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Mill's On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill
Credits: Audio Download
Mill's thinking about freedom in civic and social life examines fundamental principles shared among conservative, liberal, and radical politicians.
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The Prince
by Niccolo Machiavelli
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Download
Machiavelli lived in Renaissance Italy in a time marked by violent hatred between the Italian city-states.
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Plato's Republic
by Plato
Credits: Audio Download
Plato was a teacher who wrote in the dialogue form as a means of challenging his students to think deeply about fundamental questions. Consider this hypothesis: Plato wrote each book of The Republic to be performed by actors playing characters such as Socrates, Glaucon, Ademantus, Thrasymachus.
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Civil Disobedience & Life Without Principle
by Henry David Thoreau
Credits: Audio Download
Civil Disobedience is Thoreau's primary essay on how to interact with Government. Here the author argues that a citizen must always uphold conscience over what is prescribed by law.
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The Republic
by Plato
Credits: Audio CD
In The Republic, Plato tackles the big issues of the state and the individual: how the state should be ruled, and by whom; and the way the individual should lead his life - and why...
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The History of the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
Credits: MP3 CD
The Peloponnesian War broke out in 431 BC and continued intermittently for twenty-seven years...
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Marx in 90 Minutes
by Paul Strathern
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette
Karl Marx's devastating critique of capitalism, and his proposal of communism as the answer to the failings of the capitalist system, bore their greatest fruits in the twentieth century…
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Thomas Paine's Rights of Man
by Christopher Hitchens
Credits: Audio CD | MP3 CD
Thomas Paine is one of the greatest political propagandists in history. The Rights of Man, first published in 1791, is the key to his reputation.
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The Machiavellians
by James Burnham
Credits: Audio CD | MP3 CD
This classic work of political theory and practice makes available an account of the modern Machiavellians: Gartano Mosca, George Sorel, Robert Michels, and Vilfredo Pareto.
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The Prince
by Niccolo Machiavelli
Credits: Audio CD
Machiavelli's famous treatise on statecraft is as timely today as when it ws first published in 1517.
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The Origins of Totalitarianism
by Hannah Arendt
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette
A recognized classic and definitive account of its subject, The Origins of Totalitarianism traces the emergence of modern racism as an "ideological weapon for imperialism,"…
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