Political Science
From Dictatorship to Democracy
Read by Benjamin Gittins
Gene Sharp
From Dictatorship to Democracy, A Conceptual Framework for Liberation is a book-length essay on the generic problem of how to destroy a dict…
Roman History
Read by Pamela Nagami
William Wolfe Capes
William Wolfe Capes (1834-1914) was an Anglican cleric, a classicist, and a historian. This is his short chronicle of the early Roman Empire…
Philosophical Rudiments Concerning Government and Society
Read by Jeffrey Church
Thomas Hobbes
De Cive ("On the citizen") is one of Thomas Hobbes's major works. "The book was published originally in Latin from Paris in 1…
There Are Realistic Alternatives
Read by Benjamin Gittins
Gene Sharp
Violence in society and politics, whether in the form of war, terrorism, dictatorship, oppression, usurpation, or genocide, is widely recogn…
The Phantom Public
Read by Jim Locke
Walter Lippmann
“The Voice of the People has been said to be the voice of God: and however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true…
Reflections on the rise, progress, and probable consequences
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John Erskine
Several late pamphlets composed with much art and ability have painted the claims and conduct of the North Americans; and thereby, have not …
An Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution
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Noah Webster
An early influential work describing the features contained within the new Constitution that was produced out of the Constitutional Conventi…
Richelieu
Read by Pamela Nagami
George Joseph Gustave Masson and George Joseph Gustave Masson
This short biography of the dreaded red eminence, by the Anglo-French writer and educator, Gustave Masson, combines French wit and English c…
State of the Union Addresses
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Lyndon B. Johnson
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…
Speeches of Prince Bismarck
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Otto Von Bismarck
A collection of Bismarck’s speeches translated by art historian Edmund von Mach and published in 1914 as part of THE GERMAN CLASSICS—an exte…
The Jefferson-Lemen Compact
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Willard C. Macnaul and Willard C. MacNaul
Willard McNaul's book chronicles from original sources the agreement made between Thomas Jefferson and James Lemen Sr. whereby Lemen agreed …
The American Democrat
Read by Robert H. Cherny
James Fenimore Cooper
This little work has been written, in consequence of its author's having had many occasions to observe the manner in which principles that a…
Shall It Be Again?
Read by Ted Lienhart
John Kenneth Turner
While we now view America’s entry into World War I as a necessary step to save Europe from German domination, it was actually one of the mos…
State of the Union Addresses
Read by KevinS
Richard Milhouse Nixon
The State of the Union address is a speech or report presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States…
State of the Union Addresses
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Gerald Ford
The State of the Union address is a speech or report presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States…
Mother Earth
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Various
Mother Earth, an American anarchist journal, was self styled as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature". Mo…
State of the Union Addresses
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Jimmy Carter
The State of the Union address is a speech or report presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States…
The World's Best Orations
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Various
Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of…
Mother Earth
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Various
Mother Earth, an American anarchist journal, was self styled as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature". Mot…
The American Republic
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Orestes Augustus Brownson
In the volume which, with much diffidence, is here offered to the public, I have given, as far as I have considered it worth giving, my whol…