Politics & Economy audiobooks

Stolen Lives - Abridged

By: Malika Oufkir

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

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Les dictateurs - Partie II - Abridged

By: Jacques Bainville

Narrated by: Daniel Franck

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Qu'elles soient anciennes ou plus récentes, les dictatures, comme le note Jacques Bainville, sont le plus souvent imposées par les circonstances. L'académicien s'intéresse ainsi dans ce volume aux causes qui, à travers l'Histoire, ont permis l'essor des dictatures les plus remarquables, diverses dans leurs formes mais possédant toutes des points... Read more

Fast Food Nation - Abridged

By: Eric Schlosser

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Fast Food Nation - the groundbreaking work of investigation and cultural history that has changed the way America thinks about the way it eats - and spent nearly four months on the New York Times bestseller list - now available on cassette!

Are we what we eat? To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of... Read more

Hazardous Duty - Abridged

By: Colonel David H. Hackworth

Narrated by: Colonel David H. Hackworth

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Colonel David H. Hackworth— one of America's most decorated soldiers— served in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. After retiring from the military in 1971, he completed a second tour of battlefield duty as a war correspondent. Accompanying our nation's fighting men and women to the Persian Gulf, Bosnia, Somalia, Korea,... Read more

Schmucks! - Abridged

By: Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder

Narrated by: Jackie Mason

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Jackie Mason, one of the true kings of comedy, and his partner in crime, former federal prosecutor and celebrity attorney, Raoul Felder, go after America's lowlifes, scumbags, and everyone else who really gets on their nerves. Schmucks! combines Mason's and Felder's nails-to-the-wall political satire—impeccable timing with insightful... Read more

A Great Improvisation - Abridged

By: Stacy Schiff

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“In December 1776, a small boat delivered an old man to France.” So begins a dazzling narrative account of Benjamin Franklin’s French mission, the most exacting–and momentous–eight years of his life.

When Franklin embarked, the colonies were without money, munitions, gunpowder or common cause; like all adolescents, they were to discover that... Read more

715 Euro - Abridged

By: Susanne Holtkotte

Narrated by: Michèle Tichawsky

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Immer mehr Menschen sind von Altersarmut betroffen. So auch Susanne Holtkotte, Reinigungskraft aus Bochum, deren Rente einmal 715 Euro im Monat betragen soll. In der Talkshow Hart aber fair trat sie angesichts der Debatte um Grundrente leidenschaftlich für mehr soziale Gerechtigkeit ein, woraufhin Arbeitsminister Hubertus Heil ihr anbot, einen... Read more

I Think There's a Terrorist in My Soup - Abridged

By: David Brenner

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: Yes

Brenner offers brilliant comic riffs—well-tested on his audiences—on a wide range of issues, from the personal to the political. Read more

Terror in the Name of God - Abridged

By: Jessica Stern

Narrated by: Jessica Stern

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

For four years, Jessica Stern interviewed extremist members of three religions around the world: Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Traveling extensively—to refugee camps in Lebanon, to religious schools in Pakistan, to prisons in Amman, Asqelon, and Pensacola—she discovered that the Islamic jihadi in the mountains of Pakistan and the Christian... Read more

Ulysses S. Grant - Abridged

By: Josiah Bunting, III

Narrated by: Richard Rohan

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The underappreciated presidency of the military man who won the Civil War and then had to win the peace as well

As a general, Ulysses S. Grant is routinely described in glowing terms—the man who turned the tide of the Civil War, who accepted Lee's surrender at Appomattox, the man who had the stomach to see the war through to final victory. But... Read more

Bushwhacked - Abridged

By: Molly Ivins & Lou Dubose

Narrated by: Molly Ivins

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

From Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose, authors of Shrub, Bushwhacked is a hilarious, no-holds-barred look at George W. Bush and his administration, and an essential book for understanding the full, destructive impact of his presidency.

For years, bestselling political commentator Molly Ivins has been sounding the alarm about George W. Bush. In Shrub,... Read more

Now It's My Turn - Abridged

By: Mary Cheney

Narrated by: Mary Cheney

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Who is Mary Cheney?

In the most eagerly awaited political memoir of the season, Mary Cheney, who served as a top campaign aide to her father, the vice president, presents a behind-the-scenes look at the high-intensity world of presidential politics and talks for the first time about her life, her family, and her role in the campaigns of 2000... Read more

The Fourth Star - Abridged

By: Greg Jaffe & David Cloud

Narrated by: Richard McGonagle

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

They were four exceptional soldiers, a new generation asked to save an army that had been hollowed out after Vietnam. They became the Army's most influential generals in the crucible of Iraq. Collectively, their lives tell the story of the Army over the last four decades and illuminate the path it must travel to protect the nation over the next... Read more

На небе никого - Abridged

By: Ксения Букша

Narrated by: Наталия Казначеева, Григорий Перель, Александр ...

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

«Книга о людях на войне. В первую очередь о людях, и только потом о войне». Война затрагивает все живое. Последствия Второй мировой — это ужасный шрам на теле всего мира, вечное напоминание о катастрофическом прошлом и фантомная боль, отдающая в сердце. Но на пересечении прозаического повествования и исторических сводок образуется новая... Read more

50+ - Abridged

By: Bill Novelli & Boe Workman

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bill Novelli doesn't believe that retirement has to mean rocking one's way into the sunset. As the head of the strongest organization of retired people in the world, the AARP, Novelli believes that retirement can be a time of action and influence rather than one of illness and decline.
In this inspiring book, Bill Novelli will speak to... Read more

Herr Sonneborn bleibt in Brüssel - Neue Abenteuer im Europaparlament (Autorisierte Lesefassung) - Abridged

By: Martin Sonneborn

Narrated by: Martin Wehrmann & Ulrike Kapfer

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Inzwischen ist Martin Sonneborn nicht mehr so naiv: Als er 2019 zum zweiten Mal ins Europaparlament gewählt wird, weiß er bereits, wie in der EU Politik gemacht wird - und kennt alle Tricks. Das ist auch gut so, denn in seiner zweiten Amtszeit geht es in Europa um alles. (Fast). Die Legislaturperiode beginnt mit einer Überraschung. Ursula von... Read more

It's My America Too - Abridged

By: Ben Ferguson

Narrated by: Ben Ferguson

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

With It's My America Too, Ben Ferguson, the voice of America's youth and the host of The Ben Ferguson Show, one of the country's fastest growing syndicated radio shows, delivers his views on all the issues, from politics to current affairs to popular culture. Everyone wants to know what Ferguson will say next -- and here's your chance.Ben... Read more

Tour of Duty - Abridged

By: Douglas Brinkley

Narrated by: Douglas Brinkley

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

One of our most acclaimed historians explores the decorated military service of one of America’s most intriguing politicians—the leading Democratic presidential candidate for 2004—and its profound effects on his career and lifeIn Tour of Duty, Brinkley explores Senator John Kerry’s career and deftly deals with such explosive issues as U.S.... Read more

Kapitalismus ist nicht das Problem, sondern die Lösung - Abridged

By: Rainer Zitelmann

Narrated by: Josef Vossenkuhl

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Der Markt hat versagt, wir brauchen mehr Staat!" – das behaupten seit dem Ausbruch der Finanzkrise vor zehn Jahren Politik, Medien und Intellektuelle. Rainer Zitelmann, mehrfacher Bestsellerautor, vertritt die Gegenthese: Mehr Kapitalismus tut den Menschen gut. Der Autor begibt sich mit dem Leser auf eine Reise durch die Kontinente und... Read more

Franklin and Winston - Abridged

By: Jon Meacham

Narrated by: Len Cariou

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this “beautifully written and superbly researched dual biography” (Los Angeles Times Book Review), Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham “paints a powerful portrait of the enormous friendship between World War II allies [Franklin] Roosevelt and [Winston] Churchill” (Vanity Fair).
 
“Intense and compelling... Read more

Take It Back - Abridged

By: James Carville & Paul Begala

Narrated by: Paul Begala

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

TOP TEN REASONS WHY REPUBLICANS SUCK

10. They're so incompetent they couldn't pour pee out of a boot if you wrote the instructions on the heel.

9. They lie like a rug. They lie like a dog. They lie like . . . ummm . . . a dog's rug. We mean, they just lie all the time.

8. They're a pack of crooks.

7. They are unbearably sanctimonious.

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Who Let the Dogs In? - Abridged

By: Molly Ivins

Narrated by: Molly Ivins

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The dazzling, inimitable Molly Ivins is back, with her own personal Hall of Fame of America’s most amazing and outlandish politicians–the wicked, the wise, the witty, and the witless–drawn from more than twenty years of reporting on the folks who attempt to run our government (in some cases, into the ground).

Who Let the Dogs In? takes us on a... Read more

Canapa. Una storia incredibile - Abridged

By: Matteo Gracis

Narrated by: Omar Maestroni

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Una pianta che da migliaia di anni fa parte della vita degli umani, ma che da circa novant'anni è diventata oggetto delle attenzioni di quasi tutte le forze di polizia del mondo, un'icona del male nell'immaginario collettivo. Un ragazzo che incontra quella pianta, e suoi prodotti, quando sono avvolti di quell'aura illecita che attrae e... Read more