American politics (non-partisan) from the beginning to date: embodying a history of all the political parties, with their views and records on all important questions. Great speeches on all great issues, and tabulated history and chronological events.

Democracy in America — Volume 1

Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville’s *Democracy in America* is a sweeping study of the political and social fabric of the…

The Ghost in the White House Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can make themselves felt with a president, how they can back him up, express themselves to him, be expressed by him, and get what they want

Gerald Stanley Lee

Gerald Stanley Lee’s *The Ghost in the White House* is a polemical treatise that frames the American…

Democracy in America — Volume 2

Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville’s second volume of *Democracy in America* is a systematic study of how the principle of…

Main currents in American thought: An interpretation of American literature from the beginnings to 1920

Vernon Louis Parrington

Parrington’s work is a sweeping scholarly survey of the ideas that have shaped American literature and public…

Public opinion

Walter Lippmann

Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-third President of the United States

Benjamin Harrison