Politics & Economy audiobooks

LRRP Company Command - Abridged

By: Kregg P. Jorgenson

Narrated by: Don Leslie

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A gripping account of ordinary men with extraordinary courage and heroism who had one last chance to make good—and one helluva war zone to do it in.
 
The new commander of the Company E, 52d Infantry LRRPs, Capt. George Paccerelli, was tough, but the men’s new AO was brutal. It was bad enough that the provinces of Binh Long, Phuoc Long, and Tay... Read more

Jawbreaker - Abridged

By: Gary Berntsen & Ralph Pezzullo

Narrated by: Gary Berntsen

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Jawbreaker Gary Berntsen, until recently one of the CIA’s most decorated officers, comes out from under cover for the first time to describe his no-holds-barred pursuit of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda.

With his unique mix of clandestine knowledge and paramilitary training, Berntsen represents the new face of counterterrorism. Recognized... Read more

Sobre el anarquismo - Abridged

By: Noam Chomsky & Alejandro Gibert Abós (Translator)

Narrated by: Arturo Mercado Jr.

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Con el espectro de la anarquía invocado por la derecha para sembrar el miedo, nunca ha sido más urgente una explicación convincente de la filosofía política conocida como anarquismo. Sobre el anarquismo arroja una luz muy necesaria sobre los fundamentos del pensamiento de Chomsky, específicamente su constante cuestionamiento de la legitimidad... Read more

Zelensky - Abridged

By: Steven Derix

Narrated by: Christian Neil

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A vivid, up-to-date biography of Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, covering his humble background and successful TV career to his corruption-dogged first years in office to Russia's invasion. Told with flair and authority, it is the gripping story of one of the most admired and inspirational leaders in the world. An action-packed... Read more

The Terminal Spy - Abridged

By: Alan S. Cowell

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In a page-turning narrative that reads like a thriller, an award-winning journalist exposes the troubling truth behind the world’s first act of nuclear terrorism.

On November 1, 2006, Alexander Litvinenko sipped tea in London’s Millennium Hotel. Hours later the Russian émigré and former intelligence officer, who was sharply critical of Russian... Read more

Lives of Moral Leadership - Abridged

By: Robert Coles

Narrated by: Harry Goz

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this rich and illuminating book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author Robert Coles creates a portrait of moral leadership--what it is, and how it is achieved--through stories of people who have led and inspired him: Robert Kennedy, Dorothy Day, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Erik Erikson, a Boston bus driver, teachers in college, medical... Read more

No Such Thing as a Bad Day - Abridged

By: Hamilton Jordan

Narrated by: Hamilton Jordan

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Since serving in the Carter White House in the late 1970s, Hamilton Jordan has survived non-Hodgkins lymphoma, melanoma, and prostate cancer. Read more

Flags of Our Fathers - Abridged

By: James Bradley & Ron Powers

Narrated by: Barry Bostwick

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Now abridged for young people, Flags of Our Fathers is the unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history: the raising of the U. S. flag at Iwo Jima. Here is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America.

In February 1945, American... Read more

Why Courage Matters - Abridged

By: John McCain & Mark Salter

Narrated by: John McCain

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this inspiring meditation on courage, Senator John McCain shares his most cherished stories of ordinary individuals who have risked everything to defend the people and principles they hold most dear.

“We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear but the capacity for action... Read more

Fair Game - Abridged

By: Valerie Plame Wilson

Narrated by: Valerie Plame Wilson

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On July 6, 2003, four months after the United States invaded Iraq, former ambassador Joseph Wilson's now historic op-ed, "What I Didn't Find in Africa," appeared in The New York Times. A week later, conservative pundit Robert Novak revealed in his newspaper column that Ambassador Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, was a CIA operative. The... Read more

On the Legal Democratic Mass Movement - Abridged

By: Jose Maria Sison

Narrated by: Thomas van Beersum

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The crisis of the world capitalist system and that of the Philippine ruling system have become worse than in any period after World War II. The US-instigated policies of neoliberal globalization, state terrorism and aggressive war have wrought havoc on the lives of the people and continue to escalate oppression and exploitation. The Filipino... Read more

The Age of Anxiety - Abridged

By: Haynes Johnson

Narrated by: Kristoffer Tabori

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Pulitzer-Prize winner Haynes Johnson boldly revisits the anti-communist hysteria of the McCarthy era to examine parallels today in this new age of terror and threat with a mix of narrative history, political commentary, and contemporary reporting. Read more

State of Emergency - Abridged

By: Patrick J. Buchanan

Narrated by: Patrick J. Buchanan

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities," said Theodore Roosevelt. State of Emergency will demonstrate that this is exactly what is happening to America and may now be unstoppable.
... Read more

Selenskyj - Abridged

By: Wojciech Rogacin

Narrated by: Markus Sulzbacher

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Als Wolodymyr Selenskyj – bis dahin ein populärer Schauspieler und Comedian – 2019 überraschend die ukrainische Präsidentschaftswahl gewann, ging die Welt davon aus, dass er ein schwaches Staatsoberhaupt sein und sich vom Kreml mithilfe der Oligarchen leicht lenken lassen würde. Doch das Gegenteil war der Fall: Selenskyj erwies sich als Mann mit... Read more

The Reagan Diaries Selections - Abridged

By: Ronald Reagan

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

During his two terms as the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan kept a daily diary in which he recorded, by hand, his innermost thoughts and observations on the extraordinary, the historic, and the routine day-to-day occurrences of his presidency. Now, nearly two decades after he left office, this remarkable record—the only daily... Read more

Death in the Jungle - Abridged

By: Gary R. Smith & Alan Maki

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Read by Eric Conger
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With 257 combat missions in Vietnam under his belt, Gary Smith is a living witness to the realities of Naval Special Warfare. He worked with some of the toughest and most highly motivated men in the world, executing missions in the murderous terrain of the Rung Sat Special Zone and Dung Island. The key to... Read more

Surrounded by Idiots - Abridged

By: Mike Gallagher

Narrated by: Mike Gallagher

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The controvserial radio host speaks out on liberalism, grassroots politics, and the control of America in a polemic that is sure raise liberal hacklesIn the book his fans have long been clamoring for, conservative talk show host and commander in chief of “Gallagher’s Army,” Mike Gallagher chronicles the daily war between liberals and... Read more

Estados Des Unidos de America (abreviado) - Abridged

By: Julio Camino

Narrated by: Jose Duarte

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

FonoLibro se enorgullece en presentar el audiolibro Estados Des Unidos de Julio Camino, ¿En verdad los EEUU es el país más poderoso del mundo? ¿Es el llamado sueño americano una Utopía? ¿El comunismo y el socialismo de verdad son sistemas inservibles y ya desaparecidos? Julio Camino nos muestra con su obra "ESTADOS DESUNIDOS DE AMERICA: ENTRE EL... Read more

Nutrição Comportamental - Abridged

By: Max Editorial

Narrated by: Maria

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Descubra como a Nutrição Comportamental pode transformar a sua saúde e bem-estar. Neste livro, você aprenderá como os hábitos alimentares e comportamentos afetam a sua saúde e como mudar esses hábitos para alcançar seus objetivos de saúde. Aprenda a superar os desafios comuns da perda de peso, como lidar com a comida emocional e como encontrar... Read more

Theodore Rex - Abridged

By: Edmund Morris

Narrated by: Harry Chase

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The most eagerly awaited presidential biography in years, Theodore Rex is a sequel to Edmund Morris’s classic bestseller The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. It begins by following the new President (still the youngest in American history) as he comes down from Mount Marcy, New York, to take his emergency oath of office in Buffalo, one hundred years... 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

Last Call - Abridged

By: Daniel Okrent

Narrated by: Daniel Okrent

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the US Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages.

From its start, America has been awash in drink. The sailing vessel that brought John Winthrop to the shores of the New World... Read more

Manifiesto por una democracia radical - Abridged

By: Jordi Sevilla

Narrated by: Santiago Gómez & Simon Gómez

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Un proyecto social nuevo para un nuevo tiempo político En las dos últimas décadas ha resurgido el conflicto en la política. Fenómenos como la crisis de 2008, la pandemia, el cambio climático o la nueva guerra fría han desmontado la ingenua creencia en el triunfo definitivo de la democracia liberal y la economía de mercado. Todas las promesas... Read more

Die Menschenrechte sind universell - Abridged

By: Julian Nida-Rümelin

Narrated by: Julian Nida-Rümelin

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Am 10. Dezember 1948 verabschiedeten die noch jungen Vereinten Nationen die "Allgemeine Erklärung der Menschenrechte", die zur Grundlage völkerrechtlich verbindlicher Verträge in Gestalt des sogenannten Zivil- und des Sozialpaktes und weiterer völkerrechtlicher Vereinbarungen wurde. Julian Nida-Rümelin erläutert in diesem Vortrag anlässlich des... Read more