Politics & Economy audiobooks

The Presidency of George W. Bush

By: John Robert Greene

Narrated by: Christopher Grove

Length: 15 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The Presidency of George W. Bush is the first balanced academic study to analyze the entirety of his presidency—domestic, social, economic, and national security policies—as well as the administration's response to 9/11 and the subsequent War on Terror. In so doing, John Robert Greene argues persuasively that the judgment of most scholars—that... Read more

Other People's Money

By: John Kay

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The finance sector of Western economies is too large and attracts too many of the smartest college graduates. Financialization over the past three decades has created a structure that lacks resilience and supports absurd volumes of trading. The finance sector devotes too little attention to the search for new investment opportunities and the... Read more

حكيم العرب

By: مريم القاسمي

Narrated by: رهام حمدي زيدان

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

"لحكيم العرب طموحاتٍ كثيرة، كيف سيستطيع تحقيقها؟ وما العقبات التي سيواجهها؟ تُعلِّم هذه القصة أطفالنا من سن خمسة عشر عامًا، أنه ليس هناك مستحيلًا، وأنه لا بُد من هدفٍ لحياتنا نسعى إليه ونطمح لتحقيقه. تبرز لنا شخصية حكيم العرب القدوة الصالحة لأطفالنا، وتغرز فيهم العديد من القيم الإيجابية التي تؤهلهم ليصبحوا قادة أوطانهم في المستقبل. استمع... Read more

The Russian Job

By: Douglas Smith

Narrated by: Natasha Soudek

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing, little-known story of an American effort to save the newly formed Soviet Union from disaster.

After decades of the Cold War and renewed tensions, in the wake of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, cooperation between the United States and Russia seems impossible to imagine—and yet, as Douglas... Read more

Start, Stay, or Leave

By: Trey Gowdy

Narrated by: Trey Gowdy

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Fox News host and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Doesn’t Hurt to Ask shares his trusted framework for decision making, telling the story of his life through the choices he’s made using this revolutionary method.

“The best guide I’ve read to help people analyze, make, and own their decisions . . . Make a... Read more

Anatoliy Golitsyn: The Life and Legacy of the KGB Defector Who Became a CIA Asset

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Steve Knupp

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Many people remain fascinated by stories about the Cold War, particularly the espionage that was covertly conducted across the globe by both sides. Indeed, from the beginning of the Cold War, there were hundreds if not thousands of spies positioned in each side’s governments. Some worked as double agents, while others worked to plant pivotal... Read more

Conviction Machine

By: Sidney Powell & Harvey A. Silverglate

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter & Tanya Eby

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2009, Harvey A. Silverglate, a prominent criminal defense and civil liberties lawyer, published his landmark critique of the federal criminal justice system, Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent. In 2014, Sidney Powell, a former federal prosecutor in three districts under nine United States Attorneys from both political... Read more

They Want to Kill Americans

By: Malcolm Nance

Narrated by: Ari Fliakos

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes a bonus epilogue from the author.

New York Times bestselling author, Malcolm Nance, offers a chilling warning on a clear, present and existential threat to our democracy… our fellow Americans

To varying degrees, as many as 74 million Americans have expressed hostility towards American democracy. Their radicalization is... Read more

Not Cool

By: Greg Gutfeld

Narrated by: Steve Kramer

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Behind every awful, dangerous decision lurks one evil beast: the Cool.  
 
From politics to the personal, from fashion to food, from the campus to the locker room, the desire to be cool has infected  all aspects of our lives. At its most harmless, it is annoying. At its worst, it is deadly, on a massive scale.  The Cool are the termites of life,... Read more

Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth

By: Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

Narrated by: Jeff Edward Dumas

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth was a treatise written by French Enlightenment philosopher and civil servant Anne Robert Jacques Turgot. "This Essay May be Considered as the Germ of the Treatise on The Wealth of Nations, written by the Celebrated Smith" - Condorcet's Life of Turgot. Read more

Peacerunner

By: Penn Rhodeen

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the true story of an unknown American politician who played a critical role in ending centuries of conflict in Northern Ireland. Without the president’s permission, and breaking every conventional rule about how to deal with terrorists, former congressman Bruce Morrison helped end a conflict that most observers thought would continue... Read more

JFK

By: Fredrik Logevall

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 29 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian takes us as close as we have ever been to the real John F. Kennedy in this revelatory biography of the iconic, yet still elusive, thirty-fifth president.

“An utterly incandescent study of one of the most consequential figures of the twentieth century.”—Jill Lepore,... Read more

Justicia Global

By: Ernesto Che Guevara

Narrated by: Irene Machado, Gustavo Dardes & Ignacio Rodrígu...

Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A Spanish-language edition of three speeches on corporate globalism and imperialism by one of the most widely known guerilla fighters, political theorists, and organizers, Che Guevara.

In this collection of three speeches, Ernesto Che Guevara offers a revolutionary view of a world in which human solidarity and understanding replace imperialist... Read more

The End of Loyalty

By: Rick Wartzman

Narrated by: Rick Wartzman

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Having a good, stable job used to be the bedrock of the American Dream. Not anymore.

In this richly detailed and eye-opening book, Rick Wartzman chronicles the erosion of the relationship between American companies and their workers. Through the stories of four major employers -- General Motors, General Electric, Kodak, and Coca-Cola -- he shows... Read more

Who Let the Dogs In?

By: Molly Ivins

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The dazzling, inimitable Molly Ivins is back, with her own personal Hall of Fame of America’s most amazing and outlandish politicians–the wicked, the wise, the witty, and the witless–drawn from more than twenty years of reporting on the folks who attempt to run our government (in some cases, into the ground).

Who Let the Dogs In? takes us on a... Read more

The Vote Collectors

By: Nick Ochsner & Michael Graff

Narrated by: Nick Ochsner

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In November 2018, Baptist preacher Mark Harris beat the odds, narrowly fending off a blue wave in the sprawling Ninth District of North Carolina. But word soon got around that something fishy was going on in rural Bladen County. At the center of the mess was a local political operative named McCrae Dowless. Dowless had learned the ins and outs... Read more

Rules for Deplorables

By: Cathi Chamberlain

Narrated by: Cathi Chamberlain

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

President Trump can't stop talking about it. TV and talk radio are abuzz. Newly-elected radical Dems are making headlines across our country. Democratic 2020 presidential hopefuls are being forced to draw a red line in the sand. Will America bow to the socialist left? "Rules for Deplorables: A Primer for Fighting Radical Socialism" heavily... Read more

UnPresidented

By: Jon Sopel

Narrated by: Jon Sopel

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Fear and loathing on the 2020 campaign trail...

'Feb 26, White House briefing room:
The coronavirus feels like it is changing everything ... Coronavirus is suddenly not just a public health emergency; it has the potential to upend Trump's whole campaign...'

Our man in America, BBC North America Editor Jon Sopel, presents... Read more

The Compatriots

By: Andrei Soldatov & Irina Borogan

Narrated by: Nick Sullivan

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The authors of The Red Web examine the shifting role of Russian expatriates throughout history, and their complicated, unbreakable relationship with the mother country--be it antagonistic or far too chummy.

The history of Russian espionage is soaked in blood, from a spontaneous pistol shot that killed a secret policeman in Romania in 1924 to the... Read more

Don't Know Much About the American Presidents

By: Kenneth C. Davis

Narrated by: Arthur Morey, Kirby Heyborne, Mark Bramhall & K...

Length: 23 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

For more than twenty years since his New York Times bestseller Don’t Know Much About® History first appeared, Davis has shown that Americans don’t hate history, just the dull version dished out in school.

Now Davis turns his attention to what is arguably the most important and most fascinating subject in American history: our presidents. From... Read more

To Start a War

By: Robert Draper

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 15 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

One of BookPage's Best Books of 2020

“The detailed, nuanced, gripping account of that strange and complex journey offered in Robert Draper’s To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America Into Iraq is essential reading—now, especially now . . . Draper’s account [is] one for the ages . . . A must-read for all who care about presidential... Read more

Genocidios

By: Dan Hamilton

Narrated by: Vinicio Aguinaga

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

¿Toda tu vida has escuchado el termino “genocidio” sin saber todo lo que rodea a esta palabra? ¿Te gustaría saber cuales han sido los actos más atroces en contra de la humanidad? ¿Acaso existen otros momentos de la historia donde eventos genocidas hayan ocurrido y no tienes conocimiento de ello? Entonces sigue leyendo...
“El genocidio -la... Read more

The Economic Consequences of the Peace

By: John Maynard Keynes

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

John Maynard Keynes died in 1946, but his name is still one to conjure with in economics and politics worldwide. Although his contributions to economic theory established and maintain his fame, he also - particularly at the time in his life when he wrote the present book, Economic Consequences of the Peace - showed a flair for practical... Read more

ذكريات رجل غير مهم - فلسطيني عاصر النكبة

By: محي الدين عبد الرحمن

Narrated by: سلام ديك

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

سيرة ذاتية لأحد أبناء قرية بيت سوريك بالقدس، يصف أحوال القرية قبل النكبة والحرب ثم العودة لإحياء القرية على يد أهلها وأملهم في استرداد بقية فلسطين المحتلة ينقل تفاصيل الحياة اليومية في الريف الفلسطيني فيما بعد النكبة وحتى خروجه منها إلى الشتات . مأساة فلسطينية يعرضها لنا الكاتب محي الين عبد الرحمن في كتابه "ذكريات رجل غير مهم" استمع إليه الآن... Read more