Politics & Economy audiobooks

Samuelson Friedman

By: Nicholas Wapshott

Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1966 two columnists joined Newsweek magazine. Their assignment: debate the world of business and economics. Paul Samuelson was a towering figure in Keynesian economics. Milton Friedman championed "monetarism" and insisted the Federal Reserve maintain tight control over the amount of money circulating in the economy.



In Samuelson Friedman,... Read more

GuíaBurros: Historia del Anarquismo

By: Julián Vadillo

Narrated by: María José Bosch

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

 El anarquismo fue una ideología que dio respuesta a la sociedad capitalista en el momento más álgido de su desarrollo en el siglo XIX, teniendo en su base una fuerte defensa de la libertad individual que llegaba hasta solicitar la desaparición del Estado. Las ideas libertarias, herederas de tradiciones de lucha antiautoritaria, representaron un... Read more

Capitalism 4.0

By: Anatole Kaletsky

Narrated by: Scott Peterson

Length: 13 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Capitalism was not destroyed by the crisis, but it was irrevocably changed. This provocative audio book shows how the forces that precipitated the financial meltdown of 2007-2009 are now creating a new and stronger version of the global capitalist system. This system will continue to be led and shaped by the U.S. if its businesses and... Read more

War: How Conflict Shaped Us

By: Margaret MacMillan

Narrated by: Deepti Gupta

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Is peace an aberration? The New York Times bestselling author of Paris 1919 offers a provocative view of war as an essential component of humanity.

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

“Margaret MacMillan has produced another seminal work. . . . She is right that we must, more than ever, think about war.... Read more

Back in Action

By: David Rozelle

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

They put a price on his head. They did everything they could to disrupt his mission. Finally, when an antitank mine tore off his right foot, the warriors of jihad in Iraq thought they had neutralized one of their most resourceful, determined foes. They were wrong.Refusing to let his injury stop him, Captain David Rozelle roared back into action,... Read more

A Survivor's Journey

By: Natasha Simone Alexenko

Narrated by: Natasha Simone Alexenko

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspiring true story of love, hope, and victory—and of one woman who was determined to make a difference in the wake of a crime.On August 6, 1993, twenty-year-old Natasha Alexenko was assaulted at gunpoint. After nearly a decade, her backlogged rape kit was finally tested and her rapist, who roamed free for ten years, was brought to justice.... Read more

How Polarization Begets Polarization

By: Thomas L. Brunell, Bernard Grofman & Samuel Mer...

Narrated by: Thomas L. Brunell

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Extreme polarization in American politics is perhaps the most confounding political phenomenon of our time. This book binds together polarization in Congress and polarization in the electorate within an ever-expanding feedback loop. This loop is powered by the discipline exerted by the respective political parties on their Congressional members... Read more

H&H - Escenas de la vida conyugal

By: Marco Sifuentes

Narrated by: Marco Sifuentes

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Este libro es un Aleph de peruanidad. Si el subtítulo alude a unas escenas de la vida conyugal, el lector notará que son, en realidad, escenas de la vida nacional. La trayectoria de los Humala-Heredia es la historia privada de nuestra informal política contemporánea. Pero, más importante, es la expresión biográfica de las tramas seculares de la... 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

Digital Humanitarians

By: Patrick Meier

Narrated by: Trevor White

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The overflow of information generated during disasters can be as paralyzing to humanitarian response as the lack of information. This flash flood of information—social media, satellite imagery and more—is often referred to as Big Data. Making sense of this data deluge during disasters is proving an impossible challenge for traditional... Read more

The Case Against Free Speech

By: PE Moskowitz

Narrated by: Robin Eller

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A hard-hitting expose that shines a light on the powerful conservative forces that have waged a multi-decade battle to hijack the meaning of free speech--and how we can reclaim it.
There's a critical debate taking place over one of our most treasured rights: free speech. We argue about whether it's at risk, whether college students fear it,... Read more

Student Resistance in the Age of Chaos Book 1, 1999 - 2009

By: Mark Edelman Boren

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The first all-encompassing history of today's global student activism movement.



Student resistance in the first decade of the twenty-first century was the single most powerful liberating force around the globe during those years. Challenging governments—in a few cases, overturning governments—at a time when representational democracies appeared... Read more

Jag vill dö med en ängel vid min sida

By: Catarina Baldo Zagadou & Anita Lanz

Narrated by: Sofia Watts

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Kan man förbereda sig för att dö? Måste döden göra ont?Hur kan den som står bredvid ge själsligt stöd?Och vad kan sjukvården bistå med?Här berättar den svenska cancersjuksköterskan Anita Lanz om sina erfarenheter från åratals arbete på ett sjukhus i Schweiz dit patienter kommer för att dö med värdighet. Hon har också assisterat många döende... Read more

RIP GOP

By: Stanley B. Greenberg

Narrated by: Johnny Heller & Stanley B. Greenberg

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

“Through vivid detail and analysis, backed up by hard data, Stan Greenberg outlines a blueprint for the New American majority to destroy the rigged system that made Donald Trump possible as he offers the hope that we can create an America that builds opportunity for everyone, not just the wealthy and the well-connected.” — Senator Elizabeth... Read more

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

By: Benjamin Franklin

Narrated by: Fredd Wayne

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Benjamin Franklin was not only one of America's Founding Fathers—he was also a fascinating character who lived an exciting life. Whether carousing with prostitutes in Paris, taunting lightning bolts with kites, or founding America's first volunteer firefighting organization, Franklin was always at the center of activity. The Autobiography of... Read more

The Last Days of Stalin

By: Joshua Rubenstein

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A scholarly, absorbing narrative of Stalin’s last days and the turbulent wake of his dictatorship.Joshua Rubenstein’s riveting account takes us back to the second half of 1952, when no one could foresee an end to Joseph Stalin’s murderous regime. He was poised to challenge the newly elected US president Dwight Eisenhower with armed force and was... Read more

Invasión

By: Luke Harding

Narrated by: Santiago Gómez, Simon Gómez & Susana Gomez

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

La lucha de Ucrania por su supervivencia Cuando el 24 de febrero de 2022 Vladimir Putin declaró la guerra sobre Ucrania e invadió el país, el reportero Luke Harding se encontraba en Kiev. Desde entonces, el corresponsal ha seguido enviando sus crónicas sobre el terreno al periódico The Guardian y se ha erigido como una de las fuentes de mayor... Read more

Charles Sumner, The Scholar in Politics (Unabridged)

By: ARCHIBALD GRIMKÉ

Narrated by: Amanda Garcia, Mike Hoogland, Dean Gebhard & Ro...

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In the two volumes assigned to him in the American Reformer Series, viz., the "Life of William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist," and that of "Charles Sumner, the Scholar in Politics," the author has tried to give a comprehensive view of the forces, moral and political, which combined to achieve the downfall of slavery and the slave power in the... Read more

Carnivore

By: Dillard Johnson & James Tarr

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Amid ferocious fighting that many times nearly took his life, Sergeant Dillard "C. J." Johnson and his crew are recognized by Pentagon reports to have accounted for astonishing enemy KIA totals while battling inside and out of the "Carnivore," the Bradley Fighting Vehicle Johnson commanded during Operation Iraqi Freedom. After miraculously... Read more

Average Is Over

By: Tyler Cowen

Narrated by: Andrew Garman

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Renowned economist and author of Big Business Tyler Cowen brings a groundbreaking analysis of capitalism, the job market, and the growing gap between the one percent and minimum wage workers in this follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Great Stagnation.

The United States continues to mint more millionaires and billionaires than any... Read more

Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 34 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and civil servant, made a nine-month journey through eastern America. The result was Democracy in America, a monumental study of the strengths and weaknesses of the nation's evolving politics. Tocqueville looked to the flourishing democratic system in America as a possible model for... Read more

USA:s presidenter

By: Allt om Historia

Narrated by: Joachim Bergström

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Den 3 november 2020 väljer amerikanerna landets 46:e president, världens mäktigaste ledare. Valsystemet är svårt att genomskåda - ibland har förloraren faktiskt fått flest röster, men inte flest elektorer. Det kan tyckas odemokratiskt, men systemet har utvecklats för att landets minst befolkade delstater också ska ha inflytande, och är lika... Read more

Leland Stanford: The Life and Legacy of the Railroad Executive Who Became California's Governor and the West's Most Famous Robber Baron

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Daniel Houle

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The technology that culminated in the Transcontinental Railroad’s completion changed the life of every resident in America by connecting the two coasts, not only in the mind, but by the clock. In tandem with that, a new tide of powerful American industrialists had their way, to the benefit and consternation of the general public, and while... Read more

Tea Party Patriots

By: Mark Meckler & Jenny Beth Martin

Narrated by: Mark Meckler & Jenny Beth Martin

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive history of one of the most radical, revolutionary movements the country has ever seen, from those who started it allIn 2009, an unemployed mother of two and a politically inexperienced northern California attorney met on a conference call that would end up starting one of the largest grassroots political organizations in American... Read more