Politics & Economy audiobooks

Stupid White Men

By: Michael Moore

Narrated by: Arte Johnson

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

In 2001, the government was seized by a ne'er-do-well rich boy and his elderly henchmen. Our great economic expansion unraveled, our water was poisoned, and SUVs advanced like a plague of locusts. Michael Moore has a lot to say and isn't holding back. The powerful are the target—particularly a group that laid waste to the world as we know... Read more

Leni

By: Steven Bach

Narrated by: Henrietta Teifenthaler

Length: 14 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Known as “Hitler's Filmmaker,” Leni Riefenstahl directed two of the most innovative and effective propaganda documentaries ever made, Triumph of the Will (1935) and Olympia (1938), which glorified the Third Reich. In this definitive biography, Steven Bach illuminates the truths and lies regarding the self-proclaimed apolitical artist's... Read more

After America

By: Mark Steyn

Narrated by: Mark Steyn

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Optimistic about America's future? Don't be. In his New York Times best seller, America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It, Mark Steyn predicted collapse for the rest of the Western world. In After America Steyn asserts that the United States, like Europe, is on the great rush to self-destruction. It's not just one cause—such as financial... Read more

It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism

By: Senator Bernie Sanders

Narrated by: Senator Bernie Sanders

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billionaires at the expense of the working class, and a blueprint for what transformational change would actually look like

“A clarion call against the American oligarchs . . . powerful.”—The Guardian

It’s OK to be angry about... Read more

Why We Fight

By: Shane Burley

Narrated by: Bea Flowers

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

“Burley’s meticulously observed, fluidly written collection is a must-read for anyone interested in the far-right’s evolution during the Trump era, and its opposition. A collection that delves into the howling abyss and emerges with aplomb.” —Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy “Shane Burley’s... Read more

Against the Wall

By: Jenn Budd

Narrated by: Jenn Budd

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Jenn Budd, the only former US Border Patrol agent to continually blow the whistle on this federal agency's rampant corruption, challenges us—as individuals and as a nation—to face the consequences of our actions. Her journey offers a vital perspective on the unfolding moral crisis of our time. She also gives harrowing testimony about rape... Read more

Awakening to China's Rise

By: Hugo Meijer

Narrated by: Nigel Patterson

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Awakening to China's Rise provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of how Europe's major powers have responded to the re-emergence of China as a great power in world politics since the end of the Cold War. To do so, it puts forward a unique cross-regional comparison of how the major European powers (France, Germany, and the United... Read more

At the Helm

By: John H. Dalton

Narrated by: Shawn Compton

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

John Dalton's life is an inspirational American success story. At the Helm traces his journey from modest beginnings in Louisiana to traveling the world and working across private and public sectors and four presidential appointments all culminating in his appointment as the 70th Secretary of the Navy.



As CEO of the Department of the Navy,... Read more

The Jungle is Neutral

By: F. Spencer Chapman

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

Length: 16 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The Jungle is Neutral makes The Bridge Over the River Kwai look like a tussle in a schoolyard.

F. Spencer Chapman, the book's unflappable author, writes with typical British aplomb an amazing tale of four years spent as a guerrilla in the jungle, haranguing the Japanese in occupied Malaysia.

Traveling sometimes by bicycle and motorcycle,... Read more

Adam Smith's America

By: Glory M. Liu

Narrated by: Kate Udall

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally published in 1776, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was lauded by America's founders as a landmark work of Enlightenment thinking. Glory Liu traces how generations of Americans have read, reinterpreted, and weaponized Smith's ideas, revealing how his popular image as a champion of American-style capitalism and free markets is a... Read more

Never Turn Back

By: Julian Gewirtz

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

On a hike in January 1984, Deng Xiaoping was warned that his path was a steep and treacherous one. "Never turn back," the Chinese leader replied. That became a mantra as the government forged ahead with reforms in the face of heated contestation over the nation's future. But deliberation came to a sudden halt in spring 1989, with protests and... Read more

Guerras recicladas

By: María Teresa Ronderos

Narrated by: Claudia Pannone

Length: 17 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

La verdad sobre el paramilitarismo en Colombia. "A pesar de ser un vívido y desgarrador retrato del auge de una clase de asesinos y mafiosos rurales culpables de actos de violencia y de crueldad a gran escala, este es también un libro sobrechéroes. Lo que sorprende es que en medio del caos, la violencia y la hipocresía de la Colombia periférica... Read more

Hispanic Star: Sonia Sotomayor

By: Claudia Romo Edelman & Nathalie Alonso

Narrated by: Diana Pou

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

This audiobook features music and special effects. Listen along and enjoy the fun that is Hispanic Star: Sonia Sotomayor.

Read about Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, one of the the most groundbreaking, iconic Hispanic and Latinx heroes that have shaped our culture and the world, in this gripping biography written by Claudia Romo Edelman and... Read more

Filthy Rich Politicians

By: Matt Lewis

Narrated by: Chris Abell

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of America's sharpest conservative journalists is this searing, thought-provoking and hilarious takedown of the ruling class running amok in Washington. These are your elected officials. Some are slyly taking advantage of the system. They are hoping no one is savvy enough to notice. But Matt Lewis has. And this is what he’s learned. ... Read more

Excluded

By: Richard D Kahlenberg

Narrated by: Graham Winton

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

An indictment of America's housing policy that reveals the social engineering underlying our segregation by economic class, the social and political fallout that result, and what we can do about it

The last, acceptable form of prejudice in America is based on class and executed through state-sponsored economic discrimination, which is hard to... Read more

The Biden Malaise

By: Kimberley Strassel

Narrated by: Stephanie Richardson & Kimberley Strassel

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

“In the style of a dogged prosecutor, Strassel builds a devastating case against Joe Biden’s record…THE BIDEN MALAISE is must-read ahead of 2024, as conservative voters prepare to make consequential choices.”―Guy Benson, Fox News & Townhall.com

The bestselling author of Resistance (At All Costs) and The Intimidation Game argues that Joe... Read more

The Brutish Museums

By: Dan Hicks

Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times 'Best Art Books' 2020

'Essential' – Sunday Times

'Brilliantly enraged' - New York Review of Books

'A real game-changer'– Economist
Walk into any Western museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of... Read more

A Feminist Theory of Violence

By: Françoise Vergès

Narrated by: Kaliswa Brewster

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The mainstream discourse surrounding gender equality is a repertoire of violence: harassment, rape, abuse, femicide. These words designate a cruel reality. But don't they also hide another reality: that of violence committed with the complicity of the State? In this book, Françoise Vergès denounces the carceral turn in the fight against sexism.... Read more

Tangled in Terror

By: Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan

Narrated by: Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

'Lyrical and uncompromising - Suhaiymah writes to disrupt' - gal-dem Islamophobia is everywhere. It is a narrative and history woven so deeply into our everyday lives that we don’t even notice it – in our education, how we travel, our healthcare, legal system and at work. Behind the scenes it affects the most vulnerable, at the border and in... Read more

The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion

By: Tansy E. Hoskins

Narrated by: Lisa Coleman

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

*Selected by Emma Watson for her Ultimate Book List*Fashion is political. From the red carpets of the Met Gala to online fast fashion, clothes tell a story of inequality, racism and climate crisis. In The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion, Tansy E. Hoskins unpicks the threads of capitalist industry to reveal the truth about our clothes.Fashion... Read more

The Injustice of Place

By: Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer & Timothy J. N...

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping and surprising new understanding of extreme poverty in America from the authors of the acclaimed $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America. “This book forces you to see American poverty in a whole new light.” (Matthew Desmond, author of Poverty, by America and Evicted) Three of the nation’s top scholars ­– known for tackling... Read more

Cuba, Luz y Obscuridad

By: Ivis M Campos

Narrated by: Pedro Ruiz

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

La niñez debería ser tiempo de juego, de amigos, de risas, de buena nutrición, de crecer al lado de ambos padres, es decir, que la única preocupación, fuese que tan feliz voy a ser hoy. Ello no fue así para aquella generación de niños nacidos a finales de los cincuenta y principios de los sesenta en la isla caribeña de Cuba.Basados en la vida... Read more

Histoire de la caisse d’économie solidaire

By: Pierre-Olivier Maheux

Narrated by: Laure Waridel, Paul Ouellet, Clément Guimond, L...

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

La Caisse d’économie solidaire offre cette histoire à celles et ceux qui s’intéressent à l’économie sociale et qui contribuent à faire du Québec l’une des sociétés les plus égalitaires en Amérique. La Caisse d’économie solidaire, principale institution financière de l’économie sociale au Québec, a été forgée par un petit groupe de... Read more

Dare

By: Diane Demetre

Narrated by: Diane Demetre

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Long before the global #metoo movement, Diane Demetre was dramatically sacked by her producer for apparently being 'too fat' after she refused his sexual advances. She took him to court, and the ensuing court cases for wrongful dismissal became some of the highest-profile cases in Australia in the 1980s.
Dare is a no-holds-barred account of... Read more