Revolutionary category: 2684 books
Lincoln's Melancholy
How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2006
Drawing on seven years of his own research and the work of other esteemed Lincoln scholars, Shenk reveals how the sixteenth president harnessed his depression to fuel his astonishing success.
Lincoln found the solace and tactics he needed to deal with the nation’s worst crisis in the “coping strategies”...
by E. Belfort Bax
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Ernest Belfort Bax (23 July 1854 26 November 1926) was a British socialist, journalist and philosopher. Born into a nonconformist religious family in Leamington, he was first introduced to Marxism while studying philosophy in Germany. He combined Karl Marx's ideas with those of Immanuel Kant, Arthur...
by James Robb
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
The documentary film by Joshua Oppenheimer, The Act of Killing, released in 2012, provides a chillingly intimate portrait of some ageing thugs who, nearly fifty years ago, took part in one of the greatest acts of mass murder of the last century: the 1965-66 slaughter in Indonesia.The principal...
by Gilles Dauvé, François Martin
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
The original essays included here were first written between 1969 and 1972 by people involved in the most radical aspects of the French general strike and circulated among left communist and worker circles. Over the years these three essays have been published separately in various languages and printed...
by Antonio Téllez
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The guerrilla struggle against Francoism arose in the days following the army revolt against the Spanish Republic on 18 July 1936. In areas which fell immediately to the mutinous army the principal leader of which was Lieutenant-General Jose Sanjurjo y Sacanell (then a refugee in Portugal) with General...
THE POVERTY OF STATISM
Anarchism versus Marxism A debate with Nikolai Bukharin, Luigi Fabbri and Rudolf Rocker (Introduced by Albert Meltzer)
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
Anarchist response to Nikolai Bukharin’s ‘Anarchy and Scientific Communism’; a libertarian critique of the proletarian state, the dictatorship of the proletariat, the organisation of production, etc., by two of Bukharin’s anarchist contemporaries. Includes Rocker’s essay ‘Marx and Anarchism’....
by Brion McClanahan
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
The truth revealed--and PC myths shattered--about the Founding Fathers.
Tom Brokaw labeled the World War II generation the "Greatest Generation," but he was wrong. That honor belongs to the Founders--the men who pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor for the cause of liberty and independence,...
America Afire
Jefferson, Adams, and the First Contested Election
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
America Afire is the powerful story of the election of 1800, arguably the most important election in America's history and certainly one of the most hotly disputed. Former allies Adams and Jefferson, president versus vice president, Federalist versus Republican, squared off in a vicious contest that...
by Abraham Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2009
The Address was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the decisive Battle of Gettysburg....
A Magnificent Catastrophe
The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
"They could write like angels and scheme like demons." So begins Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Larson's masterful account of the wild ride that was the 1800 presidential election—an election so convulsive and so momentous to the future of American democracy...
by Schahresad Phillips, Stephen Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2015
A fearless defender of the last Christian Anglo-Saxon kingdom left standing, after all other kingdoms were brutally conquered by the pagan Viking Danes, King Alfred the Great (841-899 AD) was a courageous warrior leader and brilliant military strategist in battle, and a statesman and intellectual luminary...
Signing Their Rights Away
The Fame and Misfortune of the Men Who Signed the United States Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Unfold Book Jacket for a Full-Color Reproduction of the U.S. Constitution
With their book Signing Their Lives Away, Denise Kiernan and Joseph D’Agnese introduced readers to the 56 statesmen (and occasional scoundrels!) who signed the Declaration of Independence. Now they’ve turned their...
The Wisest Council in the World
Restoring the Character Sketches by William Pierce of Georgia of the Delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Of all the written portraits of the delegates who attended the Federal Convention of 1787, few are as complete and compelling as those penned by William Pierce Jr. (1753–89), one of four delegates from Georgia. While at the convention or shortly thereafter, Pierce produced character sketches of...
The Role of Circuit Courts in the Formation of United States Law in the Early Republic
Following Supreme Court Justices Washington, Livingston, Story and Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
While scholars have rightly focused on the importance of the landmark opinions of the United States Supreme Court and its Chief Justice, John Marshall, in the rise in influence of the Court in the Early Republic, the crucial role of the circuit courts in the development of a uniform system of federal...