Politics & Economy audiobooks

Back Roads and Better Angels

By: Francis S. Barry

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 23 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A year into his marriage and having never driven an RV, Frank and his wife Laurel set out from New York City in a Winnebago to drive the nation's first transcontinental route, the Lincoln Highway, which zigzags through small towns and big cities from Times Square to San Francisco.



Using the spirit of Abraham Lincoln to guide them across the land,... Read more

Cómo Dominar tu Dinero

By: James Brion & Zac M. Cruz

Narrated by: Matías Gallego & Ramses Pablos

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

¿Te has rendido y has aceptado que la deuda es parte de tu vida? ¿Estás bien sin saber cómo será tu vida financiera en 10 años o más? ¿Te preocupa no poder retirarte? ¿Te gustaría tener ingresos pasivos que generen ganancia mientras duermes? Si es así, entonces sigue leyendo..
“El dinero es buen sirviente, pero mal amo” P. T. Barnum
“Si crees que... Read more

Building a Small Business that Warren Buffett Would Love

By: Adam Brownlee

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Every great business—whether it's a popular pizza restaurant or a baby formula maker—is built on the same core fundamentals. Warren Buffett figured out this universal business truth at an early age, and used it to turn an initial investment of $105,000 into a massive $40 billion fortune. Building a Small Business that Warren Buffett Would Love... Read more

Short Circuiting Policy

By: Leah Cardamore Stokes

Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1999, Texas passed a landmark clean energy law, beginning a groundswell of new policies that promised to make the US a world leader in renewable energy. As Leah Stokes shows in Short Circuiting Policy, however, that policy did not lead to momentum in Texas, which failed to implement its solar laws or clean up its electricity system. Examining... Read more

Democracy, If We Can Keep It

By: Ellis Cose

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 19 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Published to coincide with the ACLU’s centennial, a major book by the nationally celebrated journalist and bestselling authorFor a century, the American Civil Liberties Union has fought to keep Americans in touch with the founding values of the Constitution. As its centennial approached, the organization invited Ellis Cose to become its first... Read more

The Origin of Capitalism

By: Ellen Meiksins Wood

Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

How did the dynamic economic system we know as capitalism develop among the peasants and lords of feudal Europe?

In The Origin of Capitalism, a now-classic work of history, Ellen Meiksins Wood offers a clear and accessible introduction to the theories and debates concerning the birth of capitalism, imperialism, and the modern nation state.... Read more

The Speechwriter

By: Barton Swaim

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone knows this kind of politician: a charismatic maverick who goes up against the system and its ways, but thinks he doesn't have to live by the rules. Using his experience as a speechwriter, Barton Swaim tells the story of a band of believers who attach themselves to this sort of ambitious narcissist—what makes them invest in these... Read more

The Secret Man

By: Bob Woodward

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In Washington, D.C., where little stays secret for long, the identity of Deep Throat -- the mysterious source who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein break open the Watergate scandal in 1972 -- remained hidden for 33 years. Now, Woodward tells the story of his long, complex relationship with W. Mark Felt, the enigmatic former No. 2 man in the... Read more

Why Does Everything Have to Be About Race?

By: Keith Boykin

Narrated by: Keith Boykin

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Fight back against misinformation and ignorance as New York Times bestselling author Keith Boykin debunks 25 of the most common claims used to refute America’s racist past and present.
 
The most toxic racial arguments share one of five traits. They try to erase Black history, prioritize white victimhood, deny Black oppression, promote myths of... Read more

The State of Us

By: Jon Snow

Narrated by: Jon Snow

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

It is rare in history that so many nations in the developed world are in crisis at the same time. There has been a disintegration of trust in political leaders and in the media that holds them to account. For all the progress humankind has made, for all the inventions and new technologies, our society is being undermined by inequality. We should... Read more

A Man of Faith

By: David Aikman

Narrated by: David Aikman

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In time for election fever is this favorable look at how George W. Bush's faith has influenced his life and politics. Aikman, a former senior correspondent for Time magazine and the author of several books, including Great Souls, opens with Bush's startling 1999 declaration that the philosopher he most identified with was "Christ-because he... Read more

Private Power, Public Purpose

By: Thomas d'Aquino

Narrated by: Thomas d'Aquino

Length: 17 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A remarkable memoir by the man at the apex of Canadian power for over fifty years, Private Power, Public Purpose is the ultimate insider's history in the worlds of politics, business, and philanthropy.

Private Power, Public Purpose is an ambitious and sweeping first-hand account of the past 50 years of Canadian economic history, told from the... Read more

Ich gebe Ihnen mein Ehrenwort

By: Jürgen Roth

Narrated by: Jürgen Roth

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

"Ich gebe Ihnen mein Ehrenwort!" beleuchtet mit einer Vielzahl grandioser, mal obszöner, mal hochkomischer O-Töne die Verlogenheit deutscher Politik und präsentiert eine Truppe peinlicher und gefährlicher Politgestalten aus den letzten siebzig Jahren: Denunzianten, Beutelschneider, Luschen, Selbstdarsteller, Bimbeseinsacker, Wahlbetrüger und... Read more

Goldie Takes a Stand!

By: Barbara Krasner

Narrated by: Erin Yuen

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Even at the age of nine, little Golda Meir was known for her leadership skills. As president of the American Young Sisters Society, she organized friends to raise money to buy textbooks for immigrant classmates. This story is a glimpse at the early life of Israel’s first woman Prime Minister. Read more

Party People

By: Phillip Koker & Allan Sikk

Narrated by: David Marantz

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Candidates are the literal "face" of political parties, yet they are not wedded to them permanently: candidates can enter or leave politics, switch parties, move along or stay behind when parties split or merge. Even in parties that look stable, candidate change happens below the surface, ultimately altering what the parties stand for. Inspired... Read more

George & Barbara Bush

By: Ellie LeBlond Sosa & Kelly Anne Chase

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

"To begin with I was in love and I am in love so that's not hard," Barbara Bush told her granddaughter Ellie LeBlond Sosa on her porch in Kennebunkport, Maine.



Sosa had asked for the secret to her and President George H.W. Bush's seventy-seven-year love affair that withstood World War II separation, a leap of faith into the oil fields of West... Read more

Intellectuals and Society

By: Thomas Sowell

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

This title offers a withering and clear-eyed critique about—but not for—intellectuals that explores their impact on public opinion, policy, and society at large.The thesis ofIntellectuals and Societystates that the influence of intellectuals is not only greater than in previous eras but also takes a very different form from that envisioned by... Read more

Política sin anestesia

By: Mónica García

Narrated by: Mónica García

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Médica, madre, mujer. Tres palabras que no solo eran un eslogan de campaña electoral, sino que definían a la persona que encarnaba la candidatura de Más Madrid a la presidencia de la Comunidad de Madrid. Mónica García, anestesista del hospital público 12 de Octubre, fue arrastrada por las mareas que siguieron al 15M y entró en política, como... Read more

Cover-Ups & Secrets

By: Nick Redfern

Narrated by: Ellis Evans

Length: 17 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

More and more people are beginning to realize that we are being manipulated and lied to. We are denied access to secrets that shouldn’t be secrets. Our politicians obfuscate, deny, and outright lie. No one knows whom to trust. The nightly news is being replaced by carefully orchestrated propaganda. Our iPhones are monitored as are our laptops... Read more

Das Ende des Chinesischen Traums - Leben in Xi Jinpings neuem China (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Lea Sahay

Narrated by: Sandra Voss

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

Was passiert wirklich in China? - China-Korrespondentin Lea Sahay bietet in diesem Hörbuch exklusive Einblicke in Politik, Wirtschaft und den chinesischen Traum Lange schien Pekings neo-kommunistische Politik aufzugehen. Die Verbindung von Wachstum, Nationalismus und sozialer Kontrolle sah aus wie eine erfolgreiche Alternative zu westlicher... Read more

Lawfare

By: Geoffrey Robertson

Narrated by: Geoffrey Robertson

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

How Russians, the Rich and the Government Try to Prevent Free Speech and How to Stop Them. ‘ESSENTIAL’ Amal Clooney‘AUTHORITATIVE’ Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC‘IMPORTANT ’Baroness Helena Kennedy KC‘COULD HARDLY BE MORE TIMELY’ Alan Rusbridger The British tradition of “free speech” is a myth. From... Read more

George Mason

By: William G. Hyland

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

George Mason was a short, bookish man who was a friend and neighbor of athletic, broad-shouldered George Washington. Unlike Washington, Mason has been virtually forgotton by history. But this new biography of forgotten patriot George Mason makes a convincing case that Mason belongs in the pantheon of honored Founding Fathers. Trained in the law,... Read more

Dinero para la cultura

By: Gabriel Zaid

Narrated by: Diego Santana

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Uno de los mayores poetas y ensayistas vivos de este país reúne en su nuevo libro todo lo que ha investigado, reflexionado y escrito sobre la cultura, entendida ésta como el gran ejercicio de la libertad humana y el origen y la culminación del desarrollo. Hay cinco fuentes de financiamiento para la cultura: el sacrificio personal, la familia,... Read more

Uncovered

By: Steve Krakauer

Narrated by: Steve Krakauer

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

From the COVID lab leak theory to Hunter Biden's laptop to Jeffrey Epstein, media critic and former CNN producer Steve Krakauer spotlights the problems of a news industry filled with geographically isolated, introspection-free, egomaniacal journalists. In Uncovered, America’s sharpest media critic, former CNN insider Steve Krakauer, reveals... Read more