Politics Books

The Art of War

Sun Tzu

Napoleon read it. As did General MacArthur, Mao Tse-tung, and Tony Soprano. But Sun Tzu's Art of War is more than the most influential and famous book on military strategy: it's also a great everyday ..

The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto is attributed to both Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, though Marx gets most of the credit for writing one of the world's most politically significant documents. It details the ..

The Age of Reason

Thomas Paine

If Thomas Paine were alive today he'd probably be a blogger. As a pamphleteer, he could spread his dissident ideas so cheaply and quickly that they caught on like proverbial wildfire. As with Common S..

The Jungle

Upton Sinclair

The Jungle (1906) is a novel by Upton Sinclair which exposed the horrible conditions of the U.S. meatpacking industry and a corrupt economic system. Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant, is treated l..

Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass, a Slave

Frederick Douglass

Excerpts from the author of the book Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass, a Slave written by himself.In the first narrative of my experience in slavery, written nearly forty years ago, and i..

The History of Mary Prince

Mary Prince

The history of Mary Prince, related by herself, is a first-person account of the horrifically brutal treatment experienced by Prince, and others, as she was bought and sold on between slave-‘owners’. ..

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet Jacobs

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, written by herself is an autobiography by a young mother and fugitive slave published in 1861 by L. Maria Child, who edited the book for its author, Harriet Ann ..

A Century of Negro Migration

Carter G. Woodson

A Century of Negro Migration is historical account written by Carter G. Woodson. In treating this movement of the Negroes, the writer does not presume to say the last word on the subject. The exodus o..