Politics & Economy audiobooks
My FBI - Abridged
By: Louis J. Freeh
Narrated by: Adam Grupper
Length: 5 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Louis Freeh led the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1993 to 2001, through some of the most tumultuous times in its long history. This is the story of a life in law enforcement, and of one man's determined struggle to strengthen and reform the FBI while ensuring its freedom from political interference.
Bill Clinton called Freeh a "law... Read more
Songs of the Doomed - Abridged
By: Hunter S. Thompson
Narrated by: Hunter S. Thompson
Length: 3 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The third volume of the legendary “Gonzo Papers” recalls high and hideous moments in Hunter S. Thompson’s life and career—featuring a new introduction from comedian Tim Heidecker.
With Thompson’s trademark insight and passion about the state of American politics and culture, Songs of the Doomed charts the long, strange trip from Kennedy to... Read more
Stalin - Abridged
By: Edvard Radzinsky
Narrated by: David McCallum
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From the author of The Last Tsar, the first full-scale life of Stalin to have what no previous biography has fully obtained: the facts. Granted privileged access to Russia's secret archives, Edvard Radzinsky paints a picture of the Soviet strongman as more calculating, ruthless, and blood-crazed than has ever been described or imagined. Stalin... Read more
View audiobookThe Blair Years - Abridged
By: Alastair Campbell
Narrated by: Alastair Campbell
Length: 6 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The Blair Years is the most compelling and revealing account of contemporary politics you will ever read. Taken from Alastair Campbell's daily diaries, it charts the rise of New Labour and the tumultuous years of Tony Blair's leadership, providing the first important record of a remarkable decade in our national life.
Here are the defining... Read more
Let Freedom Ring - Abridged
By: Sean Hannity
Narrated by: Sean Hannity
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
The hard-hitting and provocative first book from the fastest-rising conservative voice in the countrySean Hannity is the hottest phenomenon in TV and talk radio today. His gutsy, take-no-prisoners interviews and commentary on the Fox News Channel’s Hannity & Colmes has made him one of the network’s most popular personalities. And his... Read more
View audiobookThe Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Audiobook) - Abridged
By: Jon Stewart
Narrated by: Jon Stewart & Cast of the Daily Show with Jon S...
Length: 3 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A hilarious, mega-bestseller from the Emmy-winning, Oscar-hosting, Daily Show-anchoring Jon Stewart that finally answers the question -- what is American democracy?
Jon Stewart, host of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning The Daily Show, and his coterie of patriots deliver a hilarious look at American government . . . Termed a "political... Read more
An Hour Before Daylight - Abridged
By: Jimmy Carter
Narrated by: Jimmy Carter
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
“An American classic.” —The New Yorker
In An Hour Before Daylight, Jimmy Carter, bestselling author of Living Faith and Sources of Strength, recreates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm before the civil rights movement forever changed it and the country.
Carter writes about the powerful rhythms of countryside and community in a... Read more
Management Challenges for the 21St Century - Abridged
By: Peter F. Drucker
Narrated by: Mark Blum
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: Yes
New and revolutionary ideas and perspectives on the central management issues of tomorrow by the man Warren Bennis calls ""the most important management thinker of our time.""In this major new work, Peter F. Drucker discusses how the new paradigms of management will change our basic assumptions about the practices and principles of management.... Read more
View audiobookParting the Waters - Abridged
By: Taylor Branch
Narrated by: CCH Pounder & Joe Morton
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In Parting the Waters, the first volume of his essential America in the King Years series, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a “compelling…masterfully told” (The Wall Street Journal) account of Martin Luther King’s early years and rise to greatness.
Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement,... Read more
The Warren Buffett Way, 2nd Edition - Abridged
By: Robert Hagstrom
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 4 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: Yes
First published in 1984, The Warren Buffet Way gave investors their first in-depth look at the innovative investment and business strategies behind this living legend's spectacular success. Tracing Warren Buffett's career from the beginning, Hagstrom revealed to listeners exactly how, starting with an initial investment of only $100, Buffett... Read more
View audiobookSons of Camelot - Abridged
By: Laurence Leamer
Narrated by: Laurence Leamer
Length: 7 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
From renowned biographer and New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women and The Kennedy Men comes THE SONS OF CAMELOT, the second volume in a multi-generational history bound to be considered an American epic.Almost a year before publication, THE SONS OF CAMELOT: The Fate of an American Dynasty was already being widely discussed and... Read more
View audiobookPreventing Nuclear Annihilation - Abridged
By: Ronald Reagan
Narrated by: Ronald Reagan
Length: 1 hour 41 minutes
Abridged: Yes
On March 23, 1983, President Ronald Reagan gave an address to the nation from the Oval Office challenging “the scientific community … to turn their great talents … to the cause of mankind and world peace, [and] to give us the means of rendering … nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.” Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative to protect America... Read more
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