Politics & Economy audiobooks

Lost in Austin

By: Alex Hannaford

Narrated by: James Meunier

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A long-time Austinite and journalist’s exploration of the profound movements that have shaped Austin, Texas—charting the shifts within its vibrant music scene, the impact of rapid urbanization, and the challenges of gentrification—ultimately questioning what this city’s transformation signals for American urban identity.Austin isn’t what it used... Read more

Is Remote Warfare Moral?

By: Joseph O Chapa

Narrated by: Joseph O Chapa

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

America is at an important turning point. Remote warfare is not just a mainstay of post–9/11 wars, it is a harbinger of what lies ahead—a future of high-tech, artificial intelligence–enabled, and autonomous weapons systems that raise a host of new ethical questions. Most fundamentally, is remote warfare moral? And if so, why?
 
Joseph O. Chapa,... Read more

They Don't Represent Us

By: Lawrence Lessig

Narrated by: Lawrence Lessig

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

“This urgent book offers not only a clear-eyed explanation of the forces that broke our politics, but a thoughtful and, yes, patriotic vision of how we create a government that’s truly by and for the people.”—DAVID DALEY, bestselling author of Ratf**ked and UnriggedIn the vein of On Tyranny and How Democracies Die, the bestselling author of... Read more

The Best of American Heritage: Lincoln

By: Edwin S. Grosvenor

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Some of America's foremost historians—including James M. McPherson, Allan Nevins, and Stephen B. Oates—recount the extraordinary life of Abraham Lincoln in this collection of the best essays from sixty years of American Heritage. Lincoln, the book argues, ". . . evolved into nothing less than an apostle for the sanctity of the Union, the ethic... Read more

Bloody Crossroads 2020

By: Danny Goldberg

Narrated by: Danny Goldberg

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloody Crossroads 2020 takes a deep dive into the role that mass-appeal movies, television, videos, and music played in America's political culture in the year of Donald Trump's failed reelection campaign. The book also explores the impact of entertainment celebrities in communications, fundraising, and campaigning to support the election of Joe... Read more

Read & Riot

By: Nadya Tolokonnikova

Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From artist, activist, and Pussy Riot founder Nadya Tolokonnikova, a guerilla guide to radical protest and joyful political resistance.The face of modern protest is wearing a brightly colored ski mask. Nadya Tolokonnikova, founding member of the Russian activist group Pussy Riot, is a creative activist, professional protestor, brazen feminist,... Read more

The Bulldog Track

By: Peter Phelps

Narrated by: Peter Phelps

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of Tom Phelps and the 'other Kokoda Track'. Seventy-five years later, Tom's grandson, award-winning actor and writer Peter Phelps, is sharing this inspiring tale of resilience and survival.

March 1942: The world is at war. Too old to fight and with jobs scarce at home, Tom Phelps found work as a carpenter in the goldfields of... Read more

Tomorrow's Capitalist

By: Alan Murray

Narrated by: Alan Murray, Patryce Williams & BJ Harrison

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In an era of political and cultural extremism, America’s corporate leaders have emerged as the pragmatic center of a movement for social and economic progress.

The core tenets of a capitalist system that dominated the world for more than a century are being challenged as never before. Narratives about the failures of capitalism, the greed of the... Read more

The Future of Capitalism

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Tracy Tupman

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Paul Collier is a faculty in Economics and presently working in the capacity of Director of Oxford University's Center for the Study of African Economies and also he was previously the Director of the World Bank Development Research. He is the creator of many distinguished books to his credit viz., Wars, Guns and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous... Read more

Prosperity without Growth

By: Tim Jackson

Narrated by: Quentin Cooper

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

What can prosperity possibly mean in a world of environmental and social limits? Pity debate, Tim Jackson’s piercing challenge to conventional economics openly questioned the most highly prized goal of politicians and economists alike: the continued pursuit of exponential economic growth. Its findings provoked controversy, inspired debate and... Read more

In the Arena

By: Pete Hegseth

Narrated by: Pete Hegseth

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

This vigorous call-to-arms to reignite American citizenship at home and restore American power abroad by the Fox News contributor and decorated Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran uses the timeless truths of Teddy Roosevelt’s iconic “Man in the Arena” speech, and “is a must-read that underscores our collective responsibility to restore America’s... Read more

My Escapes: Escapes from Behind the Iron Curtain and Escapes from Myself

By: Zoltan Bartok

Narrated by: Zoltan Bartok

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Accused of sabotage on the tenth anniversary of the 1956 revolution, the author tried to escape from Hungary. He was 17 years old. Caught before reaching the Yugoslav border, he was jailed and treated cruelly. In 1970, instead of regular military service, he had to do hard labor in a penal colony that was established for „enemies of the state”.... Read more

The Gettysburg Address

By: Sean Conant

Narrated by: Dermot Mulroney, Edoardo Ballerini, David Pittu...

Length: 13 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

It remains without question the most memorable and memorized speech in American history. On November 19, 1863, in 272 words delivered among the freshly dug graves of Union dead upon the country's bloodiest battlefield, Abraham Lincoln redefined American liberty and forever altered the course of the nation.

This volume aims to place the... Read more

Causa de muerte: Cuestionar al poder

By: Alejandra Ibarra

Narrated by: Alejandra Ibarra

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Con esta obra Alejandra Ibarra confirma que con la muerte de estos también activistas y defensores de los ciudadanos la libertad de expresión sufre una de las mayores vejaciones. México es uno de los lugares más peligrosos en el mundo para ejercer el periodismo. En nuestro país, a muchos periodistas ocupados en la cobertura de temas locales se... Read more

Fighting For A Future

By: Shabnam Ighani

Narrated by: Viv Marena

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

"Our guide would show us the lights in the distance and tell us we were nearly there. But I knew it was a lie. Those lights were at least a few days away."

Shabnam Ighani's happy and carefree life shattered after the revolution of the Islamic Republic in 1979, bringing discrimination for her Bahá'i faith and being a female, a marriage she felt... Read more

Who Killed The President?

By: Brian Gibson

Narrated by: John Sullivan

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States as President and the country's youngest and first Catholic leader. His singularity foreshadowed a sort of challenge to his presidency from the start. Many people were taken aback by his assassination. It was the height of the Cold War and the United States' involvement in Vietnam. John... Read more

Do Innocent Citizens Risk Police Seizure of Their Property?

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Property seizure is a profitable practice for local law enforcement agencies, long used to deprive mobsters and drug kingpins. But the police can also take personal goods away from citizens who haven't been proven guilty of a crime. Ray Suarez talks to Sarah Stillman who investigated civil forfeiture for The New Yorker. Read more

True Believer

By: Kati Marton

Narrated by: Amanda Carlin

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

“Kati Marton’s True Believer is a true story of intrigue, treachery, murder, torture, fascism, and an unshakable faith in the ideals of Communism….A fresh take on espionage activities from a critical period of history” (Washington Independent Review of Books).

True Believer reveals the life of Noel Field, once a well-meaning and privileged... Read more

Rebel: How to Overthrow the Emerging Oligarchy

By: Douglas Carswell

Narrated by: Mike Read

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Politics has never been more unpredictable. Radical populists and insurgents have turned politics-as-usual on its head. "Rebel" explores how we got here, where we are heading and what we can do about it.Douglas Carswell argues that these insurgencies are a reaction against the emergence of a political and economic oligarchy that has subverted... Read more

Stand Up!

By: Gordon Whitman

Narrated by: Tom Dheere

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In a time where the fight for social justice can feel overwhelming, Gordon Whitman empowers readers to stand up with a purpose-driven mindset and effective strategy.

Stand Up! is an antidote to the cynicism that keeps so many people on the sidelines. It's both an argument about how to solve the biggest problems facing our society, and a guide to... Read more

The Trillion Dollar Meltdown

By: Charles Morris

Narrated by: Nick Summers

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The sub-prime mortgage crisis was only the beginning: a more profound economic and political restructuring was on the way. The astronomical leverage at investment banks with their hedge fund and private equity clients virtually guaranteed massive disruption in global markets. A quarter century of free-market zealotry that extolled asset... Read more

The Much Too Promised Land

By: Aaron David Miller

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

For nearly twenty years, Aaron David Miller has played a central role in US efforts to broker Arab-Israeli peace. His position as an advisor to presidents, secretaries of state, and national security advisors has given him a unique perspective on a problem that American leaders have wrestled with for more than half a century: Why has the world’s... Read more

Jesus, Jihad and Peace

By: Michael Youssef

Narrated by: Jon Gauger

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Is there any hope for peace in the world? Or is terror our destiny?
 In our post-9/11 world, Westerners in general—and Christians in particular—remain targets of Islamic terrorism. From the White House to 10 Downing Street, radical groups like the Muslim Brotherhood are appeased and allowed to operate freely in the West.
 In a world that cries out... Read more

Prophetic City

By: Stephen L. Klineberg

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Sociologist Stephen Klineberg presents “a trailblazing study” (Kirkus Reviews) that shows how the city of Houston has emerged as a microcosm for America’s future—based on a meticulously researched, thirty-eight-year study of its changing economic, demographic, and cultural landscapes.

Houston, Texas, long thought of as a traditionally blue-collar... Read more