Politics & Economy audiobooks

India's Struggle for Independence

By: Bipan Chandra

Narrated by: Derek Denzil

Length: 19 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

India's Struggle For Independence presents a detailed outlook on the struggle for Indian Independence in a new analytical framework.

Designed for ardent history enthusiasts, India's Struggle For Independence is one of the most exhaustive and precise account of the struggle of Indian Independence ever written in the literary world. Written and... Read more

The Split

By: Shaun Rein

Narrated by: Kevin Shen

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

China dominates manufacturing and is the world's largest retail market, but for companies outside of China, finding ways to do business in the country is increasingly uncertain in the face of rising US-China tension, combined with China's crackdowns on the tech and education sectors.

Shaun Rein runs the China Market Research Group and has spent... Read more

America's Deadliest Election

By: Dana Bash

Narrated by: Dana Bash

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

“Let chaos come.”

The violent election of 1872 that serves as a warning for today's divided politics.

From CNN’s Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash, the fast-paced story of the extraordinary election that led to hundreds of murders, warfare in the streets of New Orleans, two governors of Louisiana—and changed the course of politics in our... Read more

Love, Norm

By: Norman M. Shulman

Narrated by: George Comiskey & Norman M. Shulman

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Norm Shulman’s relationship with his stepson Greg Levenson had always been stable and warm, but it altered when Greg decided to enlist in the Air Force at age 27. This unexpected decision brought them even closer together, and Norm came to realize that his whole family history had much support to offer Greg. Cognizant of past anti-Semitic... Read more

Die Brandstifter - Wie Extremisten die republikanische Partei übernahmen (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Annika Brockschmidt

Narrated by: Tim Gössler

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Brandstifter zeichnet die Geschichte der Republikanischen Partei nach und stellt ihre wichtigsten Akteure vor. Dabei wird deutlich, wie porös die Brandmauer zwischen Rechtsextremismus und Konservatismus in den USA schon immer war, nicht erst seit Trump. Brockschmidt erzählt packend, wie historische Entwicklungen und Machtkämpfe die Partei... Read more

Who Could Ever Love You

By: Mary L. Trump, PhD

Narrated by: Mary L. Trump, PhD

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

Who Could Ever Love You is an intimate, heartbreaking memoir of a father, a mother, and a family’s exile.

Mary Trump grew up in a family divided by its patriarch’s relentless drive for money and power. The daughter of Freddy Trump, the highly accomplished, dashing eldest son of wealthy real estate developer... Read more

Testigo de un tiempo incierto

By: Javier Solana

Narrated by: Jordi Llovet

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

De la caída del Muro a la invasión de Ucrania En poco más de tres décadas el mundo en el que vivimos ha cambiado de manera radical, pasando del final de la Guerra Fría a una guerra caliente entre dos antiguas repúblicas soviéticas: Rusia y Ucrania. ¿Cómo hemos llegado hasta aquí? ¿Qué acontecimientos históricos nos han conducido a la guerra en... Read more

Putinland

By: Leonid Wolkow

Narrated by: Oliver Dupont

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Was der Westen nicht wissen wollte: die brisante Analyse des "Außenministers der russischen Opposition". Unter Putin hat sich Russland zu einer imperialistischen Diktatur verwandelt, die die Werte und das Lebensmodell des Westens bedroht. Wie das passiert ist und warum Europa es bis zuletzt ignoriert hat - das analysiert Leonid Wolkow, ein... Read more

The Rise of BlueAnon

By: David Harsanyi

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

David Harsanyi delves into the mindset of people who think Republicans would usher in the Handmaid's Tale and who compare Trump's Madison Square Garden rally to a pro-Nazi rally held there eight decades earlier. In The Rise of BlueAnon, David Harsanyi reveals how the left has been consumed by a uniquely dangerous and delusional brand of... Read more

Hine Toa

By: Ngahuia te Awekotuku

Narrated by: Ngahuia te Awekotuku

Length: 13 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

An incredible memoir by a trailblazing voice in women's, queer and Māori liberation movements
'Remarkable. At once heartbreaking and triumphant' Patricia GraceIn the 1950s, a young Ngāhuia is fostered by a family who believe in hard work and community. Although close to her kuia, she craves more: she wants higher education and refined living.... Read more

The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels

Narrated by: Eric Johnson

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Communist Manifesto," co-authored by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848, is a profound critique of capitalism and a blueprint for a new social order, communism. It argues that the proletariat, or working class, will lead the revolution against the capitalist system's inherent class inequalities.Spanning four sections, the manifesto... Read more

读懂中国共产党

By: 谢春涛

Narrated by: 杨辰

Length: 15 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

内容介绍：读懂中国，必须先要读懂中国共产党。《读懂中国共产党》正是中央党校（国家行政学院）副校（院）长谢春涛教授继《历史的轨迹：中国共产党为什么能？》之后又一党史通俗读本力作。《读懂中国共产党》以中国共产党成立一百年来的历史为主线，全面系统地解读了中国共产党的历史、执政理念、治国方略和伟大成就，深刻阐释了中国共产党团结带领全国各族人民创造的新民主主义革命、社会主义革命和建设、改革开放和社会主义现代化建设，以及中国特色社会主义新时代四个伟大成就。全书以中国共产党领导人民取得革命胜利以及建设、改革成就为主轴，内容广泛涉及政治、经济、文化、教育、科技、外交、国防军队现代化建设、祖国统一、生态文明等诸多领域。通过丰富生动的史实，深入阐释了中国共产党为什么“能”、马克思主义为什么“行”、中国特色... Read more

The Comeback King: Donald Trump's Unfinished Business

By: Catherine McCarthy

Narrated by: Dwight Kuhlman

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Step into the world of Donald J. Trump with "The Comeback King: Donald Trump's Unfinished Business". The unfiltered story is an engaging and accessible exploration of the life and political careers of the 45th President of the United States. This captivating book provides readers with an intimate portrait of Trump's life, from his early career... Read more

Henry David Thoreau: On The Duty of Civil Disobedience

By: Henry David Thoreau

Narrated by: philip chenevert

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"That government is best which governs least" is the famous opening line of this essay. The slavery crisis inflamed New England in the 1840s and 1850s. The environment became especially tense after the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. A lifelong abolitionist, Thoreau delivered an impassioned speech which would later become Civil Disobedience in 1848,... Read more

Como un hombre piensa, así es su vida

By: James Allen

Narrated by: Alfredo Giménez

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

"Como un hombre piensa, así es su vida", la obra más emblemática de Allen; te enseñará que tú eres el arquitecto de tu propio destino, forjado por tus pensamientos y creencias.Aprovéchate del poder transformador de las palabras de James Allen. descubrirás cómo tus pensamientos moldean tu realidad y cómo puedes utilizarlos para alcanzar el éxito... Read more

Emplaced Resistances in Occupied Palestine

By: Suzanne H. Hammad

Narrated by: Muaz Dembinski, Suzanne H. Hammad, Malak Albakr...

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In this deeply personal study, Hammad illuminates an agenda of place, meaning and resistance in territorial struggles through the telling of a less-heard story of how residents of Bil'in understand their world and their lives in the occupied Palestinian West Bank landscape. Taking a case study of a contested and divided Palestinian village... Read more

Генэральская зорка

By: Мечыслаў Грыб

Narrated by: Мечыслаў Грыб

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Cучасныя мэмуары. Чытае аўтар. Упершыню прагучалі на хвалях Радыё Свабода з 25.10.2004 па 26.11.2004.
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The Spanish and Portuguese in the New World: The History and Legacy of the First European Rivalry in the Americas

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Victoria Woodson

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1451, Prince Henry the Navigator helped fund and develop a new type of ship, the caravel, that featured triangular lateen sails and would be able to travel in the open ocean and sail against the wind. In 1488, Bartholomew Diaz rounded the southern tip of Africa, named the Cape of Good Hope by King John of Portugal, and entered the Indian... Read more

Epistemological Problems of Economics

By: Ludwig von Mises

Narrated by: Jason Smith (Male Synthesized Voice)

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

"Epistemological Problems of Economics" is a seminal work by the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises, originally published in 1933. In this book, Mises delves into the fundamental epistemological questions underlying economic theory and methodology. He explores the nature of economic laws, the role of assumptions and predictions in economic... Read more

Kandahar, une dernière fois

By: Patrick Lemay

Narrated by: Maxime Gagnon-Laramée

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

L’auteur raconte son histoire personnelle en tant que fantassin québécois ayant vécu trois missions de combat consécutives dans les zones les plus dangereuses de l’Afghanistan entre 2007 et 2011. Il se livre corps et âme avec intensité dans ce récit où l’attrait de l’aventure guerrière l’amène à développer une dépendance à l’adrénaline. Le tout... Read more

Viral Deception

By: Robert Enochs

Narrated by: James Wilson

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you ready to uncover the truth behind the most disturbing global crises of our time? "Viral Deception: Unveiling COVID's Hidden Agenda" takes you on a riveting journey that may forever change your perception of the pandemic and the powers orchestrating it. Witness how a seemingly natural epidemic could be the smoke screen of this century,... Read more

Lucky Loser

By: Russ Buettner & Susanne Craig

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 17 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

An Instant New York Times Bestseller • A Washington Post Notable Book • A Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year

“A first-rate financial thriller . . . Lucky Loser is one of those rare Trump books that deserve, even demand, to be read.” –Alexander Nazaryan, The New York Times

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters behind the 2018... Read more

Rinsed

By: Geoff White

Narrated by: Geoff White

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

There's an old saying: 'a rising tide lifts all boats'.

It's normally couched in positive terms; that overall economic improvement will benefit everyone. In the case of hi-tech money laundering, however, it offers a dark vision of the future. The better these launderers become at their work, the more crime of all types... Read more

Autobiografía de Benjamin Franklin

By: Benjamin Franklin

Narrated by: Joaquín Chable

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Benjamin Franklin es reconocido como uno de los padres fundadores de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica y el Primer Presidente Estadounidense. En la historia de Estados Unidos se le nombra por su trascendencia en la política del siglo XVIII; su firma se encuentra en la Declaración de Independencia de Estados Unidos. También destacó en ámbitos de... Read more