Politics & Economy audiobooks

The Squad

By: Ryan Grim

Narrated by: Ryan Grim

Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting insider account of the progressive movement in Congress centering A.O.C., Rashida Tlaib, Jamaal Bowman, Cori Bush, Ayanna Pressley, and Ilhan Omar—their rise, their efforts to set an ambitious agenda for the country, and their struggle to find their footing within the Democratic party.

The Squad is the definitive, must-read book about... Read more

The Fabulist

By: Mark Chiusano

Narrated by: André Santana

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From the dogged Long Island reporter who has been on his trail since 2019, the bizarre, page-turning, and frankly hysterical story of America’s most outrageous grifter—former US Representative George Santos.

America is used to larger-than-life politicians, from Telfon Don to AOC and from Dark Brandon to MTG. The political arena has been injected... Read more

Party of the People

By: Patrick Ruffini

Narrated by: Stephen Graybill

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

An eye-opening, “must-read” (Ben Shapiro, founder of The Daily Wire) about the future of the Republican party as they unite working-class voters in a multi-racial, cross-generational populist coalition.

Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential election shocked the world. Yet his defeat in 2020 may have been even more surprising: he... Read more

The Canceling of the American Mind

By: Greg Lukianoff & Rikki Schlott

Narrated by: Rikki Schlott

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A “galvanizing” (The Wall Street Journal) deep dive into cancel culture and its dangers to all Americans from the team that brought you Coddling of the American Mind.

Cancel culture is a new phenomenon, and The Canceling of the American Mind is the first book to codify it and survey its effects, including hard data and research on what cancel... Read more

The Four Tests

By: Daniel Baer

Narrated by: Travis Tonn

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A “lucidly argued” (Kirkus Reviews), illuminating, and ultimately optimistic roadmap for America’s future and the “tests” the United States must meet to maintain leadership and power in the 21st century—from the former US Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

In today’s fraught global and political climate, the... Read more

Black Boys Like Me

By: Matthew R. Morris

Narrated by: Matthew R. Morris

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

*INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER*
*LONGLISTED FOR THE TORONTO BOOK AWARD*

“Black Boys Like Me ignited parts of me I honestly didn't believe any book could ever know. . . . Seldom do incredibly titled books earn their titles. Matthew R. Morris earns this classic title with a classic book about our insides.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy


Startlingly... Read more

The Election Omen

By: Marsha Kuhnley

Narrated by: TJ Spehar

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover an ancient Bible prophecy that directs the outcome of elections!Afraid you’re not ready for the political battle against Satan? You can be a civic soldier for Christ.Are you a Christian who fears your vote will be for the wrong side? Are you uncertain which issues and policies are in alignment with the Bible? Do you worry you’re not... Read more

How to Make Money in High School and College

By: Clement Harrison

Narrated by: Vicky David

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In How to Make Money in High School, you will discover:
How you can earn passive income while still attending school 30 diverse money-making ideas that you can start right away The unglamorous jobs that can actually make you hundreds of dollars in tips How to make $1,000 extra cash over a weekend with this fun scavenging racket The #1 thing you... Read more

The Future is Degrowth

By: Matthias Schmelzer, Andrea Vetter & Aaron Vansi...

Narrated by: Ulf Bjorklund

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Economic growth isn't working, and it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economic growth emerged in the context of colonialism, fossil-fueled industrialization, and capitalist modernity, The Future Is Degrowth argues that the ideology of growth conceals the rising inequalities and ecological destructions associated with... Read more

The Chile Project

By: Sebastian Edwards

Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Chile Project, Sebastian Edwards tells the story of how the neoliberal economic model came to an end in 2021, when Gabriel Boric was elected president, vowing that "If Chile was the cradle of neoliberalism, it will also be its grave." More than a story about one Latin American country, The Chile Project is a behind-the-scenes history of... Read more

Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach

By: Kristie Macrakis

Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Ever since the earliest days of the Cold War, American intelligence agencies have launched spies in the sky, implanted spies in the ether, burrowed spies underground, sunk spies in the ocean, and even tried to control spies' minds by chemical means. But these weren't human spies. Instead, the United States expanded its reach around the globe... Read more

Grant at 200

By: Chris Mackowski & Frank J. Scaturro

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Ulysses S. Grant stood at the center of the American Civil War maelstrom. The Ohio native answered his nation's call to service and finished the war as a lieutenant general in command of the United States Army. Four years later, he ascended to the presidency to better secure the peace he had helped win on the battlefield. Despite his major... Read more

Age of Emergency

By: Erik Linstrum

Narrated by: Mike Cooper

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

When uprisings against colonial rule broke out across the world after 1945, Britain responded with overwhelming and brutal force. Although this period has conventionally been dubbed "postwar," it was punctuated by a succession of hard-fought, long-running conflicts that were geographically diffuse, morally ambiguous, and impervious to neat... Read more

Arms and Influence

By: Thomas C. Schelling

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally published more than fifty years ago, this landmark book explores the ways in which military capabilities—real or imagined—are used, skillfully or clumsily, as bargaining power. Anne-Marie Slaughter's new introduction to the work shows how Schelling's framework—conceived of in a time of superpowers and mutually assured... Read more

Great Strategic Rivalries

By: James Lacey

Narrated by: David Stifel

Length: 28 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From the legendary antagonism between Athens and Sparta during the Peloponnesian War to the Napoleonic Wars and the two World Wars of the twentieth century, the past is littered with long-term strategic rivalries. History tells us that such enduring rivalries can end in one of three ways: a series of exhausting conflicts in which one side... Read more

The Two Moralities

By: Ronnie Janoff-Bulman

Narrated by: Kim Niemi

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The left and right will always have strong policy disagreements, but constructive debate and negotiation are not possible when each side demonizes the other. In this book, social psychologist Ronnie Janoff-Bulman provides a new framework for understanding why and how we disagree.



Janoff-Bulman asks listeners to consider the challenging... Read more

Country Capitalism

By: Bart Elmore

Narrated by: Chris Abernathy

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The rural roads that led to our planet-changing global economy ran through the American South. That region's impact on the interconnected histories of business and ecological change is narrated here by acclaimed scholar Bart Elmore, who uses the histories of five southern firms—Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines, Walmart, FedEx, and Bank of America—to... Read more

Dreamland

By: Carly Goodman

Narrated by: Janet Metzger

Length: 13 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In a world of border walls and obstacles to migration, a lottery where winners can gain permanent residency in the United States sounds too good to be true. Just as unlikely is the idea that the United States would make such visas available to foster diversity within a country where systemic racism endures. But in 1990, the United States... Read more

Wild Democracy

By: Anne Norton

Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Wild Democracy calls for a more anarchic, more courageous democracy. This is an ethic for people who know the rights they hold, and who struggle to rule themselves. This is an ethic for unfinished revolutions; an ethic for those who will not be mastered. This is an ethic for those who hold fast to the rights they have by nature.



Democracy is... Read more

Leveraging Latency

By: Tristan A. Volpe

Narrated by: Paul Brion

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

When does nuclear latency—the technical capacity to build the bomb—enable states to pursue effective coercion?



In Leveraging Latency, Tristan A. Volpe argues that having greater capacity to build weaponry doesn't translate to greater coercive advantage. Volpe finds that there is a trade-off between threatening proliferation and promising nuclear... Read more

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

By: Peter Moore

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 17 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The most famous phrase in American history once looked quite different. "The preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness" was how Thomas Jefferson put it in the first draft of the Declaration, before the first ampersand was scratched out, along with "the preservation of." The precise contours of these three rights have... Read more

Rangers, Scouts, and Raiders

By: Michael F. Dilley

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Throughout history there has always been a need, in military forces, for special units. In the past, these units have usually been ad hoc formations that were disbanded after their mission was complete. It has only been since the early 1950s that such units have remained active, but even in recent times special purpose, special mission units... Read more

Parachute to Berlin

By: Lowell Bennett

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The vivid account of a war correspondent shot down over Germany and taken prisoner.



Bennett was one of several journalists to fly a night raid over Berlin in November 1943. This is the vivid testimony of an American journalist shot down over Berlin. After he was captured in Berlin, he was taken on a tour of Germany and shown what the civilian... Read more

America's Youngest Ambassador

By: Lena Nelson

Narrated by: Christa Lewis

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1982, amid the nuclear paranoia that engulfed the US and the Soviet Union, Samantha Smith, a fifth grader from Manchester, Maine, wrote a letter to the Kremlin asking the Soviet leader if he was going to start a war. When Pravda, the biggest Soviet newspaper, published her letter—and Samantha received an unprecedented invitation to visit the... Read more