Top Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624078 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Utopia Author: Thomas More Narrator: James Adams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 10 minutes Release date: January 1, 2008 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In this political work written in 1516, Utopia is the name given by Sir Thomas More to an imaginary island. Book I ofUtopia, a dialogue, presents a perceptive analysis of contemporary social, economic, and moral ills in England. Book II is a narrative describing a country run according to the ideals of the English humanists, where poverty, crime, injustice, and other ills do not exist. Locating his island in the New World, More bestowed it with everything to support a perfectly organized and happy people. The name of this fictitious place, Utopia, coined by More, passed into general usage and has been applied to all such ideal fictions, fantasies, and blueprints for the future, including works by Rabelais, Francis Bacon, Samuel Butler, and several by H. G. Wells, including hisA Modern Utopia.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624447 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Origins of Totalitarianism Author: Hannah Arendt Narrator: Wanda Mccaddon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 24 minutes Release date: December 1, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A recognized classic and definitive account of its subject, The Origins of Totalitarianism traces the emergence of modern racism as an 'ideological weapon for imperialism,' begining with the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe in the nineteenth century and continuing through the New Imperialism period from 1884 to World War I. In her analysis of the institutions and operations of totalitarian movements, Arendt focuses on the two genuine forms of totalitarian government in the twentieth century: Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, which she adroitly recognizes as two sides of the same coin rather than opposing philosophies of the Right and Left. From this vantage point, she discusses the transformation of classes into masses, the role of propaganda, and the use of terror essential to this form of government. In her brilliant concluding chapter, she discusses the nature of individual isolation and loneliness as preconditions for total domination.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624431 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire Author: Chalmers Johnson Narrator: Tom Weiner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 8 minutes Release date: November 1, 2007 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The term “blowback,” invented by the CIA, refers to the unintended consequences of American actions abroad. In this incisive and controversial book, Chalmers Johnson lays out in vivid detail the dangers faced by our overextended empire, which insists on projecting its military power to every corner of the earth and using American capital and markets to force global economic integration on its own terms. From a case of rape by US servicemen in Okinawa to our role in Asia’s financial crisis, from our early support for Saddam Hussein to our conduct in the Balkans, Johnson reveals the ways in which our misguided policies are planting the seeds of future disaster. In a new edition that addresses recent international events from 9/11 to the war in Iraq, this now classic book remains as prescient and powerful as ever.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623975 to listen full audiobooks. Title: America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It Author: Mark Steyn Narrator: Brian Emerson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 54 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: It’s the end of the world as we know it. Someday soon, you might wake up to the call to prayer of a muezzin. Europeans already do. Liberals tell us that “diversity is our strength”—while Talibanic enforcers cruise Greenwich Village burning books and barber shops, the Supreme Court decides that sharia law doesn’t violate the “separation of church and state,” and the Hollywood Left decides to give up on gay rights in favor of the much safer charms of polygamy. If you think this can’t happen, you haven’t been paying attention. In this hilarious New York Times bestseller, provocative columnist Mark Steyn uses his trademark wit, clarity of thought, and flair for the apocalyptic to argue that America is the only hope against Islamic terrorism. He addresses the singular position in which America finds itself, surrounded by anti-Americanism on all sides, and gives us the brutal facts on these threats and why there is no choice but for America to fight for the cause of freedom—alone.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623895 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution Series: Part of The Politically Incorrect Guides Author: Kevin R. C. Gutzman Narrator: Tom Weiner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 34 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: While the government claims to be a representative republic, somehow hot-button topics from gay marriage to the allocation of Florida’s presidential electors always seem to be decided by unelected judges. What gives them the right to decide such issues? The judges say it’s the Constitution. Author and law professor Kevin Gutzman shows that there is very little relationship between the Constitution ratified by the thirteen states more than two centuries ago and the “constitutional law” imposed upon us since then. Instead of the intended system of state-level decision makers and elected officials, judges have given us a centralized system in which bureaucrats and appointed officials make most of the important policies. The Constitution guarantees our rights and freedoms, but activist judges are threatening those very rights because of the Supreme Court’s willingness to substitute its own opinions for the perfectly constitutional laws enacted by “we, the people” through our elected representatives. As Professor Gutzman shows, constitutional law is supposed to apply the Constitution’s plain meaning to prevent judges, presidents, and congresses from overstepping their authority. If we want to return to the Founding Fathers’ vision of the Republic, if we want the Constitution enforced in the way it was explained to the people at the time of its ratification, then we have to overcome the “received wisdom” about what constitutional law is. The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution is an important step in that direction.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623990 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic Author: Chalmers Johnson Narrator: Tom Weiner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 59 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: This final volume of Chalmers Johnson's bestsellingBlowbacktrilogy confronts the overreaching of the American empire and the threat it poses to the republic. In his prophetic bookBlowback, Johnson linked the CIA's clandestine activities abroad to disaster at home. InThe Sorrows of Empire, he explored how the growth of American militarism has jeopardized our security. Now, inNemesis, he shows how American imperialism undermines the republic itself, both economically and politically. Drawing comparisons to empires past, Johnson explores in vivid detail the likely consequences of our dependence on a permanent war economy and what it will mean when the globe's sole 'hyperpower,' no longer capable of paying for the vaulting ambitions of its leaders, becomes the greatest hyper-debtor of all time. In his stunning conclusion, Johnson suggests that the crisis of a financial breakdown could ultimately prove to be the only path to a renewed nation.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623950 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Truth about Muhammad: Founder of the World’s Most Intolerant Religion Author: Robert Spencer Narrator: James Adams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 46 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In The Truth about Muhammad, New York Times bestselling author and Islam expert Robert Spencer offers a telling portrait of the founder of Islam—perhaps the first such portrait in half a century—unbounded by fear and political correctness, unflinching, and willing to face the hard facts about Muhammad’s life that continue to affect our world today. Spencer details Muhammad’s development from a preacher of hellfire and damnation into a political and military leader who expanded his rule by force of arms, promising his warriors luridly physical delights in paradise if they were killed in his cause. He explains how the Qur’an’s teachings on warfare against unbelievers developed, with constant war to establish the hegemony of Islamic law as the last stage. Spencer also gives the truth about Muhammad’s convenient “revelations” justifying his own licentiousness; his joy in the brutal murders of his enemies; and above all, his clear marching orders to his followers to convert non-Muslims to Islam—or force them to live as inferiors under Islamic rule.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623858 to listen full audiobooks. Title: America’s Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle between America and its Enemies Author: George Friedman Narrator: Brian Emerson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 49 minutes Release date: January 1, 2004 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Dubbed by Barron’s as “The Shadow CIA,” Stratfor is one of the world’s most respected private global intelligence firms with an unmatched ability to provide clear perspective on the current geopolitical map. Here, drawing on Stratfor’s vast information-gathering network, George Friedman delivers the geopolitical story that the mainstream media has been unable to uncover: the startling truth behind America’s foreign policy and war effort in Afghanistan, Iraq, and beyond. In America’s Secret War, Friedman identifies the United States’ most dangerous enemies, delves into presidential strategies of the last quarter century, and reveals the real reasons behind the attack of September 11 and the Bush administration’s motivation for the war in Iraq. Here, in eye-opening detail, is an insightful picture of today’s world that goes far beyond what is reported in the news media.