Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 088
Various
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
"With opinions, possession is more than nine points of the law. It is next to impossible to dislodge them." Woodrow Wilson's Study of Administration examines public opinion's role in politics. It is one of 20 nonfiction readings chosen by the readers. Other faceted topics in volume 088 include culinary taste (Stewed Eels) the existence of the supernatural (Mayo v. Satan; Previsionary Dream); slavery (The Constitution and the Slave; A Scrap of Curious History); peace and war (Bumping into the Bolshevists; Russians as I Knew Them; Bogdan Chmielnicki; Armistice; International Peace) and culture (Who Thinks Abstractly; Apollo or Dionysus; Landscape Painting; the College Glee Club; Tagore's Reminiscences; and Frances Burnett). Rounding out the volume are a survey of Martinique, and a medical treatise on the Organs of the Human Voice. (Summary by Sue Anderson) (7 hr 12 min)
Chapters
| The American Constitution and the Slave (1860) | 1:06:09 | Read by progressingamerica |
| Apollo or Dionysus - Friedrich Nietzsche | 19:05 | Read by Craig Campbell |
| Armistice | 2:53 | Read by Piotr Nater |
| Bogdan Chmielnicki (c. 1593-1657) | 8:00 | Read by Piotr Nater |
| Bumping Into the Bolshevists, Part 1 | 37:39 | Read by Mary in Arkansas |
| Bumping Into the Bolshevists, Part 2 | 44:34 | Read by Mary in Arkansas |
| The College Glee Club | 3:32 | Read by TriciaG |
| Frances Hodgson Burnett | 4:19 | Read by Availle |
| Gerald Mayo v. Satan and His Staff | 4:32 | Read by Dale Grothmann |
| Letters on Landscape Painting #3 | 14:52 | Read by Sue Anderson |
| Martinique | 8:10 | Read by Tatiana Chichilla |
| My Reminiscences | 30:22 | Read by dc |
| International Peace: Nobel Peace Prize Address | 10:50 | Read by progressingamerica |
| On the Organs of the Human Voice | 54:00 | Read by Rapunzelina |
| Previsionary Dream -Charles Dickens | 4:16 | Read by Dale Grothmann |
| Russians as I Know Them (1904) | 20:16 | Read by Mark Chulsky |
| A Scrap of Curious History | 20:23 | Read by Peter Thomlinson (1940-2022) |
| Stewed Eels | 3:53 | Read by Dale Grothmann |
| The Study of Administration | 1:00:21 | Read by progressingamerica |
| Who Thinks Abstractly? | 14:39 | Read by Craig Campbell |