Top 7 books recommended by Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights leader and activist who led the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. He was a prominent advocate for racial equality and non-violent protest, and is best known for his "I Have a Dream" speech. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 for his efforts to end racial segregation and discrimination.
The Nicomachean Ethics
- By: Aristotle
- Narrator: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2006
- Language: English
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Named for Aristotle’s son, Nicomachus, who was the first to edit this work, The Nicomachean Ethics plays a prominent role in defining Aristotelian ethics. In the ten books of this work, Aristotle explains the good life for man: the life of... Read more
“How can men best live together?” Twenty-three centuries after its compilation, Politics still has much to contribute to this central question of political science. Aristotle’s thorough and carefully argued analysis covers a huge... Read more
Rip Van Winkle
- By: Washington Irving
- Narrator: Johnny Heller
- Length: 44 minutes
- Publisher: Public Domain
- Publish date: November 27, 2018
- Language: English
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In New York’s Catskill Mountains before the American Revolution, a Dutch-American villager named Rip Van Winkle falls asleep and wakes up twenty years later without realizing how much time has passed. Unaware that the Revolutionary War has... Read more
The Prince
- By: Niccolo Machiavelli
- Narrator: John Lescault
- Length: 4 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2006
- Language: English
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Here is the world’s most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its candor, The Prince is a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to be a prince, a king, a president.
When, in 1512, Machiavelli... Read more
The Republic
- By: Plato
- Narrator: Pat Bottino
- Length: 12 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2008
- Language: English
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In this monumental work of moral and political philosophy, Plato sought to answer some of the world’s most formidable questions: What does it mean to be good? What enables us to distinguish between right and wrong? How should human virtues be... Read more
Civil Disobedience
- By: Henry David Thoreau
- Narrator: Henry David Thoreau
- Length: 1 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 14, 2014
- Language: English
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American author, poet, and philosopher Henry David Thoreau was a passionate abolitionist. Inspired by his opposition to slavery, his illuminating essay “Civil Disobedience” presents the theory that “the government is best that... Read more
On the Social Contract
- By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Narrator: Erik Sandvold
- Length: 5 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2009
- Language: English
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“Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains.” Thus begins Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s influential 1762 work, On the Social Contract, a milestone of political science and essential reading for students of history, philosophy, and... Read more