Politics & Economy audiobooks

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

The Showman

By: Simon Shuster

Narrated by: Daniel Gamburg

Length: 14 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed journalist Simon Shuster gives us the first inside account of the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the perspective of President Volodymyr Zelensky and his team, who granted him unprecedented access. Time correspondent Simon Shuster chronicles the life and wartime leadership of Volodymyr Zelensky from the dressing rooms of his variety... Read more

Better Than Balderdash

By: Owen Janssen

Narrated by: Dan Hamel

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Did you know that you can heat up a cup of coffee by yelling at it? How about the fact that bananas are radioactive? Or that Google hires goats as gardeners? Or that competitive slapping is a sport in Russia? Our world is chock-full of fascinating facts, unbelievable but true stories, and mind-blowing trivia. This book is your one-stop guide to... Read more

American Patriarchy

By: Laurel A. Rockefeller

Narrated by: Alex Freeman

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The American War on Women.Focusing on European and United States history, American Patriarchy explores life in the United States for women. Seven essays on the American experience of patriarchy become the discussion topics for the analysis in part two.Topics explored:• Patriarchy in the work place• Hostess as the American Ideal for... Read more

NOT Accountable

By: Philip K. Howard

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

"Elected leaders come and go, but public unions just say no." Hiding in plain sight is a fatal defect of modern democracy. Public employee unions have a death grip on the operating machinery of government. Schools can't work, bad cops can't be fired, and politicians sell their souls for union support. With this searing five-point indictment,... Read more

Natural Right and History

By: Leo Strauss

Narrated by: Clark Cornell

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In this classic work, Leo Strauss examines the problem of natural right and argues that there is a firm foundation in reality for the distinction between right and wrong in ethics and politics. On the centenary of Strauss's birth, and the fiftieth anniversary of the Walgreen Lectures which spawned the work, Natural Right and History remains as... Read more

The Economic Consequences of U.S. Mobilization for the Second World War

By: Alexander J. Field PhD

Narrated by: Steve Marvel

Length: 17 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A reminder that war is not always, or even generally, good for long-term growth



Many believe that despite its destructive character, war ultimately boosts long-term economic growth. For the United States this view is often supported by appeal to the experience of the Second World War, understood as a triumph of both production and productivity.... Read more

State of Disaster

By: Maria Cristina Garcia

Narrated by: Joana Garcia

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Natural disasters and the dire effects of climate change cause massive population displacements and lead to some of the most intractable political and humanitarian challenges seen today. Yet, as Maria Cristina Garcia observes in this critical history of U.S. policy on migration in the Global South, there is actually no such thing as a "climate... Read more

How China Escaped Shock Therapy

By: Isabella M. Weber

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 16 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

China has become deeply integrated into the world economy. Yet, gradual marketization has facilitated the country's rise without leading to its wholesale assimilation to global neoliberalism. This book uncovers the fierce contest about economic reforms that shaped China's path. In the first post-Mao decade, China's reformers were sharply... Read more

Life After Capitalism

By: George Gilder

Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

For over two-hundred years, capitalist systems have overtaken the global economy, spreading near-universal growth and opening the floodgates for limitless human potential.



Yet something is going terribly wrong in the world economy.



Creativity and faith in the future have been traded for a slippery slope of cautionary paranoia, popular despair, and... Read more

Viral Cultures

By: Marika Cifor

Narrated by: Kate Udall

Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Serving as a vital supplement to the existing scholarship on AIDS activism of the 1980s and 1990s, Viral Cultures is the first book to critically examine the archives that have helped preserve and create the legacy of those radical activities. Marika Cifor charts the efforts activists, archivists, and curators have made to document the work of... Read more

Journey without End

By: Andrew Nelson & Rob Curran

Narrated by: Zac Aleman

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Journey without End chronicles the years-long journey of "extracontinentales"—African and South Asian migrants moving through Latin America, toward the United States. Based on five years of collaborative research between a journalist and an anthropologist, this book makes a narrative-driven critique of how state-level immigration policy fails... Read more

Climate Optimism

By: Zahra Biabani

Narrated by: Jeed Saddy

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Change the way you think about the future. The fate of humanity can be daunting, but we don't need to live in that space. First, we need to change our attitude in order to implement nature-based solutions to deal with climate change. Good news: there are environmental trends and examples to change the way you think about how we can protect the... Read more

Ace in a Day

By: Lt Col Wayne K Blickenstaff

Narrated by: Alex Wyndham

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Wayne K. Blickenstaff, known as "Blick," was a stalwart of the 350th Fighter Squadron of the 353rd Fighter Group based at Goxhill, Metfield, and Raydon, England, as part of the Eighth Air Force prosecuting the strategic air campaign against Germany. As an original cadre member, he rose steadily through the ranks to a Lieutenant Colonel and Group... Read more

Silent Valor

By: Rick Greenberg

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A young Marine deployed to Vietnam finds terror, danger, and death, but also courage, loyalty, and brotherhood. This intense, gritty tale of the Vietnam War, in a setting depicted so vividly you can almost feel the jungle heat, it will draw you in and won't let go.



Silent Valor recreates what happened to Lance Corporal Don Talbot and the squad... Read more

El príncipe

By: Nicolás Maquiavelo

Narrated by: José Peña Coto

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Clásico entre los clásicos.
El príncipe es un innovador, controvertido y conciso manual político para gobernantes en el que Nicolás Maquiavelo desgrana los mecanismos del poder y la naturaleza humana. Fue escrito en 1513 mientras se encontraba confinado en San Casciano por la acusación de haber conspirado en contra de los Médici.
A pesar de las... Read more

100 Ideen für automatisiertes, passives Einkommen

By: Marco Perner

Narrated by: Jakob Seel

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Wer Zeit gegen Geld tauscht, wird stets eine Grenze nach oben haben. In diesem Hörbuch befinden sich 100 Ideen und Strategien, um die Faktoren Zeit und Geld unabhängig von einander zu gestalten - und um endlich frei zu sein. Dabei reichen die Methoden für passives Einkommen von niedrigen bis hohen Startkapitalien, von leichter bis schwerer... Read more

Cracked

By: Steven Hawley

Narrated by: Steven Hawley & Danny Campbell

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The ugly truth about dams is about to be revealed.

During the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the whole messy truth about the legacy of last century’s big dam building binge has come to light. What started out as an arguably good government project has drifted oceans away from that original virtuous intent. Governments plugged the... Read more

Permacrisis

By: Gordon Brown, Mohamed El-Erian & Michael Spence

Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

'Offers hope and good sense in equal measure' 
Ian Bremmer 

'A sensible plan for reform that can help us create a fairer and more equitable world' 
Sheryl Sandberg

Problems are mounting.
We face sputtering growth, an escalating climate emergency, worsening inequality, poor policy responses, increasing nationalism and a decline in global... Read more

The Supermajority

By: Michael Waldman

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A “terrific, if chilling, account” (The Guardian) of how the Supreme Court’s new conservative supermajority is overturning decades of law and leading the country in a dangerous political direction.

In The Supermajority, Michael Waldman explores the tumultuous 2021­­–2022 Supreme Court term. He draws deeply on history to examine other times the... Read more

Gallop Toward the Sun

By: Peter Stark

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A vivid account of the rivalry between future president William Henry Harrison and the Shawnee chief Tecumseh—and of the Native American alliance that fought westward expansion—from the New York Times bestselling author of Astoria

“Taut, multi-layered . . . a much-needed reevaluation of this crucial period of our nation’s history.”—Laurence... Read more

Con la frente en alto

By: Lourdes Mendoza

Narrated by: Lourdes Mendoza & Óscar Castillo

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

PRÓLOGO DE CIRO GÓMEZ LEYVA "Sin el testimonio y la memoria la civilización no avanza. Con estas páginas, Lourdes Mendoza nos regala su testimonio de las duras batallas que como mujer, como madre, como periodista ha librado para obtener justicia, preservar su honor y ser ejemplo para Dany, su hija. Con valentía, con profesionalismo, con... Read more

The Joy of Politics

By: Amy Klobuchar

Narrated by: Amy Klobuchar

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

An intimate and revelatory memoir—on personal challenges, political turmoil, and the state of American democracy—narrated by one of the most effective voices in politics, Amy Klobuchar.

During the past few years, as our country has faced unprecedented challenges, Senator Klobuchar has been in the room where it happens—on the Senate floor for... Read more

Golda Meir: The Life and Legacy of the Only Woman to Serve as Israel’s Prime Minister

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: KC Wayman

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

Israel’s Day of Independence, Yom Ha’atzmaut, is celebrated on the fifth day of the Hebrew calendar in the month of Iyar. It is immediately preceded by Yom HaZikaron, the Memorial Day for the fallen Israeli soldiers who gave their lives for Israel’s establishment. Emphasis switches from the memorial celebration to the celebration of... Read more