Politics

Search and Destroy

by Ryan Lovelace; read by Terrence Bayes

In this deeply researched account, one of Washington's top legal reporters reveals the massive funding, sophisticated organization, and fanatical zeal behind the campaign to stop Brett Kavanaugh's appointment to the nation’s highest court. Learn More

Strong Towns

by Charles L. Marohn, Jr.; read by Matthew Boston

Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he cofounded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes continue to struggle to meet their basic needs, and reveals the new paradigm that can solve this longstanding problem. Learn More

Guardian

by Thomas Pecora with Jon Land & Lindsay Preston; read by Eric Jason Martin

A CIA security officer recounts a twenty-four-year career protecting America's intelligence personnel and senior USG Officials against a backdrop of the War on Terror. Learn More

The Politics of Pain

by Fintan O'Toole; read by Bruce Mann

From one of the most perceptive observers of the English today comes a brilliantly insightful, mordantly funny account of their seemingly irrational embrace of nationalism. Learn More

The Season

by Kristen Richardson; read by Cassandra Campbell

In this enthralling history of the debutante ritual, Kristen Richardson sheds new light on contemporary ideas about women and marriage. Learn More

The Triumph of Injustice

by Gabriel Zucman & Emmanuel Saez; read by Steve Menasche

Even as they became fabulously wealthy, the ultra-rich have seen their taxes collapse to levels last seen in the 1920s. Meanwhile, working-class Americans have been asked to pay more. The Triumph of Injustice presents a forensic investigation into this dramatic transformation, written by two economists who revolutionized the study of inequality. Learn More

Bold School

by Weston Kieschnick; read by Weston Kieschnick

Bold School is a book that restores teachers to their rightful place in effective instruction. Learn More

The Hidden History of Burma

by Thant Myint-U; read by Assaf Cohen

How did one of the world's "buzzy hotspots" (Fodor's 2013) become one of the top ten places to avoid (Fodor's 2018)? Learn More

To Serve the Enemy

by Shane Darcy; read by Roger Clark

In this book, Shane Darcy examines the development and application of the relevant rules and principles of the laws of armed conflict in relation to collaboration. Learn More

Redeeming Anthropology

by Khaled Furani; read by Bob Souer

Mining the biographical registers of the American, British, and French anthropological traditions, Khaled Furani argues that despite all efforts to the contrary, theological sediments remain in this disciplining discipline. Learn More

Self-Portrait in Black and White

by Thomas Chatterton Williams; read by Thomas Chatterton Williams

A meditation on race and identity from one of our most provocative cultural critics. Learn More

California Exposures

by Jesse Amble White; read by Charles Constant

A brilliant California history, from an award-winning historian and a documentary photographer. Learn More

Square Haunting

by Francesca Wade; read by Corrie James

Nestled in the heart of Bloomsbury, Mecklenburgh Square has borne witness to the lives of some of the century's most revolutionary cultural figures—many of whom were extraordinary women. Square Haunting is a glorious portrait of five of the square's inhabitants: Hilda Doolittle, Dorothy Sayers, Jane Harrison, Eileen Power, and Virginia Woolf. Learn More

MacTrump

by Ian Doescher & Jacopo della Quercia; read by Susan Bennett, Rachel Botchan, Eliza Foss, Christopher Gebauer, Johnny Heller, Brian Hutchison, Jennifer O’Donnell, Thomas Picasso, Jonathan Todd Ross, T Ryder Smith, Henry Strozier, Jaine Ye, and Adam Grupp

For listeners craving a humorous antidote to the sound and the fury of American politics, this clever satire, written in iambic pentameter in the style of Shakespeare, wittily fictionalizes the events of the first two years of the Trump administration. Learn More

The Bear

by Andrew Krivak; read by Eric Jason Martin

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A cautionary tale of human fragility, of love and loss, The Bear is a stunning tribute to the beauty of nature's dominion. Learn More

All This Marvelous Potential

by Matthew Algeo; read by David Colacci

All This Marvelous Potential retraces Robert F. Kennedy's 1967–68 tour of eastern Kentucky and provides a new portrait of the politician—a politician of uncommon courage who was unafraid to shine a light on our shortcomings. Learn More

Build

by Mark Katz; read by Michael Butler Murray

A timely study of US diplomacy, Build: The Power of Hip Hop Diplomacy in a Divided World reveals the power of art to bridge cultural divides, facilitate understanding, and express and heal trauma. Learn More

The Joy of Search

by Daniel Russell; read by Charles Constant

How to be a great online searcher, demonstrated with step-by-step searches for answers to a series of intriguing questions (for example, "Is that plant poisonous?"). Learn More

Dirty Dealing

by Gary Cartwright; read by J. Rodney Turner

A must-listen book from Gary Cartwright, the author of Blood Will Tell and Galveston. Learn More

A Fool's Errand

by Lonnie G. Bunch III; read by JD Jackson

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Founding Director Lonnie Bunch's deeply personal tale of the triumphs and challenges of bringing the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture to life. His story is by turns inspiring, funny, frustrating, quixotic, bittersweet, and above all, a compelling listen. Learn More

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