Politics

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 electorate…

The Settlement of Wage Disputes

Herbert Feis

Herbert Feis’s The Settlement of Wage Disputes is a scholarly treatise on American labor economics written in…

Monopolies and the People

Charles Whiting Baker

Charles Whiting Baker’s Monopolies and the People is a nonfiction survey of the rise of trusts and…

The party battles of the Jackson period

Claude G. Bowers

Claude G. Bowers’s work is a scholarly, partisan chronicle of the turbulent eight years of Andrew Jackson’s…

Esprit des lois livres I à V, précédés d'une introduction de l'éditeur

Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de

Ce volume rassemble les cinq livres de l’« Esprit des lois », chef‑d’œuvre de Montesquieu, précédés d’une…

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…

New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915

Various

The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays

James Russell Lowell

The work is a political essay by James Russell Lowell, taken from the fifth volume of his collected prose and…

A Woman for Mayor: A Novel of To-day

Helen M. Winslow

Helen M. Winslow’s novel is a political fiction that foregrounds the question of women’s civic leadership at…

Theft: A Play In Four Acts

Jack London

The work is a four‑act drama by Jack London, presented as a stage play that opens in the sitting‑room of…

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau

The work is an extended essay in which Henry David Thoreau launches his argument for a government that…

The social contract & discourses

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The work is a scholarly edition that gathers Rousseau’s most influential political writings, culminating in…

The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Ida B. Wells‑Barnett’s The Red Record is a meticulously compiled statistical expose that documents the brutal…

Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post

Thomas Rainey

Thomas Rainey’s Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post is a polemical treatise that sets out, in a…

They Who Knock at Our Gates: A Complete Gospel of Immigration

Mary Antin

They Who Knock at Our Gates is a polemical treatise that frames the immigration question as a moral test of…

The American Empire

Scott Nearing

Scott Nearing’s The American Empire is a sweeping historical study that traces the United States from its…

The Conquest of Bread

Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz

The work is a political‑philosophical treatise that sets out an anarchist‑communist vision of a society…

Pan-Islam

G. Wyman Bury

Pan‑Islam is presented as a sweeping political‑religious analysis that seeks to explain the drive to unite…

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, December 1878

Various

The December 1878 issue of Lippincott’s Magazine of Popular Literature and Science presents a sprawling…

Politics: A Treatise on Government

Aristotle

The work is Aristotle’s second treatise, following his Ethics, and it opens by linking moral character to the…

Political and commercial geology and the world's mineral resources

The work is a scholarly survey of the world’s mineral wealth, assembled after the First World War to expose…

Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases is a nonfiction pamphlet by Ida B.

Considerations on Representative Government

John Stuart Mill

This work is a systematic treatise on the nature and limits of representative government, written by John…

The cult of incompetence

Émile Faguet

The work is a polemical study of modern democracy, written by Émile Faguet and framed as a critique of the…