The SoapBox Library

Books & documents

• Common Sense — Thomas Paine Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
• Democracy in America — Volume 1 — Alexis de Tocqueville Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
• The 2006 CIA World Factbook — United States. Central Intelligence Agency Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
• The 2003 CIA World Factbook — United States. Central Intelligence Agency Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
• The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America — Thomas Jefferson Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
• The Federalist Papers — Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
• Main currents in American thought : An interpretation of American literature from the beginnings to 1920 — Vernon Louis Parrington Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
• The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political — Franklin K. Lane Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
• Democracy in America — Volume 2 — Alexis de Tocqueville Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
• The Red Record — Ida B. Wells-Barnett Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
• The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness — Florence Hartley Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
• Public opinion — Walter Lippmann Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
• Sketches New and Old — Mark Twain Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
• The United States Constitution — United States Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
• A Short History of the World — H. G. Wells Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
• State of the Union Addresses (1790-2008) — United States. Presidents Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
• The loyalists of America and their times : from 1620 to 1816, Vol. 1 of 2 — Egerton Ryerson Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
• The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete — Abraham Lincoln Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
• The United States Bill of Rights — United States Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
• The 2010 CIA World Factbook — United States. Central Intelligence Agency Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
• A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 — De Alva Stanwood Alexander Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
• 1900; or, The last President — Ingersoll Lockwood Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
• The 1990 CIA World Factbook — United States. Central Intelligence Agency Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
• The hijacking of the American political system : a blatant racist attempt by the Republican Party to destroy a popular democratically elected African-American president (2010) — Mawusi, Kodzo, 1944- Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• Southern Cross 1981-07-09 (1981) — Catholic Diocese of San Diego Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• Carmel Valley Outlook 1973-11-15 (1973) — Norton, William Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• Carmel Valley Outlook 1972-09-21 (1972) — Norton, William Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• Carmel Valley Outlook 1973-02-08 (1973) — Norton, William Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• Carmel Valley Outlook 1967-09-06 (1967) — Norton, William Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• Carmel Valley Outlook 1977-11-10 (1977) — Norton, William Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• Background to revolution : the development of modern Cuba (1966) — Smith, Robert Freeman Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• The Weekly Sun 1991-04-11 (1991) — Hall, Stan Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• American government and politics today (2014) — Unknown Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• The agenda : inside the Clinton White House (2005) — Woodward, Bob, 1943- Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• State of the union, 1994 : the Clinton administration and the nation in profile (1994) — Caplan, Richard (Richard D.);Feffer, John Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• Lions and lambs : conflict in Weimar and the creation of post-Nazi Germany (2017) — Strote, Noah Benezra, author Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• Arsenal of democracy (2009) — Julian E. Zelizer Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• Worshipping the state : how liberalism became our state religion (2013) — Wiker, Benjamin, 1960- Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• Johnson's war/Johnson's great society : the guns and butter trap (2000) — Helsing, Jeffrey W Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• American government : readings and cases (2004) — Woll, Peter, 1933- Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• Presidents from Eisenhower through Johnson, 1953-1969 : debating the issues in pro and con primary documents (2006) — Unknown Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• Joshua Journal 1950-09-02 (1950) — Journal Publishing Company (Joshua Tree, Calif.) Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• The rise and decline of American religious freedom (2014) — Smith, Steven D. (Steven Douglas), 1952- author Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• Activists in City Hall : the progressive response to the Reagan era in Boston and Chicago (2010) — Clavel, Pierre Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• Vote for me : the long road to the White House (2008) — Barron, John Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• Spies and holy wars : the Middle East in 20th-century crime fiction (2010) — Simon, Reeva S Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• John Tyler (2008) — May, Gary, 1944- Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• The Constitution of the United States and related documents (1787) — United States Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• Laws, etc (1789) — United States Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• The government and politics of the United States (1993) — Nigel Bowles Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• United States Government (1994) — Richard C. Remy Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (2014) — Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• These Truths (2018) — Jill Lepore Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• Mindhunter (1995) — John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• The economics and politics of the United States oil industry, 1920-1990 (1996) — Steve Isser Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition (1952) — James Edwin Miller, Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer, Kerry M. Wood, John Smith, William Bradford, Sarah Kemble Knight, William Byrd II, Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, Anne Bradstreet, Taylor, Edward, Phillis Wheatley, Philip Morin Freneau, Benjamin Franklin, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, James W. C. Pennington, Francis Wright, W. E. B. Du Bois, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Rowe Snow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Seattle Chief, Margaret Fuller, Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Mollie Dorsey Sanford, Sidney Lanier, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Satanta, Chief Joseph, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Edgar Lee Masters, James Thurber, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Katherine Anne Porter, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, Eudora Welty, Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, Carl Sandburg, Langston Hughes, Marianne Moore, Archibald MacLeish, Robert Frost, Countee Cullen, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Elinor Wylie, Sara Teasdale, T. S. Eliot, James Weldon Johnson, John Crowe Ransom, Wallace Stevens, Jean Toomer, William Carlos Williams, E. E. Cummings, Phyllis McGinley, Arna Bontemps, Claude McKay, Margaret Walker, Robinson Jeffers, Louise Bogan, Lewis Thomas, Dorothy Parker, Tennessee Williams, Robert Anderson, Lillian Hellman, Patrick F. McManus, William Least Heat Moon, Richard Rodriguez, Sabine R. Ulibarrí, Lorraine Hansberry, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Mona Van Duyn, Richard Wilbur, Denise Levertov, David Wagoner, Theodore Roethke, Robert Hayden, Karl Jay Shapiro, Adrienne Rich, Richard Eberhart, May Swenson, Mari Evans, Maxine Kumin, Elizabeth Bishop, Howard Nemerov, Robert Lowell, Galway Kinnell, William Stafford, Randall Jarrell, Gwendolyn Brooks, John N. Morris, Sylvia Plath, Amiri Baraka, Vern Rutsala, N. Scott Momaday, Lawson Fusao Inada, Jim Wayne Miller, James Masao Mitsui, Gary Soto, Leslie Silko, Teresa Palomo Acosta, Isaac Asimov, John Updike, Bernard Malamud, Carson McCullers, Kurt Vonnegut, Flannery O'Connor, Ray Bradbury, Eugenia Collier, Annie Dillard, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Walter Blair, Paul Farmer, Theodore Hornberger, Margaret Wasson, Conrad Richter, Bernard Augustine De Voto, Pearl S. Buck, Robert Penn Warren, William Saroyan, Conrad Aiken, Sinclair Lewis, Esther Forbes, Byrd, William, John Smith, George Washington, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Herman Melville, Paul Hamilton Hayne, Henry Timrod, Abram Joseph Ryan, Bret Harte, Sarah Orne Jewett, O. Henry, Tom Wolfe, Stephen Vincent Benét, Irwin Shaw, Paul Engle, W. H. Auden, Vachel Lindsay, Leonie Adams, James Wright, Ogden Nash, David McCord, Morris Bishop, Richard Willard Armour, Don Marquis, E. J. Kahn, Paul Horgan, W. L. White, John Davenport, E. B. White, Jacques Barzun, George Santayana, Cleveland Amory, Norman Cousins, Frank C. Laubach, Vannevar Bush, Jesse Stuart, Douglas Southall Freeman, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Philip Hamburger, Eugene O'Neill, Robert C. Pooley, Clarence Day, Thornton Wilder, Theresa Helburn, Brad Schulberg Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• The fateful triangle (1983) — Noam Chomsky Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• Government and politics of the United States (1965) — William C. Havard Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• The political system (1953) — David Easton Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• Principles of Political Economy (1848) — John Stuart Mill Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• Implementation of the Helsinki accords (1982) — United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• America, the nation-state (1988) — Imari Obadele Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• Declaration of Independence (1776) — United States Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• Team of Rivals (2003) — Doris Kearns Goodwin Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001) — John J. Mearsheimer Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• Government and Politics of the United States (Comparative Government & Politics) (1998) — Nigel Bowles Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• Religion and politics in the United States (1987) — Kenneth D. Wald Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• Manufacturing consent (1988) — Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky, Edward S. Herman, John Pruden Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• Grammatical institute of the English language. Part 3 (1787) — Noah Webster Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities (1983) — John D'Emilio, John D’Emilio Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]

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