Politics & Economy audiobooks

The War Below

By: Ernest Scheyder

Narrated by: Matt Godfrey

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION AND THE 2024 FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD

This unprecedented look inside the global battle to power our lives is “required reading for anyone interested in the 360-degree impacts of the energy transition” (Daniel Poneman, former US Deputy Secretary of Energy)... Read more

Founding Brothers

By: Joseph J. Ellis

Narrated by: Bob Walter

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

An illuminating study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American republic--John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington.

During the 1790s, which Ellis calls the most decisive decade in our nation's history, the greatest statesmen of their generation--and... Read more

Confronting the Presidents

By: Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 16 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Every American president, from Washington to Biden: Their lives, policies, foibles, and legacies, assessed with clear-eyed authority and wit.

Authors of the acclaimed Killing books, the #1 bestselling narrative history series in the world, Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard begin a new direction with Confronting the Presidents.

From Washington to... Read more

The People, No

By: Thomas Frank

Narrated by: Thomas Frank

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

From the prophetic author of the now-classic What’s the Matter with Kansas? and Listen, Liberal, an eye-opening account of populism, the most important—and misunderstood—movement of our time.

Rarely does a work of history contain startling implications for the present, but in The People, No Thomas Frank pulls off that explosive effect by showing... Read more

The Wake Up

By: Michelle MiJung Kim

Narrated by: Michelle MiJung Kim

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This informative guide helps allies who want to go beyond rigid Diversity and Inclusion best practices, with real tools to go from good intentions to making meaningful change in any situation or venue.
  As we become more aware of various social injustices in the world, many of us want to be part of the movement toward positive change. But... Read more

Agent Josephine

By: Damien Lewis

Narrated by: Damien Lewis

Length: 16 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Singer. Actress. Beauty. Spy. During WW2, Josephine Baker, the world's richest and most glamorous entertainer, was an Allied spy in Occupied France. This is the story of her heroic personal resistance to Nazi Germany.

Prior to World War II, Josephine Baker was a music hall diva renowned for her singing and dancing, her beauty and sexuality; she... Read more

Crack-Up Capitalism

By: Quinn Slobodian

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

In a revelatory dispatch from the frontier of capitalist extremism, an acclaimed historian of ideas shows how free marketeers are realizing their ultimate goal: an end to nation-states and the constraints of democracy.

Look at a map of the world and you’ll see a colorful checkerboard of nation-states. But this is not where power actually resides.... Read more

The Presidents and the People

By: Corey Brettschneider

Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine an American president who imprisoned critics, spread a culture of white supremacy, and tried to upend the law so that he could commit crimes with impunity.



In this propulsive history, constitutional law and political science professor Corey Brettschneider provides a thoroughly researched account of assaults on democracy by not one such... Read more

A Short History of Russia

By: Mark Galeotti

Narrated by: Mark Galeotti

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A Library Journal 2020 Title to Watch

"Terrific - and an amazing achievement to cover so much ground in such a short and wonderfully readable book." -Peter Frankopan, bestselling author of The Silk Roads
 
Russia’s epic and dramatic story told in an accessible, lively and short form, using the country's fascinating history to illuminate its... Read more

Calling In

By: Loretta J Ross

Narrated by: Loretta J Ross

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From a pioneering Black feminist and MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, an urgent and exhilarating memoir-manifesto-handbook about how to rein in the excesses of cancel culture so we can truly communicate and solve problems together.

In 1979, Loretta Ross was a single mother who’d had to drop out of Howard University. She was working at Washington, DC’s... Read more

The Man Who Broke Capitalism

By: David Gelles

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller

New York Times reporter and “Corner Office” columnist David Gelles reveals legendary GE CEO Jack Welch to be the root of all that’s wrong with capitalism today and offers advice on how we might right those wrongs.

In 1981, Jack Welch took over General Electric and quickly rose to fame as the first celebrity CEO. He... Read more

Cannibal Capitalism

By: Nancy Fraser

Narrated by: Kate Udall

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A trenchant look at contemporary capitalism's insatiable appetite—and a rallying cry for everyone who wants to stop it from devouring our world



Capital is currently cannibalizing every sphere of life—guzzling wealth from nature and racialized populations, sucking up our ability to care for each other, and gutting the practice of politics. In this... Read more

Key to the City

By: Sara C. Bronin

Narrated by: Rachel Perry

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In Key to the City, legal scholar and architect Sara C. Bronin examines how zoning became such a prevailing force and reveals its impact—and its potential for good. Outdated zoning codes have maintained racial segregation, prioritized cars over people, and enabled great ecological harm. But, as Bronin argues, once we recognize the power of... Read more

No Good Men Among the Living

By: Anand Gopal

Narrated by: Assaf Cohen

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Told through the lives of three Afghans, the stunning tale of how the United States had triumph in sight in Afghanistan—and then brought the Taliban back from the dead.



In a breathtaking chronicle, acclaimed journalist Anand Gopal traces in vivid detail the lives of three Afghans caught in America's war on terror. He follows a Taliban commander,... Read more

Weapons of the Weak

By: James C. Scott

Narrated by: Alex Boyles

Length: 17 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This sensitive picture of the constant and circumspect struggle waged by peasants materially and ideologically against their oppressors shows that techniques of evasion and resistance may represent the most significant and effective means of class struggle in the long run. Read more

On Xi Jinping

By: Kevin Rudd

Narrated by: Kevin Rudd

Length: 21 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In On Xi Jinping, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd provides an authoritative account of the ideological worldview driving Chinese behaviour both domestically and on the world stage—that of President Xi Jinping, who now holds near-total control over the Chinese Communist Party and is now, in effect, president-for-life. Rudd argues that... Read more

The Age of Acrimony

By: Jon Grinspan

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents The Age of Acrimony by Jon Grinspan, read by Johnny Heller.

A penetrating, character-filled history “in the manner of David McCullough” (WSJ), revealing the deep roots of our tormented present-day politics.

Democracy was broken. Or that was what many Americans believed in the decades after the Civil War. Shaken by economic and... Read more

The Age of AI

By: Henry A Kissinger, Eric Schmidt & Daniel Hutten...

Narrated by: Eric Pollins

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Three of the world’s most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the way it is transforming human society—and what this technology means for us all. An AI learned to win chess by making moves human grand masters had never conceived. Another AI discovered a new antibiotic by analyzing molecular... Read more

The Next Civil War

By: Stephen Marche

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

“Should be required reading for anyone interested in preserving our 246-year experiment in self-government.” —The New York Times Book Review * “Well researched and eloquently presented.” —The Atlantic * “Delivers Cormac McCarthy-worthy drama; while the nonfictional asides imbue that drama with the authority of documentary.” —The New York Times... Read more

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

By: Hunter S. Thompson

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 17 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 remains a cornerstone of American political journalism and one of the bestselling campaign books of all time. Thompson’s searing account of the battle for the 1972 presidency—from the Democratic primaries to the eventual showdown between George McGovern and Richard Nixon—is infused... Read more

The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order

By: Gary Gerstle

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright

Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The epochal shift toward neoliberalism—a web of related policies that, broadly speaking, reduced the footprint of government in society and reassigned economic power to private market forces—that began in the United States and Great Britain in the late 1970s fundamentally changed the world. Today, the word "neoliberal" is often used to condemn a... Read more

Red Scarf Girl

By: Ji-li Jiang

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Publishers Weekly Best BookALA Best Book for Young AdultsALA Notable Children's BookALA Booklist Editors' ChoiceIn the tradition of The Diary of Anne Frank and I Am Malala, this is the incredible true story of one girl’s courage and determination during one of the most terrifying eras of the twentieth century. It's 1966, and twelve-year-old... Read more

The Signal and the Noise

By: Nate Silver

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 16 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The groundbreaking exploration of probability and uncertainty that explains how to make better predictions in a world drowning in data, from the nation’s foremost political forecaster—updated with insights into the pandemic, journalism today, and polling

One of The Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Works of Nonfiction of... Read more

Kingdom of Rage

By: Elizabeth Neumann

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A former counterterrorism official explores how modern evangelicalism and right-wing conservatism intermingled to form the combustible ideology that resulted in the January 6 attacks on the Capitol—and which threatens to destroy the American Church from within.   How did a Church that purports to follow the teachings of Jesus - the Prince of... Read more