Genre
Politics.
From the foundational ideals of Plato’s Republic to the unflinching witness of A Small Place, our politics section gathers the texts that shape, challenge, and rewrite the social contract. Whether you’re tracing the roots of civil disobedience or revisiting the Warren Commission’s report, these are works that refuse to let power go unquestioned. Take a seat in the agora—debate is the point.
Utopia
Thomas More’s Utopia is a foundational classic of political thought and social imagination, presented in a clean DotBooks edition for modern readers.
$8.00
The History of Trade Unionism:
Sidney and Beatrice Webb's pioneering history of the British trade union movement, tracing its rise from early combinations to organised labour.
$8.00
William Pitt and national revival
A historical study of William Pitt the Younger and Britain's recovery and resurgence under his leadership.
$8.00
The Communist Manifesto
The short, incendiary pamphlet by Marx and Engels that reframed history as a struggle between classes.
$5.00
Civics and Health
An early twentieth-century educational text linking good citizenship with public and personal health.
$9.00
Washington Confidential
A sensational mid-century exposé of the American capital, pulling back the curtain on politics, power, money and vice in Washington.
$9.00
The Roman assemblies from their origin to the end of the Republic
A meticulous study of how the Roman Republic actually voted.
$9.00
Anarchism and Other Essays
Emma Goldman's bracing collection of essays on anarchism, freedom, and the questions of her age.
$8.00
The Philippines a Century Hence
José Rizal's searching essay on the future of his colonised homeland.
$8.00
The Sovereignty of the Sea
A historical study of the long contest over control of the seas, tracing the claims, disputes, and legal battles by which nations asserted dominion over the waters around their coa
$9.00
The Candidate
A novel that turns its gaze on ambition, public life and the compromises of seeking office or standing.
$9.50
The Governments of Europe
A comprehensive survey of European political systems by Frederic Austin Ogg, describing the constitutions, institutions and everyday workings of the continent's governments.
$9.00
Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre
A gathering of the essays, poems and lectures of Voltairine de Cleyre, one of American anarchism's most eloquent voices.
$8.00
Pamphlets and Parodies on Political Subjects
A collection of political pamphlets and parodies, using satire, wit and pointed argument to skewer the issues and figures of their day.
$8.50
On Liberty
John Stuart Mill's landmark defence of individual freedom against the pressure of the state and the crowd.
$5.00
Second Treatise of Government
John Locke's foundational argument for natural rights, consent and limited government.
$5.00
The Federalist Papers
The foundational essays by Hamilton, Madison and Jay, written to defend the proposed United States Constitution.
$5.00
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes's landmark of political philosophy, arguing that only a strong sovereign can lift humanity out of the violent chaos of the state of nature.
$5.00
A Modest Proposal: For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or countr
Jonathan Swift's ferocious 1729 satire, straight-faced and monstrous, coolly proposing that the poor of Ireland sell their children as food.
$8.00
Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
The official Warren Commission report on the assassination of President John F.
$9.00
The Prince
Machiavelli’s concise and unsettling guide to power, statecraft, fear, reputation, and political survival.
$6.50
The Republic
Plato’s enduring dialogue on justice, education, political order, and the shape of the good life.
$9.50
The Art of War
The Art of War by Sun Tzu is the classic strategy text on planning, discipline, deception, leadership, and winning through intelligence rather than brute force.
$6.50
A Small Place
Jamaica Kincaid's blistering book-length essay turns the tourist's gaze back on itself, laying bare the wreckage of colonialism and corruption in her native Antigua with unforgetta
$12.50
Civil Disobedience
In 'Civil Disobedience,' Thoreau’s impassioned essay challenges readers to question authority and act on conscience.
$5.50