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Republics Ancient and Modern, Volume I: The Ancien Régime in Classical GreeceAn assessment of the ancient Greek city and its subsequent influence. A masterwork of political theory and comparative politics for the classroom."In a series of sketches touching on everything from the lust for honor to the suspicion of commerce and philosophy, from the role...
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A. Philip Randolph, PioneerScholars of the civil rights movement and twentieth-century African American history traditionally refer to Asa Philip Randolph as the organizer of the first all-black labor union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Paula Pfeffer's aim in this detailed and insightful biography, however, is "to...
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History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging TimesHistorian and civil rights activist proves how progressive movements can flourish even in conservative times. Despair and mourning after the election of an antagonistic or polarizing president, such as Donald Trump, is part of the push-pull of American politics. But in this incisive book,...
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East Texas Troubles: The Allred Rangers' Cleanup of San AugustineWhen the gun smoke cleared, four men were found dead at the hardware store in a rural East Texas town. But this December 1934 shootout was no anomaly. San Augustine County had seen at least three others in the previous three years, and these...
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Alternative Oklahoma: Contrarian Views of the Sooner StateHow many of us really know every side to Oklahoma's past and present?In this companion to his previous volume, "An Oklahoma I Had Never Seen Before," Davis D. Joyce presents fourteen essays that interpret Oklahoma's unique populist past and address current political and social...
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Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of PersuasionAmericans create 57% of the world's advertising while representing only 6% of its population; half of our waking hours are spent immersed in the mass media. Persuasion has always been integral to the democratic process, but increasingly, thoughtful discussion is being replaced with simplistic...
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Ask a North Korean: Defectors Talk about Their Lives Inside the World's Most Secretive Nation"In his new book, Ask a North Korean, Daniel Tudor--a former Economist journalist and current Korean beer entrepreneur-- wants people to understand the true lives of everyday North Koreans. Using translated essays written by defectors, the book covers topics from politics to pornography." --...
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The Case for U.S. Nuclear Weapons in the 21st CenturyThis book is a counter to the conventional wisdom that the United States can and should do more to reduce both the role of nuclear weapons in its security strategies and the number of weapons in its arsenal. The case against nuclear weapons has...
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Endurance and War: The National Sources of Military CohesionScholars and military practitioners alike have long sought to understand why some country's militaries fight hard when facing defeat while others collapse. In Endurance and War, Jasen Castillo presents a new unifying theory--cohesion theory--to explain why national militaries differ in their staying power. His...
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My Journey at the Nuclear BrinkMy Journey at the Nuclear Brink is a continuation of William J. Perry's efforts to keep the world safe from a nuclear catastrophe. It tells the story of his coming of age in the nuclear era, his role in trying to shape and contain...
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Refugees of the Revolution: Experiences of Palestinian ExileSome sixty-five years after 750,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homeland, the popular conception of Palestinian refugees still emphasizes their fierce commitment to exercising their right of return. Exile has come to seem a kind of historical amber, preserving refugees in a...
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Secret History, Second Edition: The Cia's Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952-1954The first edition of this book, published in 1999, was well-received, but interest in it has surged in recent years. It chronicles an early example of "regime change" that was based on a flawed interpretation of intelligence and proclaimed a success even as its...
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The CIA and the Culture of Failure: U.S. Intelligence from the End of the Cold War to the Invasion of IraqThe CIA and the Culture of Failure follows the CIA through a series of crises from the Soviet collapse to the war in Iraq and explains the political pressures that helped lead to the greatest failures in U.S. intelligence history.Author: John DiamondPublisher: Stanford Security...
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Marxism and the Leap to the Kingdom of Freedom: The Rise and Fall of the Communist UtopiaThe aim of this book is to carefully reconstruct Marx and Engels's theory of freedom, to highlight its centrality for their vision of the communist society of the future, to trace its development in the history of Marxist thought, including Marxism-Leninism, and to explain...
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The Many and the Few: Political Participation in Republican Buenos AiresThis book analyzes the relationship between the many and the few in the formation of a republican polity. It studies the case of Buenos Aires in the 1860s and 1870s, when the inauguration of a new national order in Argentina entailed a radical change...
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Revolutionary ChangeA classic study by a leading theorist of revolution, Revolutionary Change has gone through eleven printings since its appearance in 1966 and been translated into German, French, and Korean. This carefully revised edition not only brings the original analysis up to date but adds...
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Documents of United States Indian Policy: Third EditionThe third edition of this landmark work adds forty new documents, which cover the significant developments in American Indian affairs since 1988. Among the topics dealt with are tribal self-governance, government-to-government relations, religious rights, repatriation of human remains, trust management, health and education, federal...
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Scandalous Witness: A Little Political Manifesto for ChristiansChristian identity is in moral and political crisis, scandalized by the many ways in which it has been coopted and misrepresented. Addressing this painful reality, Lee Camp writes that Christianity in America has been made into a bad public joke because of "our failure...
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Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham LincolnA brilliantly conceived and vividly drawn story--Washington, D.C. on the eve of Abraham Lincoln's historic second inaugural address as the lens through which to understand all the complexities of the Civil War By March 4, 1865, the Civil War had slaughtered more than 700,000...
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How the Hell Did This Happen?: The Election of 2016This election cycle was so absurd that celebrated political satirist, journalist, and die-hard Republican P. J. O'Rourke endorsed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. As P.J. put it, "America is experiencing the most severe outbreak of mass psychosis since the Salem witch trials of 1692. So...
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