Politics & Economy audiobooks

Head Held High

By: Vishwas Nangre Patil

Narrated by: Mayur Suvarna

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Whenever decorated officer Vishwas Nangre Patil recalls the memories of Diwali from his childhood days, the sounds of firecrackers often transform into the deafening grenade blasts from the night of 26/11. It was his grit, cultivated over the years from the neck-breaking labour of studying for the UPSC exams, that had enabled him to... Read more

Reaching Ninety

By: Martin Duberman

Narrated by: Donald Corren

Length: 12 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Martin Duberman, one of the LGBTQ+ community’s maverick thinkers and historians, looks back on ninety years of life, his history in the movement, and what he’s learned.In the early sixties, Martin Duberman published a path-breaking article defending the Abolitionists against the then-standard view of them as “misguided fanatics.” In 1964, his... Read more

When China Attacks

By: Col. Grant Newsham

Narrated by: Axel Bosley

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A warning about America’s impending war with China. The conflict is coming, a former Marine intelligence officer shows, and we’re not ready. But it’s not too late to prepare.Communist China is ambitious. It wants to replace the United States as the world’s leading superpower. And it is well on its way. It is dominant in the world economy. It is... Read more

24 Hours in Charlottesville

By: Nora Neus

Narrated by: Amara Jasper

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping account of racial justice activists who confronted violent white supremacists in Charlottesville, VA, and stirred the nation

On August 11 and 12, 2017, armed neo-Nazi demonstrators descended on the University of Virginia campus and downtown Charlottesville. When they assaulted antiracist counterprotesters, the police failed to... Read more

The Black Boom

By: Jason L. Riley

Narrated by: Amir Abdullah

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Economic inequality continues to be one of the most hotly debated topics in America, but there has been relatively little discussion of the fact that black-white gaps in joblessness, income, poverty, and other measures were shrinking prior to the pandemic. Why was it happening, and why did this phenomenon go unacknowledged by so much of the... Read more

Decades of Decadence

By: Marco Rubio

Narrated by: Marco Rubio

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Thirty years of telling Americans they don’t need families, communities, or a shared history is destroying what made our country the envy of the world.While many Americans have worried about China, open borders, opioids, failing communities, and families in crisis, our elites have told us that’s all fine because it’s not only inevitable; it’s... Read more

Che Commemorating The 50th Anniversary Of His Martyrdom

By: Daniel Dos Santos

Narrated by: Daniel Dos Santos

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

“The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall."
"The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth."
"I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.” CHE GUEVARA
In this unique audio primer and celebration of the... Read more

Benito Mussolini

By: Cyril Taylor-Carr

Narrated by: Cyril Taylor-Carr

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

“It’s better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.”
"I am the most terrible animal that's ever existed."
"Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice, it is a fallacy. You in America will see that someday."
"It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better."
“I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look... Read more

Wage Labor And Capital

By: Karl Marx

Narrated by: Cyril Taylor-Carr & The Cliff

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally written as a series of newspaper articles in 1847, Wage-Labor and Capital were intended to give an overview of Marx’s central theories regarding the economic relationships between workers and capitalists. These theories outlined include the Marxian form of the Labour Theory of Value, which distinguishes “labor” from “labor-power”, and... Read more

The Poverty of Philosophy

By: Karl Marx

Narrated by: Cyril Taylor-Carr & The Cliff

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Marx started work on this book in January 1847, as can be judged from Engel's letter to Marx on January 15, 1847. By the beginning of April 1847, Marx's work was completed in the main and had gone to the press. On June 15, 1847, he wrote a short foreword.
Published in Paris and Brussels in 1847, the book was not republished in full during Marx's... Read more

The Man Who Hacked the World

By: Alex Cody Foster

Narrated by: Buck Groat

Length: 17 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

After parting ways with the eponymous McAfee Antivirus software company in 1994, John McAfee embarked on innumerable business, political, and criminal enterprises. From investing in cybersecurity and cryptocurrency to accusations of murdering his neighbor in Belize to making two unsuccessful bids for President of the United States—the latter... Read more

Política sin anestesia

By: Mónica García

Narrated by: Mónica García

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Médica, madre, mujer. Tres palabras que no solo eran un eslogan de campaña electoral, sino que definían a la persona que encarnaba la candidatura de Más Madrid a la presidencia de la Comunidad de Madrid. Mónica García, anestesista del hospital público 12 de Octubre, fue arrastrada por las mareas que siguieron al 15M y entró en política, como... Read more

Revenge

By: Michael Cohen

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The man the New York State Attorney General credited with inspiring her prosecution of Donald Trump — New York Times number one bestselling author Michael Cohen — tells the behind-the-scenes story of what can happen to you — and what really happened to him — when a President who believes himself to be above the law decides to go after his... Read more

The Velocity of Information

By: David P. Perrodin

Narrated by: Ben Hauck

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

As chaos erupts, alerts screech on our cell phones and torrents of conflicting-yet-urgent messages gush from media outlets. What is the magnitude of the crisis? What is its cause? And what should people do to protect themselves? Velocity of Information offers understanding to manage chaos and our complex reactions to crisis situations influenced... Read more

What the Taliban Told Me

By: Ian Fritz

Narrated by: Ian Fritz

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

An “essential” (Kevin Maurer, #1 New York Times bestselling author) memoir of a young Air Force linguist coming of age in a war that is lost.

When Ian Fritz joined the Air Force at eighteen, he did so out of necessity. He hadn’t been accepted into colleges thanks to an indifferent high school career. He’d too often slept through his classes as he... Read more

White House by the Sea

By: Kate Storey

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

“Impeccably researched…captivating!” —Elin Hilderbrand * “A well-paced history.” —The New York Times Book Review * “Fascinating…with new details and well-sourced reporting.” —Associated Press

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! The intimate, multigenerational story of the Kennedy family as seen through their Hyannis Port compound on Cape Cod—the iconic... Read more

A Most Tolerant Little Town

By: Rachel Louise Martin

Narrated by: Janina Edwards & Megan Tusing

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A “masterful” (Taylor Branch) and “striking” (The New Yorker) portrait of a small town living through tumultuous times, this propulsive piece of forgotten civil rights history—about the first school to attempt court-ordered desegregation in the wake of Brown v. Board—will forever change how you think of the end of racial segregation in... Read more

Social Justice Fallacies

By: Thomas Sowell

Narrated by: Brad Sanders

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The quest for social justice is a powerful crusade of our time, with an appeal to many different people, for many different reasons. But those who use the same words do not always present the same meanings. Clarifying those meanings is the first step toward finding out what we agree on and disagree on. From there, it is largely a question of... Read more

To Make Men Free

By: Heather Cox Richardson

Narrated by: Heather Cox Richardson

Length: 15 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

“The most comprehensive account of the GOP and its competing impulses” (Los Angeles Times), now updated to cover the Trump presidency and its aftermath.When Abraham Lincoln helped create the Republican Party on the eve of the Civil War, his goal was economic opportunity for all Americans. Yet the party quickly became mired in an identity crisis.... Read more

Metapolítica

By: Daniel Estulin

Narrated by: Alejandro Ivarias

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Transformación global y guerra de potencias No es ningún secreto que la civilización actual atraviesa por una crisis de proporciones inimaginables, y que en términos geopolíticos y económicos ya nada será lo que fue. La pandemia del coronavirus solo ha venido a acelerar este proceso que se desarrolló tras bambalinas desde hace años. ¿Pero hacia... Read more

Unmasked

By: Emily Mendenhall

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Unmasked is the story of what happened in Okoboji, a small Iowan tourist town, when a collective turn from the coronavirus to the economy occurred in the COVID summer of 2020. State political failures, local negotiations among political and public health leaders, and community (dis)belief about the virus resulted in Okoboji being declared a... Read more

The World of the John Birch Society

By: D. J. Mulloy

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A Selection of the History Book Club
Named One of "Six Books for Insight on a Trump Presidency" by the Washington Post

As far as members of the hugely controversial John Birch Society were concerned, the Cold War revealed in stark clarity the loyalties and disloyalties of numerous important Americans, including Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, and... Read more

The Federalist Society

By: Michael Avery & Danielle McLaughlin

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Over the last thirty years, the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies has grown from a small group of disaffected conservative law students into an organization with extraordinary influence over American law and politics. Although the organization is unknown to the average citizen, this group of intellectuals has managed to... Read more

When the Senate Worked for Us

By: Michael Pertschuk

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Every politically sentient American knows that Congress has been dominated by special interests, and many people do not remember a time when Congress legislated in the public interest. In the 1960s and '70s, however, lobbyists were aggressive but were countered by progressive senators and representatives, as several books have documented.

What... Read more