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That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional RightThat Every Man Be Armed, the first scholarly book on the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, has played a significant role in constitutional debate and litigation since it was first published in 1984. Halbrook traces the right to bear arms from ancient Greece...
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Cricket in the Web: The 1949 Unsolved Murder That Unraveled Politics in New MexicoOvida "Cricket" Coogler was last seen alive entering a mysterious car driven by an unknown man in downtown Las Cruces, New Mexico, around 3:00 on the morning of March 31, 1949. Seventeen days later, her body was found in a hastily dug grave near...
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Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial EssaysIn this selected collection of his syndicated newspaper columns, Walter Williams offers his sometimes controversial views on education, health, the environment, government, law and society, race, and a range of other topics. Although many of these essays focus on the growth of government and...
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Japanese Foreign Policy at the Crossroads: Challenges and Options for the Twenty-First Century" The post-World War II paradigm that ensured security and prosperity for the Japanese people has lost much of its effectiveness. The current generation has become increasingly resentful of the prolonged economic stagnation and feels a sense of drift and uncertainty about the future...
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The Irony of Vietnam: The System Worked" ""If a historian were allowed but one book on the American involvement in Vietnam, this would be it."" -- Foreign Affairs When first published in 1979, four years after the end of one of the most divisive conflicts in the United States, The...
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The U.S. Intelligence CommunityThe role of intelligence in US government operations has changed dramatically and is now more critical than ever to domestic security and foreign policy. This authoritative and highly researched book written by Jeffrey T. Richelson provides a detailed overview of America's vast intelligence empire,...
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The Leftmost City: Power and Progressive Politics in Santa CruzAlmost all US cities are controlled by real estate and development interests, but Santa Cruz, California, is a deviant case. An unusual coalition of socialist-feminists, environmentalists, social-welfare liberals, and neighborhood activists has stopped every growth project proposed by landowners and developers since 1969, and...
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The Phenomenon of Torture: Readings and CommentaryTorture is the most widespread human rights crime in the modern world, practiced in more than one hundred countries, including the United States. How could something so brutal, almost unthinkable, be so prevalent? The Phenomenon of Torture: Readings and Commentary is designed to answer...
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Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black PowerThis book tells the remarkable story of Robert F. Williams--one of the most influential black activists of the generation that toppled Jim Crow and forever altered the arc of American history. In the late 1950s, as president of the Monroe, North Carolina, branch of...
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The Promise of PoliticsIn The Promise of Politics, Hannah Arendt examines the conflict between philosophy and politics. In particular, she shows how the tradition of Western political thought, which extends from Plato and Aristotle to its culmination in Marx, failed to account for human action. The concluding...
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Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle ClassA valuable window into a long-underreported dimension of African American history.--Newsday An engaging social history that reveals the critical role Pullman porters played in the struggle for African American civil rights When George Pullman began recruiting Southern blacks as porters in his luxurious new...
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Ogimaag: Anishinaabeg Leadership, 1760-1845Cary Miller's Ogimaag reexamines Anishinaabeg (Ojibwe) leadership practices and processes in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. At the end of the nineteenth century, anthropologists who had studied Anishinaabeg leadership practices developed theories about human societies and cultures derived from the perceived Anishinaabeg...
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Cedric J. Robinson: On Racial Capitalism, Black Internationalism, and Cultures of Resistance"Before the movement for black lives made black radicalism cool for millennials, Cedric Robinson did the work of excavating an intellectual history we rely upon today."--The Root "Like W. E. B. Du Bois, Michel Foucault, Sylvia Wynter, and Edward Said, Robinson was that rare...
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Veil: The Secret Wars of the Cia, 1981-1987From Bob Woodward, legendary investigative reporter, Veil is the story of the covert wars that were waged by the CIA across Central America, Iran and Libya in a secretive atmosphere and became the centerpieces and eventual time bombs of American foreign policy in the...
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Hands Off My Food!: How Government and Industry Have Corrupted Our Food and Easy Ways to Fight BackAmericans have stopped being watchdogs over their own food supply. Roughly 100 years ago, with the birth of the FDA, we handed that responsibility over to the government and the food industry. They, in turn, have fundamentally transformed our food supply and it's making...
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The Impossibility of Religious Freedom: New EditionThe Constitution may guarantee it. But religious freedom in America is, in fact, impossible. So argues this timely and iconoclastic work by law and religion scholar Winnifred Sullivan. Sullivan uses as the backdrop for the book the trial of Warner vs. Boca Raton, a...
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How to Fight Anti-Semitism"The most important book you will read this year."--Caitlin Flanagan, author of To Hell with All That WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD - The prescient former New York Times writer delivers an urgent wake-up call to all Americans exposing the alarming rise...
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Makers and Takers: How Wall Street Destroyed Main StreetIs Wall Street bad for Main Street America? A well-told exploration of why our current economy is leaving too many behind. --The New York Times In looking at the forces that shaped the 2016 presidential election, one thing is clear: much of the population...
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God Save Texas: A Journey Into the Soul of the Lone Star StateNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST - The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower--and a Texas native--takes us on a journey through the most controversial state in America. - "Beautifully written.... Essential reading [for] anyone who wants to understand how one state changed...
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The Revolution BetrayedOne of Marxism's most important texts, The Revolution Betrayed explores the fate of the Russian Revolution after Lenin's death. Written in 1936 and published the following year, this brilliant and profound evaluation of Stalinism from the Marxist standpoint prophesied the collapse of the Soviet...
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