Political Science
A Vital Question
Despised by Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, What Is To Be Done? is a fascinating, sympathetic story of idealistic revolutionaries in mid-nineteenth…
The English Restoration and Louis XIV
In this trim volume the British historian, Osmund Airy writes of the period between 1648 and 1679 when Cardinal Mazarin, having concluded th…
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 Story of a Patriot
"100%: The Story of a Patriot" dramatically recounts the adventures of a poor uneducated young man who lives by his wits and guile…
Fabian Essays in Socialism
The Fabian Society is a British institution, which, though radical, advocated social reform through legislative rather than revolutionary me…
The Pentecost of Calamity
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…
Ambassador Morgenthau's Story
Ambassador Morgenthau’s memoirs of his years in the service of the United States in Constantinople, (today Istanbul), are an important prima…
The Political History of France
This little book opens on the eve of the French Revolution. The government is crippled by financial mismanagement, ruled by a King who, in t…
United Kingdom House of Lords Speeches
This collection comprises recordings of seven historic speeches given to the UK House of Lords between 1641 and 1945. Readings are of speech…
Signs of Change
In the 1880s William Morris, the artist and poet famously associated with the Arts and Crafts movement, left the Liberal Party and threw him…
De Monarchia
The De Monarchia is one of the main works by Dante Alighieri. It is a treatise on secular and religious power, and more specifically on the …
Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen
Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings ma…
Preliminary Report on Neo-Fascist and Hate Groups
A preliminary report to the U. S. Congress on a portion of the subversive activities conducted by two specific Neo-Fascist organizations tha…
The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy
Lothrop Stoddard's most famous treatise on race. Written in the aftermath of the First World War, Stoddard examines the racial trends of his…
John Stuart Mill
This biography is actually a series of essays by prominent personalities of the time that shed light on John Stuart Mill's life and areas of…
What is Industrial Democracy
An explanation of the concept of industrial democracy and its relation to capitalism. (Summary by progressingamerica)
Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution
In the heat of the failed 1905 revolution in Russia, Lenin here contrasts the precision of the Bolshevik political program and tactics with …
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…
There Are Realistic Alternatives
Violence in society and politics, whether in the form of war, terrorism, dictatorship, oppression, usurpation, or genocide, is widely recogn…
Mental and Moral Heredity in Royalty
Frederick Adams Woods examined the biographical records and family trees of the great dynasties of Europe, judging and comparing their moral…