Masterworks of government; digests of 13 great classics.
- 1st ed.
- Garden City, N.Y., : Doubleday, 1947.
- ix, 754 p.
The Republic, by Plato.--Politics, by Aristotle.--The prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli.--The rights of war and peace, by Hugo Grotius.--Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes.--Treatise of civil government, by John Locke.--The spirit of laws, by Baron de Montesquieu.--The social contract, by J.J. Rousseau.--Selections from "The Federalist," by Alexander Hamilton.--Selected writings on democracy, by Thomas Jefferson.--The state: its historic role, by Peter Kropotkin.--The state and revolution, by Nikolai Lenin.--Addresses on the League of Nations, by Woodrow Wilson.