Political Science

A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome

by Mandell Creighton Read by Pamela Nagami 5
Volume Four of Creighton's "History of the Papacy" opens with the election of Pope Paul II, whom the author describes as "a m…

From Dictatorship to Democracy

by Gene Sharp Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) 3.8
From Dictatorship to Democracy, A Conceptual Framework for Liberation is a book-length essay on the generic problem of how to destroy a dict…

Whom We Shall Welcome

by The President'S Commission On Immigration And Naturalizatio Read by LibriVox Volunteers
In 1952, Congress passed the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, which had many provisions objectionable to many Americans. President T…

Reflections on Violence

by Georges Sorel Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Considered one of the more controversial books from the 20th century, Sorel's Reflections on Violence argues in favor of uprisings and strik…

The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw

by Frances Milton Trollope Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The novel begins with the arrival of a family staking a claim in the black delta of the Deep South. Whitlaw is a brutish sort who bullies hi…

The Life of Washington

by John James Marshall Read by Jim Locke 4
This fourth volume covers the final battles and the peace conditions of the war, Washington at home, Washington as first President, and the …

Twenty Years of the Republic

by Harry Thurston Peck Read by Celine Major 4.5
Excerpt: At the time when Mr. Cleveland was inaugurated there had been no Democratic President for a full quarter of a century. A whole gene…

Revolution

by Mack Reynolds Read by Paul Harvey 3.7
The collapse of the U.S.S.R. in the future. What would happen after a collapse? This story is set many years before the actual collapse of t…

United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 2.3
This is the third LibriVox collection of speeches given in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The collection comprises recordings o…

A Political Pilgrim in Europe

by Mrs. Philip Snowden Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Written in the aftermath of Word War I, Viscountess Snowden recounts her travels in post war Europe in, as she describes it, "an attemp…

The American Democrat

by James Fenimore Cooper Read by Robert H. Cherny
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…

The Gettysburg Address

by Abraham Lincoln Read by Jim Cadwell 4.4
The Gettysburg Address is the most famous speech of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and one of the most quoted speeches in United States hist…

The 9/11 Commission Report

by 9/11 Commission Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.3
The 9/11 Commission Report, formally known as the Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, provi…

The Deportation Cases

by Constantine Panunzio Read by Sue Anderson 5
"The study here presented embodies the findings of an investigation into the recent [1919-1920] deportations of persons deemed to be un…

The Anti-Coup

by Gene Sharp Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
Supporters of political democracy, human rights, and social justice have good reasons to be alarmed about coups d'état. These abrupt …

Mother Earth

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Mother Earth was an American anarchist journal that described itself as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature&qu…

The Market For Liberty

by Linda Tannehill Read by Linda Tannehill 4
Well over a quarter century old, Morris and Linda Tannehill’s iconoclastic "The Market for Liberty" is one of the most important b…

The Gettysburg Address

by Abraham Lincoln Read by Mark F. Smith 4.6
The Dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, in November, 1863, followed a few short months after the roiling, acrid clouds of gun…

Ways of the Hour

by James Fenimore Cooper 5
Originally written shortly before Cooper's death and published posthumously, The Ways of the Hour examines the social evils of the criminal …

Jailed For Freedom

by Doris Stevens Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
A first-hand account of the 1913-1919 campaign of American suffragettes, detailing their treatment at the hands of the courts, and the true …

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