50 Politics Classics: Freedom, Equality, Power

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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.

Tom Butler-Bowdon is an expert on the "literature of possibility", covering self-help, motivation, spirituality, prosperity, psychology and philosophy. USA Today described him as "a true scholar of this type of literature". His first book, 50 Self-Help Classics, won the Benjamin Franklin Award and was a Foreword magazine Book of the Year. The 50 Classics series has sold over 400,000 copies and has been published in 23 languages. A graduate of the London School of Economics and the University of Sydney, he lives in Oxford, UK, and Australia.

"Butler-Bowdon writes with infectious enthusiasm. A true scholar."--USA Today "Terrific. Distilled to the point of joyous clarity." --Richard Koch, author of The 80/20 Principle "Tremendous. It educates and edifies, affirms and inspires."--Stephen Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People