Politics

Bible Defence of Slavery

by Josiah Priest Read by JoeD 4.3
The full title of this book is Bible Defense of Slavery; and Origin, Fortunes, and History of the Negro Race, by Rev. Josiah Priest, A. M. 5…

The Pentecost of Calamity

by Owen Wister Read by David Wales 4.6
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…

The Social Contract

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
The Social Contract outlines Rousseau's views on political justice, explaining how a just and legitimate state is to be founded, organized a…

Short Nonfiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
A collection of nineteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen …

Meditations from the Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart

by Maria W. Stewart Read by James K. White 5
Maria W. Stewart was America's first black woman political writer. Between 1831 and 1833, she gave four speeches on the topics of slavery a…

Considerations on Representative Government

by John Stuart Mill Read by Bill Boerst 5
Mill's volume was published in 1861 as an argument favoring this form of governance. Mill covers what forms of government work best, includi…

The Free Press

by Hilaire Belloc Read by Sean McClain 4.9
In The Free Press, Hilaire Belloc presents a critical examination of the modern capitalist press and its influence on public opinion. Writte…

What Prohibition Has Done to America

by Fabian Franklin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
In What Prohibition Has Done to America, Fabian Franklin presents a concise but forceful argument against the Eighteenth Amendment of the U.…

The Constitution of Athens

by Aristotle Read by Geoffrey Edwards 4.6
The Constitution of Athens (Greek: Ἀθηναίων πολιτεία) was written by Aristotle or his student. The text was lost until discovered in the lat…

Short Nonfiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Explore a diverse array of ideas and insights in this collection of fifteen short nonfiction works, each selected by dedicated LibriVox volu…

The Facts of Reconstruction

by John R. Lynch Read by Guero 4.9
After the American Civil War, John R. Lynch, who had been a slave in Mississippi, began his political career in 1869 by first becoming Justi…

How the Other Half Lives

by Jacob A. Riis Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890) was a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting…

Short Nonfiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were inde…

Bill of Rights

by United States Government and Unit Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The Bill of Rights are the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, and were ratified on December 15, 1791.

Short Nonfiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independ…

Eleven Theses on Feuerbach

by Karl Marx Read by Carl Manchester 4.5
The “Theses on Feuerbach” are eleven short philosophical notes written by Karl Marx in 1845. They outline a critique of the ideas of Marx’s …

Short Nonfiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independ…

Short Nonfiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
A collection of eleven short nonfiction works in the public domain. The items included in this collection were independently selected by the…

The Spirit of Laws

by Montesquieu Read by Benjamin Gittins 4.3
This audiobook covers Volume 1 (Books I to XIX) of "The Spirit of the Laws" (French: De "l'esprit des lois", also someti…

Short Nonfiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Explore a diverse array of ideas and insights in this collection of fifteen short nonfiction works, each carefully chosen by dedicated Libri…

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