Politics & Economy audiobooks

Deutschland der Extreme

By: Martin Debes

Narrated by: Mathias Grimm

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In Thüringen greift die AfD nach der Macht und bringt die ganze Republik in Bedrängnis

Martin Debes beschreibt anhand von Thüringen, warum die großen Volksparteien an Boden verlieren, das Vertrauen in demokratische Prozesse und staatliche Institutionen schwindet und Politik zu einem Schauplatz von Extremisten und Karrieristen wird. Sein Buch ist... Read more

The Progressive Presidents

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Mary Rossman

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

When William McKinley was assassinated in 1901, young Theodore Roosevelt was thrust into the presidency, one that would earn him a place on Mount Rushmore, Roosevelt’s “Square Deal” domestic policies favored average citizens while busting trusts and monopolies. Roosevelt also promoted conservation as an environmental stance, while his “speak... Read more

How to Read the Constitution--and Why

By: Kim Wehle

Narrated by: Kim Wehle

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

""A must-read for this era.”—Jake Tapper, CNN Anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent An insightful, urgent, and perennially relevant handbook that lays out in common sense language how the United States Constitution works, and how its protections are eroding before our eyes—essential reading for anyone who wants to understand and parse the... Read more

Así matamos al Patrón. La cacería de Pablo Escobar

By: Don Berna

Narrated by: Ricardo Carrasquilla

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Cuando se pensaba que ya estaba todo dicho sobre Pablo Escobar, aparece este libro sumamente revelador, escrito en clave de vértigo. Quien lo lea se sentirá asistiendo a una sala de cine, oirá los latidos agitados de la Medellín de comienzos de los noventa y verá desfilar a los más disímiles personajes, unidos tras un solo propósito: cazar y dar... Read more

Trigger Warning

By: Mick Hume

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In this blistering polemic, veteran journalist Mick Hume presents an uncompromising defence of freedom of expression, which he argues is threatened in the West, not by jackbooted censorship but by a creeping culture of conformism and You-Can’t-Say-That. The cold-blooded murder of the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists in January 2015... Read more

Dear Emmett Till

By: Michael Eric Dyson

Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A letter to Emmett Till, an excerpt from Dyson's longer work, Long Time Coming

Here is a passionate call to America to finally reckon with race and start the journey to redemption. As Dyson notes: "Rarely has the tragic fact of Black death been as urgently in need of interpretation and engagement as in this moment." Read more

Climate Chaos

By: Brian Fagan & Nadia Durrani

Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A thirty-thousand-year history of the relationship between climate and civilization that teaches powerful lessons about how humankind can survive.  Man-made climate change may have began in the last two hundred years, but humankind has witnessed many eras of climate instability. The results have not always been pretty: once-mighty civilizations... Read more

A Sense of the Beginning

By: Norbert Gstrein

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A bomb threat is made at a provincial Austrian village station. An unattended bag placed next to three messages: "Repent!", "First and final warning!" and "Next time it will be for real!. But no-one takes it too seriously, not even the police. Then a teacher in the village thinks he recognises his favourite pupil Daniel on a wanted notice in a... Read more

21st-Century Virtues

By: Lucinda Holdforth

Narrated by: Lucinda Holdforth

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Authenticity. Vulnerability. Humility. Transparency. These are some of the 21st-century virtues proselytised by mindset gurus, paraded (if not practised) by big corporations, and lauded by professionals on LinkedIn. The quest for authenticity, for example, is central to progressive campaigns for greater diversity and inclusion, while our... Read more

Between the Mountain and the Sky

By: Maggie Doyne

Narrated by: Maggie Doyne

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.Between the Mountain and the Sky shows us the goodness that is possible when a single person--regardless of age--takes action to help another and, in the process, changes the lives of hundreds. Maggie’s story begins in suburban New Jersey, in a comfortable middle-class family that supports her decision to travel the world... Read more

Eunice

By: Eileen McNamara

Narrated by: Amanda Carlin

Length: 15 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In this “revelation” of a biography (USA TODAY), a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist examines the life and times of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, arguing she left behind the Kennedy family’s most profound political legacy.

While Joe Kennedy was grooming his sons for the White House and the Senate, his Stanford-educated daughter, Eunice, was hijacking... Read more

Slavery’s Capitalism

By: Sven Beckert & Seth Rockman

Narrated by: William Hughes, Kevin Kenerly, Bahni Turpin, Pa...

Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world’s most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage.This was no mere coincidence. Slavery’s Capitalism argues for slavery’s centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades... Read more

Trades About to Happen

By: David H. Weis

Narrated by: Scott R. Pollak

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive book on adapting the classic work of Richard Wyckoff to today's markets Price and volume analysis is one of the most effective approaches to market analysis. It was pioneered by Richard Wyckoff, who worked on Wall Street during the golden age of technical analysis. In Trades About to Happen, veteran trader David Weis explains how... Read more

Over Here

By: David M. Kennedy

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 17 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The Great War of 1914–1918 confronted the United States with one of the most wrenching crises in the nation's history. It also left a residue of disruption and disillusion that spawned an even more ruinous conflict scarcely a generation later.



Over Here is the single most comprehensive discussion of the impact of World War I on American society.... Read more

Let's Be Reasonable

By: Jonathan Marks

Narrated by: John McLain

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Not so long ago, conservative intellectuals such as William F. Buckley Jr. believed universities were worth fighting for. Today, conservatives seem more inclined to burn them down. In Let's Be Reasonable, conservative political theorist and professor Jonathan Marks finds in liberal education an antidote to this despair, arguing that the true... Read more

Saving Freedom

By: Joe Scarborough

Narrated by: Joe Scarborough

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

History called on Harry Truman to unite the Western world against Soviet communism, but first he had to rally Republicans and Democrats behind America’s most dramatic foreign policy shift since George Washington delivered his farewell address. How did one of the least prepared presidents to walk into the Oval Office become one of its most... Read more

They Knew

By: James Gustave Speth

Narrated by: Al Kessel

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2015, a group of twenty-one young people sued the federal government for violating their constitutional rights by promoting the climate catastrophe, depriving them of life, liberty, and property without due process of law. They Knew offers evidence for their claims, presenting a devastating, play-by-play account of the federal government's... Read more

Evil People

By: Kelly Mass

Narrated by: Doug Greene

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a compilation of 3 different titles, which are about the following topics:
1: Genghis Khan was the Mongol emperor who has expanded his region to the biggest empire on the face of the earth ever. His empire stretched from East Asia all the way to various European countries, the Middle East, and beyond.What made Genghis Khan so... Read more

Evocación

By: Aleida March

Narrated by: Irene Machado, Ignacio Rodríguez De Anca & Erne...

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

La viuda del Che Guevara recuerda el gran romance revolucionario trágicamente acortado por el asesinato del Che en Bolivia.

Cuando Aleida March primero conoció al Che Guevara, ella era una combatiente de veinte años del interior de Cuba, él era un ya legendario revolucionario y un exuberante líder. Pero había una faceta más humana del Che a la... Read more

Joker One

By: Donovan Campbell

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

When Donovan Campbell's platoon deployed to Ramadi in the spring of 2004, they believed they'd be spending most of their time building schools, training police, and making friends with the citizens. But shortly after arriving, when Campbell awoke to the chilling cry of "Jihad, Jihad, Jihad!" echoing from minaret to minaret across the city, he... Read more

Way of the Reaper

By: Nicholas Irving & Gary Brozek

Narrated by: Jeff Gurner

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

From the legendary special operations sniper and bestselling author of The Reaper comes a rare and powerful audiobook on the art of being a sniper.

Way of the Reaper is a step-by-step accounting of how a sniper works, through the lens of Irving's 10 most significant kills - none of which have been told before. Each mission is an in-depth look at... Read more

Los sueños de la niña de la montaña

By: Eufrosina Cruz Mendoza

Narrated by: Eufrosina Cruz Mendoza

Length: 11 hours 40 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

How to Run the World

By: Parag Khanna

Narrated by: Jim Meskimen

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is a stunning and provocative guide to the future of international relations—a system for managing global problems beyond the stalemates of business versus government, East versus West, rich versus poor, democracy versus authoritarianism, free markets versus state capitalism. Written by the most esteemed and innovative adventurer-scholar of... Read more

The Mueller Report - Volume II

By: Robert S. Mueller, III

Narrated by: Man with a Cat

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

This report is submitted to the Attorney General pursuant to 28 C.F.R. § 600.8(c), which states that , "[a]t the conclusion of the Special Counsel 's work, he shall provide the Attorney General a confidential report explaining the prosecution or declination decisions [the Special Counsel] reached."The Russian government interfered in the 2016... Read more