Politics & Economy audiobooks

Winston Churchill’s Great Escapes: The Story of the British Bulldog’s Death-Defying Life Before He Became Prime Minister

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Steve Knupp

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

When Winston Churchill died at the age of 90 in 1965, one of the most important figures in modern history had left the stage. From providing some of the 20th century’s greatest soundbites to successfully navigating Great Britain to victory in World War II against great odds, Churchill was at the forefront of events for decades, becoming one of... Read more

The Cold War Presidents: The History of the American Leaders Who Countered the Soviet Union

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Mary Rossman

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Among America’s presidents, Harry Truman’s presidency produced some of the nation’s most crucial decisions and left one of the nation’s most unique legacies. As president, Truman would lay the groundwork for the next 50 years of American foreign policy, as the architect of Cold War containment, the man who signed off on the Marshall Plan, and... Read more

The Adams Family: The History of Colonial Boston's Most Important Political Family

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Michelle Humphries

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

he American Revolution had no shortage of compelling characters with seemingly larger than life traits, including men like the multi-talented Benjamin Franklin, the wise Thomas Jefferson, the mercurial John Adams and the stoic George Washington. But no Revolutionary leader has been as controversial as Samuel Adams, who has been widely portrayed... Read more

The Roosevelts: The History of the Family that Produced Two Presidents and a First Lady

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Mary Rossman

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: No

For a man who grew up to become the “Bull Moose”, Theodore Roosevelt was a sickly child, suffering from asthma and other maladies. But his physical weakness actually drove him to be more active, which also fostered an interest in nature. In the 1890s, it was Teddy’s turn to make history, leading the Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War... Read more

State of the Union 1985

By: Ronald Reagan

Narrated by: Ronald Reagan

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The 1985 State of the Union Address delivered February 6, 1985, on Reagan’s 74th birthday, reports the strongest economic growth in 34 years, 3-year inflation of 3.9%, and more citizens working than ever before.  Despite progress Reagan notes “millions in our inner cities who long for real jobs, safe neighborhoods, and schools that truly teach”... Read more

Tilak

By: Vaibhav Purandare

Narrated by: Abhishek Ajay Sharma

Length: 16 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Bal Gangadhar Tilak was considered to be the biggest threat to the British hegemony.He was prosecuted thrice for sedition.Was termed ‘the father of Indian unrest.’He was convicted for his fiery writings in his nationalist daily Kesari.Tilak, the first definitive biography of the man who raised the slogan that ‘freedom is my birthright and I... Read more

Crypto the Disruptor

By: Mukesh Jindal

Narrated by: Anuj Datta

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The Indian crypto market has experienced an exponential surge in the past few years and become a vehicle to get rich quickly. However, what exactly is crypto? How did we reach the crypto stage-- a decentralized system of finance-- from the barter system?Crypto the Disruptor answers these and other such penetrating questions as it traces the... Read more

Being Hindu Being Indian

By: Vanya Vaidehi Bhargava

Narrated by: Vasundhara Bose

Length: 19 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In popular imagination, Lala Lajpat Rai is frequently associated with Bhagat Singh, who, by assassinating J.P. Saunders, avenged Rai’ s death, caused by a police lathi charge, and was hanged for it. Lajpat Rai is also remembered for his fervent opposition to British rule.In recent decades, however, historians have converged with the Hindu Right... Read more

The Bravest Scout at Gallipoli

By: Ryan Butta

Narrated by: Chris Stollery

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The many lives and tragic death of Harry Freame, the Anzac hero betrayed by his nation.

Harry Freame was the first Australian to win the Distinguished Conduct Medal at Gallipoli. Raised as a samurai, he risked his life again and again to scout the beaches and hills of the battlefield, reporting invaluable intelligence back to his officers and... Read more

Identitätspolitik

By: Bernd Stegemann

Narrated by: Mike Maas

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Identitätspolitik ist ein sperriges Wort und viele aufgeregte Debatten kreisen darum. Keiner vermag es so recht zu erklären, dabei ist der Kern dieses Kampfbegriffs so alt wie die Menschheit. »Wir zuerst!« ist ein Schlachtruf, der zu allen Zeiten ertönt ist. »America first« ist Identitätspolitik, aber auch »Black Lives Matter« nutzt die... Read more

How We Heal

By: La June Montgomery Tabron

Narrated by: La June Montgomery Tabron

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

How We Heal is the story of La June Montgomery Tabron's journey from childhood in 1960s Detroit to leading the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Read more

You Shall Be as Gods

By: Erick Erickson

Narrated by: Erick Erickson

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Our country doesn't have a partisan problem, a political problem, a social problem, or an economic problem. We have a spiritual problem.



As Christianity has been pushed aside, the Progressive Left has developed a new pagan religion. But the radical roots of the new secular religion are ancient. We've seen it all before. In You Shall Be as Gods,... Read more

Oceans Rise Empires Fall

By: Gerard Toal

Narrated by: Al Kessel

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In the last few years, it has become abundantly clear that the effects of accelerating climate change will be catastrophic, from rising seas to more violent storms to desertification. Yet why do nation-states find it so difficult to implement transnational policies that can reduce carbon output and slow global warming? In Oceans Rise, Empires... Read more

How to Make Money

By: Pliny

Narrated by: Graham Mack

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Ancient Romans liked money. But how did they make a living and sometimes even become rich? The Roman economy was dominated by agriculture, but it was surprisingly modern in many ways: the Romans had companies with CEOs, shareholders, and detailed contracts regulated by meticulous laws; systems of banking and taxation; and a wide range of... Read more

The Titans of the Twentieth Century

By: Michael Mandelbaum

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

An engaging and original historical portrait of eight of the most influential political figures of the twentieth century: Woodrow Wilson, Lenin, Hitler, Churchill, FDR, Gandhi, David Ben-Gurion, and Mao.



The Titans of the Twentieth Century addresses an age-old question: what is the impact of individuals on history? The first half of the twentieth... Read more

HAMAS

By: Beverley Milton-Edwards & Stephen Farrell

Narrated by: Hannibal Hills

Length: 14 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Declared a terrorist menace yet voted into government in a free election, Hamas then used its Gaza power base to launch cross-border attacks that scorched Israel and transformed the dynamics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. How did a small Palestinian offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood grow to challenge long-established rivals such as the... Read more

Just and Unjust Wars

By: Michael Walzer

Narrated by: Gregory St. John

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

“A classic in the field” (New York Times), this is a penetrating investigation into moral and ethical questions raised by war, drawing on examples from antiquity to the present.

Just and Unjust Wars has forever changed how we think about the ethics of conflict. In this modern classic, political philosopher Michael Walzer examines the moral issues... Read more

The Assault on the State

By: Stephen E. Hanson & Jeffrey S. Kopstein

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

What if the state as we know it didn't exist? Our air would be poisonous, our votes uncounted, and our markets dysfunctional. Yet across the world, in countries as diverse as Hungary, Israel, the UK, and the US, attacks on the modern state and its workforce are intensifying. They are morphing into power grabs by self-aggrandizing politicians who... Read more

Surveillance

By: David Lyon

Narrated by: Graham Mack

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Surveillance permeates every aspect of our lives today. Every click on the keyboard, every call, text or email, every purchase, every contact with a doctor or the police or a government department, each time you walk under a video camera or pass through a security check, and in many other ways, you are recorded, identified, traced, and tracked.... Read more

Italy Reborn

By: Mark Gilbert

Narrated by: Michael Langan

Length: 18 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1945, post-fascist Italy was devastated by war, and its reputation in the international arena was nil. Yet by December 1955, when Italy was admitted to the United Nations, the nation had contested three acrimonious but free general elections, had a flourishing press, and was a leader in the rebuilding of Europe.



This is the dramatic story told... Read more

Spooks

By: Jim Hougan

Narrated by: William Sarris

Length: 19 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

"Probably the most eye-opening and engrossing exposé to date of the bizarre 'power games' played by multinational corporations and tycoons." —Publishers Weekly



A classic of investigative reporting, Spooks is a treasure trove of who-shot-who research on the metastasis of the United States intelligence community, whose practices and personnel have... Read more

Family Abolition

By: M.E. O’Brien

Narrated by: Charli Burrow

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

For some of us, the family is a source of love and support. But for many others, the family is a place of private horror, coercion, and personal domination. In a capitalist society, the private family carries the impossible demands of interpersonal care and social reproductive labor. Can we imagine a different future?



In Family Abolition, author... Read more

Decolonizing Palestine

By: Mitri Raheb

Narrated by: Shawn K. Jain

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Decolonizing Palestine challenges the weaponization of biblical texts to support the current settler-colonial state of Israel. Raheb argues that some of the most important theological concepts—Israel, the land, election, and chosen people—must be decolonized in a paradigm shift in Christian theological thinking about Palestine. Decolonizing... Read more

Secret Agenda

By: Jim Hougan

Narrated by: Al Kessel

Length: 15 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Ten years after the infamous Watergate scandal that brought down the Nixon presidency, Jim Hougan—then the Washington editor of Harper's Magazine—set out to write a profile of Lou Russell, a boozy private-eye who plied his trade in the vice-driven underbelly of the nation's capital. Hougan soon discovered that Russell was "the sixth man, the one... Read more