Politics & Economy audiobooks

The Confession - Abridged

By: James E. McGreevey

Narrated by: James E. McGreevey

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In August 2004, Governor James E. McGreevey of New Jersey made history when he declared ""My truth is that I am a gay American,"" and announced his resignation. Now, in this extraordinarily candid memoir, McGreevey shares his story of a life of ambition, moral compromise, and redemption. From childhood, McGreevey lived a kind of idealized... Read more

Reaching for Glory - Abridged

By: Michael R. Beschloss

Narrated by: Michael R. Beschloss

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Reaching for Glory lets us eavesdrop on LBJ's private, often tortured thoughts during the most crucial year of his presidency -- when his dreams of being hailed as the equal of Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt were destroyed by the war in Vietnam.
As Reaching for Glory opens, LBJ is campaigning for the greatest presidential landslide in... 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.
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An Unfinished Life - Abridged

By: Robert Dallek

Narrated by: Richard McGonagle

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Drawing on previously unavailable material and never-before-opened archives, An Unfinished Life is packed with revelations large and small -- about JFK's health, his love affairs, RFK's appointment as Attorney General, what Joseph Kennedy did to help his son win the White House, and the path JFK would have taken in the Vietnam entanglement had... Read more

Team of Rivals - Abridged

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Narrated by: Richard Thomas

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

One of the most influential books of the past fifty years, Team of Rivals is Pulitzer Prize–winning author and esteemed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s modern classic about the political genius of Abraham Lincoln, his unlikely presidency, and his cabinet of former political foes.

Winner of the prestigious Lincoln Prize and the... Read more

The Recollections of Rifleman Harris - Abridged

By: Rifleman Harris

Narrated by: Jason Salkey

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This audiobook is read by Jason Salkey, who played Harris in the SHARPE films, with sound effects provided by the 95th Rifles Re-enactment Society. A musical score by Adam Wakeman adds to this lavish production. A great deal of time and care has been spent creating an audiobook which truly honours the rifleman of the Peninsula. Read more

Ola Latina, La - Abridged

By: Jorge Ramos

Narrated by: Jorge Ramos

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

En las elecciones del 2004, hubo 3 millones más votantes hispanos que en el año 2000. Los hispanos pusieron al presidente George W. Bush en la Casa Blanca en el 2000 y luego lo reeligieron en el 2004. Es imposible ignorar una influencia tan grande y un voto tan importante.El cambio más dramático que está viviendo este país no tiene nada que ver... Read more

Marching Toward Hell - Abridged

By: Michael Scheuer

Narrated by: Michael Scheuer

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Michael Scheuer first questioned the goals of the Iraq War in his 2004 bestseller Imperial Hubris, policymakers and ordinary citizens alike stood up and took notice. Now, Scheuer offers a scathing and frightening look at how the Iraq War has been a huge setback to America's War on Terror, making our enemy stronger and altering the... 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

ملخص كتاب الإنسان المهدور - Abridged

By: مصطفى حجازي

Narrated by: Sahla Books

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

يستكمل الكاتب والمفكر اللبناني مصطفى حجازي، مشروعه من خلال كتابه الإنسانُ المهدور، الذي يعد تطويرا وبحثا أكثر عمقا في حياة الإنسان داخل المجتمعات المستبدة. حيث يوظف علم النفس في مجال إنساني جديد تماما، وهو التنمية الإنسانية والمجتمعية. ويحاول الإجابة عن السؤال: هل يمكن الوصول إلى الديمقراطية وتحقيق التنمية في مجتمع يهدر الإنسان وكرامته؟ Read more

Known and Unknown - Abridged

By: Donald Rumsfeld

Narrated by: Donald Rumsfeld

Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A powerful memoir from the late former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld

With the same directness that defined his career in public service, Rumsfeld's memoir is filled with previously undisclosed details and insights about the Bush administration, 9/11, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It also features Rumsfeld's unique and often... Read more

ملخص كتاب امرأة في برلين - Abridged

By: مارتا هيلرز

Narrated by: Sahla Books

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

امرأة في برلين هي يوميات كتبتها سيدة ألمانية عما فعله الروس في المدينة وسكانها فور دخولهم برلين، في أبريل عام ألف وتسعمائة وخمسة وأربعين، قبل انتهاء الحرب العالمية الثانية رسميا في مايو. تركز الكاتبة على حوادث الاغتصاب التي تعرضت لها سيدات المدينة، على أيدي الروس. وتحاول أن تروي ما حدث من وجهة نظر أنثوية حيادية. Read more

God's Politics - Abridged

By: Jim Wallis

Narrated by: Jim Wallis & Sam Freed

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Since when did believing in God and having moral values make you pro-war, pro-rich, and solely pro-Republican? And since when did promoting and pursuing a progressive social agenda with a concern for economic security, health care, and educational opportunity mean you had to put faith in God aside?God's Politics offers a clarion call to make... Read more

Politik in den eigenen Händen - Abridged

By: Florian Hartleb

Narrated by: Ingo Bulgrin

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wir leben in turbulenten, hysterischen Zeiten. Für uns alle bedeutet die Revolution durch Echtzeitkommunikation eine ungeahnte Herausforderung, die herkömmliche Muster und Traditionen auf den Kopf stellt. Es schlägt die Stunde von Influencern und von YouTube-Stars. Die Covid-19-Pandemie verstärkt den globalen Wettbewerb der Nationalstaaten und... 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

One Soldier's Story - Abridged

By: Bob Dole

Narrated by: Paul Hecht & Cynthia Darlow

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

“A poignant and inspiring memoir. . . . Dole’s odyssey of courage and determination can be a guideline to us all.”— Philadelphia InquirerIn his own words, Bob Dole tells his legendary World War II story—a personal odyssey of tremendous courage, sacrifice, and faithIn One Soldier’s Story, Dole recites the moving, inspirational story of his... Read more

Master of the Senate - Abridged

By: Robert A. Caro

Narrated by: Stephen Lang

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Book Three of Robert A. Caro’s monumental work, The Years of Lyndon Johnson—the most admired and riveting political biography of our era—which began with the best-selling and prizewinning The Path to Power and Means of Ascent.

Master of the Senate carries Lyndon Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from... Read more

Rites of Passage - Abridged

By: Robert Peterson

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A raw, powerful account of an infantryman’s life during wartime– complete with all the horrors and the heroism . . .

Robert Peterson arrived in Vietnam in the fall of 1966, a young American ready to serve his country and seize his destiny. What happened in that jungle war would change his life forever. Peterson vividly relives the tense patrols... Read more

ملخص كتاب سلام ما بعده سلام - Abridged

By: ديفيد فرومكين

Narrated by: Sahla Books

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

في كتاب سلام ما بعده سلام، يقدم الكاتب والمحامي الأمريكي المتخصص في القانون الدولي David Fromkin شهادة وافية مبنية على بحثه الموسّع في مجموعة من الوثائق الرسمية والمستندات التي تعود لأرشيف الحرب العالمية الأولى، والتي تصف سلسلة الأحداث التي وقعت في الفترة بين عام ألف وتسعمائة وأربعة عشر وألف وتسعمائة واثنين وعشرين، التي شكلت منطقة الشرق الأوسط. Read more

War Paint - Abridged

By: Bill Goshen

Narrated by: Jake Robards

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: Yes

The men who served with in the 1st Infantry Division with F company, 52nd Infantry, (LRP) later redesignated as Company I, 75th Infantry (Ranger) --engaged in some of the fiercest, bloodiest fighting during the Vietnam War, suffering a greater relative aggregate of casualties that any other LRRP/LRP/ Ranger company. Their base was Lai Khe,... Read more

Our Sacred Honor - Abridged

By: William J. Bennett

Narrated by: Philip Bosco, William J. Bennett & Barry Bostwick

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Millions of American families have turned to The Book of Virtues and The Moral Compass by William J. Bennett for moral guidance in troubled times. Our Sacred Honor offers inspiration and instruction as well -- this time of a particularly American sort.
In Our Sacred Honor, Bennett has collected the best that has been thought and said by and... 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

ملخص كتاب مذكرات حرب أكتوبر - Abridged

By: سعد الدين الشاذلي

Narrated by: Sahla Books

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

يعد هذا الكتاب مرجعًا أساسيا لحرب أكتوبر؛ فكاتبه أحد القادة الذين اعترفَ بذكائه وحنكته العدو والصديق، وضع لنا فيه تفاصيل دقيقة عن الاستعداد للحرب، منذ سنوات قبل شن الهجوم، ولم يترك شاردة ولا واردة تفوته. كان الفريق سعد الدين الشاذلي واضع الخطة التي سار عليها الجيش المصري في حرب أكتوبر الشهيرة، متقلدًا منصب رئيس أركان حرب القوات المسلحة المصرية،... Read more

Washington - Abridged

By: Ron Chernow

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a New York Times Bestseller, a landmark biography of George Washington.

In Washington: A Life celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life of Washington, this crisply paced narrative carries the... Read more