Politics & Economy audiobooks

MacArthur

By: Richard B. Frank

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Douglas MacArthur is best remembered for his adaptability that hoisted him to his greatest accomplishments. Adaptability now reigns as the most indispensable trait for high military leadership in an era of technological leaps that guarantee the nature of war will radically change during the span of an ordinary career. No American figure better... Read more

Unbought and Unbossed

By: Shirley Chisholm

Narrated by: Marcella Cox

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In this classic work—a blend of memoir, social criticism, and political analysis that remains relevant today—the first Black Congresswoman to serve in American history, New York’s dynamic representative Shirley Chisholm, traces her extensive political struggle and examines the problems that have long plagued the American system of... Read more

Kremlin Winter

By: Robert Service

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

Length: 14 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Vladimir Putin has dominated Russian politics since Boris Yeltsin relinquished the presidency in his favour in May 2000. He served two terms as president, before himself relinquishing the post to his prime minister, Dimitri Medvedev, only to return to presidential power for a third time in 2012.

Putin’s rule, whether as president or prime... Read more

René Descartes: Betrachtungen über die Grundlagen der Philosophie

By: René Descartes

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

"Cogito, ergo sum: Ich denke, also bin ich." Einer der wohl berühmtesten Sätze der Philosophiegeschichte stammt von René Descartes. In seinem Grundlagenwerk denkt er in sechs Meditationen über Metaphysik und Erkenntnistheorie nach. Themen sind der Zweifel, die Natur des menschlichen Geistes, das Dasein Gottes, das Wahre und das Falsche, die... Read more

Baseless

By: Nicholson Baker

Narrated by: Nicholson Baker

Length: 15 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

“Staggeringly good.” —Counterpunch

A major new work, a hybrid of history, journalism, and memoir, about the modern Freedom of Information Act—FOIA—and the horrifying, decades-old government misdeeds that it is unable to demystify, from one of America's most celebrated writers

Eight years ago, while investigating the possibility that the United... Read more

Cazando a El Chapo

By: Andrew Hogan & Douglas Century

Narrated by: Trujo Trujo

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Una combinación de las películas Manhunt, Killing Pablo y Zero Dark Thirty, esta sensacional obra de misterio, y de alta tecnología de investigación, de Andrew Hogan y Douglas Century —que pronto será una gran película producida por Sony— es una crónica impresionante de un capítulo en la guerra contra las drogas en el siglo veinte: la... Read more

The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse & Betrayal

By: Nick Bryant

Narrated by: Nick Bryant

Length: 20 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A chilling exposé of corporate corruption and government cover-ups, this account of a nationwide child-trafficking and pedophilia ring in the United States tells a sordid tale of corruption in high places. The scandal originally surfaced during an investigation into Omaha, Nebraska's failed Franklin Federal Credit Union that went beyond the... Read more

No Common Sense:

By: Lucy Furr

Narrated by: Will McPherson

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

You are cordially invited to participate in my absurd but heartfelt attempt to help save this nation from corruption, stupidity, and evil beings of one sort or another. No Common Sense is a genre-bending political satire-based update of Founding Father Thomas Paine’s original Common Sense. An argument and a declaration for independence and... Read more

Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church

By: The Investigative Staff of the Boston Globe

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

With this exposé, the Boston Globe presents the single most comprehensive account of the cover-ups, hush money and manipulation used by the Catholic Church to keep its history of sexual abuse secret. Read more

Dispatches

By: Michael Herr

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

"The best book to have been written about the Vietnam War" (The New York Times Book Review); an instant classic straight from the front lines.

From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal insanity of life in that... Read more

The American Supreme Court, Sixth Edition

By: Robert G. McCloskey & Sanford Levinson

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 15 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook version of this book. 

For more than fifty years, Robert G. McCloskey’s classic work on the Supreme Court’s role in constructing the US Constitution has introduced generations of students to the workings of our nation’s highest court.

As in prior editions, McCloskey’s original text remains unchanged. In his... Read more

Minderlohn - Der Fall Werner und Grosse

By: Henner Kotte & Christian Lunzer

Narrated by: Claus Vester

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Mord am frühen Sonntagmorgen. Mit welcher Frechheit die Mörder vorgegangen sind, geht daraus hervor, dass sie, während die Überfallenen laut um Hilfe schrien, in einem dritten Zimmer noch alles durchsuchten. "Möglicherweise wären die Täter eher gefaßt worden. Möglicherweise. Denn in der Frühe des Sonntags, den 18. Oktober 1896, ist eine... Read more

Stars Between the Sun and Moon

By: Lucia Jang & Susan McClelland

Narrated by: Janet Song

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Born in 1970s North Korea, Lucia Jang grew up in a typical household - her parents worked in the factories and the family scraped by on rations. Nightly, she bowed to her photo of Kim Il-Sung. It was the beginning of a chaotic period with a decade-long famine. Jang married an abusive man who sold their baby. She left him and went home to help... Read more

Krise

By: Ulrich Schneider

Narrated by: Mathias Grimm

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Deutschland hat versagt, schreibt Ulrich Schneider. Die Bundesrepublik stand mit Corona, Energiekrise und explodierenden Lebenshaltungskosten vor der größten Herausforderung ihrer Geschichte, es wurden unvorstellbare Summen in zahllosen Entlastungspaketen ausgegeben. Trotzdem gelang es nicht, die Gesellschaft in ihrer Krise zusammenzuhalten. Das... Read more

العقد الاجتماعي

By: جان جاك روسو

Narrated by: محمد بن يوسف

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

يعد كتاب "العقد الاجتماعي" للفيلسوف الكبير جان جاك روسو أحد أهم الأسفار الفكرية التي كُتبت في عصر النهضة والتنوير في الغرب، فبعد سقوط الشرعية الدينية كأساس للحكم في أوروبا، أصبح من الضروري البحث عن شرعية بديلة يقوم عليها الحُكم السياسي وتتحدد على أساسها مسئوليات الحاكم والمحكوم، والواجبات والحقوق المترتبة على كل منهم. لذلك ظهر العديد من المفكرين... Read more

Innovating in a Secret World

By: Tina P. Srivastava

Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Our national security increasingly depends on access to the most sophisticated and advanced technology. Yet the next time we set out to capture a terrorist leader, we may fail. Why? The answer lies in a conflict between two worlds. One is the dynamic, global, commercial world with its thriving innovations. The other is the world of national... Read more

Federalist No. 74. The Command of the Military and Naval Forces, and the Pardoning Power of the Executive.

By: Alexander Hamilton

Narrated by: D. S. Harvey

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The Federalist Papers is a series of 85 articles arguing in favor of ratification of the United States Constitution by the thirteen original colonies. Federalist No. 74 discusses the powers of the president as commander-in-chief and to grant pardons and reprieves. Hamilton asserts that the role of commander-in-chief is inherent in the office... Read more

The Yemen Model

By: Alexandra Stark

Narrated by: Emily Durante

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A close look at failed US policies in the Middle East, offering a fresh perspective on how best to reorient goals in the region

In this book Alexandra Stark argues that the US approach to Yemen offers insights into the failures of American foreign policy throughout the Middle East. Stark makes the case that despite often being drawn into... Read more

No, You Shut Up

By: Symone D. Sanders

Narrated by: Symone D. Sanders

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In this rousing call to leadership, the self-described millennial spokesperson for the culture, CNN’s designated ""woke AF"" former commentator, and the youngest national press secretary in the history of the United States shares her take-no-prisoners approach to life, politics, and career success, and shows a new generation how to be loud and... Read more

Bailout

By: Neil Barofsky

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

An insider of both the Bush and Obama administrations offers an irrefutable indictment of the mishandling of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program bailouts and the extreme degree to which our government officials—from both parties—served the interests of Wall Street at the expense of the public.From his first day on the job as the... Read more

Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight

By: Julia Sweig

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 18 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A revelation . . . a book in the Caro mold, using Lady Bird, along with tapes and transcripts of her entire White House diary, to tell the history of America during the Johnson years.”—The New York Times

The inspiration for the documentary film The Lady Bird Diaries, premiering November 13 on Hulu

Perhaps the most... Read more

Fortitude

By: Dan Crenshaw

Narrated by: Dan Crenshaw

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Jordan Peterson's Twelve Rules for Life meets Jocko Willink and Leif Babin's Extreme Ownership in this tough-love leadership book from a Navy SEAL and rising star in Republican politics.

In 2012, on his third tour of duty, an improvised explosive device left Dan Crenshaw's right eye destroyed and his left blinded. Only through the careful hand of... Read more

The World's Most Prestigious Prize

By: Geir Lundestad

Narrated by: Bruce Mann

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The World's Most Prestigious Prize: The Inside Story of the Nobel Peace Prize is a fascinating, insider account of the Nobel Peace Prize. Drawing on unprecedented access to the Norwegian Nobel Institute's vast archive, it offers a gripping account of the founding of the prize, as well as its highs and lows, triumphs and disasters, over the last... Read more

Bourgeois Dignity

By: Deirdre N. McCloskey

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 20 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and liberty to the bourgeoisie they had denied for so long. The result was an explosion in economic growth and proof that economic change depends less on foreign trade,... Read more