Areopagitica (Audiobook)
£1.99Milton’s furious argument against government censorship of the press, still quoted in free-speech debates nearly four centuries later.
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Milton’s furious argument against government censorship of the press, still quoted in free-speech debates nearly four centuries later.

Paine’s plain-spoken pamphlet arguing for American independence sold hundreds of thousands of copies and helped turn colonial grumbling into revolution.

A young French aristocrat tours 1830s America and comes away astonished, and worried, by the strange new machinery of equality and self-government.

Paine’s plain-spoken pamphlet arguing for American independence sold hundreds of thousands of copies and helped turn colonial grumbling into revolution.

Marx and Engels’s incendiary call to workers to overthrow capitalism, one of the most influential and consequential political pamphlets ever written.

Clausewitz’s unfinished but hugely influential theory of warfare as an extension of politics, still required reading at military academies two centuries later.

Hamilton, Madison, and Jay’s essays arguing for ratification of the U.S. Constitution remain the definitive explanation of how and why it was built the way it was.

Milton’s furious argument against government censorship of the press, still quoted in free-speech debates nearly four centuries later.