Political Science

Rasputin and the Russian Revolution

by Catherine Radziwill Read by Tatiana Chichilla 5
Princess Catherine Radziwill exposes Rasputin as a charlatan and pawn of Germany in this two-part analysis. Part one discusses the social an…

Industrial Conspiracies

by Clarence Darrow Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.5
Industrial Conspiracies is a powerful address by renowned lawyer Clarence Darrow, delivered shortly after his notable acquittal in the McNam…

A Square Deal

by Theodore Roosevelt Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt became the 26th president of the United States when president William McKinley was assassinated in 1901. As the …

A Problem in Modern Ethics

by John Addington Symonds Read by Martin Geeson 4.6
“Society lies under the spell of ancient terrorism and coagulated errors. Science is either wilfully hypocritical or radically misinformed.”…

From Dictatorship to Democracy

by Gene Sharp Read by Benjamin Gittins 4.4
From Dictatorship to Democracy, A Conceptual Framework for Liberation is a book-length essay on the generic problem of how to destroy a dict…

A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy

by Karl Marx Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
As a precursor to Capital, Marx outlines his analysis of capitalism and critiques classical economic theories. - Summary by Tray

Mussolini as Revealed in His Political Speeches

by Benito Mussolini Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Benito Mussolini was an Italian journalist and politician, the leader of the National Fascist Party. He grew up as a violent bully, and the …

Selected Essays

by Voltairine De Cleyre Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) was, according to Emma Goldman, "the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced.&…

Democracy in America

by Alexis De Tocqueville Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Democracy in America offers a profound exploration of the American political system as observed by French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville d…

Notes On Democracy

by H. L. Mencken Read by Lisa Reichert 5
American journalist H.L. Mencken’s Notes On Democracy was originally published in 1926, yet is still relevant almost 100 years later.Mencken…

The Ukraine

by George Raffalovich Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
“We are not the same nation with Russian people,” the statement which all Ukrainians wish to convey to the whole world for centuries. The st…

Abraham Lincoln's Inaugural Addresses

by Abraham Lincoln Read by John Greenman 4.7
Lincoln's first inaugural address was delivered on March 4th, 1861, as the North and South were sliding towards separation and Civil War. Hi…

A Preface to Politics

by Walter Lippmann Read by DPranitis 4.8
This is the first book in the bibliography of Walter Lippmann, written three years after emerging from Harvard where he studied under the pr…

Bismarck and the Origin of the German Empire

by Sir Frederick Maurice Powicke Read by Pamela Nagami 4.4
Despite its brevity, this Little Blue Book #142 by the Oxford historian, Sir F.M. Powicke, provides a valuable overview of the political his…

The African Problem and the Peace Settlement

by Edmund Dene Morel Read by KevinS 4.8
In this essay, the author directs our attention on the African continent and describes how the exploitation and colonization of Africa by Eu…

The American Crisis

by Thomas Paine Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
A 13 pamphlet series by 18th century Enlightenment philosopher/author Thomas Paine, published between 1776 to 1783 during and immediately fo…

Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy

by John Stuart Mill Read by Gary Gilberd 4.8
This is Mill’s first work on economics. It foreshadows his Political Economy which was the standard Anglo-American Economics textbook of the…

Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War

by United States Arms Control And Disarmament Agency Read by Allyson Hester 4.5
Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War offers a critical examination of the potential consequences of nuclear conflict on a global scale. This ins…

Sybil, or the Two Nations

by Benjamin Disraeli Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) 4.3
Sybil is one of the most prominent political novels of the mid-nineteenth century, taking as its subject the "condition of England"…

Twenty Years at Hull House

by Jane Addams Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
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…

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