Politics & Economy audiobooks

Her Honor

By: LaDoris Hazzard Cordell

Narrated by: LaDoris Hazzard Cordell

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

In Her Honor, Judge LaDoris Hazzard Cordell provides a rare and thought-provoking insider account of our legal system, sharing vivid stories of the cases that came through her courtroom and revealing the strengths, flaws, and much-needed changes within our courts.

Judge Cordell, the first African American woman... Read more

Bitcoin is Better

By: Daniel Hershberger

Narrated by: Daniel Hershberger

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you ready to see the truth?In a world where the working class struggles against the tide of unnatural inflation, this illuminating read unveils the power of bitcoin as nature's true currency. Journeying from Wall Street to the Himalayan mountains, Daniel exposes the sinister plot of the Keynesian Kings and explores how a simple, transparent,... Read more

Martin & Malcolm & America

By: James H. Cone

Narrated by: Sean Crisden

Length: 14 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This groundbreaking and highly acclaimed work examines the two most influential African American leaders of the twentieth century. While Martin Luther King, Jr., saw America as "essentially a dream . . . as yet unfulfilled," Malcolm X viewed America as a realized nightmare. James Cone cuts through superficial assessments of King and Malcolm as... Read more

China

By: Susan L. Shirk

Narrated by: Kyle Tait

Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Susan L. Shirk, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State responsible for China, knows many of today's Chinese rulers personally and has studied them for three decades. She offers invaluable insight into how they think—and what they fear. In this revealing book, you will see the world through the eyes of men like President Hu Jintao and... Read more

The Making of Black Lives Matter

By: Christopher J. Lebron

Narrated by: Diontae Black

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful and incendiary campaign demanding redress for the brutal and unjustified treatment of black bodies by law enforcement in the United States. The movement is only a few years old, but as Christopher J.... Read more

Blood Diamonds

By: Greg Campbell

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The true story of the events that inspired the feature film Blood DiamondFirst discovered in 1930, the diamonds of Sierra Leone have funded one of the most savage rebel campaigns in modern history. These "blood diamonds" are smuggled out of West Africa and sold to legitimate diamond merchants in London, Antwerp, and New York, often with the... Read more

Access All Areas

By: Lenny Henry & Marcus Ryder

Narrated by: Lenny Henry

Length: 3 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Lenny Henry rang up the Office for National Statistics to confirm something he'd been thinking about for a long time. They told him that only 29.5% of the United Kingdom's population is made up of white, heterosexual, able-bodied men; so, he wonders, why do they still make up the vast majority of people we see in our media? Joining forces... Read more

Open Wide the Freedom Gates

By: Dorothy Height

Narrated by: Lizan Mitchell

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and president emerita of the National Council of Negro Women, Dorothy Height is a heroine of the Civil Rights movement. At age 91 she takes listeners back through 70 explosive years in search of equality as a black and as a woman. Dr. Height recalls her childhood battles with racism, college in New... Read more

Why I Became an X Troop Commando

By: Helen Fry

Narrated by: Harrie Dobby

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating and moving biography of Colin Anson, the German refugee who became an elite British commando



Born in Germany in 1922, Colin Anson's (Claus Ascher) childhood was marked by the trials of Nazism. His father was arrested by the Gestapo in 1937 and transported to Dachau, where he died shortly after. Colin, aged just seventeen, escaped to... Read more

Great Conquerors

By: Kelly Mass

Narrated by: Doug Greene

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a compilation of 3 different titles, which are about the following topics:
1: The Greek general and king, Alexander the Great, is a name you might have heard before. Although his historical journey varies greatly from the stories and rumors about him, he did accomplish many victories in Asia and Europe in his conquest to rule the world.In... Read more

The Road to Unafraid

By: Jeff Struecker

Narrated by: Jeff Struecker

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Jeff Struecker, a "Black Hawk Down" hero, the Army's Top Ranger, now an Army Chaplain, relates his own tales from the frontlines of every U.S. initiative since Panama, and tells how God taught him faith from the front in fear-soaked times. As readers go on-mission with Struecker through his harrowing tales, they will learn how to face their own... Read more

The End of the World is Just the Beginning

By: Peter Zeihan

Narrated by: Peter Zeihan

Length: 16 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

2019 was the last great year for the world economy.For generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and cheaper. Finally, we reached the point that almost anything you could ever want could be sent to your home within days - even hours - of when you decided you wanted it.America made that happen, but now America has lost interest in... Read more

La constitución desconocida

By: Juan Jesús Garza Onofre & Javier Martín Reyes

Narrated by: Juan Jesús Garza Onofre & Javier Martín Reyes

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Un libro para entender los fundamentos de nuestra Constitución y su importancia en la vida diaria de todas las personas ¿Por qué si nuestra Constitución fue la primera en reconocer derechos sociales —antes incluso que la rusa y la de Weimar— va tan rezagada en lo que toca a hacerlos efectivos? ¿Es motivo de orgullo que tengamos la sexta... Read more

The Last Empire

By: Serhii Plokhy

Narrated by: Alex Wyndham

Length: 15 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

On Christmas Day, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed the nation to declare an American victory in the Cold War: earlier that day Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned as the first and last Soviet president. The enshrining of that narrative, one in which the end of the Cold War was linked to the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the... Read more

Tough As They Come

By: Travis Mills & Marcus Brotherton

Narrated by: Travis Mills

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Thousands have been wounded in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Five have survived quadruple amputee injuries. This is one soldier's story. 
 
Thousands of soldiers die every year to defend their country. United States Army Staff Sergeant Travis Mills was sure that he would become another statistic when, during his third tour of duty in... Read more

How The Best Did It

By: Talmage Boston

Narrated by: Talmage Boston

Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

How the Best Did It is an accessible and insightful explanation of how the most important leadership traits from America's eight greatest presidents can be implemented by today's leaders.



"A discerning examination of what all of us can learn from some of our most effective leaders who have held—and wielded—ultimate power at the highest level."... Read more

Citizen

By: Bill Clinton

Narrated by: Patrick Twinem

Length: 18 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Die kraftvollen, offenen und detailreichen Memoiren einer amerikanischen Ikone, die zeigen, wie das Leben nach der Präsidentschaft aussieht: Triumphe, Schwierigkeiten und alles andere. Am 20. Januar 2001, nach fast dreißig Jahren in der Politik - acht davon als Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten - war Bill Clinton plötzlich ein Privatmann. Er... Read more

The Rise and Decline of Nations

By: Mancur Olson

Narrated by: William Sarris

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The updated edition of Mancur Olson's award-winning book The Rise and Decline of Nations. Read more

The Paranoid Style in American Politics

By: Richard Hofstadter

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

This timely reissue of Richard Hofstadter's classic work on the fringe groups that influence American electoral politics offers an invaluable perspective on contemporary domestic affairs. In The Paranoid Style in American Politics, acclaimed historian Richard Hofstadter examines the competing forces in American political discourse and how fringe... Read more

Armistice with Richard Fidler

By: Richard Fidler

Narrated by: Richard Fidler

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Armistice is a three-part series from Conversations bringing to life the stories of Australians who went to the Western Front, and connecting them to the family folklore of their descendants. The Great War came to an end a century ago, with the signing of the armistice between the Allies and the German Empire, but its aftershocks reverberate... Read more

I Am Because We Are

By: Chidiogo Akunyili-Parr

Narrated by: Chidiogo Akunyili-Parr

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In this innovative and intimate memoir, a daughter tells the story of her mother, a pan-African hero who faced down misogyny and battled corruption in Nigeria.  Inspired by the African philosophy of Ubuntu — the importance of community over the individual — and outraged by injustice, Dora Akunyili took on fraudulent drug manufacturers whose... Read more

A Cruel and Shocking Act

By: Philip Shenon

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 23 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking, explosive account of the Kennedy assassination that will rewrite the history of the 20th century's most controversial murder investigation

The questions have haunted our nation for half a century: Was the President killed by a single gunman? Was Lee Harvey Oswald part of a conspiracy? Did the Warren Commission discover the whole... Read more

The Second

By: Carol Anderson

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents The Second by Carol Anderson, Ph.D., read by Karen Chilton.

From the New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, an unflinching, critical new look at the Second Amendment and how it has been engineered to deny the rights of African Americans since its inception.

In The Second, historian and award-winning, bestselling... Read more

Bipolar General

By: Maj. Gen Gregg F. Martin, USA (Ret)

Narrated by: George W. Sarris

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Maj. Gen. Gregg Martin cut a striking figure in the Army: athletic, quick witted, devout, and studious, he was a natural leader. Thanks to his engineering and leadership knowhow, Martin was chosen to lead the thousands of combat engineers who paved the way for 100,000 Army troops to battle their way to Baghdad in 2003. Only years later would he... Read more