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Plato's Republic
by Plato
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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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Mill's On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill
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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
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Machiavelli lived in Renaissance Italy in a time marked by violent hatred between the Italian city-states.
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The Republic
by Plato
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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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Marx in 90 Minutes
by Paul Strathern
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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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The History of the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
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The Peloponnesian War broke out in 431 BC and continued intermittently for twenty-seven years...
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Thomas Paine's Rights of Man
by Christopher Hitchens
Price: Audio CD ($22.49) | Digital Download | MP3 CD ($17.99)
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 Federalist Papers
by Alexander Hamilton
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These eighty-five letters in support of the Constitution are recognized as the most important political-science work ever written in the United States.
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The Machiavellians
by James Burnham
Price: Audio CD ($72.00) | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD ($29.95)
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 Origins of Totalitarianism
by Hannah Arendt
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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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The Prince
by Niccolo Machiavelli
Price: Audio CD ($17.96) | Audio Cassette
Machiavelli's famous treatise on statecraft is as timely today as when it ws first published in 1517.
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