Politics & Economy audiobooks

Great Leaders' Lives

By: Joan Bakewell, Humphrey Carpenter, Francine Sto...

Narrated by: Matthew Parris, Ranulph Fiennes, George Monbiot...

Length: 18 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Household names nominate leaders from the past for BBC Radio 4's Great Lives
Since its inception in 2001, Great Lives has been one of Radio 4's most popular programmes, presented by Joan Bakewell, Humphrey Carpenter, Francine Stock and Matthew Parris. The format is simple, but compelling: each week, a distinguished personality is invited to... Read more

De la paz al olvido

By: Rafael Tovar Y De Teresa

Narrated by: Rafa Serrano

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

De la paz al olvido dibuja el vasto panorama que abarca el arco de tiempo entre el último brindis triunfal de don Porfirio Díaz a su último aliento. De la paz al olvido narra la historia del declive de Porfirio Díaz en medio de la transformación en México y Europa, en la que se cruzan la Revolución mexicana y la Belle Époque, el fin del orden... Read more

Crisis Economics

By: Nouriel Roubini & Stephen Mihm

Narrated by: L. J. Ganser

Length: 13 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

This myth shattering book reveals the methods Nouriel Roubini used to foretell the current crisis before other economists saw it coming and shows how those methods can help us make sense of the present and prepare for the future.

Renowned economist Nouriel Roubini electrified his profession and the larger financial community by predicting the... Read more

What Can I Do?

By: Jane Fonda

Narrated by: Jane Fonda, Annie Leonard, George Newbern, Aden...

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A call to action from Jane Fonda, one of the most inspiring activists of our time, urging us to wake up to the looming disaster of climate change and equipping us with the tools we need to join her in protest

"This is the last possible moment in history when changing course can mean saving lives and species on an unimaginable scale. It's too late... Read more

The Heavens Might Crack

By: Jason Sokol

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A vivid portrait of how Americans grappled with King's death and legacy in the days, weeks, and months after his assassination

On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. At the time of his murder, King was a polarizing figure -- scorned by many white Americans,... Read more

Amerikas tapte riker

By: All Verdens Historie

Narrated by: Anderz Eide

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Selv om aztekerne var berømt for blodtørsten sin, tok de gjestfritt imot de bleke fremmede som kom til byen Tenochtitlan i 1519. Aztekerkongen Motecuçoma 2. lot til og med de fremmedes leder, spanjolen Hernán Cortés, bo i palasset sitt. Det skulle han komme til å angre på. Snart var aztekerkongen Motecuçoma fange i sitt eget hjem og måtte... Read more

Keeping India Safe

By: Vappala Balachandran

Narrated by: Abhishek Sharma

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

It is a lesson new policemen in India learn early on: they are in charge of everything except perhaps the weather. Their duties range from maintaining law and order and investigating crime to rounding up beggars and disposing of unclaimed bodies. This situation has come about because the responsibility for internal security in India is... Read more

Trading with the Enemy

By: Hugo Meijer

Narrated by: Liam Gerrard

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In light of the intertwining logics of military competition and economic interdependence at play in US-China relations, Trading with the Enemy examines how the United States has balanced its potentially conflicting national security and economic interests in its relationship with the People's Republic of China (PRC). To do so, Hugo Meijer... Read more

The Constitution of Knowledge

By: Jonathan Rauch

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Arming Americans to defend the truth from today’s war on factsDisinformation. Trolling. Conspiracies. Social media pile-ons. Campus intolerance. On the surface, these recent additions to our daily vocabulary appear to have little in common. But together, they are driving an epistemic crisis: a multifront challenge to America’s ability to... Read more

Смерть Сталина

By: Леонид Млечин

Narrated by: Егор Бедуля

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

После смерти Сталина даже в высшем руководстве страны ходили зловещие слухи. И по сей день многие уверены, что Иосифа Виссарионовича убили. Версий множество. Одна фантастичнее и абсурднее другой. Но характерно: убийцу Сталина ищут среди его ближайшего окружения. Так всё-таки умер или убит? А если убит, то кто мог это сделать? И что было бы со... Read more

Everything for Everyone

By: Nathan Schneider

Narrated by: Matt Amendt

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The origins of the next radical economy is rooted in a tradition that has empowered people for centuries and is now making a comeback.

A new feudalism is on the rise. While monopolistic corporations feed their spoils to the rich, more and more of us are expected to live gig to gig. But, as Nathan Schneider shows, an alternative to the... Read more

Bartlett and Steele: What Happens to a Dream Betrayed?

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Economic correspondent Paul Solman talks to the authors of The Betrayal of the American Dream, Donald Barlett and James Steele, who say the drive for free trade has exported so many jobs to China, Brazil and India that American workers may become irrelevant to their own economy, just as other countries gain a middle class. Read more

Zero Negativity

By: Ant Middleton

Narrated by: Ant Middleton

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

NO.1 BESTSELLER ANT MIDDLETON SHARES HIS SECRETS ABOUT HIS POSITIVE MINDSET AND TEACHES YOU TO LIVE A LIFE WITH ZERO NEGATIVITY There are times when life feels like it has you cornered: financial difficulties, relationship issues, work problems, all of the above. Every one of us, at one time or... Read more

Alger Hiss and the Battle for History

By: Susan Jacoby

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Books on Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss abound, as countless scholars have labored to uncover the facts behind Chambers's shocking accusation before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in the summer of 1948—that Alger Hiss, a former rising star in the State Department, had been a Communist and engaged in espionage.



In this highly... Read more

Vanishing New York

By: Jeremiah Moss

Narrated by: Paul Heitsch

Length: 15 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

An unflinching portrait of gentrification in the twenty-first century, and a love letter to lost New York, by the creator of the popular and incendiary blog Vanishing New York



New York City has long been a destination for rebels and rule breakers, artists, writers, and other hopefuls longing to be part of its rich cultural exchange and unique... Read more

A Nation Rising

By: Kenneth C. Davis

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In the dramatic period from 1800 through 1850, the United States emerged from its inauspicious beginning as a tiny newborn nation, to a near-empire that spanned the continent. It was a time in which the “dream of our founders” spread in ways that few men of that Revolutionary Generation could possibly have imagined. And it was an era that led to... Read more

The Divider

By: Peter Baker & Susan Glasser

Narrated by: Michael Quinlan

Length: 28 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "The most comprehensive and detailed account of the Trump presidency yet published."—The Washington Post • A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker and Financial Times • "The book everyone is talking about."—Politico

The inside story of the four years when Donald Trump went to war with Washington, from the chaotic... Read more

The Golden Thread

By: Colin Meloy

Narrated by: Colin Meloy

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

With dazzling, lyrical verse in the folk revival style, Colin Meloy pays tribute to Pete Seeger, a visionary who changed the world with song.Pete Seeger once sang that if he had a golden thread, he would use it to weave people from all over the world to one another. That golden thread, for Pete, was music.Born into a family of traveling... Read more

Diary of an Invasion

By: Andrey Kurkov

Narrated by: David Aranovich

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most important Ukrainian voices throughout the Russian invasion, the author of Death and the Penguin and Grey Bees collects his searing dispatches from the heart of Kyiv.



This journal of the invasion, a collection of Andrey Kurkov's writings and broadcasts from Kyiv, is a remarkable record of a brilliant writer at the forefront of a... Read more

100 Bible Verses That Made America

By: Robert J. Morgan

Narrated by: Robert Morgan

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Robert Morgan explores 100 Bible verses that powerfully impacted our leaders during defining moments in American history and reflects upon what these verses mean for us as a nation today.100 Bible Verses That Made America is a tour through the biblical roots of American history—a powerful exploration of our country’s founders,... Read more

Beyond the Call

By: Eileen Rivers

Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting account of three women who fought shoulder-to-shoulder with men and worked with local women to restore their lives and push back the Taliban

They marched under the heat with 40-pound rucksacks on their backs. They fired weapons out of the windows of military vehicles, defending their units in deadly battles. And they did things that... Read more

Sabotage

By: Anastasia Nesvetailova & Ronen Palan

Narrated by: Jared Zak

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

I don't like the word 'sabotage',"--a former Goldman Sachs trader admitted. "It's just harsh.... Though, frankly, how else do you make money in this business...I mean, real money."

The fundamental motive for financial innovation is not to make the system work better, but to avoid regulation and oversight. This is not a bug of the financial... Read more

The Reluctant Spy

By: John Kiriakou & Michael Ruby

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Long before the waterboarding controversy exploded in the media, one CIA agent had already gone public. In a groundbreaking 2007 interview with ABC News, John Kiriakou called waterboarding torture—but admitted that it probably worked. This book, at once a confessional, an adventure story, and a chronicle of Kiriakou's life in the CIA, stands as... Read more

Antar-rashtriya Rajkaaran

By: Thinkbank

Narrated by: Vinayak Pachlag

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

इराणवरील अमेरिकी हल्ला आणि कासिम सुलेमानी यांची हत्या आखाती देशात तणाव निर्माण करेल का? ट्रम्प यांनी निवडणुकीच्या तोंडावर हा हल्ला केला आहे का? अमेरिकेचा इराक वरील राग का? आखाती देशाचे एकमेकांमध्ये काय वाद आहेत? जगामध्ये शांतता येण्यासाठी काय करावे? भाऊ तोरसेकर यांचे सडेतोड विश्लेषण Read more