Politics & Economy audiobooks

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

Brian Boru

By: Kelly Mass

Narrated by: Kelly Fraser

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Brian Boru, one of medieval Ireland’s most celebrated figures, was an Irish king who played a pivotal role in shaping the country’s history. He is best known for ending the centuries-long dominance of the Uí Néill over the High Kingship of Ireland and resisting the Viking invasions that had threatened Irish sovereignty. Brian’s rise to power... Read more

Dr. Hedgewar Aani Samarastechi Vicharsutre डॉ. हेडगेवार आणि समरसतेची विचार सूत्रे

By: Ramesh Patange

Narrated by: Savita Mhaskar

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Keshav Baliram Hedgewar envisioned the dream of an undivided, strong Hindu nation with extraordinary methods. He not only envisioned this dream but also translated it into reality by founding the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). In doing so, he forged unique bonds of unity with ordinary volunteers, based on a deep sense of non-duality. His... Read more

The Point of It All

By: Charles Krauthammer

Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb & Daniel Krauthammer

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Created and compiled by Charles Krauthammer before his death, The Point of It All is a powerful collection of the influential columnist's most important works. Spanning the personal, the political and the philosophical, it includes never-before-published speeches and a major new essay about the effect of today's populist movements on the future... Read more

Soldier Girls

By: Helen Thorpe

Narrated by: Donna Postel

Length: 15 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Soldier Girls follows the lives of three women on their paths to the military. These women, who are quite different in every way, become friends, and we watch their interaction and also what happens when they are separated. We see their families, their lovers, their spouses, their children. We see them work extremely hard, deal with the... Read more

Foreign-born workers in UK share fears for future

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Uncertainty prevails in Britain after Brexit has left immigrants feeling vulnerable. The service sector, a large part of the British economy, is also a big employer of foreigners, which means these workers may be hit hard. Hari Sreenivasan reports from London about some of their worries. Read more

Guardian

By: Thomas Pecora

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Somalia was Tom Pecora's first deployment as a CIA Protective Operations Cadre (POC) officer, responsible for providing protective operations support in hostile areas of the world. He later headed up a series of the Agency's undisclosed protective operations teams. From 1989 until his retirement in 2013, he was assigned to multiple war zones... Read more

Always a Soldier

By: Rob Smith

Narrated by: Rob Smith

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

An Iraq War memoir and searing political commentary from Fox News regular and “America’s Favorite Black, Gay Republican” Rob SmithMoonlight meets American Sniper in this groundbreaking memoir and political commentary from a bold new voice in American politics. Before he became a war veteran and political analyst, he was a young black man who... Read more

Flooding into Bangladesh, Rohingya refugees flee harrowing violence

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingyas have fled to Bangladesh in the past three weeks after suffering violent attacks by Myanmar troops and Buddhist vigilantes. The sudden influx of Rohingyas is causing tensions with local Bengalis, who fear becoming the minority. Special correspondent Tania Rashid explains the origins of this mass exodus... Read more

The Folly of Realism

By: Alexander Vindman

Narrated by: Jacques Roy & Alexander Vindman

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A bestselling national security expert delivers a chilling analysis of how Western indecision and apathy made possible the return of brutal Russian expansionism – with catastrophic consequences.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, six US presidential administrations of both parties pursued policies for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia that... Read more

The Fall of Spirituality

By: Julius Evola

Narrated by: Michael Moynihan

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

• Examines newer spiritual “systems” of the modern era, from spiritism and theosophy, to parapsychic research and anthroposophism, to psychoanalysis and the Church of Satan

• Compares these newer spiritual “systems” to the traditional spiritual path of the ancients and exposes the misunderstandings, misinterpretations, and occult dangers lurking... Read more

Anthony Fokker

By: Marc Dierikx

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 16 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Comprehensive biography of Anthony Fokker, the famed Dutch pilot and daredevil aviator Anthony Fokker: The Flying Dutchman Who Shaped American Aviation tells the larger-than-life true story of maverick pilot and aircraft manufacturer Anthony Fokker. Fokker came from an affluent Dutch family and developed a gift for tinkering with mechanics.... Read more

Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds

By: Jared Ross Hardesty

Narrated by: Sanya Simmons

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Shortly after the first Europeans arrived in seventeenth-century New England, they began to import Africans and capture the area's indigenous peoples as slaves. By the eve of the American Revolution, enslaved people comprised only about 4 percent of the population, but slavery had become instrumental to the region's economy and had shaped its... Read more

Created Equal

By: Ben Carson

Narrated by: Ben Carson & Terrence Kidd

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author and conservative icon Dr. Ben Carson lays out a hopeful and inspiring road map for how America can come together.

External physical characteristics that are genetically encoded are things over which no individual has control. But rather than appreciating the gift of diversity, some have chosen to use it to drive wedges between... Read more

Digital Cash

By: Finn Brunton

Narrated by: Christopher Ragland

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In this audiobook, Christopher Ragland narrates the fascinating untold story of digital cash and its creators, from experiments in the 1970s to the mania over Bitcoin Bitcoin may appear to be a revolutionary form of digital cash without precedent or prehistory. In fact, it is only the best-known recent experiment in a long line of similar... Read more

Countering China's Great Game

By: Michael Scott Sobolik

Narrated by: Rich Miller

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The United States is in the midst of a new cold war with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and America is losing. That claim, at the core of Countering China's Great Game challenges the Washington, D.C. conventional wisdom about U.S.-China relations. Officials in Washington are reacting to the CCP and playing defense. Like America's efforts to... Read more

The Signal and the Noise

By: Nate Silver

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 16 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The groundbreaking exploration of probability and uncertainty that explains how to make better predictions in a world drowning in data, from the nation’s foremost political forecaster—updated with insights into the pandemic, journalism today, and polling

One of The Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Works of Nonfiction of... Read more

Yes We (Still) Can

By: Dan Pfeiffer

Narrated by: Dan Pfeiffer

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From Obama's former communications director and current co-host of Pod Save America comes a colorful account of how politics, the media, and the Internet changed during the Obama presidency and how Democrats can fight back in the Trump era.

On November 9th, 2016, Dan Pfeiffer woke up like most of the world wondering WTF just happened. How had... Read more

Abraham Lincoln: A Life 1863-1864

By: Michael Burlingame

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“Go Forward, and Give Us Victories”: From the Mud March to Gettysburg: (January–July 1863): Dissatisfaction with the Emancipation Proclamation and lack of military victory heightens the discontent with the administration. Trouble comes with the destructive rivalry within the army and the threat of the French intervening on behalf of the... Read more

Do As I Say (Not As I Do)

By: Peter Schweizer

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Prominent liberals support a whole litany of policies and principles: progressive taxes, affirmative action, greater regulation of corporations, raising the inheritance tax, strict environmental regulations, children’s rights, consumer rights, and more. But do they actually live by these beliefs? Peter Schweizer decided to investigate the... Read more

Los sueños de la niña de la montaña

By: Eufrosina Cruz Mendoza

Narrated by: Gabriela Ramírez

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Este libro cuenta una historia de terquedad y rebeldía. La de una niña que a los 12 años decidió escribir su destino y, de paso, ayudar a miles y miles de mexicanas a cambiar su suerte Soy Eufrosina Cruz y nací en la montaña zapoteca. A los 27 años gané la presidencia de mi pueblo, pero no me dejaron gobernar porque era mujer. En ese momento... Read more

Path to Zero

By: Tucker Perkins

Narrated by: Tucker Perkins

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Tucker Perkins’s Path to Zero shows how we can reverse climate change and create a cleaner environment for future generations by putting aside our biases and working together for change.Climate catastrophe-inspired narratives like “Electrify Everything!” have a grip on people’s minds. The simplicity of the solution to the most complex endeavor... Read more

Unspeakable

By: John Bercow

Narrated by: John Bercow

Length: 18 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

When John Bercow retired as Speaker of the House of Commons on 31 October 2019, he had become one of the most recognisable and iconoclastic figures in British politics, occupying a ringside seat during one of the most febrile periods in modern British history. In his no-holds-barred memoir, he offers verdicts on the leading figures of his era -... Read more

Dorothy Day

By: John Loughery & Blythe Randolph

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 17 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“Magisterial and glorious” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), the first full authoritative biography of Dorothy Day—American icon, radical pacifist, Catholic convert, and advocate for the homeless—is “a vivid account of her political and religious development” (Karen Armstrong, The New York Times).

After growing up in a conservative middle-class... Read more