Politics

Dangerous

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Milo Yiannopoulos
• Narrated By Milo Yiannopoulos

The liberal media machine did everything they could to keep this book out of your hands. Now, finally, Dangerous, the most controversial book of the decade, is tearing down safe spaces everywhere.

The Men Who Stare at Goats

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Jon Ronson
• Narrated By Jon Ronson
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In 1979, a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within the US Army. Defying all known accepted military practice - and indeed, the laws of physics - they believed that a soldier could adopt the cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls and, perhaps most chillingly, kill goats just by staring at them. Entrusted with defending America from all known adversaries, they were the First Earth Battalion. And they really weren't joking. What's more, they're back and fighting the War on Terror.

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Daron Acemoglu, James Robinson
• Narrated By Dan Woren
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Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?

The Prince

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 1 min)
• By Niccolò Machiavelli
• Narrated By David McCallion
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In an attempt to appeal to the Medici family during the Italian Renaissance, Machiavelli outlines the way to acquire and retain political power, and how great men should behave in a princely government. The book is divided into four parts - types of principalities and state, proper conduct of a prince as military leader, personal conduct of a prince, and the disparity of Italy's political situation. Many listeners will be able to see principals that Machiavelli advocates for are still used in many political systems today.

The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Dinesh D'Souza
• Narrated By David Cochran Heath
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What is "the big lie" of the Democratic Party? That conservatives - and President Donald Trump in particular - are fascists. Nazis, even. In a typical comment, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow says the Trump era is reminiscent of "what it was like when Hitler first became chancellor." But in fact, this audacious lie is a complete inversion of the truth. Yes, there is a fascist threat in America - but that threat is from the Left and the Democratic Party.

Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Katy Tur
• Narrated By Katy Tur
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The NBC journalist who covered - and took fire from - Donald Trump on the campaign trail offers an inside look at the most shocking presidential election in American history. Intriguing, disturbing, and powerful, Unbelievable is an unprecedented eyewitness account of the 2016 election from an intelligent, dedicated journalist at the center of it - a thoughtful historical record that offers eye-opening insights and details on our political process, the media, and the mercurial 45th president of the United States.

No Is Not Enough: Defeating the New Shock Politics

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Naomi Klein
• Narrated By Brit Marling
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Trump, as extreme as he is, is less an aberration than a logical conclusion - a pastiche of pretty much all the worst and most dangerous trends of the past half century. A one-man megabrand, with wife and children as spin-off brands... Remember when it all seemed to be getting better? Before Trump happened? Naomi Klein, internationally acclaimed journalist, activist and best-selling author, shows us how we got to this surreal and dangerous place, how to stop it getting a lot worse, and how, if we keep our heads, we can make things better.

Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Ben Shapiro, David Limbaugh - foreword
• Narrated By Chris Abell
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When parents send their children off to college, Mom and Dad hope they'll return more cultivated, knowledgeable, and astute - able to see issues from all points of view. But, according to Ben Shapiro, there's only one view allowed on most college campuses: a rabid brand of liberalism that must be swallowed hook, line, and sinker.

Operation Relentless: The Hunt for the Richest, Deadliest Criminal in History

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Damien Lewis
• Narrated By Greg Wagland
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The new best seller from the author of Zero Six Bravo. By 2007 Viktor Bout had become the world's foremost arms dealer. Known as the Merchant of Death, he was both public enemy number one to the global intelligence agencies and a ruthless criminal worth around $6 billion. For years Bout had eluded capture, meanwhile building up a labyrinthine network of airlines selling weapons to order to dictators, rebels, despots and terror groups worldwide.

Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Sam Harris, Maajid Nawaz
• Narrated By Sam Harris, Maajid Nawaz
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In this short book, Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz invite you to join an urgently needed conversation: Is Islam a religion of peace or war? Is it amenable to reform? Why do so many Muslims seem drawn to extremism? What do words like Islamism, jihadism, and fundamentalism mean in today's world? Remarkable for the breadth and depth of its analysis, this dialogue between a famous atheist and a former radical is all the more startling for its decorum. Harris and Nawaz have produced something genuinely new: they engage one of the most polarizing issues of our time - fearlessly and fully - and actually make progress.

The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Kevin Mitnick
• Narrated By Ray Porter

Like it or not, your every move is being watched and analyzed. Consumers' identities are being stolen, and a person's every step is being tracked and stored. What once might have been dismissed as paranoia is now a hard truth, and privacy is a luxury few can afford or understand. In this explosive yet practical book, Kevin Mitnick illustrates what is happening without your knowledge - and he teaches you "the art of invisibility".

Al Franken, Giant of the Senate

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Al Franken
• Narrated By Al Franken
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Al Franken, Giant of the Senate is a book about an unlikely campaign that had an even more improbable ending: the closest outcome in history and an unprecedented eight-month recount saga, which is pretty funny in retrospect. It's a book about what happens when the nation's foremost progressive satirist gets a chance to serve in the United States Senate and, defying the low expectations of the pundit class, actually turns out to be good at it.

Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 28 mins)
• By David Litt
• Narrated By David Litt

More than any other presidency, Barack Obama's eight years in the White House were defined by young people - 20-somethings who didn't have much experience in politics (or anything else, for that matter) yet suddenly found themselves in the most high-stakes office building on earth. David Litt was one of those 20-somethings. After graduating from college in 2008, he went straight to the Obama campaign. In 2011 he became one of the youngest White House speechwriters in history.

The Road to Ruin: The Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 47 mins)
• By James Rickards
• Narrated By James Rickards
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Penguin presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook of The Road to Ruin, written and read by James Rickards. The global economy has made what seems like an incredible comeback after the financial crisis of 2008. Yet this comeback is artificial. Central banks have propped up markets by keeping interest rates low and the supply of money free-flowing. They won't bail us out again next time. And there will be a next time...soon.

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 45 mins)
• By Timothy Snyder
• Narrated By Timothy Snyder
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In the 20th century, European democracies collapsed into fascism, Nazism and communism. These were movements in which a leader or a party claimed to give voice to the people, promised to protect them from global existential threats, and rejected reason in favour of myth. European history shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary people can find themselves in unimaginable circumstances. History can familiarise, and it can warn.

Soldier Spy

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Tom Marcus
• Narrated By Jason Langley
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In the boot were six homemade pipe bombs, all linked to detonate at the same time from a single call on a brand-new pay-as-you-go phone found on the target. Special Branch also found Chinese Type 56 assault rifles with eight full magazines of ammunition. His target was a local school. He planned to attack two coaches of teenagers returning home after a school trip to France. Approximately 60 children, their accompanying teachers and their waiting parents. He was going to kill them all.

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

• ABRIDGED (6 hrs and 10 mins)
• By Barack Obama
• Narrated By Barack Obama

In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. Now, in The Audacity of Hope, Senator Obama calls for a different brand of politics: a politics for those weary of bitter partisanship and alienated by the "endless clash of armies" we see in Congress and on the campaign trail; a politics rooted in the faith, inclusiveness, and nobility of spirit at the heart of "our improbable experiment in democracy".

Grunch of Giants

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 25 mins)
• By R. Buckminster Fuller
• Narrated By Andrew Heyl
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Here, Buckminster Fuller takes on the gigantic corporate megaliths that exert increasing control over every aspect of daily life. In the form of a modern allegory, he traces the evolution of these multinational giants from the post-World War II military-industrial complex to the current army of abstract legal entities known as the corporate world. GRUNCH stands for Gross Universal Cash Heist.

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Robert Spencer
• Narrated By Jeff Riggenbach

You think you know about Islam. But, did you know that Islam teaches that Muslims must wage war to impose Islamic law on non-Muslim states, or that American Muslim groups are engaged in a huge cover-up of Islamic doctrine? These and other "politically incorrect" facts are revealed by Robert Spencer in The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades).

White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Joan C. Williams
• Narrated By Liisa Ivary
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Around the world, populist movements are gaining traction among the white working class. Meanwhile, members of the professional elite - journalists, managers, and establishment politicians - are on the outside looking in, left to argue over the reasons. Williams explains that many people have conflated "working class" with "poor" - but the working class is, in fact, the elusive, purportedly disappearing middle class. They often resent the poor and the professionals alike. But they don't resent the truly rich.

Future War: Preparing for the New Global Battlefield

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Robert H. Latiff
• Narrated By Johnathan McClain

Future war is almost here: battles fought in cyberspace, biologically enhanced soldiers, autonomous systems that can process information and strike violently before a human being can blink. A leading expert on the place of technology in war and intelligence, Robert H. Latiff, now teaching at the University of Notre Dame, has spent a career in the military researching and developing new combat technologies, observing the cost of our unquestioning embrace of innovation.

Things That Can and Cannot Be Said: Essays and Conversations

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 54 mins)
• By Arundhati Roy, John Cusack
• Narrated By Arundhati Roy, John Cusack

In late 2014, Arundhati Roy, John Cusack, and Daniel Ellsberg traveled to Moscow to meet with Edward Snowden. The result is a series of essays and dialogues in which Roy and Cusack reflect on their conversations with Snowden. In these provocative and penetrating discussions, Roy and Cusack discuss the nature of the state, empire, and surveillance in an era of perpetual war, the meaning of flags and patriotism, the role of foundations and NGOs in limiting dissent, and the ways in which capital but not people can freely cross borders.

Supreme Power: 7 Pivotal Supreme Court Decisions That Had a Major Impact on America

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Ted Stewart
• Narrated By Art Allen

Best-selling author Ted Stewart explains how the Supreme Court and its nine appointed members now stand at a crucial point in their power to hand down momentous and far-ranging decisions. Today's Court affects every major area of American life, from health care to civil rights, from abortion to marriage. This fascinating book reveals the complex history of the Court as told through seven pivotal decisions.

Daring Democracy: Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Frances Moore Lappe, Adam Eichen
• Narrated By Rachel Fulginiti

Americans are distraught as tightly held economic and political power drowns out their voices and values. Legendary Diet for a Small Planet author Frances Moore Lappé and organizer-scholar Adam Eichen offer a fresh, surprising response to this core crisis. This intergenerational duo opens with an essential truth: It's not the magnitude of a challenge that crushes the human spirit. It's feeling powerless - in this case, fearing that to stand up for democracy is futile. It's not, Lappé and Eichen argue.

The Art of War and The Prince: The Strategy of Sun Tzu and Niccolo Machiavelli

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Sun Tzu, Niccolo Machiavelli
• Narrated By Kevin Theis

Machiavelli's The Prince and Sun Tzu's The Art of War are works that were once used in war and political strategy, but, in modern times, have stood the test of time to be analyzed in classrooms all across the world and revered by business leaders, politicians, and scholars. In these two pieces, you will learn the principles of leadership and power, the same principles that helped shape Sun Tzu and Niccolo Machiavelli into powerful leaders.

Stealth Invasion: Muslim Conquest Through Immigration & Resettlement Jihad

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Leo Hohmann
• Narrated By Jerry Sciarrio
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Americans are shocked by ongoing reports chronicling growing chaos in Europe, where massive Muslim migration is wreaking havoc on the continent including horrendous acts of mass terrorism, an epidemic of rape and sexual assault against European women, and large, jihadist-rich enclaves where even police are allegedly hesitant to enter. Yet, few realize that America is heading down the same suicidal path.

Crushing the Collective: The Last Chance to Keep America Free and Self-Governing

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 10 mins)
• By Charles W. Sasser
• Narrated By John Masterson
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The American way - independence, entrepreneurialism, liberty - has been under assault for decades. The cultural foundations of the United States and its institutions are devolving along the line of some futuristic apocalyptic novel and producing social, moral, and economic dry rot that can lead only to chaos and ruin. Attacks on individuality, freedom, and personal responsibility for most of the last century have resulted, as Alexis de Tocqueville once predicted, in a gradual degradation of the people and the descent into slavery of once-free people.

Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 28 mins)
• By David Litt
• Narrated By David Litt

More than any other presidency, Barack Obama's eight years in the White House were defined by young people - 20-somethings who didn't have much experience in politics (or anything else, for that matter) yet suddenly found themselves in the most high-stakes office building on earth. David Litt was one of those 20-somethings. After graduating from college in 2008, he went straight to the Obama campaign. In 2011 he became one of the youngest White House speechwriters in history.

Making the Unipolar Moment: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Post-Cold War Order

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Hal Brands
• Narrated By Cory Schaeffer

In the late 1970s, the United States often seemed to be a superpower in decline. Battered by crises and setbacks around the globe, its post–World War II international leadership appeared to be draining steadily away. Yet just over a decade later, by the early 1990s, America's global primacy had been reasserted in dramatic fashion. The Cold War had ended with Washington and its allies triumphant; democracy and free markets were spreading like never before.

One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 12 mins)
• By E. J. Dionne, Norman J. Ornstein, Thomas E. Mann
• Narrated By E. J. Dionne, Norman J. Ornstein, Thomas E. Mann
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American democracy was never supposed to give the nation a president like Donald Trump. We have never had a president who gave rise to such widespread alarm about his lack of commitment to the institutions of self-government, to the norms democracy requires, and to the need for basic knowledge about how government works. We have never had a president who raises profound questions about his basic competence and his psychological capacity to take on the most challenging political office in the world.

Confessions of a Bibliomaniac: Books, Cults, Evolution, and Skepticism

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 36 mins)
• By David Christopher Lane
• Narrated By John Longen

Beginning with two autobiographical essays about Professor David Lane's book addiction and his 40-plus years of exposing cults, this volume includes critical essays on Andrew Cohen, a spiritual teacher who was forced to resign only to repackage himself several years later; the new age philosopher, Ken Wilber, and his "integral" theory; a skeptical analysis behind why Donald Trump was elected; the future of books in light of virtual reality headsets such as Oculus Rift; and insights on the religious visions of Sri Ramakrishna and the role of guru "transparency".

United We Stand: Don't Tread on USA

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 41 mins)
• By Jillion R. Rising
• Narrated By John Wriddle
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Jillion has carefully dissected the "divide and conquer" tactics used by what he refers to as the Umbrella of Power (central banking, large corporations, media, Wall Street, government, and lobbyists). And he speaks specifically to the groups they divide. Within this audiobook is a logical explanation aimed at millennials, boomers, African Americans, and immigrants regarding our coming together as one people and controlling the fate of America's future.

American Rhapsody

• ABRIDGED (6 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Joe Eszterhas
• Narrated By Joe Eszterhas, Ed Asner, Nina Foch, and others

If the Watergate scandal was a national nightmare, then maybe the Clinton scandal was a national wet dream, and who better to narrate it than the screenwriter Joe Eszterhas? In American Rhapsody, Eszterhas, whose credits include Basic Instinct and Showgirls, takes us through the events that threatened to topple a president. From scandalmongers Matt Drudge and Ken Starr, to his final, unimpeachable witness, Willard - none other than President Clinton's talking penis - Eszterhas gives us the goods.

Riot Days

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Maria Alyokhina
• Narrated By Kate Lock
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From activist, Pussy Riot member and freedom fighter Maria Alyokhina, a raw, hallucinatory, passionate account of her arrest, trial and imprisonment in a penal colony in the Urals for standing up for what she believed in. 'People who believe in freedom and democracy think it will exist forever. That is a mistake. What happened in Russia - what happened to me - could happen anywhere.'

Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Katy Tur
• Narrated By Katy Tur
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The NBC journalist who covered - and took fire from - Donald Trump on the campaign trail offers an inside look at the most shocking presidential election in American history. Intriguing, disturbing, and powerful, Unbelievable is an unprecedented eyewitness account of the 2016 election from an intelligent, dedicated journalist at the center of it - a thoughtful historical record that offers eye-opening insights and details on our political process, the media, and the mercurial 45th president of the United States.

Fractured Continent: Europe's Crises and the Fate of the West

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 44 mins)
• By William Drozdiak
• Narrated By Paul Boehmer
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Fractured Continent is an urgent examination of how the political and social volatility in Europe impacts the United States and the rest of the world. The dream of a United States of Europe is unraveling in the wake of several crises now afflicting the continent. The single Euro currency threatens to break apart amid bitter arguments between rich northern creditors and poor southern debtors.

Free Speech on Campus

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Erwin Chemerinsky, Howard Gillman
• Narrated By James Edward Thomas
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Can free speech coexist with an inclusive campus environment? Hardly a week goes by without another controversy over free speech on college campuses. On one side, there are increased demands to censor hateful, disrespectful, and bullying expression and to ensure an inclusive and nondiscriminatory learning environment. On the other side are traditional free speech advocates who charge that recent demands for censorship coddle students and threaten free inquiry.

Entitled to Slavery: A Blueprint for Breaking the Chains That Threaten American Exceptionalism

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Michael Abbott Jr.
• Narrated By Ken Harris
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If Only They Didn't Speak English: Notes From Trump's America

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Jon Sopel
• Narrated By Jon Sopel
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As the BBC's North America Editor, Jon Sopel has had a pretty busy time of it lately. In the 18 months it's taken for a reality star to go from laughingstock to leader of the free world, Jon has travelled the length and breadth of the United States, experiencing it from a perspective that most of us could only dream of: he has flown aboard Air Force One, interviewed President Obama and has even been described as 'a beauty' by none other than Donald Trump.

We Rise: The Earth Guardians Guide to Building a Movement That Restores the Planet

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 10 mins)
• By Xiuhtezcatl Martinez
• Narrated By Drew Caiden

Sixteen-year-old climate activist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez and his group the Earth Guardians believe that choices made now will have a lasting impact on the world of tomorrow, and they want to ensure a positive, just, and sustainable future. Beginning with their empowering story, We Rise explores many aspects of effective activism and provides step-by-step information on how to start and join solution-oriented movements.