Essays on Revolution, Power and the Human Promise

They are individuals who have written about the great human condition. They are purveyors of ideas that are extraordinary. They are persons who applied their skills and their wills to write about things that moved, and sometimes brightened and ennobled, both their own societies and ours today. And they are not alone; all across the human expanse, across time and geography and race and gender and religion and ethnicity, there are people who have done -- and are doing -- what they could, and sometimes in the face of high mountains, to make the human condition more vivid, and even more resplendent.

Perhaps -- just perhaps -- one such individual is reading this page now.

The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith Click Here

Federalist 51, by James Madison Click Here

History of the Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides Click Here

Animal Farm, by George Orwell Click Here

The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway Click Here

The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli Click Here

Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert Click Here

I Have a Dream, by Dr. Martin Luther King Click Here

Messiah, by George Frederick Handel Click Here

Don Quixote, by Cervantes Click Here

Annabel Lee, by Edgar Allen Poe Click Here

The Declaration of Independence Click Here

The Mayflower Compact Click Here

The Truman Doctrine Click Here

The Social Contract, by Jean Jacques Rousseau Click Here

Of Ambition, by Francis Bacon Click Here

Of Adversity, by Francis Bacon Click Here

What is to be Done, by Lenin Click Here

On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill Click Here

The Spirit of the Laws, by Montesquieu Click Here

The Power Elite, by C. Wright Mills Click Here

Ninth Symphony, by Beethovan Click Here

Farewell Address, by George Washington Click Here

A Shropshire Lad, by Alfred Housman Click Here

The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx Click Here