Political Science
Anarchism and Other Essays
Emma Goldman (1869-1940) was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the developme…
Phineas Finn the Irish Member
Phineas Finn is the sequel to “Can you Forgive Her?” and the second novel in Trollope’s Palliser series. The eponymous hero is a young Irish…
The Moneychangers
A story of white collar crime and intrigue told from the point of view of Montague, a member of the privileged class of New York. Montague w…
Anarchism and Other Essays
Emma Goldman, the most famous anarchist in American history, shows the whole range of her iconoclastic thought in this collection of essays.…
The Octopus
Frank Norris based his 1901 novel The Octopus (A Story of California) on the Mussel Slough Tragedy of 1880, a bloody conflict between ranche…
John Brown
This is a moving and deeply felt biography of abolitionist John Brown, which defends its subject against the popular notion of him as a delu…
Common Sense
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for indepen…
A Jewish State
Read in English, this is a pivotal document in the history of Zionism and the State of Israel. Herzl designed this work to elevate the discu…
Voltaire and the French Enlightenment
In this Little Blue Book Number 512, Will Durant describes François-Marie Arouet, the writer, historian, and philosopher known as Vol…
The Treaty with China
"A good candidate for 'the most under-appreciated work by Mark Twain' would be 'The Treaty With China,' which he published in the New Y…
The Prince
The Prince (Italian: Il Principe) is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavel…
Areopagitica
A prose tract or polemic by John Milton, published November 23, 1644, at the height of the English Civil War... Milton, though a supporter o…
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius
In "Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius", posthumous work by the author of The Prince, Machiavelli discusses the useful…
The Masquerader
The Masquerader is one of two Katherine Cecil Thurston’s books that appeared on the Publisher’s Weekly best-seekers list in 1905 (The other,…
Condition of the Working-Class in England
This is Engels' first book (since considered a classic account of England's working class in the industrial age), which argues that workers …
Revolution
A collection of 13 essays written between 1900 and 1908, published in 1910. The lead essay, "Revolution", outlines how and why Lon…
What Shall We Do?
A vivid description of wealth and poverty in Russia in Tolstoy's day, an inquiry into the root causes of economic inequality, and a vision o…
Public Opinion
Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann offers a profound exploration of the dynamics that shape public perception and its impact on democracy. Wr…
The World Crisis
An inside view of the critical years leading up to World War I, as well as the first few key months. Told by (at the time) Britain's First L…
The Wars of the Roses
The Wars of the Roses, 1377-1471, were a series of English civil wars fought for the control of the throne of England between two rival cade…