Politics & Economy audiobooks

Free Speech

By: Corey Brettschneider

Narrated by: Minka Wiltz

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Speech is the life blood of democracy, but only if we understand its true meaning, and its role in sustaining our government.  Key texts from the U.S. Supreme Court, John Stuart Mill, Alexander Meiklejohn, Ida B. Wells and Charles Lawrence illuminate the immediate questions and pressing issues of free speech.

A Penguin Classic

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In the Shadows of the American Century

By: Alfred W. McCoy

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In a completely original analysis, prizewinning historian Alfred W. McCoy explores America’s rise as a world power—from the 1890s through the Cold War—and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the twenty-first century through a fusion of cyberwar, space warfare, trade pacts, and military alliances. McCoy then analyzes the marquee instruments... Read more

Conservative Principles

By: Benjamin Disraeli

Narrated by: Peter Quest

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

British politician Benjamin Disraeli gave this speech in 1872. It details the Conservative Party’s platform, which stressed the role that the nobility, church, and House of Commons each plays in government. Disraeli also took the opportunity to criticize the actions of the Liberal Party, which had been in power for the last four years.... Read more

The Weather Makers

By: Tim Flannery

Narrated by: Drew De Carvalho

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

From Dr. Tim Flannery, one of the world's foremost experts on conservation and ecology, comes a book of immeasurable importance. Hailed by Kirkus Reviews as a "powerful and persuasive" work that is "sure to provoke strong reaction," The Weather Makers is among the finest examinations of climate change ever written. Originally skeptical of global... Read more

Kissinger the Negotiator

By: James K. Sebenius, R. Nicholas Burns & Robert H...

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Foreword by Henry Kissinger
In this groundbreaking, definitive guide to the art of negotiation, three Harvard professors offer a comprehensive examination of one of the most successful dealmakers of all time, Henry Kissinger, and some of his most impressive achievements, including the Paris Peace Accords for which he won the 1973 Nobel Peace... Read more

Free, Melania

By: Kate Bennett

Narrated by: Kate Bennett

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

The first behind-the-scenes look at the life of the most enigmatic First Lady in U.S. history.

Melania Trump is an enigma. Regardless of your political leanings, she is fascinating—a First Lady who, in many ways, is the most modern and groundbreaking in recent history. A former model whose beauty in person... Read more

On Liberty

By: John Stuart Mill

Narrated by: Jason William Bayless

Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic and influential essay, On Liberty, was written by John Stuart Mill and first published in 1859. An English philosopher, Mill painstakingly expounded upon his ideas of liberty, individuality, and authority mainly through a lens influenced by the philosophy of utilitarianism. Read more

It Stops Here

By: Rueben George & Michael Simpson

Narrated by: Rueben George

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE GEORGE RYGA AWARD*
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE CITY OF VANCOUVER BOOK AWARD*
*LONGLISTED FOR THE SCIENCE WRITERS AND COMMUNICATORS OF CANADA AWARD*

A personal account of one man’s confrontation with colonization that illuminates the philosophy and values of a First Nation on the front lines of the fight against an... Read more

Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle

By: Lloyd Alter

Narrated by: Cherlandra Estrada

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Stop thinking about efficiency and start thinking about sufficiency Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle reveals the carbon cost of everything we do, identifying where we can make big reductions, while not sweating the small stuff. The international scientific consensus is that we have less than a decade to drastically slash our collective carbon... Read more

The Mere Exposure Effect

By: William Rands

Narrated by: Alice Venderra

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The Mere Exposure Effect is a psychological phenomenon where repeated exposure to a stimulus leads to an increased preference for that stimulus. This effect occurs without any active engagement or deep processing from the individual. Simply put, the more we encounter something, the more likely we are to develop a liking for it, even if we don’t... Read more

Eleanor Holmes Norton

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Decades before delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton would represent her district as a congresswoman on Capitol Hill, she worked as one of the original organizers for the March on Washington. Fifty years later, Holmes Norton reflects with Gwen Ifill on her efforts, part of a series of discussions on the legacy of August 28, 1963. Read more

Kingdom and Country

By: Angie Ward

Narrated by: Lyle Blaker & Charity Spencer

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

We love God. We love our country. What does it look like to love each properly and well?

National tensions are at a record high. People on all points in the political spectrum care deeply about their country, although they differ wildly in their opinions about what it looks like to serve that country well. As Christians, we love God and seek to... Read more

A Mormon in the White House?

By: Hugh Hewitt

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

He may be the only Republican who can deny John McCain the nomination, and he may be the only Republican who can stop Hillary Clinton. He’s an incredibly successful businessman and a fiscal and social conservative who managed to win the governorship in one of the staunchest Democratic states in America. But Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is... Read more

GSG 9

By: Martin Herzog

Narrated by: Martin Herzog

Length: 15 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Am 18. Oktober 1977 wurde in der Wüste Somalias ein deutscher Mythos geboren: Auf dem Flughafen von Mogadischu befreite die GSG9 aus einer entführten Lufthansa-Maschine 86 Menschen. Es war der erste große Einsatz der Antiterroreinheit, und er machte sie schlagartig weltbekannt. Der Mythos zerbrach 16 Jahre später auf dem Bahnhof von Bad Kleinen,... Read more

Beijing Rules

By: Bethany Allen

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

An acclaimed journalist on contemporary China lays bare the country's two-decade quest for global dominance and how the Chinese Communist Party coopted what Western leaders have long considered their most powerful tool in the fight for liberal democracy—capitalism—to expand its illiberal influence worldwide.Bethany Allen, the award-winning China... Read more

Inside The Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Untold Stories of the Most Intriguing Spies

By: Afiane MD

Narrated by: Raven Pocon

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Espionage is an old game that man has practised throughout his existence on earth. It has also been a dangerous and intricate job to carry out. Mastering this game was never easy to achieve since it takes a lot of courage, shrewdness and tactfullness. Love, sex, and women played an important role in entrapping , recruiting and controlling spies... Read more

Indelible Ink

By: Richard Kluger

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

For months in early 1980, scientists, journalists, sightseers, and nearby residents listened anxiously to rumblings in Mount St. Helens, part of the chain of western volcanoes fueled by the 700-mile-long Cascadia fault. Still, no one was prepared when an immense eruption took the top off of the mountain and laid waste to hundreds of square miles... Read more

This Is Not A Drill

By: Extinction Rebellion

Narrated by: Eva Pope

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of This Is Not A Drill by Extinction Rebellion, read by Eva Pope.

Extinction Rebellion are inspiring a whole generation to take action on climate breakdown.
Now you can become part of the movement - and together, we can make history.

It's time. This is our last chance to do anything about the global climate... Read more

Beyond Policing

By: Philip V. McHarris

Narrated by: Philip V. McHarris

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

What would happen if policing disappeared? Would we be safe? This book imagines a world without police. It’s evident that policing is a problem. But what is the way best forward? In Beyond Policing, distinguished scholar and writer Philip V. McHarris reimagines the world without police to find answers and reveal how we can make police... Read more

I Have a Dream \ Yo tengo un sueno (Spanish Edition)

By: Martin Luther King

Narrated by: Diana Pou & Pablo González

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Presentamos la biblioteca Martin Luther King Jr.Con un nuevo prólogo de Amanda Gorman.Una hermosa edición coleccionable del legendario discurso del Dr. Martin Luther King Jr en la Marcha en Washington, parte de los archivos del Dr. King publicados exclusivamente por HarperCollins. El 28 de agosto de 1963, el Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. se... Read more

Republican Like Me

By: Ken Stern

Narrated by: Ken Stern

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The former CEO of NPR set out for conservative America to find out why these people are so wrong about everything. It turns out, they weren’t. Ken Stern watched the increasing polarization of our country with growing concern. As a longtime partisan Democrat himself, he felt forced to acknowledge that his own views were too parochial, too absent... Read more

Passionate Sage

By: Joseph J. Ellis

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is a fresh look at an astute, likably quirky statesman, by the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Founding Brothers and the National Book Award–winning American Sphinx.John Adams, one of the Founding Fathers of our nation and its second president, spent nearly the last third of his life in retirement, grappling with contradictory views of... Read more

A Kingdom of Their Own

By: Joshua Partlow

Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan

Length: 18 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The key to understanding the calamitous Afghan war is the complex, ultimately failed relationship between the powerful, duplicitous Karzai family and the United States, brilliantly portrayed here by the former Kabul bureau chief for The Washington Post.

The United States went to Afghanistan on a simple mission: avenge the September 11 attacks... Read more

Free to Believe

By: Luke Goodrich

Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins & Luke Goodrich

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A leading religious freedom attorney, the veteran of several Supreme Court battles, helps people of faith understand religious liberty in our rapidly changing culture—why it matters, how it is threatened, and how to respond with confidence and grace. 
 
WINNER OF THE CHRISTIAN BOOK AWARD® • THE GOSPEL COALITION'S BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR, PUBLIC... Read more