Politics & Economy audiobooks

Warriors of God

By: Nicholas Blanford

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 19 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Hezbollah is the most powerful Islamist group operating in the Middle East today, and no other Western journalist has penetrated as deeply inside this secretive organization as Nicholas Blanford. Now Blanford has written the first comprehensive inside account of Hezbollah and its enduring struggle against Israel. Based on more than a decade and... Read more

Arguing with Socialists

By: Glenn Beck

Narrated by: Glenn Beck & Jeremy Lowell

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset arms you to the teeth with information necessary to debunk the socialist arguments that have once again become popular, and proves that the free market is the only way to go.

With his trademark humor, Beck lampoons the resurgence of this bankrupt leftist... Read more

Der Selbstbetrug

By: Alexander Marguier, Volker Resing, Thomas Mayer...

Narrated by: Volker Resing & Marco Bauer

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Auseinandersetzung um Migration und Integration, um Flüchtlings- und Asylpolitik ist angesichts des neuen Zuwanderungshochs wieder in vollem Gange. Gleichzeitig aber gibt es keine europäische Asylpolitik, sind die Außengrenzen der EU löchrig, geht die Bundesregierung von überzogenen Zahlen für die qualifizierte Einwanderung aus, werden die... Read more

Che Guevara

By: Jon Lee Anderson

Narrated by: Armando Durán

Length: 36 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

This acclaimed national bestseller is the definitive work on Che Guevara, the dashing rebel whose epic dream was to end poverty and injustice in Latin America and the developing world through armed revolution.Anderson traces Che’s extraordinary life from his comfortable Argentine upbringing to the battlefields of the Cuban revolution, from the... Read more

To Build a Better World

By: Philip Zelikow & Condoleezza Rice

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 17 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A deeply researched international history and "exemplary study" (New York Times Book Review) of how a divided world ended and our present world was fashioned, as the world drifts toward another great time of choosing.

Two of America's leading scholar-diplomats, Philip Zelikow and Condoleezza Rice, have combed sources in several languages,... Read more

The Thinking Heart

By: David Grossman

Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Searing essays from International Booker Prize-winning Israeli author and long-time peace activist David Grossman carry us up to and through the cataclysm of Oct 7th and what followed

We know David Grossman's voice of ringing moral clarity from way back: since the late 1980s and The Yellow Wind, his classic work on the urgency of the two-state... Read more

The Hell of Good Intentions

By: Stephen M. Walt

Narrated by: Stephen M. Walt

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times–bestselling author Stephen M. Walt, The Hell of Good Intentions dissects the faults and foibles of recent American foreign policy—explaining why it has been plagued by disasters like the “forever wars” in Iraq and Afghanistan and outlining what can be done to fix it.

In 1992, the United States stood at the pinnacle of... Read more

My Fourth Time, We Drowned

By: Sally Hayden

Narrated by: Aoife McMahon

Length: 13 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The Western world has turned its back on migrants, leaving them to cope with one of the most devastating humanitarian crises in history.Reporter Sally Hayden was at home in London when she received a message on Facebook: “Hi sister Sally, we need your help.” The sender identified himself as an Eritrean refugee who had been held in a Libyan... Read more

Atomic Days

By: Joshua Frank

Narrated by: Will Tulin

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Once home to the United States's largest plutonium production site, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State is laced with 56 million gallons of radioactive waste. The threat of an explosive accident at Hanford is all too real—an event that could be more catastrophic than Chernobyl.



The EPA designated Hanford the most toxic place in... Read more

The Case of the Married Woman

By: Antonia Fraser

Narrated by: Penelope Milton

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Caroline Norton dazzled nineteenth-century society with her vivacity, her intelligence, her poetry, and in her role as an artist's muse. After her marriage in 1828 to the MP George Norton, she continued to attract friends and admirers to her salon in Westminster. Most prominent among her admirers was the widowed Prime Minister, Lord... Read more

Politics, Poverty and Belief

By: Frank Field

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Politics, Poverty and Belief by Frank Field, read by Jonathan Keeble.

For the past half-century Frank Field has been an outstanding parliamentarian, social reformer and champion of the disadvantaged. He joined the Labour Party at the age of 16 and was expelled from it at the age of 78.' -Brian & Rachel Griffiths

'Frank... Read more

Inside SEK

By: Kuni

Narrated by: Rolf Berg

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Wenn es für die Polizei zu brenzlig wird, tritt das Spezialeinsatzkommando auf den Plan. Die anonymen Elitekräfte mit den Sturmmasken sind da, wenn die Gefährdung am größten ist: bei der Terrorismusbekämpfung, Geiselbefreiungen, Razzien und gefährlichen Zugriffen. Der ehemalige Polizist mit dem Decknamen »Kuni« war lange im SEK tätig. In 25... Read more

The Loom of Time

By: Robert D. Kaplan

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 14 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning exploration of the Greater Middle East, where lasting stability has often seemed just out of reach but may hold the key to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century

“Engaging . . . Even those who resist Kaplan’s tragic sensibility have much to learn from his look at the emerging Middle East and its recent history.”—National... Read more

THE LIGHT PRINCESS (UNABRIDGED)

By: George MACDONALD

Narrated by: EMANUEL LARA

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Plenty of princesses have been cursed by wicked witches, but the curse placed on this princess by her evil aunt is an unusual one: it removes all the princess's gravity. What can break the curse before the princess floats away? Perhaps the best thing for her would be to fall in love, but how a person with no gravity can fall in anything is just... Read more

La Caida del Cabal, Parte 1

By: Victor Montas

Narrated by: Victor Montas

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Este documental fue hecho por la investigadora autora janet observar de los países bajos con la ayuda de incontables y una vez de todo el mundo contiene millas de horas de investigación los invito a no aceptar nada como la verdad por favor haga sus propios investigaciones y quien quien todo Lo que les presento esta es la única manera de... Read more

The Long Gray Line

By: Rick Atkinson

Narrated by: Adam Barr & Rick Atkinson

Length: 28 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

"A story of epic proportions [and] an awesome feat of biographical reconstruction."—The Boston Globe

**This program includes an original foreword, read by Rick Atkinson, and exclusive to the audiobook, as well as a bonus conversation between the author and Ty Seidule**

For more on Rick Atkinson's research and writing, please visit... Read more

Korrumpiert

By: Marco Bülow

Narrated by: Matthias Ernst Holzmann

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

19 Jahre saß Marco Bülow im Bundestag. Offen und eindringlich berichtet er in seinem neuen Buch von seinen konkreten Erfahrungen im Parlament und zeigt, wie unsere Demokratie ausgehöhlt wird. Soziale Marktwirtschaft, Herrschaft des Volkes sind nur noch Fassade, so Bülow, Täuschungen eines Profit-Systems, welches immer weniger Menschen nutzt.... Read more

The Democratic Presidents of the 20th Century: The History of the Democrats Who Led the United States during the American Century

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Mary Rossman

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

As one of the most influential men of the 20th century, there is no shortage of adjectives to use when describing Woodrow Wilson’s two terms as president of the United States. Wilson was a pioneer of the Progressive movement both before and during his presidency, becoming a populist champion a generation before Franklin Roosevelt’s New... Read more

How to Think Like an Economist

By: Robbie Mochrie

Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents How to Think Like an Economist by Robbie Mochrie, read by Ben Onwukwe.

Capturing the essence of history’s most influential economists in enjoyable and illuminating biographical sketches, this book shows how the great economic thinkers are still relevant today.

We live in the economy – and we are part of it. Living through a... Read more

The Confederacy's Last Hurrah

By: Wiley Sword

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 22 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The rise of Civil War general John Bell Hood, his command of the Confederate Army of Tennessee, and the decisions that led to its downfall.Though he barely escaped expulsion from West Point, John Bell Hood quickly rose through the ranks of the Confederate army. With bold leadership in the battles of Gaines' Mill and Antietam, Hood won favor with... Read more

The Pacific

By: Hugh Ambrose

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 23 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling official companion book to the Emmy® Award-winning HBO® miniseries.

Look for The Pacific miniseries, now available to stream on Netflix!

Between America's retreat from China in late November 1941 and the moment General MacArthur's airplane touched down on the Japanese mainland in August of 1945, five men connected... Read more

Zur Bekämpfung des Antisemitismus heute

By: Theodor W. Adorno

Narrated by: Heiko Grauel

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Im Herbst 1962 nahm Theodor W. Adorno an einer Tagung des Deutschen Koordinierungsrats der Gesellschaften für christlich-jüdische Zusammenarbeit teil, auf der er über die Bekämpfung des Antisemitismus sprach. Dieser Vortrag hat in seiner dichten und äußerst vielschichtigen Analyse nichts an Aktualität eingebüßt.

Vor dem Hintergrund der... Read more

Economic Dignity

By: Gene Sperling

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 12 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

“Timely and important . . . It should be our North Star for the recovery and beyond.” —Hillary Clinton

“Sperling makes a forceful case that only by speaking to matters of the spirit can liberals root their belief in economic justice in people’s deepest aspirations—in their sense of purpose and self-worth.” —The New York Times
 
When Gene Sperling... Read more

Catherine, the Princess of Wales

By: Robert Jobson

Narrated by: Lucy Scott

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Through the author’s extensive connections within the royal household, this dynamic new biography tells the full story of how Catherine, the Princess of Wales, became the woman she is today.

Kate Middleton’s life story seems like a modern-day fairy tale.

An attractive, clever, and ambitious girl from unexceptional beginnings meets and falls in... Read more