Politics & Economy audiobooks

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

Stronger

By: Ryan Hass

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

An examination of the US–China relationship that charts a new path for America focusing on its existing advantages.



Ryan Hass charts a path forward in America's relationship and rivalry with China rooted in the relative advantages America already possesses. Hass argues that while competition will remain the defining trait of the relationship,... Read more

Chicano Movement For Beginners

By: Maceo Montoya

Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

As the heyday of the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s to early '70s fades further into history and as more and more of its important figures pass on, so too does knowledge of its significance. Thus, Chicano Movement For Beginners is an important attempt to stave off historical amnesia. It seeks to shed light on the multifaceted civil rights... Read more

Change Your World

By: John C. Maxwell & Rob Hoskins

Narrated by: John C. Maxwell

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Whatever the desires of your heart, Change Your World will guide you through the entire process to take action and start making an impact today right where you are.You can bring about positive, lasting change in the world and you don’t have to be rich and famous or lead a big organization to do it.Global leadership icons and bestselling authors... Read more

Un espía en México

By: Sophie Morghrani

Narrated by: Adrián Ogazón

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Una fascinante historia real de un agente internacional del servicio secreto, durante la Guerra Fría en Europa. ¿Quién fue Jaroslav Slavik? ¿Acaso Marcel Moghrani... o Marcel Masarovic? ¿Era un espía, un conspirador, una pieza clave del contraespionaje? ¿Cómo llegó a México? ¿Quién estaba detrás de este ingeniero capaz de construir un búnker y... Read more

Issues In Health Care

By: John Montgomery

Narrated by: John Warwick Montgomery

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY? An examination of legal and ethical issues surrounding the questions of suicide and assisted suicide. November 1997. ISSUES IN HEALTH CARE: RIGHTS OF THE UNBORN This lecture is based on the prize-winning essay, "The Rights of Unborn Children", in which the legal protection offered to the unborn in Canada, Germany, UK and... Read more

Bitcoin for Beginners & Dummies: Cryptocurrency & Blockchain

By: Giovanni Rigters

Narrated by: Ron Garner

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The Bitcoin mania continues to sweep the world like never seen before. The soaring value of cryptocurrencies provides a massive incentive for individuals, dummies and businesses to join the party. Those who cashed in during the meteoric rise of digital currencies, like bitcoin, know just how much difference the right investment decisions can... Read more

The Prohibition Era and Policing

By: Wesley M. Oliver

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Legal precedents created during Prohibition have lingered, leaving search-and-seizure law much better defined than limits on police use of force, interrogation practices, or eyewitness identification protocols. An unlawful trunk search is thus guarded against more thoroughly than an unnecessary shooting or a wrongful conviction.

Intrusive... Read more

Project 2025 and the Global Stage

By: Carl Young

Narrated by: Jerry Dugan

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Ever caught wind of the whispers surrounding "Project 2025"?
It's not some conspiracy theory or futuristic thriller—it's a real blueprint, forged in the heart of Washington, with the potential to send shockwaves through the global order.
This book tears back the veil of secrecy, exposing how this ambitious American initiative could fundamentally... Read more

Revolt Against the Modern World

By: Julius Evola

Narrated by: Michael Moynihan

Length: 17 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

With unflinching gaze and uncompromising intensity Julius Evola analyzes the spiritual and cultural malaise at the heart of Western civilization and all that passes for progress in the modern world. As a gadfly, Evola spares no one and nothing in his survey of what we have lost and where we are headed. At turns prophetic and provocative, Revolt... Read more

Niemand kann sagen, er hätte es nicht gewusst - Die ungeheuerlichen Pläne der AfD (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: CORRECTIV & Marcus Bensmann

Narrated by: Günther Harder

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In diesem Buch vereint Marcus Bensmann die Erkenntnisse vieljähriger Recherchen des CORRECTIV-Netzwerks über die AfD. Anhand ihrer eigenen Aussagen rekonstruiert er die Pläne der Partei: vom Potsdamer Geheimtreffen bis zur geplanten Abschaffung von Grundwerten. Als Rechtsextremismus-Experte des Recherchenetzwerks CORRECTIV war Marcus Bensmann... Read more

Dear America: Young Readers' Edition

By: Jose Antonio Vargas

Narrated by: Jose Antonio Vargas

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In this young readers’ adaptation of his adult memoir Dear America, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and undocumented immigrant Jose Antonio Vargas tells his story, in light of the 12 million undocumented immigrants currently in the United States.

Jose Antonio Vargas was only twelve years old when he was brought to the United States from the... Read more

Lydia Maria Child

By: Lydia Moland

Narrated by: Lydia Moland

Length: 17 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A compelling biography of Lydia Maria Child, one of nineteenth-century America’s most courageous abolitionists.By 1830, Lydia Maria Child had established herself as something almost unheard of in the American nineteenth century: a beloved and self-sufficient female author. Best known today for the immortal poem “Over the River and through the... Read more

Presidents at War

By: Steven M. Gillon

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 17 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Steven M. Gillon, New York Times bestselling author of America's Reluctant Prince, is back with the story of how WWII shaped the characters and politics of seven American presidents.

World War II loomed over the twentieth century, transforming every level of American society and international relationships and searing itself onto the psyche of... Read more

I Said Yes to Everything

By: Lee Grant

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir by Academy Award–winning actress Lee Grant, detailing her starring roles in Valley of the Dolls and Shampoo, her twelve years on the Hollywood blacklist, and a singularly unpredictable life. Read more

1932

By: David Pietrusza

Narrated by: David Stifel

Length: 19 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Two Depression-battered nations confronted destiny in 1932, going to the polls in their own way to anoint new leaders, to rescue their people from starvation and hopelessness. America would elect a Congress and a president—ebullient aristocrat Franklin Roosevelt or tarnished "Wonder Boy" Herbert Hoover. Decadent, divided Weimar Germany faced two... Read more

Politics on Trial

By: Thomas T. Taylor

Narrated by: Jack Pemberton

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Ever wondered how the intricate web of politics and the judiciary intertwines? "Politics on Trial: The Judiciary’s Role in Sorting Truth from Fiction" takes you on a riveting journey through the legal landscape of political assertions, providing a clear lens to view the blurred lines between free speech, perjury, and the many shades in... Read more

Better Than Balderdash

By: Owen Janssen

Narrated by: Dan Hamel

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Did you know that you can heat up a cup of coffee by yelling at it? How about the fact that bananas are radioactive? Or that Google hires goats as gardeners? Or that competitive slapping is a sport in Russia? Our world is chock-full of fascinating facts, unbelievable but true stories, and mind-blowing trivia. This book is your one-stop guide to... Read more

Capitalist Punishment

By: Vivek Ramaswamy

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

A Wall Street cartel has quietly seized control of the American economy, and they are forcing governments and businesses to bow down to their political agenda—using your money to do it.Three Wall Street firms have quietly amassed more money than Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Andrew Carnegie, and John Rockefeller combined. But the money isn’t even... Read more

The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism

By: Yanni Kotsonis

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping global history of the birth of modern Greece

In 1821, a diverse territory in the southern Balkans on the fringe of the Ottoman Empire was thrust into a decade of astounding mass violence. The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism traces how something new emerged from an imperial mosaic of myriad languages, religions,... Read more

Corrections in Ink

By: Keri Blakinger

Narrated by: Keri Blakinger

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

An electric and unforgettable memoir about a young woman's journey—from the ice rink, to addiction and a prison sentence, to the newsroom—and how she emerged with a fierce determination to expose the broken system she experienced.

Keri Blakinger always lived life at full throttle. Growing up, that meant throwing herself into competitive figure... Read more

Nochmal Deutschboden - Meine Rückkehr in die brandenburgische Provinz (ungekürzt)

By: Moritz von Uslar

Narrated by: Moritz von Uslar

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Deutschland im Sommer 2019: Die AfD wird zur Volkspartei im Osten. Merkel hat Zitteranfälle. Vor zehn Jahren stattete der Reporter Moritz von Uslar der Kleinstadt Zehdenick im Landkreis Oberhavel in der brandenburgischen Provinz einen Besuch ab. Nun kehrt er zurück, er bleibt vier Monate und - wie schon in seinem damaligen Buch Deutschboden -... Read more

Cooperation and Coercion

By: Antony Davies & James R. Harrigan

Narrated by: Pat Grimes

Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

There are only two ways that humans work together: they cooperate with one another, or they coerce one another. And once you realize this fundamental fact, it will change how you see the world. In this myth-busting book, Antony Davies and James R. Harrigan display their wisdom and talent for explaining complex topics, which have attracted a... Read more

Über den Anstand in schwierigen Zeiten und die Frage, wie wir miteinander umgehen

By: Axel Hacke

Narrated by: Axel Hacke

Length: 4 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Wir leben in aufgewühlten und aufwühlenden Zeiten, die Grundlagen unseres bisherigen Zusammenlebens sind bedroht: Zeit, sich wieder einmal ein paar wichtige Fragen zu stellen. Was bedeutet es eigentlich für jeden Einzelnen, wenn Lüge, Rücksichtslosigkeit und Niedertracht an die Macht drängen oder sie schon errungen haben? Wenn so erfolgreich... Read more