Deadly Deceits: My 25 Years in the CIA

The Phoenix Program: America's Use of Terror in Vietnam

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Douglas Valentine
• Narrated By Bob Souer
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

A shocking expos of the covert CIA program of widespread torture, rape, and murder of civilians during America’s war in Vietnam, with a new introduction by the author. In the darkest days of the Vietnam War, America’s Central Intelligence Agency secretly initiated a sweeping program of kidnap, torture, and assassination devised to destabilize the infrastructure of the National Liberation Front (NLF) of South Vietnam, commonly known as the “Viet Cong.”

The Lords of Creation

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 1 min)
• By Fredrick Lewis Allen
• Narrated By William Hope

An acclaimed classic detailing the economic history of America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and exposing the capitalist giants who changed the world. Frederick Lewis Allen’s insightful financial history of the United States - from the late 1800s through the stock market collapse of 1929 - remains a seminal work on what brought on America’s worst economic disaster: the Great Depression.

The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Douglas Valentine
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

The author of three books on CIA operations, Douglas Valentine began his research into the agency's activities when CIA director William Colby gave him free access to interview agency officials who had been involved in various aspects of the Phoenix program in South Vietnam. It was a permission Colby was to regret. The CIA would eventually rescind it and made every effort to impede publication of The Phoenix Program, which documented an elaborate system of population surveillance, control, entrapment, imprisonment, torture, and assassination in Vietnam.

The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

• UNABRIDGED (25 hrs and 23 mins)
• By David Talbot
• Narrated By Peter Altschuler

An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful - and secretive - colossus in Washington, from the founder of Salon.com and author of the New York Times best seller Brothers.

Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America

• UNABRIDGED (21 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Bertram Gross, Mark Crispin Miller - editor, Chris Hedges - introduction
• Narrated By Kevin Stillwell
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

In 1980, US capitalist politics wore a "nice-guy mask", a troubling disguise to cover up a creeping despotism in which the ultra-rich and corporate overseers were merging with a centralized state power in order to manage the populace. This immanent corporate authoritarianism threatened to subvert constitutional democracy.

Interference: How Organized Crime Influences Professional Football

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Dan E. Moldea
• Narrated By Andrew Ingalls
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

According to investigative journalist Dan E. Moldea, for decades the National Football League has had a strong and unspoken understanding with a dangerous institution: Organized crime. In his classic expos, Interference, Moldea bares the dark, sordid underbelly of America's favorite professional team sport, revealing a nest of corruption that the league has largely ignored since its inception.

Requiem for the American Dream: The Principles of Concentrated Wealth and Power

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Noam Chomsky
• Narrated By Donald Corren
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Noam Chomsky is widely regarded as the most influential thinker of our time, but never before has he devoted a major book to one topic: income inequality. Requiem for the American Dream is not an essay collection but an entire work of some 70,000 words, based on four years of interviews with Chomsky by the editors. It is a book that makes Chomsky's breadth and depth accessible and at the same time gives us his most powerful political ideas with unprecedented, breathtaking directness.

Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Sheldon S. Wolin
• Narrated By Joe Barrett
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Sheldon Wolin considers the unthinkable: has America unwittingly morphed into a new and strange kind of political hybrid, one where economic and state powers are conjoined and virtually unbridled? Can the nation check its descent into what the author terms "inverted totalitarianism"? Wolin portrays a country where citizens are politically uninterested and submissive - and where elites are eager to keep them that way.

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

• UNABRIDGED (21 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Tim Weiner
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

This is the book the CIA does not want you to read. For the last 60 years, the CIA has maintained a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, never disclosing its blunders to the American public. It spun its own truth to the nation while reality lay buried in classified archives. Now, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Tim Weiner offers a stunning indictment of the CIA, a deeply flawed organization that has never deserved America's confidence.

Betrayal in Blue: The Shocking Memoir of the Scandal That Rocked the NYPD

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Burl Barer, Frank C. Girardot Jr., Ken Eurell
• Narrated By Kevin Pierce, Burl Barer
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

NYPD officers Mike Dowd and Kenny Eurell knew there were two ways to get rich quick in Brooklyn's Lower East Side. You either became drug dealers, or you robbed drug dealers. They decided to do both. Dowd and Eurell ran the most powerful gang in New York's dangerous 75th Precinct, the crack cocaine capitol of 1980s America.

None Dare Call It Conspiracy

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Gary Allen, Larry Abraham
• Narrated By Andrew Heyl

None Dare Call It Conspiracy will be a very controversial book. At first, it will receive little publicity, and those whose plans are exposed in it will try to kill it by the silent treatment. For reasons that become obvious as you listen to this book, it will not be reviewed in all the "proper" places or be available on your local book stand. However, there is nothing these people can do to stop a grassroots book distributing system.

Relentless Strike: The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Sean Naylor
• Narrated By Sean Runnette
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Relentless Strike tells the inside story of Joint Special Operations Command, the secret military organization that, during the past decade, has revolutionized counterterrorism, seamlessly fusing intelligence and operational skills to conduct missions that hit the headlines and those that have remained in the shadows - until now. Because JSOC includes the military's most storied special operations units - Delta Force, SEAL Team Six, the 75th Ranger Regiment - as well as America's most secret aviation and intelligence units, this is their story, too.

The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Sean Carroll
• Narrated By Sean Carroll
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Already internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging notions in modern physics, Sean Carroll is emerging as one of the greatest humanist thinkers of his generation as he brings his extraordinary intellect to bear not only on the Higgs boson and extra dimensions but now also on our deepest personal questions. Where are we? Who are we? Are our emotions, our beliefs, and our hopes and dreams ultimately meaningless out there in the void?

Assassination on Embassy Row

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 25 mins)
• By John Dinges, Sal Landau
• Narrated By Fleet Cooper

On September 10, 1976, exiled Chilean leader Orlando Letelier delivered a blistering rebuke of Augusto Pinochet's brutal right-wing regime in a speech at Madison Square Garden. Eleven days later, while Letelier was on Embassy Row in Washington, DC, a bomb affixed to the bottom of his car exploded, killing him and his coworker Ronni Moffitt. The slaying, staggering in its own right, exposed an international conspiracy that reached well into US territory.

Conversation Tactics: Strategies to Charm, Befriend, and Defend

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 48 mins)
• By Patrick King
• Narrated By Jeremy Reloj
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Do you want to become more charming and likable - instantly? Or just make sure you can defend yourself verbally, and not be a doormat? Do you lose arguments, find yourself speechless, or get taken advantage of by others? Or do you just want to build meaningful connections and friendships quickly? Sounds like you need to learn as many conversation tactics as possible! In this book you'll learn 18 powerful techniques that can be used for everything under the sun.

The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 41 mins)
• By James Bamford
• Narrated By Robertson Dean
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

In The Shadow Factory, James Bamford, the foremost expert on National Security Agency, charts its transformation since 9/11, as the legendary code breakers turned their ears away from outside enemies, such as the Soviet Union, and inward to enemies whose communications increasingly crisscross America.

The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 22 mins)
• By John Perkins
• Narrated By Tom Taylorson
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

The previous edition of this now-classic book revealed the existence and subversive manipulations of "economic hit men". John Perkins wrote that economic hit men (EHM) "are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder".

Writing Creative Nonfiction

• ORIGINAL (12 hrs and 16 mins)
• By The Great Courses, Tilar J J. Mazzeo
• Narrated By Professor Tilar J J. Mazzeo

Bringing together the imaginative strategies of fiction storytelling and new ways of narrating true, real-life events, creative nonfiction is the fastest-growing part of the creative writing world. It's a cutting-edge genre that's reshaping how we write (and read) everything from biographies and memoirs to blogs and public speaking scripts to personal essays and magazine articles.

The Killing of Osama Bin Laden

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Seymour M. Hersh
• Narrated By Eric Martin
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

In 2011, an elite group of US Navy SEALS stormed an enclosure in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad and killed Osama bin Laden, the man the United States had begun chasing before the devastating attacks of 9/11. The news did much to boost President Obama's first term and played a major part in his reelection victory of the following year. But much of the story of that night, as presented to the world, was incomplete or a lie. The evidence of what actually went on remains hidden.

Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 41 mins)
• By Mark Lane
• Narrated By Mark Boyett
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Mark Lane tried the only US court case in which the jurors concluded that the CIA plotted the murder of President Kennedy, but there was always a missing piece: How did the CIA control cops and secret service agents on the ground in Dealey Plaza? How did federal authorities prevent the House Select Committee on Assassinations from discovering the truth about the complicity of the CIA? Now, Mark Lane tells all in this explosive new book.

The Foundations of Western Civilization

• ORIGINAL (24 hrs and 54 mins)
• By The Great Courses
• Narrated By Professor Thomas F. X. Noble

What is Western Civilization? According to Professor Noble, it is "much more than human and political geography," encompassing myriad forms of political and institutional structures - from monarchies to participatory republics - and its own traditions of political discourse. It involves choices about who gets to participate in any given society and the ways in which societies have resolved the tension between individual self-interest and the common good.

Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Nick Turse
• Narrated By Don Lee
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were "isolated incidents" in the Vietnam War, carried out by a few "bad apples." However, as award-winning journalist and historian Nick Turse demonstrates in this pioneering investigation, violence against Vietnamese civilians was not at all exceptional. Rather, it was pervasive and systematic, the predictable consequence of official orders to "kill anything that moves."

The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Jeremy Scahill, The Staff of The Intercept, Edward Snowden - foreword, and others
• Narrated By George Newbern, Jeremy Scahill - introduction, Glenn Greenwald - afterword
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Major revelations about the US government's drone program - best-selling author Jeremy Scahill and his colleagues at the investigative website The Intercept expose stunning new details about America's secret assassination policy.

The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Annie Jacobsen
• Narrated By Annie Jacobsen
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science R&D agency. In the first-ever history of the organization, New York Times best-selling author Annie Jacobsen draws on inside sources, exclusive interviews, private documents, and declassified memos to paint a picture of DARPA, or "the Pentagon's brain", from its Cold War inception in 1958 to the present.