Politics & Economy audiobooks

The Shadow Market

By: Eric J. Weiner

Narrated by: John Allen Nelson

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Eric J. Weiner's critically acclaimed first book, What Goes Up: The Uncensored History of Modern Wall Street as Told by the Bankers, Brokers, CEOs, and Scoundrels Who Made It Happen, was selected as one of the year's best books by Barron's magazine and one of the year's Most Enriching Reads by Kiplinger's. Weiner has demonstrated a deep... Read more

Brotherhood to Nationhood

By: Peter McFarlane & Doreen Manuel

Narrated by: Lincoln McGowan

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Charged with fresh material and new perspectives, this updated edition of the groundbreaking biography Brotherhood to Nationhood brings George Manuel and his fighting tradition into the present. George Manuel (1920–1989) was the strategist and visionary behind the modern Indigenous movement in Canada. A three-time Nobel Peace Prize... Read more

Recovery

By: Andrew Wear

Narrated by: Andrew Wear

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The Spanish flu was followed by the economic prosperity of the Roaring Twenties. After World War II, the German economy grew to become the world’s most advanced. US social and economic policies responding to the Great Depression paved the way for 20th-century prosperity. As we emerge from the COVID-19 health and economic crisis, what can we... Read more

They Must Be Stopped

By: Brigitte Gabriel

Narrated by: Brigitte Gabriel

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

They Must Be Stopped is New York Times bestselling author Brigitte Gabriel's warning to the world: We can no longer ignore the growth of radical Islam--we must act soon, and powerfully. Gabriel challenges our western and politically-correct notions about Islam, demonstrating why radical Islam is so deadly and how we can halt its progress.... Read more

How Wealth Rules the World

By: Ben G. Price

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Ben Price reveals that our Constitution and legal system were intentionally designed to give more rights to the wealthy propertied class than the rest of us and exposes how this hamstrings our ability to effectively address a host of pressing social and environmental problems—and what we can do about it.

Many of today's most serious... Read more

One Life: Young Readers Edition

By: Megan Rapinoe

Narrated by: Nicole Lewis

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Adapted for young readers! Join two-time Women's World Cup champion, Olympic gold medalist, and trailblazing activist Megan Rapinoe in the fight for equality and justice in this middle grade adaptation of her New York Times bestselling memoir, One Life.
 

You know Megan Rapinoe as an international soccer superstar! She’s also a fierce activist,... Read more

Against the Web

By: Michael Brooks

Narrated by: Sam Seder

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Michael Brooks takes on the new "Intellectual Dark Web."



As the host of The Michael Brooks Show and cohost of the Majority Report, Brooks was a progressive fighter whose work brought people together from around the world. In this, his first book, he lets his understanding of the digital media environment direct his analysis of the "conservative... Read more

The Canadian Citizenship Test

By: Toronto Publications

Narrated by: Royce Turner

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

What the students who pass the Canadian Citizenship Test on their first attempt know, that you don’t...Maybe you’re worried about not passing your examination and getting your passport?Or maybe you have no idea where to begin when it comes to preparing for the test?If that sounds like you, fortunately, we’ve got your back.We want to ensure that... Read more

Not for the Faint of Heart

By: Ambassador Wendy R. Sherman

Narrated by: Ambassador Wendy R. Sherman

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Distinguished diplomat Ambassador Wendy Sherman brings readers inside the negotiating room to show how to put diplomatic values like courage, power, and persistence to work in their own lives.

Few people have sat across from the Iranians and the North Koreans at the negotiating table. Wendy Sherman has done both. During her time as the lead US... Read more

Christofascism

By: Carolyn Baker

Narrated by: Nancy Peterson

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Will democracy in America prevail, or will it be usurped by a confluence of fascism and evangelical Christianity?

In this book, the author traces the history of this unholy alliance and invites those recovering from the influence of fundamentalist religions, as well as the non-religious seeking to preserve the democratic experiment, to excise... Read more

Franklin D. Roosevelt

By: Joseph Greene

Narrated by: Marty Ravenel

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTSome say that a good president is determined by how they deal with the challenges that are thrown onto them by what is going on in other parts of the world. While others consider the greatness to come from how much initiative they take to solve the problems of their country, in spite and despite the state of the rest of the... Read more

Beware Euphoria

By: George Fisher

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 21 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Beware Euphoria uncovers the roots of America's moral obsession with drug regulation, offering a lively and fascinating history of the nation's racialized fear of intoxication. Challenging the idea that early antidrug laws in the United States arose from racial animus, George Fisher instead shows in textured detail how United States drug laws... Read more

The Truth About Trump

By: Michael D'Antonio

Narrated by: Eric Pollins

Length: 16 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

For all those who wonder, "Just who is Donald Trump?",
The Truth About Trump supplies the answer.

Drawing upon exclusive interviews and exhaustive research, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Michael D'Antonio presents Trump's full story, from his beginnings as a businessman to his juggernaut presidential campaign. Along the way, D'Antonio charts the... Read more

Frida in America

By: Celia Stahr

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The riveting story of how three years spent in the United States transformed Frida Kahlo into the artist we know todayMexican artist Frida Kahlo adored adventure. In November, 1930, she was thrilled to realize her dream of traveling to the United States to live in San Francisco, Detroit, and New York. Still, leaving her family and her country... Read more

Americans Still Struggling to Recover

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The Obama administration announced the U.S. Medicare program is projected to remain solvent until 2026. Despite the positive sign, a Federal Reserve Study found Americans are still struggling to recover from the recession. Judy Woodruff talks with William Emmons, chief economist at the Center for Household Financial Stability. Read more

Escape from Earth

By: Fraser MacDonald

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The long-buried truth about the dawn of the Space Age: lies, spies, socialism, and sex magick.
Los Angeles, 1930s: Everyone knows that rockets are just toys, the stuff of cranks and pulp magazines. Nevertheless, an earnest engineering student named Frank Malina sets out to prove the doubters wrong. With the help of his friend Jack Parsons, a... Read more

Unmanned

By: William M. Arkin

Narrated by: William M. Arkin

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Unmanned is an in-depth examination of why seemingly successful wars never seem to end. The problem centers on drones, now accumulated in the thousands, the front end of a spying and killing machine that is disconnected from either security or safety.

Drones, however, are only part of the problem. William Arkin shows that security is actually... Read more

Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?

By: Alyssa Mastromonaco

Narrated by: Alyssa Mastromonaco

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

If your funny older sister were the former deputy chief of staff to President Barack Obama, her behind-the-scenes political memoir would look something like this . . .
Alyssa Mastromonaco worked for Barack Obama for almost a decade, and long before his run for president. From the then-senator's early days in Congress to his years in the Oval... Read more

Bet the Farm

By: Beth Hoffman

Narrated by: Kerin McCurdy & Susan Ericksen

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Beth Hoffman was living the good life: she had a successful career as a journalist and professor, a comfortable home in San Francisco, and plenty of close friends and family. Yet in her late forties, she and her husband decided to leave the big city and move to his family ranch in Iowa—all for the dream of becoming a farmer. There was just one... Read more

The Last Best Hope

By: Ronald Reagan

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

From the time he arrived on the political scene in 1964 - throughout his presidency and beyond, Ronald Reagan - used his speeches to inspire and reinvigorate America. When he spoke, Reagan, said, he was preaching a sermon. The American people saw his vision of America and his dreams for the future and they overwhelmingly responded; he was... Read more

Double Down

By: Mark Halperin & John Heilemann

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 19 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times:
"Those hungry for political news will read Double Down for the scooplets and insidery glimpses it serves up about the two campaigns, and the clues it offers about the positioning already going on among Republicans and Democrats for 2016 ... The book testifies to its authors’ energetic legwork and insider... Read more

The Death of Politics

By: Peter Wehner

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times opinion writer, media commentator, outspoken Republican and Christian critic of the Trump presidency offers a spirited defense of politics and its virtuous and critical role in maintaining our democracy and what we must do to save it before it is too late.“Any nation that elects Donald Trump to be its president has a... Read more

Gods of War

By: James Lacey & Williamson Murray

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 14 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Hannibal vs. Scipio. Grant vs. Lee. Rommel vs. Patton. The greatest battles, commanders, and rivalries of all time come to life in this engrossing guide to the geniuses of military history.
 
“A compelling study of military leadership.”—James M. McPherson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom
 
Any meeting of genius may create... Read more

Real Queer America

By: Samantha Allen

Narrated by: Samantha Allen

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST
A transgender reporter's "powerful, profoundly moving" narrative tour through the surprisingly vibrant queer communities sprouting up in red states (New York Times Book Review), offering a vision of a stronger, more humane America.
Ten years ago, Samantha Allen was a suit-and-tie-wearing Mormon missionary. Now she's... Read more