50 Politics Classics, Tom ButlerBowdon
50 Politics Classics, Tom ButlerBowdon
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50 Politics Classics
Freedom, Equality, Power

Author: Tom Butler-Bowdon

Narrator: Sean Pratt

Unabridged: 14 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 07/26/2016


Synopsis

Featuring texts by Saul Alinsky, Edmund Burke, Rachel Carson, Carl von Clausewitz, Francis Fukuyama, Mahatma Gandhi, Friedrich Hayek, Thomas Hobbes, Martin Luther King, Niccolo Machiavelli, Karl Marx, J. S. Mill, George Orwell, Thomas Paine, Plato, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Alexis De Tocqueville, Mary Wollstonecraft, and many more.

50 Politics Classics provides commentaries on the books, pamphlets, and speeches of major leaders, from Abraham Lincoln to Winston Churchill, and the texts from Aristotle to Naomi Klein, that drive real-world change.

Tom Butler-Bowdon's book spans 2,500 years of thinkers and doers, economists, activists, war strategists, visionary leaders, and philosophers of freedom. Are we living in The Post-American World? Is there a Clash of Civilizations? What is The Future of Power? Whether you consider yourself to be conservative, liberal, socialist, or Marxist, in these politically charged times we could all benefit from greater understanding of these key ideas.

This is the latest bestseller in Tom Butler-Bowdon's award-winning 50 Classics series, which has already sold one hundred thousand copies in the United States and four hundred thousand copies worldwide. Tom Butler-Bowdon is an expert on the "literature of possibility," covering psychology, philosophy, self-help, spirituality, and prosperity. His first book, 50 Self-Help Classics, won the Benjamin Franklin Award and was a Foreword magazine Book of the Year. A graduate of the London School of Economics and the University of Sydney, Tom lives in Oxford, United Kingdom, and Australia. Visit: butler-bowdon.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Osama

كتاب يتضمن خمسين فكرة كلاسيكية عن السياسة. مقدمة مفيدة تفتح أبوابا لمزيد من الاطلاع ........more

Goodreads review by Nathan

At first when I read this book and saw some of the books that were included, I was pretty irritated because they are not classics in the sense of being good books that are worth copying.  Nevertheless, the author includes such a diverse and even contradictory set of books that it is obvious that the......more

Wonderful book. The Author summarises 50 political books . One chapter for each book. It is a sweeping coverage of Philosophers, Leaders, Social reformers and Activities in the field of Politics. Power, Equality, Liberty , Class, Gender and other elements that impacted humans throughout history and......more

Goodreads review by Nathan

An amazing summary of the key ideas and concepts within 50 classic books that shape the political landscape. The author takes no personal stance or makes unnecessary comments based on what he thinks. It's objective and nothing is dumbed down. Each summary felt as though I had actually had the ideas......more