Politics & Economy audiobooks

The CIA

By: Hugh Wilford

Narrated by: Hugh Wilford

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

As World War II ended, the United States stood as the dominant power on the world stage. In 1947, to support its new global status, it created the CIA to analyze foreign intelligence. But within a few years, the Agency was engaged in other operations: bolstering pro-American governments, overthrowing nationalist leaders, and surveilling... Read more

This Is What America Looks Like

By: Ilhan Omar

Narrated by: Ilhan Omar

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

""Ilhan has been an inspiring figure well before her time in Congress. This book will give you insight into the person and sister that I see—passionate, caring, witty, and above all committed to positive change. It's an honor to serve alongside her in the fight for a more just world."" —Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-CortezAn intimate and... Read more

The Assassins' Gate

By: George Packer

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 19 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Award, George Packer is a venerated staff writer for The New Yorker-with four tours on assignment in Iraq. With The Assassins' Gate, he offers a penetrating work of journalism on the United States' occupation of Iraq. The Assassins' Gate, dubbed so by American soldiers, is the entrance to the American zone in the... Read more

Das Ich im Du

By: Christian Roos & Tanja Roos

Narrated by: Christian Roos & Tanja Roos

Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Lieben und Wachsen – das Potenzial einer erfüllten Partnerschaft Eine erfüllte Beziehung kann das Schönste sein, was das Leben zu bieten hat. Eine Erfahrung von Vertrauen, Liebe und Wertschätzung. Doch viele Paare verbleiben in einer anstrengenden Schleife von Streit, Vorwurf und Enttäuschung, wissen die Beziehungs-Coaches Tanja und Christian... Read more

Trust Signals

By: Scott Baradell

Narrated by: Jay Aaseng

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

What is a trust signal?
Let’s say you’re interested in a book you aren’t familiar with—this book, for example.
Before you buy it, you wonder, “Can I trust this author?” Can you trust that their book will be worth your money and your time?
The author, in turn, tries to prove their trustworthiness in a number of ways:
An accomplished and relevant... Read more

God and Race

By: John Siebeling & Wayne Francis

Narrated by: Zeno Robinson & Kiff VandenHeuvel

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A White pastor and a Black pastor, close friends who have each built racially diverse congregations, offer a model Christians can follow to open necessary conversations about race, encourage unity, and foster mutual respect to heal a wounded nation riven by racial tension and political tribalism.
For years, Pastors John Siebeling and Wayne... Read more

Durchs irre Germanistan: Notizen aus der Ampel-Republik

By: Henryk M. Broder & Mohr

Narrated by: Matthias Ernst Holzmann

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Man kratzt sich am Kopf. War Deutschland nicht eben noch das beliebteste Land der Welt, beneideter Exportweltmeister und begehrter Investitionsstandort mit einer funktionierenden Verwaltung und bestens ausgebildeten Fachkräften? Der Dreiklang aus Demokratie, Marktwirtschaft und einer Arbeitsdisziplin, die im Rest der Welt zugleich gefürchtet und... Read more

The Wake-Up Call

By: John Micklethwait & Adrian Wooldridge

Narrated by: Kristin Scott Thomas

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

""[An] executive summary of modern political history studded with sweeping assertions and telling anecdotes."" -- The New York Times Book Review""Thought-provoking."" -- Kirkus Reviews“A shot in the arm...powerful.” -- The Financial Times
""The Wake-Up Call, refreshingly concise and eminently readable, highlights how the modern crisis of... Read more

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

By: John Perkins

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

This phenomenal New York Times bestseller is an exposé of international corruption and an inspired plan to turn the tide for future generations.John Perkins was an economic hit man. His job was to convince countries that are strategically important to the United States, from Indonesia to Panama, to accept enormous loans for infrastructure... Read more

Führung und Verantwortung

By: Christoph Heusgen

Narrated by: Erich Wittenberg

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Chef der Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz über Deutschlands neue Rolle in der Welt

Christoph Heusgen, seit Februar 2022 Chef der Münchener Sicherheitskonferenz, zeigt in seinem Buch, was geschehen muss, damit Deutschland eine neue, aktive Rolle in der Welt spielen kann. Der ehemalige Sicherheitsberater von Angela Merkel und UNO-Botschafter von... Read more

How to Blow Up a Pipeline

By: Adreas Malm

Narrated by: Brian Arens

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Property will cost us the earth. The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appeals, mass street protests, petition campaigns, and peaceful demonstrations, we are still facing a booming fossil fuel industry, rising seas, rising emission levels, and a rising temperature. With the stakes so high,... Read more

The Art of War

By: Niccolò Machiavelli

Narrated by: Mason

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover Niccolò Machiavelli's "The Art of War", a timeless treatise on military strategy, politics, and the principles of governance. In this profound work, Machiavelli examines the relationship between war, power, and the stability of the state, offering insights that remain relevant for leaders and strategists today. This audiobook presents... Read more

New World, Inc.

By: John Butman & Simon Targett

Narrated by: Chris Kipiniak

Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Three generations of English merchant adventurers-not the Pilgrims, as we have so long believed-were the earliest founders of America. Profit-not piety-was their primary motive.

Some seventy years before the Mayflower sailed, a small group of English merchants formed "The Mysterie, Company, and Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers for the... Read more

Economic Development

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The economic development is one of the most critical aspects which are responsible for the enhancement and recognition of a country at the global level. There are various economic developments that can be attained with the help of proper planning, focused on the development of a country. The economic development is related to the various types... Read more

Extraordinary, Ordinary People

By: Condoleezza Rice

Narrated by: Condoleezza Rice

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of Condoleezza Rice that has never been told, not that of an ultra-accomplished world leader, but of a little girl--and a young woman--trying to find her place in a sometimes hostile world, of two exceptional parents, and an extended family and community that made all the difference.Condoleezza Rice has excelled as a... Read more

When China Attacks

By: Col. Grant Newsham

Narrated by: Axel Bosley

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A warning about America’s impending war with China. The conflict is coming, a former Marine intelligence officer shows, and we’re not ready. But it’s not too late to prepare.Communist China is ambitious. It wants to replace the United States as the world’s leading superpower. And it is well on its way. It is dominant in the world economy. It is... Read more

Shocks, Crises, and False Alarms

By: Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak & Paul Swartz

Narrated by: Jon Vertullo

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

An essential new guide to navigating the turbulent macroeconomic landscape as you form your strategy.



When turmoil hits, executives and investors face notoriously unreliable macroeconomic forecasts, whipsawing data, and contradictory opinions. Are disruptions transient and ephemeral—or permanent and structural? False alarms are costly traps, but... Read more

Spin

By: Clive Veroni

Narrated by: Clive Veroni

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Spin has been updated with a new introduction reflecting on the current era of Brexit and Trump.Aided by masses of data, sophisticated computer modelling, and smart manipulation of social media, political strategists are reshaping the way voters think. And act. Clive Veroni analyzes the inner workings of campaign organizations to show how they... Read more

A Pretext For War

By: James Bamford

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In A Pretext for War, acclaimed author James Bamford–whose classic book The Puzzle Palace first revealed the existence of the National Security Agency–draws on his unparalleled access to top intelligence sources to produce a devastating expos? of the intelligence community and the Bush administration. A Pretext for War reveals the systematic... Read more

The Grifter's Club

By: Sarah Blaskey, Nicholas Nehamas, Caitlin Ostrof...

Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

An astonishing look inside the gilded gates of Mar-a-Lago, the palatial resort where President Trump conducts government business with little regard for ethics, security, or even the law.

Donald Trump's opulent Palm Beach club Mar-a-Lago has thrummed with scandal since the earliest days of his presidency. Long known for its famous and wealthy... Read more

The Health Gap

By: Michael Marmot

Narrated by: Chris Courtenay

Length: 13 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents The Health Gap by Michael Marmot, read by Chris Courtenay.

'Punchily written … He leaves the reader with a sense of the gross injustice of a world where health outcomes are so unevenly distributed' Times Literary Supplement

'Splendid and necessary' Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm, New Statesman

There are dramatic differences... Read more

Sun Tzu: Die Kunst des Krieges / The Art of War. Zweisprachige / Bilingual Edition

By: Sun Tzu

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Die "Kunst des Krieges" von Sun Tzu – exklusiv in einer deutsch-englischen Ausgabe! Zuerst das jeweilige Kapitel in deutscher, dann in englischer Sprache. Ungekürzt! The "Art of War" by Sun Tzu – in an exclusive German-English edition! Listen chapter by chapter, first the German, then the English version. Unabridged! Read more

Searching for Hassan

By: Terence Ward

Narrated by: Gibson Frazier

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The “astonishing and deeply poignant” (The Washington Post) memoir of one man’s search for a beloved family friend explores the depth of Iranian culture and the sweep of its history, and transcends today’s news headlines to remind us of the humanity that connects us all.

Growing up in Tehran in the 1960s, Terence Ward and his brothers were... Read more

Commies

By: Ronald Radosh

Narrated by: Yuri Rasovsky

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Ronald Radosh’s earliest memory is of being trundled off to a May Day demonstration by his Communist parents. Radosh grew up in the parallel universe of American Communism, and when he entered the University of Wisconsin in the late 1950s, he became a founding father of the New Left and emerged as one of its leaders in the sixties.But if Commies... Read more