• This volume assembles a broad and comprehensive canon of Shaw's political prose, identifying the major political writings from a long and varied career of engagements.
• The volume's detailed annotations fill in the gaps to give readers a comprehensive understanding of the political, economic, and cultural waters in which writers like Shaw swam.
• The introduction offers an overview of Shaw's career as a political writer, explaining how each of the volume's selections fits into Shaw's evolving beliefs and political engagements. It offers an appraisal of Shaw's arguments today, highlighting where he was prophetic and what he overlooked.

A new collection of Shaw's major political writings presents an opportunity to reflect on his influential role as a public intellectual. At the forefront of economic and political debate from the 1880s to the 1950s, George Bernard Shaw was once the most widely read socialist writer in the English language, and his lifelong crusade against inequality and exploitation is far from irrelevant today. The thorough interpenetration of Shaw's literary and political engagements is an unusual story in modern literature, and this volume offers a portrait of Shaw as a political artist in the purest possible sense: that is, as a writer of essays, articles, pamphlets, and books with explicitly and expressly political aims. The selected writings in this volume showcase Shaw's most influential and most accomplished political work, but also provide a cross-section that is representative of the whole of his long career.