Politics & Economy audiobooks

Free Lunch - Abridged

By: David Cay Johnston

Narrated by: David Cay Johnston

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The bestselling author of Perfectly Legal returns with a powerful new exposé. Read more

The Clinton Tapes - Abridged

By: Taylor Branch

Narrated by: Taylor Branch

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Taylor Branch’s groundbreaking book about the modern presidency, The Clinton Tapes, invites readers into private dialogue with a gifted, tormented, resilient president. Here is what President Clinton thought and felt but could not say in public.

This book rests upon a secret project, initiated by Clinton, to preserve for future historians an... 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

Forex Trading : A Complete Beginner’s Guide to Start Investing with Forex Tradin - Abridged

By: Garth McCalister

Narrated by: Timothy Burke

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

There are a lot of different options when it comes to investing your money. You can choose to go into the stock market, place it into a retirement plan, or even go into real estate. But many of these seem risky and like they aren’t going to provide the results that you want without a bit risk of losing all of your money. One of the best ways to... Read more

Ghost Soldiers - Abridged

By: Hampton Sides

Narrated by: James Naughton

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A tense, powerful, grand account of one of the most daring exploits of World War II.

On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected troops from the elite U.S. Army 6th Ranger Battalion slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty miles in an attempt to rescue 513 American and British POWs who had spent three years in a... Read more

I May Be Wrong But I Doubt It - Abridged

By: Charles Barkley

Narrated by: Charles Barkley

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

If there’s one thing Charles Barkley knows, it’s the crying need for honest, open discussion in this country—the more uncomfortable the subject, the more necessary the dialogue. And if the discussion leader can be as wise, irreverent, (occasionally) profane and (consistently) funny as Charles Barkley, so much the better. Many people are going to... Read more

America's Queen - Abridged

By: Sarah Bradford

Narrated by: Sandra Burr

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis has captivated the American public for more than five decades. From her introduction to the world as "debutante of the year" in 1947 to her untimely death in 1994, she has truly remained America's answer to royalty. In America's Queen, the acclaimed biographer of Queen Elizabeth and Princess Grace reveals the real... 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

The Phoenix Solution - Abridged

By: Vincent Bugliosi

Narrated by: Joseph Campanella

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Not just a searing indictment of American drug policy, but a step-by-step guide to addressing it once and for all! Respected attorney Vincent Bugliosi, who successfully prosecuted Charles Manson, directs his attention to a national epidemic— the chronic drug crisis in America. An analysis of the drug policy in the United States, this... Read more

Sharia Law for Non-Muslims - Abridged

By: Bill Warner, PhD

Narrated by: Bill Warner, PhD

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

SHARIA LAW FOR NON-MUSLIMS
SHARIA LAW FOR NON-MUSLIMS is an introduction to Islamic Sharia law and gives the reader a taste of Islam. This book makes an effective tool to educate politicians, legal authorities and public officials.

Islam is a religion, a culture and a political system. The political system has its own body of laws, called the... Read more

Political Animal - Abridged

By: Frank Perez

Narrated by: Thomas Fria

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

During Mardi Gras 1973, Stewart Butler (1930–2020) fell in love with Alfred Doolittle—a wealthy socialite and schizophrenic from San Francisco. Their relationship was an improbable love story that changed the course of LGBTQ+ history. With Doolittle's money, Butler was able to retire and devote his life to political activism in the cause of... Read more

Mike's Election Guide - Abridged

By: Michael Moore

Narrated by: Michael Moore

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

After a diastrous war, the failure to catch bin Laden, millions of families who have lost their homes, the Katrina debacle, soaring gas prices feeding record oil company profits, and the largest national debt caused by the biggest spending and borrowing administration in American history, the country has had it with conservatives, right-wingers... Read more

An Inconvenient Book - Abridged

By: Glenn Beck

Narrated by: Glenn Beck

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Glenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset, tackles some of our country’s biggest problems in this funny, outrageous, and entertaining book.

Glenn Beck believes that the reason why some of our biggest problems never seem to get fixed is simple: the solutions just aren’t very convenient. And as the host of a nationally... Read more

The Psychology of Spies and Spying - Abridged

By: John Taylor & Adrian Furnham

Narrated by: John Taylor

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Psychology of Spies and Spying tells the story of the people involved in spying: the human sources (agents) who betray their country or organisation and the professional intelligence officers who manage the collection and reporting process. It provides a rigorous psychological analysis of the personality and motivation of individuals... Read more

American Soldier - Abridged

By: Tommy R. Franks

Narrated by: Tommy R. Franks

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

To America, he was a hero.To his troops, he was a soldier.Now hear his story.The Commander in Chief of the United States Central Command from July 2000 through July 2003, General Tommy Franks made history by leading American and Coalition forces to victory in Afghanistan and Iraq -- the decisive battles that launched the war on terrorism.In this... Read more

A POLÍTICA CONTA SUA HISTÓRIA - Abridged

By: Stephen Daronyashi

Narrated by: Pedro Célestet

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Desde as primeiras cidades-estado da antiguidade até os governos modernos, a política sempre esteve no centro da transformação humana. Este livro o convida a explorar a história dos mecanismos de poder, desde as intrigas das cortes reais até as revoluções que moldaram nossas democracias contemporâneas.Ao se aprofundar neste livro, você... Read more

Lone Survivor - Abridged

By: Marcus Luttrell

Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Follow along a Navy SEAL's firsthand account of American heroism during a secret military operation in Afghanistan in this true story of survival and difficult choices.

On a clear night in late June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in northern Afghanistan for the mountainous Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a... Read more

Think! - Abridged

By: Michael R. LeGault

Narrated by: Michael R. LeGault

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Outraged by the downward spiral of intellect and culture, Michael LeGault offers the flip side of Malcolm Gladwell's bestselling phenomenon, Blink, which theorized that our best decision-making is done on impulse, without factual knowledge or critical analysis. If bestselling books are advising us to not think, LeGault argues, it comes as no... Read more

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 - Abridged

By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Narrated by: Ignat Solzhenitsyn

Length: 21 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time“It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” —David Remnick, The New YorkerThe Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one... Read more

Warrior King - Abridged

By: Nathan Sassaman & Joe Layden

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The startling and controversial memoir of combat and betrayal, written by one of the most prominent members of the U.S. fighting forces in Iraq.

A West Point graduate, a former star quarterback who carried Army to its first bowl victory, and a courageous warrior who had proven himself on the battlefield time and again, Lt. Col. Nathan Sassaman... Read more

Special Agent - Abridged

By: Candice DeLong

Narrated by: Candice DeLong

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A twenty-year veteran of the FBI, Candice DeLong worked on some of the toughest hig-stakes criminal investigations of our time. As a field profiler, DeLong collected evidence at the scene of the crime to creat a specific portrait of criminals via behavioral patterns, character traits, background, etc. Special Agent is her remarkable personal... Read more

The World Is Flat 3.0 - Abridged

By: Thomas L. Friedman

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, what will they say was the most crucial development in the first few years of the twenty-first century? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become... Read more

LA POLÍTICA CUENTA SU HISTORIA - Abridged

By: Stephen Daronyashi

Narrated by: Elena Del Gonzáles

Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Desde las primeras ciudades-estado de la Antigüedad hasta los gobiernos modernos, la política siempre ha estado en el centro de la transformación humana. Este libro le invita a explorar la historia de los mecanismos del poder, desde las intrigas de las cortes reales hasta las revoluciones que han dado forma a nuestras democracias... 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