The Duel
By: Captivating History
Narrated by: Duke Holm
Length: 4 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Explore the Individual Lives of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr and their DuelTwo captivating manuscripts in one audiobook: Alexander Hamilton: A Captivating Guide to One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America Aaron Burr: A Captivating Guide to the Life of Aaron Burr and the Most Famous Duel in American History Alexander... Read more
View audiobookFirst Man In
By: Ant Middleton
Narrated by: Ant Middleton
Length: 6 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER No one is born a leader. But through sheer determination and by confronting life’s challenges, Ant Middleton has come to know the meaning of true leadership. In First Man In, he shares the core lessons he’s learned over the course of his fascinating,... Read more
View audiobookAsian Waters
By: Humphrey Hawksley
Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
Length: 9 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
In the sphere of future global politics, no region will be as hotly contested as the Asia-Pacific, where great power interests collide amid the mistrust of unresolved conflicts and disputed territory. This is where authoritarian China is trying to rewrite international law and challenge the democratic values of the United States and its allies.... Read more
View audiobookGive People Money
By: Annie Lowrey
Narrated by: Annie Lowrey
Length: 7 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Shortlisted for the 2018 FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
A brilliantly reported, global look at universal basic income—a stipend given to every citizen—and why it might be necessary in an age of rising inequality, persistent poverty, and dazzling technology.
Imagine if every month... Read more
The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela
By: Nelson Mandela
Narrated by: Atandwa Kani
Length: 20 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
An unforgettable portrait of one of the most inspiring historical figures of the twentieth century, published on the centenary of his birth. Arrested in 1962 as South Africa's apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, forty-four-year-old lawyer and African National Congress activist Nelson Mandela had no idea... Read more
View audiobookSatchmo Blows Up the World
By: Penny M. Von Eschen
Narrated by: Christina Delaine
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
At the height of the ideological antagonism of the Cold War, the U.S. State Department unleashed an unexpected tool in its battle against Communism: jazz. From 1956 through the late 1970s, America dispatched its finest jazz musicians to the far corners of the earth, from Iraq to India, from the Congo to the Soviet Union, in order to win the... Read more
View audiobookObama
By: Brian Abrams
Narrated by: Tom Parks, Fred Stella & Emily Sutton-Smith
Length: 13 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
The first ever comprehensive oral history of President Obama’s administration and the complex political machine that created and powered a landmark American presidency.In this candid oral history of a presidential tenure, author Brian Abrams reveals the behind-the-scenes stories that illuminate the eight years of the Obama White House through... Read more
View audiobookHacking ISIS
By: Malcolm Nance & Christopher Sampson
Narrated by: Neil Shah
Length: 7 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
This book is written by two of the leading terrorist experts in the world - Malcolm Nance, NBC News and MSNBC terrorism analyst and New York Times bestselling author of Defeating ISIS and the forthcoming Hacking ISIS, and Christopher Sampson, cyber-terrorist expert. Malcolm Nance is a 35 year practitioner in Middle East Special Operations and... Read more
View audiobookThe Plot to Destroy Trump
By: Theodore Roosevelt Malloch
Narrated by: Tom Parks
Length: 8 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
“The DEEP STATE conspired to take down TRUMP. This book fills in all the details, and names names. All Patriots need to read it.” ―Alex Jones, founder, InfowarsThe Plot to Destroy Trump exposes the deep state conspiracy to discredit and even depose the legitimately elected President Donald J. Trump with the fabricated Russian dossier,... Read more
View audiobookThe Marginalized Majority
By: Onnesha Roychoudhuri
Narrated by: Priya Ayyar
Length: 5 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Ever since the 2016 election, pundits have been saying our country has never been more divided—that if progressives want to reclaim power, we need to be “pragmatic,” reach across the aisle, and look past identity politics.But what if we’re getting the story all wrong? In The Marginalized Majority, Onnesha Roychoudhuri makes the galvanizing case... Read more
View audiobookSmall Wars, Big Data
By: Eli Berman, Joseph H. Felter & Jacob N. Shapiro
Narrated by: John McLain
Length: 13 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Small Wars, Big Data provides groundbreaking perspectives for how small wars can be better strategized and favorably won to the benefit of the local population. The authors show that a revolution in the study of conflict-enabled by vast data, rich qualitative evidence, and modern methods-yields new insights into terrorism, civil wars, and... Read more
View audiobookThe Poisoned City
By: Anna Clark
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 7 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism - 2019
When the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring out was poisoned with lead and other toxins.
Through a series of disastrous decisions, the state government had switched the city’s water supply to a source that corroded Flint’s aging lead pipes.... Read more
The Case Against Impeaching Trump
By: Alan Dershowitz
Narrated by: Lawrence Richardson
Length: 5 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
“Maybe the question isn’t what happened to Alan Dershowitz. Maybe it’s what happened to everyone else.”—PoliticoAlan Dershowitz has been called “one of the most prominent and consistent defenders of civil liberties in America” by Politico and “the nation’s most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer and one of its most distinguished defenders of... Read more
View audiobookMore Power
By: Hugh Matheson & Christopher Dodd
Narrated by: Joseph Tweedale
Length: 7 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Arguably the greatest coach in British sporting history. SHORTLISTED FOR THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS Jurgen Grobler’s Olympic coaching career is one of legend, yet the man himself has remained resolutely out of the spotlight. Over the last twenty years he has masterminded British... Read more
View audiobookThe Future of Terrorism
By: Walter Laqueur & Christopher Wall
Narrated by: Christopher Price
Length: 12 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
In this fascinating audiobook, an expert on terrorism and an expert on counterterrorism answer the two questions everyone is asking about the rise of terrorism today: why is this happening, and when will it end?
Since the death of bin Laden in 2011, ISIS has risen, al-Qaeda has expanded its reach, and right-wing extremists have surged in the... Read more
Eyes on the Prize
By: Juan Williams
Narrated by: Sean Crisden
Length: 11 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
From the Montgomery bus boycott to the Little Rock Nine to the Selma–Montgomery march, thousands of ordinary people who participated in the American civil rights movement; their stories are told in Eyes on the Prize.
From leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr., to lesser-known figures such as Barbara Rose John and Jim Zwerg, each man and woman... Read more
The Monarchy of Fear
By: Martha C. Nussbaum
Narrated by: Amanda Carlin
Length: 8 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
From one of the world’s most celebrated moral philosophers comes a thorough examination of the current political crisis and recommendations for how to mend our divided country.
For decades Martha C. Nussbaum has been an acclaimed scholar and humanist, earning dozens of honors for her books and essays. In The Monarchy of Fear she turns her... Read more
1968
By: Richard Vinen
Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
Length: 13 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
A major new history of one of the seminal years in the postwar world, when rebellion and disaffection broke out on an extraordinary scale.The year 1968 saw an extraordinary range of protests across much of the western world. Some of these were genuinely revolutionary—around ten million French workers went on strike and the whole state teetered... Read more
View audiobookThe Billionaire Raj
By: James Crabtree
Narrated by: Shridhar Solanki
Length: 14 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
A colorful and revealing portrait of the rise of India’s new billionaire class in a radically unequal society
India is the world’s largest democracy, with more than one billion people and an economy expanding faster than China’s. But the rewards of this growth have been far from evenly shared, and the country’s top 1% now own nearly 60% of its... Read more
Impeachment
By: Cass R. Sunstein
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Length: 4 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
As Benjamin Franklin famously put it, Americans have a republic, if we can keep it. Preserving the Constitution and the democratic system it supports is the public’s responsibility. One route the Constitution provides for discharging that duty―a route rarely traveled―is impeachment.Cass R. Sunstein provides a succinct citizen’s guide to an... Read more
View audiobookAt America's Gates
By: Erika Lee
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 9 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of U.S. immigration history, but we know little about its consequences for the Chinese in America or for the United States as a nation... Read more
View audiobookThe Terrorist Factory
By: Father Patrick Desbois & Costel Nastasie
Narrated by: David de Vries
Length: 5 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
A riveting, behind-the-scenes look of the Yazidi genocide and the terrorist threat it holds for the West, based on the investigation by Father Patrick Desbois, Costel Nastasie, and their team at Yahad–In Unum, as first shown on 60 Minutes.With testimony drawn from more than 200 interviews with Yazidi survivors―girls, women, boys, and... Read more
View audiobookGetting Back to Business
By: Daniel Peris
Narrated by: Fred Filbrich
Length: 9 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Modern Portfolio Theory has failed investors. A change in direction is long overdue.
We are in a time of enormous risk. Economic growth is anemic, and political risk to the capital markets is on the rise. In the U.S., a generation of white collar baby-boomers is heading into retirement with insufficient assets in their 401(k) programs, and... Read more
Cannabis - Abridged
By: Peter Cremer-Schaeffer
Narrated by: Bernd Gnann
Length: 1 hour 19 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Fluch oder Segen? Für die einen ist Cannabis eine harmlose Droge, für andere der Einstieg in eine zerstörerische Sucht. Doch die Wirkstoffe dieser Pflanze können auch als Medizin schwer kranken Menschen helfen, und ein neues Gesetz erlaubt es nun allen Ärzten, Cannabis-Arzneimittel zu verschreiben. Was dies genau bedeutet, wird in diesem Hörbuch... Read more
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