Politics & Economy audiobooks

Plastic Capitalism

By: Sean H. Vanatta

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 16 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

American households are awash in expensive credit card debt. But where did all this debt come from? In this history of the rise of postwar American finance, Sean H. Vanatta shows how bankers created our credit card economy and, with it, the indebted nation we know today.



America's consumer debt machine was not inevitable. In the years after... Read more

Pull the Chocks, I'm Launching

By: Major General (Ret.) David E.B. (DEB) Ward

Narrated by: Michael DelGaudio

Length: 16 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Pull the Chocks, I'm Launching is an inspirational metaphor for removing obstacles in your path to obtaining your dream.  In August 1967 I fulfilled my dream of becoming a fighter pilot when I was accepted into the 123rd Fighter Interceptor Squadron, the Redhawks, of the Oregon Air National Guard.  That dream became indelibly ingrained in my... Read more

The Demographic Cliff

By: Harry S. Dent, Jr.

Narrated by: Harry S. Dent, Jr.

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author and financial guru Harry Dent shows why we’re facing a “great deflation” after five years of desperate stimulus—and what to do about it nowThroughout his long career as an economic forecaster, Harry Dent has relied on a not-so-secret weapon: demographics. Studying the predictable things people do as they age is the ultimate... Read more

...And a Hard Rain Fell

By: John Ketwig

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 15 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic, must-listen Vietnam war memoir



The classic Vietnam war memoir, ...and a hard rain fell is the unforgettable story of a veteran's rage and the unflinching portrait of a young soldier's odyssey from the roads of upstate New York to the jungles of Vietnam. Updated for its twentieth anniversary with a new afterword on the Iraq War and its... Read more

Afghanistan

By: Barnett R. Rubin

Narrated by: David Stifel

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Afghanistan, a landlocked country in Central Asia, has improbably been at the center of international geopolitics for four decades. After the Soviet Union invaded in 1980, Afghanistan descended into an unending conflict that featured at various points most of the world's major powers. In the mid-1990s, the country entered a new phase, when the... Read more

Blind Man's Bete Noire

By: Peter White

Narrated by: Peter White

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In Blind Man's Bete Noire, Peter White explores some of the things which annoy him most about his blindness. The four programmes include The Countryside, Holidays, Being Introduced to Other Blind People and Going Slowly. Produced by Cheryl Gabriel. Read more

Selena Gomez: Mental Health Advocate

By: Elizabeth Neuenfeldt

Narrated by: Dana Fleming

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Selena Gomez is known for her acting and music career. But she also advocates for mental health! Through leveled text and crisp images, this low-level title introduces Selena’s life and accomplishments. A profile details basic facts about her life, a map shows off her hometown, and a timeline lays out important events. Quotes throughout the book... Read more

The how and why of buying bitcoin

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The basic idea of bitcoin is simple: Instead of a financial institution holding a bank ledger, a chain of computers linked through the internet are all using the same software to record and verify every transaction. But how can a cryptocurrency be worth anything in the first place? Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports. Read more

Marching Powder

By: Rusty Young

Narrated by: Adrian Mulraney & Rusty Young

Length: 14 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Rusty Young was backpacking in South America when he heard about Thomas McFadden, a convicted English drug trafficker who ran tours inside Bolivia's notorious San Pedro prison. Intrigued, the twenty-something Australian law graduate travelled to La Paz and joined one of Thomas's illegal tours. What followed took both men by surprise: they formed... Read more

14 Miles

By: DW Gibson

Narrated by: Ramón de Ocampo

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

An esteemed journalist delivers a compelling on-the-ground account of the construction of President Trump’s border wall in San Diego—and the impact on the lives of local residents.

In August of 2019, Donald Trump finished building his border wall—at least a portion of it. In San Diego, the Army Corps of engineers completed two years of... Read more

The Manchurian President

By: Aaron Klein

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Eloquent, winsome, and charismatic, Barack Obama has emerged from almost total obscurity to quickly become the most powerful man in the world. But most Americans know almost nothing about their forty-fourth president. Until now.Tens of millions of Americans sense there is something very wrong with the president of the United States, but they... Read more

Rivals

By: Lorraine Daston

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Why is “the scientific community” so unified?

In the last 350-odd years, the international “scientific community” has come to be the bastion of consensus and concerted action, especially in the face of two global crises: disastrous climate change, and a deadly pandemic. How did “the scientific community” come into existence, and why does it... Read more

Stolen Honor

By: Clint Lorance

Narrated by: Adam North

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The captivating account of how Clint Lorance, a soldier who became a scapegoat for a corrupt military hierarchy, was falsely charged with war crimes, imprisoned, and eventually pardoned by President Trump.
While out on patrol in Afghanistan, Clint Lorance learned that two men, both suspected suicide bombers, were speeding toward a crowded city... Read more

Embers of War

By: Fredrik Logevall

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 32 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
 
Written with the style of a great novelist and the intrigue of a Cold War thriller, Embers of War is a landmark work that will forever change your understanding of how and why America went to war in Vietnam. Tapping newly accessible diplomatic archives in several nations, Fredrik Logevall traces the path that led... Read more

The Brown Years

By: Steve Richards

Narrated by: Steve Richards

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Steve Richards tells the inside story of Gordon Brown's time as prime minister, based on revealing interviews with his close colleagues. Interviewees include former ministers Peter Mandelson, Ed Balls, Harriet Harman, Jack Straw, Douglas Alexander, Alan Johnson, Hazel Blears, Peter Hain and Shriti Vadera; and several former Downing St insiders... Read more

No Hero

By: Mark Owen & Kevin Maurer

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The companion volume to the multimillion-copy bestseller No Easy Day by former Navy SEAL Mark Owen reveals the evolution of a SEAL Team Six operator.

Mark Owen’s instant #1 New York Times bestseller, No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden, focused on the high-profile targets and headline-grabbing chapters... Read more

Killing Reagan

By: Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff & Bill O'Reilly

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling team of Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard comes Killing Reagan, a page-turning epic account of the career of President Ronald Reagan that tells the vivid story of his rise to power--and the forces of evil that conspired to bring him down.

The basis for the 2016 television movie available on streaming.

Just two months into... Read more

Urheberrecht

By: Andreas Schwarzlmüller

Narrated by: Andreas Schwarzlmüller & Rechtsanwalt Lanzinger

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Urheberrecht für Kreative Wie du im Dschungel des Urheberrechts überleben kannst Rechtsanwalt Mag. Michael Lanzinger erklärt hier alle wichtigen Aspekte zum Thema Urheberrecht speziell für Kreative. Es bleibt leider keinem aus. Wenn wir Mahnungen und Strafen entgehen wollen, dann müssen wir uns mit dem Urheberrecht beschäftigen, ob wir... Read more

Training for Catastrophe

By: Lindsay Thomas

Narrated by: Karen Peakes

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Why would the normally buttoned-down national security state imagine lurid future scenarios like a zombie apocalypse? In Training for Catastrophe, author Lindsay Thomas shows how our security regime reimagines plausibility to focus on unlikely and even unreal events rather than probable ones. With an in-depth focus on preparedness (a pivotal,... Read more

“I’m Just a Supply Sgt.”

By: Donald M. Stout

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

I'm Just a Supply Sgt. is a compelling narrative of the Vietnam War with a very personal, psychological perspective that is difficult to find in most histories.



Don Stout's ability to comprehend and record his feelings during the war, and his struggles after the war, provide not only a window into the suffering of many veterans but also a tool... Read more

All Blood Runs Red

By: Tom Clavin & Phil Keith

Narrated by: James Shippy

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The incredible story of the first African American military pilot, who went on to become a Paris nightclub impresario, a spy in the French Resistance and an American civil rights pioneer

Eugene Bullard lived one of the most fascinating lives of the twentieth century. The son of a former slave and an indigenous Creek woman, Bullard fled home at... Read more

This is Why I Resist

By: Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu

Narrated by: Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is the hard conversation we must have.

In 2020 we have seen clearer than ever that Black people are still fighting for the right to be judged by the content of their character and not the colour of their skin. In the words of the author, "there is no freedom without rights and no rights without the freedom to exercise those rights."

... Read more

Can Intervention Work?

By: Rory Stewart

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Rory Stewart and Gerald Knaus distill their remarkable firsthand experiences of political and military interventions into a potent examination of what we can and cannot achieve in a new era of 'nation building.' As they delve into the massive, military-driven efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Balkans, the expansion of the EU, and the... Read more

التجربة الالمانية.. دراسة في عوامل النجاح السياسي

By: محمد صادق إسماعيل

Narrated by: رهام الزين

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

تعدّ التجربة الألمانية تجربةً ناجحة اقتصادية في الأساس ويعدو ذلك إلى النظام الذي وضعه المستشار بيسمارك في القرن التاسع عشر والذي كان سببًا في منحه لقب المستشار الحديدي حيث وضع نظام التقاعد والضمان الاجتماعي والصحي والتي لا زالت قائمة حتى وقتنا الحالي.. لكن كيف استفادت ألمانيا من هذا سياسيًا؟! وكيف انتقلت إلى الواجهة السياسية عنوة؟ ولماذا تعدّ... Read more