Politics & Economy audiobooks

Nossa ingratidão - Abridged

By: Ruy Barbosa

Narrated by: Guga Almeida

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Seremos injustos em lançar à conta da Regência essa política de crimes a favor da escravidão?" Neste artigo de Ruy Barbosa intitulado "Nossa ingratidão", publicado no Diário de Notícias, o grande orador se defende das acusações da imprensa por ele supostamente não ter dado o devido crédito à Princesa Isabel no processo abolicionista. Read more

See I Told You So - Abridged

By: Rush Limbaugh

Narrated by: Rush Limbaugh

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Rush Limbaugh, America's #1 radio talk-show host, bounded to the top of the bestseller lists with The Way Things Ought to Be, the #1 New York Times bestseller and the fastest-selling audio in history. Now, this consummate entertainer and provocative political commentator, whom conservatives love and liberals love to hate—this “harmless little... Read more

The Way Things Ought to Be - Abridged

By: Rush Limbaugh

Narrated by: Rush Limbaugh

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Rush Limbaugh is a way of life for over twelve million avid and devoted listeners. For three hours every day this comic conservative of the airwaves with “talent on loan from God”​​ entertains, provokes and persuades friend sand enemies alike in a no-holds-barred show that is one of the biggest draws in radio history.

Using personal anecdotes,... Read more

The 48 Laws of Power - Abridged

By: Robert Greene

Narrated by: Don Leslie

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Cunning, instructive, and amoral, this controversial bestseller distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws. Law 1: Never Outshine the Master. Law 3: Conceal Your Intentions. Law 7: Get Others to Do the Work for You, but Always Take the Credit. Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally. Law 33: Discover Each Man's... Read more

An American Life - Abridged

By: Ronald Reagan

Narrated by: Ronald Reagan

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Don’t miss one of our greatest presidents’ bestselling autobiographies in his own words. Ronald Reagan’s story is a work of major historical importance, a narrative that The Washington Times calls “one of our classic American success stories.”

Few presidents have accomplished more, or been so effective in changing the direction of government in... Read more

The Shock Doctrine - Abridged

By: Naomi Klein

Narrated by: Jennifer Wiltsie

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

The bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global "free market" has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq

In her groundbreaking reporting, Naomi Klein introduced the term "disaster capitalism." Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, or New Orleans post-Katrina, she... Read more

Somebody's Gotta Say It - Abridged

By: Neal Boortz

Narrated by: Neal Boortz

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Think you've got it all figured out? Think again.Neal Boortz has been edifying, infuriating, and entertaining talk radio audiences for more than three decades with his blend of straight talk and twisted humor. In Somebody's Gotta Say It, Boortz warms up for the coming political season with a preemptive strike in the War on the Individual: ""The... Read more

Superheroes - Becoming The Truly Elite & Honorable - Abridged

By: Daniel Joseph Cyrus

Narrated by: Annais Smith

Length: 23 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Who are the most courageous, greatest, most admirable, respectable, and world-saving or world-enhancing "Superheroes" of this century and centuries past? Is this not one of the most fascinating questions individuals could ask and research during their lives, with the answer constantly changing during these individuals' journeys through life as... Read more

Catastrophe - Abridged

By: Dick Morris & Eileen McGann

Narrated by: Peter Ganim

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

#1 New York Times Bestseller! In Catastrophe, Dick Morris and Eileen McGann—authors of the megabestsellers Fleeced and Outrage—take a hard look at America in free fall and at how Barack Obama is transforming a vulnerable U.S. into a socialist state. Their seventh consecutive New York Times bestseller, Catastrophe is a call to arms for every... Read more

The Wisdom of Crowds - Abridged

By: James Surowiecki

Narrated by: Erik Singer

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“No one in this world, so far as I know, has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.”  —H. L. Mencken
 
H. L. Mencken was wrong.

In this endlessly fascinating book, New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications: large groups of people are... Read more

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 - Abridged

By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Narrated by: Ignat Solzhenitsyn

Length: 21 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time“It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” —David Remnick, The New YorkerThe Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one... Read more

The Best Business Stories of the Year: 2002 Edition - Abridged

By: Andrew Leckey & Ken Auletta

Narrated by: Eliza Foss, Jeff Woodman & Oliver Wyman

Length: 17 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A Vintage Original

The first installment of an exciting new annual anthology–a year's worth of the most interesting, noteworthy, and best-written articles on all aspects of the business world.

Series editor Andrew Leckey and guest editor Marshall Loeb have scoured the print media, consulted with the editors of major business and general interest... Read more

The Clinton Tapes - Abridged

By: Taylor Branch

Narrated by: Taylor Branch

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Taylor Branch’s groundbreaking book about the modern presidency, The Clinton Tapes, invites readers into private dialogue with a gifted, tormented, resilient president. Here is what President Clinton thought and felt but could not say in public.

This book rests upon a secret project, initiated by Clinton, to preserve for future historians an... Read more

مبارك وزمانه ماذا جرى في مصر ولها - Abridged

By: محمد حسنين هيكل

Narrated by: علي سطوف

Length: 16 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

مصر منذ أيام الرئيس حسني مبارك تحت اسم سلسلة (مبارك وزمانه)، فالكتاب الأول أتى بعنوان (مبارك وزمانه من المنصة إلى الميدان)، والثاني هو (ماذا جرى في مصر ولها؟) والثالث (مصر إلى أين) وهو يحتوي على حوارات ولقاءات أجراها الكاتب والصحفي من فبراير 2011 وحتى فبراير 2012. ويقول هيكل في مقدمة هذا الكتاب "هذه الصفحات تضم الجزء الأكبر مما قلته عن (مبارك)... Read more

31 Days - Abridged

By: Barry Werth

Narrated by: J. R. Horne

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In 31 Days, Barry Werth takes readers inside the White House during the tumultuous days following Nixon’s resignation and the swearing-in of America’s “accidental president,” Gerald Ford. The congressional hearings, Nixon’s increasing paranoia, and, finally, the devastating revelations of the White House tapes had torn the country apart. Within... Read more

FDR - Abridged

By: Jean Edward Smith

Narrated by: Richard McGonagle

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "A model presidential biography... Now, at last, we have a biography that is right for the man" - Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World

One of today’s premier biographers has written a modern, comprehensive, indeed ultimate book on the epic life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In this superlative volume, Jean ... Read more

The Power of Gold - Abridged

By: Peter L. Bernstein

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Over the centuries, gold had stirred the passions for power and glory, for beauty and security, and even for immortality.  No other object has commanded so much veneration over such a long period of time.  The most striking feature of this long history is that gold led most of the protagonists in the drama into the ditch.  Gold had them, rather... Read more

Cannabis - Abridged

By: Peter Cremer-Schaeffer

Narrated by: Bernd Gnann

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Fluch oder Segen? Für die einen ist Cannabis eine harmlose Droge, für andere der Einstieg in eine zerstörerische Sucht. Doch die Wirkstoffe dieser Pflanze können auch als Medizin schwer kranken Menschen helfen, und ein neues Gesetz erlaubt es nun allen Ärzten, Cannabis-Arzneimittel zu verschreiben. Was dies genau bedeutet, wird in diesem Hörbuch... Read more

What Liberal Media? - Abridged

By: Eric Alterman

Narrated by: Eric Alterman

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Is media bias keeping us from getting the whole story? If so, who is at fault? Is it the Liberals who are purported to be running the newsrooms, television and radio stations of this country, duping an unsuspecting public into mistaking their party line for news? Or is it the conservatives who have identified media bias as a rallying cry around... Read more

Criptomoedas - Abridged

By: Ricardo Garay

Narrated by: Alice Oratio

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Este audiolivro foi criado como um guia para ajudar você a investir e minerar criptomoedas. Oferece técnicas, meios e ferramentas para a melhor e mais eficiente prática no gerenciamento de carteiras de criptomoedas de forma inteligente, simples e prática. O guia abrange desde tipos de criptomoedas, como bitcoin, passando por como comprar e... Read more

Team of Rivals - Abridged

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Narrated by: Daniel Brooks

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Book summary and Analysis by Loudly, this is an abridged version of the original title Immerse yourself in the compelling narrative of "Team of Rivals", a masterful exploration of leadership, resilience, and unity through the life and presidency of Abraham Lincoln. This audiobook takes you on a journey from Lincoln's humble beginnings to his... Read more

Demokratie und Wahrheit - Abridged

By: Julian Nida-Rümelin

Narrated by: Julian Nida-Rümelin

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Entgegen der verbreiteten Auffassung, das Wahrheitsansprüche in der Demokratie unangemessen seien, begründet Nida-Rümelin die These, dass ohne normative Wahrheitsansprüche die demokratische Gesellschaft und Politik undenkbar seien. Die demokratische Ordnung beruht auf normativen Überzeugungen, wie die der Toleranz aus Respekt und der gleichen... Read more

Thomas Jefferson An Autobiography - Abridged

By: Thomas Jefferson

Narrated by: Cyril Taylor-Carr & The Cliff

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“I cannot live without books.”
“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was an American statesman,... Read more

Wir sind das Klima! - Wie wir unseren Planeten schon beim Frühstück retten können (Gekürzte Lesung) - Abridged

By: Jonathan Safran Foer

Narrated by: Christoph Maria Herbst

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mit seinem Bestseller "Tiere essen" hat Jonathan Safran Foer weltweit Furore gemacht: Viele seiner Leser wurden nach der Lektüre Vegetarier oder haben zumindest ihre Ernährung überdacht. Nun nimmt Foer sich des größten Themas unserer Zeit an: dem Klimawandel. Der Klimawandel ist zu abstrakt, deshalb lässt er uns kalt. Foer erinnert an die Kraft... Read more