Politics category: 19839 books
Broad Influence
How Women Are Changing the Way Washington Works
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
2016 will be one of the most historic years in politics: It marks the potential for the first female President of the United States, and the 100th anniversary of the first woman elected to Congress. Additionally, in 2016, single women will be one of the most pivotal voting groups heading into the...
Mayor
The Best Job in Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
In 2007, after serving almost fifteen years on the Philadelphia City Council, Michael A. Nutter became the ninety-eighth mayor of his hometown of Philadelphia. From the time he was sworn in until he left office in 2016, there were triumphs and challenges, from the mundane to the unexpected, from snow...
The Third Reconstruction
How a Moral Movement Is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
A modern-day civil rights champion tells the stirring story of how he helped start a movement to bridge America’s racial divide.
Over the summer of 2013, the Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II led more than a hundred thousand people at rallies across North Carolina to protest restrictions...
I Told You So
Gore Vidal Talks Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Interviews with the legendarily caustic commentator and National Book Award winner, on topics from the American empire to the national security state.
If there’s a hole in the road, I will, viciously, outrageously, say there’s a hole in the road and if you don’t fill it in you’ll break...
Politics, Theory, and Film
Critical Encounters with Lars von Trier
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Lars von Trier's intense, disturbing, and sometimes funny films have led many to condemn him as misogynist or misanthropic. The same films inspire this collection's reflections on how our fears and desires regarding gender, power, race, finitude, family, and fate often thwart -- and sometimes feed...
by Kyle G. Volk
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Should the majority always rule? If not, how should the rights of minorities be protected? In Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy, Kyle G. Volk unearths the origins of modern ideas and practices of minority-rights politics. Focusing on controversies spurred by the explosion of grassroots...
The Republican Noise Machine
Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2004
In The Republican Noise Machine, David Brock skillfully documents perhaps the most important but least understood political development of the last thirty years: how the Republican Right has won political power and hijacked public discourse in the United States.
Brock, a former right-wing insider...
Sore Winners
American Idols, Patriotic Shoppers, and Other Strange Species in George Bush's America
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2005
Politics and culture, culture and politics. They’ve never been normal in America, but today they’re weirder than ever. Millionaire populists like Bill O’Reilly and Michael Moore dominate a political scene spinning ever further from the real world; meanwhile, we look to bizarre experiments like...
Whose Detroit?
Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
America's urbanites have engaged in many tumultuous struggles for civil and worker rights since the Second World War. In Whose Detroit?, Heather Ann Thompson focuses in detail on the struggles of Motor City residents during the 1960s and early 1970s and finds that conflict continued to plague the...
Four Hats in the Ring
The 1912 Election and the Birth of Modern American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
**Choice Outstanding Title
Imagine a presidential election with four well-qualified and distinguished candidates and a serious debate over the future of the nation! Sound impossible in this era of attack ads and strident partisanship? It happened nearly a century ago in 1912, when incumbent Republican...
The Effective Citizen
How to Make Politicians Work for You
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Effective citizens--engaged, knowledgeable, and persistent, and united in common cause--are the most powerful force that ever was, or ever will be. I hope this book will help citizens to be more effective.
In his uniquely straightforward and accessible style, Political insider Graham Steele...
The Cabinet Office, 1916–2018
The Birth of Modern Government
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Since its creation in the depths of the Great War in December 1916, the Cabinet Office has retained a uniquely central place in the ever-changing political landscape of the last century.
While the revolving door of 10 Downing Street admits and ejects its inhabitants every few years, the Cabinet...
US Foreign Policy in the Middle East
The Roots of Anti-Americanism
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Over the last sixty years, Washington has been a major player in the politics of the Middle East. From Iran in the 1950s, to the Gulf War of 1991, to the devastation of contemporary Iraq, US policy has had a profound impact on the domestic affairs of the region. Anti-Americanism is a pervasive feature...
On History
Tariq Ali and Oliver Stone in Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
In working together on two challenging new documentaries—South of the Border and the forthcoming thirteen-part, thirteen-hour Forgotten History of the United States series for Showtime—filmmaker Oliver Stone engaged with author and filmmaker Tariq Ali in a probing, hard-hitting conversation on...