Politics & Economy audiobooks

The Sword and the Shield

By: Peniel E. Joseph

Narrated by: Zeno Robinson

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

This "landmark" (Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times–bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist) dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King upends longstanding preconceptions to transform our understanding of the twentieth century's most iconic African American leaders   To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent... Read more

The Highest Law in the Land

By: Jessica Pishko

Narrated by: Nan McNamara

Length: 14 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for Columbia Journalism School’s J. Anthony Lukas Award

A Publishers Lunch NonFiction Buzz Book| Named Most Anticipated by Los Angeles Times

A leading authority on sheriffs investigates the impunity with which they police their communities, alongside the troubling role they play in American life, law enforcement, and, increasingly,... Read more

Puffin Lives: B.R. Ambedkar

By: Payal Kapadia

Narrated by: Rohini Vij

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Born to a poor Mahar family in April 1891, Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was a victim of casteism from his very childhood. He fought for the political rights of the Dalits at a time when India was being terrorised by the British. He was also the first ‘untouchable’ to receive college education as well as an eminent jurist, a brilliant politician, an... Read more

Madison Park

By: Eric L. Motley

Narrated by: Brandon Maloney

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to Madison Park, a small community in Alabama founded by freed slaves in 1880. And meet Eric Motley, a native son who came of age in this remarkable place where constant lessons in self-determination, hope, and unceasing belief in the American dream taught him everything he needed for his journey to the Oval Office as a Special Assistant... Read more

Party Animals

By: Samantha Maiden

Narrated by: Leah McLeod

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Secrets, lies, lawyers and covert recordings. If you thought the 2019 election was just about a death tax that didn't exist, you're in for a surprise.
From the dark arts of the dirt units to the role of billionaire Clive Palmer, this is the untold story of an election debacle.
The Labor Party was the unbeatable favourite to win the 2019 election... Read more

Cambie su mundo

By: John C. Maxwell & Rob Hoskins

Narrated by: Johnny Pena

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Dos de los líderes más respetados hoy en día y que han cambiado al mundo, el experto en liderazgo John C. Maxwell y el líder de desarrollo global Rob Hoskins, comparten sus experiencias en el mundo real ayudando a transformar millones de vidas, comunidades y empresas en todo el mundo para mostrar a la gente cómo ser el cambio que el mundo... Read more

What the Hell Do You Have to Lose?

By: Juan Williams

Narrated by: Dale E. Turner

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author, political analyst, and civil rights expert delivers a forceful critique of the Trump administration's ignorant and unprecedented rollback of the civil rights movement.

In this powerful and timely book, civil rights historian and political analyst Juan Williams denounces Donald Trump for intentionally twisting history to... Read more

Right Relationship

By: Thomas E. Lovejoy, Peter G. Brown & Geoffrey Ga...

Narrated by: Martin Gollery

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In this groundbreaking guide to building an ethical economy, Peter Brown and his colleagues at the Quaker Institute for the Future show readers how a system that embodies the core Quaker principle of "right relationship" can deliver a more equitable and sustainable future. Read more

Oliver Cromwell

By: Ronald Hutton

Narrated by: Nigel Patterson

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The second volume in an acclaimed biography of Oliver Cromwell, from the capture of Charles I to the expulsion of the Long Parliament



In 1647, the Parliamentarians were divided. They had won the first civil war and the king was in custody, but disagreements over the way forward had led to a stalemate. As the leader of one party, Oliver Cromwell... Read more

Why Don't You Get a Horse, Sam Adams?

By: Jean Fritz

Narrated by: David deVries

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This lively biography, by Newbery Honor-winning author Jean Fritz, is a nice, personal look at a leader and his times.In early America, when all the men wore ruffled shirts and rode grandly on horseback, one man refused to follow suit. He was the rebel leader Sam Adams, a plainspoken gent who scorned ruffles, refused to ride a horse, and had... Read more

Black Edge

By: Sheelah Kolhatkar

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A riveting, true-life legal thriller about the government’s pursuit of billionaire hedge fund manager Steven Cohen and his employees at SAC Capital—a revelatory look at the power and wealth of Wall Street
 
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—The New York Times and The Economist • “An essential exposé of our times—a work... Read more

Back Channel to Cuba

By: William M. LeoGrande & Peter Kornbluh

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 20 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Since 1959, conflict and aggression have dominated the story of U.S.-Cuban relations. From John F. Kennedy's offering of an olive branch to Fidel Castro after the missile crisis, to Henry Kissinger's top-secret quest for normalization, to Barack Obama's promise of a "new approach," William M. LeoGrande and Peter Kornbluh reveal a fifty-year... Read more

Options Trading Crash Course

By: Ryan Martinez

Narrated by: Adam Breazelle

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

What if I tell you that options trading can change your life forever?
You probably wouldn’t believe it. How can something like trading create a significant impact on your life, especially when there are lots of traders out there who couldn’t even make it?
Well,options trading has a lot of benefits. You have learned from this book what trading is... Read more

Enemies

By: Tim Weiner

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 18 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

“Turns the long history of the FBI into a story that is as compelling, and important, as today’s headlines.”—Jeffrey Toobin, author of American Heiress

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post, New York Daily News, and Slate

Enemies is the first definitive history of the FBI’s secret intelligence... 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

An Extraordinary Time

By: Marc Levinson

Narrated by: James Foster

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In An Extraordinary Time, acclaimed economic historian Marc Levinson recounts the global collapse of the postwar economy in the 1970s. While economists struggle to return us to the high economic growth rates of the past, Levinson counterintuitively argues that the boom years of the 1950s and 1960s were an anomaly; slow economic growth is the... Read more

Sam le Pompier - Un cheval à sauver

By: Mattel

Narrated by: Jake Meniani

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Lors d'une course d'orientation dans les montagnes de Pontypandy, Nicolas a l'idée de monter un cheval sauvage pour gagner du temps. Catastrophe ! Le cheval se cabre et devient incontrôlable ! Nicolas et sa monture poursuivent leur course folle jusque dans une mare de boue trop collante pour en sortir. Sam et les pompiers vont devoir agir vite !... Read more

Humanity With Heart: The New Global Paradigm

By: Kevin Danaher, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Hold on to your seats!  You are about to depart on a global reality tour with world lecturer and co-founder of Global Exchange, Kevin Danaher.  In this "ear-opening" dialogue, Danaher addresses the three major pieces of society that influence every aspect of our life: our government, our education and our public airwaves, all of which have been... Read more

The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line

By: Major General Mari K. Eder US Army (Ret.)

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Radium Girls and history and WWII buffs, The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line takes you inside the lives and experiences of fifteen unknown women heroes from the Greatest Generation, the women who served, fought, struggled, and made things happen during WWII―in and out of uniform, for theirs is a legacy destined to embolden generations... Read more

Free Speech

By: Jacob Mchangama

Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A global history of free speech, from the ancient world to todayHailed as the “first freedom,” free speech is the bedrock of democracy. But it is a challenging principle, subject to erosion in times of upheaval. Today, in democracies and authoritarian states around the world, it is on the retreat.In Free Speech, Jacob Mchangama traces the... Read more

From the Ruins of Empire

By: Pankaj Mishra

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A little more than a century ago, as the Japanese navy annihilated the giant Russian one at the Battle of Tsushima, original thinkers across Asia, working independently, sought to frame a distinctly Asian intellectual tradition that would inform and inspire the continent's anticipated rise to dominance.



Asian dominance did not come to pass, and... Read more

Death in Ten Minutes

By: Fern Riddell

Narrated by: Fern Riddell

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The never before told story of radical suffragette Kitty Marion. Historian Fern Riddell finds a hidden diary and uses Kitty's own words to tell the story of her sensational life and explosive actions.

Kitty Marion was sent across the country by the Pankhurst family to carry out a nationwide campaign of bombings and arson attacks, as women fought... Read more

Too Smart for Our Own Good

By: Bruce I. Jacobs

Length: 14 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

How investment strategies designed to reduce risk can increase risk for everyone-and can crash markets and economies



Financial crises are often blamed on unforeseeable events, the unforgiving nature of capital markets, or just plain bad luck. Too Smart for Our Own Good argues that these crises are caused by certain alluring investment strategies... Read more

Biggest Political Mistakes in the History

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Tracy Tupman

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Political mistakes can hamper the economy of the country, can destroy the environment and cost lives too. It also hampers the relationship with other countries or states. Many political mistakes are memorable and damaging too. These mistakes have contributed to losing power and position to a politician. Mistakes are a lesson to others on how to... Read more