Politics
- Radical Voices on Faith and Power
- Foundations of Political Thought
- Foundations of Political Philosophy
- Voices of American History
- Political Essays and Reflections
Short Nonfiction Collection
A collection of nineteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen …
Meditations from the Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart
Maria W. Stewart was America's first black woman political writer. Between 1831 and 1833, she gave four speeches on the topics of slavery a…
Condition of the Working-Class in England
This is Engels' first book (since considered a classic account of England's working class in the industrial age), which argues that workers …
Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again
This satire on the U.S.A.'s myth of being the "Home of the Oppressed, where all men are free and equal", is unrelenting in its pur…
The Constitution of Athens
The Constitution of Athens (Greek: Ἀθηναίων πολιτεία) was written by Aristotle or his student. The text was lost until discovered in the lat…
The Facts of Reconstruction
After the American Civil War, John R. Lynch, who had been a slave in Mississippi, began his political career in 1869 by first becoming Justi…
What Prohibition Has Done to America
In What Prohibition Has Done to America, Fabian Franklin presents a concise but forceful argument against the Eighteenth Amendment of the U.…
The Free Press
In The Free Press, Hilaire Belloc presents a critical examination of the modern capitalist press and its influence on public opinion. Writte…
Considerations on Representative Government
Mill's volume was published in 1861 as an argument favoring this form of governance. Mill covers what forms of government work best, includi…
How the Other Half Lives
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890) was a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting…
Short Nonfiction Collection
Explore a diverse array of ideas and insights in this collection of fifteen short nonfiction works, each selected by dedicated LibriVox volu…
Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights are the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, and were ratified on December 15, 1791.
Short Nonfiction Collection
A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were inde…
The Spirit of Laws
This audiobook covers Volume 1 (Books I to XIX) of "The Spirit of the Laws" (French: De "l'esprit des lois", also someti…
Short Nonfiction Collection
Explore a diverse array of ideas and insights in this collection of fifteen short nonfiction works, each carefully chosen by dedicated Libri…
Eleven Theses on Feuerbach
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 …
Short Nonfiction Collection
A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independ…
Short Nonfiction Collection
A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independ…
Short Nonfiction Collection
A collection of eleven short nonfiction works in the public domain. The items included in this collection were independently selected by the…
The Social Contract
The Social Contract outlines Rousseau's views on political justice, explaining how a just and legitimate state is to be founded, organized a…