Politics & Economy audiobooks

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

Democracy at Work

By: Richard D. Wolff

Narrated by: Shawn Compton

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid-for political establishment. Neither serves the needs of our society. Whether it is secure, well-paid, and meaningful jobs or a sustainable relationship with the natural environment that we depend on, our society is not delivering the results people need... Read more

Freedom Dreams

By: Robin D.G. Kelley

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The 20th-anniversary edition of Kelley’s influential history of 20th-century Black radicalism, with new reflections on current movements and their impact on the author, and a foreword by poet Aja Monet

First published in 2002, Freedom Dreams is a staple in the study of the Black radical tradition. Unearthing the thrilling history of grassroots... Read more

The Second World War

By: Antony Beevor

Narrated by: Sean Barrett

Length: 39 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A masterful and comprehensive chronicle of World War II, by internationally bestselling historian Antony Beevor.

Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier historians of WWII. His multi-award winning books have included Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945. Now, in his newest and most... Read more

You're Not Enough (And That's Okay)

By: Allie Beth Stuckey

Narrated by: Allie Beth Stuckey

Length: 3 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the sharpest Christian voices of her generation and host of the podcast Relatable comes a framework for escaping our culture of trendy narcissism—and embracing God instead. 

We're told that the key to happiness is self-love. Instagram influencers, mommy bloggers, self-help gurus, and even Christian teachers promise that if we learn to... Read more

Don't Be Evil

By: Rana Foroohar

Narrated by: Rachel Fulginiti

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A penetrating indictment of how today’s largest tech companies are hijacking our data, our livelihoods, our social fabric, and our minds—from an acclaimed Financial Times columnist and CNN analyst

WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD 
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Foreign Affairs, Evening Standard

“Don’t be evil” was enshrined as... Read more

Haben

By: Haben Girma

Narrated by: Haben Girma

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The incredible life story of Haben Girma, the first Deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School, and her amazing journey from isolation to the world stage.
Haben grew up spending summers with her family in the enchanting Eritrean city of Asmara. There, she discovered courage as she faced off against a bull she couldn't see, and found in herself an... Read more

John Brown, Abolitionist

By: David S. Reynolds

Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan

Length: 25 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Few historical figures are as intriguing as John Brown, the controversial Abolitionist who used terrorist tactics against slavery and single-handedly changed the course of American history. This brilliant biography of Brown (1800—1859) by the prize-winning critic and cultural biographer David S. Reynolds brings to life the Puritan warrior who... Read more

All the Shah's Men

By: Stephen Kinzer

Narrated by: Michael Prichard & Jonathan Yen

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Half a century ago, the United States overthrew the democratically elected prime minister of Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, whose "crime" was nationalizing the country's oil industry.



In a cloak-and-dagger story of spies, saboteurs, and secret agents, Kinzer reveals the involvement of Eisenhower, Churchill, Kermit Roosevelt, and the CIA in... Read more

1974

By: Francine Prose

Narrated by: Francine Prose

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

“In this remarkable memoir, the qualities that have long distinguished Francine Prose’s fiction and criticism—uncompromising intelligence, a gratifying aversion to sentiment, the citrus bite of irony—give rigor and, finally, an unexpected poignancy to an emotional, artistic, and political coming-of-age tale set in the 1970s—the decade, as she... Read more

T.R.

By: H. W. Brands

Narrated by: Matt Kugler

Length: 35 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author, an acclaimed biography of President Teddy Roosevelt
Lauded as "a rip-roaring life" (Wall Street Journal), TR is a magisterial biography of Theodore Roosevelt by bestselling author H.W. Brands. In his time, there was no more popular national figure than Roosevelt. It was not just the energy he brought to... Read more

John Quincy Adams

By: Harlow Giles Unger

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

He fought for Washington, served with Lincoln, witnessed Bunker Hill, and sounded the clarion against slavery on the eve of the Civil War. He negotiated an end to the War of 1812, engineered the annexation of Florida, and won the Supreme Court decision that freed the African captives of La Amistad. He served his nation as minister to six... Read more

Unredacted

By: Christopher Steele

Narrated by: Christopher Steele

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The intelligence officer behind the explosive “Steele Dossier” steps out of the shadows, revealing a searing new report on the threat Putin and Trump pose to democracy, based on alarming intelligence exposed in these pages for the first time“Putin is now desperate to have Donald Trump back in the White House. If he succeeds in helping Trump get... Read more

The New Leviathans

By: John Gray

Narrated by: Lee Goettl

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Ever since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we understand the world. Condemned and vilified by each new generation, his cold political vision continues to see through any number of human political and ethical vanities.



In his wonderfully stimulating book The New Leviathans, John Gray allows us to... Read more

Fantasy Island

By: Ed Morales

Narrated by: Sean Duffy

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A crucial, clear-eyed accounting of Puerto Rico's 122 years as a colony of the US.

Since its acquisition by the US in 1898, Puerto Rico has served as a testing ground for the most aggressive and exploitative US economic, political, and social policies. The devastation that ensued finally grew impossible to ignore in 2017, in the wake of Hurricane... Read more

On Savage Shores

By: Caroline Dodds Pennock

Narrated by: Caroline Dodds Pennock

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

AN ECONOMIST AND SMITHSONIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Age of Discovery by telling the story of the Indigenous Americans who journeyed across the Atlantic to Europe after 1492

"On Savage Shores not only changes how we think about the first contact... Read more

When We Rise

By: Cleve Jones

Narrated by: Cleve Jones

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

This sweeping memoir tells the life story of longtime LGBTQ and AIDS activist Cleve Jones in a profoundly moving account from sexually liberated 1970s San Francisco, through the AIDS crisis, and up to his involvement with the marriage equality battle. Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering... Read more

Undiplomatic

By: Deesha Dyer

Narrated by: Deesha Dyer

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Without credentials, connections or a college degree, a hip-hop journalist and community leader conquered her imposter syndrome while landing one of the most exclusive, sought-after and fun positions in the White House.
 
From the most unlikely person to end up as a senior official to President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama comes a... Read more

The Management of Savagery

By: Max Blumenthal

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The rise of international jihad and Western ultra-nationalism

In the Management of Savagery, Max Blumenthal excavates the real story behind America's dealings with the world and shows how the extremist forces that now threaten peace across the globe are the inevitable flowering of America's imperial designs.

Washington's secret funding of the... Read more

Black Flags

By: Joby Warrick

Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra

Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE 2016 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION

“A Best Book of 2015”—The New York Times, The Washington Post, People Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Kansas City Star, and Kirkus Reviews

In a thrilling dramatic narrative, awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind... Read more

The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover

By: Lerone A. Martin

Narrated by: Langston Darby

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The shocking untold story of how the FBI partnered with white evangelicals to champion a vision of America as a white Christian nation.



Lerone Martin draws on thousands of newly declassified FBI documents and memos to describe how, under J. Edgar Hoover's leadership, FBI agents attended spiritual retreats and worship services, creating an FBI... Read more

Metropolis

By: Ben Wilson

Narrated by: John Sackville

Length: 17 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In a captivating tour of cities famous and forgotten, acclaimed historian Ben Wilson tells the glorious, millennia-spanning story how urban living sparked humankind's greatest innovations.
 
“A towering achievement.... Reading this book is like visiting an exhilarating city for the first time—dazzling.” —The Wall Street Journal

During the two... Read more

Media Control

By: Noam Chomsky

Narrated by: Noam Chomsky

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Noam Chomsky’s backpocket classic on wartime propaganda and opinion control begins by asserting two models of democracy—one in which the public actively participates, and one in which the public is manipulated and controlled. According to Chomsky, "propaganda is to democracy as the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state," and the mass media is the... Read more

For All the Tea in China

By: Sarah Rose

Narrated by: Sarah Rose

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1848, the British East India Company, having lost its monopoly on the tea trade, engaged Robert Fortune, a Scottish gardener, botanist, and plant hunter, to make a clandestine trip into the interior of China—territory forbidden to foreigners—to steal the closely guarded secrets of tea horticulture and manufacturing. For All the Tea in China... Read more