Politics & Economy audiobooks

Follow the Science

By: Sharyl Attkisson

Narrated by: Sharyl Attkisson

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist and New York Times bestselling author Sharyl Attkisson exposes the corruption that has ruled the pharmaceutical industry for decades.Through blatant lies, deep cover-ups, and high-level collusion with government and media, Big Pharma has continuously put profits over people with dangerous results. Now,... Read more

The Doctor's In: Treating America's Greatest Cyber Security Threat

By: Alan D. Weinberger

Narrated by: Roy Stinson

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

About the BookMany have compared the “Roaring Twenties” from the last century, to the 2020s of the 21st century. The new freedoms of this era (similar to 100 years ago) have caused disruptions, mainly as the Internet ‘flattens’ our world and accelerates outcomes that can be felt around the globe. One certainty, no matter how the new economic,... Read more

Gurkha

By: Kailash Limbu

Narrated by: Homer Todiwala

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In this Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling memoir that 'reads like a thriller', (Joanna Lumley) Colour-Sargent Kailash Limbu shares a riveting account of his life as a Gurkha soldier-marking the first time in its two-hundred-year history that a soldier of the Brigade of Gurkhas has been given permission to tell his story in his own words.


In the... Read more

The Pledge to America

By: Drago Dzieran

Narrated by: Joel Richards

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Retired Navy SEAL Drago Dzieran takes listeners behind the scenes of his incredible life, from an impoverished childhood in Communist-controlled Poland to his time as a political prisoner, to his twenty years as a member of the United States military's most elite fighting force.



Everything I have, I owe to America—the greatest country in the... Read more

The Year That Broke Politics

By: Luke A. Nichter

Narrated by: Kent Klineman

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The unknown story of the election that set the tone for today's fractured politics



The 1968 presidential race was a contentious battle between Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Republican Richard Nixon, and former Alabama governor George Wallace. The United States was reeling from the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy... Read more

The Suburban Crisis

By: Matthew D. Lassiter

Narrated by: Tom Beyer

Length: 29 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Since the 1950s, the American war on drugs has positioned white middle-class youth as sympathetic victims of illegal drug markets who need rehabilitation instead of incarceration. The Suburban Crisis traces how politicians, the media, and grassroots political activists crusaded to protect white families from perceived threats while criminalizing... Read more

Wounds into Wisdom

By: Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, PhD

Narrated by: Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, PhD & Barry Abrams

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Our past does not simply disappear. The painful history of our ancestors and their rich cultural wisdom intertwine within us to create the patterns of our future. Even when past trauma remains unspoken or has long been forgotten, it becomes part of us and our children—a legacy of both strength and woundedness that shapes our lives.

In this... Read more

Unlocking Your Inner Zelensky

By: Jessie Asya Kanzer

Narrated by: Natalia Payne

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes a bonus conversation between the author and editor.

Volodymyr Zelensky captivated the world when his country was invaded by Russia in February 2022. His appearances were accompanied by countless inspiring statements. But there's a single one that informs Unlocking Your Inner Zelensky: "We are all simple people."

Jessie Kanzer... Read more

How Long Can the Moon Be Caged?

By: Suchitra Vijayan & Francesca Recchia

Narrated by: Anu Anand, Sam Dastor, Sahera Chohan, Raj Ghata...

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Silencing and punishing critical voices is a project that lies at the heart of Narendra Modi's authoritarian regime in India. The BJP's political dream is clear: to achieve the ethno-nationalist aim of an exclusively 'Hindu' India, while targeting anyone who dares to question or dissent.In this unique book, Suchitra Vijayan and Francesca Recchia... Read more

The Primary Solution

By: Nick Troiano

Narrated by: Pete Simonelli

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In a divided America, the biggest solvable problem fueling political extremism and dysfunction is hiding in plain sight: party primaries. The Primary Solution is the “thought-provoking” (Arnold Schwarzenegger) answer the country needs.

Congress has become an unproductive and unaccountable mess. Polls show that only twenty percent of Americans... Read more

Safe

By: Mark Daley

Narrated by: Mark Daley

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

“If you want a lifechanging book, this is the one to read.” —The View

“A truly revealing” (Hillary Clinton) memoir of an unlikely journey to parenthood through America’s broken foster care system.

What does it take to keep a child safe?

As a long-time strategist and activist fighting for better outcomes for foster children, Mark Daley thought he... Read more

Feminism is for everyone!

By: Laura Hofmann, Felicia Ewert & Fabienne Sand

Narrated by: Pauline Afaja, Felicia Ewert & Laura Hofmann

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Steh auf für ein gleichberechtigtes Miteinander! Verstecke niemals deine eigene Identität! Setz dich dafür ein, dass niemand diskriminiert wird! Die Autorinnen machen sich (und dich) stark für die Gleichberechtigung von Männern und Frauen, von Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund, von trans-, nicht binären und intergeschlechtlichen Menschen. Denn... Read more

Misch dich ein!

By: Andrea Rings

Narrated by: Julia Nachtmann

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Arguments for Future: Argumentieren lernen wie Luisa und Greta in fünf kurzen knackigen Kapiteln: Was kommt auf uns zu? Inwiefern sind Gesellschaft und Politik dafür verantwortlich? Wie kann ich Klimamythen entschärfen? Tipps, wie Klimakommunikation gelingen kann. Und Ideen für eigenes Engagement und Gesprächstaktiken. Also, "Misch dich ein"! Read more

A Political History of the World

By: Jonathan Holslag

Narrated by: Roy McMillan

Length: 15 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of A Political History of the World by Jonathan Holslag, read by Roy McMillan.

In three thousand years of history, China has spent at least eleven centuries at war. The Roman Empire was in conflict during at least 50 per cent of its lifetime. Since 1776, the United States has spent over one hundred years at... Read more

If Only They Didn't Speak English

By: Jon Sopel

Narrated by: Jon Sopel

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

As the BBC’s North America Editor, Jon Sopel has had a pretty busy time of it lately. In the 18 months it’s taken for a reality star to go from laughingstock to leader of the free world, Jon has travelled the length and breadth of the United States, experiencing it from a perspective that most of us could only dream of: he has flown aboard Air... Read more

The Ten Types of Human

By: Dexter Dias

Narrated by: Tom Clegg

Length: 26 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Random House presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of The Ten Types of Human by Dexter Dias, read by Tom Clegg.

This book will introduce you to ten people. In a way, you already know them. Only you don’t – not really. In a sense, they are you. Only they’re not entirely. They inform and shape the most important decisions in... Read more

How States Think

By: John J. Mearsheimer & Sebastian Rosato

Narrated by: Mack Sanderson

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking examination of a central question in international relations: Do states act rationally?
To understand world politics, you need to understand how states think. Are states rational? Much of international relations theory assumes that they are. But many scholars believe that political leaders rarely act rationally. The issue is... Read more

The Supreme Court

By: Newbury Publishing

Narrated by: Jim D. Johnson

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

As the highest court in what has become the world's most powerful nation, The Supreme Court of the United States sits at the faultline between the ideal and the real, between justice and power, between the serene majesty of The Law and the sometimes bombastic, sometimes grubby disputes that define our politics.In the arguments before the court,... Read more

Erich Hartmann: The Life and Legacy of the Luftwaffe’s Top Fighter Ace during World War II

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Jim Walsh

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The Third Reich's Luftwaffe began World War II with significant advantages over other European air forces, playing a critical role in the German war machine's swift, powerful advance. By war's end, however, the Luftwaffe had been decimated by combat losses and crippled by poor decisions at the highest levels of military decision-making, and it... Read more

The Curse of Demagogues

By: Eli Merritt

Narrated by: Peter Lerman

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The Curse of Demagogues: Lessons Learned from the Presidency of Donald J. Trump is a collection of 32 essays by 22 writers that make the case that the pathway back to a healthy American democracy is for citizens to understand demagogues and defend against them.More than any other book in print, The Curse of Demagogues makes the story of Donald... Read more

Paddy Mayne

By: Hamish Ross

Narrated by: Alan Turkington

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

‘Paddy' Mayne was one of the most outstanding special forces leaders of the Second World War. Hamish Ross's authoritative study follows Mayne from solicitor and a rugby international to troop commander in the Commandos and then the SAS, whose leader he later became and whose annals he graced, winning the DSO and three bars, the Croix de Guerre... Read more

Flawed Hero

By: Chris Masters

Narrated by: David Tredinnick

Length: 18 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The shocking story of the case against Australia's most highly decorated soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith VC MG, and the defamation trial of the century.

With a Victoria Cross and Medal for Gallantry, Ben Roberts-Smith was the most highly decorated Australian soldier, the best of the best. When he returned to civilian life, he became a poster boy for a... Read more

The Peace

By: Romeo Dallaire

Narrated by: Paul Gross

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

International humanitarian icon and bestselling author General Roméo Dallaire guides readers on a crucial and inspiring journey from past wars through post-modern conflict toward a vision of lasting peace.

In The Peace, Roméo Dallaire shows us the past, present and future of war through the prism of his own life. Trained in classic warfare during... Read more

Die dreckige Seidenstraße

By: Philipp Mattheis

Narrated by: Markus Krochmann

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Lange galt China als eine Art sanfter, schlafender Riese. Zwar war das politische System und dessen Menschenrechtsverletzungen nur schwer vereinbar mit westlichen demokratischen Werten, doch man setzte auf das Prinzip »Wandel durch Handel«. China würde sich mit steigendem Wohlstand schon öffnen. Doch das Gegenteil ist eingetreten: China... Read more