Political Science
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The Tempting of AmericaJudge Bork shares a personal account of the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on his nomination as well as his view on politics versus the law.Author: Robert H. BorkPublisher: Free PressPublished: 01/01/1997Pages: 448Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.24lbsSize: 8.55h x 5.53w x 1.11dISBN: 9780684843377
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Kennedy Nixon: The Rivalry That Shaped Postwar AmericaJohn Kennedy and Richard Nixon shared a dream of being the great young leader of their age. But what drove history, as this work sets out to show, was the enmity between these two figures, whose 1960 presidential contest would set the nation's bitter...
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Broken AllianceExamines the history of black-Jewish relations in America, tracing the change from unification during the Civil Rights Movement and the growth of the Democratic Party to the mutual antagonism that surfaced during the 1984 election, and searches for the reason behind the rift. Jonathan...
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The Coming Conflict with ChinaFrom two former Beijing bureau chiefs with long experience in Asian affairs comes a clear-eyed and uncompromising look at the potentially disastrous collision course now taking shape in U.S.-China relations. Aggressively anti-American, China has nuclear weapons deliberately targeted at the United States. Recent confrontations...
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China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising PowerThe definitive book on China's uneasy transformation into an economic and political superpower, and an insightful and thought-provoking analysis of daily life in China from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and bestselling authors of Half a Sky."Nick Kristof's and Sheryl WuDunn's work as correspondents in...
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Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American CultureThis monumental work of cultural history was nominated for a National Book Award. It chronicles America's transformation, beginning in 1880, into a nation of consumers, devoted to a cult of comfort, bodily well-being, and endless acquisition. 24 pages of photos.Author: William R. LeachPublisher: VintagePublished:...
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The New Dealers: Power Politics in the Age of RooseveltThis bold new analysis of the New Deal dramatically revises our vision of the Roosevelt legacy -- and of the new relation between government and business it made a central fact of American life. With impressive scholarship and narrative brio, Jordan A. Schwarz persuasively...
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Utopia Unarmed: The Latin American Left After the Cold WarCastro's Cuba is isolated; the guerrillas who once spread havoc through Uruguay and Argentina are dead, dispersed, or running for office as moderates. And in 1990, Nicaragua's Sandinistas were rejected at the polls by their own constituents. Are these symptoms of the fall of...
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Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their WayWhat happened to network television in the 1980s? How did CBS, NBC, and ABC lose a third of their audience and more than half of their annual profits? Ken Auletta, author of Greed and Glory on Wall Street, tells the gripping story of the...
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The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century CapitalisThere is no longer such a thing as an American economy, say Robert Reich at the beginning of this brilliant book. What does it mean to be a nation when money, goods, and services know no borders? What skills will be the most valuable...
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Distant Neighbors: A Portrait of the MexicansA study of Mexico--political, social, cultural, economic--by a journalist who was for the past six years the New York Times bureau chief in Mexico City. With portraits of Mexico's top leaders, about a nation whose stability is vital to our national well-being.Author: Alan RidingPublisher:...
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Rights of Man and Common Sense: Introduction by Michael FootThe authorities in power in England during Thomas Paine's lifetime saw him as an agent provocateur who used his seditious eloquence to support the emancipation of slaves and women, the demands of working people, and the rebels of the French and American Revolutions. History,...
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Introduction by Barbara Taylor(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)The first great manifesto of women's rights, published in 1792 and an immediate best seller, made its author the toast of radical circles and the target of reactionary ones. Writing just after the French and American revolutions, Mary Wollstonecraft firmly...
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Globalization and InequalityOne of the world's leading experts on international trade explains that we must look beyond globalization to explain rising inequality. Globalization is not the primary cause of rising inequality. This may come as a surprise. Inequality within nations has risen steadily in recent decades,...
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Hitler's Shadow Empire: Nazi Economics and the Spanish Civil WarPitting fascists and communists in a showdown for supremacy, the Spanish Civil War has long been seen as a grim dress rehearsal for World War II. Francisco Franco's Nationalists prevailed with German and Italian military assistance--a clear instance, it seemed, of like-minded regimes joining...
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Law and Legitimacy in the Supreme CourtWinner of the Thomas M. Cooley Book Prize, Georgetown Center on the Constitution Why do self-proclaimed constitutional "originalists" so regularly reach decisions with a politically conservative valence? Do "living constitutionalists" claim a license to reach whatever results they prefer, without regard to the Constitution's...
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The Federal JudiciaryNo sitting federal judge has ever written so trenchant a critique of the federal judiciary as Richard A. Posner does in this, his most confrontational book. Skewering the politicization of the Supreme Court, the mismanagement of judicial staff, the overly complex system of appeals,...
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China Under Mao: A Revolution DerailedChina's Communist Party seized power in 1949 after a long period of guerrilla insurgency followed by full-scale war, but the Chinese revolution was just beginning. China Under Mao narrates the rise and fall of the Maoist revolutionary state from 1949 to 1976--an epoch of...
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Expressive Powers of Law: Theories and LimitsWhen asked why people obey the law, legal scholars usually give two answers. Law deters illicit activities by specifying sanctions, and it possesses legitimate authority in the eyes of society. Richard McAdams shifts the prism on this familiar question to offer another compelling explanation...
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Safe Passage: The Transition from British to American HegemonyHistory records only one peaceful transition of hegemonic power: the passage from British to American dominance of the international order. What made that transition uniquely cooperative and nonviolent? Does it offer lessons to guide policy as the United States faces its own challengers to...
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