Politics & Economy audiobooks

Sons 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

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

Political Incorrections - Abridged

By: Bill Maher

Narrated by: Bill Maher

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Best Opening Monologues from Politically Incorrect starring Bill Maher
Featuring an introduction by Penn Jillette
For everyone who's had their fill of politicians, TV trials and the daily events seen on the evening news, Simon & Schuster Audio offers some relief with POLITICAL INCORRECTIONS-a collection of the funniest opening monologues... Read more

Total Recall - Abridged

By: Arnold Schwarzenegger

Narrated by: Stephen Lang & Arnold Schwarzenegger

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In his signature larger-than-life style, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Total Recall is a revealing self-portrait of his illustrious, controversial, and truly unique life.

The greatest immigrant success story of our time.

His story is unique, and uniquely entertaining, and he tells it brilliantly in these pages.

He was born in a year of famine, in a... Read more

Nossa veracidade: Trechos selecionados de Obras Seletas - Abridged

By: Ruy Barbosa

Narrated by: Tom Bueno

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"A extinção do elemento servil foi, no sentido mais estrito da palavra, uma conquista popular". O artigo de Ruy Barbosa intitulado "Nossa veracidade", de onde se extraíram estas palavras, foi publicado no Diário de Notícias em 3 de abril de 1889, portanto, quase um ano depois da assinatura da Lei Áurea. Uma defesa veemente do autor perante os... Read more

Rising Tide - Abridged

By: John M. Barry

Narrated by: George Grizzard

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lillian Smith Award.

An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of... Read more

I Am a Soldier, Too - Abridged

By: Rick Bragg

Narrated by: Rick Bragg

Length: 3 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On March 23, 2003, Private First Class Jessica Lynch was crossing the Iraqi desert with the 507th Maintenance Company when the convoy she was traveling in was ambushed, caught in enemy crossfire. All four soldiers traveling with her died in the attack. Lynch, perhaps the most famous P.O.W. this country has ever known, was taken prisoner and held... Read more

Speaking of Freedom - Abridged

By: George H.W. Bush

Narrated by: George H.W. Bush

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Coinciding with the twentieth anniversary of his inauguration and the commission of the USS George H.W. Bush, a collection of the forty-first president’s speeches.  

Here, in his own words, is the record of George H.W. Bush’s presidency. Chosen and annotated by former President Bush, these forty-two speeches reflect his concerns, his political... Read more

عودة الوعي - Abridged

By: توفيق الحكيم

Narrated by: عادل بو حسون

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"عودة الوعي" هي ليست مذكرات توفيق الحكيم مع الثورة وإنما هي مذكرات الثورة ذات نفسها. هذا الكتاب هو سرد لأحداث ثورة يوليو وما حدث في أعقابها في الفترة ما بين عام 1952 _1972. حيث يتحدث الحكيم الذي كان وقتها مديراً لدار الكتب المصرية عن يوم الأربعاء الثالث و العشرين من يوليو 1952 و عن ماعرف بحركة الضباط الأحرار وقتها و التى أجبرت فاروق على التنازل... Read more

Secrets - Abridged

By: Daniel Ellsberg

Narrated by: Dan Cashman & Daniel Ellsberg

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: Yes

Covering the decade between his entry into the Pentagon and Nixon's resignation, Secrets is Ellsberg’s meticulously detailed insider's account of the secrets and lies that shaped American foreign policy during the Vietnam era. Read more

Colin Powell - Abridged

By: Colin Powell

Narrated by: Colin Powell

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The son of Jamaican immigrants, Colin Powell became one of the most influential Americans of the last century. In this dramatic series of interviews, General Powell describes his ascent from the ROTC to four-star general and eventually to chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and mastermind of Desert Storm. He discusses his assignments in... Read more

Hot, Flat, and Crowded - Promotional Download - Abridged

By: Thomas L. Friedman

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Thomas L. Friedman's no. 1 bestseller The World Is Flat has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now Friedman brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy—both of which could poison our world if we do not act quickly and collectively. His argument speaks to all of... Read more

Empatia e Inteligência Emocional Conectando-se com o Sentimento dos Outros - Abridged

By: MAX EDITORIAL

Narrated by: Thalita

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Empatia é a capacidade de se colocar no lugar de outra pessoa e entender seus sentimentos. É a habilidade de sentir o que o outro está sentindo, mesmo que não sejamos nós mesmos que estejamos passando por aquela situação. A empatia é uma habilidade essencial para a vida em sociedade. Ela nos permite construir relacionamentos mais fortes,... Read more

Chain of Command - Abridged

By: Seymour M. Hersh

Narrated by: Peter Friedman

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Since September 11, 2001, Seymour M. Hersh has riveted readers -- and outraged the Bush Administration -- with his stories in The New Yorker magazine, including his breakthrough pieces on the Abu Gharaib prison scandal. Now, in Chain of Command, he brings together this reporting, along with new revelations, to answer the critical question of the... Read more

German Champion - Abridged

By: Sebastian Vollmer & Dominik Hechler

Narrated by: David Zimmerschmied

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wie schafft man es als deutscher American-Football-Spieler in die NFL? Die beeindruckende Geschichte von Sebastian Vollmer zeigt: Talent ist nur eine Voraussetzung. Genauso wichtig sind unbändiger Wille, Training und Liebe zum Sport. Damit lassen sich Hindernisse überwinden – wovon es in Vollmers Karriere einige gab: Sein erster Coach nannte ihn... Read more

Beyond the White House - Abridged

By: Jimmy Carter

Narrated by: Jimmy Carter

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The president’s personal and passionate account of his twenty-five years in the service of humanitarian effort that won him the Nobel Peace Prize was received with the admiring respect of reviewers and readers and it will stand as the record of his brilliant post-presidential career.

This is the story of President Jimmy Carter’s post-presidency,... Read more

Breaking the Mold - Abridged

By: Rohit Lamba & Raghuram G. Rajan

Narrated by: Homer Todiwala

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This audiobook narrated by Homer Todiwala charts the new path for economic development that India must create The whole world has a stake in India's future, and that future hinges on whether India can develop its economy and deliver for its population—now the world's largest—while staying democratic. India's economy has overtaken the United... Read more

Faith of My Fathers - Abridged

By: John McCain & Mark Salter

Narrated by: John McCain

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

John McCain is one of the most admired leaders in the United States government, but his deeply felt memoir of family and war is not a political one and ends before his election to Congress. With candor and ennobling power, McCain tells a story that, in the words of Newsweek, "makes the other presidential candidates look like pygmies."... Read more

The Long Goodbye - Abridged

By: Patti Davis

Narrated by: Patti Davis

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ronald Reagan’s daughter writes with a moving openness about losing her father to Alzheimer’s disease. The simplicity with which she reveals the intensity, the rush, the flow of her feelings encompasses all the surprises and complexities that ambush us when death gradually, unstoppably invades life.

In The Long Goodbye, Patti Davis describes... Read more

Ugly Americans - Abridged

By: Ben Mezrich

Narrated by: TBD

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ugly Americans is the true story of John Malcolm, a Princeton graduate who traveled halfway around the world in search of the American dream and pulled off a trade that could be described as the biggest deal in the history of the financial markets.Without speaking a word of Japanese, with barely a penny in his pocket, Malcolm was thrown into the... Read more

John Adams - Abridged

By: David McCullough

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann & Jan Maxwell

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling biography of America’s founding father and second president that was the basis for the acclaimed HBO series, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.

In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent,... Read more

DIE POLITIK ERZÄHLT IHRE GESCHICHTE - Abridged

By: Stephen Daronyashi

Narrated by: Sebastian Faltner

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Von den ersten Stadtstaaten der Antike bis zu den modernen Regierungen stand die Politik immer im Mittelpunkt der Veränderungen der Menschheit. Dieses Buch lädt Sie ein, die Geschichte der Machtmechanismen zu erkunden, von den Intrigen an den Königshöfen bis hin zu den Revolutionen, die unsere heutigen Demokratien geformt haben.Wenn der Leser in... Read more

Idiots Unplugged - Abridged

By: Glenn Beck

Narrated by: Glenn Beck

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

ONLY ON AUDIO!

Glenn Beck Takes On His Idiot Friend—Live, on the Radio

We’ve all been in those mind-numbing, stomach-churning, sleep-inducing conversations with people whose brains seem to be smaller than their mouths. They’re always endlessly long, painfully agonizing and hopelessly futile.

Glenn Beck, host of a nationally syndicated radio program... Read more

Inteligencia Artificial. La tecnología que cambiará el mundo - Abridged

By: Roberto Velasco

Narrated by: Sergio Huescar (voz digital)

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Los avances tecnológicos invaden velozmente nuestras vidas y desbordan las capacidades normativas de las Administraciones públicas, todo bajo el control remoto de unos gigantes empresariales que pretenden rediseñar los hábitos sociales en función de sus intereses económicos. En este mundo de escasas reglas, se presenta la Inteligencia... Read more