Politics & Economy audiobooks

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

The Prohibition Era and Policing

By: Wesley M. Oliver

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Abridged: No

Legal precedents created during Prohibition have lingered, leaving search-and-seizure law much better defined than limits on police use of force, interrogation practices, or eyewitness identification protocols. An unlawful trunk search is thus guarded against more thoroughly than an unnecessary shooting or a wrongful conviction.

Intrusive... Read more

Tariff Wars and the Politics of Jacksonian America

By: William K. Bolt

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Abridged: No

Before the Civil War, the American people did not have to worry about a federal tax collector coming to their door. The reason why was the tariff, taxing foreign goods and imports on arrival in the United States. Tariff Wars and the Politics of Jacksonian America attempts to show why the tariff was an important part of the national narrative in... Read more

Dignity and Health

By: Nora Jacobson

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Abridged: No

In these hard times of global financial peril and growing social inequality, injuries to dignity are pervasive. "Indignity has many faces," one man told Nora Jacobson as she conducted interviews for this book. Its expressions range from rudeness, indifference, and condescension to objectification, discrimination, and exploitation. Yet dignity... Read more

Lone Wolf Terror and the Rise of Leaderless Resistance

By: George Michael

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Abridged: No

On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a car bomb in downtown Oslo, Norway. He didn't stop there, traveling several hours from the city to ambush a youth camp while the rest of Norway was distracted by his earlier attack. That's where the facts end. But what motivated him? Did he have help staging the attacks? The evidence suggests a... Read more

Wounded I Am More Awake

By: Julia Lieblich & Esad Boskailo

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Abridged: No

Wounded I Am More Awake follows the story of Esad Boskailo, a doctor who survives six concentration camps in Bosnia and emerges with powerful new lessons for healing in an age of genocide.
This gripping account raises questions for healers, survivors, and readers striving to understand the reality of war and the aftermath of terror. Is it... Read more

In Pursuit of Peace in Israel and Palestine

By: Gershon Baskin

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Abridged: No

Gershon Baskin's memoir of thirty-eight years of intensive pursuit of peace begins with a childhood on Long Island and a bar mitzvah trip to Israel with his family. Baskin joined Young Judaea back in the States, then later lived on a kibbutz in Israel, where he announced to his parents that he had decided to make aliya, emigrate to Israel. They... Read more

All Rise: The Story of Ketanji Brown Jackson

By: Carole Boston Weatherford

Narrated by: Carole Boston Weatherford

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Multi award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford delivers a message of perseverance, dignity, and honor in this audiobook biography of Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court.

Whatever she did, wherever she was, Ketanji Brown Jackson rose to the top.

From the time their daughter was born, Ketanji Brown’s... Read more

Chronicles of a Marine Rifleman

By: Herb Brewer

Narrated by: Michael Schwalbe

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a captivating account of a Marine Rifle Squad as it prepared for deployment to Vietnam, and establishing the enclave south of Da Nang, Vietnam. Mentored by Korean Veterans, the Marine Riflemen become veterans tested in the rice paddies at Da Nang, Phu Bai, and the highlands of Khe Sanh. They walked from Khe Sanh to Dong Ha, Vietnam, one... Read more

The Nations of NATO

By: Thierry Tardy

Narrated by: Paul Heitsch

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

NATO stands at the forefront of the response to Russia's aggression in Ukraine. But how does NATO function?



The Nations of NATO explores national policies within the Atlantic Alliance. It examines the foreign policies of sixteen allies, focusing on issues such as their strategic cultures, relationship with the US, contributions to NATO... Read more

A Companion to Marx's Grundrisse

By: David Harvey

Narrated by: David Stifel

Length: 19 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

David Harvey tackles Marx's notebooks that have spawned wide-ranging and raging controversies



When leading scholar of Marx, Roman Rosdolsky, first encountered the virtually unknown text of Marx's Grundrisse—his preparatory work for his masterpiece Das Capital—in the 1950s in New York Public Library, he recognized it as "a work of fundamental... Read more

You Will Own Nothing

By: Carol Roth

Narrated by: Chris Henry Coffey

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author and entrepreneur investigates what would happen if a new financial world order took hold, one in which global elites own everything and you own nothing—and yet you are somehow happy.When Carol Roth first heard that one of the World Economic Forum’s predictions for 2030 was “You will own nothing, and be... Read more

Making the Imperial Nation

By: Gabriel Glickman

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

After 1660, English governments aimed to convert scattered overseas dominions into a coordinated territorial power base. Stuart monarchs encouraged schemes for expansion in America, Africa, and Asia, tightened control over existing territories, and endorsed systems of slave labor. But English power was precarious, and colonial designs were... Read more

Everything Is Possible

By: Joseph Fronczak

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The fascinating history of how the antifascist movement of the 1930s created "the left" as we know it today



In the middle years of the Great Depression, the antifascist movement became a global political force, powerfully uniting people from across divisions of ideology, geography, race, language, and nationality. Joseph Fronczak shows how... Read more

Wohlstand der Nationen

By: Adam Smith

Narrated by: Norbert Wendel

Length: 17 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Das Meisterwerk der Wirtschaftsanalyse, das erstmals 1776 von dem schottischen Philosophen und Ökonomen Adam Smith unter dem Originaltitel “The Wealth of Nations” veröffentlicht wurde. Obwohl das Buch bereits vor über 200 Jahren verfasst wurde, sind viele der Aussagen und Analysen von Smith nach wie vor relevant und zutreffend. Mehr noch, sie... Read more

Living a Committed Life

By: Lynne Twist

Narrated by: Lynne Twist

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

What would life be like if you committed to something larger than yourself? Find out in the newest book from global transformation thought leader Lynne Twist.

How does one person make a difference in the world? People constantly seek to discover meaning in their lives, but as humans take on the challenges facing us in this decade and beyond,... Read more

President Trump

By: Phil Joseph

Narrated by: Lee Goettl

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A businessman, a celebrity, a president.A threat to us all.Sure, everyone knows that Donald Trump was an interesting president to say the very least, but while there was plenty of media coverage about the man himself, very little was said about his politics.Perhaps you are interested in learning about the set of political promises that Trump's... Read more

Te Lo Cuento # 2

By: Onofre Quezada

Narrated by: Anonimo

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

En nuestro mundo están sucediendo cambios, que nos llevan cada ves mas a evaluarnos y darnos cuenta que debemos ayudarnos como individuos y como naciones en nuestro deseo de avanzar y mejorar cada día, cambios tan impresionantes que aterran, asi que en este libro encontraras : la historia de los impuestos, la china de xi jinpin a- la china de xi... Read more

Courage in the People's House

By: Joe Neguse

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Featuring the remarkable stories of nine US Representatives who helped shape America, Courage in the People’s House is a “reminder of how courage can make a difference, and how, especially in the darkest of times, the lessons of history are most needed” (Booklist).

In this “well-written addition to the history of Congress” (Kirkus Reviews),... Read more

An Unspeakable Hope

By: Leon Ford

Narrated by: Leon Ford

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A “powerful and insightful” (Cyntoia Brown-Long, author of Free Cyntoia) memoir in the vein of Just Mercy and The Sum of Us that upends our understanding about the future of policing in the United States and explores how we can begin healing from systemic injustice.

In 2012, nineteen-year-old Leon Ford was shot five times by a Pittsburgh police... Read more

In Defence of Wealth

By: Derek Bullen

Narrated by: Louis Ferreira

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Are the rich bad for society? The author of this book, a successful Canadian entrepreneur who made his fortune and created 3000 jobs, has written a manifesto celebrating the achievements of people who have earned their wealth. He says that many of the critics are overlooking one crucial thing: we need business people to build companies and... Read more

Abuse of Power

By: Stanley Kutler

Narrated by: William Windom, David Ackroyd & David Dukes

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Twenty-five years after the existence of Nixon's secret White House recordings became known, the tapes were released. These tapes dominated the final two years of Nixon's presidency and almost single-handedly forced his resignation. In Abuse of Power, the listener is invited into the Oval Office with Nixon and the White House staff as they try... Read more

The Last Empire

By: Gore Vidal

Narrated by: Dan Cashman

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The Last Empire is a collection of provocative, witty, and eloquent essays by Gore Vidal about all things USA. In more than two dozen essays, Vidal brings his keen intellect, experience, and razor-edged wit to bear on an astonishing range of subjects, offering incisive observations about terrorism, civil liberties, the CIA, Al Gore, and the... Read more

Puppetmaster

By: Richard Hack

Narrated by: Dan Cashman

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

For over fifty years, J. Edgar Hoover was the most powerful lawman in America. He was also the country's most controversial and feared public servant. His career as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation spanned nine different presidential administrations and survived a dozen attempts to sweep him from office. During that time, Hoover... Read more