She'd have expected him to limit his reading to political or historical treatises, more in keeping with his sober bent.
Does that twist the Seuss tale into a political treatise on fascism?
We didn't want to advertise it as a political treatise, which it's not.
The series received press coverage for its publication of often controversial political treatises.
Nevertheless, a number of genres - the travelogue, the political treatise and biography - were current.
His political treatises, published posthumously, were influential in America and abroad.
His most often repeated assertion, throughout an 800-plus-page memoir and political treatise, is this: "The charge was, of course, completely false."
Machiavelli is most famous for a short political treatise, The Prince, written in 1513 but not published until 1532, five years after his death.
The film is hardly a political treatise, but it's more thoughtful and balanced than that.
He also wrote poetry, as well as political treatises and sociological works.