Politics & Economy audiobooks

Bearing Witness While Black

By: Allissa V. Richardson

Narrated by: Machelle Williams

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Bearing Witness While Black tells the story of this century's most powerful Black social movement through the eyes of fifteen activists who documented it. At the height of the Black Lives Matter uprisings, African Americans filmed and tweeted evidence of fatal police encounters in dozens of US cities—using little more than the device in their... Read more

Cubans Grapple With Challenges

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Ray Suarez reports from Havana on how the country's economy is adapting to the gradual economic reforms of President Raul Castro -- while maintaining a tradition of socialism. Read more

The Promise

By: Xinran Xue

Narrated by: Jennifer Lim

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents The Promise by Xinran Xue, read by Jennifer Lim.

A spellbinding and magical narrative, this is the story of modern China through the women who lived through it.

At the start of the twentieth century in China, the Hans were married in an elaborate ceremony before they were even born. They went on to have nine children and chose... Read more

L'Oqual Cycle In Un Nutshell: Il Ritmo di 84 Anni della Civiltà Umana (2024)

By: Amjad Farooq

Narrated by: Amjad Farooq

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Con gran parte del mondo essendo stato in un collasso precipitoso negli ultimi due decenni e continua a toccare un nuovo minimo ogni anno che passa senza una fine in vista, ci si chiede se questa sia la nuova normalità o se la follia in corso finirà in modo da inaugurare un'alba più luminosa.Fortunatamente, Madre Natura ci ha benedetto con un... Read more

Other People's Wars

By: Brent L. Sterling

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Preparing for the next war at an unknown date against an undetermined opponent is a difficult undertaking with extremely high stakes. Thus, outside of their own combat, militaries have studied foreign wars as a valuable source of battlefield information. The effectiveness of this learning process, however, has rarely been evaluated across... Read more

What Really Happened

By: Rielle Hunter

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The John Edwards–Rielle Hunter affair made headlines for years. "One of the biggest political scandals of all time," "a fall from grace," "a modern-day tragedy"—it's a story that has been reported, distorted, and spun over and over again by the media, by political aides, by the US government, and by supposed friends. There is, however, someone... Read more

Paul Joseph Goebbels

By: Kelly Mass

Narrated by: Chris Newman

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

There are doers and there are preachers. The people who were executing orders or abusing people in World War 2 wouldn’t have been able to commit any atrocities if the country hadn’t warmed up to an inhumane narrative. That’s where propaganda came in. Propaganda has long been part of various countries and societies to make the population believe... Read more

I'll Take Your Questions Now

By: Stephanie Grisham

Narrated by: Stephanie Grisham

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The most frank and intimate portrait of the Trump White House yetStephanie Grisham rose from being a junior press wrangler on the Trump campaign in 2016 to assuming top positions in the administration as White House press secretary and communications director, while at the same time acting as First Lady Melania Trump’s communications director... Read more

Friends from the Beginning

By: Stacey Johnson-Batiste

Narrated by: Nidra Sous la Terre

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A vivid, intimate portrait of the friendship forged between Stacey Johnson Batiste and her childhood best friend, Vice President Kamala Harris—and of the community in which they were raised, and the lessons offered by those they loved and admired from childhood, through their teenage years, and up to the present day. Read more

Dare to Fly

By: Martha McSally

Narrated by: Courtney Patterson

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

“Like the A-10 aircraft she flew in combat, retired colonel and fighter pilot Martha McSally is a gritty individual who loves our Air Force and personified its core values of excellence, integrity, and service before self, while standing up to make it a better institution for everyone who serves. How to be resolute, do the right thing,... Read more

Bearing the Cross

By: David J. Garrow

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 34 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, this is the most comprehensive book ever written about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. David J. Garrow had unrestricted access to Martin Luther King's personal papers, to thousands of pages of newly released FBI documents, and to more than seven hundred... Read more

Inconspicuous Consumption

By: Tatiana Schlossberg

Narrated by: Tatiana Schlossberg

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

*First Place Winner of the Society of Environmental Journalists' Rachel Carson Environment Book Award*

"If you're looking for something to cling to in what often feels like a hopeless conversation, Schlossberg's darkly humorous, knowledge-is-power, eyes-wide-open approach may be just the thing."--Vogue

From a former New York Times science ... Read more

Harry S. Truman

By: Robert Dallek

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The plainspoken man from Missouri who never expected to be president yet rose to become one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century

In April 1945, after the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the presidency fell to a former haberdasher and clubhouse politician from Independence, Missouri. Many believed he would be overmatched by the... Read more

American Political Parties

By: John Kenneth White & Matthew R. Kerbel

Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

American Political Parties is a core textbook on political parties in the United States that places the US party system into a framework designed around the disagreements between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. White and Kerbel argue that the two-party system in the United States began with a common agreement on the key values of... Read more

See No Evil

By: Joel B. Pollak

Narrated by: John McLain

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Liberals take great pride in their supposed openmindedness. Yet when it comes to hot-button issues like radical Islam, global warming, and abortion, “openminded” liberals go to great lengths to discredit and suppress the ideas of their opponents. Breitbart senior editor Joel Pollak exposes the nineteen key ideas that today’s liberals are... Read more

La solución Nash

By: Fernando Trías de Bes

Narrated by: Arturo López

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Nos enfrentamos a la mayor recesión económica desde el crac de 1929 y la crisis financiera del 2008, pero solo será así si reaccionamos dejando que el miedo guíe nuestras decisiones y actuando de forma individual. «Por miedo a que me despidan, dejaré de consumir», piensa el ciudadano; «Por miedo a que los ciudadanos no consuman, reduciré... Read more

The Life of Stonewall Jackson

By: Mary L. Williamson

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 3 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Known for his military prowess and Christian character, Thomas Jackson was one of the Confederacy’s greatest commanders—and one of God’s most devoted warriors. Williamson’s biography traces the general’s life from orphaned child, West Point cadet, and Sunday school teacher to military institute professor, Mexican War officer, and Civil War... Read more

Code of Silence

By: Lise Olsen

Narrated by: Samara Naeymi

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2021 IRE Book Award

Winner of the 2022 Texas Institute of Letters Carr P. Collins Award for Best Book of Nonfiction

In the age of #MeToo, learn how brave whistleblowers have dared to lift the federal court’s veil of secrecy to expose powerful judges who appear to defy laws they have sworn to uphold

Code of Silence tells the story of... Read more

The Viking Saint

By: John Carr

Narrated by: Maria Isabel Pita

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The Vikings and sainthood are not concepts normally found side by side. But Norway’s King Olaf II Haraldsson (c. 995-1030) embodied both to an extraordinary degree. As a battle-eager teenager he almost single-handedly pulled down London Bridge (as in the nursery rhyme) and took part in many other Viking raids. Olaf lacked none of the traditional... Read more

The China Challenge

By: Thomas J. Christensen

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 15 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This compelling assessment of U. S.—China relations is essential reading for anyone interested in the future of the globalized world.



Many see China's rise as a threat to the U. S. leadership in Asia and beyond. Thomas J. Christensen argues instead that the real challenge lies in dissuading China from regional aggression while eliciting its... Read more

Warrior Life

By: Pamela Palmater

Narrated by: Pamela Palmater

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In a moment where unlawful pipelines are built on Indigenous territories, the RCMP make illegal arrests of land defenders on unceded lands, and anti-Indigenous racism permeates on social media; the government lie that is reconciliation is exposed. Renowned lawyer, author, speaker and activist, Pamela Palmater returns to wade through media... Read more

The Origins of Victory

By: Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr

Narrated by: Adam Barr

Length: 20 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

This book by military strategist Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr., is the definitive take on the race for military dominance in the twenty-first century. It shows how militaries that successfully pursue disruptive innovation can gain a major advantage over their rivals, while those that fail to do so risk exposing their countries to great danger.



The... Read more

Green and Prosperous Land

By: Dieter Helm

Narrated by: Mike Grady

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

‘One of the most important books of the decade’ Country Life Finally, a practical, realistic plan to rescue, preserve and enhance nature. News about Britain’s wildlife and ecosystems tends to be grim. In Green and Prosperous Land, Oxford economist and Natural Capital Committee chair Dieter... Read more

100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof: A Short Cut to the World History of the Negro

By: J. A. Rogers

Narrated by: John Riddle

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1934 and revised in 1962, this book gathers journalist and historian Joel Augustus Rogers' columns from the syndicated newspaper feature titled Your History. Patterned after the look of Ripley's popular Believe It or Not the multiple vignettes in each episode recount short items from Rogers's research. The feature began in the... Read more