Politics & Economy audiobooks

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

Redesigning Education: A New Paradigm for Success

By: Frank “Bud” O’Lery

Narrated by: Jeffrey Brandon

Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In "Redesigning Education: A New Paradigm for Success," author Frank "Bud" O'Lery presents a compelling exploration of the challenges facing humanity in the modern era. Drawing parallels to the metaphorical "Four Horsemen of Apocalypse," O'Lery delves into the pressing issues of overcrowding, authoritarianism, greed, and environmental crises.... Read more

Xingona

By: Ivonne Melgar

Narrated by: Karina Castillo

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Xóchitl Gálvez aceptó encabezar la lucha contra uno de los gobiernos más polarizantes, opacos y corruptos en la historia reciente del país. ¿Qué hay dentro de una persona para aceptar una responsabilidad así? En esta biografía política, la reportera Ivonne Melgar —quien ha seguido la carrera de Xóchitl desde antes de que llegara a la política,... Read more

كل الأشياء

By: بثينة العيسى

Narrated by: بثينة شية

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

" هذا ما يحدث للكاتب الذي يزعج السلطة، إنه يتحول إلى موعظة؛ أنت لا تستطيع، مهما فعلت، أن تفلت من النظام. كل شيء تفعله يمنح الشرعية لخصمك، خصمك أكبر منك، هذه اللعبة أكبر منك، وأنت مثل أطفال السياسة إياهم. لو أنه كتب شيئاً يومها، لكان كتب عن الآلة الصماء التي تسحق القلب. الآلة التي وجد نفسه أحد تروسها. لو أنه كتب لاعترف بالأمر ببساطة .. لا يوجد... Read more

Beneath the Tamarind Tree

By: Isha Sesay

Narrated by: Isha Sesay

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The first definitive account of Boko Haram’s abduction of the Chibok schoolgirls, their years in captivity, and why this story still matters - by celebrated international journalist Isha Sesay. 

The kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls by Boko Haram in 2014 made global headlines. From poor Nigerian families, these girls had defied the odds and pursued... Read more

Undercover with Mandela's Spies

By: Bradley Steyn & Mark Fine

Narrated by: Ashley Dowds

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

1988 South Africa teeters on the edge of a state of emergency. Seventeen-year-old Bradley Steyn crosses Pretoria’s Strijdom Square and walks straight into a massacre. Barend Strydom, the notorious white supremacist ‘Wit Wolf’, is mowing down black bystanders relaxing in the square during their lunch break. Bradley cradles a dying man in his arms... Read more

Accountable

By: Tavis Smiley

Narrated by: Tavis Smiley

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Tavis Smiley presents the successor to his two bestselling books, The Covenant of Black America and The Covenant in Action—Accountable will serve as a report card, holding the politicians accountable for what they have promised and holding the community responsible for its actions or inactions.

In Accountable, New York Times bestselling author... Read more

The Capitalist and the Activist

By: Tom C. W. Lin

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

2023 Axiom Business Books Award Silver Medalist (Business Commentary)
2023 Nautilus Book Award Silver Medalist (Social Change & Social Justice)

This is the first in-depth examination of the important ongoing fusion of activism, capitalism, and social change masterfully told through a compelling narrative filled with vivid stories and striking... Read more

Ted, White, and Blue

By: Ted Nugent

Narrated by: Ted Nugent

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

It's About Time.
America has been craving leadership—and at last a gun-slinging, mega-rock star, deerslayer, and patriot has stepped forward to provide it. Make way for Ted Nugent. Cocked, locked, and ready to rock, the Motor City Madman, the thinking man's Abraham Lincoln, has unleashed the ultimate high-octane political manifesto for the ages in... Read more

The Time of Our Lives

By: Peggy Noonan

Narrated by: Betsy Foldes Meiman, Rena-Marie Villano & Peggy...

Length: 17 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Commentary and conservative icon Peggy Noonan offers her most insightful work, including her Wall Street Journal columns about the 2016 Election.

New York Times bestseller The Time of Our Lives travels the path of Peggy Noonan's remarkable and influential career, beginning with a revealing essay about her... Read more

Third World America

By: Arianna Huffington

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

It's not an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species and that the American Dream of a secure, comfortable standard of living has become as outdated as an Edsel with an eight-track player—that the United States of America is in danger of becoming a third world nation.



The evidence is all around us: Our industrial... Read more

The People's Republic of Walmart

By: Leigh Phillips & Michal Rozworski

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Since the demise of the USSR, the mantle of the largest planned economies in the world has been taken up by the likes of Walmart, Amazon and other multinational corporations.

For the left and the right, major multinational companies are held up as the ultimate expressions of free-market capitalism. Their remarkable success appears to vindicate... Read more

Top Secret Tales of World War II

By: William B. Breuer

Narrated by: Christopher David

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

World War II was fought by soldiers out of uniform. Stealth and ingenuity were their weapons. Victory was their only code of conduct. In this book, noted military historian William Breuer documents espionage—in all its forms—as it evolved in the hands of both Allied and Axis agents of intelligence and counterintelligence. Here you'll find... Read more

I Am the Law

By: Michael Molcher

Narrated by: Keval Shah

Length: 14 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

He is the law—and you better believe it!



Judge, jury, and executioner, Judge Dredd is the brutal comic book cop policing the chaotic future urban jungle of Mega-City One, created by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra and launching in the pages of 2000 AD in 1977.



But what began as a sci-fi action comic quickly evolved into a searing satire on... Read more

Capitalism By and for the People

By: Jeff Gates

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Find out how you can use the properties of capitalism itself to help create a sustainable economic system that works for everyone - before the marketplace eventually collapses. Read more

Take Your Company Global

By: Nataly Kelly

Narrated by: Sarah Welborn

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Companies looking to expand used to think about entering international markets, but today you're global from the moment you create a website. Nataly Kelly, Chief Growth Officer at Rebrandly (a global tech company with customers in more than 100 countries) and former VP International Ops and Strategy at HubSpot, says now the goal should be market... Read more

Too Dumb for Democracy?

By: David Moscrop

Narrated by: David Moscrop

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

David Moscrop asks why we make irrational political decisions and whether our stone-age brains can process democracy in the information age. In this accessible and compelling investigation narrated by the author, Moscrop explains what’s going wrong in today’s political landscape and how individuals, societies, and institutions can work... Read more

Foolproof

By: Sander van der Linden

Narrated by: Sander van der Linden

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From fake news to conspiracy theories, from inflammatory memes to misleading headlines, misinformation has swiftly become the defining problem of our era. The crisis threatens the integrity of our democracies, our ability to cultivate trusting relationships, even our physical and psychological well-being—yet most attempts to combat it have... Read more

Differ We Must

By: Steve Inskeep

Narrated by: Steve Inskeep

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

An instant New York Times bestseller

A nuanced exploration of Abraham Lincoln’s political acumen, illuminating a great politician’s strategy in a country divided—and lessons for our own disorderly present

In 1855, with the United States at odds over slavery, the lawyer Abraham Lincoln wrote a note to his best friend, the son of a Kentucky... Read more

The Political Thought of Xi Jinping

By: Olivia Cheung & Steve Tsang

Narrated by: Rebecca Lam

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the course of the last half dozen years, China's supreme leader Xi Jinping has made extraordinary changes which have profound implications not only for the Chinese people but nations throughout the world. Given how swiftly and fundamentally China's relations with the rest of the world are changing under Xi's rule, it is imperative that we... Read more

After America

By: Paul Starobin

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 14 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Moving beyond Fareed Zakaria's bestselling The Post-American World, veteran international correspondent Paul Starobin masterfully mixes fresh reportage with rigorous historical analysis to envision a world in which the United States is no longer the dominant superpower. The American Century has passed, argues Starobin, due in large part to... Read more

Spain in Our Hearts

By: Adam Hochschild

Narrated by: Henry Strozier

Length: 15 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed, best-selling author Adam Hochschild, a sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War, told through a dozen characters, including Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell: a tale of idealism, heartbreaking suffering, and a noble cause that failed For three crucial years in the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in America... Read more

Los sueños de mi padre

By: Barack Obama

Narrated by: Alejandro Vargas-Lugo

Length: 16 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

En estas memorias líricas y absorbentes, publicadas originalmente en 1995, el hijo de un africano negro y una estadounidense blanca busca su camino como afroamericano. Las memorias que Obama relata en Los sueños de mi padre comienzan en Nueva York, donde se entera de que su padre ha fallecido en un accidente automovilístico. La inesperada... Read more