Political Science
Ambassador Morgenthau's Story
Ambassador Morgenthau’s memoirs of his years in the service of the United States in Constantinople, (today Istanbul), are an important prima…
Global Trends 2030
Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds is the fifth installment (published in 2012) in the National IntelligenceCouncil’s series aimed at pr…
Prison & Prisoners
Constance Lytton worked along Emmeline Pankhurst for the cause of women's suffrage in England. Upset that she was getting preferential trea…
The Pentecost of Calamity
Nonfiction. Appalled by the savagery of World War I, Owen Wister in 1915 published an attempt to move the United States out of neutrality in…
Locke
John Locke (1632-1704) was an English philosopher and physician who, after Sir Francis Bacon, was one of the first of the British empiricist…
De Monarchia
The De Monarchia is one of the main works by Dante Alighieri. It is a treatise on secular and religious power, and more specifically on the …
There Are Realistic Alternatives
Violence in society and politics, whether in the form of war, terrorism, dictatorship, oppression, usurpation, or genocide, is widely recogn…
A History of American Political Theories
"A description and analysis of the characteristic types of political theory that have from time to time been dominant in American polit…
John Stuart Mill
This biography is actually a series of essays by prominent personalities of the time that shed light on John Stuart Mill's life and areas of…
Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution
In the heat of the failed 1905 revolution in Russia, Lenin here contrasts the precision of the Bolshevik political program and tactics with …
Signs of Change
In the 1880s William Morris, the artist and poet famously associated with the Arts and Crafts movement, left the Liberal Party and threw him…
The History of the Fabian Society
"The History of the Fabian Society" describes the growth of Socialist theory in England, and the influence of Socialism on the pol…
Thomas Hobbes
This work is a look at the life and ideas of Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher of the seventeenth century. The most important ideas are fo…
The New Freedom
The New Freedom is a profound exploration of the evolving spirit of American politics, penned by Woodrow Wilson. In this work, Wilson articu…
Causes Of The American Civil War
Some of the states who rebelled against the Federal Government in the American Civil War issued statements by nascent governing bodies expla…
The English Constitution
The English Constitution is an extremely accessible work of political and legal science by Walter Bagehot, first published in serialized for…
State of the Union Addresses
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,…
Common Sense
In November 1774, Norfolk native Thomas Paine arrived in Philadelphia. He came under the recommendation of Benjamin Franklin, and indeed it…
The Theory of Social Revolutions
Brooks Adams (1848-1927), was an American historian and a critic of capitalism. He believed that commercial civilizations rise and fall in p…
The Promise of American Life
The book is said to "offer a manifesto of Progressive beliefs" that "anticipated the transition from competitive to corporate…