Politics & Economy audiobooks

Liberalism as a Way of Life

By: Alexandre Lefebvre

Narrated by: Christopher Douyard

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Where do you get your values and sensibilities from? If you grew up in a Western democracy, the answer is probably liberalism. Conservatives are right about one thing: liberalism is the ideology of our times, as omnipresent as religion once was. Yet, as Alexandre Lefebvre argues in Liberalism as a Way of Life, many of us are liberal without... Read more

Hope Over Fate

By: Scott MacMillan

Narrated by: Scott MacMillan

Length: 15 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times called him "one of the unsung heroes of modern times." Fazle Hasan Abed was a mild-mannered accountant who may be the most influential man most people have never even heard of. A former finance executive with almost no experience in relief aid, he founded BRAC, originally the Bangladesh Rehabilitation... Read more

American Disgust

By: Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer

Narrated by: Lee Goettl

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

American Disgust shows how perceptions of disgust and fears of contamination are rooted in the country's history of colonialism and racism. Drawing on colonial, corporate, and medical archives, Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer argues that microbial medicine is closely entwined with changing cultural experiences of digestion, excrement, and disgust that are... Read more

Nelson Mandela

By: Elleke Boehmer

Narrated by: Zoleka Vundla

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A pathbreaking analysis of the relationship between Mandela the myth, and Mandela the historical figure, looking at the way images, stories, and politics have been combined to create the iconic image of Mandela that we know today.



Boehmer explores the long trajectory of Mandela's life, explaining first the historical and political context of the... Read more

The Longest Con

By: Joe Conason

Narrated by: Steve Marvel

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The Longest Con tells the fascinating story of the partisan con artists who have corrupted conservative politics in our time, creating a toxic phenomenon that culminated in the election of Donald Trump, a bumptious fraud whose checkered career and tawdry retinue, including his presidential cabinet, have featured almost every variety of scam. But... Read more

The Good Eater

By: Nina Guilbeault

Narrated by: Nina Guilbeault

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

For years, there has been no doubt that widespread consumption of meat is both environmentally destructive and morally dubious. A growing chorus of scientists, health experts, and activists champion the benefits of a plant-based diet. Nevertheless, change has been slow to arrive, and the chasm between our appetites and our collective well-being... Read more

Good Boys, Bad Hombres

By: Michael V. Singh

Narrated by: Asa Siegel

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Educational research has long documented the politics of punishment for boys and young men of color in schools—but what about the politics of empowerment and inclusion? In Good Boys, Bad Hombres, Michael V. Singh focuses on this aspect of youth control in schools, asking on whose terms a positive Latino manhood gets to be envisioned.



Based on two... Read more

Growth

By: Daniel Susskind

Narrated by: Daniel Susskind

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Economic growth has freed billions from the struggle for subsistence. Yet prosperity has come at a price: environmental destruction, desolation of local cultures, the rise of vast inequalities, and destabilizing technologies. Faced with such damage, many now claim that the only way forward is through "degrowth," deliberately shrinking our... Read more

On Antisemitism

By: Jewish Voice for Peace

Narrated by: Dina Pearlman

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

When the State of Israel claims to represent all Jewish people, defenders of Israeli policy redefine antisemitism to include criticism of Israel. Antisemitism is harmful and real in our society. What must also be addressed is how the deployment of false charges of antisemitism or redefining antisemitism can suppress the global progressive fight... Read more

El hambre

By: Martín Caparrós

Narrated by: Javier Gómez

Length: 26 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

*Premio Ortega y Gasset de Periodismo a la Trayectoria profesional 2023* Un libro incómodo y apasionado. Es una crónica que piensa, un ensayo que narra y un panfleto que denuncia la urgencia de una vergüenza sostenida y busca la manera de acabar con ella. «Conocemos el hambre, estamos acostumbrados al hambre: sentimos hambre dos, tres veces al... Read more

El policía

By: Rafael Rodríguez Castañeda

Narrated by: Héctor Velasco

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

El policia presenta los testimonios de Heberto Castillo, de El Búho, líder estudiantil del 68, y el del solodado desertor Zacarias Osorio, entre otros; recreados con un estilo eficaz que transmite una terrible realidad. "Cuando está de por medio la seguridad del Estado, no hay constituciones ni leyes que valgan una chingada." MIGUEL NAZAR HARO A... Read more

Brüssel sehen und sterben - Wie ich im Europaparlament meinen Glauben an (fast) alles verloren habe (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Nico Semsrott

Narrated by: Marian Funk

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"Die EU steckt in einer tiefen Krise - ich auch." Das Europaparlament - eine hervorragende Idee. Nur in der Realität leider ein Witz, und noch dazu ein sehr schlechter. Nico Semsrott berichtet ehrlich und komisch von seinen Erfahrungen aus fünf Jahren Europaparlament. Von der sinnlosen Pendelei zwischen Brüssel und Straßburg, in der schon alles... Read more

Reckless

By: Mike Rothmiller & Douglas Thompson

Narrated by: Jeff Harding

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing on new interviews and previously hidden police and intelligence files, Reckless finally reveals the full corruption of America’s Camelot.‘Reads like James Ellroy’– Daily Telegraph‘JFK didn’t hesitate to employ deception, espionage and covert action’ – Timothy Naftali, Wall Street JournalJohn F. Kennedy’s life is promoted by sentimental... Read more

Winston Churchill

By: Franziska Augstein

Narrated by: Jutta Seifert

Length: 19 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Held des 20. Jahrhunderts: Er hat Hitler aufgehalten Unter den herausragenden Politikern des 20. Jahrhunderts ist Churchill der schillerndste. Hollywood hat den Adeligen mit der Zigarre längst zu einer Film- und Heldenfigur überhöht. Seine Sätze, dass er etwa »außer Blut, Schweiß und Tränen« nichts zu bieten habe, sind geflügelte Worte.... Read more

Männer, die die Welt verbrennen

By: Christian Stöcker

Narrated by: Steffen Rössler

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Warum wir zynische Geldmacher, egomane Politiker und deren Lügen bekämpfen müssen Die Welt steckt in der Endphase eines Kulturkampfs: Gier gegen Gerechtigkeit, Zerstörung gegen Nachhaltigkeit, Zynismus gegen Empathie. Nichts zeigt dies deutlicher als die Reaktionen auf die Klimakatastrophe: Hier jene, die versuchen, das Schlimmste zu... Read more

May Contain Lies

By: Alex Edmans

Narrated by: Alex Edmands

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Our lives are minefields of misinformation. It ripples through our social media feeds, our daily headlines, and the pronouncements of politicians, executives, and authors. Stories, statistics, and studies are everywhere, allowing people to find evidence to support whatever position they want. Many of these sources are flawed, yet by playing on... Read more

Late Admissions

By: Glenn C. Loury

Narrated by: Glenn Loury

Length: 18 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A shockingly frank memoir from a prize-winning economist, reflecting on his remarkable personal odyssey and his changing positions on identity, race, and belief.



Economist Glenn C. Loury is one of the most prominent public intellectuals of our time: he's often radically opposed to the political mainstream, and delights in upending what's expected... Read more

Bloody Tuesday

By: John M. Giggie

Narrated by: Christopher Grove

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The dramatic story of one of the most violent episodes of the civil rights movement and its role in the ongoing reckoning with racial injustice in the United States.



On Tuesday, June 9, 1964, police attacked more than 600 Black men, women, and children inside First African Baptist Church (Tuscaloosa, Alabama), where Reverend Martin Luther King... Read more

Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions

By: Omar Barghouti

Narrated by: Shawn K. Jain

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

"Barghouti is the future. He is intelligent, empowered, and non-violent. He is completely impressive. It would help Americans to see such a picture of Palestinian political engagement, when they have such a distorted image of who Palestinians are. Some day they will know him." —Phillip Weiss, author of Mondoweiss: The War of Ideas in the Middle... Read more

All the President's Money

By: James Comer

Narrated by: Jim Seybert

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Joe Biden made less than $200,000 a year for most of his life, but as soon as he left office, he bought his second multimillion-dollar mansion.He shared a bookkeeper with Hunter Biden, and a law firm with several Biden family members that managed their money. Hunter, who hasn’t had a real job in decades, has raked in tens of millions of dollars.... Read more

Feeding the Machine

By: Callum Cant, James Muldoon & Mark Graham

Narrated by: Orlando Wells

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Feeding the Machine by James Muldoon, Mark Graham, and Callum Cant, read by Orlando Wells.

For readers of Naomi Klein and Nicole Perlroth, A myth-dissolving exposé of what “artificial intelligence” really means, and a resounding argument for an equitable future of A.I.

Silicon Valley has sold us the illusion that artificial... Read more

Mao's Great Famine

By: Frank Dikötter

Narrated by: Daniel York Loh

Length: 15 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Mao's Great Famine by Frank Dikötter, read by Daniel York Loh.

WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE

‘A gripping and masterful portrait of the brutal court of Mao, based on new research but also written with great narrative verve' Simon Sebag Montefiore

'Harrowing and brilliant' Ben Macintyre

‘A critical contribution to Chinese... Read more

You Must Stand Up

By: Amanda Becker

Narrated by: Amanda Becker

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents You Must Stand Up written and read by Amanda Becker.

The inspiring, on-the-ground story of the rising grassroots leaders in the abortion rights movement during the pivotal first year after Dobbs.

When the Supreme Court decided Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization— overturning the constitutional right to abortion... Read more

Top of the World

By: Martin Hibbert

Narrated by: Will Edgerton

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Martin Hibbert was left paralysed from the waist down by the Manchester Arena bombing which killed twenty-two people on 22 May 2017. Martin’s teenage daughter Eve was one of the 940 injured, in Eve’s case, gravely. The dad from Bolton has since become a leading campaigner both for victims of the atrocity and those with spinal cord... Read more