Political Science
Explore a comprehensive selection of political science books, including essential titles on the fundamentals and principles of the field. Discover the best political science booklist and best-selling books at our online bookstore.
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Bridging the Class Divide: And Other Lessons for Grassroots OrganizingAgain and again social change movements--on matter s from the environment to women's rights--have been run by middle-class leaders. But in order to make real progress toward economic and social change, poor people--those most affected by social problems--must be the ones to speak up...
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Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful ConvictionA powerful argument for adopting a model of restorative justice as part of the Innocence Movement--so exonerees, crime victims, and their communities can come together to heal In Rectify, a former Innocence Project director and journalist Lara Bazelon puts a face to the growing...
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Wrapped in the Flag: What I Learned Growing Up in America's Radical Right, How I Escaped, and Why My Story Matters TodayA narrative history of the John Birch Society by a daughter of one of the infamous ultraconservative organization's founding fathers. Named a best nonfiction book of 2013 by Kirkus Reviews and the Tampa Bay Times Long before the rise of the Tea Party movement...
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Brokers of Deceit: How the US Has Undermined Peace in the Middle EastWinner of the 2014 Lionel Trilling Book Award An examination of the failure of the United States as a broker in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, through three key historical moments For more than seven decades the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people has...
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Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful ConvictionA powerful argument for adopting a model of restorative justice as part of the Innocence Movement--so exonerees, crime victims, and their communities can come together to heal In Rectify, a former Innocence Project director and journalist Lara Bazelon puts a face to the growing...
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Daring Democracy: Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We WantAn optimistic book for Americans who are asking, in the wake of Trump's victory, What do we do now? The answer: We need to organize and fight to protect and expand our democracy. Americans are distraught as tightly held economic and political power drowns...
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We Are All Suspects Now: Untold Stories from Immigrant Communities after 9/11In an ironic reversal of the American dream, a staggering 20,000 members of the immigrant community of Midwood, Brooklyn (known as Little Pakistan), voluntarily left the United States after 9/11. Tram Nguyen reveals the human cost of the domestic war on terror and examines...
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Humanism and Terror: An Essay on the Communist ProblemFirst published in France In 1947, Merleau-Ponty's essay was in part a response to Arthur Koestler's novel, Darkness at Noon, and in a larger sense a contribution to the political and moral debates of a postwar world suddenly divided into two armed camps. For...
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Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle EastBegun as the United States moved its armed forces into Iraq, Rashid Khalidi's powerful and thoughtful new book examines the record of Western involvement in the region and analyzes the likely outcome of our most recent Middle East incursions. Drawing on his encyclopedic knowledge...
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Why We Can't WaitOften applauded as King's most incisive and eloquent book, "Why We Can't Wait" recounts the Birmingham campaign in vivid detail, while underscoring why 1963 was such a crucial year for the civil rights movement. The book also includes the Letter from Birmingham Jail.Author: Martin...
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Do Facts Matter? Information and Misinformation in American PoliticsA democracy falters when most of its citizens are uninformed or misinformed, when misinformation affects political decisions and actions, or when political actors foment misinformation--the state of affairs the United States faces today, as this timely book makes painfully clear. In Do Facts Matter?...
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Full-Court QuestMost fans of women's basketball would be startled to learn that girls' teams were making their mark more than a century ago--and that none was more prominent than a team from an isolated Indian boarding school in Montana. Playing like "lambent flames" across the...
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Roman Political Thought and the Modern Theoretical Imagination, 34Links modern political theorists with the Romans who inspired them Roman contributions to political theory have been acknowledged primarily in the province of law and administration. Even with a growing interest among classicists in Roman political thought, most political theorists view it as merely...
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Menominee Drums: Tribal Termination and Restoration, 1954-1974In 1961, the U.S. government terminated the Menominee Indians' federal status as a recognized tribe, including rights to a self-governed reservation. The Menominees were not the only tribe subject to this injustice; the government's action was part of its larger policy of termination, which...
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The Texas Sheriff: Lord of the County LineThe Texas Sheriff takes a fresh, colorful, and insightful look at Texas law enforcement during the decades before 1960. In the first half of the twentieth century, rural Texas was a strange, often violent, and complicated place. Nineteenth-century lifestyles persisted, blood relationships made a...
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Documents of American Indian Diplomacy (2 Volume Set): Treaties, Agreements, and Conventions, 1775-1979 Volume 4Reproduced in this two-volume set are hundreds of treaties and agreements made by Indian nations--with, among others, the Continental Congress; England, Spain, and other foreign countries; the Republic of Texas and the Confederate States; railroad companies seeking rights-of-way across Indian land; and other Indian...
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White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern ReconstructionAllen W. Trelease's White Terror, originally published in 1971, was the first scholarly history of the Ku Klux Klan in the South during Reconstruction. With its research rooted in primary sources, it remains among the most comprehensive treatments of the subject. In addition to...
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With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the PowerfulFrom "the most important voice to have entered the political discourse in years" (Bill Moyers), a scathing critique of the two-tiered system of justice that has emerged in AmericaFrom the nation's beginnings, the law was to be the great equalizer in American life, the...
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Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of EnergyFrom the author of the now-classic Resource Wars, an indispensable account of how the world's diminishing sources of energy are radically changing the international balance of power Recently, an unprecedented Chinese attempt to acquire the major American energy firm Unocal was blocked by Congress...
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Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable CatastropheAllison's comprehensive but accessible treatment of this vital subject is a major contribution to public understanding. -The New York Times Book Review Americans in the twenty-first century are keenly aware of the many forms of terrorism: hijackings, biological attacks, chemical weapons. But the deadliest...
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