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The Longest Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Audiobooks

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, 213 unabridged Current Affairs, Law, & Politics audiobooks in our catalog run 20 hours or more. These are the longest, by the store's own running time.

The Current Affairs, Law, & Politics shelf sits under Non-Fiction on the store.

The list

#TitleAuthorLength
1The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New YorkRobert A. Caro66.1 hrs
2The Prophet: The Life of Leon TrotskyIsaac Deutscher62.7 hrs
350+ Classic collection. Political science: The Art of War, The Republic, The Athenian Constitution, The Prince, Utopia, Common Sense, Utilitarianism, Marxism, Anarchism, SocialismVladimir Lenin61.1 hrs
4History of the Russian RevolutionLeon Trotsky53.1 hrs
5Capital: Volume 3: A Critique of Political EconomyKarl Marx50.1 hrs
6Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980Rick Perlstein45.3 hrs
7Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63Taylor Branch45.3 hrs
8Postwar: How Europe rebuilt and redefined itself after 1945Tony Judt43 hrs
9Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982Dominic Sandbrook42.6 hrs
10Iran: A Modern HistoryAbbas Amanat42 hrs
11Information Technology Law: The Law and Society 4th EditionAndrew Murray41.7 hrs
12Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, Third EditionCedric J. Robinson40 hrs
13Our Country: The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to ReaganMichael Barone39.9 hrs
14DiplomacyHenry Kissinger37.9 hrs
15The Second World WarAntony Beevor37.4 hrs
16The Wealth of NationsAdam Smith37 hrs
17The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt and the Golden Age of JournalismDoris Kearns Goodwin36.7 hrs
18My Seditious Heart: Collected NonfictionArundhati Roy36.4 hrs
19My Seditious HeartArundhati Roy36.3 hrs
20An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. FordRichard Norton Smith36.1 hrs
21The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold WarLouis Menand34.9 hrs
22The Making of the English Working ClassE.P. Thompson34.7 hrs
23Democracy in AmericaAlexis de Tocqueville34.5 hrs
24Kissinger: Volume I: 1923-1968: The IdealistNiall Ferguson34.3 hrs
25The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, PresidentNoah Feldman34.2 hrs

Ordered by the store's running time, longest first. Computed from unabridged English-language audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026); children's titles are not ranked. Methodology.

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