Politics
The Prime Minister
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Anthony Trollope
The Prime Minister is the fifth in Trollope's series of six Palliser novels. With Phineas' difficulties resolved, Trollope introduces new c…
The Theory of Social Revolutions
Read by Nathalie J.
Brooks Adams
Brooks Adams (1848-1927), was an American historian and a critic of capitalism. He believed that commercial civilizations rise and fall in p…
The Prussian Officer
Read by Cate Barratt
D. H. Lawrence
The collection of short stories - of which The Prussian Officer is one - was Lawrence’s first such book. A German officer and his orderly ar…
Industrial Conspiracies
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Clarence Darrow
Industrial Conspiracies is a powerful address by renowned lawyer Clarence Darrow, delivered shortly after his notable acquittal in the McNam…
From Dictatorship to Democracy
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
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…
The Jewish State
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Theodor Herzl
Der Judenstaat (German, The Jewish State) is a book written by Theodor Herzl and published in 1896 in Leipzig and Vienna by M. Breitenstein'…
How the Other Half Lives
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Jacob A. Riis
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890) was a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting…
Considerations on Representative Government
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John Stuart Mill
Mill's volume was published in 1861 as an argument favoring this form of governance. Mill covers what forms of government work best, includi…
Short Nonfiction Collection
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Various
A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independ…
The Masquerader
Read by Tom Weiss
Katherine Cecil Thurston
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,…
Omega
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Camille Flammarion
Omega: The Last Days of the World transports listeners to a thought-provoking vision of the 25th century, where humanity faces an impending …
The Mysterious Forces of Civilization
Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater
Abdu’L-Bahá ‘Abbás
The Mysterious Forces of Civilization (Persian: Risálih-i-Madaníyyih) is a work written before 1875 by ‘Abbás Effend&ia…
Signs of Change
Read by Deborah Brabyn
William Morris
In the 1880s William Morris, the artist and poet famously associated with the Arts and Crafts movement, left the Liberal Party and threw him…
Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War
Read by Allyson Hester
United States Arms Control And Disarmament Agency
Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War offers a critical examination of the potential consequences of nuclear conflict on a global scale. This ins…
Neighbors
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Jacob A. Riis
These stories have come to me from many sources—some from my own experience, others from settlement workers, still others from the records o…
Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty
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Imbert De Saint-Amand
"Paris in 1792 is no longer what it was in 1789. In 1789, the old French society was still brilliant. The past endured beside the prese…
The Octopus
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Frank Norris
Frank Norris based his 1901 novel The Octopus (A Story of California) on the Mussel Slough Tragedy of 1880, a bloody conflict between ranche…
Unto this Last
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John Ruskin
Unto This Last is a seminal work by John Ruskin that challenges the foundations of political economy and critiques the prevailing capitalist…
John Quincy Adams
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John T. Morse
John Quincy Adams by John T. Morse offers a detailed exploration of the life of one of America's most significant political figures. This bi…
Sabotage
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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Sabotage by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn explores the concept of sabotage as a strategic tool for workers seeking to assert their rights and chall…