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Published in 1532, The Prince is a shockingly frank guide to the art of cultivating power. How does one establish power and maintain control over other people—or an entire nation? How does a pri ...
Democracy in America, Book One
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A valuable consideration of the American political system through the eyes of an outsider, Democracy in America is based on the French Alexis de Toqueville's 1831 visit to the young United States. Toq ...
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
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Henry David Thoreau’s 1849 essay On the Duty of Civil Disobedience is a groundbreaking work in the history of protest literature. Based on a series of lectures that he gave in Massachusetts, Civil D ...
The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844
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The book, an English translation of which is here republished, was first issued in Germany in 1845. The author, at that time, was young, twenty- four years of age, and his production bears the stamp ...
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VOLUME I. BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV. CHAPTER 1.1.I. LOUIS THE WELL-BELOVED. President Henault, remarking on royal Surnames of Honour how difficult it often is to ascertain not only why, but even whe ...
Democracy in America, Book Two
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A valuable consideration of the American political system through the eyes of an outsider, Democracy in America is based on the French Alexis de Toqueville's 1831 visit to the young United States. Toq ...
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Nature (the art whereby God hath made and governes the world) is by the art of man, as in many other things, so in this also imitated, that it can make an Artificial Animal. For seeing life is but a ...
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Drew Westen, a Professor of Psychology at Emory University, is the lead investigator on a team of neuroscientists who have been studying how the brain processes political information. For two decades ...
Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses, and Letters
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The facts of Lincoln's early life are best stated in his own words, communicated in 1859[see Appendix] to Mr. J. W. Fell, of Bloomington, Illinois. Unlike many men who have risen from humble surround ...


