Politics & Economy audiobooks

A Force So Swift

By: Kevin Peraino

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Winner of the 2018 Truman Book Award

A gripping narrative of the Truman Administration's response to the fall of Nationalist China and the triumph of Mao Zedong's Communist forces in 1949--an extraordinary political revolution that continues to shape East Asian politics to this day.
 
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Ketanji

By: Kekla Magoon

Narrated by: TBD

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Ketanji has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher. Read more

Religion and the Rise of Capitalism

By: Benjamin M. Friedman

Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni

Length: 18 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the nation's preeminent experts on economic policy, a major reassessment of the foundations of modern economic thinking that explores the profound influence of an until-now unrecognized force—religion.

"Friedman has given us an original and brilliant new perspective on the terrifying divisions of our own times. No book could be more... Read more

The Great Crashes

By: Linda Yueh

Narrated by: Linda Yueh

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Since America's Wall Street Crash of 1929, the global economy has weathered the most tumultuous century in financial history. From the currency crises of the 1980s, to Japan's housing meltdown, the dot com boom and bust, the global financial crash and the COVID pandemic, crash after crash have sent shockwaves through our world.

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The Anti-Chomsky Reader

By: Peter Collier & David Horowitz

Narrated by: Kirk Jordan

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Noam Chomsky’s defense of Pol Pot and the genocidal Khymer Rouge, as well as his bizarre associations with Holocaust revisionists, may surprise those who think they know what he believes. Other Chomsky views, such as his claim that the United States has taken the place of Nazi Germany on the world stage, will be more familiar. With Chomskyism... Read more

Not Funny

By: Jena Friedman

Narrated by: Jena Friedman

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

For fans of the perceptive comedy of Hannah Gadsby, Lindy West, and Sarah Silverman, Academy Award–nominated and acclaimed stand-up comedian Jena Friedman presents a “smart and thoughtful and even a little offensive” (Sacha Baron Cohen) collection of essays on the cultural flashpoints of today.

Growing up, Jena Friedman didn’t care about being... Read more

The First Populist

By: David S. Brown

Narrated by: Jacques Roy

Length: 13 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A timely, “solidly researched [and] gracefully written” (The Wall Street Journal) biography of President Andrew Jackson that offers a fresh reexamination of this charismatic figure in the context of American populism—connecting the complex man and the politician to a longer history of division, dissent, and partisanship that has come to define... Read more

Flash Writings

By: Wael El-Manzalawy

Narrated by: Subhash Chander

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Flash writings are very very short writings but flash writings can introduce very important ideas. Writing flash works is not an easy task. Long works have a wide space to move in. This ebook contains some flash writings such as “The World After Coronavirus”, “Travelling Recreates Your Thinking”, “Frozen Water”, “The Nightmare” and others. Read more

Beauty, Disrupted

By: Carre Otis & Hugo Schwyzer

Narrated by: Carre Otis

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Throughouther career, supermodel and actress Carré Otis hasbeen celebrated for her striking physical beauty—but in this brazenly honestmemoir she revisits the ugliest parts of her past to reveal the events thatultimately brought her to strive for, and champion, the kind of beauty that canonly be found within. In Beauty Disrupted Carrédetails the... Read more

Anatomy of the State

By: Murray Rothbard

Narrated by: John Riddle

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Murray Rothbard was known as the state's greatest living enemy, and this book is his most powerful statement on the topic. He explains what a state is and what it is not. He shows how it is an institution that violates all that we hold as honest and moral, and how it operates under a false cover. He shows how the state wrecks freedom, destroys... Read more

Blood Gun Money

By: Ioan Grillo

Narrated by: Shawn Compton

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Blood Gun Money by Ioan Grillo, read by Shawn Compton.

“An eye-opening and riveting account of how guns make it into the black market and into the hands of criminals and drug lords.” –Adam Winkler

From the author of El Narco and winner of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize, a searing investigation into the enormous black market for... Read more

Lincoln's Mentors

By: Michael J. Gerhardt

Narrated by: James Lurie

Length: 17 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant and novel examination of how Abraham Lincoln mastered the art of leadership, revealing how five men mentored an obscure lawyer with no executive experience to become America’s greatest president“Gerhardt has devised an ingenious solution for demystifying America’s most enigmatic president: examining the key people who influenced... Read more

We Gather Together

By: Denise Kiernan

Narrated by: Denise Kiernan

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Castle and The Girls of Atomic City comes a new way to look at American history through the story of giving thanks.

From Ancient Rome through 21st-century America, bestselling author Denise Kiernan brings us a biography of an idea: gratitude, as a compelling human instinct and a global... Read more

The Citizen's Guide to Climate Success

By: Marc Jaccard

Narrated by: Robert G. Slade

Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Sometimes solving climate change seems impossibly complex, and it is hard to know what changes we all can and should make to help. This audio book offers hope. Drawing on the latest research, Mark Jaccard shows us how to recognize the absolutely essential actions (decarbonizing electricity and transport) and policies (regulations that phase out... Read more

Silent Valor

By: Rick Greenberg

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A young Marine deployed to Vietnam finds terror, danger, and death, but also courage, loyalty, and brotherhood. This intense, gritty tale of the Vietnam War, in a setting depicted so vividly you can almost feel the jungle heat, it will draw you in and won't let go.



Silent Valor recreates what happened to Lance Corporal Don Talbot and the squad... Read more

El amigo americano

By: James Costos

Narrated by: Jordi Salas

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

La insólita historia de James Costos, el hombre de Obama en España. ¡Bienvenidos a la diplomacia de la pista de baile! -James, me acaban de preguntar si quiero decorar la Casa Blanca. -Oh, por Dios. Cuelga el teléfono. Es una broma pesada. -No, no. Creo que es en serio. Así empieza la historia que acabó con James Costos, alto ejecutivo de HBO... Read more

A Man Called Peter

By: Catherine Marshall

Narrated by: Renee Ertl

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Filled with humor, wisdom and loving detail, the powerful story of Peter Marshall's life has touched the hearts and minds of millions of people. It’s a story about love—the love between a dynamic man and his God, and the tender love between a man and the woman he married. It is also the gripping adventure of a poor Scottish immigrant who became... Read more

Gallipoli 1915

By: Joseph Murray

Narrated by: Malcolm Hamilton

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The Gallipoli Campaign stands out as a landmark in the history of the First World War, and it was perhaps the most controversial action; it certainly ended in tragedy. Joseph Murray was among the 400,000 British and Commonwealth troops taking part, and he served as a naval rating turned soldier in Hood Battalion of the Royal Naval Division.... Read more

Subversive Southerner

By: Catherine Fosl

Narrated by: Sara Morsey

Length: 19 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Anne McCarty Braden (1924–2006) rejected her segregationist, privileged past to become one of the civil rights movement’s staunchest white allies.In 1954 she was charged with sedition by McCarthyist politicians who played on fears of communism to preserve southern segregation. Though Braden remained controversial―even within the civil rights... Read more

What's So Great about America

By: Dinesh Souza

Narrated by: Dinesh D'Souza

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

What's So Great About America isn't a question—it's a statement. From the unique perspective that perhaps only an immigrant can have, Dinesh D'Souza says that America is a land of opportunity and freedom. A leading conservative thinker, D'Souza trumpets the science, democracy, and capitalism that he believes have led the West to global... Read more

South Africa: History in an Hour

By: Anthony Holmes

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. With the passing of Nelson Mandela, ‘the father of the nation’, comes the end of an era, and the moment to look back on his remarkable saving, and remaking, of South Africa. After years of oppression and racial inequality, concentrated violence and apartheid, Mandela led... Read more

FOREX Handel für Einsteiger

By: Owen Jones

Narrated by: Chris Benack Voice Acting

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Als Einsteiger fühlen Sie sich vielleicht von den zahlreichen Begriffen, Strategien und Plattformen, die es gibt, überwältigt. Mit dem richtigen Wissen und der richtigen Anleitung kann der Devisenhandel jedoch eine lukrative Anlagemöglichkeit sein. Beim Devisenhandel geht es um den Kauf und Verkauf von Währungen auf dem Forex-Markt. Der Markt... Read more

Life and Times of Joseph Warren (Unabridged)

By: Richard Frothingham

Narrated by: Mary Jackson, Paul Mosser, Millicent Pileggi & ...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Joseph Warren was one of the popular leaders of Boston during the early stage of the American Revolution. He grasped its basis idea of civil freedom, and aimed to impress on the public mind its dignity and glory. By ten years of devotion to the patriot cause, he rose to be the head of public affairs in Massachusetts, and became one of the most... Read more

Age of Danger

By: Andrew Hoehn & Thom Shanker

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

An urgent look at how America's national security machine went astray and how it fails to keep us safe—and what we can do to fix it.

Again and again, American taxpayers are asked to open their wallets and pay for a national security machine that costs $1 trillion operate. Yet time and time again, the US government gets it wrong on critical... Read more