Political Science
The Slavery of Our Times
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Leo Tolstoy
This little book shows, in a short, clear, and systematic manner, how the principle of Non-Resistance, about which Tolstoy has written so mu…
The Anti-Federalist Papers
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Patrick Henry
During the period of debate over the ratification of the Constitution, numerous independent local speeches and articles were published all a…
The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses of Theodore Roosevelt
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Theodore Roosevelt
This book is a collection of Theodore Roosevelt’s published commentaries and public addresses on the general theme of the requirements for i…
Progress and Poverty
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Henry George
What I have done in this book, if I have correctly solved the great problem I have sought to investigate, is, to unite the truth perceived b…
Proposed Roads to Freedom
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (1872 – 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, political activist and Nobel laureate. …
On War (Volume 1)
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Carl Von Clausewitz
A classic work on military strategy by a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars. The author's style is dialectical: he makes two strong but opposing…
Emily
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Teel McClanahan III
Before she met Nicholas, all Emily cared about was shopping, and she believed her teachers when they told her the vampires had made the worl…
Anarchism and Other Essays
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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman (1869-1940) was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the developme…
Leviathan (Books III and IV)
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Thomas Hobbes
In Books 3 and 4 of Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes elaborates on the political philosophy set forth in the first two books, by considering the nat…
Tact
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Tact by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 22, 2012.Ralph…
The Age of Reason (version 2)
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Thomas Paine
The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology is a pamphlet, written by a British and American revolutionary Thoma…
The Prince (Version 4)
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Niccolò Machiavelli
This book is a five hundred year old manual for how to run a kingdom or principality. Written in 1513 but not published until 1532, "Th…
The Spirit of Laws (Volume 1)
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Montesquieu
This audiobook covers Volume 1 (Books I to XIX) of "The Spirit of the Laws" (French: De "l'esprit des lois", also someti…
Democracy in America Vol. II
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Alexis De Tocqueville
Democracy in America was published in two volumes, the first in 1835 and the second in 1840. It is a classic work on the United States in th…
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1a
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Jefferson Davis
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is written by Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America …
Bethink Yourselves!
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Leo Tolstoy
As Russia goes to war against Japan, Tolstoy urges those at all levels of society, from the Tsar down to the common soldier, to consider the…
Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution
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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
In the heat of the failed 1905 revolution in Russia, Lenin here contrasts the precision of the Bolshevik political program and tactics with …
Utopia (Robinson translation)
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Thomas More
Originally entitled A frutefull pleasaunt, and wittie worke of the beste state of publique weale, & of the newe yle, called Utopia: writ…
Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844
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Friedrich Engels
This is Engels' first book (since considered a classic account of England's working class in the industrial age), which argues that workers …
Il Principe
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Niccolò Machiavelli
Il Principe (titolo originale in lingua latina: De Principatibus, "Riguardo i Principati") è un trattato di dottrina politi…