Politics & Economy audiobooks

Basic Microeconomics

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Cyrus Nilo

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

As most of the things in the world are scarce, the allocation of these scarce resources becomes very important. Economics, whether micro or macro, is needed because of this scarcity. Microeconomics deals with individuals and firms. Microeconomics can also be termed as the study of supply and demand. It assumes rational behavior of consumers and... Read more

The Brave Ones

By: Michael J. MacLeod

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

How does the US Army mold a video-game generation with its thumbs on the joystick into a proud fighting force with its fingers on the trigger—and lives on the line—in America’s War on Terror? Michael J. MacLeod, already an accomplished professional photographer and journalist, decided to find out the hard way: by enlisting in the armed forces at... Read more

Cool War

By: Noah Feldman

Narrated by: Noah Feldman

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A bold and thought-provoking look at the future of U.S.-China relations, and how their coming power struggle will reshape the competitive playing field for nations around the world
 
The Cold War seemingly ended in a decisive victory for the West. But now, Noah Feldman argues, we are entering an era of renewed global struggle: the era of Cool... Read more

The Truth Has Changed

By: Josh Fox

Narrated by: Josh Fox & Tom Parks

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The Emmy Award–winning creator of GASLAND tells his intimate and damning, personal story of our world in crisis. With a foreword by Bill McKibben.The rules have changed.
The water has changed.
The climate has changed.
The truth has changed.
We must change.In The Truth Has Changed, Josh Fox turns the rapid-fire shocks that are remaking the very... Read more

Hillary Rodham Clinton: Do All the Good You Can

By: Cynthia Levinson

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspiring and meticulously researched middle grade biography of Hillary Rodham Clinton—First Lady, senator, secretary of state, and Democratic candidate for president in 2016.Hillary Rodham Clinton is a true leader. Growing up in Park Ridge, Illinois, Hillary was inspired by the philosophy of John Wesley, who urged his followers to "do all... Read more

The Fifth Horseman and the New MAD

By: Harlan Ullman

Narrated by: Daniel Thomas May

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

Beyond traditional threats from states such as China and Russia and non-state actors employing violent extremism, can America's politics and political system withstand the assaults of the Fifth Horseman and the new MAD, Massive Attacks of Disruption? The Covid-19 pandemic, the January 6 insurrection and takeover of the US Capitol, SolarWinds... Read more

Confident Pluralism

By: John D. Inazu

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book.

In the years since Donald Trump first announced his plans to run for president, the United States seems to become more dramatically polarized and divided with each passing month. There are seemingly irresolvable differences in the beliefs, values, and identities of citizens across the... Read more

Abundance

By: Pablo J. Boczkowski

Narrated by: David Marantz

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Information overload is something that humans have dealt with for millennia. During different historical eras, massive increases in what was available to know has motivated the creation of systems for sorting, indexing, and compiling information as well as concerns that the abundance of information might cause cultural anxiety or even drive... Read more

No Ordinary Dog

By: Will Chesney & Joe Layden

Narrated by: Will Chesney

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

No Ordinary Dog is the powerful true story of a SEAL Team Operator and military dog handler, and the dog that saved his life.

This program is read by the author.

Two dozen Navy SEALs descended on Osama bin Laden’s compound in May 2011. After the mission, only one name was made public: Cairo, a Belgian Malinois and military working dog. This is... Read more

Evicted

By: Matthew Desmond

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY

One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new standard for reporting on poverty” (Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review).

In... Read more

Comercio de criptomonedas

By: Ryan Martinez

Narrated by: Paco

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Si no está contento con la cantidad fija de ingresos que obtiene en su trabajo de 8 a 5, entonces es posible que quiera probar el comercio de criptomonedas.
Con esta empresa, tendrá la oportunidad de ganar una cantidad ilimitada de dinero. Por supuesto, esto dependerá de sus habilidades, estrategias y actitud. Incluso lo tendrá mejor si la suerte... Read more

Voice of Rebellion

By: Roberta Staley

Narrated by: Julia Farhat

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The first-ever biography of Mozhdah Jamalzadah: refugee, pop singer, and champion of women’s rightsMany have tried to silence her, but Mozhdah Jamalzadah remains the most powerful female voice of her generation in Afghanistan, boldly speaking out about women’s rights. Voice of Rebellion charts her incredible journey, including arriving in Canada... Read more

A Boy Named Harry: The Childhood of Lee Kuan Yew

By: Patrick Yee

Narrated by: Hamish Alastair Gerard Brown

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The future leader of Singapore spent his growing up years doing what other children did in the 1920s. Harry liked to play with spinning tops, marbles, kites—and even fighting fish! While he was a little mischievous as a child, Harry worked hard in school to achieve academic success, eventually winning scholarships to attend the prestigious... Read more

The Cheka: The History of the Soviet Agency that Eventually Became the KGB

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Steve Knupp

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The KGB is one of the most famous abbreviations of the 20th century, and it has become synonymous with the shadowy and often violent actions of the Soviet Union’s secret police and internal security agencies. In fact, it is often used to refer to the Soviet state security agencies throughout its history, from the inception of the inception of... Read more

Barred by Congress

By: Robert M. Lichtman

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In Barred by Congress: How a Mormon, a Socialist, and an African American Elected by the People Were Excluded from Office, Robert M. Lichtman provides a definitive history of congressional exclusion and expulsion cases. Lichtman offers a timely investigation of the vital constitutional issues, debated since the nation's founding, concerning... Read more

Why We Can't Wait

By: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. King’s best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963

On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham campaign unfolded in the city’s streets, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., composed a letter from his prison cell in response to local religious leaders’ criticism of the campaign.... Read more

The Real Romney

By: Michael Kranish & Scott Helman

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 12 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

“Absorbing and fair-minded.”
—New York Times“Romney’s story in full and clear detail…fascinating in-depth stuff.”
—Los Angeles Times“A fascinating story [that] sheds next light on an elusive subject.”
—Boston GlobeDespite his political prominence, Mitt Romney remains an enigma to many in America. Who is the man behind that sweep of dark hair and... Read more

Money Made Easy

By: Allison Baggerly

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Bust your debt for good with this results-based blueprint to financial freedom

In Money Made Easy: How to Budget, Pay Off Debt, and Save Money, renowned blogger, podcaster, speaker, and Founder of Inspired Budget, Allison Baggerly, delivers a powerful and effective blueprint to saving, budgeting, and investing your way to a brighter financial... Read more

Boy & Going Solo

By: Roald Dahl

Narrated by: Full Cast & Patrick Malahide

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Two new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations of Roald Dahl's gripping autobiographical stories.

These two compelling adaptations, based on Roald Dahl’s real-life tales of his of his boyhood and youthful overseas adventures, celebrate his remarkable life and commemorate his genius.

Boy Dahl’s childhood was one of excitement, wonder, terror and... Read more

A Luminous Future

By: Teodor Flonta

Narrated by: Teodor Flonta

Length: 15 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of the young Teodor unravels on the background of the drama that his family and his country lived in the terrible days of the 1950s in a Stalinist Romania. While the Western countries were engaged in post-war reconstruction, the communist regime, imposed on Romanians by the Soviet Union, was committed to depriving its citizens of the... Read more

Danger Zone

By: Hal Brands & Michael Beckley

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

It has become conventional wisdom that America and China are running a "superpower marathon." Yet Hal Brands and Michael Beckley pose a counterintuitive question: What if the sharpest phase of that competition is more like a decade-long sprint?



The Sino-American contest is driven by clashing geopolitical interests and a stark ideological dispute... Read more

All the Worst Humans

By: Phil Elwood

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is ready by Audie Award–winning narrator Holter Graham.

A bridge-burning, riotous memoir by a top PR operative in Washington who exposes the secrets of the $129-billion industry that controls so much of what we see and hear in the media—from a man who used to pull the strings, and who is now pulling back the curtain.

After nearly two... Read more

Photographs of My Father

By: Paul Spike

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews & Paul Spike

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

At the National Council of Churches, Robert Spike had organized American churches to support the passage of both the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act, to march in Selma and to organize in Mississippi. An important white leader in the black civil rights struggle, he helped the LBJ White House pass legislation and write crucial civil rights... Read more

For Love of Politics

By: Sally Bedell Smith

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 21 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

During their eight years in the White House, Bill and Hillary Clinton worked together more closely than the public ever knew. FOR LOVE OF POLITICS is the first book to explain the dynamics of their relationship, showing that it is impossible to understand one Clinton without factoring in the other.

Acclaimed author Sally Bedell Smith offers... Read more