The Wealth of a Nation
By: C. Donald Johnson
Narrated by: David Stifel
Length: 27 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Ambassador C. Donald Johnson's The Wealth of a Nation is an authoritative history of the politics of trade in America from the Revolution to the Trump era. Johnson begins by charting the rise and fall of the U.S. protectionist system from the time of Alexander Hamilton to the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930. Challenges to protectionist dominance... Read more
View audiobookThe Warrior Code
By: Tee Marie Hanible & Denene Millner
Narrated by: Tee Marie Hanible
Length: 5 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
From American Grit co-star, former Marine Gunnery Sergeant Tee Marie Hanible comes the story of how she became a warrior...and how you can do it too.
In The Warrior Code, entrepreneur, philanthropist, reality star and retired Gunnery Sergeant Tee Marie Hanible serves up eleven principles to awaken your inner... Read more
Farming for the Long Haul
By: Michael Foley
Narrated by: Madison Niederhauser
Length: 7 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
It’s all but certain that the next fifty years will bring enormous, not to say cataclysmic, disruptions to our present way of life. World oil reserves will be exhausted within that time frame, as will the lithium that powers today’s most sophisticated batteries, suggesting that transportation is equally imperiled. And there’s another, even more... Read more
View audiobookNational Populism
By: Roger Eatwell & Matthew Goodwin
Narrated by: Matthew Goodwin
Length: 8 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy, A Pelican Book, written by Roger Eatwell and Matthew Goodwin and read by Matthew Goodwin.
A crucial new guide to one of the most urgent political phenomena of our time: the rise of national populism
Across the West, there is a rising tide of people... Read more
William Walker's Wars
By: Scott Martelle
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 12 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
In the decade before the onset of the Civil War, groups of Americans engaged in a series of longshot—and illegal—forays into Mexico, Cuba, and other Central American countries in hopes of taking them over. These efforts became known as filibustering, and their goal was to seize territory to create new independent fiefdoms, which would ultimately... Read more
View audiobookNetwork Propaganda
By: Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris & Hal Roberts
Narrated by: Steve Menasche
Length: 17 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Is social media destroying democracy? Are Russian propaganda or "Fake news" entrepreneurs on Facebook undermining our sense of a shared reality? A conventional wisdom has emerged since the election of Donald Trump in 2016 that new technologies and their manipulation by foreign actors played a decisive role in his victory and are responsible for... Read more
View audiobookCitizen Capitalism
By: Lynn A. Stout, Tamara Belinfanti & Sergio Alber...
Narrated by: Tom Dheere
Length: 3 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Corporations have a huge influence on the life of every citizen—this book offers a visionary but practical plan to give every citizen a say in how corporations are run while also gaining some supplemental income. It lays out a clear approach that uses the mechanisms of the private market to hold corporations accountable to the public.
This would... Read more
Try Common Sense
By: Philip K. Howard
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Length: 4 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Award-winning author Philip K. Howard lays out the blueprint for a new American society.
In this brief and powerful book, Philip K. Howard attacks the failed ideologies of both parties and proposes a radical simplification of government to re-empower Americans in their daily choices. Nothing will make sense until people are free to roll up... Read more
Vietnam
By: James C. Mooney, Jr.
Narrated by: David de Vries
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
This is a U.S. Army helicopter pilot's candid first-hand account of his Vietnam experience in the air and on the ground at the height of U.S. troop strength and then again when he returned for a second tour of duty at the very end of the war. It is a non-political description of what life was really like for him and others who served in Vietnam.... Read more
View audiobookLet Me Finish
By: Chris Christie
Narrated by: Chris Christie
Length: 10 hours
Abridged: No
The instant New York Times-bestselling memoir from the outspoken former governor--an "explosive" (Guardian) "must read" (Hugh Hewitt) account of Chris Christie's life in politics including his "not to miss" (Entertainment Weekly) insights into Donald Trump.
After dropping out of the 2016 presidential race, Chris Christie stunned the political... Read more
Team of Vipers
By: Cliff Sims
Narrated by: Cliff Sims & Daniel Thomas May
Length: 14 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Note: Per author's request, profanity has been removed from both the book and the audio program.
"Sims’s vivid portrait of Trump shrewdly balances admiration with misgivings, and his intricate, engrossing accounts of White House vendettas and power plays have a good mix of immersion and perspective. The... Read more
Antisemitism
By: Deborah E. Lipstadt
Narrated by: Ellen Archer, Paul Boehmer & Phoebe Strole
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
***2019 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER—Jewish Education and Identity Award***
The award-winning author of The Eichmann Trial and Denial: Holocaust History on Trial gives us a penetrating and provocative analysis of the hate that will not die, focusing on its current, virulent incarnations on both the political right and left: from white... Read more
Mar-a-Lago
By: Laurence Leamer
Narrated by: Todd McClaren
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Where Trump Learned to Rule
To know Donald J. Trump—to understand what makes the forty-fifth president of the United States tick—it is best to start in his natural habitat: Palm Beach, Florida. It is here he learned the techniques that took him all the way to the White House. Painstakingly, over decades, he has created a world in this exclusive... Read more
Buy the Change You Want to See
By: Jane Mosbacher Morris & Wendy Paris
Narrated by: Jane Mosbacher Morris
Length: 8 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Eager to change the world? Learn how you can have a greater social impact through your everyday purchases.
The money we routinely spend on food, clothes, gifts, and even indulgences is an untapped superpower. What would happen if we slowed down to make more thoughtful decisions about what we buy? For "mom and pop" stores across the country, and... Read more
Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.?
By: Bonnie Bader
Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
Length: 1 hour 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was only 25 when he helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott and was soon organizing black people across the country in support of the right to vote, desegregation, and other basic civil rights. Maintaining nonviolent and peaceful tactics even when his life was threatened, King was also an advocate for the poor and... Read more
View audiobookA Rope from the Sky
By: Zach Vertin
Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla
Length: 18 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
The birth of South Sudan was celebrated the world round?a triumph for global justice and the end of one of the world’s most devastating wars. The Republic’s historic independence was acclaimed not only by its long-oppressed people but also by three U.S. presidents and the legions of Americans who championed their cause. But the celebration would... Read more
View audiobookA Life Removed
By: Rose George
Narrated by: Karen Cass
Length: 7 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
'Asylum-seeker'; refugee'. All the major British political parties have brought these words to the top of the political agenda. Some newspapers shout about the swarms of refugees arriving on our shores; others criticise our government's lack of humanitarian principles. But what do we know about the refugees themselves what it means to leave your... Read more
View audiobookRodrigo Duterte
By: Jonathan Miller
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
Length: 12 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
The first biography of Rodrigo Duterte, the murderous, unpredictable president of the Philippines, a fascinating, fearsome man and the embodiment of populism in our time.
Rodrigo Duterte was elected President of the Philippines in 2016. In his first eighteen months in office, 12,000 people were murdered on the streets, gunned down by police... Read more
Mercury and Me
By: Jim Hutton & Tim Wapshott
Narrated by: Patrick Moy
Length: 7 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
The relationship between Freddie Mercury and Jim Hutton evolved over several months in 1984 and 1985. Even when they first slept together, Hutton had no idea who Mercury was, and, when the star told him his name, it meant nothing to him. Hutton worked as a barber at the Savoy Hotel and retained his job and his lodgings in Sutton, Surrey, for two... Read more
View audiobookMisunderstanding Financial Crises
By: Gary B. Gorton
Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Before 2007, economists thought that financial crises would never happen again in the United States, that such upheavals were a thing of the past. Gary B. Gorton, a prominent expert on financial crises, argues that economists fundamentally misunderstand what they are, why they occur, and why there were none in the U.S. from 1934 to... Read more
View audiobookUnjust
By: Noah Rothman
Narrated by: Chris Abell
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Social justice is not justice—it is a dogma that divides society into identity groups and foments division, anger, and desire for vengeance.Unfortunately, social justice has permeated America; and as it turns out, it is not a philosophy that appeals to the better angels of our nature. In practice, social justice is outright disdainful of the... Read more
View audiobookFrom the Ground Up
By: Howard Schultz
Narrated by: Howard Schultz
Length: 12 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the longtime CEO and chairman of Starbucks, a bold, dramatic work about the new responsibilities that leaders, businesses, and citizens share in American society today—as viewed through the intimate lens of one man’s life and work.
What do we owe one another? How do we channel our drive, ingenuity, even our... Read more
The Climate Casino
By: William D. Nordhaus
Narrated by: Graham Winton
Length: 10 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
The 2018 Nobel laureate for economics analyzes the politics and economics of the central environmental issue of today and points the way to real solutions Climate change is profoundly altering our world in ways that pose major risks to human societies and natural systems. We have entered the Climate Casino and are rolling the global-warming... Read more
View audiobookوقت للخيانة: الحياة المزدوجة المذهلة لعميل وكالة المخابرات المركزية داخل الحرس الثوري الإيراني
By: رضا كاهليلي
Narrated by: جمال مرعي
Length: 13 hours
Abridged: No
في لمح البصر ستجد نفسك تغوص في أعماق واحدة من أكثر الدول غموضًا في العالم_ جمهورية إيران الإسلامية_ وذلك عن طريق الحقائق والقصص التي يعرضها الجاسوس السابق رضا كاهيلي ويبدأها بـ: "هذه قصة حقيقية عن حياتي كعميل لوكالة الاستخبارات المركزية داخل الحرس الثوري الإيراني إلّا أنّني بذلت كل ما في وسعي لإخفاء هويتي - (رضا كاهيلي) ليس اسمي الحقيقي- وحماية... Read more
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