Politics & Economy audiobooks

Sheridan’s Secret Mission

By: Robert Cwiklik

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

An impeccably researched, character-driven narrative history recounting the fascinating late-Reconstruction Era mission of General Philip Sheridan, a Union hero dispatched to the South 10 years after the Civil War to protect the rights of newly freed black men, who were under siege by violent paramilitary groups like the White league intent on... Read more

Captured by Love

By: Lee Ellis & Greg Godek

Narrated by: Lee Ellis, Greg Godek & Michael Orenstein

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Amazon Best Seller in Military Families and Survival Biographies & Memoirs

2023 International Book Awards Finalist in Best Nonfiction Cover Design
2023 International Book Awards Finalist in Best Interior Design
2023 International Book Awards Finalist in Military History

2023 Best Book Award Finalist in Military History

2023 Foreword... Read more

When We Walk By

By: Kevin F. Adler & Donald W. Burnes

Narrated by: Kevin F. Adler

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

How to end homelessness in America: a must-read guide to understanding housing instability, supporting our unhoused neighbors, and reclaiming our humanity.

A deeply humanizing analysis that will change the way you think about poverty and homelessness—for the socially engaged reader of Isabel Wilkerson's Caste and Matthew Desmond's Evicted.

Think... Read more

Carl von Clausewitz: Vom Kriege

By: Carl von Clausewitz & Jörg Lehmann

Narrated by: Uwe Neumann & Anette Daugardt

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Wie muß die Strategie moderner Kriegführung angelegt sein, damit Kriege gewonnen werden können? Diese Frage stellte sich Carl von Clausewitz. Als Ergebnis seiner Überlegungen entstand eine der wichtigsten militärtheoretischen Abhandlungen der Weltgeschichte und ein Meisterwerk der Strategie: "Vom Kriege". - Die CD fasst die wichtigsten... Read more

Ich gebe Ihnen mein Ehrenwort

By: Jürgen Roth

Narrated by: Jürgen Roth

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

"Ich gebe Ihnen mein Ehrenwort!" beleuchtet mit einer Vielzahl grandioser, mal obszöner, mal hochkomischer O-Töne die Verlogenheit deutscher Politik und präsentiert eine Truppe peinlicher und gefährlicher Politgestalten aus den letzten siebzig Jahren: Denunzianten, Beutelschneider, Luschen, Selbstdarsteller, Bimbeseinsacker, Wahlbetrüger und... Read more

Equal goes it loose

By: Heinrich Lübke

Narrated by: Heinrich Lübke

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Das waren noch Zeiten, als Heinrich Lübke für Deutschland sprach! "Equal goes it loose", sagte er 1965 zur englischen Königin im Garten von Schloss Brühl kurz vor dem Zapfenstreich. Oder: "Die Finnländer könnten eigentlich Westfalen sein", oder: "Jeder von uns hat eine Mutter". Geflügelte Worte, tiefe Einsichten, zeitlose Wahrheiten. Seine... Read more

Sturmwarnung - Das Hörbuch

By: Stefan Kruecken

Narrated by: Jürgen Schwandt

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Ein Leben wie ein ewiges Abenteuer: Orkane auf See, Stürme im Rotlicht der Häfen. Momente zwischen Leben und Tod. Kapitän Jürgen Schwandt, Jahrgang 1936, hat alles erlebt. Aufgewachsen in den Trümmern Hamburgs, ging er früh zur See - und tauchte ein in jene exotische Welt aus Fernweh und Sternenstaub, von der er immer geträumt hatte. Dabei... Read more

Winston Churchill

By: Thomas Kielinger

Narrated by: Gert Heidenreich

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill – ein Jahrhundertpolitiker. Und eine "Marke", die der Meister der Selbstinszenierung gekonnt in Szene setzte. Die Utensilien: Zigarre, Gehrock, die Kollektion seiner Hüte und Zylinder, der rote Morgenmantel. Sein Zeichen: das V-Siegesfingerzeichen. "Wir sind doch alle Würmer. Aber ich glaube, ich bin ein... Read more

Denn mit dem Herzen sieht man besser! Eine wahre Geschichte voller Hoffnung, Kraft und Menschlichkeit

By: Dirk Planert

Narrated by: Dirk Planert

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Bosnien, 1993. Auf Bihac gehen täglich bis zu 2.000 Granaten nieder, über 100.000 Menschen sind im sogenannten Kessel rund um die Stadt eingeschlossen. Sie hungern, haben Durst und verlassen sich auf Menschen wie Dirk, die humanitäre Hilfe leisten. Was unter "normalen" Umständen schon ein wahrer Albtraum ist, spitzt sich zu, als Dirk den Auftrag... Read more

The Diary of a Dead Officer

By: Arthur Graeme West

Narrated by: Edith Harson

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Diary of a Dead Officer" paints a picture critical of everyday army life, shows us the moral and psychological struggles of soldiers during World War 1 and is said to be one of the most vivid accounts of daily life in the trenches. The book is composed of diverse diary entries of Arthur Graeme West, British writer and war poet, killed by a... Read more

Utopia

By: Thomas More

Narrated by: Edith Harson

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Utopia is a work of fiction and political philosophy by Thomas More. The book is a frame narrative primarily describing a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Utopia is an ideal society with a perfect socio-politico-legal system. Read more

Fighting France

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Margaret Melosh

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Fighting France is a collection of essays and articles by Edith Wharton on her time in France during the First World War, together with her visits to the French sectors of the Western Front. The distinct articles were originally published in Scribner's Magazine in 1915. Part of the The War on All Fronts series, the book was published in 1918. Read more

Aristopia: A Romance-History of the New World

By: Castello Newton Holford

Narrated by: Edith Harson

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

Aristopia: A Romance-History of the New World is a utopian novel by Castello Holford, considered the first novel-length alternate history in English. In Aristopia we follow Ralph Morton, an early settler in Virginia, who discovers a golden reef. He uses his wealth to build a planned society, based on the Utopia of Sir Thomas More, with... Read more

Konflikt zwischen Vernunft und Religion

By: Helmut Schmidt

Narrated by: Helmut Schmidt

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Helmut Schmidt, Konflikt zwischen Vernunft und Religion Rede am 08.05.2007 in Tübingen, Sendung am 26.10.2008 Das Problem bei der Berufung auf religiöse Anschauungen liegt im Anspruch auf Ausschließlichkeit. Missionieren zu wollen muss daher kritisch betrachtet werden. Prüft man Religionskriege im Kern, so erweisen sie sich zumeist als... Read more

Die Stunde der Dilettanten

By: Thomas Rietzschel

Narrated by: Anke Fabian

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Der moderne Beruf: Dilettant. Nicht erlernbar, kein Studium erforderlich, auf allen (Interessens-)Gebieten anzutreffen, Wissen unnötig. Zeichnet sich besonders durch Ahnungslosigkeit aus, spricht ohne Sinn und Verstand unqualifiziertes Zeug, handelt ohne sich der Konsequenzen bewusst zu sein, es geht um mehr Schein als Sein. Trotz... Read more

The Mystery of the Pinckney Draught

By: Charles C. Nott

Narrated by: James Holt

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating and comprehensive study of an equally fascinating historical text (the Pinckney Draught) posing the penetrating question: what if Charles Pinckney was the author of the U.S. Constitution? And if so: why did nothing come of it? Was there foul play behind shut doors...? Read more

Enough

By: Cassidy Hutchinson

Narrated by: Cassidy Hutchinson

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Cassidy Hutchinson’s desk was mere steps from the most controversial president in recent American history, and she provides a riveting account of her extraordinary experience as an idealistic young woman thrust into the middle of a national crisis, where she risked everything to tell the truth about President Trump... Read more

Romney

By: McKay Coppins

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis & McKay Coppins

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! In this illuminating and “scoop-rich biography…the tell-all tales rush forth” (Los Angeles Times) offering a “penetrating analysis of the ongoing Republican civil war through the eyes of one of its last embattled centrists” (Publishers Weekly).

Few figures in American politics have seen more and said less than Mitt... Read more

Subtle Acts of Exclusion, Second Edition

By: Tiffany Jana & Michael Baran

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

An expanded edition of the first practical, nonjudgmental handbook for dealing with microaggressions, featuring examples, sample scripts, action plans, a new discussion and activity guide, and up-to-date suggestions for creating a culture of belonging in the workplace.

Overt discrimination is relatively easy to spot. But the less obvious but more... Read more

Take Your Company Global

By: Nataly Kelly

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

If you're on the internet, you're already global. Now, get access to an innovative data-driven model for profitably expanding the international presence you already have.

Companies looking to expand used to think about entering international markets, but today you're global from the moment you create a website. Nataly Kelly, Chief Growth Officer... Read more

Activating the Common Good

By: Peter Block

Narrated by: Alex Christiansen

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful, inspiring, and achievable vision of a society based on cooperation and community instead of competition and commodification.

This book counters the dominant and destructive story that we are polarized, violent, selfish, and destined to consume everything in sight. That is not who we are.

The challenge, Peter Block says, is that we are... Read more

How Powerful We Are

By: Sally Rugg

Narrated by: Sally Rugg

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

'Incisive, blistering and tender. Sally is one of our most valiant warriors.' - Clementine Ford, author of FIGHT LIKE A GIRL and BOYS WILL BE BOYS

'Proof that the personal is always political - and love really can save the world.' - Jamila Rizvi, author of NOT JUST LUCKY

'Rugg's passion and insight make for a propulsive tale' - Sydney Morning... Read more

How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't

By: Ian Dunt

Narrated by: Ian Dunt

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

THIS IS THE BOOK YOU NEED TO READ BEFORE YOU CAST YOUR VOTE ON 4 JULY.

Why do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others miserably fail? What is a 'special adviser' and how did they take over British political life? And why is the House of Lords more functional than most people think?

Most of us have a sense that our political... Read more

Wish We Knew What to Say

By: Dr Pragya Agarwal

Narrated by: Rita Sharma

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

'A thoughtful, prescient read for any mother or father parenting through the unique challenges of this racially polarised year, decade and beyond' Kenya Hunt

'Comprehensive, readable, and so very important. The next generation needs you to read this book' Clare Mackintosh, Sunday Times bestselling author


'A vital book that equips us to have... Read more