Politics & Economy audiobooks

Maan alla: Vakoilua, vastarintaa ja urkintaa Suomessa 1941-1944

By: Jukka Rislakki

Narrated by: Seppo Pietikäinen

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Toisen maailmansodan aikana Suomessa käytiin sotaa monella rintamalla. Piilossa katseilta toimi järjestäytynyt ryhmä vasemmistolaisia, jotka vastustivat sotaa ja avustivat Neuvostoliittoa jopa vuoteen 1945 asti. Kullakin jäsenellä oli oma tehtävänsä verkoston päämäärien saavuttamisessa, oli kyse sitten tiedustelusta, logistiikasta tai... Read more

Interview with Menacham Begin

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In this 1978 interview, Menacham Begin discussses the breakdown of Middle East peace talks. Read more

This Stops Today

By: Gwen Carr

Narrated by: Myra Lucretia Taylor

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

After the death of her son, Eric Garner, at the hands of New York City police officers on Staten Island went viral, Gwen Carr’s life changed forever. The illegal choke hold that took Garner’s life has been seared into the public consciousness forever as the large black man struggled to breathe while a white policeman held him down on a hot... Read more

Staat Macht Geld

By: Monika Stemmer

Narrated by: Sebastian Pappenberger

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Woher kommt das Geld? Wieso ist es meist knapp und in Krisen auf einmal schier unbegrenzt verfügbar? Weshalb gibt es die erbitterten Kämpfe zwischen den beiden großen Lagern der Keynesianer und der Neoklassiker? Woher nimmt die Bundesregierung in Zeiten von Corona auf einmal Hunderte Milliarden von Euro? Anschaulich und für ein breites Publikum... Read more

100 Mandela Moments

By: Kate Sidley

Narrated by: Jane Dutton

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is Nelson Mandela the statesman, the prisoner, the father, sometimes the joker, and occasionally the disciplinarian. Mandela is shown in snapshot, in the memories of old friends like George Bizos, in the words of inspiring legends like Muhammed Ali, leading the Defiance Campaign against apartheid laws, or doing the famous Madiba shuffle to... Read more

Dictators Without Borders

By: Alexander A. Cooley, PhD & John Heathershaw

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Weak, corrupt, and politically unstable, the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are dismissed as isolated and irrelevant to the outside world. But are they? This hard-hitting book argues that Central Asia is in reality a globalization leader with more extensive involvement in economics, politics, and... Read more

Agent M

By: Henry Hemming

Narrated by: Henry Hemming

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The fascinating, improbable true story of Maxwell Knight -- the great MI5 spymaster and inspiration for the James Bond character M.

Maxwell Knight was perhaps the greatest spymaster in history. He did more than anyone in his era to combat the rising threat of fascism in Britain during World War II, in spite of his own history inside this... Read more

National Populism

By: Roger Eatwell & Matthew Goodwin

Narrated by: Matthew Goodwin

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy, A Pelican Book, written by Roger Eatwell and Matthew Goodwin and read by Matthew Goodwin.

A crucial new guide to one of the most urgent political phenomena of our time: the rise of national populism

Across the West, there is a rising tide of people... Read more

La revancha de los poderosos

By: Moisés Naím

Narrated by: Carlos Vicente

Length: 15 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Un libro para entender cómo se obtiene, se usa, se abusa y se pierde el poder en el siglo XXI. En todo el mundo, las democracias se enfrentan a un enemigo nuevo e implacable que no tiene ejército ni armada; no procede de ningún país que podamos señalar en un mapa, porque no viene de ahí fuera, sino de aquí dentro. En lugar de desafiar a las... Read more

La llamada de la tribu

By: Mario Vargas Llosa

Narrated by: Rafael Cabrera Claux

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Escucha ahora la autobiografía intelectual del Premio Nobel de Literatura Mario Vargas Llosa. «La doctrina liberal ha representado desde sus orígenes las formas más avanzadas de la cultura democrática y lo que más nos ha ido defendiendo de la inextinguible "llamada de la tribu". Este libro quisiera contribuir con un granito de arena a esa... Read more

A Woman in Charge

By: Carl Bernstein

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 24 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Carl Bernstein’s stunning portrait of Hillary Rodham Clinton shows us, as nothing
else has, the true trajectory of her life and career with its zigzag bursts of risks taken and safety sought. Marshaling all the skills and energy that propelled his history-making Pulitzer Prize reporting on Watergate, Bernstein gives us the most detailed,... Read more

It's Not Over

By: Michelangelo Signorile

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Marriage equality has surged across the country. Closet doors have burst open in business, entertainment, and even major-league sports. But as longtime advocate Michelangelo Signorile argues in his most provocative book yet, the excitement of such breathless change makes this moment more dangerous than ever. Puncturing the illusion that victory... Read more

Suppression, Deception, Snobbery, and Bias

By: Ari Fleischer

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Russian collusion. The lab-leak theory. The Hunter Biden laptop. Mostly peaceful protests. What if America’s misinformation problem is coming from inside the mainstream media?Fox contributor Ari Fleischer says most Americans live in a media-created fantasyland. Never before have we been so information-rich yet so poorly informed. America’s... Read more

How To Change a Law

By: John Thibault

Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Gold Medal Winner, Readers' Favorite Awards, 2017 Finalist, 14th Annual American Book Fest, 2017 Finalist, 11th Annual National Indie Excellence Book Awards, 2017 Runner-Up, San Francisco Book Festival, 2017 This book is a do-it-yourself manual for voters, small business owners, lobbyists, and policy advocates who want to take political... Read more

The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden

By: Peter L. Bergen

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The world’s leading expert on Osama bin Laden delivers for the first time the “riveting” (The New York Times) definitive biography of a man who set the course of American foreign policy for the 21st century and whose ideological heirs we continue to battle today.

In The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden, Peter Bergan provides the first... Read more

Exploitation

By: Marcus Kline

Narrated by: Sarah Donovan

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Economic inequality has become one of the defining challenges of our era, shaping the trajectory of societies across the globe. The income gap between the wealthiest and the poorest continues to widen, creating a stark divide that influences not only financial security but also access to education, healthcare, and opportunities. This growing... Read more

In True Face

By: Jonna Mendez

Narrated by: Barbara Benjamin-Creel

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling coauthor of The Moscow Rules and Argo tells her riveting, courageous story of being a female spy at the height of the Cold War

Jonna Hiestand Mendez began her CIA career as a “contract wife” performing secretarial duties for the CIA as a convenience to her husband, a young officer stationed in Europe. She needed his permission to... Read more

Internationalism or Extinction

By: Noam Chomsky

Narrated by: Christopher Ragland

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In his new book, Noam Chomsky writes cogently about the threats to planetary survival that are of growing alarm today. The prospect of human extinction emerged after World War II, the dawn of a new era scientists now term the Anthropocene. Chomsky uniquely traces the duality of existential threats from nuclear weapons and from climate... Read more

The Atomic Bazaar

By: William Langewiesche

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In his shocking and revelatory new work, celebrated journalist William Langewiesche investigates the burgeoning threat of nuclear-weapons production and the inexorable drift of nuclear-weapons technology from the hands of the rich into the hands of the poor. As more unstable and undeveloped nations acquire the ultimate arms, the stakes of... Read more

Popular Presidents

By: Susan Hill

Narrated by: Susan Hill

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn about the American presidents and how they lived. Read more

The Founding Fathers’ Guide to the Constitution

By: Brion McClanahan

Narrated by: David Cochran Heath

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

What does the Constitution really mean? How did the founding generation intend for us to interpret and apply the Constitution? Are liberals right when they cite its "elastic" clauses to justify big government, or are conservatives right when they cite its explicit limits on federal power? Professor Brion McClanahan, popular author of The... Read more

Time for Outrage

By: Stéphane Hessel

Narrated by: Bob Walter

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

This controversial, impassioned call-to-arms for a return to the ideals that fueled the French Resistance has sold millions of copies worldwide since its publication in France in October 2010. Rejecting the dictatorship of world financial markets and defending the social values of modern democracy, 93-old Stéphane Hessel -- Resistance leader,... Read more

Numbers Don't Lie

By: Vaclav Smil

Narrated by: Ben Prendergast

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

"There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil."--Bill Gates

An essential guide to understanding how numbers reveal the true state of our world--exploring a wide range of topics including energy, the environment, technology, transportation, and food production.

Vaclav Smil's mission is to make facts matter. An... Read more

Abraham Lincoln: A Life 1861-1862

By: Michael Burlingame

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Publishers Weekly describes this book as “the most meticulously researched Lincoln biography ever written. Burlingame's Lincoln comes alive as the author unfolds vast amounts of new research while breathing new life into familiar stories. It is the essential title for the bicentennial.” Publishers Weekly also notes, “The book need not be heard... Read more