Politics & Economy audiobooks

Thanks for Your Service

By: Peter D. Feaver

Narrated by: Lee Goettl

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A definitive study on the decades-long run of high public confidence in the military and why it may rest on some shaky foundations.



What explains the high levels of public confidence in the US military and does high confidence matter? In Thanks for Your Service, the eminent civil-military relations scholar Peter D. Feaver addresses this question... Read more

Against the World

By: Tara Zahra

Narrated by: Natasha Soudek

Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Before the First World War, enthusiasm for a borderless world reached its height. International travel, migration, trade, and progressive projects on matters ranging from women's rights to world peace reached a crescendo. Yet in the same breath, an undercurrent of reaction was growing, one that would surge ahead with the outbreak of war and its... Read more

Ageing without Ageism?

By: Axel Gosseries & Greg Bognar

Narrated by: Ulf Bjorklund

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Ageing without Ageism? contributes to the essential and timely discussion of age, ageism, population ageing, and public policy. It demonstrates the breadth of the challenges posed by these issues by covering a wide range of policy areas: from health care to old-age support, from democratic participation to education, and from family to fiscal... Read more

Overrun

By: Todd Bensman

Narrated by: Frank Block

Length: 14 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The time has come to acknowledge that America is weathering the worst mass border migration event in the nation's history. Millions of foreign nationals have overrun the southern border, starting on Inauguration Day in 2021, and millions more will cross over by the end of President Joe Biden's term in 2024. This event is historic by all... Read more

THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE

By: Thomas E. Weaver

Narrated by: Steve Menasche

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

A timely look at how the Electoral College has changed US history and why it endures—told through the lenses of specific people who both influenced the process and were impacted by the results.



"Over the years, no feature of the Constitution has attracted more criticism than that strange creature called the Electoral College. Thomas E. Weaver has... Read more

24/7 Politics

By: Kathryn Cramer Brownell

Narrated by: Patricia Shade

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

As television began to overtake the political landscape in the 1960s, network broadcast companies, bolstered by powerful lobbying interests, dominated screens across the nation. Yet over the next three decades, the expansion of a different technology, cable, changed all of this. 24/7 Politics tells the story of how the cable industry worked with... Read more

The Civic Bargain

By: Brook Manville & Josiah Ober

Narrated by: Christopher Douyard

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful case for democracy and how it can adapt and survive—if we want it to



Is democracy in trouble, perhaps even dying? Pundits say so, and polls show that most Americans believe that their country's system of governance is being "tested" or is "under attack." But is the future of democracy necessarily so dire? In The Civic Bargain, Brook... Read more

Wreckonomics

By: David Keen & Ruben Andersson

Narrated by: Colin Mace

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The United States' ignominious exit from Afghanistan in 2021 topped two decades of failure and devastation wrought by the war on terror. A long-running “fight against migration” has stoked chaos and rights abuses while pushing migrants onto more dangerous routes. For its part, the war on drugs has failed to dampen narcotics demand while fueling... Read more

Spies and Lies

By: Alex Joske

Narrated by: James Daniel Burkdoll

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Spies and Lies a groundbreaking exposé of elite influence operations by China's little-known Ministry of State Security. Revealing for the first time how the Chinese Communist Party has tasked its spies to deceive the world, it challenges the conventional account of China's past, present, and future.



Mere years ago, Western governments chose to... Read more

Brutal Campaign

By: Robert L. Fleegler

Narrated by: Christopher Douyard

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

At 8:00 p.m. eastern standard time on election night 1988, NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw informed the country that they would soon know more about the outcome of "one of the longest, bloodiest presidential campaigns that anyone can remember." It was a landslide victory for George H. W. Bush over Michael Dukakis, and yet Bush would serve only one... Read more

Defectors

By: Erik R. Scott

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Defectors fleeing the Soviet Union seized the world's attention during the Cold War. Their stories were given sensational news coverage and dramatized in spy novels and films. Upon reaching the West, they were entitled to special benefits, including financial assistance and permanent residency. In contrast to other migrants, defectors were... Read more

Navy Dog

By: Neal J. Kusumoto, Captain US Navy (ret)

Narrated by: Chris Monteiro

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Having Seaman Jenna as the mascot on the USS Vandegrift was never meant to be a statement or symbolic act, or to put the crew on the radars of four-star admirals. Jenna came aboard unannounced, a Christmas gift that brought instant joy to the crew and transformed a gray ship into a home for 225 sailors. Her addition was not pre-approved by the... Read more

Confronting Capitalism

By: Vivek Chibber

Narrated by: Shawn K. Jain

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Why is our society so unequal? Why, despite their small numbers, do the rich dominate policy and politics even in democratic countries? Why is it so difficult for working people to organize around common interests? How do we begin to build a more equal and democratic society?



Vivek Chibber provides a clear and accessible map of how capitalism... Read more

The Love Jones Cohort

By: Kris Marsh

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing from stratification economics, intersectionality, and respectability politics, The Love Jones Cohort centers on the voices and lifestyles of members of the Black middle class who are single and living alone (SALA). While much has been written about both the Black middle class and the rise of singlehood, this book represents a first foray... Read more

The Last Charge of the Rough Rider

By: William Elliott Hazelgrove

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

There have been many books on Theodore Roosevelt, but there are none that solely focus on the last years of his life. Racked by rheumatism, a ticking embolism, pathogens in his blood, a bad leg, and a bullet in his chest from an assassination attempt, in the last two years of his life, he went from the great disappointment of being denied his... Read more

Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win

By: Helen Shiller

Narrated by: Helen Shiller

Length: 15 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win tells the fascinating true story of an individual radical organizer turned independent Chicago city council member, and her forty year struggle for justice in Chicago.

Helen Shiller went from radical anti-war activist in Wisconsin, to a member of a collective of white allies of the Black Panther Party in... Read more

Dead Body Calls

By: Loren W. Christensen

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Loren W. Christensen served as a Military Policeman in Saigon, Vietnam, "the most dangerous city in the world," as it was called at the time. Shortly after returning home, he joined the Portland Police Bureau in Oregon, serving for twenty-five years. As a street cop, there were times he was dispatched to dead body calls so... Read more

Civil War by Other Means

By: Jeremi Suri

Narrated by: Adam Barr

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1865, the Confederacy was comprehensively defeated, its economy shattered, its leaders in exile or in jail. Yet in the years that followed, Lincoln's vision of a genuinely united country never took root. Apart from a few brief months, when the presence of the Union army in the South proved liberating for newly freed Black Americans, the... Read more

The Invention of Scarcity

By: Deborah Valenze

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

With the publication of Essay on the Principle of Population and its projection of food shortages in the face of ballooning populations, British theorist Thomas Robert Malthus secured a leading role in modern political and economic thought. In this startling new interpretation, Deborah Valenze reveals how canonical readings of Malthus fail to... Read more

Symbols of Freedom

By: Matthew J. Clavin

Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In the early United States, anthems, flags, holidays, monuments, and memorials were powerful symbols of an American identity that helped unify a divided people. A language of freedom played a similar role in shaping the new nation. Resonating across the country, they encouraged the creation of a republic where the right to "life, liberty, and... Read more

Crusade in Europe

By: Dwight D. Eisenhower

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 22 hours

Abridged: No

A classic of World War II literature, an incredibly revealing work that provides a near comprehensive account of the war and brings to life the legendary general and eventual president of the United States.

Five-star General Dwight D. Eisenhower was arguably the single most important military figure of World War II. Crusade in Europe tells the... Read more

Small Victories in a Great Big War

By: John H. Canfield

Narrated by: Eric Smies

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

An incredible journey of traumatic near-death moments, day to day drudgery, amusing situations, and brushes with greatness in World War II.

Life for a World War II paratrooper was grave and perilous; John H. Canfield's experience was no different. However, this young man found himself in so many crazy—sometimes humorous—situations that he... Read more

The Seventh Sense

By: Lyn Buchanan

Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

For the past thirty years, the United States government has secretly trained a select corps of military personnel in the art of "remote viewing"—the psychic ability to perceive the thoughts and experiences of others through the power of the human mind . . .



Now, for the first time, Lyn Buchanan—a world-renowned expert on remote viewing and its... Read more

The Long Surrender

By: Burke Davis

Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In April 1865, Richmond fell to the Union army and Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to his Northern counterpart, Ulysses S. Grant, at the Appomattox Court House. But the Civil War was far from over.



Determined to keep Confederate dreams of secession alive, President Jefferson Davis and his cabinet fled the burning capital city. With Union troops in... Read more