Political Science

Essays on Political Economy

by Frédéric Bastiat Read by Katie Riley 3.8
Bastiat asserted that the only purpose of government is to defend the right of an individual to life, liberty, and property. From this defin…

John Hancock

by Lorenzo Sears Read by Robert Morel 4
This book sheds light on one of the greatest men in the American history, an American Founding Father, merchant, statesman, and prominent Pa…

The History of the Fabian Society

by Edward R. Pease Read by Robert Morel 4.4
"The History of the Fabian Society" describes the growth of Socialist theory in England, and the influence of Socialism on the pol…

Versailles

by Karl Friedrich Nowak Read by Ted Lienhart
World War 1 ended with the Paris Peace Conference (January 1919 to January 1920), which in turn resulted in the signing of five peace treati…

Imperialism and World Politics

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

Modern England

by Oscar Browning Read by Pamela Nagami
This short survey opens with the accession of that portly spendthrift, King George IV. With British support, Greece becomes independent. The…

Mirrors of Moscow

by Louise Stevens Bryant and Louise Bryant Read by Denis Gagné 4.5
"Mirrors of Moscow" by Louise Bryant is a collection of journalistic sketches and profiles that examines the political and social …

The Life of Washington

by John James Marshall Read by Jim Locke 4.3
Volume five of John Marshall's biography follows Washington through his second term ending in the election of John Adams and Washington's re…

Mental and Moral Heredity in Royalty

by Frederick Adams Woods Read by Leon Harvey 5
Frederick Adams Woods examined the biographical records and family trees of the great dynasties of Europe, judging and comparing their moral…

The World’s Famous Orations

by William Jennings Bryan and Francis Whiting Halsey Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey published a series of the most famous orations…

Charles James Fox

by Henry Offley Wakeman Read by Pamela Nagami 4.5
Charles James Fox (1749-1806) was a prominent British Whig member of Parliament and the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger. A staunch op…

Walker's Appeal

by David Walker Read by Jim Locke
The Appeal grabbed readers’ attention in as dramatic a manner as Walker could have possibly imagined. In her book, Maria W. Stewart and the …

Hobbes

by Leslie Stephen Read by Pamela Nagami
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) famously wrote that in the state of nature "the life of man" was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, a…

The Forgotten Man and Other Essays

by William Graham Sumner Read by LibriVox Volunteers 0.5
Sumner's popular essays were to give him a wider audience to distribute his anti-imperialism, his advocacy of free markets and the gold stan…

Mother Earth

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Mother Earth was an American anarchist journal that described itself as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature&qu…

An American Politician

by Francis Marion Crawford Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
In 1880’s Boston, Mass. the good life is lead according to all the Victorian era societal rules of the New World. Political ambitions and th…

State of the Union Addresses

by Andrew Jackson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
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,…

Commentaries on the Laws of England

by William Blackstone Read by Roy Haines 5
The Commentaries on the Laws of England by Sir William Blackstone, are a prominent and authoritative 18th century dissertation on the common…

The Passing of the Great Race

by Madison Grant Read by Jim Locke 3.6
The rapidly growing appreciation of the importance of race during the last few years, the study of the influence of race on nationality as s…

Vindication Of The Rights Of Men

by Mary Wollstonecraft Read by David Wales 3.8
Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) attacks aristocracy and advocates republicanism. It was published in response to …

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