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• The Radical Critique of Liberalism: In Memory of a Vision (2008), by Toula Nicolacopoulos (PDF with commentary at re-press.org)
• The Culture of Citizenship: Inventing Postmodern Civic Culture (second edition, 2001), by Thomas Bridges (PDF at crvp.org)
• What's the Matter with Liberalism? (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Ronald Beiner (HTML at UC Press)
• Nine Lives of Neoliberalism (London and New York: Verso, c2020), ed. by Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian, and Philip Mirowski (PDF at econstor.eu)
• Toward a Liberalism (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Richard E. Flathman (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Negations: Essays in Critical Theory (London: MayFlyBooks, 2009), by Herbert Marcuse, trans. by Jeremy J. Shapiro (PDF at monoskop.org)
• Hayek, Mill and the Liberal Tradition (London and New York: Routledge, c2011), ed. by Andrew Farrant
  • PDF files with commentary at taylorfrancis.com
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
• Challenge to Liberalism: An Address by Francis Biddle, Attorney General of the United States, at the First Annual Dinner of the Liberal Party of New York (1945), by Francis Biddle (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Liberalism at Work: The Rise and Fall of OSHA (originally published 1986; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2019), by Charles Noble, contrib. by Bryant Simon (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)
• The Conquest of Power: Liberalism, Anarchism, Syndicalism, Socialism, Fascism, and Communism (transcript; c1937), by Albert Weisbord (HTML at weisbord.org)
• The Conquest of Power; Liberalism, Anarchism, Syndicalism, Socialism. Fascism and Communism (2 volumes; New York: Covici-Friede, c1937), by Albert Weisbord (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anticapitalism and Culture: Radical Theory and Popular Politics (Oxford and New York: Berg, c2008), by Jeremy Gilbert (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• Free Thought and Official Propaganda (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1922), by Bertrand Russell
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google
• Free Thought and Official Propaganda (London: Watts and Co., 1922), by Bertrand Russell
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Liberalism (electronic editions), by Ludwig Von Mises (multiple formats with commentary at mises.org)
• From Noose to Needle: Capital Punishment and the Late Liberal State (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Liberalism Fights On (New York: Macmillan, 1936), by Ogden Livingston Mills (page images at HathiTrust)
• Liberty and Liberalism: A Protest Against the Growing Tendency Toward Undue Interference by the State, with Individual Liberty, Private Enterprise and the Rights of Property (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1887), by Bruce Smith (HTML at econlib.org)
• Studien uber Johannes Wit, Genannt von Dorring und Seine Denkwurdigkeiten (I.-III. Kapitel) (in German; Berlin and Leipzig: W. Rothschild, 1916), by Josephine Blesch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essays on Catholicism, Liberalism and Socialism, Considered in Their Fundamental Principles (Dublin: M. H. Gill and Son, 1879), by Juan Donoso Cortés, trans. by William McDonald (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Nation, State, and Economy, by Ludwig Von Mises, trans. by Leland B. Yeager (PDF and Epub with commentary at mises.org)

• The Medieval Constitution of Liberty: Political Foundations of Liberalism in the West (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Alexander William Salter and Andrew T. Young (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• The War Against Catholicism: Liberalism and the Anti-Catholic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Germany (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), by Michael B. Gross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Building a National Literature: The Case of Germany, 1830-1870 (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Peter Uwe Hohendahl, trans. by Renate Franciscono
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• The Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2011), ed. by Simon Gunn and James Vernon (HTML and PDF with commentary at UC Press)

• The Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2011), ed. by Simon Gunn and James Vernon (HTML and PDF with commentary at UC Press)

• We're (Nearly) All Victims Now! How Political Correctness is Undermining Our Liberal Culture (c2006), by David G. Green (PDF at Civitas)
• Liberalism, by L. T. Hobhouse (PDF at McMaster)

• Obscenity and the Limits of Liberalism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), ed. by Loren Glass and Charles Francis Williams, contrib. by Michael Taussig, Nadine Strossen, Brett Gary, Tim Miller, Jyoti Puri, Laura Kipnis, Mikita Brottman, David Sterritt, and John Durham Peters (PDF at Ohio State)

• Imagining Development: Economic Ideas in Peru's "Fictitious Prosperity" of Guano, 1840-1880 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Paul Gootenberg (HTML at UC Press)

• Speaking of Liberty (2003), by Llewellyn H. Rockwell (PDF and Epub with commentary at mises.org)
• Race, Liberalism, and Economics (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), ed. by David C. Colander, Robert E. Prasch, and Falguni A. Sheth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Liberal Analysis and Federal Power, by Tom Hayden (PDF at MSU)
• Objections to Conservatism (Heritage Lectures #3; Washington: Heritage Foundation, c1981), contrib. by Russell Kirk, Lewis H. Lapham, Philip M. Crane, Carl Gershman, Ernest Van den Haag, Paul Weyrich, George F. Gilder, Ben J. Wattenberg, Paul Johnson, Shirley Robin Letwin, Lester H. Hunt, Tom G. Palmer, and Aram Bakshian (PDF at amazonaws.com)
• Hitler Was a Liberal (New York: Constitutional Educational League, c1949), by Joseph P. Kamp (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Background Papers # 1, 2 and 3, Summer Institute of the Student League for Industrial Democracy (1958), by Student League for Industrial Democracy (U.S.), contrib. by George F. Kennan, André Schiffrin, and Carol Sheingorn (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Infectious Liberty: Biopolitics between Romanticism and Liberalism (New York: Fordham University Press, 2021), by Robert Mitchell (PDF files at JSTOR)
• Queering Cold War Poetry: Ethics of Vulnerability in Cuba and the United States (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Eric Keenaghan (PDF at Ohio State)

• Libertine Strategies: Freedom and the Novel in Seventeenth-Century France (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1981), by Joan E. DeJean (PDF files at Ohio State Press)

• Nine Lives of Neoliberalism (London and New York: Verso, c2020), ed. by Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian, and Philip Mirowski (PDF at econstor.eu)
• Globalization: Past, Present, Future (Oakland: University of California Press, c2023), ed. by Manfred B. Steger, Roland Benedikter, Harald Pechlaner, and Ingrid Kofler (multiple formats with commentary at Luminos)
• The Principle of Unrest: Activist Philosophy in the Expanded Field (London: Open Humanities Press, 2017), by Brian Massumi (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• Vinyl Theory (Amherst, MA: Lever Press, c2020), by Jeffrey R. Di Leo
  • HTML and Epub with commentary at Lever Press
  • HTML and PDF at JSTOR
• Global Diffusion of Protest: Riding the Protest Wave in the Neoliberal Crisis (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2017), ed. by Donatella Della Porta (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics (Brooklyn: Punctum Books, c2015), by Lester K. Spence (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• The Politics of Reproduction: Adoption, Abortion, and Surrogacy in the Age of Neoliberalism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2019), ed. by Modhumita Roy and Mary Thompson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Promissory Notes: On the Literary Conditions of Debt (Amherst, MA: Lever Press, 2018), by Robin Truth Goodman (Javascript-dependent HTML with commentary at Lever Press)
• Nature Inc.: Environmental Conservation in the Neoliberal Age (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, c2014), ed. by Bram Büscher, Wolfram Heinz Dressler, and Robert Fletcher (PDF with commentary at Open Arizona)

• The New Left in Government: From Protest to Policy-Making (Washington: Heritage Foundation, 1978), by William T. Poole (PDF and HTML at heritage.org)
• Campaign for Economic Democracy (in 2 parts; Washington: Heritage Foundation, 1980-1981), by William T. Poole
  • Part I (The New Left in Politics): PDF and HTML at heritage.org
  • Part II (The Institute for Policy Studies Network): PDF and HTML at heritage.org

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