Politics & Economy audiobooks

The Burma Spring

By: Rena Pederson

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 24 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's "woman of destiny" and one of the most admired voices for freedom in the world today, comes alive through this brilliant rendering of Burma's tumultuous history.Award-winning journalist and former State Department speechwriter Rena Pederson brings to light fresh details about the charismatic Nobel Peace Prize winner... Read more

Raising the Nation

By: Paul Lindley

Narrated by: Richard Pryal, Ali Vowles, Lissa Berry, Quentin...

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Children today grow up in an increasingly volatile, complex and uncertain world. Theirs is a generation disempowered from steering their lives while society’s systems are failing to provide the support they need. Yet, a country only prospers when its children – from all walks of life – thrive, meaning that the United Kingdom now faces some... Read more

Undermining the U.S. Constitution

By: Diane S. Vann

Narrated by: Kimberly Miller

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

As a nurse I have been in situations where patients learned very bad news about the state of their health, news that was not received well by them, their families, or even their medical team. When preparing this book, my feelings were much the same as when I was in those situations.
The bad news about the health of our nation is, like cancer in a... Read more

The Outskirts of Hope

By: Jo Ivester

Narrated by: Clare Radix

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

“A sensitive and powerful memoir of racial change in the South in the 1960s.”―BooklistIn 1967, when Jo Ivester was ten years old, her father transplanted his young family from a suburb of Boston to a small town in the heart of the Mississippi cotton fields, where he became the medical director of a clinic that served the poor population for... Read more

From Enlightenment To Revolution

By: Maximillian Robespierre, Edmund Burke & William...

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

History is often concentrated into short bursts of change, with long periods of shifting before and waves of alteration afterwards. Nowhere is this more obvious than the thirty year interregnum between the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. In this period, three figures stand tall; Pitt, the elder stateman who saw the need for genuine... Read more

Global Discontents

By: Noam Chomsky & David Barsamian

Narrated by: Noam Chomsky & David Barsamian

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the authors

In a compelling new set of interviews, Noam Chomsky's Global Discontents identifies the “dry kindling” of discontent around the world that could soon catch fire.

In wide-ranging interviews with David Barsamian, his longtime interlocutor, Noam Chomsky asks listeners to consider “the world we are leaving to our... Read more

How The Government Got in Your Backyard

By: Jeff Gillman

Narrated by: Wes Bleed

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

How the Government Got in Your Backyard distills the science, the politics, and the unbiased, nonpartisan truth behind hot-button environmental issues from pesticides to global warming. By clearly representing what the left says, what the right says, what the science is, and what the facts are, Gillman and Heberlig don't set out to provide the... Read more

The Blue Cascade

By: Mike Scotti

Narrated by: Mike Scotti

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In this searing and beautifully written memoir, Marine Lieutenant and CNN Op-Ed contributor Mike Scotti charts a course from the front lines of Iraq back home to New York, showing how sometimes the hardest battle is the one after the war.

Sometimes the hardest battle is the one after the war. As one of the soldiers on the front line of Operation... Read more

Always Faithful

By: Thomas Schueman & Zainullah Zaki

Narrated by: Patrick Kirchner & Wali Habib

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Band of Brothers meets Argo in this dramatic and heartfelt dual memoir of the war in Afghanistan told by two men from opposite worlds. Always Faithful entwines the stories of Marine Major Tom Schueman, and his friend and Afghan interpreter, Zainullah “Zak” Zaki, as they describe their parallel lives, converging paths, and unbreakable bond in the... Read more

حروب العقل - تاريخ سيطرة الحكومات والإعلام والجمعيات السرية على العقل

By: ماري د.جونز ولاري فلاكسمان

Narrated by: إبراهيم الدامجة

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

لا شك أن الكتابة في هذا الموضوع أمر شائك معقَّد؛ فثمَّة أشياء عديدة تطل برأسها في طريق الادعاءات والاحتجاجات وشواهد الحكايات والفرضيات والمؤامرات والنظريات، ونحن -بالطبع- لسنا معنيين بالإشارة إلى الوقائع والحقائق والإحصاءات؛ إذ ليس عدلًا تناوُل أيٍّ من هذه الضوابط الأساسية دونما نظرة شاملة لموضوع السيطرة على العقل ومراقبته وتوجيهه. من جهة... Read more

The Future of Violence

By: Benjamin Wittes & Gabriella Blum

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

From drone warfare in the Middle East to digital spying by the National Security Agency, the US government has harnessed the power of cutting-edge technology to awesome effect. But what happens when ordinary people have the same tools at their fingertips? Advances in cybertechnology, biotechnology, and robotics mean that more people than ever... Read more

Russia Resurrected

By: Kathryn E. Stoner

Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt

Length: 13 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Too often, we are told that Russia plays a weak hand well. But, perhaps the nation's cards are better than we know. Russia ranks behind the US and China by traditional measures of power: GDP, population size and health, and military might. Yet twenty-five years removed from its mid-1990s nadir following the collapse of the USSR, Russia has... Read more

We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land

By: Jimmy Carter

Narrated by: Jimmy Carter

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In this urgent, balanced, and passionate book, Nobel Peace Laureate and former President Jimmy Carter argues that the present moment is a unique time for achieving peace in the Middle East—and he offers a bold and comprehensive plan to do just that.

President Carter has been a student of the biblical Holy Land all his life. For the last three... Read more

Evo: Operación Rescate

By: Alfredo Serrano Mancilla

Narrated by: Claudio Munda

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Una crónica que nos abre la puerta a la intimidad de los 365 días transcurridos desde la forzada renuncia de Evo Morales en noviembre de 2019 y su rescate clandestino hasta el regreso triunfante a su país en noviembre de 2020. Narrado con formidable suspenso y minucioso detalle, documentado con materiales inéditos y con prólogo de Alberto... Read more

Revival

By: Richard Wolffe

Narrated by: Richard Wolffe

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Revival is the dramatic inside story of the defining period of the Obama White House. It is an epic tale that follows the president and his inner circle from the crisis of defeat to historic success. Over the span of an extraordinary two months in the life of a young presidency, Obama and his senior aides engaged in a desperate struggle for... Read more

Testigo de un tiempo incierto

By: Javier Solana

Narrated by: Jordi Llovet

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

De la caída del Muro a la invasión de Ucrania En poco más de tres décadas el mundo en el que vivimos ha cambiado de manera radical, pasando del final de la Guerra Fría a una guerra caliente entre dos antiguas repúblicas soviéticas: Rusia y Ucrania. ¿Cómo hemos llegado hasta aquí? ¿Qué acontecimientos históricos nos han conducido a la guerra en... Read more

Gardens of Stone: My Boyhood in the French Resistance

By: Stephen Grady & Michael Wright

Narrated by: Gordon Griffin & Luke Thompson

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

An extraordinary wartime memoir, combining the best kind of adventure story with a coming of age testimony of unforgettable resonance and poignancy.

September 2011, Halkidiki, Northern Greece.
A solitary 86 year-old man gazes across an Aegean headland, knowing that he must finally confront his past. He begins to write...

September 1939, Nieppe,... Read more

A Republic Under Assault

By: Tom Fitton

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

In this explosive book, New York Times bestselling author and president of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton explains how the Radical Left and the Deep State destroyed the Trump presidency.

With his trademark “readable, engaging, persuasive” (The Washington Times) writing, Tom Fitton identifies the major forces posing a... Read more

Little America

By: Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Narrated by: Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City, a riveting, intimate account of America’s troubled war in Afghanistan.

When President Barack Obama ordered the surge of troops and aid to Afghanistan, Washington Post correspondent Rajiv Chandrasekaran followed. He found the effort sabotaged not only by Afghan and Pakistani... Read more

Tell Me Who You Are

By: Winona Guo & Priya Vulchi

Narrated by: Winona Guo, Priya Vulchi, Elizabeth Liang & Dom...

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

An eye-opening exploration of race in America

In this deeply inspiring audiobook, Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi recount their experiences talking to people from all walks of life about race and identity on a cross-country tour of America. Spurred by the realization that they had nearly completed high school without hearing any substantive... Read more

Conversations with Major Dick Winters

By: Colonel Cole C. Kingseed USA, (Ret.)

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

On the hellish battlefields of World War II Europe, Major Dick Winters led his Easy Company—the now-legendary Band of Brothers—from the confusion and chaos of the D-day invasion to the final capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest.But Winters' story didn't end there; it was only the beginning.He was a quiet, reluctant hero whose modesty and strength... Read more

Why Nations and Economies Can Fail

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Tracy Tupman

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The world is currently in a relatively peaceful state with billions of people living under a comfortable roof and feels warm enough during winter nights. Many do not suffer, but it is very possible for all these things to be flipped over in a matter of days. The economy and ‘peaceful’ nations that we see today are not forever. Take Greek, for... Read more

Love and Justice

By: Jonathan Irons, Maya Moore Irons, Bryan Stevens...

Narrated by: Jonathan Irons & Maya Moore Irons

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Just Mercy, an inspirational memoir by WNBA star Maya Moore Irons and her husband, Jonathan Irons, who she helped free from a wrongful conviction. A journey for justice turned into a love story when Maya Moore, one of the WNBA's brightest stars, married the man she helped free from prison, Jonathan Irons. Jonathan was only 16... Read more

Censorship

By: Brian Jennings

Narrated by: Jesse Boggs

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Freedom of speech. It is our most cherished privilege as Americans, guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution since 1791.

But our current presidential administration threatens to sharply curtail or silence altogether the freedom of expression that distinguishes America from the average dictatorship. What is under direct attack?... Read more