Politics & Economy audiobooks

All the Worst Humans

By: Phil Elwood

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is ready by Audie Award–winning narrator Holter Graham.

A bridge-burning, riotous memoir by a top PR operative in Washington who exposes the secrets of the $129-billion industry that controls so much of what we see and hear in the media—from a man who used to pull the strings, and who is now pulling back the curtain.

After nearly two... Read more

Massacre in the Clouds

By: Kim A. Wagner

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In this “forensic, unflinching, devastating work of historical recovery” (Sathnam Sanghera), Bud Dajo—an American atrocity bigger than Wounded Knee or My Lai, yet today largely forgotten—is revealed, thanks to the rediscovery of a single photograph.
 
In March 1906, American soldiers on the island of Jolo in the southern Philippines surrounded... Read more

Strong Supply Chains Through Resilient Operations

By: Suketu Gandhi, Michael F. Strohmer, Marc Lakner...

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In Strong Supply Chains Through Resilient Operations: Five Principles for Leaders to Win in a Volatile World, a team of dedicated, veteran operations strategists delivers a practical and hands-on discussion of how to future-proof your company's supply chains through a relentless focus on resilience. In the book, you'll discover how to shift your... Read more

The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic

By: Kevin Kenny

Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Today the United States considers immigration a federal matter. Yet, despite America's reputation as a "nation of immigrants," the Constitution is silent on the admission, exclusion, and expulsion of foreigners. Before the Civil War, the federal government played virtually no role in regulating immigration.



Offering an original interpretation of... Read more

Imperial Reckoning

By: Caroline Elkins

Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt

Length: 17 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

As part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler, the British colonial government detained nearly the entire population of Kenya's largest ethnic minority, the Kikuyu—some one and a half million people.



The compelling story of the system of prisons and... Read more

Natives against Nativism

By: Olivia C. Harrison

Narrated by: Siiri Scott

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

For the past fifty years, the Palestinian question has served as a rallying cry in the struggle for migrant rights in postcolonial France, from the immigrant labor associations of the 1970s and Beur movements of the 1980s to the militant decolonial groups of the 2000s. In Natives against Nativism, Olivia C. Harrison explores the intersection of... Read more

To Catch a Dictator

By: Reed Brody

Narrated by: Reed Brody

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

What does it take to make a dictator answer for his crimes? Hissène Habré, the former despot of Chad, terrorized, tortured, and killed on a horrific scale over eight years in power—while enjoying full American and Western support. After Habré’s overthrow, his victims and their supporters were determined to see him held responsible for his... Read more

Canopy of Titans

By: Paul Koberstein & Jessica Applegate

Narrated by: Tom Beyer

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In Canopy of Titans, Paul Koberstein and Jessica Applegate examine the global importance of the Pacific Coastal Temperate Rainforest that stretches from Northern California to Alaska. Their urgent and authoritative account sets out the threats facing a vital environmental resource, and celebrates the beauty and complexity of one of the world's... Read more

The Color of Civics

By: Matthew D. Nelsen

Narrated by: Michael Kirby

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Generations of Americans have regarded schools as essential for developing the knowledge and civic values necessary for sustaining democracy. Yet, as Matthew D. Nelsen argues in The Color of Civics, traditional approaches to civic education are not living up to their promise for many students, particularly students of color from disadvantaged... Read more

The Most Interesting American

By: Rick Marschall

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Theodore Roosevelt largely is known today by stereotypes and his many accomplishments—but the full and fascinating essence of the man is fading. In this book, TR charges back!

Historian Rick Marschall has collected almost five hundred quotations, descriptions, impressions, and memories of the "Most Interesting American" derived from vintage... Read more

Gambling on Development

By: Stefan Dercon

Narrated by: Michael Langan

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In the last thirty years, the developing world has undergone tremendous changes. Overall, poverty has fallen, people live longer and healthier lives, and economies have been transformed. And yet many countries have simply missed the boat. Why have some countries prospered, while others have failed? Stefan Dercon argues that the answer lies not... Read more

Duel in the Dark

By: Peter Townsend

Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Adolf Hitler's plan to eliminate Britain from WWII early using the destructive might of the Luftwaffe was thwarted by defeat in the Battle of Britain in 1940.



Still determined to force the British to surrender, Hitler launched a relentless night bombing offensive whose objective was to bomb Winston Churchill and his people into submission.



But he... Read more

Sparks

By: Ian Johnson

Narrated by: Ian Johnson

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The past is a battleground in many countries, but in China it is crucial to political power. In traditional China, dynasties rewrote history to justify their rule by proving that their predecessors were unworthy of holding power. Marxism gave this a modern gloss, describing history as an unstoppable force heading toward Communism's triumph. The... Read more

Ludwig von Mises: Der kompromisslose Liberale

By: Thorsten Polleit

Narrated by: Christian Leuenberg

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Ludwig von Mises gilt als einer der bedeutendsten wirtschafts- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Denker des 20. Jahrhunderts. Er erkannte in der Logik des menschlichen Handelns den Dreh- und Angelpunkt der Volkswirtschaftslehre und revolutionierte damit die Denkweise ganzer Generationen von Ökonomen. Mises' wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse sind nicht... Read more

Keir Starmer

By: Tom Baldwin

Narrated by: John Sackville

Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHY OF THE NEW BRITISH PRIME MINISTER A Times Book of the Year; A Telegraph Book of the Year; A Daily Mail Book of the Year; A Waterstones Book of the Year ‘Required reading for anyone who has an interest in who governs Britain'... Read more

Liberalism's Last Man

By: Vikash Yadav

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A modern reframing of Friedrich Hayek’s most famous work for the 21st century. Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom was both an intellectual milestone and a source of political division, spurring fiery debates around capitalism and its discontents. In the ensuing discord, Hayek’s true message was lost: liberalism is a thing to be protected... Read more

The Conspiracy Tourist

By: Dom Joly

Narrated by: Dom Joly

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Dom Joly sets off on his travels again, immersing himself in the strange world of conspiracies. On his journeys he meets conspiracy theorists galore in destinations all over the world, some famous, some rather less so.

Conspiracy theories used to be fun, a bit of laugh. Did we really land on the moon? Was Paul McCartney cloned? Nowadays, however,... Read more

Eavesdropping on Millionaires

By: John Mauldin & Tiffani Mauldin

Narrated by: Hector Carrillo

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover how the wealthy think about, earn, spend, and invest money



In Eavesdropping on Millionaires, John and Tiffani Mauldin of Mauldin Economics follow millionaires over twelve years to deliver a one-of-a-kind money management guide based on the investment habits, lessons, and techniques used by a cross-section of affluent people.



The authors... Read more

Reimagine Inclusion

By: Mita Mallick

Narrated by: Mita Mallick

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Reimagining what inclusion can look like in our organizations starts with understanding why these thirteen DEI myths are not true—with effective strategies for implementing transformative inclusivity.



In Reimagine Inclusion, veteran DEI leader Mita Mallick debunks thirteen myths that hold us back from transforming our workplaces. She delivers... Read more

Pillars for Freedom

By: Richard B. Levine

Narrated by: John McLain

Length: 16 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The maintenance of liberty rests upon our faith, our Founding, our families, and our commitments to uncorrupted education and science. Pillars for Freedom describes in consummate detail the powers that America must reconstitute and wield in order that we reclaim our destiny. Our Judeo-Christian heritage must form the center of America's rebirth.... Read more

An Empire of Laws

By: Christian R. Burset

Narrated by: Perry Daniels

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

For many years, Britain tried to impose its own laws on the peoples it conquered, and English common law usually followed the Union Jack. But the common law became less common after Britain emerged from the Seven Years' War as the world's most powerful empire. At that point, imperial policymakers adopted a strategy of legal pluralism: some... Read more

Ike in Love and War

By: Richard Striner

Narrated by: Bob Souer

Length: 14 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Behind the demeanor that made Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower so popular was a cold-as-steel intelligence that kept his country prosperous and out of danger. Because his operating methods were so deeply hidden, it is only in the past few decades that historians have grasped the full extent of his achievements.



Ike in Love and War shows the hidden... Read more

Bayard Rustin

By: Michael G. Long

Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

While we can all recall images of Martin Luther King Jr. giving his "I Have a Dream" speech in front of a massive crowd at Lincoln Memorial, few of us remember the man who organized this watershed nonviolent protest in eight short weeks: Bayard Rustin.



This was far from Rustin's first foray into the fight for civil rights. As a world-traveling... Read more

John Lewis

By: Raymond Arsenault

Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln Smith

Length: 17 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

For six decades John Robert Lewis was a towering figure in the U.S. struggle for civil rights. As an activist and progressive congressman, he was renowned for his unshakable integrity, indomitable courage, and determination to get into "good trouble."



In this biography of Lewis, Raymond Arsenault traces Lewis's upbringing in rural Alabama, his... Read more