Politics category: 19839 books
by Universal Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Activists are people who managed to change the status quo, which they believe are unfair. In this book, you’re going to be inspired by the lives of influential and brave people from around the world. Filled with images and a layout design that captures the attention, this book is a must-have in either print, hardcover or digital format. Enjoy the read.
Roosevelt's Second Act
The Election of 1940 and the Politics of War
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
"In Roosevelt's Second Act Richard Moe has shown in superb fashion that what might seem to have been an inevitable decision of comparatively little interest was far from it." --David McCullough On August 31, 1939, nearing the end of his second and presumably final term in office, President...
Bobby Kennedy
A Raging Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
In Chris Matthews’s New York Times bestselling portrait of Robert F. Kennedy, “Readers witness the evolution of Kennedy’s soul. Through tragedy after tragedy we find the man humanized” (Associated Press).
With his bestselling biography Jack Kennedy, Chris Matthews profiled of one of...
The Judge
26 Machiavellian Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
There is no book of political strategy more canonical than Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince, but few ethicists would advise policymakers to treat it as a bible. The lofty ideals of the law, especially, seem distant from the values that the word "Machiavellian" connotes, and judges are supposed to...
Beyond Freedom
Disrupting the History of Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did freedom mean to nineteenth-century African Americans, both during and after slavery? Did freedom just mean the absence of...
Refinery Town
Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
The People vs. Big Oil—how a working-class company town harnessed the power of local politics to reclaim their community
Home to one of the largest oil refineries in the state, Richmond, California, was once a typical company town, dominated by Chevron. This largely nonwhite, working-class...
The Origins of Political Order
From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011
A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title
Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state that could...
The People vs. Democracy
Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
The world is in turmoil. From India to Turkey and from Poland to the United States, authoritarian populists have seized power. As a result, Yascha Mounk shows, democracy itself may now be at risk. Two core components of liberal democracy—individual rights and the popular will—are increasingly...
by Erin McHugh
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2010
Are the Tea Baggers simply rabble-rousers from the right who hate not getting their way? Is the Coffee Party just a bunch of jittery java nuts without enough money to afford to hire star politicians?Coffee, Tea, or Kool-Aid is the one book that examines the issues and helps Americans tell the parties...
by Michael A. Fletcher, The Washington Post
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Presidential candidates are a breed apart, often propelled by traits that have shaped their careers and have deep roots in personal histories. Often their greatest strength can turn at supernova speed into their greatest weakness. The exact qualities that set them apart from the field trip them up eventually...
Rising Tide
The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2007
An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known -- the Mississippi flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of nearly one million...
When We Rise
My Life in the Movement
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
**2017 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER
The partial inspiration for the ABC television mini-series!**
"You could read Cleve Jones's book because you should know about the struggle for gay, lesbian, and transgender rights from one of its key participants--maybe heroes--but really, you...
Re/presenting Class
Essays in Postmodern Marxism
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2001
Re/presenting Class is a collection of essays that develops a poststructuralist Marxian conception of class in order to theorize the complex contemporary economic terrain. Both building upon and reconsidering a tradition that Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff—two of this volume’s editors—began...
The Future Of Democratic Equality
Rebuilding Social Solidarity in a Fragmented America
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
2011 David Easton Award, presented for the best book by the Foundations of Political Theory section of APSA:
"The Future of Democratic Equality*, by Joseph Schwartz, takes on three tasks, and accomplishes all brilliantly. Any one of these tasks well fulfilled would have been a laudable...