Political Science

Life of Prince Metternich

by George Bruce Malleson Read by Pamela Nagami 4.5
Klemens von Metternich (1773-1859) first foreign minister, and then chancellor of the Austrian Empire was a great diplomat: crafty, manipula…

A Square Deal

by Theodore Roosevelt Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt became the 26th president of the United States when president William McKinley was assassinated in 1901. As the …

From Dictatorship to Democracy

by Gene Sharp Read by Benjamin Gittins 4.4
From Dictatorship to Democracy, A Conceptual Framework for Liberation is a book-length essay on the generic problem of how to destroy a dict…

On Liberty

by John Stuart Mill Read by Bryn Roberts 5
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill is an essay about individual freedom and its limits. Mill argues that people should be free to think, speak, …

Third Class in Indian Railways

by Mahatma Gandhi Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869 – 1948) was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement…

Six Radical Thinkers

by John Maccunn Read by Pamela Nagami 4.8
A radical is a person who holds extreme or unconventional convictions and who advocates fundamental political, economic, or social reforms. …

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 Story of a Patriot

by Upton Sinclair Read by Anthony St. Pierre 5
"100%: The Story of a Patriot" dramatically recounts the adventures of a poor uneducated young man who lives by his wits and guile…

Imperialism and World Politics

by Parker Thomas Moon Read by Alister 5
Moon’s Imperialism and World Politics is perhaps the best-known work of the Columbia University professor and political scientist; It was pu…

Anthem

by Ayn Rand Read by Greg Giordano 4.5
Ayn Rand is best known for her classics Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. One of her earlier works, Anthem, is a dystopian vision of a wo…

Global Trends 2030

by National Intelligence Council Read by Patrick McHaffie 4.7
Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds is the fifth installment (published in 2012) in the National IntelligenceCouncil’s series aimed at pr…

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

by Henry David Thoreau Read by Phil Chenevert 4.8
"That government is best which governs least" is the famous opening line of this essay. The slavery crisis inflamed New England i…

Perpetual Peace, A Philosophic Essay

by Immanuel Kant Read by D.E. Wittkower 4.8
This essay, written in 1795, puts forth a plan for a lasting peace between nations and peoples. Kant puts forth necessary means to any peace…

Thomas Hobbes

by Alfred Edward Taylor Read by Jim Locke 4.8
This work is a look at the life and ideas of Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher of the seventeenth century. The most important ideas are fo…

Preliminary Report on Neo-Fascist and Hate Groups

by House Un-American Activities Committee Read by KevinS 4.9
A preliminary report to the U. S. Congress on a portion of the subversive activities conducted by two specific Neo-Fascist organizations tha…

The Story of a Patriot

by Upton Sinclair Read by Lee Smalley 4.1
"100%: The Story of a Patriot" dramatically recounts the adventures of a poor uneducated young man who lives by his wits and guile…

Rasputin and the Russian Revolution

by Catherine Radziwill Read by Tatiana Chichilla 5
Princess Catherine Radziwill exposes Rasputin as a charlatan and pawn of Germany in this two-part analysis. Part one discusses the social an…

The African Problem and the Peace Settlement

by Edmund Dene Morel Read by KevinS 4.8
In this essay, the author directs our attention on the African continent and describes how the exploitation and colonization of Africa by Eu…

The Influence of Monarchs

by Frederick Adams Woods Read by Leon Harvey 4.5
Frederick Adams Woods presents compelling evidence to support the great man theory of history and his own category scientific inquiry known …

Recollections of Abraham Lincoln

by Ward Hill Lamon Read by John Greenman 4.7
Abraham Lincoln came to the presidency under a heavy shroud of uncertainty, not only about his threatened life but, of course, the very exis…

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