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 Federalist Papers Madison & Jay Hamilton
• The Philippines a Century Hence José Rizal
• The Ghost in the White House Gerald Stanley Lee
• Socialism: Positive and Negative Robert Rives La Monte
• The Indolence of the Filipino José Rizal
• Nationalism Rabindranath Tagore
• Areopagitica John Milton
• The Public and Its Problems John Dewey
• Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke Edmund Burke
• What Is Property? P.-J. Proudhon
• The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Karl Marx
• The Free Press Hilaire Belloc
• Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Various
• The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians Xenophon
• Plunkitt of Tammany Hall George Washington Plunkitt
• The English Constitution Walter Bagehot
• A Vindication of the Rights of Men Mary Wollstonecraft
• The Law Frédéric Bastiat
• The New Freedom Woodrow Wilson
• The China of Chiang K’ai-shek Paul M. A. Linebarger
• The Commonwealth of Oceana James Harrington
• The History of Freedom, and Other Essays Lord Acton
• The History of Tammany Hall Gustavus Myers
• Bolshevism John Spargo
• Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln
• Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania John Dickinson
• A History of Socialism Thomas Kirkup
• Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle
• Free Thought and Official Propaganda Bertrand Russell
• The Roman Assemblies George Willis Botsford
• American Institutions and Their Influence Alexis de Tocqueville
• A Short History of English Liberalism W. Lyon Blease
• A Preface to Politics Walter Lippmann
• A Letter to a Hindu Leo Tolstoy
• “The Greatest Failure in All History” John Spargo
• The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen Paul M. A. Linebarger
• The Framework of Home Rule Erskine Childers
• The Constitutional History of England, 1760–1860 Charles Duke Yonge
• Disraeli: A Study in Personality and Ideas Walter Sichel
• Recent Developments in European Thought Unknown
• Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation T. H. Green
• Napoleon the Little Victor Hugo
• Why Men Fight Bertrand Russell
• King Leopold’s Soliloquy Mark Twain
• The I.W.W.: A Study of American Syndicalism Paul F. Brissenden
• Notes on Democracy H. L. Mencken
• Freedom’s Battle Mahatma Gandhi
• The History of England, 1760–1801 William Hunt
• A Collection of Essays and Fugitiv Writings Noah Webster
• African and European Addresses Theodore Roosevelt
• Thomas Paine, the Apostle of Liberty John E. Remsburg
• The Pope, the Kings and the People William Arthur
• The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville Alexis de Tocqueville
• Indian Home Rule Mahatma Gandhi
• Novanglus and Massachusettensis John Adams & Daniel Leonard
• Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches Edmund Burke
• The Fireside Chats of Franklin D. Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Socialism: Utopian and Scientific Friedrich Engels
• Contemporary Socialism John Rae
• The American Republic Orestes Brownson
• Congressional Government Woodrow Wilson
• Ireland as It Is, and as It Would Be Under Home Rule Robert John Buckley
• Political Ideals Bertrand Russell
• Masters of Deceit J. Edgar Hoover
• Ulster’s Stand for Union Ronald McNeill
• Debs: His Life, Writings and Speeches Eugene V. Debs
• The Conscience of a Conservative Barry Goldwater
• Signs of Change William Morris
• The Open Conspiracy H. G. Wells
• The Story of the Woman’s Party Inez Haynes Irwin
• War—What For? George R. Kirkpatrick
• Pamphlets on the Constitution of the United States Paul Leicester Ford
• Violence and the Labor Movement Robert Hunter
• German Philosophy and Politics John Dewey
• God and the State Mikhail Bakunin
• The Theory of Social Revolutions Brooks Adams
• Lincoln’s Plan of Reconstruction Charles H. McCarthy
• The Swedish-Norwegian Union Crisis Karl Nordlund
• The Mother of Parliaments Harry Graham
• The Shadow on the Dial, and Other Essays Ambrose Bierce
• Paris and the Social Revolution Alvan F. Sanborn
• Anarchy and Anarchists Michael J. Schaack
• The Boss, and How He Came to Rule New York Alfred Henry Lewis
• The Jubilee of the Constitution John Quincy Adams
• Recollections of Forty Years John Sherman
• Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham Harold J. Laski
• Germany and the Next War Friedrich von Bernhardi
• Government in Republican China Paul M. A. Linebarger
• Select Speeches of Daniel Webster Daniel Webster
• The Life and Teaching of Karl Marx Max Beer
• Sketches in the House T. P. O’Connor
• A Square Deal Theodore Roosevelt
• A History of Freedom of Thought J. B. Bury
• The Land of Riddles Hugo Ganz
• The Life of Mazzini Bolton King
• The Positive Outcome of Philosophy Joseph Dietzgen
• China, Japan and the U.S.A. John Dewey
• Thoughts on African Colonization William Lloyd Garrison
• Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist Alexander Berkman
• Reagan’s State of the Union Addresses Ronald Reagan
• Feuerbach: The Roots of the Socialist Philosophy Friedrich Engels
• Kennedy’s State of the Union Addresses John F. Kennedy
• Political and Literary Essays Lord Cromer
• Socialism as It Is William English Walling
• The Modern Woman’s Rights Movement Käthe Schirmacher
• Have Faith in Massachusetts Calvin Coolidge
• The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign Henry Charles Carey
• Satan’s Invisible World Displayed W. T. Stead
• Government in the United States James Wilford Garner
• India for Indians C. R. Das
• Mammonart Upton Sinclair
• The Phantom Public Walter Lippmann
• Liberalism L. T. Hobhouse
• State of the Union Addresses of Calvin Coolidge Calvin Coolidge
• Handbook of Home Rule James Bryce
• The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge Calvin Coolidge
• Principles of Freedom Terence MacSwiney
• President Wilson’s Addresses Woodrow Wilson
• State of the Union Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt
• The Twentieth Century American H. Perry Robinson
• Gandhi and Anarchy C. Sankaran Nair
• Madame Adam Winifred Stephens Whale
• Physics and Politics Walter Bagehot
• The Philosophical Theory of the State Bernard Bosanquet
• The Spirit of American Government J. Allen Smith
• Anarchism E. V. Zenker
• The Invention of a New Religion Basil Hall Chamberlain
• The Constitution of the United States James M. Beck
• Select Speeches of Kossuth Lajos Kossuth
• Two Tracts on Civil Liberty Richard Price
• Revolution, and Other Essays Jack London
• Observations on the New Constitution Mercy Otis Warren
• Political Pamphlets George Saintsbury
• The Footprints of Time Charles Bancroft
• The Grand Old Man Richard B. Cook
• American Ideals Theodore Roosevelt
• The Cleveland Era Henry Jones Ford
• Against Home Rule S. Rosenbaum
• The Case for India Annie Besant
• The Five Republics of Central America Dana G. Munro
• A Straight Deal Owen Wister
• American Political Ideas John Fiske
• Autobiography of Mother Jones Mother Jones
• State of the Union Addresses Woodrow Wilson
• State of the Union Addresses of Lyndon B. Johnson Lyndon B. Johnson
• Political Parties in the United States Martin Van Buren
• Slavery: Letters and Speeches Horace Mann
• Young India Lala Lajpat Rai
• The Invasion of America J. W. Muller
• Society, Manners and Politics in the United States Michel Chevalier
• About Ireland Eliza Lynn Linton
• The Boss and the Machine Samuel Peter Orth
• In the Fourth Year H. G. Wells
• Burke John Morley
• The Great Steel Strike and Its Lessons William Z. Foster
• A Supplication for the Beggars Simon Fish
• The Roman Question Edmond About
• Proportional Representation Applied to Party Government T. R. Ashworth and Henry Ashworth
• Thoughts on Improving the Condition of the Slaves Thomas Clarkson
• State of the Union Addresses of John Quincy Adams John Quincy Adams
• Imperialism and The Tracks of Our Forefathers Charles Francis Adams Jr.
• The Growth of the English Constitution Edward A. Freeman
• On the Manner of Negotiating with Princes François de Callières
• Socialism and American Ideals William Starr Myers
• State of the Union Addresses of Benjamin Harrison Benjamin Harrison
• Peace Theories and the Balkan War Norman Angell
• A Description of the Colony of New South Wales W. C. Wentworth
• Indian Speeches, 1907–1909 John Morley
• Ireland and the Home Rule Movement Michael McDonnell
• Irish Impressions G. K. Chesterton
• American World Policies Walter Weyl
• Notes on the Diplomatic History of the Jewish Question Lucien Wolf
• State of the Union Addresses of George W. Bush George W. Bush
• Proportional Representation John H. Humphreys
• Defenseless America Hudson Maxim
• A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal Thomas Paine
• The Mirrors of Downing Street Harold Begbie
• Lincoln’s State of the Union Addresses Abraham Lincoln
• Syndicalism in France Lewis L. Lorwin
• Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association Stephen Francis Weston
• The Rise and Fall of Prohibition Charles Hanson Towne
• State of the Union Addresses of Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Is Ulster Right? Anonymous
• The Place of the Individual in Society Emma Goldman
• Latin America and the United States Elihu Root
• Cushing’s Manual of Parliamentary Practice Luther Stearns Cushing
• William Ewart Gladstone James Bryce
• A History of the Republican Party George Washington Platt
• The Political Institutions of the Ancient Greeks Basil Edward Hammond
• State of the Union Addresses of Grover Cleveland Grover Cleveland
• State of the Union Addresses of Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson
• State of the Union Addresses of Gerald R. Ford Gerald R. Ford
• State of the Union Addresses of James Madison James Madison
• State of the Union Addresses of William H. Taft William H. Taft
• From Workhouse to Westminster George Haw
• The Future of Islam Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
• My Further Disillusionment in Russia Emma Goldman
• What’s the Matter with Ireland? Ruth Russell
• The Right to Ignore the State Herbert Spencer
• The Political Future of India Lala Lajpat Rai
• State of the Union Addresses of Harry S. Truman Harry S. Truman
• Under the Prophet in Utah Frank J. Cannon
• Ploughshare and Pruning-Hook Laurence Housman
• Untimely Papers Randolph Bourne
• The Bolsheviki and World Peace Leon Trotsky
• Citizen or Subject? Francis X. Hennessy
• Peaceless Europe Francesco Saverio Nitti
• England’s Case Against Home Rule A. V. Dicey
• The Open Secret of Ireland Tom Kettle
• State of the Union Addresses of Herbert Hoover Herbert Hoover
• The American Contribution and the Democratic Idea Winston Churchill
• Dictatorship vs. Democracy Leon Trotsky
• State of the Union Addresses of Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter
• Cheap Postage Joshua Leavitt
• Labor’s Martyrs Vito Marcantonio
• Unpopular Government in the United States Albert M. Kales
• Letters to Sir William Windham and Mr. Pope Viscount Bolingbroke
• The European Anarchy G. Lowes Dickinson
• Roman Politics Frank Frost Abbott
• The National Being George William Russell
• Never Again Edward Carpenter
• Red Blight Mary Knight
• Patriotism as an Ethical Concept Clarence Reidenbach
• McKinley’s State of the Union Addresses William McKinley
• State of the Union Addresses of Richard Nixon Richard Nixon
• Conditions in Utah Thomas Kearns
• The Mirrors of Washington Clinton W. Gilbert
• The Wheel of Fortune Mahatma Gandhi
• The Soul of Democracy Edward Howard Griggs
• The Battle of the Press Theophila Carlile Campbell
• Laurier: A Study in Canadian Politics John Wesley Dafoe
• Lord Palmerston Anthony Trollope
• The Origin, Tendencies and Principles of Government Victoria C. Woodhull
• The First French Republic Horace Mann Conaway
• Marxism and Darwinism Anton Pannekoek
• An Old Master and Other Political Essays Woodrow Wilson
• Historical and Political Essays W. E. H. Lecky
• Gladstonian Ghosts Cecil Chesterton
• State of the Union Addresses of Bill Clinton Bill Clinton
• State of the Union Addresses of John Adams John Adams
• Our Revolution Leon Trotsky