Politics & Economy audiobooks

Age of Anger

By: Pankaj Mishra

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world—from American shooters and ISIS to Donald Trump, from a rise in vengeful nationalism to racism and misogyny on social media? In Age of Anger, Pankaj Mishra answers our bewilderment by casting his gaze back to the eighteenth century... Read more

How Democracies Die

By: Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Comprehensive, enlightening, and terrifyingly timely.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)

WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITH BOOK PRIZE • SHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • Time • Foreign Affairs • WBUR • Paste

Donald Trump’s presidency has... Read more

Das ewige Ungenügend

By: Saralisa Volm

Narrated by: Inka Löwendorf

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Wie viel Hyaluron passt in das Gesicht einer intelligenten Frau? Wie viel Botox kann ich meiner politischen Haltung zumuten? Wie viel Hängebrust ertragen? Saralisa Volm steckt mittendrin im Schönheitswahn. Es ist Zeit für körperliche Selbstermächtigung, besseren Sex, echte Wut, entspanntes Altwerden und dafür, endlich nein zu sagen. Überall... Read more

United Nations System

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

When the world shrunk as countries around the world started communicating to each other and trading with each other, it became important to extend the policies and regulations of a country in order to accommodate the relations established with other countries. This is when international organizations began to see the light of the day. Countries... Read more

Money

By: Felix Martin

Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From ancient currency to Adam Smith, from the gold standard to shadow banking and the Great Recession: a sweeping historical epic that traces the development and evolution of one of humankind’s greatest inventions.

What is money, and how does it work? In this tour de force of political, cultural and economic history, Felix Martin challenges... 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

Getting Russia Right

By: Thomas Graham

Narrated by: Daniel Henning

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

As US-Russian relations scrape the depths of cold-war antagonism, the promise of partnership that beguiled American administrations during the first post-Soviet decades increasingly appears to have been false from the start. Why did American leaders persist in pursuing it? Was there another path that would have produced more constructive... Read more

미니멀 경제학 : 경제 개념과 원리 편

By: 한진수

Narrated by: 남도형

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

"내가 어렸을 땐 왜 이런 경제 수업이 없었을까?" 금융 문맹에서 탈출하기 위한 경제 사용설명서 이 세상에 경제생활을 하지 않는 사람은 단 한 명도 없다. 한 달에 생활비를 얼마나 쓰고 얼마를 저축해야 하는지, 다양한 휴대전화 요금제 중에서도 어떤 요금제를 선택해야 합리적인지 등 사소한 결정부터 현 정부의 재정 정책이 나의 생활에 어떤 영향을 미치는지, 지금이 집을 사기 적절한 시기인지 아닌지, 소득이 늘면 왜 정부에 더 많은 세금을 내야 하는지 등 중대한 결정까지, 우리의 인생은 그야말로 크고 작은 경제적 선택의 연속선상에 놓여 있다고 해도 과언이 아니다. 『미니멀 경제학 : 경제 개념과 원리 편』은 경제학의... Read more

The American Dream Is Not Dead

By: Michael R. Strain

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Populists on both sides of the political aisle routinely announce that the American Dream is dead. According to them, the game has been rigged by elites, workers can't get ahead, wages have been stagnant for decades, and the middle class is dying.



Michael R. Strain, director of economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute,... Read more

The Lonely Century

By: Noreena Hertz

Narrated by: Noreena Hertz

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A bold, hopeful, and thought-provoking account by “one of the world’s leading thinkers” (The Observer) of how we built a lonely world, how the pandemic accelerated the problem, and what we must do to come together again 

“A compelling vision for how we can bridge our many divides at this time of great change and disruption.”—Arianna Huffington,... Read more

John Stonehouse, My Father

By: Julia Stonehouse

Narrated by: Olivia Dowd

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The true story of the MP who faked his own death, by his daughter



On 20 November 1974, British Labour MP and Privy Counsellor John Stonehouse faked his death in Miami and, using a forged identity, entered Australia hoping to escape his old life and start anew. One month later his identity was uncovered and he was cautioned; the start of years of... Read more

To Raise A Boy

By: Emma Brown

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

“Brown…engages intellectually with thorny issues involving language, school culture, and the more troublesome aspects of today’s parent universe.”​ —The Washington Post

“To Raise a Boy is a clear-eyed and sometimes shocking view of the world that we have created for boys, and a call for change.” —Peg Tyre, author of the New York Times bestseller... Read more

Winston Churchill

By: Thomas Kielinger

Narrated by: Gert Heidenreich

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill – ein Jahrhundertpolitiker. Und eine "Marke", die der Meister der Selbstinszenierung gekonnt in Szene setzte. Die Utensilien: Zigarre, Gehrock, die Kollektion seiner Hüte und Zylinder, der rote Morgenmantel. Sein Zeichen: das V-Siegesfingerzeichen. "Wir sind doch alle Würmer. Aber ich glaube, ich bin ein... Read more

Who Was George Washington?

By: Roberta Edwards & Who HQ

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1789, George Washington became the first president of the United States. He has been called the father of our country for leading America through its early years. Washington also served in two major wars during his lifetime: the French and Indian War and the American Revolution. With over 100 black-and-white illustrations, Washington's... Read more

American Radical

By: Tamer Elnoury & Kevin Maurer

Narrated by: Peter Ganim

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The explosive memoir of a Muslim American FBI agent fighting terror from the inside.

It’s no secret that federal agencies are waging a broad, global war against terror. But for the first time in this memoir, an active Muslim American federal agent reveals his experience infiltrating and bringing down a terror cell in... Read more

Dead Aid

By: Dambisa Moyo

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A national bestseller, Dead Aid unflinchingly confronts one of the greatest myths of our time: that billions of dollars in aid sent from wealthy countries to developing African nations has helped to reduce poverty and increase growth. In fact, poverty levels continue to escalate and growth rates have steadily declined—and millions continue to... Read more

James Madison

By: Kelly Mass

Narrated by: Doug Greene

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

James Madison (who lived from March 16, 1751 to June 28th, 1836) was an American statesman, diplomat, expansionist, theorist, and Founding Father who worked as the United States' 4th president from 1809 to 1817. For his essential role in the creation and big promotion of the US Constitution and the US Bill of Rights, he's referred to as the... Read more

A Slobbering Love Affair

By: Bernard Goldberg

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Do the mainstream media have a liberal bias? Sure they do, says CBS veteran and New York Times bestselling author Bernard Goldberg. But the media crossed an important line in the 2008 presidential race, moving from their usual unthinking liberal bias to crass partisanship of the crudest kind, practically acting as spin doctors for the... Read more

Ukraine's Maidan, Russia's War

By: Mychailo Wynnyckyj

Narrated by: David Stifel

Length: 16 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In early 2014, sparked by an assault by their government on peaceful students, Ukrainians rose up against a deeply corrupt, Moscow-backed regime. Initially demonstrating under the banner of EU integration, the Maidan protesters proclaimed their right to a dignified existence; they learned to organize, to act collectively, to become a civil... Read more

The Year That Broke America

By: Andrew Rice

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright

Length: 15 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Combining the compelling insight of Nixonland and the narrative verve of Ladies and Gentleman: The Bronx is Burning, a journalist’s definitive cultural and political history of the fatefully important moment when American politics and culture turned: the year 2000.Before there was Coronavirus, before there was the contentious 2020 election or... Read more

Grass Roots

By: Emily Dufton

Narrated by: Greg Baglia

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

How earnest hippies, frightened parents, suffering patients, and other ordinary Americans went to war over marijuana

In the last five years, eight states have legalized recreational marijuana. To many, continued progress seems certain. But pot was on a similar trajectory forty years ago, only to encounter a fierce backlash. In Grass Roots,... Read more

John Locke

By: Ferdinand Jives

Narrated by: Alasdair Cunningham

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The Libertarian who spoke up. Although considered as a pure politician and idealist by some, John Locke’s philosophical views on life have inspired many to take a step back and reassess the nature of governments, property, and human rights. He was an advocate of freedom and liberty. His influence cannot be underestimated when looking at the... Read more

El Principe

By: Nicolás Maquiavelo

Narrated by: Santiago

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

"El Príncipe" de Nicolás Maquiavelo es una de las obras más influyentes de la filosofía política. Este audiolibro ofrece una guía pragmática sobre el poder, la gobernanza y las estrategias necesarias para mantener y consolidar el liderazgo. A través de un análisis directo y realista de la naturaleza humana y la política, Maquiavelo desafía las... Read more

Scarlet A

By: Katie Watson

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Although Roe v. Wade identified abortion as a constitutional right forty-five years ago, it still bears stigma—a proverbial scarlet A. Millions of Americans have participated in or benefited from an abortion, but few want to reveal that they have done so. Approximately one in five pregnancies in the U.S. ends in abortion. Why is something so... Read more