Political Science category: 78432 books
The Cynic
The Political Education of Mitch McConnell
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
From a dogged political reporter, an investigation into the political education of Mitch McConnell and an argument that this powerful Senator embodies much of this country’s political dysfunction.
Based on interviews with more than seventy-five people who have worked alongside Mitch McConnell...
Franklin D. Roosevelt
A Political Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
**Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and NPR
“We come to see in FDR the magisterial, central figure in the greatest and richest political tapestry of our nation’s entire history” —Nigel Hamilton, Boston Globe
“Meticulously researched and authoritative” —Douglas...
by Ted Rall
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Now a NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, Bernie is the must-have guidebook to the Bernie Sanders campaign -- and the uncompromising candidate behind it. Insightful, funny, and accessible, this biography-in-graphic-novel-form of the presidential candidate explains both his early life and political rise, but...
Hart and Soul
Gary Hart's New Hampshire Odyssey and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Stunning Political Upset. The long forgotten story of Gary Hart's 1984 stunning upset victory over Walter Mondale in the New Hampshire Democratic primary is much more than a political story. It is the moving story of ordinary people out to change the world and one man who inspired them to try.
New...
The Happiness Industry
How the Government and Big Business Sold us Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
In winter 2014, a Tibetan monk lectured the world leaders gathered at Davos on the importance of Happiness. The recent DSM-5, the manual of all diagnosable mental illnesses, for the first time included shyness and grief as treatable diseases. Happiness has become the biggest idea of our age, a new...
Recording Memories from Political Violence
A Film-maker's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
Based on work the author has carried out with survivor groups in South Africa and Northern Ireland, Recording Memories from Political Violence combines written and audiovisual texts to describe and analyze the use of documentary filmmaking in recording experiences of political conflict. A variety of...
Young People, Citizenship and Political Participation
Combating Civic Deficit?
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Prominent studies and opinion polls often claim to show that young people distrust politicians, they are disengaged from political institutions, and are disillusioned about democracy. But academic work conversely shows that young people are engaging with politics, merely in new and innovative ways.
Young...
Ontology and World Politics
Void Universalism I
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Together these two companion volumes develop an innovative theory of world politics, grounded in the reinterpretation of the concepts of ‘world’ and ‘politics’ from an ontological perspective.
Ontology and World Politics presents a new approach to political universalism, grounded in...
The Capacity Contract
Intellectual Disability and the Question of Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
In the first sustained examination of disability through the lens of political theory, The Capacity Contract shows how the exclusion of disabled people has shaped democratic politics. Stacy Clifford Simplican demonstrates how disability buttresses systems of domination based on race, sex, and gender....
Believer
My Forty Years in Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
New York Times Book Review
**“A stout defense--indeed, the best I have read--of the Obama years."
A New York Times Bestseller**
David Axelrod has always been a believer. Whether as a young journalist investigating city corruption, a campaign consultant guiding underdog candidates...
America's Political Dynasties
From Adams to Clinton
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
The Constitution states that "no title of nobility shall be granted by the United States," yet it seems political nobility is as American as apple pie.
America was founded in rebellion against nobility and inherited status. Yet from the start, dynastic families have been conspicuous...
Political Order and Political Decay
From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state
Writing in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition." In The New York Times Book...
Dispatches from the Eastern Front
A Political Education from the Nixon Years to the Age of Obama
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
How does one arrive at a life in politics and policy? What happens to ones ideals when confronted with the reality that the only way to get things done in Washington is compromise? Who are the men and women who help shape our national agenda, and what drives their work? Dispatches from the Eastern Front...
Basic Brown
My Life and Our Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
**To The Washington Post, he's "The Last Political Showman of the 20th Century."
Bill Clinton has called him "the real Slick Willie."
Ronald Reagan's secretary of state George Shultz called this famously liberal politician "a man of his word" and endorsed his successful candidacy for...