Books and Texts
Advice
Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.
~ Sun Tzu
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John Adams
The Constitution of the United States of America
Saul Alinsky
Reveille For Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
Aristotle
Politics: A Treatise on Government
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
St. Thomas Aquinas
Aquinas Ethicus: or, the Moral Teaching of St. Thomas (Volumes I-II)
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Sir Francis Bacon
The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral
Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature
Gustave de Beaumont
Ireland: Social, Political, and Religious (Volumes I-II)
Simone de Beauvoir
Jeremy Bentham
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
Works of Jeremy Bentham (Volumes I-XI)
Eduard Bernstein
Patriotism, Militarism and Social-Democracy
Frédéric Bastiat
The Collected Works of Frédéric Bastiat (Volumes I-VI)
Selected Essays on Political Economy
Susan Brownmiller
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape
Edmund Burke
Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America
Further Reflections on the French Revolution
Select Works of Edmund Burke (Volumes I-IV)
Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches
A Vindication of Natural Society
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume I of XII (1 of 12)
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume II of XII (2 of 12)
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume III of XII (3 of 12)
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume IV of XII (4 of 12)
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume V of XII (5 of 12)
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume VI of XII (6 of 12)
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume VII of XII (7 of 12)
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume VIII of XII (8 of 12)
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume IX of XII (9 of 12)
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume X of XII (10 of 12)
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume XI of XII (11 of 12)
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume XII of XII (12 of 12)
The Condensed Wealth of Nations
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John Elliot Cairnes
The Character and Logical Method of Political Economy
Michel Chevalier
On the Probable Fall in the Value of Gold
Society, Manners and Politics in the United States
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Ethical Writings (On Moral Duties, On Old Age, On Friendship, Scipio’s Dream)
Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Ciciero (Volumes I-IV)
Treatise on the LawsQuintus Tullius Cicero
Quintus Tullius Cicero
Sir Edward Coke
Selected Writings of Sir Edward Coke (Volumes I-III)
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Réné Descartes
The Method, Meditations and Philosophy of Descartes
Denis Diderot
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Frederick Douglass
Abolition Fanaticism in New York
Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass
The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress
John Brown: An Address at the 14th Anniversary of Storer College
The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: From 1817-1882
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil
The Quest of the Silver Fleece
The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America
John Durand
The Origins of Contemporary France: The Modern Regime (Volume I)
The French Revolution (Volumes I-III)
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Barbara Ehrenreich
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays of Montaigne (Volume I)
Plutarch’s Morals (Volumes I-V)
Representative Men: Seven Lectures
The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Volumes I-XII)
Friedrich Engels
The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844
Feuerbach: The Roots of the Socialist Philosophy
Landmarks of Scientific Socialism: "Anti-Duehring"
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
Revolution and Counter-Revolution; Or, Germany in 1848
Desiderius Erasmus
The Manual of a Christian Knight
The Works of Vicesimus Knox Volume V (Personal Nobility, Spirit of Despotism, Antipolemus)
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Shulamith Firestone
The Jeanette Rankin Brigade: Woman Power?
The Women's Rights Movement in the U.S.A.: New View
Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Works of Benjamin Franklin (Volumes I-XII)
Betty Friedan
Milton Friedman
A Program for Monetary Stability Amazon
A Theory of the Consumption Function
Congressional House Economic Task Force
Equality and Freedom in the Free Enterprise System
Free to Choose (PBS TV Series)
Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
Friedman on Capitalism and Freedom
The Great Contraction, 1929-1933 Amazon Barnes & Noble
On Liberty and Drugs, Government Spending and Debt
There's No Such Thing as a Free Lunch Amazon Barnes & Noble
The Role of Government in a Free Society
The Tyranny of the Status Quo Amazon Barnes & Noble
Tyranny of the Status Quo (Show) (Part 1 - Beneficiaries) (Part 2 - Bureaucrats) (Part 3 - Politicians)
What's Wrong with the Welfare State?
Why Government is the Problem Amazon Google
The Works of Milton and Rose Friedman
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Gaius
Edward Gibbon
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Volumes I-VI)
Allen Ginsberg
François Guizot
General History of Civilization in Europe
The History of the Origins of Representative Government in Europe
Yves Guyot
Where and Why Public Ownership has Failed
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Alexander Hamilton
The Pacificus-Helvidius Debates of 1793-1794
The Revolutionary Writings of Alexander Hamilton
State Papers and Speeches on the Tariff
The Works of Alexander Hamilton (Volumes I-XII)
Friedrich August von Hayek
Choice in Currency: free banking as A Way to Stop Inflation
Competition as a Discovery Procedure
Economics as a Coordination Problem: The Contributions of Friedrich A. Hayek (Foreward)
An Enquiry into the Nature and Effects of the Paper Credit of Great Britain (Introduction)
The Intellectual Portrait Series: The Life and Thought of Friedrich A. Hayek
Selected Essays on Political Economy (Introduction)
Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis (Foreward)
Toward Liberty: Essays in Honor of Ludwig von Mises Volume I (Editor)
Toward Liberty: Essays in Honor of Ludwig von Mises Volume II (Editor)
The Use of Knowledge in Society
Henry Hazlitt
The Anatomy of Criticism: A Trialogue
Business Tides: The Newsweek Era of Henry Hazlitt
The Critics of Keynesian Economics
The Failure of the "New Economics"
From Bretton Woods to World Inflation: A Study of Causes and Consequences
The Inflation Crisis, and How To Resolve It
What You Should Know About Inflation
Adolf Hitler
Thomas Hobbes
English Works of Thomas Hobbes (Volumes I-XI)
Study Guides on Images of Liberty and Power: The Divine Right of Kings or Regal Tyranny?
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Homer
The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
The English Works Volume X (Iliad and Odyssey)
David Hume
Enquiries Concerning the Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals
Essays Moral, Political, Literary
The History of England (Volumes I-VI)
Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth
Letters of David Hume to William Strahan
The Natural History of Religion
Philosophical Works of David Hume (Volumes I-IV)
The Progress of English Liberty
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John Jay
The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay (Volumes I-IV)
Pamphlets on the Constitution of the United States 1787-1788
Thomas Jefferson
The Declaration of Independence
The Constitution of the United States of America
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
The Works of Thomas Jefferson (Volumes I-XII)
Decimus Junius Juvenal, Aulus Persius Flaccus, Sulpicia, Rev. Lewis Evans, William Gifford
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Immanuel Kant
Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason and Other Works on the Theory of Ethics
Kant’s Principles of Politics, including his essay on Perpetual Peace
Kant’s Prolegomena and Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science
Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay
The Principles of Political Right
Jack Kerouac
Ken Kesey
The Merry Pranksters - A Documentary by Ken Kesey (Video)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
John Maynard Keynes
The Economic Consequences of the Peace
Rev. Martin Luther King
Beyond Vietnam: A Time To Break Silence
Eulogy For The Young Victims Of The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing
MIA Mass Meeting at Holt Street Baptist Church Montgomery, Alabama
The Three Dimensions Of A Complete Life
What Is Your Life's Blueprint?
Rudyard Kipling
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Timothy Leary
Psychedelic Prayers & Other Meditations
Hunter Lewis
Free Prices Now! Fixing the Economy by Abolishing the Fed
John Locke
Encouragement of Irish Linen Manufacture
The Enhanced Edition of The Two Treatises of Government
A Letter concerning Toleration and Other Writings
The Two Treatises of Civil Government
The Works of John Locke in Nine Volumes
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Niccolò Machiavelli
The Historical, Political, and Diplomatic Writings (Volumes I-IV)
The Tudor Translations: Machiavelli
Catharine Macaulay
Reflections on the Revolution in France
James Madison
The Constitution of the United States of America
The Debates on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution Volume V
The Pacificus-Helvidius Debates of 1793-1794
The Utility of the Union As a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection
The Writings of James Madison (Volumes I-IX)
Thomas Robert Malthus
Definitions in Political Economy
An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)
An Essay on the Principle of Population (Volumes I-II) (1826)
Principles of Political Economy
Jane Haldimand Marcet
Conversations on Political Economy
John Hopkins’s Notions on Political Economy
Harriet Martineau
Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography (Volumes I-II)
Illustrations of Political Economy (Volumes I-IX)
Illustrations of Taxation (Volumes I-V)
Retrospect of Western Travel (Volumes I-III)
Karl Marx
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume I: The Process of Capitalist Production
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume II: The Process of Circulation of Capital
Revolution and Counter-Revolution; Or, Germany in 1848
Secret Diplomatic History of The Eighteenth Century
Pamphlets on the Constitution of the United States 1787-1788
Matthew McCaffrey
John Ramsay McCulloch
The Principles of Political Economy (1st ed. 1825)
The Principles of Political Economy (5th ed. 1864)
Treatises and Essays on Subjects connected with Economic Policy
A Treatise on Metallic and Paper Money and Banks
A Select Collection of Early English Tracts on Commerce
A Select Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts on Money (Editor)
The Works of David Ricardo (McCulloch ed. 1846, 1888) (Introduction)
Carl Menger
James Mill
Articles in the Supplement to the Encyclopedia Britannica
An Essay of the Impolicy of a Bounty on the Exportation of Grain
The History of British India (Volumes I-VI)
The Political Writings of James Mill (1815-1836)
John Stuart Mill
Collected Works of John Stuart Mill (Volumes I-XXXIII)
Considerations on Representative Government
Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy
Of the Limits to the Authority of Society over the Individual
On Liberty and The Subjection of Women
Principles of Political Economy
John Millar
An Historical View of the English Government
Letters of Crito, on the Causes, Objects, and Consequences, of the Present War
Letters of Sidney, on Inequality of Property
The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks
Kate Millett
Gustave de Molinari
Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu
Of the Constitution of England
Thomas More
Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation
Ludwig von Mises
Interventionism: An Economic Analysis
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Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
Suicide Pact: The Radical Expansion of Presidential Powers and the Lethal Threat to American Liberty
Friedrich Nietzche
The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche
Albert J. Nock
Solomon Northup
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George Orwell
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Thomas Paine
The Constitution of the United States of America
John Paul II
Plato
Plutarch
Plutarch's Morals (Volumes I-V)
Plutarch’s Lives (Volumes I-V)
Plutarch’s Lives (Volumes I-X)
Shakespeare’s Plutarch (Volumes I-II)
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Christopher Chase Rachels
A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case For A Stateless Society
Burton Raffel
The Tale of Beowulf, sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats
David Ricardo
The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo (Volumes I-XI)
Matt Ridley
Henry Martyn Robert
Murray N. Rothbard
Education: Free and Compulsory
For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto
A Genuine Gold Dollar vs. the Federal Reserve
History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II
Left and Right: A Journal of Libertarian Thought (Complete, 1965-1968)
Left, Right, and the Prospects for Liberty
Man, Economy, and State, with Power and Market
Power and Market: Government and the Economy
Science, Technology, and Government
Strictly Confidential: The Private Volker Fund Memos of Murray N. Rothbard
What Has Government Done to Our Money?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind
The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Émile; Or, Concerning Education; Extracts
A Lasting Peace through the Federation of Europe and The State of War
The Political Writings of Jean Jacques Rousseau (Volumes I-II)
The Social Contract and Discourses
The Social Contract or Principles of Political Right
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Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon
Joseph T. Salerno
Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger; An Autobiography
The Margaret Sanger Papers Project
What Every Mother Should Know, or, How Six Little Children Were Taught the Truth
Jean Baptiste Say
Of the Demand or Market for Products
Letters to Mr. Malthus, and A Catechism of Political Economy
A Treatise on Political Economy
Nassau William Senior
Four Introductory Lectures on Political Economy
Poor Law Commissioners’ Report of 1834
Three Lectures on the Transmission of Precious Metals
Three Lectures on the Rate of Wages
Three Lectures on the Cost of Obtaining Money
George Bernard Shaw
Bernard Shaw and the Revolution
The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism and Fascism
Upton Sinclair
A Captain of Industry: Being the Story of a Civilized Man
Jean Charles Léonard Simonde de Sismondi
Political Economy and the Philosophy of Government
Adam Smith
Adam Smith and the Wealth of Nations (DVD)
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Volumes I-II)
Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue and Arms
The Theory of Moral Sentiments and on the Origins of Languages
Theory of Moral Sentiments and Essays on Philosophical Subjects
Vera C. Smith
The Rationale of Central Banking and the Free Banking Alternative
Jesús Huerta de Soto
Money, Bank Credit, And Economic Cycles
Germaine de Staël
Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
The Works of Tacitus (Volumes I-IV)
Hippolyte Taine
The Origins of Contemporary France: The Modern Regime (Volume I)
The French Revolution (Volumes I-III)
Frank William Taussig
Some Aspects of the Tariff Question
State Papers and Speeches on the Tariff
Margaret Thatcher
Let Our Children Grow Tall: Selected Speeches, 1975-77 Amazon
Margaret Thatcher In Her Own Words Amazon
Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography Amazon
Speeches, Interviews & Other Statements
Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World Amazon
What's Wrong with Politics? Amazon
Alexis de Tocqueville
American Institutions and Their Influence
Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William
Democracy in America Volume II
Democracy in America: Historical-Critical Edition (VolumesI-IV)
Memoir, Letters, and Remains of Alexis de Tocqueville (VolumesI-II)
The Old Regime and the Revolution
The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville
Report made to the Chamber of Deputies on the Abolition of Slavery in the French Colonies
Antoine Louis Claude, Comte Destutt de Tracy
A Commentary and Review of Montesquieu’s ’Spirit of Laws’
A Treatise on Political Economy (Translated by Thomas Jefferson)
John Trenchard
A Collection of Tracts (Volumes I-II)
The Independent Whig (Volumes I-IV)
On the Nature of Political Parties
The second part of An argument shewing that a standing army is inconsistent with a free government
A short history of standing armies in England
Leon Trotsky
The Bolsheviki and World Peace
Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism): a reply to Karl Kantsky
Our Revolution: Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution, 1904-1917
Chairman Mao Tse-tung
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book)
Sun Tzu
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Publius Vergilius Maro "Virgil"
François-Marie Arouet "Voltaire"
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia
Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary
The Works of Voltaire. A Contemporary Version (Volumes I-XXI)
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Francis Amasa Walker
The Wages Question: A Treatise on Wages and the Wages Class
Booker T. Washington
The Future of the American Negro
A Negro Explorer at the North Pole (Commentator)
Shadow and Light (Introduction)
Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements
Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington
H.G. (Herbert George) Wells
In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace
Oscar Wilde
The Soul of Man under Socialism
Tom Wolfe
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny’s
Mary Wollstonecraft
An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution
Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman
A Vindication of the Rights of Men
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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Malcolm X
After the Bombing / Speech at Ford Auditorium
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
God's Judgement of White America (The Chickens Come Home to Roost)
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