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Mill's On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill
Price: Audio Download ($12.00) | Audio CD
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 Tiber and the Potomac: Rome, America, and Empires of Trust
by Thomas F. Madden
Price: Audio Download ($34.95)
Esteemed university professor and best-selling author Thomas F. Madden presents an intriguing series of lectures based on a fascinating premise: that the United States has more in common with the rising Roman Republic than with the declining Roman Empire.
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Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo
by Plato
Price: Audio Download ($15.00) | Audio CD
These four dialogues present the trial, the imprisonment, and the execution of Socrates who his friend Phaedo said was “the wisest, best, and most righteous person I have ever known.”
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The Founding Documents of the United States of America
by Thomas Jefferson
Price: Audio Download ($9.95)
LearnOutLoud.com is proud to present this audio collection entitled The Founding Documents of the United States of America. These documents represent key points in the founding of the U.S. government.
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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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Kant's "Toward Lasting Peace"
by Immanuel Kant
Price: Audio Download ($4.00)
Kant’s "Toward Lasting Peace" is best known for the idea of a league of nations that could bring “an end to all hostilities,” but what is most important is its ability to probe fundamental principles.
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Glenn Beck's Common Sense
by Glenn Beck
Price: Audio Download ($9.92) | Audio CD ($15.99)
In any era, great Americans inspire us to reach our full potential. They know with conviction what they believe within themselves. They understand that all actions have consequences. And they find commonsense solutions to the nation's problems.
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The Art of Seduction
by Robert Greene
Price: Audio Download | Audio CD ($21.56) | Audio Cassette
When raised to the level of art, seduction, an indirect and subtle form of power...
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Political Theory: The Classic Texts and Their Continuing Relevance
by Joshua Kaplan
Price: Audio Download ($34.95)
This exciting course introduces vital works of political theory from history's greatest minds.
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Nonviolence: 25 Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea
by Mark Kurlansky
Price: Audio Download ($17.49) | Audio CD ($23.99)
From the prize-winning, "New York Times" bestselling author comes a provocative history that persuasively argues that the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and World War II could have been avoided by nonviolent means.
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Politics
by Aristotle
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Although over two millennia old, Aristotle’s Politics remains central to the perplexing questions posed in the study of political science.
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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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Democracy in America
by Alexis de Tocqueville
Price: Audio Download ($13.99)
Alexis de Tocqueville's renowned analysis of American democracy still has relevance today. In 1831...
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Visions of Utopia: Philosophy and the Perfect Society
by Fred E. Baumann
Price: Audio Download ($34.95)
With the characteristically human abilities to reason and imagine comes, apparently inevitably, the longing for imaginary but plausible places and conditions where everything is exactly as it should be and all our needs and desires are satisfied, including the need not to be jaded by satisfaction.
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Rights of Man
by Thomas Paine
Price: Audio Download ($23.18) | Audio CD ($28.98)
Written in 1791 as a response to Edmund Burkes Reflections on the Revolution in France, Thomas Paines Rights of Man is a seminal work on human freedom and equality.
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The Future of Freedom
by Fareed Zakaria
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American democracy is, in many people's minds, the model for the rest of the world....
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All You Want to Know: The United States Constitution
Price: Audio Download ($13.24) | Audio Cassette
The United States Constitution presents and explains the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Amendments to the Constitution in a way you've never experienced before...
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Marx's Das Kapital
by Francis Wheen
Price: Audio Download | Audio CD ($22.49) | MP3 CD ($17.99)
In this brilliant book, Francis Wheen, the author of the most successful biography of Karl Marx, tells the story of Das Kapital and Marx’s twenty-year struggle to complete his unfinished masterpiece.
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Communism
by Richard Pipes
Price: Audio Download ($17.49)
From the acclaimed Modern Library Chronicles comes an exploration of a promising theory that when put to practice wreaked havoc on the world. An expert on communism, Richard Pipes follows the history of the Soviet Union from the 1917 revolution to the Cold War, and finally, to its deterioration and collapse.
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Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington
by Thomas Cathcart
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Authors Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein penned the New York Times best-seller Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar. Here they offer unique insights on politics in Washington D.C. and beyond by drawing upon the wisdom—and wit—of the world’s greatest philosophers. Cathcart and Klein enlighten and entertain with this humorous volume.
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The Case for Democracy
by Natan Sharansky
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In this brilliantly analytical yet personal book, nondemocratic societies are put under a microscope to reveal the mechanics of tyranny that sustain them.
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Give Me Liberty
by Naomi Wolf
Price: Audio CD ($31.49) | MP3 CD ($22.49)
From an icon in the contemporary feminist movement and a well-respected political commentator comes this clear, accessible handbook about how to understand and use democracy.
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A Conflict of Visions
by Thomas Sowell
Price: Audio Cassette ($39.95) | Audio Cassette
Sowell explains that most people have one of two contrasting visions, “constrained” and “unconstrained,” described in terms we recognize as associated with the political Right and political Left.
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The Giants of Political Thought Boxed Set
by Thomas Paine
Price: Audio CD ($99.95)
Government and politics have a daily influence on our lives. The authority and responsibilities given to government affect not only our social customs but our prosperity and our freedom. The Giants of Political Thought series introduces you to the most influential thinkers on this subject through a series of dramatic presentations that explain their major works.
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The Law
by Frederic Bastiat
Price: Audio Cassette ($16.16) | Audio Cassette
First published as a pamphlet in 1850, The Law is relevant today because the same situation exists in America now as in France of 1848. The same Socialist-Communist plans and ideas that were adopted in France are now sweeping America.
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