Politics & Economy audiobooks

In der Männer-Republik

By: Torsten Körner

Narrated by: Martin Wehrmann

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Politik ist eine viel zu ernste Sache, als dass man sie allein den Männern überlassen sollte. Bundesgesundheitsministerin Käte Strobel, 1959. Die Bundesrepublik war lange eine Männerrepublik. Männer schrieben Geschichte. Männer besetzten Ämter. Männer gaben den Ton an. Und Frauen? Dieses Buch erzählt die politische Geschichte der Bundesrepublik... Read more

Die lautlose Eroberung

By: Clive Hamilton & Mareike Ohlberg

Narrated by: Erich Wittenberg

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Gefährlicher Rivale statt unverzichtbarer Partner: Mit welchen Strategien China die Welt erobert

Chinas Aufstieg zur Weltmacht ist unaufhaltsam. Lange erwartete man, dass sich das Land mit zunehmendem Wohlstand demokratisieren würde. Doch das Gegenteil ist der Fall. Die Kommunistische Partei Chinas will sich mit allen Mitteln an der Macht halten.... Read more

Nichts als die Wahrheit

By: James Comey

Narrated by: Erich Wittenberg

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Der amerikanische Rechtsstaat ist nach Ende der Ära Donald Trump am Abgrund. Zum Beginn der Amtszeit von Präsident Joe Biden zeigt der Ex-FBI-Direktor James Comey, wie eine gerechte Justiz funktionieren muss. Egal, ob der Gegner die Mafia, Drogendealer oder die Führungszirkel im Staatsapparat sind: Nur die Wahrheit kann jetzt die USA noch retten. Read more

Wirecard

By: Bettina Weiguny & Georg Meck

Narrated by: Erich Wittenberg

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Wirecard-Skandal ist einmalig in der deutschen Wirtschaftsgeschichte – ein einziger großer Fake. Wie konnte es zu diesem filmreifen Bankrott eines Dax-Konzerns kommen? Wer sind die Köpfe hinter dem Betrug? Wer muss dafür büßen? Und warum ist das weltumspannende kriminelle Netzwerk erst nach so langer Zeit aufgeflogen? Die Journalisten... Read more

99 Ideen zur Wiederbelebung der politischen Utopie

By: Martin Sonneborn

Narrated by: Erich Wittenberg

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

»Unser Kernauftrag ist es, komische Kritik zu üben, junge Menschen zu politisieren, die (verfickte) AfD zu ärgern und schließlich: Grüne, Linke und SPD mit Utopien zu konfrontieren, zur Not mit ihren eigenen.« (Martin Sonneborn, SPIEGEL im Februar 2021) Das utopische Bewusstsein, die Fähigkeit, »einfach das Ganze sich vorzustellen als etwas, was... Read more

Zeitenbruch

By: Joschka Fischer

Narrated by: Erich Wittenberg

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Das Zeitalter der kohlenstoffbasierten Energieerzeugung geht zu Ende. Eine vergleichbare Zäsur ist auch für das globale politische System zu erwarten. Menschen sind Gewohnheitstiere und stellen sich die Zukunft nur allzu gerne als eine Weiterführung der Gegenwart vor, das galt selbst nach so großen Umbrüchen wie dem Kollaps der Sowjetunion vor... Read more

A First-Rate Madness

By: Nassir Ghaemi

Narrated by: Adam Barr

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestseller

“A glistening psychological history, faceted largely by the biographies of eight famous leaders . . .” —The Boston Globe

“A provocative thesis . . . Ghaemi’s book deserves high marks for original thinking.” —The Washington Post

“Provocative, fascinating.” —Salon.com

Historians have long puzzled over the apparent mental... Read more

Escape from Camp 14

By: Blaine Harden

Narrated by: Blaine Harden

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller, the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean political prison to have escaped and survived. Blaine Harden's latest book, King of Spies, will be available from Viking in Fall 2017.North Korea is isolated and hungry, bankrupt and belligerent. It is also armed with nuclear weapons. Between 150,000... Read more

Maos deutscher Topagent

By: Bernd Ziesemer

Narrated by: Michael J. Diekmann

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Wer den Einfluss verstehen will, den China auf die deutsche Wirtschaft ausübt, muss den Namen Gerhard Ludwig Flatow kennen. Er war wohlhabender Stahldirektor und Kommunist, Abenteurer und Lobbyist, sprach fließend chinesisch und wurde in den Fünfziger und Sechziger Jahren zum wichtigsten Agenten der Chinesen in Deutschland. Dabei hat er es... Read more

Mord im Tiergarten

By: Silvia Stöber

Narrated by: Heiko Grauel

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Hinrichtung des Tschetschenen Selimchan Changoschwili im Berliner Tiergarten im August 2019 sorgte weltweit für Entsetzen. Ende 2021 verurteilte das Berliner Kammergericht den russischen Angeklagten Wadim Krassikow zu lebenslanger Haft. Während der Ermittlungen und des Prozesses tritt zutage, wie der russische Geheimdienst FSB im Ausland... Read more

Neue Weltmacht Indien

By: Oliver Schulz

Narrated by: Mathias Grimm

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Die unbekannte Supermacht - ein neuer Partner für den Westen?

An Indien scheiden sich die Geister. Obwohl oder gerade weil kaum jemand im Westen dieses widersprüchliche Land versteht. Zwischen Slums und Prunk, zwischen Yoga und Hightech, zwischen Bollywoodkultur und Kastenwesen ist uns das Land, dessen Bedeutung für die Weltgemeinschaft immer... Read more

The Flying Grunt

By: Alan E. Mesches

Narrated by: Chris Monteiro

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Edward Carey came from a broken home. Enlisting in the Corps in 1946 he later earned a commission, fighting at Inchon and Chosin in Korea before becoming a pilot. During his thirty-eight-year military career he witnessed and participated in major historical events, though a high school wrestling injury would eliminate him from the... Read more

Democracies in America

By: Gregory Laski & D. Berton Emerson

Narrated by: James Babson, Lisa Larsen, Mia Ellis, Amir Abdu...

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Ask someone their thoughts about "democracy" and you'll get many different responses. Some may presume it a thing once established yet now under threat. Others may believe that democracy has always been compromised by the empowered few. In the contemporary United States, marked by constituencies across the political spectrum believing that their... Read more

Antidemocratic

By: David Daley

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

Length: 17 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

“Chilling and convincing, Antidemocratic is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand American politics in 2024.” —Heather Cox Richardson, author of Democracy AwakeningA riveting yet disturbing history of the fifty-year Republican plot to hijack voting rights in America, its profound implications for the 2024 presidential election, and the... Read more

To Build a Black Future

By: Christopher Paul Harris

Narrated by: Landon Woodson

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Landon Woodson shares how the new Black politics can forge a future centered on collective action, community, and care When #BlackLivesMatter emerged in 2013, it animated the most consequential Black-led mobilization since the civil rights and Black power era. Today, the hashtag turned rallying cry is but one... Read more

Bipin

By: Rachna Bisht Rawat

Narrated by: Kulvin Suri

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

On the morning of 8 December 2021, India's Chief of Defence Staff, General Bipin Rawat, and his wife, Madhulika, said goodbye to their daughter, Tarini, and dogs, and left their Delhi home to board a flight for Sulur in Tamil Nadu. Around 11.48 a.m., they boarded an Mi-17 V5 helicopter that took off from Sulur to Wellington, where Gen. Rawat was... Read more

Ascent to Power

By: David L. Roll

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 20 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

**One of Foreign Affairs's Best Books of 2024**

From Franklin Roosevelt’s final days through Harry Truman’s extraordinary transformation, this is the enthralling story behind the most consequential presidential transition in US history.

When Roosevelt, in failing health, decided to run for a fourth term, he gave in to the big city Democratic... Read more

The Life of a Scilly Sergeant

By: Colin Taylor

Narrated by: Kris Dyer

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Life of a Scilly Sergeant by Colin Taylor, read by Kris Dyer.

‘Policing is like this everywhere but not everywhere is Scilly’

Meet Sergeant Colin Taylor, he has been a valuable member of the police force for over twenty years, five of which have been spent policing the ‘quiet’ Isles of Scilly, a... Read more

Covert City

By: Vince Houghton & Eric Driggs

Narrated by: Eric Driggs & Vince Houghton

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Secret operations, corruption, crime, and a city teeming with spies: why Miami was as crucial to winning the Cold War as Washington DC or Moscow.

The Cuban Missile Crisis was perhaps the most dramatic and dangerous period of the Cold War. What's less well known is that the city of Miami, mere miles away, was a pivotal, though less well known,... Read more

We Are Home

By: Ray Suarez

Narrated by: Ray Suarez

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From a veteran broadcaster and historian comes a richly reported portrait of the newest Americans, immigrants from all over the globe who are living all across the country, filled with their own voices. We are a nation of immigrants, never more than now. In recent decades, the numbers have skyrocketed, thanks to people coming from many... Read more

Final Verdict

By: Tobias Buck

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The gripping narrative of one of the last Nazi criminal trials in Germany—that of Bruno Dey, a 93-year-old former concentration camp guard charged with aiding the murder of more than 5,000 people—and a larger exploration of Germany's reckoning with the Holocaust, from silence to memory to today's rising tide of fascism and antisemitism.

Bruno... Read more

World on the Brink

By: Dmitri Alperovitch & Garrett M. Graff

Narrated by: Will Collyer

Length: 14 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A leading national security expert, who publicly predicted Vladimir Putin's intention to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine months before it took place, lays out the case for why China's Xi Jinping is preparing to conquer Taiwan in the coming years and the dire stakes for America and the whole world if he is not deterred.

In World on the... Read more

Four Shots in the Night

By: Henry Hemming

Narrated by: Jamie Parker & Henry Hemming

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Four Shots in the Night is the story of a political murder: the killing of an IRA member turned British informant. 

The search for justice for this one man's death—his body found in broad daylight, with tape over his eyes, an undisguised hit—would deliver more than the truth. It exposed his status as an informant and led to protests, campaigns,... Read more

The Longevity Imperative

By: Andrew J. Scott

Narrated by: Michael Chance

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

From a leading expert on longevity, an urgent call for individuals, institutions, and society to adapt to the reality of living longer lives

Thanks to increases in life expectancy, we can now expect to live for a long time. Most of us would welcome an extra day in the week, so why do so many of us view the prospect of additional years with fear... Read more