Politics & Economy audiobooks

Platanides

By: William Planes

Narrated by: Dean Diakonis

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Many Christians lived in Asia Minor (later Turkey) before the Armenian and Greek genocide by the Muslims at the outset of the twentieth century. The author; Planes, cronicals his father’s true life experience in an effort to make clear the precious freedoms that we have in the United States.This book presents the true story of a Christian boy... Read more

Notorious Outlaws of the Wild West

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Jim Walsh

Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The Wild West has made legends out of many men after their deaths, but like Wild Bill Hickok, Jesse James was a celebrity during his life. However, while Hickok was (mostly) a lawman, Jesse James was and remains the most famous outlaw of the Wild West, with both his life of crime and his death remaining pop culture fixtures. Eventually James,... Read more

The Levant Express

By: Micheline R. Ishay

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The enormous sense of optimism unleashed by the Arab Spring in 2011 soon gave way to widespread suffering and despair. Of the many popular uprisings against autocratic regimes, Tunisia’s now stands alone as a beacon of hope for sustainable human rights progress. Libya is a failed state; Egypt returned to military dictatorship; the Gulf States... Read more

The American Crisis (Unabridged)

By: Thomas Paine

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. The American Crisis is a collection of articles by Thomas Paine, originally published from December 1776 to December 1783, that focus on rallying Americans during the worst years of the Revolutionary War. Paine used his deistic beliefs to galvanize the revolutionaries, for example by... Read more

Garvey and Garveyism

By: Amy Jacques Garvey

Narrated by: Beresford Bennett & Karen Chilton

Length: 14 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Like all great dreamers and planners, Marcus Garvey dreamed and planned ahead of his time and his peoples' ability to understand the significance of his life's work. A set of circumstances, mostly created by the world colonial powers, crushed this dreamer, but not his dreams. Due to persistence and years of sacrifice of Mrs. Amy Jacques Garvey,... Read more

India Since Independence Part 2

By: Bipin Chandra, Mridula Mukherjee & Aditya Mukhe...

Narrated by: Prateek Dutt Sharma

Length: 17 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of the forging of India, the world's largest democracy, is a rich andinspiring one. This volume, a sequel to the India's Struggle forIndependence, analyses the challenges India has faced and the successes ithas achieved in the light of its colonial legacy and century-long struggle forfreedom. It covers the framing of the Constitution... Read more

Consequence

By: Eric Fair

Narrated by: Eric Fair

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Named one of "8 Books You Need to Read" by Vulture

A man questions everything--his faith, his morality, his country--as he recounts his experience as an interrogator in Iraq; an unprecedented memoir and "an act of incredible bravery" (Phil Klay, author of Redeployment).

In 2004, after several months as an interrogator, Eric Fair’s call to serve... Read more

Never Alone

By: Natan Sharansky & Gil Troy

Narrated by: Natan Sharansky, Gil Troy & Peter Lownds

Length: 22 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic account of courage, integrity, and most of all, belonging
In 1977, Natan Sharansky, a leading activist in the democratic dissident movement in the Soviet Union and the movement for free Jewish emigration, was arrested by the KGB. He spent nine years as a political prisoner, convicted of treason against the state. Every day, Sharansky... Read more

Salvar a Sadie

By: Joal Darse Dauer & Elizabeth Ridley

Narrated by: Marta Pérez

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Un paseo por la montaña no presagia nada bueno para Sadie, una perra de cría a quien pocas veces se le da la oportunidad de pasear; su tarea es parir, pero ese día su dueño le ha sacado al bosque y, cuando está bien adentro, se ha parado y poniéndose frente a ella, ha sacado algo de la chaqueta. ¡Bang!, suena, y un dolor insoportable recorre a... Read more

Worst. President. Ever.

By: Robert Strauss

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Worst. President. Ever. flips the great presidential biography on its head, offering an enlightening—and highly entertaining—account of poor James Buchanan's presidency to prove once and for all that, well, few leaders could have done worse.



But author Robert Strauss does much more, leading listeners out of Buchanan's terrible term in... Read more

SMILE, Chin Up!

By: Corine Lewis

Narrated by: Corine Lewis

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Are you ready to embark on a transformative journey? "SMILE, Chin Up!" by Corine Lewis is more than a book; it's a lifeline for those navigating through the darkest storms. In gripping firsthand narratives, Corine bares her soul, revealing a decade-long battle with sexual assault and domestic violence.Picture this: a young woman, shattered by... Read more

Dwight D. Eisenhower

By: Relman Morin

Narrated by: Scott Miller

Length: 15 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A stirring exploration of our thirty-fourth President, Dwight D. Eisenhower.



From the time of his childhood in rural Kansas, Dwight D. Eisenhower's vision of himself and his country was one of confidence and hope. His hard-working parents taught him self-reliance and nothing that happened in his long career ever eroded this trait.



During nearly... Read more

Putinomics

By: Chris Miller

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

When Vladimir Putin first took power in 1999, he was a little-known figure ruling a country that was reeling from a decade and a half of crisis. In the years since, he has reestablished Russia as a great power. How did he do it? What principles have guided Putin’s economic policies? What patterns can be discerned? In this new analysis of Putin’s... Read more

Left Behind

By: Lily Geismer

Narrated by: Christine Lakin

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The 40-year history of how Democrats chose political opportunity over addressing inequality—and how the poor have paid the price

For decades, the Republican Party has been known as the party of the rich: arguing for “business-friendly” policies like deregulation and tax cuts. But this incisive political history shows that the current inequality... Read more

Retribution

By: Max Hastings

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 27 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In his critically acclaimed Armageddon, Hastings detailed the last twelve months of the struggle for Germany. Here, in what can be considered a companion volume, he covers the horrific story of the war against Japan.

By the summer of 1944 it was clear that Japan’s defeat was inevitable, but how the drive to victory would be achieved remained to... Read more

Confessions of a Radical Industrialist

By: Ray C. Anderson

Narrated by: Ray C. Anderson

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

His story is now legend. In 1994, after reading The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken, Ray Anderson felt a “spear in the chest.” The founder of Interface, Inc., a billion-dollar carpeting manufacturer, realized that his company was plundering the environment and he needed to steer it on a new course. Since then, Interface has cut its greenhouse... Read more

Josef Mengele

By: Kelly Mass

Narrated by: Chris Newman

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Fiction books have been written about him. Documentaries have revealed the horrors he executed on innocent victims in concentration camps in Poland. Meet Dr. Josef Mengele, a man with a twisted mind who had no compassion for the subjects he experimented on. His methods were cruel. His conclusions were inconclusive, and his sadism hardly knew any... Read more

True Enough

By: Farhad Manjoo

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Why has punditry overtaken news, with so many media outlets pushing partisan agendas instead of information? Why do lies seem to linger so long in the cultural subconscious even after they've been thoroughly discredited? And why, when more people than ever before are documenting the truth with laptops and digital cameras, does fact-free spin and... Read more

Relentless

By: Luis A. Miranda Jr.

Narrated by: Luis A. Miranda Jr.

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Essential reading from an expert voice: Luis A. Miranda Jr.’s personal and political memoir reveals a deep understanding of Latino culture and how to build community to change our world for the better.
 
A veteran of New York and national politics, Luis Miranda embodies the relentless spirit of progress of American immigrants.

There is no one on... Read more

Song in a Weary Throat

By: Pauli Murray

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 19 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Poet, memoirist, labor organizer, and Episcopal priest, Pauli Murray helped transform the law of the land. Arrested in 1940 for sitting in the whites-only section of a Virginia bus, Murray propelled that life-defining event into a Howard law degree and a fight against "Jane Crow" sexism. Her legal brilliance was pivotal to the overturning of... Read more

Prosper!

By: Chris Martenson & Adam Taggart

Narrated by: Chris Martenson

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The Next 20 Years Will Be Completely Different From the Past

Current global trends are bleak: weak economic growth, too much debt, declining incomes for the lower 99%, a dangerous addiction to fossil fuels, and ecological destruction -- just to name a few. Many of us understandably feel resigned to an eroding standard of living in the years to... Read more

Charlie One

By: Sean Hartnett

Narrated by: Aidan Kelly

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Filled with roller coaster emotions and explosive revelations of covert operations, Charlie One provides a unique, detailed and unbiased account of the secret war fought in Northern Ireland.

Seán Hartnett grew up in Cork in the 1970s where he observed the worst of the northern Troubles. Despite his family's republican ties and his own attempt to... Read more

Silicon Values

By: Jillian York

Narrated by: Megan Tusing

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

What is the impact of surveillance capitalism on our right to free speech? The Internet once promised to be a place of extraordinary freedom beyond the control of money or politics, but today corporations and platforms exercise more control over our ability to access information and share knowledge to a greater extent than any state. From the... Read more

Going to the Mountain

By: Ndaba Mandela

Narrated by: Michael Boatman & Ndaba Mandela

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The first-ever book to tell Nelson Mandela's life through the eyes of the grandson who was raised by him, chronicling Ndaba Mandela's life living with, and learning from, one of the greatest leaders and humanitarians the world has ever known.

To the rest of the world, Nelson Mandela was a giant: an anti-apartheid revolutionary, a world-renowned... Read more