Politics & Economy audiobooks

Ballad of the Whiskey Robber

By: Julian Rubinstein
Narrated by: Hachette Assorted Authors
Length: 11 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No

An award-wining and "outrageously entertaining" true crime story (San Francisco Chronicle) about the professional hockey player-turned-bank robber whose bizarre and audacious crime spree galvanized Hungary in the decade after the fall of the Iron Curtain.

During the 1990s, while playing for the biggest hockey team in Budapest, Attila Ambrus took... Read more »

Mayflower

By: Nathaniel Philbrick
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 12 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No

"Vivid and remarkably fresh...Philbrick has recast the Pilgrims for the ages."
--The New York Times Book Review

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history
New York Times Book Review Top Ten books of the Year

How did America begin? That simple question launches the acclaimed author of Bunker Hill and Valiant Ambition on an extraordinary journey... Read more »

Now It's My Turn - Abridged

By: Mary Cheney
Narrated by: Mary Cheney
Length: 5 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: Yes

Who is Mary Cheney?

In the most eagerly awaited political memoir of the season, Mary Cheney, who served as a top campaign aide to her father, the vice president, presents a behind-the-scenes look at the high-intensity world of presidential politics and talks for the first time about her life, her family, and her role in the campaigns of 2000... Read more »

Common Sense and The Declaration of Independence

By: Thomas Paine & Thomas Jefferson
Narrated by: Craig Deitschmann & Bill Middleton
Length: 2 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No

Common Sense examines how Americans defended the right to resist unjust laws and how this right of resistance was transformed into a right of revolution. It examines Thomas Paine’s views on the difference between society and government, his defense of republican government, his total rejection of hereditary monarchy, and his belief that...

Colombia and Panama

By: Joseph Stromberg
Narrated by: Richard C. Hottelet
Length: 2 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No

Colombia in the 1980s became known for its role in the illegal drug trade, and for political instability and violence caused by this problem. But much of this is a recent development in Colombia’s history that began in the 1530s, when Spain conquered local Indian kingdoms. This is the story of how Spain’s “New Granada” evolved into Venezuela,...

Civility and Community

By: Brian Schrag
Narrated by: Robert Guillaume
Length: 2 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No

Concern for others is the basis of human decency; without it, our communities are increasingly degraded by selfishness and corruption. Some think that crime and racial conflict naturally follow the breakdown of shared community values. In a world of violence and deviancy, how can we build a caring community? Have courtesy and civility...

Civil Disobedience and The Liberator

By: Wendy McElroy
Narrated by: Craig Deitschmann
Length: 2 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No

Civil Disobedience discusses Thoreau’s arguments for civil disobedience: the deliberate violation of laws for reasons of conscience. Thoreau’s concept is based on the belief that no law should command blind obedience and that non-cooperation with unjust laws is both morally correct and socially beneficial.

The Liberator was a leading voice for...

The Mighty and the Almighty

By: Madeleine Albright
Narrated by: Madeleine Albright
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No

Does America have a special mission, derived from God, to bring liberty and democracy to the world? How much influence does the Christian right have over U.S. foreign policy? And how should America deal with violent Islamist extremists? Madeleine Albright, the former Secretary of State and bestselling author of Madam Secretary, offers a...

House of War - Abridged

By: James Carroll
Narrated by: James Carroll
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: Yes

In House of War, the bestselling author James Carroll has created a history of the Pentagon that is both epic and personal. Through Carroll we see how the Pentagon, since its founding, has operated beyond the control of any force in government or society, undermining the very national security it is sworn to protect.From its "birth" on September... Read more »

China

By: Murray Sayle
Narrated by: Richard C. Hottelet
Length: 2 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No

Since Marco Polo, the fabled markets of China have drawn the west like a magnet. This ancient culture has been colonized by foreign powers, buffeted by war and revolution, yet China remains one of the most constant of international influences. It is a sleeping giant. Many fear, and some welcome its awakening. This presentation examines both the...

Mark Felt

By: Mark Felt & John O'Connor
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 12 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No

In 1974, Mark Felt was given the code name "Deep Throat" and shared intelligence on the Watergate break-in with a young reporter from the Washington Post named Bob Woodward. Thus began the greatest political scandal in the twentieth century, which would besmirch an entire administration and bring down a presidency.

A patriotic man, Felt only... Read more »

Chile and Argentina

By: Mark Szuchman
Narrated by: Richard C. Hottelet
Length: 2 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No

The "southern cone" of South America has a vibrant yet checkered history. Argentina in 1920 was a productive and wealthy nation, yet by the 1980s was reduced to virtual third world status. Chile has a long history of internal strife, usually with representative politics until authoritarians seized power in 1973. Chile was influenced by Spanish...

Central Europe

By: Ralph Raico
Narrated by: Richard C. Hottelet
Length: 2 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No

Central Europe’s ancient civilizations have long been dominated by empires: the Roman Empire, the Habsburg Empire, based in Austria, and more recently, the Soviet Communists. But the decline of communism in the late twentieth century has unleashed old resentments, rivalries, and ambitions that have caused yet more war in this troubled region.

The...

Central America

By: Joseph Stromberg
Narrated by: Harry Reasoner
Length: 2 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No

A cluster of five countries; Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica; are commonly referred to as Central America. Although these nations differ in their histories and politics, they share at least one factor: they have been caught up in the turmoil of America’s foreign policy in this region. These recordings depict the chain...

Revolutionary Wealth

By: Alvin Toffler & Heidi Toffler
Narrated by: Melissa Edris
Length: TBA
Abridged: No

Starting with the publication of their seminal bestseller, Future Shock, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have given millions of readers new ways to think about personal life in today’s high-speed world with its constantly changing, seemingly random impacts on our businesses, governments, families and daily lives. Now, writing with the same rare grasp... Read more »

Revolutionary Wealth - Abridged

By: Alvin Toffler & Heidi Toffler
Narrated by: Kevin Gray & Laura Dean
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes

Starting with the publication of their seminal bestseller, Future Shock, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have given millions of readers new ways to think about personal life in today’s high-speed world with its constantly changing, seemingly random impacts on our businesses, governments, families and daily lives. Now, writing with the same rare grasp... Read more »

Guests of the Ayatollah - Abridged

By: Mark Bowden
Narrated by: Mark Bowden
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes

On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students, inspired by revolutionary Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini, stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran. They took fifty-two Americans hostage and kept nearly all of them captive 444 days.

The Iran hostage crisis was a watershed moment in American history. It was America's first showdown with... Read more »

America Back on Track - Abridged

By: Edward M. Kennedy
Narrated by: Edward M. Kennedy
Length: 3 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: Yes

With America Back on Track, his first major policy book in more than forty years, Senator Edward Kennedy reveals a critical plan to revive the lapsed values of our nation.

Abridged CDs - 5 CDs, 6 hours Read more »

Politics Lost

By: Joe Klein
Narrated by: Terence McGovern
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No

People on the right are furious. People on the left are livid. And the center isn’t holding. There is only one thing on which almost everyone agrees: there is something very wrong in Washington. The country is being run by pollsters. Few politicians are able to win the voters’ trust. Blame abounds and personal responsibility is nowhere to be... Read more »

Politics Lost - Abridged

By: Joe Klein
Narrated by: Joe Klein
Length: 5 hours
Abridged: Yes

People on the right are furious. People on the left are livid. And the center isn’t holding. There is only one thing on which almost everyone agrees: there is something very wrong in Washington. The country is being run by pollsters. Few politicians are able to win the voters’ trust. Blame abounds and personal responsibility is nowhere to be... Read more »

Abortion and Euthanasia

By: David James
Narrated by: Robert Guillaume
Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No

The beginning and ending of life are deeply controversial moral topics with enormous stakes. Most people agree that it is wrong to kill humans—but are fetuses, or people in a deep coma, fully human? Does a person have a moral discretion or “right” to take his or her own life, or to aid another person who does so? And who should bear the cost for...

The Political Zoo

By: Michael Savage
Narrated by: Tim Lundeen
Length: 7 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the real national zoo! As Aristotle said, "Man is a political animal." Talk radio sensation and New York Times best-selling author Michael Savage is afraid that the ancient philosopher was all too right, and in ways he never could have imagined. In Savage's funniest, most biting book yet, the nation's fiercest... Read more »

31 Days

By: Barry Werth
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 12 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No

In 31 Days, Barry Werth takes readers inside the White House during the tumultuous days following Nixon’s resignation and the swearing-in of America’s “accidental president,” Gerald Ford. The congressional hearings, Nixon’s increasing paranoia, and, finally, the devastating revelations of the White House tapes had torn the country apart. Within... Read more »

War, Terrorism, and Violence

By: Nicholas Fotion
Narrated by: Robert Guillaume
Length: 2 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No

Some think that humans are naturally aggressive and that wars are unavoidable; others believe that morality demands a pacifist condemnation of all forms of violence. A large middle ground involves the attempt to define “just wars,” and rules have been written to govern how war should be conducted among civilized peoples. Is war ever justified?...