Politics & Economy audiobooks

The Sword and the Shield - Abridged

By: Christopher Andrew & Vasili Mitrokhin
Narrated by: Charles Stransky
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: Yes

The Sword and the Shield is a compelling—and historically significant—narrative destined to cast new light on the Soviet era. Read more »

Mao Zedong

By: Jonathan Spence
Narrated by: Alexander Adams
Length: 5 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No

Born in rural China in 1893, Mao Zedong led his country through "a long-drawn-out adventure in upheaval." In the process, he became one of the monumental figures of the twentieth century. He died in 1976, just as China was entering a détente with the United States. This excellent biography illuminates Mao's family life, his early years as a... Read more »

The Greatest Generation Speaks

By: Tom Brokaw
Narrated by: Tom Brokaw
Length: 7 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful selection of the letters Tom Brokaw received in response to his towering #1 bestseller The Greatest Generation.
 
“When I wrote about the men and women who came out of the Depression, who won great victories and made lasting sacrifices in World War II and then returned home to begin building the world we have... Read more »

WWII Airmen

By: Multiple Authors
Narrated by: Various
Length: 2 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No

These amazing accounts of airmen recorded during the war include stories of air combat, music of the time, and recordings made on bomb runs over Europe and Japan.

Eagles over Europe: (1) Introduction; (2) AAF Intro; (3) Bomb run over Germany, A-26; (4) Lt. Gilman, AT-9 Trainer; (5) Lt. Anderson, AT-7 Trainer; (6) Jack the Ripper air raid; (7)... Read more »

All the Best, George Bush - Abridged

By: George H.W. Bush
Narrated by: Barbara Bush & George H.W. Bush
Length: 6 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: Yes

Former President George H.W. Bush, revealed through his letters and writings from 1941 to 2010, is “worth its weight in gold…a valuable update of the life of an honorable American leader” (The Washington Post).

“Who knew that beneath George Bush’s buttoned-up propriety pulsed the warm heart of a prolific and occasionally poetic writer with a... Read more »

Speaking My Mind - Abridged

By: Ronald Reagan
Narrated by: Ronald Reagan
Length: 5 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: Yes

One man, more than any other, has helped define the most important issues of our time. His name is Ronald Reagan -- one of our nation's most powerful and popular Presidents. This extraordinary audio collection includes historical excerpts from selected addresses that span his political career, laying out his vision for America and the world.... Read more »

Nixon in Winter

By: Monica Crowley
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 18 hours 1 minutes
Abridged: No

Monica Crowley served as a personal assistant to former president Richard M. Nixon from July 1990 until his death in April 1994. This remarkable story of his final public and private years is based on full reconstructions of the conversations she had with him at the time. Nixon in Winter puts the reader behind the scenes with the former...

The Death of Outrage - Abridged

By: William J. Bennett
Narrated by: Charlton Heston
Length: 3 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: Yes

In this new, updated edition of a book heralded as a clarion call to the nation's conscience, William Bennett asks why we see so little public outrage in the fade of the evidence of deep corruption within Bill Clinton's administration. The Death of Outrage examines the Monica Lewinsky scandal as it unfolded, from Clinton's denials that he had... Read more »

Libertarianism

By: David Boaz
Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
Length: 11 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No

Tens of millions of Americans are rediscovering libertarianism, a visionary alternative to the tired party orthodoxies of left and right. In 1995, a Gallup poll found that 52 percent of Americans said “the federal government has become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens.” Later...

Rising Tide - Abridged

By: John M. Barry
Narrated by: George Grizzard
Length: 4 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: Yes

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lillian Smith Award.

An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of... Read more »

Spin Cycle - Abridged

By: Howard Kurtz
Narrated by: Howard Kurtz
Length: 3 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: Yes

Bill Clinton is the most investigated president since Richard Nixon—facing inquiries into Whitewater, campaign fundraising abuses, and sexual misconduct—and yet he began 1998 with approval ratings as high as those of Ronald Reagan. But the new year has brought a barrage of new allegations, and the president and his advisers face once again the... Read more »

Pillar of Fire - Abridged

By: Taylor Branch
Narrated by: CCH Pounder & Joe Morton
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes

From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch, the second part of his epic trilogy on Martin Luther King, Jr. and the American Civil Rights Movement.

In the second volume of his three-part history, a monumental trilogy that began with Parting the Waters, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Taylor Branch... Read more »

Parting the Waters - Abridged

By: Taylor Branch
Narrated by: CCH Pounder & Joe Morton
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: Yes

In Parting the Waters, the first volume of his essential America in the King Years series, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a “compelling…masterfully told” (The Wall Street Journal) account of Martin Luther King’s early years and rise to greatness.

Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement,... Read more »

The Gold of Exodus - Abridged

By: Howard Blum
Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
Length: 4 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: Yes

Mount Sinai, for many, it is the most sacred place on Earth - the
site where God descended to give Moses the Ten Commandments.
Yet for centuries, mankind has not known its exact location.

In this heart-pounding adventure, award-winning journalist and bestselling author Howard Blum tells the enthralling story of two modern-day adventurers -... Read more »

Our Sacred Honor - Abridged

By: William J. Bennett
Narrated by: Philip Bosco, William J. Bennett & Barry Bostwick
Length: 4 hours 1 minutes
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 FBI

By: Ronald Kessler
Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
Length: 20 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No

No institution in American society generates as much curiosity, fear, and intrigue as the FBI. No institution can obtain so much information and penetrate so deeply into our private lives. And no institution plays a greater role in safeguarding our freedom—or potentially threatening it.

In this groundbreaking book, award-winning journalist Ronald...

Money: Who Has How Much and Why - Abridged

By: Andrew Hacker
Narrated by: Cotter Smith
Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes

On the publication of Andrew Hacker's instant classic and bestselling Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal, Newsweek described him as a "political scientist doing with statistics what Fred Astaire did with hats, canes, and chairs. he doesn't crunch numbers: he makes them live and breathe." Now, with the same keen, objective... Read more »

In Your Face

By: Chris DeRose
Narrated by: Rick Pasqualone
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No

In Your Face is Chris’s story in his own words; it’s not simply an eyewitness account of social activism, but the experience of a man living on the front lines. It is the intense, sometimes funny, story of how one man learned about injustice, cared enough to get involved, started taking direct action, and ultimately made a difference in the... Read more »

Political Incorrections - Abridged

By: Bill Maher
Narrated by: Bill Maher
Length: 1 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: Yes

The Best Opening Monologues from Politically Incorrect starring Bill Maher
Featuring an introduction by Penn Jillette
For everyone who's had their fill of politicians, TV trials and the daily events seen on the evening news, Simon & Schuster Audio offers some relief with POLITICAL INCORRECTIONS-a collection of the funniest opening monologues... Read more »

Blood Sport - Abridged

By: James B. Stewart
Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
Length: 5 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: Yes

Blood Sport is the explosive national bestseller that became front-page news by exposing the truth about the Clinton White House. With new revelations in this edition, Blood Sport is the definitive account of independent counsel Kenneth Starr's potentially historic investigation of a president and first lady.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author... Read more »

A Good Life - Abridged

By: Ben Bradlee
Narrated by: Ben Bradlee
Length: 4 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: Yes

The classic New York Times bestselling memoir by legendary Executive Editor of The Washington Post Ben Bradlee—with a new foreword by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein and an afterword by Sally Quinn.

The most important, glamorous, and famous newspaperman of modern times traces his path from Harvard to the battles of the South Pacific to the... Read more »

No Ordinary Time - Abridged

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: Yes

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History, No Ordinary Time is a monumental work, a brilliantly conceived chronicle of one of the most vibrant and revolutionary periods in the history of the United States.

With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking number of story lines—Eleanor and Franklin’s... Read more »

Inside the White House

By: Ronald Kessler
Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No

"If the general public knew what was going on inside the White House, they would scream." So states one Secret Service agent, just a small link in the chain of security that has guarded the public image of the presidency and the men who define it-until now.With unprecedented access to Secret Service agents, domestic servants, Air Force One... Read more »

Once Upon A More Enlightened Time - Abridged

By: James Finn Garner
Narrated by: James Finn Garner
Length: 1 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: Yes

The hilarious sequel to the #1 phenomenon Politically Correct Bedtime Stories.
"If we can cleanse these stories and put an end to the lies our children are spoon-fed while being spoon-fed...the world may finally become a decent place for persunkind and other, equally important species." -- James Finn Garner
Spurred by the overwhelming success of... Read more »