Politics & Economy audiobooks

Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach

By: Kristie Macrakis

Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Ever since the earliest days of the Cold War, American intelligence agencies have launched spies in the sky, implanted spies in the ether, burrowed spies underground, sunk spies in the ocean, and even tried to control spies' minds by chemical means. But these weren't human spies. Instead, the United States expanded its reach around the globe... Read more

Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community

By: Pádraig Ó Tuama

Narrated by: Pádraig Ó Tuama

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community draws on the spiritual practices of Northern Ireland's longest established peace and reconciliation organisation. For over fifty years, it has been bringing fractured communities together and resourcing others in the work of healing conflict. At the heart of its life is a simple pattern of daily... Read more

Downfall

By: Anna Arutunyan & Mark Galeotti

Narrated by: Mark Galeotti

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Evgeny Prigozhin emerged as one of the most dangerous warlords in the world and as one of Vladimir Putin's chief rivals in Russia's tumultuous political climate, exiled after leading Wagner's attempted coup and killed in a mysterious plane crash. But what is the truth about this enigmatic figure, his role in the war... Read more

Hunting the Jackal

By: Billy Waugh & Tim Keown

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

For more than half a century, Special Forces and CIA legend Billy Waugh dedicated his life to tracking down and eliminating America's most virulent enemies. Operating from the darkest shadows and most desolate corners of the world, he made his mark in many of the most important operations in the annals of U.S. Spec Ops.



He spent seven and a half... Read more

The Children of the Anthropocene

By: Bella Lack

Narrated by: Bella Lack

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Across the planet, the futures of young people hang in the balance as they face the harsh realities of the environmental crisis.

This urgent book chronicles the lives of the diverse young people on the frontlines of the environmental crisis around the world, amplifying the stories of those living at the heart of the... Read more

The Three Lives of James Madison

By: Noah Feldman

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 34 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping reexamination of the Founding Father who transformed the United States in each of his political “lives”—as a revolutionary thinker, as a partisan political strategist, and as a president

Over the course of his life, James Madison changed the United States three times: First, he designed the Constitution, led the struggle for its... Read more

Las mujeres que luchan se encuentran

By: Catalina Ruiz-Navarro

Narrated by: Catalina Ruiz-Navarro

Length: 18 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Una invitación a participar activamente en una conversación que está más vigente que nunca: el feminismo. En este libro, Catalina Ruiz-Navarro, una de las voces más destacadas de este movimiento en Latinoamérica, recorre, a partir de un testimonio profundamente honesto y agudo, un camino que aborda el cuerpo, el poder, la violencia, el sexo, la... Read more

Power Trip

By: David Marr

Narrated by: David Marr

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

This irreverent, controversial account is sure to be one of the most talked-about publications of election year 2010 - a ground-breaking, in-depth profile that traces Kevin Rudd's years in Queensland, in China, in opposition and finally in government. Based on extensive research, observation and interviewing, it examines the forces that have... Read more

Waste Wars

By: Alexander Clapp

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A globe-trotting work of relentless investigative reporting, this is the first major book to expose the catastrophic reality of the multi-billion-dollar global garbage trade.
                                                                                          
Dumps and landfills around the world are overflowing. Disputes about what to do... Read more

By Honor Bound

By: Tom Norris, Mike Thornton & Dick Couch

Narrated by: Jeff Gurner

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

By Honor Bound is the powerful and moving story of two Medal of Honor recipients, written by New York Times bestselling author Dick Couch.

“Delivers cracking-good minute-by-minute descriptions of two SEAL missions rich in suspense, with technically accurate fireworks and undeniable heroism.” —HistoryNet

In April of 1972, near the end of the... Read more

There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere

By: Kara Swisher & Lisa Dickey

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

“AOL had found itself at the edge of disaster so frequently that one of its first executives, a brassy Vietnam veteran and restaurateur named Jim Kimsey, had taken the punch line of an old joke popularized by Ronald Reagan and made it into an unlikely mantra for the company. It concerned a very optimistic young boy who happened upon a huge pile... Read more

American Happiness and Discontents

By: George F. Will

Narrated by: Jim Meskimen

Length: 18 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Examine the ways in which expertise, reason, and manners are continually under attack in our institutions, courts, political arenas, and social venues with this collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist.
 
George F. Will has been one of this country’s leading columnists since 1974. He won the Pulitzer Prize for it in 1977.... Read more

Schicksalsstunden einer Demokratie

By: Volker Ullrich

Narrated by: Peter Bieringer

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

-Platz 3 auf der HR-2 Hörbuch Bestenliste, September 2024- Demokratien sind fragil. Freiheiten, die fest errungen scheinen, können verspielt werden. Wenige historische Ereignisse verdeutlichen dies so eindringlich wie das Scheitern der Weimarer Republik. Volker Ullrich erzählt eines der größten Dramen der Weltgeschichte – anschaulich, spannend... Read more

Winston's War

By: Max Hastings

Narrated by: Robin Sachs

Length: 25 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A vivid and incisive portrait of Winston Churchill during wartime from acclaimed historian Max Hastings, Winston’s War captures the full range of Churchill’s endlessly fascinating character. At once brilliant and infuriating, self-important and courageous, Hastings’s Churchill comes brashly to life as never before.

Beginning in 1940, when... Read more

White House Warriors

By: John Gans

Narrated by: David Marantz

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

When Congress originally created the National Security Council in 1947, it was intended to better coordinate foreign policy after World War II. Nearly an afterthought, a small administrative staff was established to help keep its papers moving. President Kennedy was, as John Gans documents, the first to make what became known as the NSC staff... Read more

Mary Ball Washington

By: Craig Shirley

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The Mother of the Father of our Country.Mary Ball Washington was an unlikely candidate to be the mother of history’s most famous revolutionary. In fact, George Washington’s first fight for independence was from his controlling, singular mother.Stubborn, aristocratic Mary Ball Washington was entrenched in the Old World ways of her ancestors,... Read more

Days of Steel Rain

By: Brent E. Jones

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

This intimate true account of Americans at war follows theepic drama of an unlikely group of men forced to work together in the face of an increasingly desperate enemy during the final year of World War II. Sprawling across the Pacific, this untold story follows the crew of the newly-built "vengeance ship" USS Astoria, named for her sunken... Read more

Türkei, die unfertige Nation

By: Inga Rogg

Narrated by: Sebastian Pappenberger

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Erdogans Traum vom Osmanischen Reich Ein gescheiterter Putschversuch und mehrere Terroranschläge erschüttern 2016 die Türkei. Trotz der explosiven Lage kommt Recep Tayyip Erdogan seinem Ziel, als Präsident uneingeschränkter Herrscher über die Türkei zu werden, immer näher. Inga Rogg zeichnet Erdogans Werdegang vom Reformer zum Autokraten nach.... Read more

Enough Said

By: Mark Thompson

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 14 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

There’s a crisis of trust in politics across the Western world. Public anger is rising, and faith in conventional political leaders and parties is falling. Antipolitics, and the antipoliticians, have arrived. In Enough Said, president and CEO of the New York Times Company, Mark Thompson, argues that one of the most significant causes of the... Read more

La libertà

By: John Stuart Mill

Narrated by: Roberto Arricale

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In 'La libertà', uno dei saggi di filosofia politica più influenti della storia moderna, John Stuart Mill si interroga sul concetto di libertà e le sue forme. Cos'è la libertà? Cosa deve fare lo stato per garantirla? Cosa, invece, devono fare gli individui per assicurarsela, per sé e per gli altri? Delineando i limiti di ciò che può essere... Read more

Motorhome Prophecies

By: Carrie Sheffield

Narrated by: Carrie Sheffield

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In the vein of Educated and Hillbilly Elegy comes a young woman’s memoir chronicling her harrowing journey from despair to salvation that showcases the depths and resilience of the human spirit and empowers readers on their own paths toward healing, forgiveness, and redemption.
 
Carrie Sheffield grew up fifth of eight children with a violent,... Read more

Lost at Sea

By: John Wukovits

Narrated by: Nathan Agin

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The forgotten story of American war hero Eddie Rickenbacker's crash landing in the Pacific during World War II, and his incredible twenty-three-day crusade to keep his crew alive

In the darkest days of World War II, an unlikely civilian was sent to deliver a letter from Washington to General MacArthur in New Guinea. Eddie Rickenbacker was a... Read more

Covert

By: A.S. Dulat, Asad Durrani & Neil K. Aggarwal

Narrated by: Shubhankar, Jonathan Rego & Rajiv Dadia

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

After the tremendous success of The Spy Chronicles, A.S. Dulat and Asad Durrani participated in a series of conversations on the psychology of war and peace; these have evolved into this fascinating book, written with psychiatrist Neil K. Aggarwal. Covert takes the reader right into the head of the two spymasters. Delving into their personal and... Read more

Our Fight for America

By: Michael Savage

Narrated by: Holden Still

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In the follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller Trump's War, Michael Savage makes the case for President Trump in 2020.
America rolled into 2020 like a juggernaut, with the strongest economy in its history and a renewed leadership role on the world stage. President Trump was cruising to reelection on the strength of record low unemployment,... Read more