Political Science

Industrial Conspiracies

by Clarence Darrow Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.5
Industrial Conspiracies is a powerful address by renowned lawyer Clarence Darrow, delivered shortly after his notable acquittal in the McNam…

A Problem in Modern Ethics

by John Addington Symonds Read by Martin Geeson 4.6
“Society lies under the spell of ancient terrorism and coagulated errors. Science is either wilfully hypocritical or radically misinformed.”…

The Ukraine

by George Raffalovich Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
“We are not the same nation with Russian people,” the statement which all Ukrainians wish to convey to the whole world for centuries. The st…

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…

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…

Selected Essays

by Voltairine De Cleyre Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) was, according to Emma Goldman, "the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced.&…

Democracy in America

by Alexis De Tocqueville Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Democracy in America offers a profound exploration of the American political system as observed by French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville d…

Six Radical Thinkers

by John Maccunn Read by Pamela Nagami 4.7
A radical is a person who holds extreme or unconventional convictions and who advocates fundamental political, economic, or social reforms. …

A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy

by Karl Marx Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
As a precursor to Capital, Marx outlines his analysis of capitalism and critiques classical economic theories. - Summary by Tray

Notes On Democracy

by H. L. Mencken Read by Lisa Reichert 5
American journalist H.L. Mencken’s Notes On Democracy was originally published in 1926, yet is still relevant almost 100 years later.Mencken…

Abraham Lincoln's Inaugural Addresses

by Abraham Lincoln Read by John Greenman 4.7
Lincoln's first inaugural address was delivered on March 4th, 1861, as the North and South were sliding towards separation and Civil War. Hi…

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…

Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy

by John Stuart Mill Read by Gary Gilberd 4.8
This is Mill’s first work on economics. It foreshadows his Political Economy which was the standard Anglo-American Economics textbook of the…

A Preface to Politics

by Walter Lippmann Read by DPranitis 4.8
This is the first book in the bibliography of Walter Lippmann, written three years after emerging from Harvard where he studied under the pr…

Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War

by United States Arms Control And Disarmament Agency Read by Allyson Hester 4.5
Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War offers a critical examination of the potential consequences of nuclear conflict on a global scale. This ins…

The American Crisis

by Thomas Paine Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
A 13 pamphlet series by 18th century Enlightenment philosopher/author Thomas Paine, published between 1776 to 1783 during and immediately fo…

Sybil, or the Two Nations

by Benjamin Disraeli Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) 4.3
Sybil is one of the most prominent political novels of the mid-nineteenth century, taking as its subject the "condition of England"…

The Machine

by Upton Sinclair Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Upton Sinclair is best known for his novel The Jungle, an expose of the meatpacking industry. He was also a playwright whose works for the s…

Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius

by Niccolò Machiavelli Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
In "Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius", posthumous work by the author of The Prince, Machiavelli discusses the useful…

Bismarck and the Origin of the German Empire

by Sir Frederick Maurice Powicke Read by Pamela Nagami 4.4
Despite its brevity, this Little Blue Book #142 by the Oxford historian, Sir F.M. Powicke, provides a valuable overview of the political his…

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