Politics & Economy audiobooks

Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism

By: Vladimir Lenin

Narrated by: Ioseph Kent

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

"Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism", by Lenin, describes the function of financial capital in generating profits from imperial colonialism, as the final stage of capitalist development to ensure greater profits. The essay is a synthesis of Lenin's modifications and developments of economic theories that Karl Marx formulated in "Das... Read more

Live. Fight. Survive.

By: Shaun Pinner

Narrated by: Shaun Pinner

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Shaun Pinner was a retired and decorated British soldier, living a peaceful and happy life in Mariupol with his Ukrainian family.

What follows is the true story of his six months spent imprisoned in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

After the horrors of frontline fighting, Shaun had to survive his capture by the Russian soldiers,... Read more

Still Right

By: Rick Tyler

Narrated by: Rick Tyler

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

A leading political analyst navigates an unfamiliar terrain of what it means to be a conservative in the Trump Era in Still Right.

Since 2016, “conservative” has come to mean “supportive of the policies of the Trump Administration": building his "wall," enacting ruinous tariffs and limiting trade, alienating our... Read more

Empire of Borders

By: Todd Miller

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The United States is outsourcing its border patrol abroad—and essentially expanding its borders in the process



The twenty-first century has been an era of hardening borders—increased borderland patrols, surveillance, and militarization are widening the chasm between those who can vacation (or do business) where they please, and others whose... Read more

Benjamin Rush

By: Janet Benge & Geoff Benge

Narrated by: Tim Gregory

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Ben thought about the strange course of events that had led him to this point in his life. He had considered being a lawyer but had ended up becoming a doctor, and now he was also a politician and member of the Continental Congress. Ben had never thought of working with the army. But for now, that was what he was doing. He wondered if he too... Read more

Dinero sucio

By: Tom Burgis

Narrated by: Santiago Gómez

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Hay dos mundos que coexisten gracias a la fuerza de lo secreto: uno ficticio, en el que los gobiernos intentan defender los valores de los ciudadanos y los derechos democráticos, y otro real, en el que se mezclan los intereses del Estado y de las élites económicas. Esta obra es una ventana al mundo real, aquel en que los políticos y los... Read more

A World Destroyed

By: Martin J. Sherwin

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Continuously in demand since its first, prize-winning edition was published in 1973, this is the classic history of Hiroshima and the origins of the arms race, from the development of the American atomic bomb to the decision to use it against Japan and the beginnings of US atomic diplomacy toward the Soviet Union. In the introduction, the author... Read more

American Gunfight

By: Stephen Hunter & John Bainbridge

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 15 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

AMERICAN GUNFIGHT is the fast-paced, definitive, and breathtakingly suspenseful account of an extraordinary historical event–the attempted assassination of President Harry Truman in November of 1950 by two Puerto Rican Nationalists and the bloody shoot-out in the streets of Washington, D.C., that saved the president's life.

Written by Pulitzer... Read more

The Lion and the Fox

By: Alexander Rose

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Washington’s Spies, the thrilling story of the Confederate spy who came to Britain to turn the tide of the Civil War—and the Union agent resolved to stop him.
In 1861, soon after the outbreak of the Civil War, two secret agents—one a Confederate, the other his Union rival—were dispatched to neutral... Read more

Superpower Interrupted

By: Michael Schuman

Narrated by: Shawn Compton

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

This global history as the Chinese would write it gives brilliant and unconventional insights for understanding China's role in the world, especially the drive to "Make China Great Again."

We in the West routinely ask: "What does China want?" The answer is quite simple: the superpower status it always had, but briefly lost.
In this colorful,... Read more

Between Silk and Cyanide

By: Leo Marks

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 20 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Between Silk and Cyanide presents the memoir of the man who transformed code-making and code-breaking for the Special Operations Executive in World War Two. Leo Marks later went on to become an award-winning scriptwriter. Read more

Defending Identity

By: Natan Sharansky

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Natan Sharansky believes that the challenge of the twenty-first century is to assert our cultural, ethnic, or religious identities, a struggle that has never been more important than now.Who is better prepared to defend principles in a volatile world? Is it those with strong national, religious, ethnic, or tribal identities who accept democracy,... Read more

45

By: Scott Dikkers & Peter Hilleren

Narrated by: Scott Dikkers & Peter Hilleren

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

An irreverent take on the national bestseller 41: A Portrait of My Father by George W. Bush, 45 is a no-holds-barred tell-all written in the voice of former president George W. Bush as he stumps for his brother Jeb -- perhaps doing more harm than good.

In 45: A Portrait of My Knucklehead Brother Jeb, George W. Bush takes readers on a journey... Read more

Stakeholder Capitalism

By: Klaus Schwab

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Our global economic system is broken. But we can replace the current picture of global upheaval, unsustainability, and uncertainty with one of an economy that works for all people, and the planet. First, we must eliminate rising income inequality within societies where productivity and wage growth has slowed. Second, we must reduce the dampening... Read more

Bioterror and Biowarfare

By: Malcolm Dando

Narrated by: Dave Courvoisier

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

Against an uneasy political backdrop of failed agreements and legal loopholes, along with the worrying growth of biological and chemical agents around the world, biological warfare has become a real concern for anyone worried about a future of war and terrorism. Exploring the entire spectrum of chemical and biological threats, Malcolm Dando... Read more

The Freedom Shield

By: Maj. John D. Falcon (Ret)

Narrated by: Shawn Compton

Length: 17 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A Vietnam War helicopter pilot shares arresting accounts of flying troops into hot LZs and medevacking the wounded under fire.



The Freedom Shield brings together stories of veterans of the 191st Assault Helicopter Company, who were tasked with carrying troops into battle, attacking enemy positions, and evacuating the wounded in their UH-1... Read more

A Farewell to Justice

By: Joan Mellen

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 23 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Working with thousands of previously unreleased documents and drawing on more than one thousand interviews, with many witnesses speaking out for the first time, Joan Mellen revisits the investigation of New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison, the only public official to have indicted, in 1969, a suspect in President John F. Kennedy’s... Read more

Common Ground

By: Cal Thomas & Bob Beckel

Narrated by: Richard Rohan, Cal Thomas & Bob Beckel

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by their popular USA Today column, conservative Cal Thomas and liberal Bob Beckel show politicians of both stripes how to get beyond partisanship, restore civility, and move our country forward. Thomas and Beckel are a unique pair in today's political climate—pundits from opposite sides who not only talk to each other but work together... Read more

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Supreme Court

By: John Yoo & Robert Delahunty

Narrated by: Jim Seybert

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Guaranteed to give the reader a deeper understanding of America’s most powerful judicial body, John Yoo, professor of law at UC Berkeley, and Robert Delahunty, professor of law at the University of St. Thomas detail in sprightly, slightly irreverent manner how the black robed judges who make up the U.S. Supreme Court have swung like a pendulum... Read more

El dinosaurio disfrazado

By: Macario Schettino

Narrated by: Horacio Castelo

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Un libro que plantea el problema y la solución para lograr la verdadera transformación de México. En 2024, y en un marco institucional degradado, México tendrá la elección más grande de su historia: elegirá a un nuevo presidente, renovará el Congreso y se elegirán nueve gobernadores, así como miles de presidentes municipales y legisladores... Read more

Queens of the Resistance: Maxine Waters

By: Brenda Jones & Krishan Trotman

Narrated by: Lisa Renee Pitts

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

Part of the four-book Queens of the Resistance series, saluting some of the most beloved boss ladies in Congress: a celebration of Representative Maxine Waters, who reclaimed her time and led the first calls for impeachment 
 
Maxine Waters is an icon for a generation of women powerbrokers in politics. She is an “unbought and unbossed” acolyte of... Read more

Betrayal

By: Jonathan Karl

Narrated by: Jonathan Karl

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

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An NPR Book of the Day

Picking up where the New York Times bestselling Front Row at the Trump Show left off, this is the explosive look at the aftermath of the 2020 election—and the events that followed Donald Trump’s leaving the White House all the way... Read more

Project 2025

By: Lois Alarcon

Narrated by: Sean Lester

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

What if America’s economy could thrive by giving more power back to its people?Project 2025: An Unbiased Analysis and Breakdown of the Heritage Foundation’s Conservative Blueprint for Economic Reform and Trump Second Administration goes into the conservative vision aiming to do just that.
This book breaks down Project 2025’s key principles and... Read more

They Knew

By: Sarah Kendzior

Narrated by: Sarah Kendzior

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE

“Every sentence delivered. The pathos of truth-seeking left me thinking of Herman Melville."
—Timothy Snyder, #1 New York Times bestselling author of On Tyranny

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING author Sarah Kendzior delves into the difference between conspiracy and... Read more