Political Science
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Trust the Plan: The Rise of Qanon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America"Punchy and well-reported....Sommer is the perfect person to tell this story." --New York Times"A story so bizarre, only Will Sommer could report it." --Molly Jong-FastNow in paperback, the definitive book on QAnon from the reporter knows them best; Will Sommer explains what it is,...
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To Be a Problem: A Black Woman's Survival in the Racist Disability Rights MovementA searing critique of the disability rights movement from within, and a call for collective liberation that is pro-Black and centers disabled people of color For over twenty years, Dara Baldwin has often been the only person of color in the room when significant...
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This Is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends about RacismIn this "vital book for these times" (Kirkus Reviews), Don Lemon brings his vast audience and experience as a reporter and a Black man to today's most urgent question: How can we end racism in America in our lifetimes? The host of CNN Tonight...
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The Right to Oblivion: Privacy and the Good Life"A probing critique of a modern public sphere that overwhelms the private realm . . . Pressly offers a unique vision of what can be gained by stepping back from the outside world, and the screens that try to possess us." --John Kaag, The...
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The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United StatesOriginally published in 2000, The Right to Vote was widely hailed as a magisterial account of the evolution of suffrage from the American Revolution to the end of the twentieth century. In this revised and updated edition, Keyssar carries the story forward, from the...
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The LawHere, in this 1850 classic, a powerful refutation of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto, published two years earlier, Bastiat discusses: What is law?, Why socialism constitutes legal plunder, the proper function of the law, the law and morality, "the vicious circle of socialism", and the...
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The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present - Revised EditionWhy democracies believe they can survive any crisis--and why that belief is so dangerous Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the latest example of how things continue to go wrong, just when it looked like...
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The Constitution Cannot Save Us: Why We Can No Longer Rely on Our Founding DocumentA radical argument by the leading constitutional scholar that American constitutional law lacks the resources to address our current problems, and risks making them worse "A sharp-edged and well-informed takedown of one of America's sacred cows." --Publishers Weekly on Mike Seidman's From Parchment to...
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The Architecture of Inequality: Socratic Dialogues on American CrisisThe Architecture of Inequality is a work of civic philosophy that examines the structural foundations of American democratic life through the time-honored method of Socratic dialogue. Set in a university seminar room, the book brings together thirteen student characters-representing a wide range of American...
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Spain 1923-48, Civil War and World WarSpain 1923-1948, Civil War & World War was originally published in England, 1948 to add context to the conduct of Spain under Franco during the Spanish Civil War. Arthur Loveday targeted the British political consciousness with the chief aim of helping Spain's entry into...
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Private Power and Democracy's Decline: How to Make Capitalism Support DemocracyWhy unregulated free-market capitalism endangers democracy--and what to do about it. In Private Power and Democracy's Decline, Mordecai Kurz explores the relationship between free-market capitalism and democracy. He shows that technology has made capitalism different from what was envisioned in the Age of Enlightenment....
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Money in the Mountains: The Cultural Trauma of Appalachia"Every page gave me chills. This is a must-read book for the times in which we are living" Lisa López Levers, Professor Emerita, Duquesne UniversityAppalachia's misery is caused by generations of colonial exploitationThe United States is in a state of decline--a reality decades in...
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Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & WritingsLonglisted for the National Book Critics Circle award for NonfictionThe New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-nominated author of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois and The Age of Phillis makes her nonfiction debut with this personal and thought-provoking work that explores the journeys...
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Kakistocracy: Why Populism Ends in DisasterKakistocracy is Greek for "rule by the worst people." Why does turning away from elite rule and institutions so often lead to corruption, instability, illiberalism, and economic decline? In Kakistocracy, Richard Hanania dissects the dominant political story of our era: the global rise of...
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How the Democrats Screwed BernieAn explosive inside account of how the Democratic establishment used every weapon in its arsenal to subvert the will of the people and stop Bernie Sanders's presidential bid in 2016--told by his chief strategist who witnessed it all firsthand. One question haunted the American...
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Healing the Gun Violence Epidemic: Ending Violence, Rebuilding Communities, and a Trauma Surgeon's Vision for Restoring HopeFor readers seeking solutions to finally end the gun violence that kills tens of thousands of people each year in the United States-- from a Harvard-trained trauma surgeon treating victims in Chicago If hope for ending gun violence can take hold in Chicago's South...
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Finding Our Words: Words That Made AmericaThe book for America's 250th!FINDING OUR WORDS: Words That Made America is a collection of some of the most inspiring words spoken by American leaders since our founding, compiled and edited by Allison Ellis, with every speech launched with a prefacing essay by Tracy...
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Fair Play: The Moral Dilemmas of Spying"A unique, compelling read."--Midwest Book ReviewRevolutionary War officer Nathan Hale, one of America's first spies, said, "Any kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary." A statue of Hale stands outside CIA headquarters, and the agency often cites his...
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Fighting for a Foothold: How Government and Markets Undermine Black Middle-Class SuburbiaPrince George's County, Maryland, is a suburban jurisdiction in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area and is home to the highest concentration of Black middle-class residents in the United States. As such, it is well positioned to overcome White domination and anti-Black racism and their...
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Forging the American Mind: A Year-By-Year Guide for Classical Christian EducationIn this follow-up to Battle for the American Mind, David Goodwin lays out the principles for providing a classical Christian education for children, K-12. American parents have been desperate for an alternative to our broken, woke school system. Inspired by the insights of Battle...
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