Politics & Economy audiobooks

The Targeter

By: Nada Bakos

Narrated by: Christine Lakin

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A CIA analyst's "revealing and utterly engrossing account" of the world of high-stakes foreign intelligence and her role within the campaign to stop top-tier targets inside Al-Qaida (Joby Warrick).
In 1999, 30-year-old Nada Bakos moved from her lifelong home in Montana to Washington, D.C., to join the CIA. Quickly realizing her affinity for... Read more

Nivadnuk Rang - Mumbai Shahar

By: Medianext

Narrated by: Shreerang Khatavkar

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

महाराष्ट्रातील 2019 मधील विधानसभा निवडणुकांच्या निमित्ताने मराठी मुलखातील प्रत्येक भागातील राजकारणाचा, नेत्यांचा आणि प्रश्नांचा घेतलेला आढावा Read more

Persuasion Psychology

By: Wesley Felt

Narrated by: Melanie Griffin

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

This book contains two titles. Here are some snippets of what you can find in there:
Book 1 - Why does understanding a psychological risk lead to physical reactions? The answer lies in human anatomy, specifically in the mechanisms behind real pain. Is mental pain comparable to physical pain? How does intense pain manifest? When it comes to... Read more

The Gilded Rage

By: Alexander Zaitchik

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Selected as one of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten picks for Politics & Current Events of Fall 2016
2016 continues to be the most surreal and unpredictable election year in recent memory and this is due in large part to one Donald J. Trump and the millions of Americans who made him this year's Republican nominee for president. As Trump continues... Read more

Demosthenes, 354-324BCE

By: Demosthenes & Dinarchus

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Demosthenes is generally acknowledged as the greatest orator in history. He overcame a stammer and the theft of his inheritance by his legal guardians to become as foundational to oratory as his contemporaries Plato and Aristotle are to philosophy.Much like a major contemporary political figure, he overcame a stammer on his journey to greatness,... Read more

The Prince

By: Niccolò Machiavelli

Narrated by: Paul Adams

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Prince" is a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. Originally called De Principatibus (About Principalities), it was written in 1513, but not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli's death. The treatise is not representative of the work published during his lifetime, but... Read more

I Will Never See the World Again

By: Ahmet Altan

Narrated by: Adam Alexi-Malle, Philippe Sands & Elizabeth Kn...

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A resilient Turkish writer's inspiring account of his imprisonment that provides crucial insight into political censorship amidst the global rise of authoritarianism.

The destiny I put down in my novel has become mine. I am now under arrest like the hero I created years ago. I await the decision that will determine my future, just as he awaited... Read more

Are Prisons Obsolete?

By: Angela Y. Davis

Narrated by: Angela Y. Davis

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

With her characteristic brilliance, grace, and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost... Read more

Enemy of the People, The \ enemigo del pueblo, El (Span ed)

By: Jim Acosta

Narrated by: Bernardo Garcia

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Del veterano corresponsal de la Casa Blanca de la CNN, Jim Acosta, un explosivo relato de primera mano sobre los peligros que enfrenta al informar sobre la actual Casa Blanca mientras se encontraba en la primera línea de una Guerra con el presidente Trump por contar la verdad.En la campaña de Trump contra lo que él presidente llama ""Noticias... Read more

The Postmodern Predicament

By: Bruce Ackerman

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Human beings have taken one thing for granted since our earliest days: we are bodily creatures dealing with one another on a face-to-face basis. The internet has shattered this fundamental feature of human existence. We are suddenly living our lives in two worlds at once—shifting endlessly from virtual to physical reality as we reach out to... Read more

Central America's Forgotten History

By: Aviva Chomsky

Narrated by: Aida Reluzco

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Restores the region’s fraught history of repression and resistance to popular consciousness and connects the United States’ interventions and influence to the influx of refugees seeking asylum today.

At the center of the current immigration debate are migrants from Central America fleeing poverty, corruption, and violence in search of refuge in... Read more

Surf When You Can

By: Brett Crozier

Narrated by: Brett Crozier

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspiring lessons learned from a lifetime of honor, service, and leadership from Captain Brett Crozier, the former commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and renowned Navy officer.

Amid one of the darkest times in American history, it was a moment that captured the attention of the nation. Brett Crozier, captain of the... Read more

Both/And

By: Huma Abedin

Narrated by: Huma Abedin

Length: 21 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller, this extraordinary memoir from Huma Abedin—Hillary Clinton’s famously private top aide and longtime advisor—offers “a gripping testament to the power of a woman finding her voice, owning her ambition, and sharing her truth” (Glennon Doyle).

Abedin’s stunning memoir garnered an extraordinary amount of media coverage,... Read more

Queen of Spies

By: Paddy Hayes

Narrated by: Elizabeth Jasicki

Length: 17 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The true story of Daphne Park, the female British secret intelligence officer who rose through the male-dominated ranks to become the Queen of SpiesFrom living in a tin-roofed shack north of Dar es Salaam to becoming Baroness Park of Monmouth, Daphne Park led a most unusual life―one that consisted of a lifelong love affair with the world of... Read more

We the People

By: Erwin Chemerinsky

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Worried about what a super conservative majority on the Supreme Court means for the future of civil liberties? From gun control to reproductive health, a conservative court will reshape the lives of all Americans for decades to come. The time to develop and defend a progressive vision of the U.S. Constitution that protects the rights of all... Read more

Enemies

By: Bill Gertz

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s the great untold story of the war on terror. Taking advantage of gaping holes in America’s defenses, terrorist organizations and enemy nations like Communist China, North Korea, Russia, and Cuba—not to mention some so-called friends—are infiltrating the US government to steal our most vital secrets and use them against us. In his explosive... Read more

Original, Unconventional & Inconvenient

By: Bob Ehrlich

Narrated by: Bob Ehrlich

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A month-by-month analysis of President Trump, his administration, and the “MAGA” movement’s impact on America.

Original, Unconventional & Inconvenient is an analysis of the Donald J. Trump administration and its impact on America’s culture, both party establishments, and a strong but bitterly divided nation.

The Trump years were so full of... Read more

The Sage of Monticello

By: Dumas Malone

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 18 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The Sage of Monticello is the sixth and final volume of distinguished historian Dumas Malone’s epic masterwork, Jefferson and His Time, a biography begun in 1943 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1975. More wide ranging than the preceding volumes, The Sage of Monticello brilliantly recounts the accomplishments, friendships, and family... Read more

Who Will Defend Europe?

By: Keir Giles

Narrated by: Keir Giles

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Who will defend Europe? The answer should be obvious: Europe should be able to defend itself. Yet, for decades, most of the continent enjoyed a defense holiday, outsourcing protection to the United States while banking an increasingly illusory 'peace dividend'. Now, after three decades of reducing armed forces and drawing down defense... Read more

Ages of American Capitalism

By: Jonathan Levy

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 31 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A leading economic historian traces the evolution of American capitalism from the colonial era to the present—and argues that we’ve reached a turning point that will define the era ahead.

“The best one-volume history of American capitalism . . . It is impossible to understand the United States without understanding its economic history. This... Read more

Bridge of Spies

By: Giles Whittell

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The “riveting, meticulously researched, and beautifully written” (Ben Macintyre, author of The Spy and the Traitor) true story chronicles the first and most legendary prisoner exchange of the Cold War, between East and West at Berlin’s Glienicke Bridge and Checkpoint Charlie
 
“A marvelous saga of dangerous missions, helter-skelter innovation, and... Read more

What Are Animal Rights For?

By: Steve Cooke

Narrated by: Ricard Attlee

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

How should we treat animals? The long-held belief that other animals exist solely for human use has undergone radical challenge in the past half century. How much further do we need to go to minimize, and even eliminate, animal suffering? The field of animal rights raises big questions about how humans treat the other animals with which we... Read more

Donald J. Trump

By: Conrad Black

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Conrad Black, bestselling author of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom and Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full, turns his attention to his "friend" President Donald J. Trump and provides the most intriguing and significant analysis yet of Trump's political rise. Ambitious in intellectual scope, contrarian in many of its opinions, and... Read more

The Youngest Marcher

By: Cynthia Levinson

Narrated by: Tyla Collier

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Nine-year-old Audrey Faye Hendricks intended to go places and do things like anybody else. So when she heard grown-ups talk about wiping out Birmingham’s segregation laws, she spoke up. As she listened to the preacher’s words, smooth as glass, she sat up tall. And when she heard the plan—picket those white stores! March to protest those unfair... Read more