Politics & Economy audiobooks

The Forgotten

By: Ben Bradlee Jr.

Narrated by: Kiff VandenHeuvel

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The people of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania voted Democratic for decades, until Donald Trump flipped it in 2016. What happened?

Named one of the "juiciest political books to come in 2018" by Entertainment Weekly.

In The Forgotten, Ben Bradlee Jr. reports on how voters in Luzerne County, a pivotal county in a crucial swing state, came to feel... Read more

Thanks for Everything (Now Get Out)

By: Joseph Margulies

Narrated by: Mike Lenz

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

When a distressed urban neighborhood gentrifies, all the ratios change: poor to rich; Black and Brown to white; unskilled to professional; vulnerable to secure. Vacant lots and toxic dumps become condos and parks. Upscale restaurants open and pawn shops close. But the low-income residents who held on when the neighborhood was at its worst, who... Read more

Kharku Sangharash Di Sakhi 2 : Sadhan, Sababb, Sidak ate Shahadat

By: Daljit Singh

Narrated by: Mehar Singh

Length: 14 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Kharku Sangharsh Di Sakhi 2: Sadhan, Sabbab, Sidak Ate Shahadat is second part of book penned by Bhai Daljit Singh. This is one of the bestselling and most read Punjabi/Sikh book of 2023. Author Bhai Daljit Singh has penned Sakhis of the Sikh movement of 1980s-1990s.This book is the second volume in the series titled "Khadku Sangharsh Di Sakhi"... Read more

The New Breadline

By: Jean-Martin Bauer

Narrated by: Jean-Martin Bauer

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • A humanitarian leader with more than two decades of experience working for the United Nations takes aim at the global food crisis—revealing how hunger anywhere affects lives everywhere and what steps we can take to change course.

"This book should be required reading for the entire human race."
... Read more

Die Post-Corona-Welt

By: Georg Vielmetter

Narrated by: Simon Diez

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Wie konnte es trotz aller frühzeitigen Warnungen zur Covid-19-Pandemie kommen? Und was sollten wir tun, um künftig noch Schlimmeres zu verhindern? Für den richtigen Umgang mit der Welt nach der Krise müssen wir zum einen verstehen, was an welchen Stellen falsch gelaufen ist. Zum anderen müssen wir uns neu orientieren und die großen Themen der... Read more

Depraved New World

By: John Crace

Narrated by: George Weightman

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

AS FEATURED IN WATERSTONES BEST BOOKS OF 2023 From bestselling author and beloved Guardiancolumnist John Crace comes a blisteringly hilarious tour through the whirlwind of post-Brexit Britain, from the ousting of Boris to the dawn of a new era . . . sort of. O brave new world, that has such people in't. Or not. William Shakespeare clearly had... Read more

Hitlers siste krampetrekninger

By: All Verdens Historie

Narrated by: Andreas Berg Korsby

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

25. august 1944 rullet de franske og amerikanske divisjonene inn i Paris. De svette og slitne soldatene ble kysset og fikk overrakt blomster og vin. Hitlers guvernør hadde overgitt seg, og nazistenes svarte og røde hakekorsflagg ble skiftet ut med trikoloren på alle offisielle bygninger etter hvert som befrierne nedkjempet tyske soldater som... Read more

You Can't Joke About That

By: Kat Timpf

Narrated by: Kat Timpf

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens when we can’t joke about some of the most important stuff in life?In a 2019 study, 40% of people reported censoring themselves out of fear that voicing their views would alienate them from the people they care about most. Those people should probably not read this book in public.In You Can’t Joke About That, Kat Timpf shows why much... Read more

Scorched Earth

By: Michael Savage

Narrated by: James Edward Thomas

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Michael Savage predicted the chaos that is Obama's legacy. Now he tells us whether the destruction can be stopped! The prophetic author of the bestselling Government Zero, Dr. Michael Savage is back with his most urgent and powerful work.

Listeners to Dr. Savage's top-rated radio talk show, The Savage Nation, know him to be an articulate and... Read more

The New Great Depression

By: James Rickards

Narrated by: James Rickards

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A Wall Street Journal and National Bestseller!

The man who predicted the worst economic crisis in US history shows you how to survive it.

The current crisis is not like 2008 or even 1929. The New Depression that has emerged from the COVID pandemic is the worst economic crisis in U.S. history. Most fired employees will remain redundant.... Read more

Geht's noch, Deutschland?

By: Claus Strunz

Narrated by: Claus Strunz

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Abrechnung und Perspektive zugleich Ob Asyl-Chaos, Bildungsnotstand, Abschiebe-Irrsinn oder unsere kaputten Brücken und Straßen. Ob im Bund, auf Länderebene oder vor der eigenen Haustüre – in den vergangenen Jahren sorgten viele politische Entscheidungen beim Wahlvolk für Erstaunen, Kopfschütteln, ja sogar Wut. Immer mehr Menschen stellen... Read more

Metaracism

By: Tricia Rose

Narrated by: Mela Lee & Tricia Rose

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive book on how systemic racism in America really works, revealing the vast and often hidden network of interconnected policies, practices, and beliefs that combine to devastate Black lives

In recent years, condemnations of racism in America have echoed from the streets to corporate boardrooms. At the same time, politicians and... Read more

Into the Fire

By: Dakota Meyer & Bing West

Narrated by: Zach McLarty

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

“The story of what Dakota did . . . will be told for generations.”—President Barack Obama, from remarks given at Meyer’s Medal of Honor ceremony

In the fall of 2009, Taliban insurgents ambushed a patrol of Afghan soldiers and Marine advisors in a mountain village called Ganjigal. Firing from entrenched positions, the enemy was positioned to wipe... Read more

Disability Pride

By: Ben Mattlin

Narrated by: Anthony Michael Lopez

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

An eye-opening portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today, and how disability attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

In Disability Pride, disabled journalist Ben Mattlin weaves together interviews and reportage to introduce a cavalcade of individuals,... Read more

Contra los zombis

By: Paul Krugman

Narrated by: Miguel Coll

Length: 14 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Nadie como Paul Krugman para acercarnos a los principales conceptos económicos y las ideas que mueven gran parte de nuestras políticas públicas y para explicar con lucidez problemas económicos a menudo confusos. En Contra los zombis, Krugman reúne más de noventa artículos —muchos publicados en The New York Times— en dieciocho secciones... Read more

A Just and Generous Nation

By: Harold Holzer & Norton Garfinkle

Narrated by: Barry Press

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In A Just and Generous Nation, the eminent historian Harold Holzer and the noted economist Norton Garfinkle present a groundbreaking new account of the beliefs that inspired our sixteenth president to go to war when the Southern states seceded from the Union. Rather than a commitment to eradicating slavery or a defense of the Union, they argue... Read more

This Child Will Be Great

By: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 14 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The first elected woman president of an African country, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was also listed as one of the world's 100 Most Powerful Women by Forbes. This evocative memoir recounts Sirleaf 's childhood upbringing and rise to political power in Liberia. More than a simple biography, Sirleaf 's account details how she stood firm in the face of... Read more

The Courage to Be Free

By: Ron DeSantis

Narrated by: Ron DeSantis & John Pruden

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER / #1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER / #1 PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY BESTSELLER / #1 AMAZON BESTSELLERNo American leader has accomplished more for his state than Governor Ron DeSantis. Now he reveals how he did it.He played baseball for Yale, graduated with honors from Harvard Law School, and served in Iraq and in the halls... Read more

The Essential Scalia

By: Antonin Scalia

Narrated by: Christopher Scalia, Karen Commins & Jason Culp

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in his own words: the definitive collection of his opinions, speeches, and articles on the most essential and vexing legal questions, with an intimate foreword by Justice Elena Kagan

“[Scalia’s writings] are as readable today as they were when they first appeared. . . . Especially illuminating to anyone who... Read more

The Power Brokers

By: Jeremiah D. Lambert

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

For more than a century, the interplay between private, investor-owned electric utilities and government regulators has shaped the electric power industry in the United States. Provision of an essential service to largely dependent consumers invited government oversight and ever more sophisticated market intervention. The industry has sought to... Read more

To the End of the Earth

By: John C. McManus

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 15 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

From the liberation of the Philippines to the Japanese surrender, the final volume of John C. McManus's trilogy on the US Army in the Pacific War

The dawn of 1945 finds a US Army at its peak in the Pacific. Allied victory over Japan is all but assured. The only question is how many more months—or years—of fight does the enemy have left. John C.... Read more

With Schwarzkopf

By: Gus Lee

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

With Schwarzkopf is Gus Lee's remembrance of his mentor and friend H. Norman Schwarzkopf, and his firsthand account of how Schwarzkopf shaped his life. In 1966, Lee, a junior-year cadet at West Point, was bright, athletic, and popular. He was also on the verge of getting kicked out. Nearing the bottom of his class due to his penchant for playing... Read more

Chaotics

By: John A. Caslione & Philip Kotler

Narrated by: Steven Menasche

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

We have entered into an entirely new era, an age of increasingly frequent and intense periods of turbulence in the global economy. Unlike past recessions, today's crises have precipitated a need for businesses to develop a new mindset, one that takes into account intermittent periods of disturbance, allowing them to thrive while under the... Read more

John Quincy Adams

By: Paul C. Nagel

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 18 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A United States minister, senator, president, and congressman in turn, John Quincy Adams was one of the most prevalent and dedicated Americans in history. Drawing from Adams' seventy-year diary, author Paul Nagel probes deeply into the psyche of this cantankerous, misanthropic, erudite, hardworking son of a former president whose remarkable... Read more