Politics & Economy audiobooks

Entender la Rusia de Putin. De la humillación al restablecimiento

By: Rafael Poch-de-Feliu

Narrated by: Adrián Antelo

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

La Rusia poscomunista y el particular régimen del presidente Putin, su nacionalismo, su crítico desdén y desconfianza hacia Occidente y su cínico escepticismo hacia los valores reclamados como «occidentales», así como el considerable consenso que todo ello tiene en la sociedad rusa, no se comprenden sin atender a los años noventa, a la forma y... Read more

The News Quiz 2008

By: BBC Radio Comedy

Narrated by: Sandi Toksvig & Various

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Three series of the award-winning satirical panel game, chaired by Sandi ToksvigHosted by the peerless Sandi Toksvig, these 25 episodes take us through the highlights and lowlights of 2008, a year dominated by the global financial crisis and the US presidential race between Barack Obama and John McCain.Scrutinising stories both world-shaking and... Read more

Speech-less

By: Matthew Latimer

Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe

Length: 14 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

From a top speechwriter to President George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, this may be the most candid memoir ever written about official Washington–a laugh-out-loud cri de coeur that shows what can happen to idealism in a town driven by self-interest.  

Matt chronicles his descent into Washington, D.C., hell, as he snares a series of unsatisfying... Read more

The Man Who Saved the Union

By: H. W. Brands

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 27 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice, on the battlefield and in the White House, holding the country together at two critical turning points in our history.

Ulysses Grant rose from obscurity to discover he had a genius for battle, and... Read more

First Principles

By: Thomas E. Ricks

Narrated by: James Lurie

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller
Editors' Choice —New York Times Book Review""Ricks knocks it out of the park with this jewel of a book. On every page I learned something new. Read it every night if you want to restore your faith in our country."" —James Mattis, General, U.S. Marines (ret.) & 26th Secretary of Defense The Pulitzer Prize-winning... Read more

The Future of War

By: Lawrence Freedman

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Questions about the future of war are a regular feature of political debate, strategic analysis, and popular fiction. Where should we look for new dangers? What cunning plans might an aggressor have in mind? What are the best forms of defense? How might peace be preserved or conflict resolved?

From the French rout at Sedan in 1870 to the... Read more

Discurso del Comandante Ernesto Che Guevara en la XIX Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas (completo)

By: Che Guevara

Narrated by: Che Guevara

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Histórico discurso completo del Comandante Ernesto Che Guevara en la XIX Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas efectuado el 11 de Diciembre de 1964 Read more

Catching the Wind

By: Neal Gabler

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 31 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “One of the truly great biographies of our time.”—Sean Wilentz, New York Times bestselling author of Bob Dylan in America and The Rise of American Democracy
 
“A landmark study of Washington power politics in the twentieth century in the Robert Caro tradition.”—Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of... Read more

Argo

By: Antonio Mendez & Matt Baglio

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The true account of the 1979 rescue of six American hostages from Iran

On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal and a quake in global politics still reverberating today. But there’s a little-known footnote to the crisis: six Americans escaped.... Read more

The Evangelicals

By: Frances FitzGerald

Narrated by: Jacques Roy

Length: 25 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

* Winner of the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award
* National Book Award Finalist
* Time magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of the Year
* New York Times Notable Book
* Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2017

This “epic history” (The Boston Globe) from Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Frances FitzGerald is the first to tell the powerful, dramatic... Read more

Leadership in War

By: Andrew Roberts

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A comparison of nine leaders who led their nations through the greatest wars the world has ever seen and whose unique strengths—and weaknesses—shaped the course of human history, from the bestselling, award-winning author of Churchill, Napoleon, and The Last King of America

“Has the enjoyable feel of a lively dinner table conversation with an... Read more

Above the Pacific

By: Colin Heaton

Narrated by: Colin Heaton, Steve Hendrickson, Gary Bennett &...

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Three legendary fighter pilots from the Pacific War—all recipients of the Medal of Honor—tell their own stories in this remarkable collection.

Marine ace Pappy Boyington is perhaps the most celebrated of all American pilots in the war against Japan, fighting in the skies with both the famed Flying Tigers and his own Black Sheep Squadron. Marine... Read more

12th Hitlerjugend SS Panzer Division in Normandy

By: Tim Saunders & Richard Hone

Narrated by: Bruce Mann

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Raised in 1943 with seventeen-year-olds from the Hitler Youth movement, and following the twin disasters of Stalingrad and "Tunisgrad", the Hitlerjugend Panzer Division emerged as the most effective German division fighting in the West. The core of the division was a cadre of offices and NCOs provided by Hitler's bodyguard division, the elite... Read more

Nelson Mandela - 1994 interview

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Nelson Mandela discusses his first visit to Washington as President of South Africa. Originally broadcast on the MacNeil/Lehrer News hour on October 6, 1994. Read more

Great Strategic Rivalries

By: James Lacey

Narrated by: David Stifel

Length: 28 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From the legendary antagonism between Athens and Sparta during the Peloponnesian War to the Napoleonic Wars and the two World Wars of the twentieth century, the past is littered with long-term strategic rivalries. History tells us that such enduring rivalries can end in one of three ways: a series of exhausting conflicts in which one side... Read more

The Hidden History of Monopolies

By: Thom Hartmann

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

"This is the most important, dynamic book on the cancers of monopoly by giant corporations written in our generation."-from the foreword by Ralph Nader


The biggest problem facing America and the world right now is "bigness." Our industrial and economic sectors-from tech, retail, and media to agriculture, food, and more-are so big that they're... Read more

The Assassination Complex

By: Jeremy Scahill & The Staff of The Intercept

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

“A searing, facts-driven indictment of America’s drone wars and their implications for US democracy and foreign policy. A must-read for concerned citizens” (Library Journal, starred review) from bestselling author Jeremy Scahill and his colleagues at the investigative website The Intercept.

Drones are a tool, not a policy. The policy is... Read more

God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy

By: Mike Huckabee

Narrated by: Mike Huckabee

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy, Mike Huckabee asks, "Have I been taken to a different planet than the one on which I grew up?" The New York Times bestselling author explores today's fractious American culture, where divisions of class, race, politics, religion, gender, age, and other fault lines make polite conversation dicey, if not downright... Read more

Harness It: Renewable Energy Technologies and Project Development Models Transforming the Grid

By: Michael Ginsberg

Narrated by: Bob Souer

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Following an overview of the technical and historical development of the electric grid in the U.S. and Europe, this guide reviews hydropower, solar photovoltaics, wind energy, fuel cell, and battery technologies. The author also presents models for the connection of these renewable energy sources from large-scale to on-site and community... Read more

Edge of Chaos

By: Dambisa Moyo

Narrated by: Pamala Tyson

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From an internationally acclaimed economist, a provocative call to jump-start economic growth by aggressively overhauling liberal democracy

Around the world, people who are angry at stagnant wages and growing inequality have rebelled against established governments and turned to political extremes. Liberal democracy, history's greatest engine of... Read more

Australian Citizenship Test

By: Ray Aldous

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Becoming an Australian citizen is a significant milestone and the Australian Citizenship Test is a crucial step in this journey, assessing your knowledge of Australia’s history, culture, laws, and government.This audiobook has been carefully designed to help you prepare for the Australian Citizenship Test. By working through the practice test... Read more

The Heart of a Great Nation

By: Ronald Reagan

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

With a foreword from Senator Marco Rubio, a stirring collection of Ronald Reagan's most inspiring speeches, offering his timeless wisdom and guidance for our day.

In his 1989 farewell address, Ronald Reagan said, "I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full bloom from my brow, they came from the... Read more

The Wall and the Bridge

By: Glenn Hubbard

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

An informed argument for an economic policy based on bridges of preparation and adaptation rather than walls of protection and exclusion



Free-market economists often have noted that there are winners and losers in a competitive capitalist world. The question of how to deal with the difficult real-life consequences faced by the losers, however,... Read more

Left for Dead?

By: Lewis Goodall

Narrated by: Alex James-Cox

Length: 15 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A timely and provocative account of the fall of New Labour, the rise of Corbyn, and what it means for the left in Britain. ‘Lewis Goodall is one of the most exciting voices in British politics right now’ Emily Maitlis ‘Hugely illuminating,... Read more