Politics category: 19839 books
Brown Is the New White
How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
The New York Times and Washington Post bestseller that sparked a national conversation about America’s new progressive, multiracial majority, updated to include data from the 2016 election
With a new preface and afterword by the author
When it first appeared in the lead-up to the 2016...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
With 150 accessible articles written by more than 130 leading experts, this essential reference provides authoritative introductions to some of the most important and talked-about topics in American history and politics, from the founding to today. Abridged from the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia...
Piety & Politics
The Right-Wing Assault on Religious Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
The Reverend Barry Lynn explains why the Religious Right has it all wrong.
In the wake of the 2004 presidential election, the Religious Right insisted that George Bush had been handed a mandate for an ideology-based social agenda, including the passage of a “marriage amendment” to ban same-sex...
by William K. Bolt
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Before the Civil War, the American people did not have to worry about a federal tax collector coming to their door. The reason why was the tariff, taxing foreign goods and imports on arrival in the United States. Tariff Wars and the Politics of Jacksonian America attempts to show why the tariff was...
Party Games
Getting, Keeping, and Using Power in Gilded Age Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Much of late-nineteenth-century American politics was parade and pageant. Voters crowded the polls, and their votes made a real difference on policy. In Party Games, Mark Wahlgren Summers tells the full story and admires much of the political carnival, but he adds a cautionary note about the dark...
Minority Victory
Gilded Age Politics and the Front Porch Campaign of 1888
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
During the run-up to the 1888 presidential election, Americans flocked to party rallies, marched in endless parades, and otherwise participated zealously in the political process. Although they faced a choice between two uncharismatic candidates—Republican challenger Benjamin Harrison and Democratic...
Party Reform
The Causes, Challenges, and Consequences of Organizational Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Party Reform is a new comparative study of the politics of party organization. The book provides a novel perspective in party scholarship and develops the concept of 'reform' as distinct from evolutionary and incremental processes of party change. As an outcome, reform is captured in deliberate and...
Gifford Pinchot
Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
The founding chief of the U.S. Forest Service and twice governor of Pennsylvania, Gifford Pinchot was central to the early twentieth-century conservation movement in the United States and the political history and evolution of the Keystone State. This collection of Pinchot’s essays, articles, and...
From Disgust to Humanity
Sexual Orientation and Constitutional Law
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010
A distinguished professor of law and philosophy at the University of Chicago, a prolific writer and award-winning thinker, Martha Nussbaum stands as one of our foremost authorities on law, justice, freedom, morality, and emotion. In From Disgust to Humanity, Nussbaum aims her considerable intellectual...
Summary of Believer
by David Axelrod | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Summary of Believer by David Axelrod | Includes Analysis
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David Axelrod was the son of Joseph Axelrod, who left Eastern Europe at the age of eleven, and his wife, Myril Davidson, also a daughter of Jewish immigrants. Joseph became a psychologist with a small practice...
Red Line
American Foreign Policy in a Time of Fractured Politics and Failing States
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Over the past quarter century, four consecutive American presidents—two Democrat, two Republican—have spent more time, diplomatic capital, and military resources on Iraq than any other country in the world. Much as the Vietnam syndrome cast a long shadow over American security policy in the decades...
The Argument
Inside the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
Widely cited by journalists and bloggers as the man to read to understand the political races, New York Times Magazine writer Matt Bai has written a book about the Democratic Party that?s as riveting as it is timely and vital. The Argument takes readers to the front lines of the grassroots progressive...
The Handy American Government Answer Book
How Washington, Politics and Elections Work
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
A primer on the three branches of American government plus the politics and elections that influence how it works (and how it sometimes doesn’t work). The easy-to-use, question-and-answer approach makes it the perfect gift for anyone. Students, history teachers, and political junkies will find the text approachable and useful.
Declaring Independence
The Beginning of the End of the Two-Party System
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2008
• A 2006 survey revealed that two thirds of Americans consider themselves “dissatisfied with the way things are going in the U.S.”
• In recent polls, 60 to 80 percent of registered voters say they want an independent presidential candidate.
• Independent voters now constitute the largest...