Politics & Economy audiobooks

How a young Syrian girl's pleas for peace drew international attention

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Last year, Bana Alabed sparked a worldwide following for tweeting from Aleppo in Syria while it was under attack amid a years-long civil war. Now, the 8-year-old is authoring a book about surviving and escaping the conflict. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Marcia Biggs talked to Alabed and her mother in Ankara, Turkey, where they are... Read more

The President Is Dead!

By: Louis L. Picone

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 17 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Packed with fun facts and presidential trivia, The President Is Dead! tells you everything you could possibly want to know about how our presidents, from George Washington to George H. W. Bush (who was the most recent president to die), met their ends, the circumstances of their deaths, the pomp of their funerals, and their public afterlives,... Read more

Europe without Borders

By: Issac Stanley-Becker

Narrated by: David Marantz

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Europe is a place of free movement among nations—or is it? The Schengen area, established in 1985 and today encompassing twenty-nine European countries, allows people, goods, and capital to cross borders without restraint. Schengen transformed European life, advancing both a democratic project of transnational citizenship and a neoliberal... Read more

Political Animals

By: Rick Shenkman

Narrated by: Tom Zingarelli

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Can a football game affect the outcome of an election? What about shark attacks? Or a drought? In a rational world the answer, of course, would be no. But as bestselling historian Rick Shenkman shows in Political Animals, our world is anything but rational. This isn't because we aren't smart. Instead, modern cues are setting off ancient,... Read more

The Economics of the Stock Market

By: Andrew Smithers

Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The current consensus economic model, the neoclassical synthesis, depends on aprioristic assumptions that are shown to be invalid when tested against the data and fails to include finance. Economic policy based on this consensus has led to the financial crisis of 2008, the "Great Recession" that followed, and the slow subsequent rate of growth.... Read more

The Training Ground

By: Martin Dugard

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Nearly all of the Civil War’s greatest soldiers—Grant, Lee, Sherman, Davis, and Jackson—were forged in the heat of the Mexican War. This is their story.The Mexican War has faded from our national memory, but it was a struggle of enormous significance. It was the first US war waged on foreign soil, and it nearly doubled the size of our nation. At... Read more

The Stranger on the Bridge

By: Jonny Benjamin & Britt Pflüger

Narrated by: Britt Pflüger, Jonny Benjamin & Neil Laybourn

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

'In my world, the word inspirational gets bandied around a lot, but Jonny Benjamin is truly deserving of that adjective.' – HRH The Duke of Cambridge

'Jonny Benjamin is the most inspirational man I know. His book shows us how remarkable the human spirit is.' Bryony Gordon, bestselling author of Mad Girl

In 2008, twenty-year-old Jonny Benjamin... Read more

Seen and Unseen

By: Russell Darley

Narrated by: Russell Darley

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping view of Asia and the Pacific through a series of literary essays written by Australian Russell Darnley, who earned an OAM for services he provided after the Bali Bombings.

Malaria, cockfights and magic are confronting realities in the Asia-Pacific region, yet beyond these more remains unseen and misunderstood. These cultures also exert... Read more

The Clinton, Inc.

By: Daniel Halper

Narrated by: Harvey Betancourt

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Weekly Standard editor Daniel Halper provides a meticulously researched account of the brilliant calculations, secret deals, and occasionally treacherous maneuverings that led to the Clintons’ return to political prominence.In the twelve years since the Clintons left the White House, they have gone from being virtually penniless to... Read more

الاستشراق

By: محمد عبدالله الشرقاوي

Narrated by: عمر زكريا

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

يتحدث الكاتب عن ظاهرة الاستشراق وكيف كان لها أثر كبير في تشكيل نظرة الغرب للإسلام، وكيف بدأ الاستشراق والهدف الرئيسي منه وكيف كان عامل مساعد قوي في فترة الاستعمار وعلاقته بالتبشير، ثم كيف تطور إلى أن وصل إلى ما عليه الآن. يوضح الكتاب مميزات وعيوب الاستشراق، ثم يتحدث عن المستشرقين وكيف كان يدفع الحقد والكره للإسلام بعضهم إلى تشويهه و تزييف... Read more

Talk Radio’s America

By: Brian Rosenwald

Narrated by: Christopher Grove

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The cocreator of the Washington Post's Made by History blog reveals how the rise of conservative talk radio gave us a Republican Party incapable of governing and paved the way for Donald Trump.



Radio hosts form a deep bond with their audience, which gives them enormous political power. Unlike elected representatives, however, they must entertain... Read more

Diary of a Young Naturalist

By: Dara McAnulty

Narrated by: Dara McAnulty

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

From sixteen-year-old Dara McAnulty, a globally renowned figure in the youth climate activist movement, comes a memoir about loving the natural world and fighting to save it.

Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of a year in Dara's Northern Ireland home patch. Beginning in spring—when "the sparrows dig the moss from the guttering... Read more

Unruly Saint

By: D.L. Mayfield

Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1933, in the shadow of the Great Depression, Dorothy Day started the most prominent Catholic radical movement in United States history, the Catholic Worker Movement, a storied organization with a lasting legacy of truth and justice.



Day's newspaper, houses of hospitality, and ministry of paying attention to the inequality of her world would... Read more

Churchill: History in an Hour

By: Andrew Mulholland

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour… Sir Winston Churchill was a soldier, journalist, writer, Nobel Prize winner and, above all, a leader. Conservative then Liberal then Conservative again, his political instincts won him a sustained career at the summit of British government, while his resolve and politics... Read more

Uncommon Wrath

By: Josiah Osgood

Narrated by: Ana Clements

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A dual biography of Julius Caesar and Cato the Younger that offers a dire warning: republics collapse when partisanship overrides the common good.

In Uncommon Wrath, historian Josiah Osgood tells the story of how the political rivalry between Julius Caesar and Marcus Cato precipitated the end of the Roman Republic. As the champions of two... Read more

Kill Switch

By: Adam Jentleson

Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

An insider's account of how politicians representing a radical minority of Americans are using "the greatest deliberative body in the world" to hijack our democracy.



Every major decision governing our diverse, majority-female, and increasingly liberal country bears the stamp of the US Senate, yet the Senate allows an almost exclusively white,... Read more

Targeted

By: Brittany Kaiser

Narrated by: Brittany Kaiser

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In this explosive memoir, a political consultant and technology whistleblower reveals the disturbing truth about the multi-billion-dollar data industry, revealing to the public how companies are getting richer using our personal information and exposing how Cambridge Analytica exploited weaknesses in privacy laws to help elect Donald Trump—and... Read more

Fuck You, 2016

By: Bob A. N. Grypants

Narrated by: Bob A. N. Grypants

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of F*ck You, 2016 by Bob A. N. Grypants, read by Bob A.N. Grypants.

In the year that David Bowie died, Brexit shocked us, 'Hiddleswift' was a thing and Trump trumped, we are all asking ourselves was 2016 really the worst year ever?

Find out in this special* commemorative... Read more

Racecraft

By: Karen E. Fields & Barbara J. Fields

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Tackling the myth of a post-racial societyMost people assume that racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice of racism. Sociologist Karen E. Fields and historian Barbara J. Fields argue otherwise: the practice of racism produces the illusion of race, through what they call “racecraft.” And... Read more

Shadowbosses

By: Mallory Factor

Narrated by: Mallory Factor

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The rise of unions is having a deep impact on the workers of America, and this brutally honest exposé serves as a warning to concerned Americans for what’s to come if this continues.

SHADOWBOSSES reads like an organized crime novel, but it's actually a true story of how labor unions are infiltrating our government and corrupting our political... Read more

Het volk komt in verzet

By: Alles over historia

Narrated by: Cindy Fabriek

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In het begin van de oorlog kijken burgers lamgeslagen toe als de Duitse tanks het ene land na het andere binnenrijden. Maar als de onderdrukking door de nazi's voort blijft duren, groeit de onvrede. Stil protest ontwikkelt zich tot openlijke pesterijen en gewapende strijd. Er komen geheime verzetsgroepen op die Duitse bevoorradingslijnen en... Read more

With Grant at Fort Donelson, Shiloh and Vicksburg

By: Wilber F. Crummer

Narrated by: Andrew Mulcare

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Wilber F. Crummer was an acquaintance and neighbor of Ulysses S. Grant in Galena, Illinois. When civil war broke out, he became "one of the Boys in Blue" who followed General Grant in the Battles of Fort Donelson, Shiloh and Vicksburg. His stirring and vivid accounts of these significant civil war battles, covering the years 1862-63, are filled... Read more

The Innovation Illusion

By: Fredrik Erixon

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Timely, compelling, and certain to be controversial—a deeply researched study that reveals how companies and policy makers are hindering innovation-led growth Conventional wisdom holds that Western economies are on the threshold of fast-and-furious technological development. Fredrik Erixon and Bjorn Weigel refute this idea, bringing together a... Read more

The Geopolitics Emotion

By: Dominique Moisi

Narrated by: Scott Peterson

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In his celebrated 1993 book The Clash of Civilizations, political scientist Samuel Huntington argued that the fundamental source of conflict in the post - Cold War world would not be primarily ideological or economic, but cultural. In The Geopolitics of Emotion Dominique Moïsi, a leading authority on international affairs, demonstrates that our... Read more