Politics & Economy audiobooks

Seed Money

By: Bartow J. Elmore

Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

An authoritative and eye-opening history that examines how Monsanto came to have outsized influence over our food system.

Monsanto, a St. Louis chemical firm that became the world’s largest maker of genetically engineered seeds, merged with German pharma-biotech giant Bayer in 2018—but its Roundup Ready® seeds, introduced twenty-five years ago,... Read more

Into the Bright Sunshine

By: Samuel G. Freedman

Narrated by: Mike Lenz

Length: 17 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

During one sweltering week in July 1948, the Democratic Party gathered in Philadelphia for its national convention. The most pressing and controversial issue facing the delegates was not whom to nominate for president—the incumbent, Harry Truman, was the presumptive candidate—but whether the Democrats would finally embrace the cause of civil... Read more

Money Capital

By: Patrick Bolton & Haizhou Huang

Narrated by: Michael Langan

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A conventional economic theory, monetarism, holds that inflation is a monetary phenomenon driven by changes in the supply of money. Yet recent experience—including the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008 and the economic development of China—contradict this basic prediction. In this book, Patrick Bolton and Haizhou Huang offer a novel... Read more

Upstream

By: Alfred S. Regnery

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 16 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In the 1950s, a handful of intellectuals, supported by several wealthy businessmen and a few editorial writers, set the stage in their writings and other efforts for what has become the most vibrant political and cultural force of our time. Veteran conservative publisher Alfred Regnery writes an insider’s account of the American conservative... Read more

Red Ink

By: David Wessel

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In a sweeping narrative about the people and the politics behind the budget, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter David Wessel looks at the 2011 fiscal year (which ended September 30) to see where all the money was actually spent, and why the budget process has grown wildly out of control. Through the eyes of key people—Jacob Lew, White House... Read more

Palestina e Israel

By: Maruan Soto Antaki

Narrated by: Maruan Soto Antaki

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Narrado por el autor Una revisión tan clara como urgente a la historia y la actualidad del doloroso conflicto entre Palestina e Israel. El 7 de octubre de 2023 Hamás efectuó el peor ataque terrorista, por el nivel de violencia y brutalidad, en su historia. Más de mil miembros de la organización entraron a territorio israelí por tierra, mar y... Read more

To Hell and Back

By: Audie Murphy

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The time is 1943, the place is Sicily, and the event is the start of the most remarkable career of any American infantryman in the war. Audie Murphy was a desperately poor eighteen-year-old orphan when he joined the Army, nineteen when he first saw a buddy die from an enemy bullet and an enemy die from one of his own. By V-E day, he had killed... Read more

Lethal Injection

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Judy Woodruff talks to Richard Dieter of the Death Penalty Information Center and Jeff Middendorf of the State of Kentucky's Justice and Public Safety Cabinet about recent lethal injection developments. Read more

The Two Michaels

By: Fen Osler Hampson & Mike Blanchfield

Narrated by: Miles Meili

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Landing in Vancouver on a flight from Hong Kong on December 2018, Chinese telecom executive Meng Wanzhou was arrested by Canadian authorities with an American extradition warrant. The US Department of Justice accused Meng of fraud and bypassing sanctions against Iran. Nine days later, in an act of retaliation, China arrested two... Read more

Illegale Kriege – Wie die NATO-Länder die UNO sabotieren

By: Dr. Daniele Ganser

Narrated by: Dr. Daniele Ganser

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

"Wir, die Völker der Vereinten Nationen – fest entschlossen, künftige Geschlechter vor der Geißel des Krieges zu bewahren, die zweimal zu unseren Lebzeiten unsagbares Leid über die Menschheit gebracht hat –, haben beschlossen: Alle Mitglieder unterlassen in ihren internationalen Beziehungen jede gegen die territoriale Unversehrtheit oder die... Read more

The Art of War

By: Sun Tzu

Narrated by: Arthur Grey

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the Late Spring and Autumn Period. The work, which is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu, is composed of 13 chapters. Each one is devoted to an aspect of warfare and how it applies to military strategy and tactics. For almost 1,500 years it was the lead... Read more

Der Grüne Blackout

By: Alexander Wendt

Narrated by: Mark Bremer

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Energiewende steckt in einer tiefen Krise: Regierungspolitiker räumen mittlerweile ein, dass kaum etwas in dem deutschen Musterschülerprojekt nach Plan läuft. Millionen Stromkunden bringen mehr als 20 Milliarden Euro an jährlichen Subventionen auf, während nur wenige profitieren. Das grüne Jobwunder fand nur in Prognosen statt. Und zur... Read more

Brainwashed

By: Tom Burrell

Narrated by: Sylvester Brown, Jr.

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

"Black people are not dark-skinned white people," says advertising visionary Tom Burrell. In fact, they are much more. They are survivors of the Middle Passage and centuries of humiliation and deprivation, who have excelled against the odds, constantly making a way out of "No way!" At this pivotal point in history, the idea of black inferiority... Read more

A History of the Middle East

By: Peter Mansfield

Narrated by: Richard Brown

Length: 17 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

For more than four thousand years, the Middle East has provided a setting for titanic struggles between great civilizations and religions. In the twentieth century it became the focus of rivalry between the European powers as the last major Islamic empire of the Ottoman Turks crumbled and collapsed. The discovery of the world’s greatest oil... Read more

Serdar Somuncu liest aus dem Tagebuch eines Massenmörders "Mein Kampf" (Neuedition)

By: Serdar Somuncu

Narrated by: Serdar Somuncu

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

1996 begann Serdar Somuncu seine spektakuläre und ganze sechs Jahre andauernde szenische Lesereise mit Adolf Hitlers Mein Kampf. Mit mehr als 1.500 Auftritten, zum Teil mit Polizeischutz und kugelsicherer Weste, wurde er vor über einer halben Million Zuschauern europaweit bekannt. Im Jahr 2000 wurde sein Auftritt im NS-Dokumentationszentrum Köln... Read more

The Sister

By: Sung-Yoon Lee

Narrated by: Dexter Galang

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

This first book on Kim Jong Un’s increasingly powerful sister, tapped to be his successor, offers jaw-dropping insights into the latest generation of North Korea’s secretive and murderous dynasty.

The first woman ever to issue the threat of a nuclear weapons strike is not even officially a head of state. Kim Yo Jong is the sister of North... Read more

Funny Business

By: Michael Hill

Narrated by: Mark Feuerstein & Christopher Buckley

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

“A delightful and entertaining book about one of America’s greatest humorists.”—Seth Meyers

This “absorbing, illuminating” (Jon Meacham) biography of the legendary political humorist reveals the life behind his must-read Washington Post columns, featuring never-before-published documents and interviews.

Before Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Trevor... Read more

Camera Girl

By: Carl Sferrazza Anthony

Narrated by: Imani Jade Powers

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

One of The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2023
“One of the most detailed, nuanced portraits of Jackie to date.” —The Washington Post

An illuminating and “wholly refreshing” (David Maraniss, New York Times bestselling author) biography of the young Jackie Bouvier Kennedy that covers her formative adventures abroad in Paris; her life as a writer and... Read more

Gramvikas Pranete Bharatratna Nanaji Deshmukh ग्रामविकास प्रणेते भारतरत्न नानाजी देशमुख

By: Pralhad Khardekar

Narrated by: Virajas Odhekar

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In the company of the venerable Dr. Hedgewar, emerged the dedicated selfless worker, Jayprakash Narayan. Starting with the movement initiated by Dr. Hedgewar, Jayprakashji's adept hands and the subsequent rural development initiatives he began after turning eighty, depict the character of Nanaji Deshmukh, who, with a focus on the well-being of... Read more

The Mueller Report - Volume I

By: Robert S. Mueller, III

Narrated by: Man with a Cat

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

This report is submitted to the Attorney General pursuant to 28 C.F.R. § 600.8(c), which states that , "[a]t the conclusion of the Special Counsel 's work, he shall provide the Attorney General a confidential report explaining the prosecution or declination decisions [the Special Counsel] reached."The Russian government interfered in the 2016... Read more

Contra el fascismo

By: Umberto Eco

Narrated by: Eugenio Barona

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Las catorce claves de Umberto Eco para reconocer el fascismo: un manifiesto urgente. «Umberto Eco cambió nuestra mirada sobre los libros: imprescindibles, pequeños, frágiles, a veces criminales, casi siempre salvadores. Un maestro que nos enseñó a entrelazar la sabiduría y el juego con su estilo sagaz y lúdico, con su asombrosa inventiva y... Read more

Churchill and Secret Service

By: David Stafford

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 15 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Winston Churchill believed passionately in the value of secret intelligence, in times of war as well as of peace. Historian David Stafford makes the compelling case that one cannot understand Churchill's astounding success as a modern-day statesman without reference to his deep involvement in the world of espionage.With absorbing detail about... Read more

A People’s History of the World

By: Chris Harman

Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan

Length: 29 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Chris Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals. Interacting with the forces of technological change as well as the impact of powerful individuals and revolutionary ideas, these societies have engendered events familiar to... Read more

Equal Is Unfair

By: Don Watkins & Yaron Brook

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

We’ve all heard that the American Dream is vanishing, and that the cause is rising income inequality. The rich are getting richer by rigging the system in their favor, leaving the rest of us to struggle just to keep our heads above water. To save the American Dream, we’re told that we need to fight inequality through tax hikes, wealth... Read more