29 Best Political Science Audiobooks
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American Carnage
- By: Tim Alberta
- Narrator: Jason Culp
- Length: 26 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: July 16, 2019
- Language: English
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4.17(2121 ratings)
4.17(2121 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USDPolitico Magazine‘s chief political correspondent provides a rollicking insider’s look at the making of the modern Republican Party–how a decade of cultural upheaval, populist outrage, and ideological warfare made the GOPPolitico Magazine‘s chief political correspondent provides a rollicking insider’s look at the making of the modern Republican Party–how a decade of cultural upheaval, populist outrage, and ideological warfare made the GOP vulnerable to a hostile takeover from the unlikeliest of insurgents: Donald J. Trump.
The 2016 election was a watershed for the United States. But, as Tim Alberta explains in American Carnage, to understand Trump’s victory is to view him not as the creator of this era of polarization and bruising partisanship, but rather as its most manifest consequence.
American Carnage is the story of a president’s rise based on a country’s evolution and a party’s collapse. As George W. Bush left office with record-low approval ratings and Barack Obama led a Democratic takeover of Washington, Republicans faced a moment of reckoning: They had no vision, no generation of new leaders, and no energy in the party’s base. Yet Obama’s forceful pursuit of his progressive agenda, coupled with the nation’s rapidly changing cultural and demographic landscape, lit a fire under the right, returning Republicans to power and inviting a bloody struggle for the party’s identity in the post-Bush era. The factions that emerged–one led by absolutists like Jim Jordan and Ted Cruz, the other led by pragmatists like John Boehner and Mitch McConnell–engaged in a series of devastating internecine clashes and attempted coups for control. With the GOP’s internal fissures rendering it legislatively impotent, and that impotence fueling a growing resentment toward the political class and its institutions, the stage was set for an outsider to crash the party. When Trump descended a gilded escalator to announce his run in the summer of 2015, the candidate had met the moment.
Only by viewing Trump as the culmination of a decade-long civil war inside the Republican Party–and of the parallel sense of cultural, socioeconomic, and technological disruption during that period–can we appreciate how he won the White House and consider the fundamental questions at the center of America’s current turmoil. How did a party obsessed with the national debt vote for trillion-dollar deficits and record-setting spending increases? How did the party of compassionate conservatism become the party of Muslim bans and walls? How did the party of family values elect a thrice-divorced philanderer? And, most important, how long can such a party survive?
Loaded with exclusive reporting and based off hundreds of interviews–including with key players such as President Trump, Paul Ryan, Ted Cruz, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Jim DeMint, and Reince Priebus, and many others–American Carnage takes us behind the scenes of this tumultuous period as we’ve never seen it before and establishes Tim Alberta as the premier chronicler of this political era.
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History
- By: Thomas E. Woods
- Narrator: Barrett Whitener
- Length: 8 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2005
- Language: English
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4.03(2054 ratings)
4.03(2054 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDEverything—well, almost everything—you know about American history is wrong, because most textbooks and popular history books are written by left-wing academic historians who treat their biases as fact. But fear not; Professor ThomasEverything—well, almost everything—you know about American history is wrong, because most textbooks and popular history books are written by left-wing academic historians who treat their biases as fact. But fear not; Professor Thomas Woods refutes the popular myths in The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History.
Professor Woods’ book reveals facts that you won’t be, or never were, taught in school. It tells you about the “Books You’re Not Supposed to Read” and takes you on a fast-paced, politically incorrect tour of American history that will give you all the information you need to battle and confound left-wing professors, neighbors, and friends.
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Has China Won?
- By: Kishore Mahbubani
- Narrator: Aaron Abano
- Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: March 31, 2020
- Language: English
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4.11(1162 ratings)
4.11(1162 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDThe defining geopolitical contest of the twenty-first century is between China and the US. But is it avoidable? And if it happens, is the outcome already inevitable?China and America are world powers without serious rivals. They eye each otherThe defining geopolitical contest of the twenty-first century is between China and the US. But is it avoidable? And if it happens, is the outcome already inevitable?
China and America are world powers without serious rivals. They eye each other warily across the Pacific; they communicate poorly; there seems little natural empathy. A massive geopolitical contest has begun.America prizes freedom; China values freedom from chaos.America values strategic decisiveness; China values patience.America is becoming society of lasting inequality; China a meritocracy.America has abandoned multilateralism; China welcomes it.Kishore Mahbubani, a diplomat and scholar with unrivalled access to policymakers in Beijing and Washington, has written the definitive guide to the deep fault lines in the relationship, a clear-eyed assessment of the risk of any confrontation, and a bracingly honest appraisal of the strengths and weaknesses, and superpower eccentricities, of the US and China.... Read more -
Al Franken, Giant of the Senate
- By: Al Franken
- Narrator: Al Franken
- Length: 12 hours 6 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: May 30, 2017
- Language: English
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4.22(15925 ratings)
4.22(15925 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDFrom Senator Al Franken – #1 bestselling author and beloved SNL alum — comes the story of an award-winning comedian who decided to run for office and then discovered why award-winning comedians tend not to do that. “Flips theFrom Senator Al Franken – #1 bestselling author and beloved SNL alum — comes the story of an award-winning comedian who decided to run for office and then discovered why award-winning comedians tend not to do that.... Read more“Flips the classic born-in-a-shack rise to political office tale on its head. I skipped meals to read this book – also unusual – because every page was funny. It made me deliriously happy.” — Louise Erdrich, The New York Times This 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. It’s a book about our deeply polarized, frequently depressing, occasionally inspiring political culture, written from inside the belly of the beast. In this candid personal memoir, the honorable gentleman from Minnesota takes his army of loyal fans along with him from Saturday Night Live to the campaign trail, inside the halls of Congress, and behind the scenes of some of the most dramatic and/or hilarious moments of his new career in politics. Has Al Franken become a true Giant of the Senate? Franken asks readers to decide for themselves.
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The Dictator’s Handbook
- By: Bruce Bueno De Mesquita
- Narrator: Dan Woren
- Length: 15 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: June 21, 2022
- Language: English
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4.27(7253 ratings)
4.27(7253 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0031.99 USDNow featuring a new chapter on the rise of illiberalism worldwide.The essential book that lays out the real rules of politics: leaders do whatever keeps them in power, regardless of the national interest.As featured in the viral video “Rules... Read moreNow featuring a new chapter on the rise of illiberalism worldwide.
The essential book that lays out the real rules of politics: leaders do whatever keeps them in power, regardless of the national interest.
As featured in the viral video “Rules for Rulers,” which has been viewed over fifteen million times.
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith’s canonical book on political science turned conventional wisdom on its head. They started from a single assertion: leaders do whatever keeps them in power. They don’t care about the “national interest”–or even their subjects–unless they must.
Newly updated to reflect the global rise of authoritarianism, this clever and accessible book illustrates how leaders amass and retain power. As Bueno de Mesquita and Smith show, democracy is essentially just a convenient fiction. Governments do not differ in kind, but only in the number of essential supporters or backs that need scratching. The size of this group determines almost everything about politics: what leaders can get away with, and the quality of life or misery under them. And it is also the key to returning power to the people. -
Radicals
- By: David Horowitz
- Narrator: John McLain
- Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2012
- Language: English
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4.1(851 ratings)
4.1(851 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDRadical liberals want to make America a better place, but their utopian social engineering leads, ironically, to greater human suffering. From Karl Marx to Barack Obama, Horowitz shows how the idealistic impulse to make the world a better placeRadical liberals want to make America a better place, but their utopian social engineering leads, ironically, to greater human suffering.
From Karl Marx to Barack Obama, Horowitz shows how the idealistic impulse to make the world a better place gives birth to the twin cultural pathologies of cynicism and nihilism and is the chief source of human suffering. A former liberal himself, Horowitz recounts his own brushes with radicalism and offers unparalleled insight into the disjointed ideology of liberal elites through case studies of well-known radical leftists, including Christopher Hitchens, feminist Bettina Aptheker, leftist academic Cornel West, and others.
Exploring the origin and evolution of radical liberals and their progressive ideology, Radicals illustrates how liberalism is not only intellectually crippling for its adherents but devastating to society.
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Glenn Beck’s Common Sense
- By: Glenn Beck
- Narrator: Glenn Beck
- Length: 5 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2009
- Language: English
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3.8(6702 ratings)
3.8(6702 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0011.95 USDGlenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset, revisits Thomas Paine’s Common Sense.In any era, great Americans inspire us to reach our full potential. They know with conviction what they believe within themselves. TheyGlenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset, revisits Thomas Paine’s Common Sense.
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In any era, great Americans inspire us to reach our full potential. They know with conviction what they believe within themselves. They understand that all actions have consequences. And they find commonsense solutions to the nation’s problems.
One such American, Thomas Paine, was an ordinary man who changed the course of history by penning Common Sense, the concise 1776 masterpiece in which, through extraordinarily straightforward and indisputable arguments, he encouraged his fellow citizens to take control of America’s future—and, ultimately, her freedom.
Nearly two and a half centuries later, those very freedoms once again hang in the balance. And now, Glenn Beck revisits Paine’s powerful treatise with one purpose: to galvanize Americans to see past government’s easy solutions, two-party monopoly, and illogical methods and take back our great country. -
Liberty and Tyranny
- By: Mark R. Levin
- Narrator: Adam Grupper
- Length: 6 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2009
- Language: English
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4.17(6841 ratings)
4.17(6841 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDDon‚Äôt miss syndicated radio host and author Mark Levin’s #1 New York Times acclaimed and longtime bestselling manifesto for the conservative movement.When nationally syndicated radio host Mark R. Levin‚Äôs Liberty and TyrannyDon‚Äôt miss syndicated radio host and author Mark Levin’s #1 New York Times acclaimed and longtime bestselling manifesto for the conservative movement.
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When nationally syndicated radio host Mark R. Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny appeared in the early months of the Obama presidency, Americans responded by making his clarion call for a new era in conservatism a #1 New York Times bestseller for an astounding twelve weeks. As provocative, well-reasoned, robust, and informed as his on-air commentary, with his love of our country and the legacy of our Founding Fathers reflected on every page, Levin’s galvanizing narrative provides a philosophical, historical, and practical framework for revitalizing the conservative vision and ensuring the preservation of American society.
In the face of the modern liberal assault on Constitution-based values, an attack that has resulted in a federal government that is a massive, unaccountable conglomerate, the time for reinforcing the intellectual and practical case for conservatism is now. In a series of powerful essays, Levin lays out how conservatives can counter the tyrannical liberal corrosion that has filtered into every timely issue affecting our daily lives, from the economy to health care, global warming to immigration, and more. -
Reconciliation
- By: Benazir Bhutto
- Narrator: Rita Wolf
- Length: 12 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: February 12, 2008
- Language: English
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3.81(1742 ratings)
3.81(1742 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDFrom the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, who finished writing this extraordinary book just days before her assassination, comes a groundbreaking vision of how to bridge the widening gap between the Islamic world and the West. Benazir BhuttoFrom the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, who finished writing this extraordinary book just days before her assassination, comes a groundbreaking vision of how to bridge the widening gap between the Islamic world and the West.
Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan in October 2007, after eight years of exile, hopeful that she could be a catalyst for change. Upon a tumultuous reception, she survived a suicide-bomb attack that killed nearly 200 of her countrymen. But she continued to forge ahead, with more courage and conviction than ever, since she knew that time was running out–for the future of her nation, and for her life. In Reconciliation, Bhutto recounts in gripping detail her final months in Pakistan and offers a bold new agenda for how to stem the tide of Islamic radicalism and to rediscover the values of tolerance and justice that lay at the heart of her religion. After reading this book, it will become even clearer what the world has lost by her assassination.
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Pinheads and Patriots
- By: Bill O’Reilly
- Narrator: Bill O'Reilly
- Length: 5 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: September 14, 2010
- Language: English
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3.74(2687 ratings)
3.74(2687 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDTelevision host, razor sharp political pundit, and #1 bestselling author Bill O’Reilly focuses in on where we all stand in the Age of Obama in Pinheads and Patriots. In this brave, hard-hitting, provocative volume, the author of CultureTelevision host, razor sharp political pundit, and #1 bestselling author Bill O’Reilly focuses in on where we all stand in the Age of Obama in Pinheads and Patriots. In this brave, hard-hitting, provocative volume, the author of Culture Warrior and A Bold, Fresh Piece of Humanity guides Americans through the extensive transformations sweeping their country and explains exactly what these profound changes mean for every one of us.
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God’s Politics
- By: Jim Wallis
- Narrator: Jim Wallis
- Length: 7 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: May 24, 2005
- Language: English
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3.66(3015 ratings)
3.66(3015 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDSince when did believing in God and having moral values make you pro-war, pro-rich, and solely pro-Republican? And since when did promoting and pursuing a progressive social agenda with a concern for economic security, health care, and educationalSince when did believing in God and having moral values make you pro-war, pro-rich, and solely pro-Republican? And since when did promoting and pursuing a progressive social agenda with a concern for economic security, health care, and educational opportunity mean you had to put faith in God aside?
God’s Politics offers a clarion call to make both our religious communities and our government more accountable to key values of the prophetic religious tradition — that is, make them pro-justice, pro-peace, pro-environment, pro-equality, and pro-family (without making scapegoats of single mothers or gays). Our biblical faith and religious traditions simply do not allow us as a nation to continue to ignore the poor and marginalized, deny racial justice, tolerate the ravages of war, or turn away from the human rights of those made in the image of God. These are the values of love and justice, reconciliation, and community that Jesus taught and that are at the core of what many of us believe, Christian or not. Jim Wallis inspires us to hold our political leaders and policies accountable by integrating our deepest moral convictions into our nation’s public life.
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The Nordic Theory of Everything
- By: Anu Partanen
- Narrator: Abby Craden
- Length: 10 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: June 28, 2016
- Language: English
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3.86(5344 ratings)
3.86(5344 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USDA Finnish journalist, now a naturalized American citizen, asks Americans to draw on elements of the Nordic way of life to nurture a fairer, happier, more secure, and less stressful society for themselves and their children. Moving to America inA Finnish journalist, now a naturalized American citizen, asks Americans to draw on elements of the Nordic way of life to nurture a fairer, happier, more secure, and less stressful society for themselves and their children.
Moving to America in 2008, Finnish journalist Anu Partanen quickly went from confident, successful professional to wary, self-doubting mess. She found that navigating the basics of everyday life–from buying a cell phone and filing taxes to education and childcare–was much more complicated and stressful than anything she encountered in her homeland. At first, she attributed her crippling anxiety to the difficulty of adapting to a freewheeling new culture. But as she got to know Americans better, she discovered they shared her deep apprehension. To understand why life is so different in the U.S. and Finland, Partanen began to look closely at both.
In The Nordic Theory of Everything, Partanen compares and contrasts life in the United States with life in the Nordic region, focusing on four key relationships–parents and children, men and women, employees and employers, and government and citizens. She debunks criticism that Nordic countries are socialist “nanny states,” revealing instead that it is we Americans who are far more enmeshed in unhealthy dependencies than we realize. As Partanen explains step by step, the Nordic approach allows citizens to enjoy more individual freedom and independence than we do.
Partanen wants to open Americans’ eyes to how much better things can be–to show her beloved new country what it can learn from her homeland to reinvigorate and fulfill the promise of the American dream–to provide the opportunity to live a healthy, safe, economically secure, upwardly mobile life for everyone. Offering insights, advice, and solutions, The Nordic Theory of Everything makes a convincing argument that we can rebuild our society, rekindle our optimism, and restore true freedom to our relationships and lives.
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Chain of Command
- By: Seymour M. Hersh
- Narrator: Peter Friedman
- Length: 7 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: October 05, 2004
- Language: English
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3.97(970 ratings)
3.97(970 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0018.99 USDSince September 11, 2001, Seymour M. Hersh has riveted readers — and outraged the Bush Administration — with his stories in The New Yorker magazine, including his breakthrough pieces on the Abu Gharaib prison scandal. Now, in Chain ofSince September 11, 2001, Seymour M. Hersh has riveted readers — and outraged the Bush Administration — with his stories in The New Yorker magazine, including his breakthrough pieces on the Abu Gharaib prison scandal. Now, in Chain of Command, he brings together this reporting, along with new revelations, to answer the critical question of the last three years: how did America get from the clear morning when hijacked airplanes crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon to a divisive and dirty war in Iraq?
Hersh established himself at the forefront of investigative journalism thirty-five years ago when he broke the news of the massacre in My Lai, Vietnam, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize. Ever since, he’s challenged America’s power elite by publishing the stories that others can’t or won’t tell.
In Chain of Command, Hersh takes an unflinching look behind the public story of President Bush’s “war on terror” and into the lies and obsessions that led America into Iraq. With an introduction by The New Yorker‘s editor, David Remnick, Chain of Command is a devastating portrait of an Administration blinded by ideology and of a President whose decisions have made the world a more dangerous place for America.
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Deliver Us From Evil
- By: Sean Hannity
- Narrator: Sean Hannity
- Length: 4 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: May 04, 2004
- Language: English
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3.41(1072 ratings)
3.41(1072 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0018.99 USDAs Americans face the ongoing war against terrorists and their state sponsors around the world, Sean Hannity reminds us we must also cope with the continuing scourge of accommodation and cowardice at home. With his trademark blend of passion andAs Americans face the ongoing war against terrorists and their state sponsors around the world, Sean Hannity reminds us we must also cope with the continuing scourge of accommodation and cowardice at home. With his trademark blend of passion and hard-hitting commentary, he urges Americans to recognize the dangers of putting our faith in toothless “multilateralism” when the times call for decisive action. He believes that only through strong defense of our freedoms, at home and around the world, can we preserve America’s security and liberty in the dangerous twenty-first century.
“Evil exists,” Hannity believes. “It is real, and it means to harm us.” Tracing a direct line from Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin through Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, he reminds us of the courage and moral clarity of our great leaders. And he reveals how the disgraceful history of appeasement has reached forward from the days of Neville Chamberlain and Jimmy Carter to corrupt the unrepentant leftists of the modern Democratic Party — from Howard Dean and John Kerry to Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Hannity’s first blockbuster book, the New York Times bestseller Let Freedom Ring, cemented his place as the freshest and most compelling conservative voice in the country. As host of the phenomenally successful Hannity & Colmes and The Sean Hannity Show, Hannity has won a wildly devoted fan base. Now he brings his plainspoken, take-no-prisoners style to the continuing War on Terror abroad — and liberalism at home — in Deliver Us from Evil.
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Somebody’s Gotta Say It
- By: Neal Boortz
- Narrator: Neal Boortz
- Length: 6 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: March 13, 2007
- Language: English
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3.91(588 ratings)
3.91(588 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDThink 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 SayThink 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 Democrats’ theme for 2008 will be ‘The Common Good.’ I can’t speak for you, but I am an individual. Government exists to protect my rights, not to order my life. And I damn sure don’t exist to serve government.” He takes on liberal catchphrases like giving back (“Nobody actually earns anything anymore. Why do liberals think this way? Because they find it impossible to acknowledge that people work for money”), our rampant civic idiocy (“We are not a democracy. Never were. Weren’t supposed to be. And we shouldn’t be”), and Big Brother (“We have smoke-free workplaces. We have drug-free school zones. I say let’s start establishing government-free oases, where we can be free to leave our seat belts unbuckled, and peel the labels off anything we choose”). And somehow, along the way, he finds room for pop quizzes and an answer, once and for all, to the eternal question, “Neal, why don’t you run for president?”–in a chapter called “No Way in Hell.”
Full of irresistible wisecracks and irrefutable libertarian wisdom, Somebody’s Gotta Say It is one man’s response to America at a time when the government overreaches, the people underperform–and the truth hurts.
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1984
- By: George Orwell
- Narrator: Peter Noble
- Length: 35 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Public Domain
- Publish date: April 05, 2022
- Language: English
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4.19(214301 ratings)
4.19(214301 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.007.99 USDPublished in 1948, this cautionary tale follows a lone protagonist who struggles under the rule of a repressive totalitarian government. Set in a future version of England, called Airstrip One, the novel is famous for its imagined language thatPublished in 1948, this cautionary tale follows a lone protagonist who struggles under the rule of a repressive totalitarian government. Set in a future version of England, called Airstrip One, the novel is famous for its imagined language that conjures a cruelly cynical authoritarian regime. One of the most popular novels in the English language, it is part political thriller and part science fiction, and it established the word Orwellian to describe official deception, unwarranted surveillance, and revisionist history by the state.
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change
- By: Marc Morano
- Narrator: John McLain
- Length: 11 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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4.29(262 ratings)
4.29(262 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDLess freedom. More regulation. Higher costs. Make no mistake: those are the surefire consequences of the modern global warming campaign waged by political and cultural elites, who have long ago abandoned fact-based science for dramatic fearmongeringLess freedom. More regulation. Higher costs. Make no mistake: those are the surefire consequences of the modern global warming campaign waged by political and cultural elites, who have long ago abandoned fact-based science for dramatic fearmongering in order to push increased central planning. The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change gives a voice–backed by statistics, real-life stories, and incontrovertible evidence–to the millions of “deplorable” Americans skeptical about the multibillion dollar “climate change” complex, whose claims have time and time again been proven wrong.
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With All Due Respect
- By: Nikki R. Haley
- Narrator: Nikki R. Haley
- Length: 8 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: November 12, 2019
- Language: English
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4.3(2401 ratings)
4.3(2401 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDThis program is read by the author. A revealing, dramatic, deeply personal audiobook about the most significant events of our time, by the former United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Nikki Haley is widely admired for her forthright mannerThis program is read by the author.
A revealing, dramatic, deeply personal audiobook about the most significant events of our time, by the former United States Ambassador to the United Nations.
Nikki Haley is widely admired for her forthright manner (“With all due respect, I don’t get confused”), her sensitive approach to tragic events, and her confident representation of America’s interests as our Ambassador to the United Nations during times of crisis and consequence.
In this audiobook, Haley offers a first-hand perspective on major national and international matters, as well as a behind-the-scenes account of her tenure in the Trump administration.
This audiobook reveals a woman who can hold her own–and better–in domestic and international power politics, a diplomat who is unafraid to take a principled stand even when it is unpopular, and a leader who seeks to bring Americans together in divisive times.
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How Democracy Ends
- By: David Runciman
- Narrator: David Runciman
- Length: 7 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: July 24, 2018
- Language: English
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3.72(794 ratings)
3.72(794 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDHow will democracy end? And what will replace it? A preeminent political scientist examines the past, present, and future of an endangered political philosophy Since the end of World War II, democracy’s sweep across the globe seemedHow will democracy end? And what will replace it? A preeminent political scientist examines the past, present, and future of an endangered political philosophy
Since the end of World War II, democracy’s sweep across the globe seemed inexorable. Yet today, it seems radically imperiled, even in some of the world’s most stable democracies. How bad could things get?
In How Democracy Ends, David Runciman argues that we are trapped in outdated twentieth-century ideas of democratic failure. By fixating on coups and violence, we are focusing on the wrong threats. Our societies are too affluent, too elderly, and too networked to fall apart as they did in the past. We need new ways of thinking the unthinkable — a twenty-first-century vision of the end of democracy, and whether its collapse might allow us to move forward to something better.
A provocative book by a major political philosopher, How Democracy Ends asks the most trenchant questions that underlie the disturbing patterns of our contemporary political life.
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Come On, Man!
- By: Joe Concha
- Narrator: John Pruden
- Length: 7 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: September 27, 2022
- Language: English
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4.44(372 ratings)
4.44(372 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDNATIONAL BESTSELLER Open borders, record inflation, and skyrocketing crime–Joe Biden’s first term is one of the most craptastic in American history. But on Planet Brandon, it’s all going according to plan . . . He received 81NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Open borders, record inflation, and skyrocketing crime–Joe Biden’s first term is one of the most craptastic in American history. But on Planet Brandon, it’s all going according to plan . . .
He received 81 million votes. His party controlled the House and the Senate. He took office with a nearly 60 percent approval rating. His first month saw the economy recovering nicely and the new COVID-19 vaccines being distributed around the country. And, in his words, he had the awesome power to mobilize “truinernashabada pressure.”
And yet, with all that and more, Joe Biden’s first term has been a spectacular failure. COVID roared back. The withdrawal from Afghanistan left thirteen U.S. service members dead and hundreds of Americans stranded as Afghans fell from airplanes. Sixteen American cities set homicide records. More than 2.3 million illegal immigrants entered the country. Inflation reached forty-year highs. And Russia invaded Ukraine. Even the Democrats are so embarrassed, they won’t invite Biden to join them on the campaign trail for the midterms. Gah.
But is this hot mess, dumpster fire of a record only because Biden lost whatever fastball he had and is perpetually incompetent? In Come On, Man!, Joe Concha reminds us what’s really going on in the White House. Though Biden may seem like a doddering idiot, stumbling from one mistake to the next, his blunders always hew closely to progressive dreams for American policy. Dreams like saving the planet by attacking Elon Musk and strengthening the middle class by making gas prices higher than Hunter Biden in a motel room. Come On, Man! shows the real reason why we’re here–no malarkey, guaranteed!
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Catastrophe
- By: Dick Morris
- Narrator: Peter Ganim
- Length: 6 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: June 23, 2009
- Language: English
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3.69(399 ratings)
3.69(399 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0018.99 USD#1 New York Times Bestseller! In Catastrophe, Dick Morris and Eileen McGann–authors of the megabestsellers Fleeced and Outrage–take a hard look at America in free fall and at how Barack Obama is transforming a vulnerable U.S. into a#1 New York Times Bestseller! In Catastrophe, Dick Morris and Eileen McGann–authors of the megabestsellers Fleeced and Outrage–take a hard look at America in free fall and at how Barack Obama is transforming a vulnerable U.S. into a socialist state. Their seventh consecutive New York Times bestseller, Catastrophe is a call to arms for every American skeptical of Big Business and politics as usual–and a must read for fans of Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Bernie Goldberg, and Glenn Beck.
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Trickle Up Poverty
- By: Michael Savage
- Narrator: Robert Louis
- Length: 12 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: October 05, 2010
- Language: English
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3.91(416 ratings)
3.91(416 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDMichael Savage–conservative talk radio host and #1 New York Times bestselling author–takes on President Obama’s socialist agenda, his Chicago-style strong-arm tactics, and his Lenin-like complex in Trickle Up Poverty.Michael Savage–conservative talk radio host and #1 New York Times bestselling author–takes on President Obama’s socialist agenda, his Chicago-style strong-arm tactics, and his Lenin-like complex in Trickle Up Poverty. Savage’s quest is to help American’s save America from economic Armageddon, and Trickle Up Poverty addresses everything from the global warming myth to the health care debacle to the Tea Party revolution, in an essential conservative manifesto that anyone who loves Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, Glen Beck, and Dick Morris must read.
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Memo to the President Elect
- By: Madeleine Albright
- Narrator: Madeleine Albright
- Length: 10 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: January 08, 2008
- Language: English
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3.78(382 ratings)
3.78(382 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDThe next president, whether Democrat or Republican, will face the daunting task of repairing America’s core relationships and tarnished credibility after the damage caused during the past seven years. In Memo to the President Elect, formerThe next president, whether Democrat or Republican, will face the daunting task of repairing America’s core relationships and tarnished credibility after the damage caused during the past seven years. In Memo to the President Elect, former secretary of state and bestselling author Madeleine Albright offers provocative ideas about how to confront the striking array of challenges that the next commander-in-chief will face and how to return America to its rightful role as a source of inspiration across the globe.
Much more than a set of policy prescriptions, Secretary Albright’s writing blends lessons from the past with forward-looking suggestions about how to assemble a first-rate foreign policy team, anticipate the actions of other key countries, make full use of presidential power without repeating the excesses of the Bush administration, and revive America’s commitment to its founding ideals.
Albright’s advice is candid–as conveyed in a confidential memo–and seasoned with humor and stories from her years in office. Drawing on her extensive experience as an advisor to two presidents and a key figure in four presidential transitions, she provides an insider’s analysis of U.S. options in addressing the decisive issues of our era: terrorism, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, rivalries in the Middle East, the potential for nuclear war, and headaches created by such troublesome leaders as Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, and North Korea’s Kim Jong-il.
The 2008 election promises to be one of the most dramatic in our nation’s history. Memo to the President Elect offers indispensable guidance for the next occupant of the White House–and a wealth of insights for voters to think about before deciding who that person will be.
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A Death on W Street
- By: Andy Kroll
- Narrator: Greg D. Barnett
- Length: 10 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: September 06, 2022
- Language: English
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4.28(136 ratings)
4.28(136 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDA true-crime story for the post-truth era In the early hours of July 10, 2016, gunshots rang out and a young man lay fatally wounded on a quiet Washington, DC, street. But who killed Seth Rich? When he was buried in his hometown, his rabbiA true-crime story for the post-truth era
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In the early hours of July 10, 2016, gunshots rang out and a young man lay fatally wounded on a quiet Washington, DC, street. But who killed Seth Rich? When he was buried in his hometown, his rabbi declared: “There are no answers for a young man gunned down in the prime of his life.” The rabbi was wrong. There were in fact many answers, way too many.
In the absence of an arrest, a howling mob filled the void. Wild speculation and fantastical theories surfaced on social media and gained traction thanks to a high-level cast of provocateurs. But it wasn’t until Fox News took the rumors from the fringes to the mainstream that Seth Rich’s life and death grew into something altogether unexpected–one of the foundational conspiracy theories of modern times.
A Death on W Street unravels this gripping saga of murder, madness, and political chicanery, one that would ensnare Hillary Clinton and Steve Bannon, a popular pizzeria in northwest DC and the most powerful voices in American media. It’s the story of an idealistic twenty-seven-year-old political staffer who became a tragic victim of the culture wars, until his family decided that they had no choice but to defend his name and put an end to the cruel deceptions that surrounded his death.
This is the definitive story of Seth Rich, of those who tried to weaponize his memory in a war of words unlike any other, and of one family’s crusade to protect the truth against all odds. -
Christ in Crisis
- By: Jim Wallis
- Narrator: Charles Constant
- Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: September 24, 2019
- Language: English
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4.17(328 ratings)
4.17(328 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDWriting in response to our current “constitutional crisis,” New York Times bestselling author and Christian activist Jim Wallis urges America to return to the tenets of Jesus once again as the means to save us from the polarizingWriting in response to our current “constitutional crisis,” New York Times bestselling author and Christian activist Jim Wallis urges America to return to the tenets of Jesus once again as the means to save us from the polarizing bitterness and anger of our tribal nation.
In Christ in Crisis Jim Wallis provides a path of spiritual healing and solidarity to help us heal the divide separating Americans today. Building on “Reclaiming Jesus”–the declaration he and other church leaders wrote in May 2018 to address America’s current crisis–Wallis argues that Christians have become disconnected from Jesus and need to revisit their spiritual foundations. By pointing to eight questions Jesus asked or is asked, Wallis provides a means to measure whether we are truly aligned with the moral and spiritual foundations of our Christian faith.
“Christians have often remembered, re-discovered, and returned to their obedient discipleship of Jesus Christ–both personal and public–in times of trouble. It’s called coming home,” Wallis reminds us. While he addresses the dividing lines and dangers facing our nation, the religious and cultural commentator’s focus isn’t politics; it’s faith.
As he has done throughout his career, Wallis offers comfort, empathy, and a practical roadmap. Christ in Crisis is a constructive field guide for all those involved in resistance and renewal initiatives in faith communities in the post-2016 political context.
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The Great Successor
- By: Anna Fifield
- Narrator: Olivia Mackenzie-Smith
- Length: 11 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: June 11, 2019
- Language: English
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4.13(2666 ratings)
4.13(2666 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDThe behind-the-scenes story of the rise and reign of the world’s strangest and most elusive tyrant, Kim Jong Un, by the journalist with the best connections and insights into the bizarrely dangerous world of North Korea.Since his birth in... Read moreThe behind-the-scenes story of the rise and reign of the world’s strangest and most elusive tyrant, Kim Jong Un, by the journalist with the best connections and insights into the bizarrely dangerous world of North Korea.
Since his birth in 1984, Kim Jong Un has been swaddled in myth and propaganda, from the plainly silly — he could supposedly drive a car at the age of three — to the grimly bloody stories of family members who perished at his command.Anna Fifield reconstructs Kim’s past and present with exclusive access to sources near him and brings her unique understanding to explain the dynastic mission of the Kim family in North Korea. The archaic notion of despotic family rule matches the almost medieval hardship the country has suffered under the Kims. Few people thought that a young, untested, unhealthy, Swiss-educated basketball fanatic could hold together a country that should have fallen apart years ago. But Kim Jong Un has not just survived, he has thrived, abetted by the approval of Donald Trump and diplomacy’s weirdest bromance.Skeptical yet insightful, Fifield creates a captivating portrait of the oddest and most secretive political regime in the world — one that is isolated yet internationally relevant, bankrupt yet in possession of nuclear weapons — and its ruler, the self-proclaimed Beloved and Respected Leader, Kim Jong Un. -
Letters to a Young Contrarian
- By: Christopher Hitchens
- Narrator: James Adams
- Length: 3 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: June 23, 2020
- Language: English
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4.13(10034 ratings)
4.13(10034 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDFrom bestselling author and provocateur Christopher Hitchens, the classic guide to the art of principled dissent and disagreement In Letters to a Young Contrarian, bestselling author and world-class provocateur Christopher Hitchens inspires theFrom bestselling author and provocateur Christopher Hitchens, the classic guide to the art of principled dissent and disagreement
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In Letters to a Young Contrarian, bestselling author and world-class provocateur Christopher Hitchens inspires the radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, and angry young (wo)men of tomorrow. Exploring the entire range of “contrary positions”–from noble dissident to gratuitous nag–Hitchens introduces the next generation to the minds and the misfits who influenced him, invoking such mentors as Emile Zola, Rosa Parks, and George Orwell. As is his trademark, Hitchens pointedly pitches himself in contrast to stagnant attitudes across the ideological spectrum. No other writer has matched Hitchens’s understanding of the importance of disagreement–to personal integrity, to informed discussion, to true progress, to democracy itself. -
Crazies to the Left of Me Wimps to the Right
- By: Bernard Goldberg
- Narrator: Bernard Goldberg
- Length: 7 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: April 17, 2007
- Language: English
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3.68(433 ratings)
3.68(433 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDIn Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right, Goldberg speaks for the millions of Americans who are saying: Enough! Enough of lunatics like Rosie O’Donnell who think “Radical Christianity” is “as big a threat to AmericaIn Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right, Goldberg speaks for the millions of Americans who are saying: Enough! Enough of lunatics like Rosie O’Donnell who think “Radical Christianity” is “as big a threat to America as Radical Islam.” Enough of the hyperbolic liberal rhetoric comparing Bush to Hitler and Abu Ghraib to a Saddam Hussein torture chamber. And please, enough of the military-hating crazies who run San Francisco!
But Goldberg has also had it with hypocritical Republicans who say they’re for small government but then spend our hard-earned tax money like Imelda Marcos in a shoe store. He’s also had it with weak and timid Republicans who won’t stand up and fight against racial preferences, too afraid that the Al Sharptons and Jesse Jacksons of the world will call them bigots. In plain English, he’s had it with Republicans who are afraid to be conservative! The 2006 election was a wake-up call, he warns, and if the wimps on the Right fail to regain their courage, recover their principles, and reclaim their sense of fiscal responsibility, the crazies on the Left just might win the White House in 2008.
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A Conflict of Visions
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrator: Michael Edwards
- Length: 7 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2005
- Language: English
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4.32(2882 ratings)
4.32(2882 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDControversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conlficts that endure for generations or centuries show a remarkably consistent pattern. In this book, which the author calls a “culmination of thirty years of work in the history ofControversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conlficts that endure for generations or centuries show a remarkably consistent pattern.
In this book, which the author calls a “culmination of thirty years of work in the history of ideas,” Sowell attempts to explain the ideological difference between liberals and conservatives as a disagreement over the moral potential inherent in nature. Those who see that potential as limited prefer to constrain governmental authority, he argues. They feel that reform is difficult and often dangerous, and they put their faith in family, custom, law, and traditional institutions. Conversely, those who have faith in human nature prefer to remove institutional and traditional constraints. Controversies over such diverse issues as criminal justice, income distribution, or war and peace repeatedly show an ideological divide along the lines of these two conflicting visions.
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