50 Politics Classics
by Tom Butler-Bowdon

From Abraham Lincoln to Nelson Mandela, and from Aristotle to George Orwell, 50 Politics Classics distills the essence of the books, pamphlets, and speeches of the major leaders and great thinkers that drive real-world change. 

Spanning 2,500 years, left and right, thinkers and doers, Tom Butler-Bowdon's book covers activists, war strategists, visionary leaders, economists, philosophers of freedom, feminists, conservatives and environmentalists, right up to contemporary classics such as The Spirit Level and No Logo. Whether you consider yourself to be conservative, liberal, socialist, or Marxist, this book gives you greater understanding of the key ideas that matter in our politically charged times.

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Table of Contents

1.     Lord Acton Essays on Freedom and Power (1948)

2.     Daron Acemoglu & James Robinson Why Nations Fail (2012)

3.     Saul Alinsky Rules For Radicals (1971)

4.     Graham T Allison Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (1971)

5.     Norman Angell The Great Illusion (1910)

6.     Hannah Arendt The Origins of Totalitarianism (1955)

7.     Aristotle Politics (4th century BCE)

8.     Isaiah Berlin Two Concepts  of Liberty (1958)

9.     Edward Bernays Propaganda (1924)

10.   Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward All The President’s Men (1974)

11.   Edmund Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

12.   Rachel Carson Silent Spring (1962)

13.   Winston Churchill The Gathering Storm (1948)

14.   Carl von Clausewitz On War (1832)

15.   Francis Fukuyama The End of History and the Last Man (1992)

16.   Mohandas Gandhi Autobiography: My Experiments In Truth (1927)

17.   Emma Goldman Anarchism and Other Essays (1910)

18.   Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay The Federalist Papers (1788)

19.   FA Hayek The Road To Serfdom (1944)

20.   Thomas Hobbes Leviathan (1651)

21.   Samuel Huntington The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)

22.   Paul Kennedy The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (1987)

23.   Martin Luther King Jr The Autobiography of Martin Luther King (2001)

24.   Naomi Klein No Logo (2000)

25.   Abraham Lincoln The Gettysburg Address (1863)

26.   John Locke Two Treatises of Government (1689)

27.   Machiavelli Discourses on Livy (1519)

28.   Nelson Mandela Long Walk To Freedom (1994)

29.   Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto (1848)

30.  Mencius The Mencius (3rd century BCE)

31.  John Stuart Mill The Subjection of Women (1869)

32.  John Micklethwait & Adrian Wooldridge The Fourth Revolution (2014)

33.  Hans Morgenthau Politics Among Nations (1950)

34.  Robert Nozick Anarchy, State and Utopia (1974)

35.  Joseph Nye The Future of Power (2011)

36.  Mancur Olson The Rise and Decline of Nations (1982)

37.  George Orwell Animal Farm (1948)

38.  Thomas Paine Common Sense (1776)

39.  Plato Crito (4th century BC)

40.  Karl Popper The Open Society and its Enemies (1945)

41.  Jean-Jacques Rousseau Discourse on Inequality (1755)

42.  Upton Sinclair The Jungle (1906)

43.  Alexandr Solzhenitsyn The Gulag Archipelago (1971)

44.  Sun Yat-sen Three Principles of the People (1925)

45.   Margaret Thatcher The Autobiography 1925-2013 (2013)

46.  Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience (1849)

47.  Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy in America (1835)

48.  Richard Wilkinson & Kate Picket The Spirit Level (2009)

49.  Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)

50.  Fareed Zakaria The Post-American World (2009)
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50 POLITICS CLASSICS
Your Shortcut To The Most Important Ideas On Freedom, Equality, Power

First Published: 
UK May 25, 2015
US September 15, 2015

Paperback original · $19.95     ISBN: 978-1-85788-629-0    

"A refreshing tour of political thought unmoored by traditional chronological organisation."
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​Second Edition, 2022:
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Published May 22, 2022

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