Politics Books
A political pilgrim in Europe
In these days everybody is writing his memories. Disappointed politicians decline to be forgotten. Successful and unsuccessful generals refuse to be neglected. People of all sorts and conditions insist on being heard. The most intimate affairs of a life are laid bare in order to arrest public...
Decadence
I must begin what I have to say with a warning and an apology. I must warn you that the present essay makes no pretence to be an adequate treatment of some compact and limited theme; but rather resembles those wandering trains of thought, where we allow ourselves the luxury of putting wide-ranging...
The Political Novel
From time to time in the Doubleday Short Studies in Political Science series, guest analysts from outside the formal boundaries of the discipline will be invited to help fill certain gaps in existing materials. In the present instance a young professional student of literature, Dr. Joseph Blotner...
Roman Politics
Roman political history has an unusual meaning and value for us, because the Romans had to face so many of the problems which confront us today, and their experience ran through such a wide range.
Democracy in America — Volume 1
Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville
Three Miles of Rice Pudding - Revised Edition
This revised edition of Three Miles contains only minor updates and corrections of the original work. Three Miles of Rice Pudding is mainly a non-fiction work that looks at Utopia, governance and the Commons. The Commons is understood to be shared resources, but in the work this is explored as...
The Seven Lamps of Advocacy
The great advocate is like the great actor he fills the stage for his span of life, suc ceeds, gains our applause, makes his last bow, and the curtain falls. Nothing is so elusive as the art of acting, unless indeed it be the Sister art of advocacy. You cannot say that the methods of Garrick, Kean...
Petticoat Rule
A story of the French aristocracy, the book concerns Madame de Pompadour's influence over the King and France. The story focuses on young heroine Lydie D'Aumont, who is caught between two suitors: hot-headed childhood friend Gaston de Stainville, and a more reserved English lord, Henry Dewhyrst...
Passport To A New Philippines
Along with moral and political decay, the Philippines has suffered several crises and periods of serious social disruption and widespread corruption. Ang Kapatiran aims to make politics an effective means for integral development and to help make every Filipino a vehicle for social and political...