Politics & Government

Constitutions and revolutions, machines and manifestos — the founders, the agitators and the reporters who explained how power is actually taken and kept.

• “The Greatest Failure in All History” John Spargo
• A Collection of Essays and Fugitiv Writings Noah Webster
• A History of Freedom of Thought J. B. Bury
• A History of Socialism Thomas Kirkup
• A Letter to a Hindu Leo Tolstoy
• A Preface to Politics Walter Lippmann
• A Vindication of the Rights of Men Mary Wollstonecraft
• African and European Addresses Theodore Roosevelt
• American Institutions and Their Influence Alexis de Tocqueville
• Anarchy and Anarchists Michael J. Schaack
• Areopagitica John Milton
• Autobiography of Mother Jones Mother Jones
• Burke John Morley
• China, Japan and the U.S.A. John Dewey
• Congressional Government Woodrow Wilson
• Contemporary Socialism John Rae
• Debs: His Life, Writings and Speeches Eugene V. Debs
• Disraeli: A Study in Personality and Ideas Walter Sichel
• Feuerbach: The Roots of the Socialist Philosophy Friedrich Engels
• Free Thought and Official Propaganda Bertrand Russell
• Freedom’s Battle Mahatma Gandhi
• German Philosophy and Politics John Dewey
• Germany and the Next War Friedrich von Bernhardi
• God and the State Mikhail Bakunin
• Government in Republican China Paul M. A. Linebarger
• Government in the United States James Wilford Garner
• India for Indians C. R. Das
• Indian Home Rule Mahatma Gandhi
• Ireland as It Is, and as It Would Be Under Home Rule Robert John Buckley
• King Leopold’s Soliloquy Mark Twain
• Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle
• Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation T. H. Green
• Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania John Dickinson
• Madame Adam Winifred Stephens Whale
• Mammonart Upton Sinclair
• Napoleon the Little Victor Hugo
• Nationalism Rabindranath Tagore
• Notes on Democracy H. L. Mencken
• Novanglus and Massachusettensis John Adams & Daniel Leonard
• Paris and the Social Revolution Alvan F. Sanborn
• Plunkitt of Tammany Hall George Washington Plunkitt
• Political and Literary Essays Lord Cromer
• Political Ideals Bertrand Russell
• Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham Harold J. Laski
• Principles of Freedom Terence MacSwiney
• Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist Alexander Berkman
• Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Various
• Recent Developments in European Thought Unknown
• Recollections of Forty Years John Sherman
• Revolution, and Other Essays Jack London
• Select Speeches of Daniel Webster Daniel Webster
• Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke Edmund Burke
• Socialism: Positive and Negative Robert Rives La Monte
• Socialism: Utopian and Scientific Friedrich Engels
• Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln
• The American Republic Orestes Brownson
• The Boss and the Machine Samuel Peter Orth
• The Boss, and How He Came to Rule New York Alfred Henry Lewis
• The China of Chiang K’ai-shek Paul M. A. Linebarger
• The Commonwealth of Oceana James Harrington
• The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Karl Marx
• The English Constitution Walter Bagehot
• The Federalist Papers Madison & Jay Hamilton
• The Fireside Chats of Franklin D. Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt
• The Free Press Hilaire Belloc
• The Ghost in the White House Gerald Stanley Lee
• The Grand Old Man Richard B. Cook
• The History of England, 1760–1801 William Hunt
• The History of Freedom, and Other Essays Lord Acton
• The History of Tammany Hall Gustavus Myers
• The I.W.W.: A Study of American Syndicalism Paul F. Brissenden
• The Indolence of the Filipino José Rizal
• The Land of Riddles Hugo Ganz
• The Law Frédéric Bastiat
• The Life of Mazzini Bolton King
• The Modern Woman’s Rights Movement Käthe Schirmacher
• The New Freedom Woodrow Wilson
• The Philippines a Century Hence José Rizal
• The Philosophical Theory of the State Bernard Bosanquet
• The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen Paul M. A. Linebarger
• The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians Xenophon
• The Pope, the Kings and the People William Arthur
• The Positive Outcome of Philosophy Joseph Dietzgen
• The Public and Its Problems John Dewey
• The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville Alexis de Tocqueville
• The Roman Assemblies George Willis Botsford
• The Shadow on the Dial, and Other Essays Ambrose Bierce
• The Story of the Woman’s Party Inez Haynes Irwin
• Thomas Paine, the Apostle of Liberty John E. Remsburg
• Thoughts on African Colonization William Lloyd Garrison
• Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches Edmund Burke
• What Is Property? P.-J. Proudhon
• Why Men Fight Bertrand Russell