The Old Regime and the French Revolution
by Alexis De Tocqueville | 
Mein Kampf
by Adolf Hitler | 
The Five Thousand Year Leap
by W. Cleon Skousen | 
The 5000 Year Leap
by W. Cleon Skousen | 
Democracy in America
by Alexis De Tocqueville | 
The Road to Wigan Pier
by George Orwell | 
Imagined Communities
by Benedict Anderson | 
The Making of a Counter Culture
by Theodore Roszak | 
Orientalism
by Edward W. Said | 
Demanding the Impossible
by Peter Marshall | 
The Cave and the Light
by Arthur Herman | 
American Scripture
by Pauline Maier | 
Poor Richard's Almanack
by Benjamin Franklin | 
The Idea of Decline in Western History
by Arthur Herman | 
Provincializing Europe
by Dipesh Chakrabarty | 
The End Of History and the Last Man
by Francis Fukuyama | 
The English Constitution
by Walter Bagehot | 
The Souls of Black Folk
by W. E. B. Du Bois | 
History of the Russian Revolution
by Leon Trotsky | 
The Mis-Education of the Negro
by Carter Godwin Woodson |
Probably written by a student of Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution is both a history and an analysis of Athens' political machinery between the seventh and fourth centuries BC, which stands as a model of democracy at a time when city-states lived under differing kinds of government. The writer recounts the major reforms of Solon, the rule of the tyrant Pisistratus and his sons, the emergence of the democracy in which power was shared by all free male citizens, and the leadership of Pericles and the demagogues who followed him. He goes on to examine the city's administration in his own time - the council, the officials and the judicial system. For its information on Athens' development and how the democracy worked, The Athenian Constitution is an invaluable source of knowledge about the Athenian city-state.