Politics & Economy audiobooks

The Engines of Evil

By: Davis Truman

Narrated by: John Sullivan

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The Engines of Evil is an intelligent and comprehensive exploration of the Waffen SS's pivotal role in World War II and the Holocaust. It sheds light on how this formidable military organization not only fought battles on the front lines but also became the vanguard of Nazi terror and genocide.Key Features of the Book: In-Depth Analysis: The... Read more

René Lévesque et nous - 50 regards sur l’homme et son héritage politique

By: Marie Grégoire & Pierre Gince

Narrated by: Dominique Quesnel & Martin Desgagné

Length: 12 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

"En 1960, RENÉ LÉVESQUE fait le saut en politique avec l’« équipe du tonnerre » de Jean Lesage. Ministre des Ressources naturelles, l’ancien journaliste pilote le projet de nationalisation de l’électricité. Sa conviction profonde que le Québec doit être maître de son destin l’incite à fonder le Mouvement souveraineté-association, puis le Parti... Read more

Blitzkrieg 

By: World History

Narrated by: Sam Devereaux

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

On September 1, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland. The country needed to be subjugated quickly before Britain and France could intervene. Germany's Panzer divisions proved unstoppable. Backed by the Luftwaffe, they smashed through Poland's defences, destroying roads, bridges, and radio stations.The Polish defended valiantly, but were eventually forced... Read more

How to Stop Fascism

By: Paul Mason

Narrated by: Paul Mason

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

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The far right is on the rise across the world. From Modi's India to Bolsonaro's Brazil and Erdogan's Turkey, fascism is not a horror that we have left in the past; it is a recurring nightmare that is happening again - and we need to find a better way to fight it.

In How to Stop Fascism, Paul Mason offers a radical,... Read more

Legion of Peace

By: Muhammad Yunus, Kabir Sehgal, Monica Yunus & Ca...

Narrated by: Monica Yunus, Camille Zamora & Muhammad Yunus

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Nobel Prize recipient Muhammad Yunus profiles 20 Nobel Peace Prize laureates with Multi-Grammy-winning producer and New York Times bestselling author Kabir Sehgal, Monica Yunus, and Camille Zamora, teaching readers to incorporate lessons from each laureate's life into their own.

When Swedish chemist and engineer Alfred B. Nobel passed in 1896,... Read more

China's Economy

By: Arthur R. Kroeber

Narrated by: Paul Heitsch

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know® is a concise introduction to the most astonishing economic growth story of the last three decades. In the 1980s China was an impoverished backwater, struggling to escape the political turmoil and economic mismanagement of the Mao era. Today it is the world's second biggest economy, the largest... Read more

Inside Terrorism

By: Bruce Hoffman

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 17 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Bruce Hoffman's Inside Terrorism has remained a seminal work for understanding the historical evolution of terrorism and the terrorist mindset. In this revised edition of the classic text, Hoffman analyzes the new adversaries, motivations, and tactics of global terrorism that have emerged in recent years, focusing specifically on how al Qaeda... Read more

When Lions Roar

By: Thomas Maier

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 21 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The first comprehensive history of the deeply entwined personal and public lives of the Churchills and the Kennedys and what their special relationship meant for Great Britain and the United StatesWhen Lions Roar begins in the mid-1930s at Chartwell, Winston Churchill's country estate, with new revelations surrounding a secret business deal... Read more

The Invented State

By: Emily Thorson

Narrated by: Emily Durante

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Invented State, Emily Thorson argues that a problematic and understudied aspect of political misinformation reflects widespread public misperception about what the government does. Because much of public policy is invisible to the public, there is fertile ground for false beliefs to flourish, leading to what Thorson terms the "invented... Read more

Ike's Bluff

By: Evan Thomas

Narrated by: Brian Troxell

Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Evan Thomas's startling account of how the underrated Dwight Eisenhower saved the world from nuclear holocaust.

Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower set about to make good on his campaign promise to end the Korean War. Yet while Eisenhower was quickly viewed by many as a doddering lightweight, behind the bland smile and... Read more

Dead Reckoning

By: Dick Lehr

Narrated by: Will Damron

Length: 12 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive and dramatic account of what became known as ""Operation Vengeance"" -- the targeted kill by U.S. fighter pilots of Japan's larger-than-life military icon, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the naval genius who had devised the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor. “AIR RAID, PEARL HARBOR. THIS IS NO DRILL.” At 7:58 a.m. on December 7, 1941,... Read more

The Russian FSB

By: Kevin P. Riehle

Narrated by: Nigel Patterson

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

Since its founding in 1995, the FSB, Russia's Federal Security Service, has regained the majority of the domestic security functions of the Soviet-era KGB. Under Vladimir Putin, who served as FSB director just before becoming president, the agency has grown to be one of the most powerful and favored organizations in Russia. The FSB not only... Read more

Ryssland utan Putin

By: Stig Fredrikson

Narrated by: Mikael Roupé

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Hur skulle Ryssland se ut utan sin auktoritära ledare? I "Ryssland utan Putin" skildrar Stig Fredrikson hur Putins styre är uppbyggt och hur en framtid bortom Putin skulle kunna se ut. Vladimir Putin har styrt Ryssland med järnhand i drygt tjugo år. Under hans regim har landet utvecklats mot mer förtryck och statlig kontroll. Utrikes har Putin... Read more

Restarting the Future

By: Stian Westlake & Jonathan Haskel

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Radical ideas for restoring prosperity in today's intangible economyThe past two decades have witnessed sluggish economic growth, mounting inequality, dysfunctional competition, and a host of other ills that have left people wondering what has happened to the future they were promised. Restarting the Future reveals how these problems arise from... Read more

Stalin: History in an Hour

By: Rupert Colley

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. Arguably no person in history had such a direct and negative impact on the lives of so many as Joseph Stalin. Under the Red Tsar terror knew no limits, it did not discriminate; no one was safe, no institution, no single town or village was immune. Yet, following his... Read more

Equal goes it loose

By: Heinrich Lübke

Narrated by: Heinrich Lübke

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Das waren noch Zeiten, als Heinrich Lübke für Deutschland sprach! "Equal goes it loose", sagte er 1965 zur englischen Königin im Garten von Schloss Brühl kurz vor dem Zapfenstreich. Oder: "Die Finnländer könnten eigentlich Westfalen sein", oder: "Jeder von uns hat eine Mutter". Geflügelte Worte, tiefe Einsichten, zeitlose Wahrheiten. Seine... Read more

The Radical Imagination of Black Women

By: Pearl K. Ford Dowe

Narrated by: L. Malaika Cooper

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Including interviews with Black women holding political office at the national, state, and local levels, as well as focus group data, The Radical Imagination of Black Women challenges political science's current approach to political ambition by exploring how Black women decide to seek political office. Pearl K. Ford Dowe argues that ambition... Read more

Global Inequality

By: Branko Milanovic

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Branko Milanovic presents a bold new account of the dynamics that drive inequality on a global scale. Drawing on vast data sets and cutting-edge research, he explains the benign and malign forces that make inequality rise and fall within and among nations. He also reveals who has been helped the most by globalization, who has been held back, and... Read more

Homecoming

By: Rana Foroohar

Narrated by: Rachel Fulginiti

Length: 14 hours

Abridged: No

A sweeping case that a new age of economic localization will reunite place and prosperity, putting an end to the last half century of globalization—by one of the preeminent economic journalists writing today

“This invaluable book is as bold in its ambitions as it is readable.”—Ian Bremmer, New York Times bestselling author of The Power of... Read more

Oil and Honey

By: Bill McKibben

Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben recounts the personal and global story of the fight to build and preserve a sustainable planet

Bill McKibben is not a person you'd expect to find handcuffed and behind bars, but that's where he found himself in the summer of 2011 after leading the largest civil disobedience in thirty... Read more

Labor’s Partisans

By: Nelson Lichtenstein & Samir Sonti

Narrated by: Mirai & Stephen R. Thorne

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In 1954, the American labor movement reached its historic height, with one-third of all nonagricultural workers belonging to a union—and much higher percentages in the nation's key industries. That same year, a group of writers and activists, many with close ties to organized labor, founded Dissent magazine, which quickly became the publishing... Read more

Criminal (In)Justice

By: Rafael A. Mangual

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In his impassioned-yet-measured book, Rafael A. Mangual offers an incisive critique of America's increasingly radical criminal justice reform movement, and makes a convincing case against the pursuit of "justice" through mass-decarceration and depolicing.After a summer of violent protests in 2020—sparked by the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna... Read more

Floating City

By: Sudhir Venkatesh

Narrated by: Sudhir Venkatesh

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed Columbia University sociologist and author of Gang Leader for a Day returns to the streets to connect the dots of New York’s divergent economic worlds and crack the code of the city’s underground economy. Based on Venkatesh’s interviews with prostitutes and socialites, immigrants and academics, high-end drug bosses and street-level... Read more

Crash Bang Wallop

By: Iain Martin

Narrated by: Matt Addis

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Published to mark the 30th anniversary of the financial revolution known as 'Big Bang', Crash Bang Wallop will tell the gripping story of how the changes introduced in the 1980s in the City of London transformed our world.

Attitudes to money and the way we measure value and status were completely reshaped by Big Bang, and it had an extraordinary... Read more