Practical Politics category: 1369 books
Collective Political Rationality
Partisan Thinking and Why It's Not All Bad
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Amidst the polarization of contemporary politics, partisan loyalties among citizens are regarded as one contributor to political stalemate. Partisan loyalties lead Democrats and Republicans to look at the same economic information but to come to strikingly different conclusions about the state of...
From virtue to venality
Corruption in the city
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
From virtue to venality examines the problem of corruption in British urban society and politics between 1930 and 1995. It is not a conventional study of the politics of local government since it seeks to place corruption in urban societies in a wider cultural context. The accounts of corruption in...
Roll Call Rebels
Strategic Dissent in the United States and United Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
Scholars of legislative politics often note the many differences between the British House of Commons and the United States House of Representatives. These include differences in party strength, members' partisan loyalty on votes, and general institutional structure. Because of these differences,...
Making Things Happen
The Life and Original Thinking of Nigel Vinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Before he was forty, Nigel Vinson - inventor, entrepreneur, philanthropist and farmer - had achieved what many struggle to achieve in a lifetime. He had created and built up a successful company based on his own ideas, floated it on the stock exchange and made more than enough money to never have...
Fire and Ashes
Success and Failure in Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
In 2005 Michael Ignatieff left Harvard to lead Canada's Liberal Party and by 2008 was poised to become Prime Minister. It never happened. He describes what he learned from his bruising defeat about compromise and the necessity of bridging differences in a pluralist society. A reflective, compelling account of modern politics as it really is.
Game Change
Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
The gripping inside story of the 2008 presidential election, by two of the best political reporters in the country.
“It’s one of the best books on politics of any kind I’ve read. For entertainment value, I put it up there with Catch 22.” —The Financial Times
“It transports...
Post-Truth
How Bullshit Conquered the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
2016 marked the birth of the post-truth era. Sophistry and spin have coloured politics since the dawn of time, but two shock events - the Brexit vote and Donald Trump's elevation to US President - heralded a departure into murkier territory.
From Trump denying video evidence of his own words,...
by Chris Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2002
Chris Matthews has been playing "hardball" since the day he was born. From his first political run-in in the first grade to his years working as presidential speechwriter for Jimmy Carter and top aide to Tip O'Neill, Matthews grew up loving his country and dreaming of his chance to protect it. As...
Fleeced
How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want to Kill Talk Radio, the Self-Serving Congress, Companies That Help Iran, and Washington Lobbyists for Foreign Governments Are Scamming Us...and What to Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Here are the facts:
The United States has released 425 terrorists from Guantánamo, at least 50 of whom have returned to the battlefield to fight our troops.
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton both say they're fiscally responsible. But each has called for $1 trillion in tax increases...
Corbyn
The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
How Jeremy Corbyn, the radical left candidate for the Labour leadership, won twice—and won big
In the 2017 general election, Jeremy Corbyn pulled off an historic upset, attracting the biggest increase in the Labour vote since 1945. It was another reversal of expectations for the mainstream...
More Sex, Lies and the Ballot Box
Another 50 things you need to know about elections
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
With a foreword by Isabel Hardman
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED…
… how people feel about sleeping with the political enemy?
… whether gambling markets are best at predicting political outcomes?
… who Santa Claus would vote for?
Then look no further. More Sex, Lies...
Love & War
Twenty Years, Three Presidents, Two Daughters and One Louisiana Home
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
**New York Times bestseller
Twenty years after the publication of the bestselling All’s Fair, James Carville and Mary Matalin look at how they—and America—have changed in the last two decades.**
James Carville and Mary Matalin have long held the mantle of the nation’s most ideologically...
by Tom Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Who will be in power in the 21st century? Governments? Big business? Internet titans? And how do we influence the future? Digital technology is changing power at a faster rate than any time in history. Distrust and inequality are fuelling political and economic uncertainty. The scaffolding built around...
The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America
Or, Why A Progressive Presidency Is Impossible
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
The publisher of Harper’s Magazine presents “an able, witty, and suitably pissed-off guide” (Bookforum) to American politics
Barack Obama swept into the White House in January 2009 still floating—or so it appeared to millions of his admirers—high above the crude realities of contemporary...