Politics
John Quincy Adams
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John T. Morse
This biography contains three main sections. the first covers Adams's early years and his time as a diplomat--both in America and overseas. …
Sabotage
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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was a leading American socialist and feminist. Her book "Sabotage, the conscious withdrawal of the workers' indu…
Ideen zu einem Versuch, die Grenzen der Wirksamkeit des Staats zu bestimmen
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Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Ein klassicher Text des deutschen Liberalismus (Summary by redaer)
Major Barbara
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George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara focuses on the family of aristocratic Lady Britomart Undershaft and her estranged husband Andrew, a mill…
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 004
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Various
A collection of eleven short nonfiction works in the public domain. The items included in this collection were independently selected by the…
Democracy - An American Novel
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry Brooks Adams
Not until after his death in 1918 was it revealed that Henry Adams was the anonymous author of Democracy, which had been published to great …
The Home and the World
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Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), also known by the sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, Brahmo religionist, visual artist, playwright, nov…
Ambassador Morgenthau's Story
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Henry Morgenthau
Ambassador Morgenthau’s memoirs of his years in the service of the United States in Constantinople, (today Istanbul), are an important prima…
Twenty Years at Hull House
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Jane Addams
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…
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 001
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Various
A collection of ten short essays or other short nonfiction works in the public domain read by LibriVox volunteers.
Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again
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Mark Twain
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…
Offences Against One's Self: Paederasty
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Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) was an English jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer. He was a political radical and a leading theor…
John Stuart Mill; His Life and Works
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Various
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…
The Westminster Alice
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Saki
Published five years before John Kendrick Bangs had the same idea with Alice in Blunderland, Saki, in his 1902 series of satirical articles,…
A Yellow Journalist
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Miriam Michelson
Rhoda Massey is a young, sharp reporter for a daily newspaper in San Francisco. After proving herself an astute and fearless investigator on…
Felix Holt, The Radical
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George Eliot
"Harold Transome is a landowner who goes against his family's political tradition (much to his mother's distress), while Felix Holt is …
Samuel the Seeker
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Upton Sinclair
What would happen to you if you tried to make your way in the world believing all the clear, simple things you had ever been taught growing …
Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the premier movers in the original women’s rights movement, along with Susan B. Anthony, her best friend f…
Meditations from the Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart
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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…
Areopagitica (Version 2)
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
John Milton
The noblest and most extensive defense of freedom of the press in English. Although Milton was sufficiently practical to serve as a censor o…