Politics & Economy audiobooks

Antisemitism

By: Deborah E. Lipstadt

Narrated by: Ellen Archer, Paul Boehmer & Phoebe Strole

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

***2019 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER—Jew­ish Edu­ca­tion and Iden­ti­ty Award***

The award-winning author of The Eichmann Trial and Denial: Holocaust History on Trial gives us a penetrating and provocative analysis of the hate that will not die, focusing on its current, virulent incarnations on both the political right and left: from white... Read more

Trickle Up Poverty

By: Michael Savage

Narrated by: Robert Louis

Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Michael Savage—conservative talk radio host and #1 New York Times bestselling author—takes on President Obama’s socialist agenda, his Chicago-style strong-arm tactics, and his Lenin-like complex in Trickle Up Poverty. Savage’s quest is to help American’s save America from economic Armageddon, and Trickle Up Poverty addresses everything from the... Read more

Chintansutre, Rashtrarushinchi Amrutvachane चिंतनसूत्रे, राष्ट्रऋषींची अमृतवचने

By: Dr. Sharad Kunte

Narrated by: Prashant Jadhav

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The skilled organizers involved in RSS work offer occasional inspirational thoughts to promote social harmony, personal responsibility, and expertise among active participants. These thoughts act as a source of motivation, dispelling frustrations and renewing energy during action. Guiding principles like Hindutva, societal well-being, national... Read more

Trumping Obama

By: Matt Margolis

Narrated by: John McLain

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The Presidency of Barack Obama was characterized by radical policy shifts—the implementation of Obamacare (the first steps toward socialized medicine); unprecedented expansion of the big government regulatory state; the prioritization of pie-in-the-sky environmental concerns over jobs and economic growth; a foreign policy based on secret... Read more

Café Europa Revisited

By: Slavenka Drakulic

Narrated by: Kathleen Gati

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

"Drakulić’s composite portrait provides a clear-eyed look at European values, and what they really amount to." —The New Yorker

An evocative and timely collection of essays that paints a portrait of Eastern Europe thirty years after the end of communism.

An immigrant with a parrot in Stockholm, a photo of a girl in Lviv, a sculpture of Alexander... Read more

Ciudades de 15 minutos. Así serán las urbes del futuro

By: Juanjo Ramos

Narrated by: Juanjo Ramos

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

“Ciudades de 15 minutos" (o de 20 para los expertos menos ambiciosos): este es un poderoso concepto urbanístico que se ha popularizado en los últimos años y que se basa en la idea de diseñar ciudades en las que los servicios y actividades esenciales (trabajo, educación, compras, salud, etc.) estén ubicados a no más de 15 minutos a pie o en... Read more

The Children

By: David Halberstam

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 32 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The Children is David Halberstam's brilliant and moving evocation of the early days of the civil rights movement, as seen through the story of the young people--the Children--who met in the 1960s and went on to lead the revolution.  Magisterial in scope, with a strong you-are-there quality, The Children is a story one of America's preeminent... Read more

The Search for the "Manchurian Candidate"

By: John D. Marks

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A "Manchurian Candidate" is an unwitting assassin brainwashed and programmed to kill. In this book, former State Department officer John Marks tells the explosive story of the CIA's highly secret program of experiments in mind control. His curiosity first aroused by information on a puzzling suicide. Marks worked from thousands of pages of newly... Read more

Twelve Tribes

By: Ethan Michaeli

Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

“Ethan Michaeli has a gimlet eye for the people, texture, and contradictions of modern Israel. I’m in awe of his powers of observation and his ability as a modern-day Tocqueville to take us inside one of the most complex and confounding countries in the world."" — Jonathan Alter, bestselling author of His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a LifeAn... Read more

Work, Retire, Repeat

By: Teresa Ghilarducci

Narrated by: Katherine Fenton

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an audiobook version of this book. A damning portrait of the dire realities of retirement in the United States—and how we can fix it. While the French went on strike in 2023 to protest the increase in the national retirement age, workers in the United States have all but given up on the notion of dignified retirement for all. Instead,... Read more

Benghazi!

By: Ethan Chorin

Narrated by: Jim Meskimen

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In recognition of the 10th anniversary of the attack in Benghazi, a noted Libya expert and eyewitness to the attack provides a startling reconsideration of one of the defining controversies of our era. Ten years after an attack on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, cries of... Read more

The Globalist Papers

By: Samuel Avery

Narrated by: Andrew Mulcare

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The nation-state remains the political paradigm of the current era even as nuclear weaponry, global communications, climate change, and the global economy make it obsolete. The Globalist Papers shows the need now for unity among the nations of the world much the same way the Federalist Papers showed the need in the 1700’s for unity among the... Read more

Wade McClusky and the Battle of Midway

By: David Rigby

Narrated by: Keith MacKechnie

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Wade McClusky and the Battle of Midway by David Rigby, read by Keith MacKechnie.

During the Battle of Midway in June 1942, US Navy dive bomber pilot Wade McClusky proved himself to be one of the greatest pilots and combat leaders in American history, but his story has never been told – until now.

It was Wade McClusky who... Read more

The Compleated Autobiography

By: Benjamin Franklin

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 13 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Benjamin Franklin’s celebrated autobiography, published after his death, is one of the greatest autobiographies of all time—but it was incomplete. Franklin ended his life’s story in 1757, when he was only fifty-one. He lived another thirty-three full, eventful, and dramatic years, some of the most dramatic years in American history—years in... Read more

Dark Commerce

By: Louise I. Shelley

Narrated by: Kate Harper

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Kate Harper takes a comprehensive look at the world of illicit trade Though mankind has traded tangible goods for millennia, recent technology has changed the fundamentals of trade, in both legitimate and illegal economies. In the past three decades, the most advanced forms of illicit trade have broken with all... Read more

Growth Theory

By: Daniel Shore

Narrated by: Kevin Brooker

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Growth theory is a branch of economics that seeks to understand the mechanisms behind sustained economic growth and development. It emerged in response to the question of why some countries experience rapid and sustained increases in per capita income over time while others do not. One of the foundational models in growth theory is the... Read more

Money Shackles

By: Dutch Mendenhall

Narrated by: Phillip Nathaniel Freeman

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

If you’re serious about diversifying beyond Wall Street or preparing for your retirement lifestyle, then “Money Shackles: The Breakout Guide to Alternative Investing” is a must-listen audiobook.In "Money Shackles," Dutch Mendenhall unveils a groundbreaking approach to building and safeguarding your financial future. With over a decade of... Read more

The Hundred-Year Marathon

By: Michael Pillsbury

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the US government’s leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country’s rise—and how Americans have been seduced into helping China overtake us as the world’s leading superpower.For more than forty years, the United States has played an indispensable role helping the Chinese government build a booming economy, develop... Read more

Natural Right and History

By: Leo Strauss

Narrated by: Clark Cornell

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In this classic work, Leo Strauss examines the problem of natural right and argues that there is a firm foundation in reality for the distinction between right and wrong in ethics and politics. On the centenary of Strauss's birth, and the fiftieth anniversary of the Walgreen Lectures which spawned the work, Natural Right and History remains as... Read more

The Trump Enigma

By: Wallace Henley

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Former newspaper journalist and Nixon-era White House aide Wallace Henley takes a measured, thoughtful examination of Donald Trump’s presidency and draws on ten biblical signs to make a compelling but unexpected argument--God can and perhaps is using this flawed man to become exactly the leader our country needs. Read more

Ajan kasvot

By: Toivo Pekkanen

Narrated by: Jukka Peltola

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

On marraskuun viimeinen päivä vuonna 1939. Ihmiset ovat menneet työhönsä kuten kaikkina muinakin aamuina. Kauppaliikkeet, parturit ja kahvilat ovat avanneet ovensa. Emäntiä ja palvelijattaria parveilee torille saapuneiden maalaisten kuormien ympärille. Lapset ovat koulussa. Teatterin vajaalukuinen henkilökunta on kerääntynyt pääharjoitukseen,... Read more

Harpoon

By: Nitsana Darshan-Leitner & Samuel M. Katz

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A revelatory account of the cloak-and-dagger Israeli campaign to target the finances fueling terror organizations--an effort that became the blueprint for U.S. efforts to combat threats like ISIS and drug cartels.

ISIS boasted $2.4 billion of revenue in 2015, yet for too long the global war on terror overlooked financial warfare as an offensive... Read more

Kein Ende in Sicht

By: Otto Eder

Narrated by: Klaus G. Förg

Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Fotograf Otto Eder ist als Funker in Frankreich stationiert, bevor er mit seiner Division nach Jugoslawien geschickt wird. Als der Befehl kommt, an die Ostfront zu ziehen, verlieren viele seiner Kameraden in schweren und zum Teil sehr verlustreichen Kämpfen das Leben. Die Versorgungswege der Truppe werden immer länger, Verpflegung und... Read more

Policia CDMX

By: Andrés M. Estrada

Narrated by: Rafa Serrano

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Hablar de la policía de la Ciudad de México es hablar de una institución de claroscuros. Escándalos, violaciones, sobornos y corruptelas se tejen al interior de esta policía junto con elementos realmente valiosos para la sociedad capitalina. Este libro da voz, mediante una profunda investigación, a quienes han vivido estas contradicciones para... Read more