Politics & Economy audiobooks

Capitalismo progresista

By: Joseph E. Stiglitz

Narrated by: Carlos Olalla

Length: 14 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Un brillante y provocador manifiesto para salvar al capitalismo de sí mismo. Todos tenemos la sensación de que el sistema económico se inclina a favor de las grandes empresas. Unas pocas corporaciones dominan sectores enteros; la industria financiera regula la economía a su antojo; los gobiernos negocian acuerdos comerciales que en absoluto... Read more

Give People Money

By: Annie Lowrey

Narrated by: Annie Lowrey

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Shortlisted for the 2018 FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award

A brilliantly reported, global look at universal basic income—a stipend given to every citizen—and why it might be necessary in an age of rising inequality, persistent poverty, and dazzling technology.

Imagine if every month... Read more

The Long March

By: Roger Kimball

Narrated by: Raymond Todd

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The architects of America’s cultural revolution of the 1960s were Beat authors like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, and celebrated figures like Norman Mailer, Timothy Leary, Eldridge Cleaver and Susan Sontag. In examining the lives and works of those who spoke for the 1960s, Roger Kimball conceives a series of cautionary tales, an annotated... Read more

The Water Defenders

By: Robin Broad & John Cavanagh

Narrated by: Ximena Morris

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2021 Duke University Juan Mendez Award

Named one of The Progressive’s “Favorite Books of 2021” and one of the “Best of Books 2021” by Foreign Affairs

The David and Goliath story of ordinary people in El Salvador who rallied together with international allies to prevent a global mining corporation from poisoning the country’s main... Read more

State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (Unabridged)

By: James Buchanan

Narrated by: Leonard Alvarado, Tony Wertman & Sarah Buffin

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In this comprehensive volume, historian James Buchanan presents an unparalleled collection of State of the Union addresses delivered by United States presidents from the nation's inception to the present day. Spanning over two centuries of American history, these speeches offer a captivating glimpse into the hopes, fears, and aspirations of the... Read more

First In

By: Gary C. Schroen

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

While America held its breath in the days immediately following 9/11, a small but determined group of CIA agents covertly began to change history. This is the riveting first-person account of the treacherous top-secret mission inside Afghanistan to set the stage for the defeat of the Taliban and launch the war on terror.



As thrilling as any novel,... Read more

Final Report of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities , Volume 1 (Unabridged)

By: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaig...

Narrated by: Lauren Dvorak, Jeffrey Scroggins & Steve Obrien

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In the aftermath of the Watergate scandal, the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities conducted a thorough investigation into the illegal activities that had taken place. The resulting report, known as the Final Report, is a comprehensive and damning account of the Nixon administration's abuses of power. Volume 1 of the... Read more

Bloomberg QuickTake: Climate Change

By: Bloomberg News

Narrated by: Qarie Marshall, Lesa Lockford & Pete Cross

Length: 3 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

This volume of Bloomberg QuickTake focuses on the rapid upheaval in our daily lives as a result of Climate Change. With sections on Finance & Capital Markets, Trade, Global Governance, Urbanization, Inclusion, and Technology, these short synopses of current events allow listeners to delve into hard-to-explain topics with ease. Read more

The Asian Financial Crisis 1995-98

By: Russell Napier

Narrated by: Oliver Hunt

Length: 18 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In the space of a few months, across Asia, a miracle became a nightmare. This was the Asian financial crisis of 1995-98.
In this economic crisis, hundreds of people died in rioting, political strongmen were removed, and hundreds of billions of dollars were lost by investors.
This crisis saw the US dollar value of some Asian stock markets decline... Read more

The Restless Wave

By: John McCain & Mark Salter

Narrated by: Beau Bridges & John McCain

Length: 14 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“History matters to McCain, and for him America is and was about its promise. The book is his farewell address, a mixture of the personal and the political. ‘I have loved my life,’ he writes. ‘All of it.’ The Restless Wave is a fitting valedictory for a man who seldom backed down.” —The Guardian (US)

“A book-length... Read more

The General and the Genius

By: James Kunetka

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 14 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Two ambitious men. One historic mission.With a blinding flash in the New Mexico desert in the summer of 1945, the world was changed forever. The bomb that ushered in the atomic age was the product of one of history’s most improbable partnerships. The General and the Genius reveals how two extraordinary men pulled off the greatest scientific feat... Read more

The League of Wives

By: Heath Hardage Lee

Narrated by: Heath Hardage Lee

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

"Listeners are transported back to the 1960s by Heath Hardage Lee and her painstaking research... Her fascination with her subjects is infectious. Listeners who are fans of history will find much to admire in this little-known story." — AudioFile Magazine


This program is read by the author.

The true story of the fierce band of women who... Read more

The Comeback King: Donald Trump's Unfinished Business

By: Catherine McCarthy

Narrated by: Dwight Kuhlman

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Step into the world of Donald J. Trump with "The Comeback King: Donald Trump's Unfinished Business". The unfiltered story is an engaging and accessible exploration of the life and political careers of the 45th President of the United States. This captivating book provides readers with an intimate portrait of Trump's life, from his early career... Read more

Daughter of the Heartland

By: Joni Ernst

Narrated by: Joni Ernst

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Combining the by-the-bootstraps work ethic of Nikki Haley’s Can’t Is Not an Option with the military pluck of MJ Heger’s Shoot Like a Girl, Joni Ernst’s candid memoir details the rise of one of the most inspiring and authentic women in the United States Senate.

The daughter of hardworking farmers in the heartland, Joni Ernst has never been afraid... Read more

A Fine Mess

By: T. R. Reid

Narrated by: T.R. Reid

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestelling author T. R. Reid travels around the world to solve the urgent problem of America's failing tax code, unravelling a complex topic in plain English - and telling a rollicking story along the way. 

The U.S. tax code is a total write-off. Crammed with loopholes and special interest provisions, it works for no one except tax... Read more

An Honest President

By: H. Paul Jeffers

Narrated by: Raymond Todd

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Today, Grover Cleveland is chiefly known as the only president to have been elected to two nonconsecutive terms. But in his day, Cleveland was a renowned reformer: an enemy of political machines who joined forces with Theodore Roosevelt to fight powerful party bosses, a moralist who vetoed bills he considered blatant raids on the Treasury, and... Read more

El zorro rojo

By: Paul Preston

Narrated by: Javier Viñas

Length: 16 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

La biografía del líder comunista español Santiago Carrillo, figura fundamental del siglo XX. El fallecimiento de Santiago Carrillo el 28 de octubre de 2012 puso fin a noventa y siete años vividos intensamente y en primera fila de la política. Hijo de Wenceslao Carrillo, dirigente socialista, su primer recuerdo era visitar a su padre en prisión.... Read more

The Relentless Revolution

By: Joyce Appleby

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The unlikely development of a potent historical force, told with grace, insight, and authority by one of our best historians.



With its deep roots and global scope, the capitalist system provides the framework for our lives. It is a framework of constant change, sometimes measured and predictable, sometimes drastic and out of control. Yet what is... Read more

Can American Capitalism Survive?

By: Steven Pearlstein

Narrated by: L. J. Ganser & Steven Pearlstein

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Pulitzer Prize-winning economic journalist Steven Pearlstein argues that our thirty year experiment in unfettered markets has undermined core values required to make capitalism and democracy work.

Thirty years ago, “greed is good” and “maximizing shareholder value” became the new mantras woven into the fabric of our business culture, economy, and... Read more

Krigens største feiltakelser

By: All Verdens Historie

Narrated by: Erlend Klarholm Nilsen

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

I august 1940 ble Berlin rammet av et bombeangrep. Adolf Hitler var rasende og beordret en rekke enorme luftverntårn oppført omgående – hvert enkelt dyrere enn byens olympiske anlegg. Dessverre var tårnene ineffektive, og ressursene var helt bortkastet. Føreren hadde også en opplagt sjanse til å tvinge britene ut av Nord-Afrika og få tak i... Read more

Hands Up, Don't Shoot

By: Jennifer E. Cobbina

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Understanding the explosive protests over police killings and the legacy of racism



Following the high-profile deaths of eighteen-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and twenty-five-year-old Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland, both cities erupted in protest over the unjustified homicides of unarmed black males at the hands of police... Read more

Give Us Liberty

By: Dick Armey & Matt Kibbe

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Former Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives and leading organizer of the Tea Party movement, Dick Armey offers a Tea Party Manifesto: Give Us Liberty. Written with Matt Kibbee, President and CEO of FreedomWorks, Give Us Liberty defines the issues and agenda of the wildfire grassroots movement that is electrifying the nation, as... Read more

If They Come in the Morning...

By: Angela Davis

Narrated by: Janina Edwards & David Sadzin

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

With race and the police once more burning issues, this classic work from one of America's giants of black radicalism has lost none of its prescience or power.



One of America's most historic political trials is undoubtedly that of Angela Davis. Opening with a letter from James Baldwin to Davis, and including contributions from numerous radicals... Read more

Gestapo Hunter

By: Sean Feast

Narrated by: Graham Mack

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Gestapo Hunter explores the charmed life and exceptional career of Ted Sismore, widely considered one of the RAF's very best wartime navigators and leaders. A quiet, unassuming man who was nicknamed "Daisy" on account of his youthful complexion, Ted was one of only a handful of aircrew to complete a tour of operations in Blenheims in the summer... Read more