Politics & Economy audiobooks

Asylum Speakers

By: Jaz O'Hara

Narrated by: Jaz O'Hara

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the fascinating details of life under the pharaohs - and their extraordinary legacy - in this comprehensive guide to Egypt's ancient civilization.

Encompassing 3,000 years and 31 Egyptian dynasties, from the time of Narmer to that of Cleopatra, this fresh appraisal of ancient treasures helps you to navigate the political intrigues and... Read more

Pensar Medio Oriente

By: Maruan Soto Antaki

Narrated by: Bern Hoffman

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Una reflexión imprescindible que permita sentar las bases para pensar Medio Oriente con claridad: un escenario donde se entrecruzan nervios tan sensibles como la religión, la identidad nacional, el petróleo, el terrorismo y el fundamentalismo Para Maruan Soto Antaki, autor de Clandestino y Reserva del vacío, el propósito de este libro es pensar... Read more

Human Rights in Canada

By: Dominique Clément

Narrated by: Ian Sherwood

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

This book shows how human rights became the primary language for social change in Canada and how a single decade became the locus for that emergence. The author argues that the 1970s was a critical moment in human rights history—one that transformed political culture, social movements, law, and foreign policy. Human Rights in Canada is one of... Read more

Confronting Saddam Hussein

By: Melvyn P. Leffler

Narrated by: Christopher P. Brown

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

America's decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003 is arguably the most important foreign policy choice of the entire post–Cold War era. Nearly two decades after the event, it remains central to understanding current international politics and US foreign relations.



In Confronting Saddam Hussein, the eminent historian of US foreign policy Melvyn P.... Read more

How Hitchens Can Save the Left

By: Matt Johnson

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Christopher Hitchens was for many years considered one of the fiercest and most eloquent left-wing polemicists in the world. But on much of today's left, he's remembered as a defector, a warmonger, and a sellout—a supporter of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq who traded his left-wing principles for neoconservatism after the September 11... Read more

Darkness at Dawn

By: David Satter

Narrated by: Paul Brion

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Russia that Satter depicts in this brave, engaging book cannot be ignored . . . Required reading for anyone interested in the post-Soviet state" (Newsweek).



Anticipating a new dawn of freedom after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Russians could hardly have foreseen the reality of their future a decade later: a country impoverished... Read more

Endgame

By: Omid Scobie

Narrated by: Omid Scobie

Length: 14 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Endgame, the explosive book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the international blockbuster Finding Freedom, is a penetrating investigation into the current state of the British monarchy—an unpopular king, a power-hungry heir to the throne, a queen willing to go to dangerous lengths to preserve her image, and a prince... Read more

Collision of Power

By: Martin Baron

Narrated by: Liev Schreiber

Length: 16 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features a prologue and epilogue read by the author.

A monumental work of nonfiction that gives a first-row seat to the epic power struggle between politics, money, media, and tech—for fans of Maggie Haberman's Confidence Man and Jane Mayer's Dark Money.

Marty Baron took charge of The Washington Post newsroom in 2013, after nearly a... Read more

A Participatory Economy

By: Robin Hahnel

Narrated by: Chris Bergman

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

As of June 2021, 54% of Gen Z adults view capitalism negatively and over 41% have a positive view on socialism. A Participatory Economy is written for people who desire an equitable, ecological economy, but want to know what an alternative to capitalism could look like.A Participatory Economy presents a fascinating, new alternative to... Read more

Disposición final

By: Ceferino Reato

Narrated by: Ezequiel Romero

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Edición definitiva del libro con la confesión de Jorge Rafael Videla sobre los desaparecidos en la Argentina durante la dictadura de 1976-1983, resultado de más de veinte horas de entrevista cara a cara en la cárcel, un año antes de su muerte.
El 24 de marzo de 1976, un día soleado y apacible, los militares -encabezados por Jorge Rafael... Read more

La montonera

By: Gabriela Saidon

Narrated by: Mara Campanelli

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Convertida en un clásico del periodismo, esta biografía se pregunta por los setenta, la década que marcó a fuego al país.
Hoy se reimprime con nuevo prólogo, bibliografía e información actualizada, a la luz de nuevas miradas sobre el lugar de las mujeres en la militancia y en los centros clandestinos de detención, tortura y desaparición,... Read more

Del fascismo al populismo en la historia

By: Federico Finchelstein

Narrated by: Ezequiel Álvarez

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

¿De qué hablamos cuando hablamos de fascismo y populismo? ¿Qué los asemeja y qué los diferencia? ¿Cuáles son sus conexiones en términos teóricos y cuáles en su decurso histórico? ¿Cómo y por qué el fascismo se transformó en el populismo en la historia?
Con una frecuencia inédita en los últimos setenta años, los términos fascismo y... Read more

Talleyrand: The Life and Legacy of France’s Most Influential Diplomat

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Steve Knupp

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

“Politics is the systematic cultivation of hatred.” - Talleyrand While Metternich is most associated with the Congress of Vienna, France, despite its turbulence, had its own influential representative there: Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord. Known simply as Talleyrand, his name ultimately became associated with crafty, manipulative... Read more

Was würde Orwell sagen?

By: George Orwell

Narrated by: Norbert Wendel

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

George Orwell war ein britischer Schriftsteller und Journalist, der vor allem durch seine politischen Essays und Romane wie "1984" und "Animal Farm" bekannt wurde. Seine Essays zeichnen sich durch klare und präzise Sprache, scharfe Beobachtungen und eine unbeirrbare Haltung gegenüber Ungerechtigkeit und Unterdrückung aus. In seinen Essays setzte... Read more

We've Got You Covered

By: Liran Einav & Amy Finkelstein

Narrated by: Susan Bennett

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

From a MacArthur Genius ​MIT economist and pre-eminent Stanford economist comes a lively and provocative proposal for American health insurance reform

Few of us need convincing that the American health insurance system needs reform. But many of the existing proposals focus on expanding one relatively successful piece of the system or building in... Read more

Ambedkar's Preamble: A Secret History of the Constitution of India

By: Akash Singh Rathore

Narrated by: Derek Denzil

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

On 26 January 1950, the Constitution of India was adopted formally and came into effect. Its preamble set out in brief the enlightened values it enshrined and hoped to engender. In a radical shift from mainstream constitutional history, this book establishes Dr B.R. Ambedkar's irrefutable authorship of the preamble by uncovering the intellectual... Read more

A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics, Second Edition

By: David A. Moss

Narrated by: Christopher Kipiniak

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Understanding the Ground Rules for the Global Economy



In this revised and updated edition of A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics, David A. Moss draws on his years of teaching at Harvard Business School to explain important macro concepts using clear and engaging language.



This guidebook covers the essentials of macroeconomics and examines, in a... Read more

Russia's War on Everybody

By: Keir Giles

Narrated by: Keir Giles

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Russia's 2022 attack on Ukraine saw confrontation between Moscow and the West spill over into open conflict once again. But Russia has also been waging a clandestine war against the West for decades. Hostile acts abroad, from poisoning dissidents to shooting down airliners, interfering in elections, spying, hacking, and murdering, have long... Read more

The Leak

By: Robert P. Crease

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

How the discovery of a harmless leak of radiation sparked a media firestorm, political grandstanding, and fearmongering that closed a vital scientific facility.



In 1997, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory found a small leak of radioactive water near their research reactor. Brookhaven was—and is—a world-class, Nobel Prize–winning lab,... Read more

American Identity in Crisis: Notes from an Accidental Activist

By: Kat Calvin

Narrated by: Chanté McCormick

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A trailblazing activist’s passionate and incisive look at why she started a movement to ensure that 26 million Americans have access to the IDs they need to escape poverty and live healthy and productive livesAmerican Identity in Crisis weaves together three remarkable stories: the making of an activist in the wake of the 2016 presidential... Read more

Das Unabomber Manifest

By: Theodore Kaczynski

Narrated by: Philipp Engelhardt

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Aufsatz "Die Industriegesellschaft und ihre Zukunft" von Theodore Kaczynski einem amerikanischen Terroristen, auch besser bekannt als der UNABOMBER, hat einst in der Öffentlichkeit große Aufmerksamkeit erregt. In seinem Aufsatz, der 1995 durch die Washington Post veröffentlich wurde, kritisiert der ehemalige Mathematikprofessor die... Read more

La historia de alcohólicos anónimos en Mexico

By: Oslos Molina

Narrated by: Oslos Molina

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Los inicios de AA en México pueden ubicarse a principios de la década de 1940. Como en muchos países latinoamericanos, AA comenzó a ser conocido en nuestro país tanto por mexicanos que viajaban a los Estados Unidos, como por estadounidenses que venían a México (Ramírez Bautista, 1987). El período posterior a la Segunda Guerra Mundial se... Read more

The King of Late Night

By: Greg Gutfeld

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Greg Gutfeld, five-time New York Times bestselling author and host of the #1 rated late night show GUTFELD!, returns with a witty and tongue-in-cheek essay collection that is part memoir and part political manifesto.

Greg Gutfeld is back with a hilarious essay collection about how he destroyed the mainstream late night landscape of heavyweights... Read more

Five Major Reasons Africa is Poor

By: Rev Walter Mwambazi

Narrated by: Chilu Lemba

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Africa is one of the oldest continents but hasn’t it struck you as absolutely odd how a continent endowed with such wealth in terms of both ground resource as well as human resource, unbelievably great weather and wonderful soil can have such unbelievably high levels of poverty? It is nothing short of preposterous.What makes this worse for is... Read more