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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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Between 1994 and 2000, Omar Nasiri worked as a secret agent for Europe's top foreign intelligence services—including France's DGSE (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure), and Britai ...
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In 1983 Muhammad Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of Bangladesh with miniscule loans. He aimed to help the poor by supporting the spark of personal initiative and ent ...
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In the book that he was born to write, provocateur and best—selling author Christopher Hitchens inspires future ... generations of radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, angry young (wo)men, an ...
Letters to a Young Conservative
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Dinesh D'Souza rose to national prominence as one of the founders of the Dartmouth Review, a leading voice in the rebirth of conservative politics on college campuses in the 1980s. He fired the first ...
Second Acts: Presidential Lives and Legacies After the White House
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F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, ... "There are no second acts in American lives," but more and more, ... our fomer presidents are proving him wonrg. No longer fading into the background up ...
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First discovered in 1930, the diamonds of Sierra Leone have funded one of the most savage rebel campaigns in modern ... history. These "blood diamonds" are smuggled out of West Africa and s ...
The Bubble of American Supremacy
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In The Bubble of American Supremacy, George Soros, long known as "the world's only private citizen with a ... foreign policy," combines his razor-sharp sense of economic trends with his tire ...
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As featured on "Fresh Air" and "All Things Considered" on NPR and "Radio Factor" with Bill O'Reilly ... Opium Season is the story of a young American working on the brutal ...
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Former United States Marine Brian Steidle served for six months in Darfur as an unarmed military observer for the African Union. There he witnessed first-hand the ongoing genocide, and documented ever ...
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