anerkennt. Doch hinter Taiwan stehen die USA. Der aktuelle Konflikt um Inseln und... Read more

Arms and the Dudes

By: Guy Lawson

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The page-turning, inside account of how three kids from Florida became bigtime weapons traders—and how the US government turned on them.In January of 2007, three young stoners from Miami Beach won a $300 million Department of Defense contract to supply ammunition to the Afghanistan military. Incredibly, instead of fulfilling the order with... Read more

The Tunnels of Cu Chi

By: Tom Mangold & John Penycate

Narrated by: Jeff Harding

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

At the height of the Vietnam conflict, a complex system of secret underground tunnels sprawled from Cu Chi Province to the edge of Saigon. In these burrows, the Viet Cong cached their weapons, tended their wounded, and prepared to strike. They had only one enemy: U.S. soldiers small and wiry enough to maneuver through the guerrillas’ narrow... Read more

Die Welt am Abgrund

By: Dawid Snowden

Narrated by: Dawid Snowden

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Es ist unübersehbar, die Welt steht am Abgrund und wir schauen zu. Wir schauen zu, wie die Luft mit Chemikalien verschmutzt wird, unsere Meere sich zu Mülleimern verwandeln, während immer mehr Menschen und Tiere sterben. Die Wirtschaft wird künstlich gegen die Wand gefahren, um auch den letzten Menschen in die staatliche Abhängigkeit zu... Read more

Tu was!

By: Ruprecht Polenz

Narrated by: Jonas Baeck

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Ruprecht Polenz tritt rechtsextremen Schwurblern und Demokratieverächtern seit Jahren energisch entgegen, weil er glaubt, dass auch seine neun Enkel das Glück haben sollen, in einer Demokratie zu leben. Er ist einer der erfahrensten Influencer im Dienst von Freiheit und Vielfalt in Deutschland, seine engagierten Posts in den sozialen Medien... Read more

Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume One

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder

Narrated by: Charity Spencer

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

From helping others in times of need, to keeping and maintaining friendships, to having a positive attitude, Laura's words of wisdom in Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder: On Wisdom and Virtues are applicable even in today's world. As she shares stories and experiences from her own life, she encourages readers to live lives of... Read more

Irreversible Damage

By: Abigail Shrier

Narrated by: Pamela Almand

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Irreversible Damage is an exploration of a mystery: Why, in the last decade, has the diagnosis “gender dysphoria,” transformed from a vanishingly rare affliction, applying almost exclusively to boys and men, to an epidemic among teenage girls?Author Abigail Shrier presents shocking statistics and stories from real families to show that America... Read more

American Eagles

By: Charles Whiting

Narrated by: Dallas Britt

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Of the 6,600 paratroopers of the 101st 'Screaming Eagles' Airborne Division who parachuted into France in the early hours of 6 June 1944—D-Day—some 3,500 were listed as missing by midnight that same night. Yet it was only the beginning of their 'rendezvous with destiny.'



American Eagles is the remarkable true story of the United States 101st... Read more

Imaginative Communities

By: Robert Govers

Narrated by: Erich Favel

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Americans are loud. Amsterdam equals sex, drugs, and rock & roll. Mexicans are lazy and Germans are boring, but punctual. Paris is romantic, Wuhan infectious, Ukrainians heroic, and New Zealand untouched. This is the way people around the world think about cities, regions and countries and the communities that live there; through cliches and... Read more

Grounded

By: Jon Tester

Narrated by: Jon Tester

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspiring and eye-opening memoir showing how Democrats can reconnect with rural and red-state voters, from Montana’s three-term democratic senator.Senator Jon Tester is a rare voice in Congress. He is the only United States senator who manages a full-time job outside of the Senate—as a farmer. But what has really come to distinguish Tester in... Read more

Guardian Angel

By: Melanie Phillips

Narrated by: Anna Cordell

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Once the darling of the Left, British journalist Melanie Phillips was "mugged by reality" to become a controversial champion of national and cultural identity.

Beginning with her solitary childhood in London, it took years for Melanie Phillips to understand her parents' emotional frailties and even longer to escape from them. But Phillips... Read more

Avoiding Armageddon

By: Daniel Ellsberg

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

(A special "live" presentation with some listener call-ins.) One of the country's most intrepid, informed and articulate anti-war activists returns for an update on his travels and recent developments in the militarization of the planet. Ellsberg's words can be chilling yet empowering, sobering yet heartening - and always thought-provoking.... Read more

Let Trump Be Trump

By: Corey R. Lewandowski & David N. Bossie

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Bestseller and #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller!

Let Trump be Trump: The Inside Story of His Presidency is the ultimate behind-the-scenes account of how he became President of the United States.

Donald Trump was a candidate, and now a president, like none that have come before. His startling rise to the White House is the... Read more

inside tagesschau: Zwischen Nachrichten und Meinungsmache (ungekürzt)

By: Alexander Teske

Narrated by: Heiko Grauel

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Tagesschau ist die wichtigste Nachrichtenmarke des Landes. Millionen Menschen informieren sich täglich bei ihr. Doch immer mehr Zuschauende beklagen eine einseitige Berichterstattung: Über die Flüchtlingskrise, die Coronazeit, den Klimawandel oder die Kriege in Gaza und der Ukraine. Alexander Teske hat sechs Jahre bei der Tagesschau die... Read more

King Hancock

By: Brooke Barbier

Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Americans are more familiar with his signature than with the man himself. In this spirited account of John Hancock's life, Brooke Barbier depicts a patriot of fascinating contradictions—a child of enormous privilege who would nevertheless become a voice of the common folk; a pillar of society uncomfortable with radicalism who yet was crucial to... Read more

The Conviction of Richard Nixon

By: James Reston, Jr.

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The Watergate scandal began with a break-in at the office of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Hotel on June 17, 1971, and ended when President Gerald Ford granted Richard M. Nixon a pardon on September 8, 1974, one month after Nixon resigned from office in disgrace. Effectively removed from the reach of prosecutors, Nixon... Read more

Madam Secretary

By: Madeleine Albright

Narrated by: Madeleine Albright

Length: 24 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A national bestseller on its original publication in 2003, Madam Secretary is a riveting account of the life of America's first woman Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright. For eight years, during Bill Clinton's two presidential terms, Albright was a high-level participant in some of the most dramatic events of our time—from the pursuit of... Read more

Zigzag

By: Nicholas Booth

Narrated by: Roger Davis

Length: 15 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Eddie Chapman was a womaniser, blackmailer and safecracker. He was also a great hero - the most remarkable double agent of the Second World War. Chapman became the only British national ever to be awarded an Iron Cross for his work for the Reich. He was also the only German spy ever to be parachuted into Britain twice. But it was all an... 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

The Politics of Petulance

By: Alan Wolfe

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Politics of Petulance Alan Wolfe argues the core of our problem isn't Trump himself—it's that we are mired in an age of political immaturity. That immaturity is not grounded in any one ideology, nor is it a function of age or education. In 2016, many Americans were offered tantalizingly simple answers to complicated problems, and, like... Read more