Politics & Economy audiobooks

Cold Rivals

By: Evan S. Medeiros

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 19 hours

Abridged: No

Leading authorities analyze growing tensions in US-China relations and what this means for the future



The US-China relationship is now defined by "strategic competition." In Cold Rivals, a distinguished group of scholars from the United States and China examine the reasons for this deterioration and its implications for world politics.



The two... Read more

The Poverty of the World

By: Sheyda F. A. Jahanbani

Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Poverty of the World, Sheyda Jahanbani brings together the histories of United States foreign relations and domestic politics to explain why, during a period of unprecedented affluence, Americans rediscovered poverty and supported major policy initiative to combat it. Revisiting a moment of triumph for American liberals in the 1940s,... Read more

Private Censorship

By: J.P. Messina

Narrated by: Clark Cornell

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Concerns about censorship have once again reached a fever pitch across the liberal West. With a few notable exceptions, complaints about censorship in the twenty-first century West are complaints about the behavior of private parties: employers, media conglomerates, social media platforms, and search engines.



To better understand the concerns... Read more

The Dollar

By: Mariana Luzzi & Ariel Wilkis

Narrated by: Kate Udall

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally published in Argentina in 2019 and now finally available in English, Luzzi and Wilkis's acclaimed book traces the history of the economic, social, and political relevance of the dollar in Argentina and its popularization over the years.



How did the dollar come to play such a leading role in Argentina's national existence? How and why... Read more

Lincoln and California

By: Brian McGinty

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In Lincoln and California Brian McGinty explains the relationship between Abraham Lincoln and the Golden State, describing important events that took place in California and elsewhere during Lincoln's lifetime. He includes the histories of Lincoln's close friends and personal acquaintances who made history as they went to California, lived... Read more

The New Middle East

By: James L. Gelvin

Narrated by: Kent Klineman

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In the second edition of The New Middle East, renowned scholar James L. Gelvin explains how in the aftermath of the collapse of the USSR, the American invasion of Iraq, and the Arab uprisings of 2010-11, a new Middle East has emerged. Syria, Libya, and Yemen have become "crisis states," where warlords vie against governments and each other. The... Read more

Vision

By: David S. Tatel

Narrated by: John Lescault & David S. Tatel

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir by one of America’s most accomplished public servants and legal thinkers—who spent years denying and working around his blindness, before finally embracing it as an essential part of his identity.

David Tatel has served nearly 30 years on America’s second highest court, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, where many... Read more

In the Shadows

By: Mickey Bergman & Ellis Henican

Narrated by: Assaf Cohen & Mickey Bergman

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A top negotiator in countless high-stakes missions to free Americans captured abroad and held in the world's scariest prisons takes readers inside the dramatic and shadowy world of international hostage rescue.

Who else are their desperate loved ones supposed to call? Mickey and his tight team of savvy negotiators at the Richardson Center for... Read more

Triumph of the Yuppies

By: Tom McGrath

Narrated by: Stacy Carolan

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The “entertaining and insightful” first history of the Yuppie phenomenon, chronicling the roots, rise, triumph and (seeming) fall of the young urban professionals who radically altered American life between 1980 and 1987 (New York Times bestselling author Ben Mezrich). 

By the time their obituary was being written in the late 1980s, Yuppies—the... Read more

Relentless

By: Luis A. Miranda Jr.

Narrated by: Luis A. Miranda Jr.

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Essential reading from an expert voice: Luis A. Miranda Jr.’s personal and political memoir reveals a deep understanding of Latino culture and how to build community to change our world for the better.
 
A veteran of New York and national politics, Luis Miranda embodies the relentless spirit of progress of American immigrants.

There is no one on... Read more

Incansable

By: Luis A. Miranda Jr.

Narrated by: Luis A. Miranda Jr.

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Lectura esencial de una voz experta que necesita nuestro país: las memorias personales y políticas de Luis Miranda revelan un profundo conocimiento de la cultura latina y el desarrollo de una comunidad que puede cambiar nuestro mundo para bien.
 
Siendo un veterano de Nueva York y de la política nacional, Luis Miranda encarna el espíritu... Read more

The Accidental Superpower

By: Mr. Peter Zeihan

Narrated by: Mr. Peter Zeihan

Length: 13 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

With a new "10 years later" epilogue for every chapter, comes an eye-opening assessment of American power and deglobalization in the bestselling tradition of The World is Flat and The Next 100 Years.   Near the end of the Second World War, the United States made a bold strategic gambit that rewired the international system. Empires were... Read more

The Year of Living Constitutionally

By: A.J. Jacobs

Narrated by: A.J. Jacobs

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically chronicles his hilarious adventures in attempting to follow the original meaning of the Constitution, as he searches for answers to one of the most pressing issues of our time: How should we interpret America’s foundational document?

“I don’t know how I learned so much while... Read more

Slow Down

By: Kohei Saito

Narrated by: Troy Glasgow & Kohei Saito

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

"Why, in our affluent society, do so many people live in poverty, without access to health care, working multiple jobs, and are nevertheless unable to make ends meet, with no future prospects, while the planet is burning? In his international bestseller, Kohei Saito argues that while unfettered capitalism is often blamed for inequality and... Read more

Un pequeño empujón

By: Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein

Narrated by: Leto Dugatkin

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

El libro que inspiró a Barack Obama los fundamentos de la política al demostrar el poder de un pequeño empujón. Por el Premio Nobel de Economía 2017 Richard H. Thaler. En Un pequeño empujón, considerado ya un clásico y uno de los mejores libros sobre economía y política de las últimas décadas, Cass R. Sunstein y Richard H. Thaler, premio Nobel... Read more

Hijos sin padre

By: Carlos Peña

Narrated by: Claudio Munda

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Una contundente crítica sobre los factores políticos y sociales que Chile todavía no resuelve.
¿Qué ha ocurrido (en términos culturales, políticos y sociales) en nuestro país durante los últimos treinta años? El proceso de modernización capitalista que Chile emprendió finalizada la dictadura ha sido exitoso en términos de mejoras de las... Read more

Счастье Ронинов

By: Denis Saklakov

Narrated by: Paul Yegorov

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Погрузитесь в «Счастье Ронинов», поучительную аудиокнигу, в которой исследуются тонкости достижения и сохранения ощущения счастья, несмотря на прохождение самых сложных жизненных испытаний. Рассказанный с убедительной интонацией, этот опыт захватит вас эмоционально, поскольку вы получите уроки, пройденные самим человечеством, за время его... Read more

Plowshares into Swords

By: David Ekbladh

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an Auto-narrated audiobook version of this book. An in-depth look at how the ideas formulated by the interwar League of Nations shaped American thinking on the modern global order.
 
In Plowshares into Swords, David Ekbladh recaptures the power of knowledge and information developed between World War I and World War II by an... Read more

La democracia ausente

By: Roger Bartra

Narrated by: Mauricio Pérez Castillo

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Cuarta edición, corregida y aumentada, de esta reflexión crítica indispensable para armar el rompecabezas histórico de la izquierda mexicana. A más de treinta y cinco años de su publicación, la presente obra se ha convertido en una reflexión crítica indispensable para armar el rompecabezas histórico de la izquierda mexicana y de lo que entonces,... Read more

Deception

By: Rand Paul

Narrated by: Joe Louis

Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Senator Rand Paul was on to Anthony Fauci from the start. Wielding previously unimaginable power, Fauci misled the country about the origins of the Covid pandemic and shut down scientific dissent.

One of the few leaders who dared to challenge "America’s Doctor" was Senator Rand Paul, himself a physician. Deception is his indictment of the... Read more

Porfirio Díaz. Su vida y su tiempo II

By: Carlos Tello Díaz

Narrated by: Miguel Ángel Álvarez

Length: 22 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Uno de los personajes más fascinantes en la historia de México. Porfirio Díaz. Su vida y su tiempo es la biografía definitiva sobre esta figura indiscutible de nuestra historia. Sin redimir ni satanizar, este libro es el mayor esfuerzo por contar las cosas como en realidad sucedieron. Al triunfar la República contra la Intervención y el Imperio,... Read more

Foreign Agents

By: Casey Michel

Narrated by: Joe Dwyer

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

A stunning investigation and indictment of a segment of the United States' foreign lobbying industry, and the threat to end democracy.

For years, one group of Americans has worked as foot-soldiers for the most authoritarian regimes around the planet. In the process, they've not only entrenched dictatorships and spread kleptocratic networks, but... Read more

A Walk to the Store

By: Judeah Reynolds, Sheletta Brundidge & Lily Coyle

Narrated by: Judeah Reynolds & Sheletta Brundidge

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Many children see bad things happen on TV or online. Some children see bad things happen in real life.When nine-year-old Judeah Reynolds walked to the store to buy candy one day, she saw a man named George Floyd get killed by the police. Judeah was very scared and sad. She talked to her family about what happened, and that helped. She talked... Read more

The War on Critical Race Theory

By: David Theo Goldberg

Narrated by: Lisa Larsen

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

"Critical Race Theory" is consuming conservative America. The mounting attacks on a once-obscure legal theory are upending public schooling, legislating censorship, driving elections, and cleaving communities.



In this much-needed response, renowned scholar David Theo Goldberg cuts to the heart of the claims expressed in these attacks. He... Read more