Politics & Economy audiobooks

Against Democracy

By: Jason Brennan

Narrated by: Christopher Ragland

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic book now available on audio With narration by Christopher Ragland, who presents a bracingly provocative critique of one of our most cherished ideas and institutions Most people believe democracy is a uniquely just form of government. They believe people have the right to an equal share of political power. And they believe that... Read more

Screwed!

By: Dick Morris & Eileen McGann

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

America is being Screwed!, say Dick Morris and Eileen McGann, by China, Russia, the EU, and other nations with the help of our own political and business leaders. The co-authors of nine explosive New York Times bestsellers—including Revolt!, Catastrophe, Fleeced, Outrage, and 2010: Take Back America—Morris and McGann now expose a massive global... Read more

Civilizing the State

By: John Restakis

Narrated by: David Adams

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The liberal state is dead, long live the partner state Across the world, the liberal nation state is on its knees. Rising inequality, deep political polarization, and the pervasive power of corporations are tearing apart the social contract and threatening to crush democracy. Civilizing the State traces the history and development of... Read more

El Dorado

By: Enric Puig Punyet

Narrated by: Benjamín Figueras

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The elusive Pimpernel returns for another swashbuckling adventure in El Dorado. The still-raging French Revolution continues to claim lives, and the shadow of the guillotine draws ever nearer to the young Dauphin, son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. No one dares to attempt to liberate the little prince . no one, that is, but the mysterious... Read more

Stone's Rules

By: Roger Stone

Narrated by: Paul Costanzo

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

At long last, America’s most notorious political operative has released his operating manual! A freedom fighter to his admirers, a dirty trickster to his detractors, the flamboyant, outrageous, articulate, and extraordinarily well-dressed Roger Stone lays out Stone’s Rules—the maxims that have governed his legendary career as a campaign... Read more

Nathan der Weise: Zusammenfassung in 5 Minuten

By: 5 Minuten, Lektüreliste & Jürgen Fritsche

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Das Drama Nathan der Weise von Gotthold Ephraim Lessing in einer kurzen Zusammenfassung: Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten! Read more

Talking to My Daughter About the Economy

By: Yanis Varoufakis

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance minister and the author of the international bestseller Adults in the Room, pens a series of letters to his young daughter, educating her about the business, politics, and corruption of world economics.

Yanis Varoufakis has appeared before heads of... Read more

Taylor Branch and Shukree Hassan Tilghman

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifty years after the March on Washington, African-Americans still confront high rates of unemployment, segregation in education and race-based partisan gridlock. In what areas have we seen progress? Gwen Ifill discusses the advances and what's left to be done with historian Taylor Branch and filmmaker Shukree Hassan Tilghman. Read more

The Prince

By: Niccolo Machiavelli

Narrated by: James Joy

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The Prince (c. 1500) by Niccolo Machiavelli is a political treatise, sometimes claimed to be one of the first works of modern political philosophy, in which the effective truth is taken to be more important than any abstract ideal. It was also in direct conflict with the dominant Catholic and scholastic doctrines of the time concerning how to... Read more

Neuroeconomics Fundamentals

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Although neu- roeconomics has not yet produced many findings that directly challenge assumptions held within psychology (only one of the neuroeconomics papers discussed above, Shiv et al. 2005, was published in a psychology journal), the field will undoubtedly eventually focus on issues of importance to both fields. For example, psychologists... Read more

West Wingers

By: Gautam Raghavan

Narrated by: Gautam Raghavan, Michael Strautmanis, Brad Jenk...

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The Obama White House staff invites us behind-the-scenes of history for a deeply personal and moving look at the presidency and how a president's staff can change the nation

When we elect a president, we elect with them an entire team that will join them in the West Wing to help run the country. Each of these staffers has a story to tell, and... Read more

Civil War in the Roman Republic

By: Cicero, Cato The Younger, Mark Anthony, Caius M...

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

While compiling and narrating these speeches, I've often been struck by how easily they could be translated into a modern day context. Frequently, a speech has reminded me of the news of the day, somewhere in the world. Nowhere has this been more evident than in these speeches. Given over two thousand years ago, every single one could be applied... Read more

The Declaration of Independence

By: Thomas Jefferson

Narrated by: Christopher Crennen

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Jefferson (1743-1826) was the principal author of the Declaration, which asserts that all men are endowed by their Creator with unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and that the only proper purpose of government is to secure these rights. aspenleafmedia.com Read more

Parents of the World, Unite!

By: Ian Prior

Narrated by: Chris Abell

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

This essential playbook reveals the winning strategies for successfully fighting a radical woke agenda in your kids’ schools. Ian Prior is one of the most articulate and successful parent-activists in the United States. Armed with 12 inspiring battle-tested rules and revealing stories about sparring with self-righteous Woke neighbors (the... Read more

Shirley Chisholm Dared

By: Alicia D. Williams

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the inspiring story of the first black woman elected to Congress and to run for president in this picture book biography from a Newbery Honor-winning author and a Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe New Talent Award-winning illustrator.

Meet Shirley, a little girl who asks way too many questions! After spending her early years on her... Read more

Time Come

By: Linton Kwesi Johnson

Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe & Linton Kwesi Johnson

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A Financial Times Music Book of the Year 2023

'Key to understanding black British history' - Sunday Times
'Sharp and still relevant' - Zadie Smith

Recognized as one of the great poets of modern times, and as a deeply respected and influential political and cultural activist and social critic, Linton Kwesi Johnson is also a prolific writer of... Read more

The Woman's Hour (Adapted for Young Readers)

By: Elaine Weiss

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

This adaptation of the book Hillary Clinton calls "a page-turning drama and an inspiration" will spark the attention of young readers and teach them about activism, civil rights, and the fight for women's suffrage--just in time for the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. 

American women are so close to winning the... Read more

No More Secrets

By: Betty Webb

Narrated by: Betty Webb & Charlotte Strevens

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The true and extraordinary story of one of the last surviving women to have worked in codebreaking at both Bletchley Park and the Pentagon.Born one hundred years ago, Betty Webb MBE, LOH (Legion of Honour) has had a ringside seat to history. After graduating from school, she faced the usual limited opportunities for employment on offer to women... Read more

No es lugar para mujeres

By: Wendy Moore

Narrated by: Jimena Flores

Length: 15 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Las doctoras británicas Flora Murray y Louisa Garrett Anderson lo dejaron todo cuando estalló la primera guerra mundial, incluyendo su lucha activa por el derecho al voto de la mujer, para trasladarse a Francia donde crearon dos pequeños hospitales militares. A pesar de que en su país las mujeres no podían atender a hombres, sus capacidades... Read more

A Modern Utopia (Unabridged)

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Isidro Arnett, Florence Grant, Suzanne Flores &...

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

H. G. Wells's proposal for social reform was the formation of a world state, a concept that would increasingly preoccupy him throughout the remainder of his life. One of his most ambitious early attempts at portraying a world state was A Modern Utopia (1905). A Modern Utopia was intended as a hybrid between fiction and 'philosophical... Read more

Abraham Lincoln

By: Francis Grierson

Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano & The Scythe

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Abraham Lincoln: Practical Mystic by Francis Grierson presents a unique interpretation of Lincoln’s character, emphasizing the spiritual and philosophical dimensions of his personality. Published in 1918, the book explores how Lincoln's deep intuition, moral insight, and inner strength shaped his leadership during one of the most tumultuous... Read more

The President Will See You Now

By: Peggy Grande

Narrated by: Peggy Grande

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"Peggy Grande's memoir is the book to read on Ronald Reagan's post-presidential years . . . Among the most unique and touching [books] ever done on the man . . . Wonderful." -- The AmericanSpectator In The President Will See You Now, devoted Reagan insider Peggy Grande shares behind-the-scenes stories, intimate moments, and insights into one of... Read more

White Identity Politics

By: Ashley Jardina

Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Amidst discontent over America's growing diversity, many white Americans now view the political world through the lens of a racial identity. Whiteness was once thought to be invisible because of whites' dominant position and ability to claim the mainstream, but today a large portion of whites actively identify with their racial group and support... Read more

Imperialism and Its Legacy

By: Arlo Holders

Narrated by: Juliette Fanser

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Imperialism, a term that evokes both grandeur and controversy, refers to the practice of extending a nation's power and dominion over foreign territories, often through conquest, colonization, or economic and political influence. At its core, imperialism involves the domination of one country over another, typically to exploit resources, expand... Read more