Politics & Economy audiobooks

Blood and Thunder - Abridged

By: Hampton Sides

Narrated by: Don Leslie

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Ghost Soldiers comes an eye-opening history of the American conquest of the West—"a story full of authority and color, truth and prophecy" (The New York Times Book Review).

In the summer of 1846, the Army of the West marched through Santa Fe, en route to invade and occupy the Western territories claimed... Read more

LA POLITICA RACCONTA LA SUA STORIA - Abridged

By: Stephen Daronyashi

Narrated by: Salvato Bellini

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dalle prime città-stato dell'antichità ai governi moderni, la politica è sempre stata al centro delle trasformazioni umane. Questo libro vi invita a esplorare la storia dei meccanismi del potere, dagli intrighi delle corti reali alle rivoluzioni che hanno plasmato le nostre democrazie contemporanee.Addentrandosi in questo libro, si scopriranno... Read more

Imperial Ambitions - Abridged

By: Noam Chomsky & David Barsamian

Narrated by: Noam Chomsky & David Barsamian

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this first collection of interviews since the bestselling 9-11: Was There an Alternative?, our foremost intellectual activist examines crucial questions of U.S. foreign policy.

Timely, urgent, and powerfully elucidating, this important volume of previously unpublished interviews conducted by award-winning radio journalist David Barsamian... 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

An Unfinished Life - Abridged

By: Robert Dallek

Narrated by: Richard McGonagle

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Drawing on previously unavailable material and never-before-opened archives, An Unfinished Life is packed with revelations large and small -- about JFK's health, his love affairs, RFK's appointment as Attorney General, what Joseph Kennedy did to help his son win the White House, and the path JFK would have taken in the Vietnam entanglement had... Read more

Hot, Flat, and Crowded - Abridged

By: Thomas L. Friedman

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Thomas L. Friedman's no. 1 bestseller The World Is Flat has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now Friedman brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy—both of which could poison our world if we do not act quickly and collectively. His argument speaks to all of... Read more

The Long Goodbye - Abridged

By: Patti Davis

Narrated by: Patti Davis

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ronald Reagan’s daughter writes with a moving openness about losing her father to Alzheimer’s disease. The simplicity with which she reveals the intensity, the rush, the flow of her feelings encompasses all the surprises and complexities that ambush us when death gradually, unstoppably invades life.

In The Long Goodbye, Patti Davis describes... Read more

Sigmund Freud: Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Psychoanalyse – Gesamtbox - Abridged

By: Sigmund Freud

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 17 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In den Jahren 1915 - 1917 hielt Sigmund Freud eine Vorlesungsreihe mit dem Namen "Einführung in die Psychoanalyse" - der Grundstein dieser Disziplin schlechthin. In dieser Gesamtbox sind alle drei Zyklen enthalten: 1. Die Fehlleistungen (Vorlesungen 1 - 4), 2. Der Traum (Vorlesungen 5 - 15), Allgemeine Neurosenlehre (Vorlesungen 16 - 28). Read more

F.U.B.A.R. - Abridged

By: Sam Seder & Stephen Sherrill

Narrated by: Sam Seder

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The United States has survived clueless presidential administrations before. But no matter how enormous the crisis -- the Great Depression, Vietnam, Watergate, Monica Lewinsky's thong -- America's always come out looking like, well, America.This time, however, something's different. Things aren't just screwed up; they're f!d up beyond all... Read more

The Next Great Bubble Boom - Abridged

By: Harry S. Dent

Narrated by: Harry S. Dent

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

For over 15 years, New York Times bestselling author Harry S. Dent, Jr. has been uncannily accurate in predicting the financial future. In his three previous works, Dent predicted the financial recession of the early 90s, the economic expansion of the mid-90s, and the financial free-for-all of 1998-2000.
The Next Great Bubble Boom offers a... Read more

The Hill Fights - Abridged

By: Edward F. Murphy

Narrated by: Charles Stransky

Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

While the seventy-seven-day siege of Khe Sanh in early 1968 remains one of the most highly publicized clashes of the Vietnam War, scant attention has been paid to the first battle of Khe Sanh, also known as “the Hill Fights.” Although this harrowing combat in the spring of 1967 provided a grisly preview of the carnage to come at Khe Sanh, few... Read more

Lone Survivor - Abridged

By: Marcus Luttrell

Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Follow along a Navy SEAL's firsthand account of American heroism during a secret military operation in Afghanistan in this true story of survival and difficult choices.

On a clear night in late June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in northern Afghanistan for the mountainous Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a... Read more

Resolução de Traumas com Inteligência Emocional - Abridged

By: MAX EDITORIAL

Narrated by: Thalita

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A importância da inteligência emocional na cura de traumas Como este ebook pode ser um guia para superar traumas e encontrar a cura emocional Introdução: A Jornada da Cura Através da Inteligência Emocional Traumas podem deixar cicatrizes profundas em nossa mente e coração, afetando nossa capacidade de viver plenamente e experimentar a... Read more

Why Courage Matters - Abridged

By: John McCain & Mark Salter

Narrated by: John McCain

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this inspiring meditation on courage, Senator John McCain shares his most cherished stories of ordinary individuals who have risked everything to defend the people and principles they hold most dear.

“We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear but the capacity for action... Read more

At Canaan's Edge - Abridged

By: Taylor Branch

Narrated by: Joe Morton

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 is the final volume in Taylor Branch's magnificent history of America in the years of the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War, recognized universally as the definitive account and ultimate recognition of Martin Luther King's heroic place in the nation's history.

The final volume of Taylor... Read more

Educação Emocional para Crianças - Abridged

By: MAX EDITORIAL

Narrated by: Thalita

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

No mundo em constante evolução em que vivemos, habilidades como a inteligência emocional tornaram-se tão cruciais quanto as habilidades acadêmicas. A capacidade de compreender, expressar e gerar emoções não só influencia o bem-estar mental, mas também desempenha um papel fundamental nas relações sociais, no sucesso acadêmico e profissional e na... Read more

Zelensky - Abridged

By: Steven Derix

Narrated by: Christian Neil

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A vivid, up-to-date biography of Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, covering his humble background and successful TV career to his corruption-dogged first years in office to Russia's invasion. Told with flair and authority, it is the gripping story of one of the most admired and inspirational leaders in the world. An action-packed... Read more

Fast Food Nation - Abridged

By: Eric Schlosser

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Fast Food Nation - the groundbreaking work of investigation and cultural history that has changed the way America thinks about the way it eats - and spent nearly four months on the New York Times bestseller list - now available on cassette!

Are we what we eat? To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of... Read more

Somebody's Gotta Say It - Abridged

By: Neal Boortz

Narrated by: Neal Boortz

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Think you've got it all figured out? Think again.Neal Boortz has been edifying, infuriating, and entertaining talk radio audiences for more than three decades with his blend of straight talk and twisted humor. In Somebody's Gotta Say It, Boortz warms up for the coming political season with a preemptive strike in the War on the Individual: ""The... Read more

A Perfect Union - Abridged

By: Catherine Allgor

Narrated by: Anne Twomey

Length: 17 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An extraordinary American comes to life in this vivid, incisive portrait of the early days of the republic—and the birth of modern politics hen the roar of the Revolution had finally died down, a new generation of American politicians was summoned to the Potomac to assemble the nation's newly minted capital. Into that unsteady atmosphere which... Read more

Blind Man's Bluff - Abridged

By: Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew & Annette L. Drew

Narrated by: Tony Roberts

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

No espionage missions have been kept more secret than those involving American submarines. Now, Blind Man's Bluff shows for the first time how the Navy sent submarines wired with self-destruct charges into the heart of Soviet seas to tap crucial underwater telephone cables. It unveils how the Navy's own negligence might have been responsible for... Read more

The Fair Tax Book - Abridged

By: Neal Boortz

Narrated by: Neal Boortz

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The runaway bestselling new FairTax proposal that’s catching fire in America’s heartlandWouldn’t you love to abolish the IRS . . .Keep all the money in your paycheck . . .Pay taxes on what you spend, not what you earn . . .And eliminate all the fraud, hassle, and waste of our current system?Then the FairTax is for you. In the face of the... Read more

Storyteller's Daughter - Abridged

By: Saira Shah

Narrated by: Saira Shah

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The startling memoir of a young woman
shaped by two dramatically disparate worldsBorn in Britain, Saira Shah was inspired by her father's dazzling stories to rediscover the now lost life their forebears knew for 900 years within sight of orchards, snow-topped mountains, and the minarets of Kabul. This is Saira -- part sophisticated and sensitive... Read more

Auf eine Currywurst mit Gregor Gysi (Gekürzt) - Abridged

By: Gregor Gysi & Hans-Dieter Schütt

Narrated by: Gregor Gysi & Hans-Dieter Schütt

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Gregor Gysi - so offen und persönlich wie noch nie Gregor Gysi, Legende der Linkspartei und alternativer Elder Statesman, wird auf seinen Lesereisen seit Jahren von Hans-Dieter Schütt begleitet. So kam es zu den Gesprächen am Imbissstand, die in diesem Buch versammelt sind: Gysi in seinem Element, schlagfertig, pointiert, lebensklug. Über... Read more