Politics & Economy audiobooks

The Channels of Student Activism

By: Amy J. Binder & Jeffrey L. Kidder

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book. An eye-opening analysis of collegiate activism and its effects on the divisions in contemporary American politics. 

The past six years have been marked by a contentious political atmosphere that has touched every arena of public life, including higher education. Though most college... Read more

America's Philosopher

By: Claire Rydell Arcenas

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book. America’s Philosopher examines how John Locke has been interpreted, reinterpreted, and misinterpreted over three centuries of American history.
 
The influence of polymath philosopher John Locke (1632–1704) can still be found in a dizzying range of fields, as his writings touch on issues... Read more

Living in the Future

By: Victoria W. Wolcott

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book. Living in the Future reveals the unexplored impact of utopian thought on the major figures of the Civil Rights Movement.
 
Utopian thinking is often dismissed as unrealistic, overly idealized, and flat-out impractical—in short, wholly divorced from the urgent conditions of daily life. This... Read more

Gossip Men

By: Christopher M. Elias

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book. J. Edgar Hoover, Joseph McCarthy, and Roy Cohn were titanic figures in midcentury America, wielding national power in government and the legal system through intimidation and insinuation. Hoover’s FBI thrived on secrecy, threats, and illegal surveillance, while McCarthy and Cohn will... Read more

The Great American Transit Disaster

By: Nicholas Dagen Bloom

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book.

A potent re-examination of America’s history of public disinvestment in mass transit.
 
Many a scholar and policy analyst has lamented American dependence on cars and the corresponding lack of federal investment in public transportation throughout the latter decades of the twentieth... Read more

How States Shaped Postwar America

By: Nicholas Dagen Bloom

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book.

The history of public policy in postwar America tends to fixate on developments at the national level, overlooking the crucial work done by individual states in the 1960s and ’70s. In this book, Nicholas Dagen Bloom demonstrates the significant and enduring impact of activist states in... Read more

Brothers in the Beloved Community

By: Marc Andrus

Narrated by: Marc Andrus

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The never-before-told story of the friendship between Martin Luther King Jr. and Thich Nhat Hanh—icons who changed each other and the world
The day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, Thich Nhat Hanh wrote a heartbroken letter to their mutual friend Raphael Gould. He said: "I did not sleep last night. . . . They killed Martin... Read more

Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure

By: Matthew Algeo

Narrated by: Lesa Lockford

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

On June 19, 1953, Harry Truman got up early, packed the trunk of his Chrysler New Yorker, and did something no other former president has done before or since: he hit the road. No Secret Service protection. No traveling press. Just Harry and his childhood sweetheart Bess off to visit old friends, take in a Broadway play, celebrate their wedding... Read more

A la mitad del camino

By: Andrés Manuel López Obrador

Narrated by: Adrián Ogazón

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

«Este libro es un testimonio de lo alcanzado hasta ahora, de los desafíos pendientes y de cómo imagino que estará el país en 2024. […] Desde antes de asumir por mandato popular la Presidencia de la República, fuimos elaborando un plan de desarrollo que surgió de muchos años de brega, recorriendo a ras de tierra el territorio nacional, valorando... Read more

Kindness Economy

By: Oona Horx Strathern

Narrated by: Madeleine Coco Sanders & Andreas Falk

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

People, planet, profit Oona Horx Strathern, Co-Founder Zukunftsinstitut Horx, betreibt eine kluge und erhellende Gegenwartsanalyse mit hohem Unterhaltungswert. Mit viel Einfallsreichtum und Scharfsinn beschreibt die Zukunftsforscherin die aktuelle Umwälzung in Wirtschaft und auf dem Arbeitsmarkt. Die Kindness-Revolution wird Einfluss haben auf... Read more

Fighting the Night

By: Paul Hendrickson

Narrated by: Fred Sanders & Paul Hendrickson

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed and best-selling author of Hemingway’s Boat, the profoundly moving story of his father’s wartime service as a night fighter pilot, and the prices he and his fellow soldiers paid for their acts of selfless, patriotic sacrifice

In the fall of 1944, Joe Paul Hendrickson, the author’s father, kissed his twenty-one-year-old wife and... Read more

3.500 Tage Unfreiheit: Zweiter Weltkrieg – Tagebuch und Autobiografie des Soldaten Hans Heuer aus Afrika, von der Ostfront und aus der Gefangenschaft (Deutsche Soldaten-Biografien)

By: Hans Heuer

Narrated by: Mario Kunze

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Erleben Sie die feinfühlige Autobiografie des Artilleriebeobachters Hans Heuer, der mehr als neun Jahre seines Lebens in Krieg und Kriegsgefangenschaft verbrachte! Hans Heuer hat während seiner Fronteinsätze im Zweiten Weltkrieg akribisch Tagebuch geführt. Viele Jahrzehnte nach Kriegsende hat er aus seinen Aufzeichnungen und Erinnerungen das... Read more

Long Haul

By: Frank Figliuzzi

Narrated by: Frank Figliuzzi

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

""A true-crime masterpiece."" —Don WinslowFrom the FBI’s former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America’s highways, revealing the FBI Highway Serial Killings Initiative’s hunt for the long-haul truckers behind an astonishing 850 murders–and counting.In 2004, the FBI was tipped off to a gruesome pattern of unsolved... Read more

Lessons in Liberty

By: Jeremy S. Adams

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“Smart, patriotic, and readable, this book is what our cynical culture needs.” — Pete Hegseth, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Battle for the American MindAmerica is full of inspiring heroes.Greatness is not a chance—it is a choice. George Washington didn’t simply wake up as one of the greatest men in human history. His greatness was the... Read more

Walls of Words

By: Thomas T. Taylor

Narrated by: Jack Pemberton

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Delve into the intricate dance of free speech in the United States. "Walls of Words" is not just another book about the First Amendment; it is a deep dive into the intricate boundaries that define our freedom of expression. With a rich blend of history, jurisprudence, and real-world examples, this book paints a comprehensive picture of how... Read more

Ernstfall

By: Stephan Lamby

Narrated by: Alexander Bandilla

Length: 16 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Seit dem russischen Überfall auf die Ukraine steht die deutsche Regierung unter maximalem Druck. Falsche Entscheidungen können zu einer unkontrollierbaren Eskalation des Krieges führen, auch zu Not und Unruhen im eigenen Land. Der preisgekrönte Journalist Stephan Lamby hat Olaf Scholz, Annalena Baerbock, Robert Habeck, Christian Lindner und... Read more

Facing the Beast

By: Naomi Wolf

Narrated by: Carolyn White

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Naomi Wolf, Facing the Beast is a devastating, detailed account of wrongthink, deplatforming, and an unexpected political, personal, and spiritual transformation that followed during one of the most divisive times in American history. In this uncompromising investigation into today’s most urgent issues,... Read more

L'Inflation : causes et répercussions

By: Gérard Bérubé

Narrated by: Danièle Panneton

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

L’essai de vulgarisation économique lançant la maison d’édition Somme toute - Le Devoir La sortie de la crise de la COVID 19 et la reprise abrupte de l'activité économique a causé une montée de l'inflation brusque qui affecte tous les secteurs, à commencer par ceux des matières premières et de l'énergie. Partant de ce constat, cet essai... Read more

Everybody's Political What's What

By: George Bernard Shaw

Narrated by: Graham Dunlop

Length: 16 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Confronted with these facts our sentimental hearthstone vaporing about parental care and me sacredness of the family as the inviolable unit of human society is only an excuse for doing nothing. Element­ary civilization is impossible without a moral code like the Ten Commandments, a technique of language, writing, and arithmetic, and a legal code... Read more

Russia

By: Kelly Mass

Narrated by: Doug Greene

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a bundle of several books in 1, which are:
Ivan the Terrible - Ivan IV Vasilyevich, referred to as Ivan the Terrible in English, was the Grand Prince of Moscow from 1533 to 1547 and the very first Moscow ruler to announce himself Tsar of Russia from 1547 to 1584. Ivan was the first ruler of Moscow after the city's flexibility.
Leon Trotsky... Read more

The Open Conspiracy

By: H.G. Wells

Narrated by: Graham Dunlop

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a guidebook on world control and management, a program that Wells believed should be orchestrated (and would be successful) through what he called the "Open Conspiracy". This conspiracy is fully outlined in this work and is designed to be run by many separate organizations working together, as opposed to being run by just one group. Is... Read more

Communism

By: Kelly Mass

Narrated by: Doug Greene

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a book with two topics:
Joseph Stalin - From 1924 till his death in 1953, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet politician who ruled the Soviet Union. He was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1952 and Chairman of the Soviet Union's Council of Ministers from 1941 to... Read more

Walter Horn: ensimmäinen jääkäri ja kylmän sodan Pohjola-aktivisti

By: Pentti Airio

Narrated by: Raiko Häyrinen

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Suomessa Saksan kansalaisena syntynyt Walter Horn (1893–1972) oli mukana perustamassa jääkäriliikettä. Kun hän osallistui vuonna 1915 jääkäripataljoonan ensimmäisiin taisteluihin rintamalla, keuhkotauti pakotti hänet rintamalta sairaalaan. Myöhemmin talvisodassa Horn toimi Helsingin komendanttina ja jatkosodassa ulkomailla sotilasasiamiehenä.... Read more

Free and Equal

By: Daniel Chandler

Narrated by: Daniel Chandler

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine: You are designing a society, but you don't know who you'll be within it—rich or poor, man or woman, gay or straight. What would you want that society to look like? This is the revolutionary thought experiment proposed by the twentieth century's greatest political philosopher, John Rawls. As economist and philosopher Daniel Chandler... Read more