Below are some of the most commonly assigned readings in introductory political science courses. You will need Adobe Reader to view these PDF e-books.
- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651)
- John Locke, Treatise on Government (1690)
- Alexander Hamilton John Jay, and James Madison, The Federalist
Papers (1787-1788)
- Alexis De Tocqueville, Democracy in America (Two Volumes)
(1835)
- The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American
Slave (1845)
- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience (1849)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
- John Stuart Mill, The Contest in America (1862)
- Rudyard Kipling, American Notes (1891)
- Jacob Riis, The Making of an American (1901)
- Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery (1901)
- Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays (1917)
- Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion (1921)
