Politics

Close Encounters with Humankind

by Sang-Hee Lee; read by Emily Woo Zeller

In Close Encounters with Humankind, paleoanthropologist Sang-Hee Lee explores some of our biggest evolutionary questions from unexpected new angles. Learn More

The Source

by Martin Doyle; read by Keith Sellon-Wright

In this fresh and powerful work of environmental history, Martin Doyle explores how rivers have often been the source of arguments at the heart of the American experiment―over federalism, taxation, regulation, conservation, and development. Learn More

Big Mind

by Geoff Mulgan; read by Julian Elfer

Informed by the latest work on data, web platforms, and artificial intelligence, Big Mind shows how collective intelligence could help us survive and thrive. Learn More

The Gifted Generation

David Goldfield; read by Mike Chamberlain

A sweeping and path-breaking history of the post–World War II decades, during which an activist federal government guided the country toward the first real flowering of the American Dream. Learn More

The Counterrevolution

by Bernard E. Harcourt; read by Stephen R. Thorne

A distinguished political theorist sounds the alarm about the counterinsurgency strategies used to govern Americans. Learn More

The Know-It-Alls

by Noam Cohen; read by Adam Grupper

In The Know-It-Alls former New York Times technology columnist Noam Cohen chronicles the rise of Silicon Valley as a political and intellectual force in American life. Learn More

The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore

by Jared Yates Sexton; read by P.J. Ochlan

Like the works of Hunter S. Thompson and Norman Mailer—books that have paved the way for important narratives that shape how we perceive not only the politics of our time but also our way of life—The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore is an instant, essential classic, an authoritative depiction of a country struggling to make sense of itself. Learn More

What Unites Us

by Dan Rather; read by Dan Rather

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At a moment of crisis over our national identity, Dan Rather has been reflecting—and writing passionately almost every day on social media—about the world we live in, what our core ideals have been and should be, and what it means to be an American. Learn More

Nomadland

by Jessica Bruder; read by Karen White

Library Journal Best Book
Kirkus Best of 2017
New York Times Notable Book

Nomadland is a revelatory work of in-depth narrative journalism about a new American workforce and a shift away from retirement as we know it. Learn More

Spy Schools

by Daniel Golden; Jonathan Yen

In Spy SchoolsPulitzer Prize-winning journalist Daniel Golden exposes how academia has become the center of foreign and domestic espionage—and why that is troubling news for our nation's security. Learn More

One Nation Under Gold

by James Ledbetter; read by Jonathan Yen

In One Nation Under Gold, acclaimed author James Ledbetter traces the origins of our national obsession with gold and expertly explores the controversies around this hallowed metal. Learn More

Stolen Girls

by: Wolfgang Bauer; translated by Eric Frederick Trump; read by Bahni Turpin

One night in April 2014, members of the terrorist organization Boko Haram raided the small town of Chibok in northeast Nigeria and abducted 276 young girls from the local boarding school. In Stolen Girls, Wolfgang Bauer gives voice to these girls, allowing them to speak for themselves—about their lives before the abduction, about the horrors during their captivity, and their dreams of a better future.
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