Political Science
Anti-Dictator
Étienne de La Boétie was the closest friend of Michel de Montaigne and the subject of the latter's famous essay "On Frien…
Imperialism and World Politics
Moon’s Iᴍᴘᴇʀɪᴀʟɪsᴍ ᴀɴᴅ Wᴏʀʟᴅ Pᴏʟɪᴛɪᴄs is perhaps the best-known work of the Columbia University professor and political scientist; It was pu…
The World’s Famous Orations
In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey published a series of the most famous orations…
Washington and His Colleagues
This next volume of the Chronicles of American series investigates Washington's development in the day to day world the various dimensions o…
Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei
Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels schrieben ihr Manifest im Dezember 1847, als Leitfaden fuer die grundsaetzlichen Prinzipien und Praktiken des…
A Political Pilgrim in Europe
Written in the aftermath of Word War I, Viscountess Snowden recounts her travels in post war Europe in, as she describes it, "an attemp…
Your Pay Envelope
A Critique of Classical Socialism presented in a series of letters to a Mr. Smith. The author was the editor of the New York-based "Com…
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,…
An Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution
An early influential work describing the features contained within the new Constitution that was produced out of the Constitutional Conventi…
The Phantom Public
“The Voice of the People has been said to be the voice of God: and however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true…
Sabotage
Sabotage by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn explores the concept of sabotage as a strategic tool for workers seeking to assert their rights and chall…
United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection
This is the third LibriVox collection of speeches given in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The collection comprises recordings o…
The Beggars of Paris
Here, as in France, begging is made a profession. And it is very important that the public should realize the fact, that ' thoughtless almsg…
America's Retreat from Victory
Senator Joseph McCarthy examines the life of General George Catlett Marshall, particularly his role in government beginning in 1945 as Unite…
How a British Subject Became President of the United States
In 1880, the New York Times reported a curious story from St. Albans, Vermont, about a mysterious figure, an attorney and Democratic operati…
A History of Our Own Times
Volume II of this popular history opens in the revolutionary year, 1848, with the Chartist movement for manhood suffrage and with the rise o…
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
Frederick Douglass was born enslaved, in Maryland. He was taken from his mother in infancy and lived with his maternal grandmother, who was …
Mother Earth
"Mother Earth was an American anarchist journal that described itself as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literat…
Lives of Greek Statesmen
In the darkest days of the Persian War when the armies of Xerxes were overrunning northern Greece, Athens faced destruction. The desperate A…
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,…