Politics & Economy audiobooks

We Rise

By: Xiuhtezcatl Martinez & Justin Spizman

Narrated by: Drew Caiden

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Sixteen-year-old climate activist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez and his group the Earth Guardians believe that choices made now will have a lasting impact on the world of tomorrow, and they want to ensure a positive, just, and sustainable future. Beginning with their empowering story, We Rise explores many aspects of effective activism and provides... Read more

Reminiscences of the Civil War

By: John Brown Gordon

Narrated by: Tim Getman

Length: 14 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Reminiscences of the Civil War is John Brown Gordon’s first-hand account of the war as seen through the eyes of the prominent officer. Gordon was trusted and admired by many, including Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis. The work begins with him being elected as the commander of the “Raccoon Roughs” and his recollection of the Battle of Manassas.... Read more

Suvarnayugachya Swapnasathi Yadavi Yuddhyachya Umbarthayavar

By: Avinash Dharmadhikari

Narrated by: Avinash Dharmadhikari

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

अविनाश धर्माधिकारी यांच्या मधाळ वाणीतील गाजलेले व्यख्यान "सुवर्णयुगाच्या स्वप्नासाठी - यादवी युद्धाच्या उंबरठ्यावर" Read more

Never Forget Our People Were Always Free

By: Benjamin Todd Jealous

Narrated by: Benjamin Todd Jealous

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

“One of the nation’s most prominent civil rights leaders” (Washington Post), a New York Times bestselling author, community organizer, investigative journalist, Ivy League professor, and former head of the NAACP, Ben Jealous draws from a life lived on America’s racial fault line to deliver a series of gripping and lively parables that call on... Read more

Sombras del crimen

By: Miles Johnson

Narrated by: Paris Roa

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

GANADOR DE LOS TRUE CRIME AWARDS 2024 Jack Kelly es un desgastado agente de la dea, cuyo trabajo consiste en olfatear dinero. Antes de pensar en su jubilación o en un cargo de escritorio que le permita descansar más, decide aceptar una última misión: el Proyecto Casandra. Con el fin de desmantelar una operación de tráfico de dinero, drogas y... Read more

The Dirty Tricks Department

By: John Lisle

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

"In this oddly entertaining audiobook, narrator Pete Cross takes listeners through the many experiments and devices created by the R&D branch of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during WWII... Listeners will be both transfixed and horrified by the decisions weighed, and taken." - AudioFile Magazine

John Lisle reveals the untold story of... Read more

The End of Woman

By: Carrie Gress

Narrated by: Monroe Jillian

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Fellow at Ethic & Public Policy Center, scholar at The Institute for Human Ecology at CUA and the nationally best-selling author of the Theology of Home series, Carrie Gress argues that fifty years of radical feminism have had the opposite of the intended effect and have granted primacy of place to the traditionally male sphere of life,... Read more

Heist

By: Jeff Diamant

Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The bizarre true story of the criminals behind the second-largest bank heist in American historyOne night in a small North Carolina town, a down-on-his-luck guard at Loomis Fargo manages to steal $17 million—literally more than one ton of cash. Despite being caught on camera wheeling the money from the vault to the getaway van, David Ghantt... Read more

Malcolm X

By: Kelly Mass

Narrated by: Chris Newman

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Malcolm X was a widely known African American Muslim minister and civil liberties leader at the time of the civil liberties movement. He was an enthusiastic supporter for Black emancipation and the big promotion of Islam within the Black community till 1964, when he ended up being the Country of Islam's spokesperson.Following his dad's death and... Read more

Captain Tom's Life Lessons

By: Captain Tom Moore

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Pplifting and heartwarming life lessons from a truly inspirational man, Captain Sir Tom Moore

'One small soul like me won't make much difference' Captain Tom

If Captain Tom's big heart and generosity of spirit helped see us through difficult days, this was his parting gift.

Full of the wit, warmth and wisdom that made him... Read more

Трамп и его политика. Выпуск 1

By: Леонид Млечин

Narrated by: Леонид Млечин

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Аудиостудия "Ардис" предлагает вашему вниманию "Историю Леонида Млечина" – цикл выступлений Леонида Михайловича, посвящённых как событиям ушедшего века, так и тем, что станут историей спустя некоторое время. В этот выпуск вошли рассказы-размышления на темы: – Дональд Трамп признал Иерусалим столицей Израиля. Почему? И откуда вообще взялась эта... Read more

Cicero

By: Anthony Everitt

Narrated by: John Curless

Length: 15 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

- John Adams said of Cicero, "All ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher combined." Voltaire said of Cicero, "He taught us how to think." And yet Anthony Everitt's authoritative yet accessible work is the first one-volume biography of the Roman statesman in over 25 years. - "Using Cicero's letters to his good... Read more

The Payoff

By: Jeff Connaughton

Narrated by: Jeff Connaughton

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Beginning in January 2009, The Payoff lays bare Washington's culture of power and plutocracy. It's the story of the twenty-month struggle by Senator Ted Kaufman and Jeff Connaughton, his chief of staff, to hold Wall Street executives accountable for securities fraud, stop stock manipulation by high-frequency traders, and break up... Read more

A Farewell to Calm

By: John Crace

Narrated by: George Weightman

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

**JOHN CRACE'S NEW BOOK DEPRAVED NEW WORLD IS AVAILABLE NOW** Infectiously entertaining political satire, from the author of Decline and Fail and I, Maybot. Throughout another year of bluster and bedlam in Westminster, John Crace's brilliantly acerbic political sketches have once more provided the nation with a much-needed injection of... Read more

The Invisible Bridge

By: Rick Perlstein

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 39 hours

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Nixonland: a dazzling portrait of America on the verge of a nervous breakdown in the tumultuous political and economic times of the 1970s.In January of 1973 Richard Nixon announced the end of the Vietnam War and prepared for a triumphant second term—until televised Watergate hearings revealed his White House as... Read more

History in the House

By: Richard Davenport-Hines

Narrated by: Ric Jerrom

Length: 20 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A Spectator Best Book of the Year; An Aspects of History Best Book of the Year; An Engelsberg Ideas Best Book of the Year Five hundred years ago, Thomas Wolsey endowed in Oxford a foundation he called Cardinal‘s College. Henry VIII, the monarch who dismissed and ruined him, re-established... Read more

We Are Not One People

By: Michael J. Lee & R. Jarrod Atchison

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

E pluribus unum was suggested for the national seal in 1776, but national oneness has been haunted by its opposite ever since. We Are Not One People demonstrates how the persistence of separatist movements in American history reveals as much about the nation's politics as it does the would-be separatists. Each chapter explores how great swaths... Read more

Defy Authority: Unleashing Courage to Challenge the Power

By: Reid Calloway

Narrated by: Alan Winnigton

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Defy Authority: Unleashing Courage to Challenge the Power
⭐⭐ Simplified Guide & Explanations Included ⭐⭐
Are you ready to advance your career and deepen your understanding by embracing the courage to challenge authority? Searching for a complete resource that equips you with everything you need to question norms and bring about meaningful... Read more

Don't Count Me Out

By: Rafael Alvarez

Narrated by: Lee Osorio

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Don't Count Me Out chronicles the life of Bruce White from the beginning of his drug use in elementary school through criminal acts fueled by his need for drugs, to his miraculous recovery three decades later and involvement in the treatment of addicts, where he is now a leader in the rehabilitation field.

Rafael Alvarez's recounting of White's... Read more

Descartes, John Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Voltaire, and Adam Smith

By: Days of History

Narrated by: James Smith

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you curious about the Enlightenment thinkers and their groundbreaking ideas?Do you want a comprehensive understanding of the philosophical, economic, and social transformations that took place in the 17th and 18th centuries?Then, you need to get your hands on this book!Inside, you'll find: A thorough exploration of the lives and ideas of six... Read more

Rust

By: Eliese Colette Goldbach

Narrated by: Kelly Pekar

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

"Kelly Pekar narrates the audiobook with a clear and no-nonsense manner, perfectly embodying Goldbach’s own narrative voice on the page." -- BookRiot

This program includes a bonus conversation with the author.

A young woman's debut memoir of grit and tenacity, as she returns to the conservative hometown she always longed to escape to earn a living... Read more

The Doomsday Flight

By: Mark Hagenson

Narrated by: Mark Hagenson

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1971, a time before metal detectors and body scans, a single man boards an Air Canada DC-8 flight with a sawed-off shotgun, 54 sticks of dynamite, a parachute and a desperate plan for a $1.5 million ransom. But it's the two twisted wires in an ordinary Woolco shopping bag that will hold an entire plane hostage.Trapped at 37,000 feet, flight... Read more

Adolph Knigge: Über den Umgang mit Menschen

By: Adolph Knigge

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Über den Umgang mit Menschen: Weit mehr als ein Benimmbuch! Keineswegs wollte Knigge ein Werk schaffen, das dem Leser beibringt, in welcher Reihenfolge das Besteck zu nehmen ist. Es geht vielmehr darum, wie der Mensch sich verhalten soll, um das zu erhalten, was er will. Heute so aktuell wie damals. Read more

Ratkaisemattomat mysteerit

By: Maailman historia

Narrated by: Jussi Puhakka

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Natsien propagandassa Adolf Hitler esiintyi Kolmannen valtakunnan askeettisena, yksinäisenä ja nerokkaana Führerinä. Vain harva pääsi hänen lähelleen. Arvoituksellisuus ruokki lukuisia salaliittoteorioita. Myös Hitlerin omat päätökset olivat toisinaan niin erikoisia, että sekä hänen aikalaisensa että jälkipolvet ovat olleet ymmällään Führerin... Read more