Politics & Economy audiobooks

Den Bach rauf - Eine Kursbestimmung (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Robert Habeck

Narrated by: Johannes Steck

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Den Mut wiederfinden Die Zeiten sind sehr anspruchsvoll und fordern von vielen viel. Die Nachrichten oft schlecht, die Aussichten nicht besser. Aber müssen wir in der Sorge und Trübsinn verharren? Was gibt Anlass zu Hoffnung, Zuversicht? Und warum sprechen wir nicht über Perspektiven? Robert Habeck will mit seiner Schrift Orientierung geben.... Read more

Rise and Kill First

By: Ronen Bergman

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 25 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The first definitive history of Israel’s targeted killing programs, which have shaped the Israeli nation, the Middle East, and the larger world—from the man hailed by David Remnick as “arguably [Israel’s] best investigative reporter.”

“An exceptional work, a humane book about an incendiary subject . . . full of... Read more

Built, Not Born

By: Tom Golisano

Narrated by: Mike Terry

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Get tested and proven advice on how to navigate risk and succeed in all phases of business ownership from a successful entrepreneur who turned a small startup into a billion-dollar company.Self-made billionaire and Paychex founder Tom Golisano understands the fears, risks, and challenges small-business owners face every day. He has launched and... Read more

Meade at Gettysburg

By: Kent Masterson Brown

Narrated by: Shawn Compton

Length: 14 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Although he took command of the Army of the Potomac only three days before the first shots were fired at Gettysburg, Union general George G. Meade guided his forces to victory in the Civil War's most pivotal battle. Commentators often dismiss Meade when discussing the great leaders of the Civil War. But in this long-anticipated book, Kent... Read more

The Nuclear Jihadist

By: Douglas Frantz & Catherine Collins

Narrated by: Bob Craig

Length: 15 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Major investigative nonfiction on one of the most important stories of our time -- the spread of nuclear weapons -- written by two award-winning journalists who for years have followed the trail of the world's most notorious arms dealer.
The world has entered a second nuclear age. For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the threat of... Read more

This Is All I Got

By: Lauren Sandler

Narrated by: Lauren Sandler

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • From an award-winning journalist, a poignant and gripping immersion in the life of a young, homeless single mother amid her quest to find stability and shelter in the richest city in America

LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD • “Riveting . . . a remarkable feat of reporting.”—The New York Times

Camila is... Read more

The Queer Evangelist

By: Cheri DiNovo

Narrated by: Cheri DiNovo

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A queer minister, politician and staunch activist for LGBTQ rights, Cheri DiNovo went from living on the streets as a teenager to performing the first legalized same-sex marriage registered in Canada in 2001. From rights for queer parents to banning conversion therapy, her story will inspire people (queer or ally) to not only resist the... Read more

What It Is Like to Go to War

By: Karl Marlantes

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the bestselling and award-winning Matterhorn comes a brilliant nonfiction book about war and the psychological and spiritual toll it takes on those who fight.“I wrote this book primarily to come to terms with my own experience of combat. So far—reading, writing, thinking—that has taken over thirty years.”In 1969, at the age of... Read more

Politics: A Treatise on Government - Artistotle

By: Aristotle

Narrated by: Liam Johnson

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

"Politics: A Treatise on Government" is a classic work of political philosophy written by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle. The book is one of the most influential works in the history of political thought and is widely regarded as one of the foundational texts of Western political theory.In "Politics", Aristotle sets out to examine the... Read more

Economism

By: James Kwak

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is a bracing deconstruction of the framework for understanding the world that is learned as gospel in Economics 101, regardless of its imaginary assumptions and misleading half-truths.

Economism: an ideology that distorts the valid principles and tools of introductory college economics, propagated by self-styled experts, zealous lobbyists,... Read more

The Straight State

By: Margot Canaday

Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic book now available on audio With narration by Laurel Lefkow, who reveals how the government enforced sex and gender conformity and relegated gays to second-class citizenship The Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Unearthing startling new evidence from the National... Read more

Know-It-All Society

By: Michael P. Lynch

Narrated by: William Sarris

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Taking stock of our fragmented political landscape, Michael Patrick Lynch delivers a trenchant philosophical take on digital culture and its tendency to make us into dogmatic know-it-alls. The internet—where most shared news stories are not even read by the person posting them—has contributed to the rampant spread of "intellectual arrogance." In... Read more

Radical Son

By: David Horowitz

Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz

Length: 18 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally a radical socialist, the current driving force behind the rise of the Hollywood right recounts how he moved from one set of political convictions to another over the course of thirty years, and challenges readers to consider how they came by their own convictions. Read more

The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon

By: Heath Hardage Lee

Narrated by: Jane Oppenheimer

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A new, revolutionary look into the brilliant life of Pat Nixon.

In America’s collective consciousness, Pat Nixon has long been perceived as enigmatic. She was voted “Most Admired Woman in the World” in 1972 and made Gallup Poll’s top ten list of most admired women fourteen times. She survived the turmoil of the Watergate scandal with her... Read more

God Is in the House

By: Virginia Foxx

Narrated by: various narrators, Elijah Alexander, Traber Bur...

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspired and original compilation for the 2016 election year, God Is in the House is a collection of essays by members of Congress who reflect on their deep faith and how it guides them as legislators.Compiled by Representative Virginia Foxx, who personally asked for contributions from congressional colleagues and coworkers, God Is in the... Read more

Operación Palomera. El principio del fin de las FARC

By: Pablo Navarrete & Olga Behar

Narrated by: Mildred Vargas

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

El secuestro, en el año 2002, y el consecuente asesinato de los diputados del Valle del Cauca, cinco años después, por parte de la guerrilla de las Farc, constituyen un punto de referencia importante para quien desea entender la violencia política en Colombia, porque engloba tanto a los actores principales del conflicto (insurgencia armada,... Read more

Auschwitz and The Allies

By: Martin Gilbert

Narrated by: Roger Clark

Length: 19 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A thorough analysis of Allied actions after learning about the horrors of Nazi concentration camps—includes survivors' firsthand accounts.



Why did they wait so long? Among the myriad questions of what the Allies could have done differently in World War II, understanding why it took them so long to respond to the horrors of the Nazi concentration... Read more

Philosophy and Real Politics

By: Raymond Geuss

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Many contemporary political thinkers are gripped by the belief that their task is to develop an ideal theory of rights or justice for guiding and judging political actions. But in Philosophy and Real Politics, Raymond Geuss argues that philosophers should first try to understand why real political actors behave as they actually do. Far from... Read more

Crossfire Hurricane

By: Josh Campbell

Narrated by: Josh Campbell

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

From an FBI insider, a riveting, fly-on-the-wall account of the historic investigation into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia and the president's unprecedented attacks on the bureau—and a passionate defense of the men and women who work every day to uphold democratic institutions and the rule of law.



Titled after the FBI code name for the... Read more

The First

By: Stanley Fish

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From celebrated public intellectual, New York Times bestselling author, and “America’s most famous professor” (BookPage) comes an urgent and sharply observed look at freedom of speech and the First Amendment offering a “nonpartisan take on what it does and doesn’t protect and what kind of speech it should and shouldn’t regulate” (Publishers... Read more

Dark Secrets: Manson, the CIA, and Hidden Sixties Mysteries

By: Zachary Thornfield

Narrated by: Rob Williamson

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Dark Secrets: Manson, the CIA, and Hidden Sixties Mysteries
⭐⭐ Simplified Guide & Explanations Included ⭐⭐
Are you looking to uncover the chilling connections behind the darkest mysteries of the 1960s?
Seeking a comprehensive guide that provides all the necessary details to understand these enigmatic events?
Your search ends here!
This guide... Read more

The Terror Dream

By: Susan Faludi

Narrated by: Beth McDonald

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In this most original examination of America's post-9/11 culture, Susan Faludi shines a light on the country's psychological response to the attacks on that terrible day. Turning her observational powers on the media, popular culture, and political life, Faludi unearths a barely acknowledged but bedrock societal drama shot through with baffling... Read more

First Friends

By: Gary Ginsberg

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 15 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In the bestselling tradition of The Presidents Club and Presidential Courage, White House history as told through the stories of the best friends and closest confidants of American presidents.

Here are the riveting histories of myriad presidential friendships, among them: Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed: They shared a bed for four years during... Read more

Mighty

By: Shirin Taherzadeh

Narrated by: Shirin Taherzadeh

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Told through the eyes of a traveller, a doctor, an aristocrat, a writer, a young boy, a wealthy woman, and a little girl, ‘Mighty’ consists of seven stories about ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. His extraordinary life of love, justice, compassion and humility will inspire children to be of service to the world. Read more