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Common Sense - Thomas PAINE
Common Sense - Thomas PAINE
- Author: Thomas PAINE
- Genre: Political Science
Common Sense, Paine's pro-independence monograph published anonymously on 10 January 1776, spread quickly among literate colonists. Within three months, 120,000 copies are alleged to have been distributed throughout the colonies, which themselves...
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall - George Washington PLUNKITT
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall - George Washington PLUNKITT
- Author: George Washington PLUNKITT
- Genre: Political Science / Memoirs
"I seen my opportunities and I took 'em.", George Washington Plunkitt of Tamminy Hall. There's good graft and bad graft according to Plunkitt. Listen to this candid discourse from a 19th century politician, and decide for yourself if things have...
The Dawn of Mediaeval Europe: 476-918 - John Howard Bertram MASTERMAN
The Dawn of Mediaeval Europe: 476-918 - John Howard Bertram MASTERMAN
- Author: John Howard Bertram MASTERMAN
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Political Science
This volume by the British historian J.H.B. Masterman (1867-1933) is a short survey of the first four centuries after the fall of Rome. The author writes of Theodoric, King of the Ostrogoths, who sought to impose order on a shattered Italy, of the...
What's Wrong With the World - G. K. Chesterton
What's Wrong With the World - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / *Non-fiction / Political Science
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936) has been called the “prince of paradox.” Time magazine observed of his writing style: “Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside...
Reflections on the Revolution in France - Edmund BURKE
Reflections on the Revolution in France - Edmund BURKE
- Author: Edmund BURKE
- Genre: Political Science / Early Modern
Reflections on the Revolution in France is a 1790 book by Edmund Burke, one of the best-known intellectual attacks against the (then-infant) French Revolution. In the twentieth century, it much influenced conservative and classical liberal...
The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. V: Great Britain - III - Various
The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. V: Great Britain - III - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Political Science
In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey published a series of the most famous orations of all time. They are ordered by both geographic area and time period, ranging from Ancient Greece to their...
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Version 3) - Henry David Thoreau
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Version 3) - Henry David Thoreau
- Author: Henry David Thoreau
- Genre: Political Science
"That government is best which governs least" is the famous opening line of this essay. The slavery crisis inflamed New England in the 1840s and 1850s. The environment became especially tense after the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. A lifelong...
The Westminster Alice - Saki
The Westminster Alice - Saki
- Author: Saki
- Genre: Satire / History / Political Science
Published five years before John Kendrick Bangs had the same idea with Alice in Blunderland , Saki, in his 1902 series of satirical articles, takes an Alice in Wonderland view of British politics, which Alice finds even stranger than events in...
State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1817 - 1828) - John Quincy ADAMS
State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1817 - 1828) - John Quincy ADAMS
- Author: John Quincy ADAMS
- Genre: Literary Collections / Political Science
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, typically delivered annually. The address not only reports on the condition of the nation but also allows...
Report of the Inquiry into the Role and Oversight of Private Security Contractors in Afghanistan - UNITED STATES SENATE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES
Report of the Inquiry into the Role and Oversight of Private Security Contractors in Afghanistan - UNITED STATES SENATE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES
- Author: UNITED STATES SENATE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Political Science
The Inquiry into the Role and Oversight of Private Security Contractors in Afghanistan, which reported in September 2010, was precipitated by events in August 2008, when US forces bombed the Afghan village of Azizabad. This gave rise to a public...
Anticipations - H. G. Wells
Anticipations - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Philosophy / Political Science / Psychology
Wells considered this book one of his most important, a natural follow-up to such works as his Man of the Year Million and The Time Machine. His goal was to get people to think and act in new ways. The book starts with a look at how humans get along...
Anarchism and Other Essays (Version 2) - Emma Goldman
Anarchism and Other Essays (Version 2) - Emma Goldman
- Author: Emma Goldman
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Political Science / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Emma Goldman, the most famous anarchist in American history, shows the whole range of her iconoclastic thought in this collection of essays. Drawing from a wealth of illustrative material, including the examples of fellow anarchists and radicals of...
Industrial Conspiracies - Clarence DARROW
Industrial Conspiracies - Clarence DARROW
- Author: Clarence DARROW
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Political Science / Self-Help
Publisher's Note.—This address was delivered shortly after Mr. Darrow's triumphant acquittal on a charge growing out of his defense of the McNamaras at Los Angeles, California. The man, the subject and the occasion makes it one of the greatest...
The Free Press - Hilaire Belloc
The Free Press - Hilaire Belloc
- Author: Hilaire Belloc
- Genre: Political Science
I propose to discuss in what follows the evil of the great modern Capitalist Press, its function in vitiating and misinforming opinion and in putting power into ignoble hands; its correction by the formation of small independent organs, and the...
State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1837 - 1844) - Martin VAN BUREN
State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1837 - 1844) - Martin VAN BUREN
- Author: Martin VAN BUREN
- Genre: Literary Collections / Political Science
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, typically delivered annually. The address not only reports on the condition of the nation but also allows...
Prison & Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences - Constance LYTTON
Prison & Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences - Constance LYTTON
- Author: Constance LYTTON
- Genre: Political Science
Constance Lytton worked along Emmeline Pankhurst for the cause of women's suffrage in England. Upset that she was getting preferential treatment by the authorities, she assumed a pseudonym (Jane Wharton) so that her titled status wouldn't be...
The Profits of Religion - Upton Sinclair
The Profits of Religion - Upton Sinclair
- Author: Upton Sinclair
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Political Science / Religion
"The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation" is a non-fiction book, first published in 1917, by the American novelist and muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair. It is a snapshot of the religious movements in the U.S. before its...
The Age of Reason (version 2) - Thomas PAINE
The Age of Reason (version 2) - Thomas PAINE
- Author: Thomas PAINE
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Political Science
The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology is a pamphlet, written by a British and American revolutionary Thomas Paine. The Age of Reason challenges institutionalized religion and challenges the legitimacy of the Bible,...
United Nations Agreements - United Nations
United Nations Agreements - United Nations
- Author: United Nations
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Political Science
The Charter of the United Nations signed at San Francisco on 26 June 1945 is the constituent treaty of the United Nations. It is as well one of the constitutional texts of the International Court of Justice which was brought into being by the...
Theodore Roosevelt; An Address Delivered Before The Congress Of The United States - Henry Cabot LODGE
Theodore Roosevelt; An Address Delivered Before The Congress Of The United States - Henry Cabot LODGE
- Author: Henry Cabot LODGE
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Essays & Short Works / Political Science
A biographical encomium delivered on the occasion of Roosevelt's death. Theodore "T.R." Roosevelt, Jr. (1858 – 1919) was an American author, naturalist, explorer, historian, and politician who served as the 26th President of the United States. He...
The New Freedom - Woodrow WILSON
The New Freedom - Woodrow WILSON
- Author: Woodrow WILSON
- Genre: Political Science
The book is not a discussion of measures or of programs. It is an attempt to express the new spirit of our politics and to set forth, in large terms which may stick in the imagination, what it is that must be done if we are to restore our politics...
What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government - Pierre-Joseph PROUDHON
What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government - Pierre-Joseph PROUDHON
- Author: Pierre-Joseph PROUDHON
- Genre: Political Science
What Is Property?: or, An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government (French: Qu'est-ce que la propriété ? ou Recherche sur le principe du Droit et du Gouvernment) is an influential work of nonfiction on the concept of property and its...
Norway and the Union with Sweden - Fridtjof NANSEN
Norway and the Union with Sweden - Fridtjof NANSEN
- Author: Fridtjof NANSEN
- Genre: Political Science / Modern (19th C)
A History of the politics surrounding The Union of Norway with Sweden, from 1814-1905, from the Norwegian perspective - Summary by Ærik Bjørnsson...
Essay on the Trial by Jury - Lysander Spooner
Essay on the Trial by Jury - Lysander Spooner
- Author: Lysander Spooner
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / History / Political Science
FOR more than six hundred years that is, since Magna Carta, in 1215 there has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law, than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the right and duty of juries to judge what are the facts,...
Twenty Years at Hull House - Jane ADDAMS
Twenty Years at Hull House - Jane ADDAMS
- Author: Jane ADDAMS
- Genre: Political Science / Memoirs
Jane Addams was the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In a long, complex career, she was a pioneer settlement worker and founder of Hull-House in Chicago, public philosopher (the first American woman in that role), author,...
The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. III: Great Britain - I - Various
The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. III: Great Britain - I - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Political Science / Early Modern
In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey published a series of the most famous orations of all time. They are ordered by both geographic area and time period, ranging from Ancient Greece to their...
Meditations from the Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart - Maria W. STEWART
Meditations from the Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart - Maria W. STEWART
- Author: Maria W. STEWART
- Genre: Poetry / *Non-fiction / Political Science
Maria W. Stewart was America's first black woman political writer. Between 1831 and 1833, she gave four speeches on the topics of slavery and women's rights. Meditations From The Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart—published in 1879, shortly before her...
Public Opinion - Walter LIPPMANN
Public Opinion - Walter LIPPMANN
- Author: Walter LIPPMANN
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Political Science
Public Opinion (1922), by Walter Lippman, is a critical assessment of functional democratic government, especially the irrational, and often self-serving, social perceptions that influence individual behavior, and prevent optimal societal cohesion....
Up from Slavery: An Autobiography - Booker T. Washington
Up from Slavery: An Autobiography - Booker T. Washington
- Author: Booker T. Washington
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Political Science
Up From Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his slow and steady rise from a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton University, to his...
Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906 - Undefined
Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906 - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Political Science
"Mother Earth was an American anarchist journal that described itself as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature". Founded in early 1906 and initially edited by Emma Goldman, an activist in the United States, it published...
The Shield - Various
The Shield - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Political Science
This is not merely a book about the Russian Jews. It is a marvellous revelation of the Russian soul. It shows not only that the overwhelming majority of the Russian intellectuals, including nearly all of her brilliant literary geniuses, are opposed...
In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace - H. G. Wells
In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Political Science
In the Fourth Year is a collection H.G. Wells assembled in the spring of 1918 from essays he had recently published discussing the problem of establishing lasting peace when World War I ended. It is mostly devoted to plans for the League of Nations...
Revolution, and other Essays - Jack London
Revolution, and other Essays - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Political Science
A collection of 13 essays written between 1900 and 1908, published in 1910. The lead essay, "Revolution", outlines how and why London renounced capitalism as a failed social system and declared himself an active participant in the "socialist...
The Pentecost of Calamity - Owen Wister
The Pentecost of Calamity - Owen Wister
- Author: Owen Wister
- Genre: Political Science / Modern (20th C)
Nonfiction. Appalled by the savagery of World War I, Owen Wister in 1915 published an attempt to move the United States out of neutrality into joining the Allies against Germany. His aim was the quicker defeat of that nation. (Wister: “the new...
The Problem of China - Bertrand Russell
The Problem of China - Bertrand Russell
- Author: Bertrand Russell
- Genre: Political Science / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
In 1920-21 Bertrand Russell lived and taught in Peking (Beijing), publishing this book on his return to England. In 1920 he had visited Bolshevik Russia, talked to Lenin, and was unimpressed by what he had seen. China, however, was another matter....
A Preface to Politics - Walter LIPPMANN
A Preface to Politics - Walter LIPPMANN
- Author: Walter LIPPMANN
- Genre: Political Science
This is the first book in the bibliography of Walter Lippmann, written three years after emerging from Harvard where he studied under the pragmatists Santayana and James. Although the work is a century old, the reader of today may still find in it,...
The Colored People of Chicago - Louise DeKoven BOWEN
The Colored People of Chicago - Louise DeKoven BOWEN
- Author: Louise DeKoven BOWEN
- Genre: Political Science / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
This book presents a summary of the findings conducted by the the Juvenile Protective Association in Chicago before the changes brought on by the war-time economy. The study's researchers were A. P. Drucker, Sophia Boaz, A. L. Harris, and Miriam...
There Are Realistic Alternatives - Gene Sharp
There Are Realistic Alternatives - Gene Sharp
- Author: Gene Sharp
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Political Science
Violence in society and politics, whether in the form of war, terrorism, dictatorship, oppression, usurpation, or genocide, is widely recognized as a grave problem. The objective of this essay is to explore a different perspective on the nature of...
Eleven Theses on Feuerbach - Karl MARX
Eleven Theses on Feuerbach - Karl MARX
- Author: Karl MARX
- Genre: Philosophy / Political Science
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 fellow Young Hegelian philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach. The theses form a basis for the activism emphasised by...
Untimely Papers - Randolph Silliman BOURNE
Untimely Papers - Randolph Silliman BOURNE
- Author: Randolph Silliman BOURNE
- Genre: War & Military / Essays & Short Works / Political Science
This is a posthumous collection of essays by Randolph Bourne. Many originally appeared in the journal "The Seven Arts," before the controversial end to its run. Also included is the unfinished manuscript of "The State," the book Bourne worked on...