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by David McLellan
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
This essay is a survey of Marx's life, of his contributions to the varied fields of History, Economics, and Politics, and of his subsequent interpreters by a writer whose own studies have played major part in fostering this process of redefinition.
David McLellan was bom in Hertford and...
Constituent Moments
Enacting the People in Postrevolutionary America
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2010
Since the American Revolution, there has been broad cultural consensus that “the people” are the only legitimate ground of public authority in the United States. For just as long, there has been disagreement over who the people are and how they should be represented or institutionally embodied....
The Obama Victory
How Media, Money, and Message Shaped the 2008 Election
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2010
Barack Obama's stunning victory in the 2008 presidential election will go down as one of the more pivotal in American history. Given America's legacy of racism, how could a relatively untested first-term senator with an African father defeat some of the giants of American politics? In The Obama Victory,...
California Comeback
How A "Failed State" Became a Model for the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
An in-depth look at California's remarkable 21st century turnaround, focusing on the role played by the state government under Jerry Brown.
In the most economically important state in the country—and the 7th largest economy in the world—a political revolution of historic importance has...
by Joseph M. Siracusa
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Despite not having been used in anger since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the atomic bomb is still the biggest threat that faces us in the 21st century. As Bill Clinton's first secretary of defence, Les Aspin, aptly put it: 'The Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is no more. But the post-Cold War world...
The Next Revolution
Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
From Athens to New York, recent mass movements around the world have challenged austerity and authoritarianism with expressions of real democracy. For more than forty years, Murray Bookchin developed these democratic aspirations into a new left politics based on popular assemblies, influencing a wide...
by Bernard Bailyn
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
"An astonishing range of reading in contemporary tracts and modern authorities is manifest, and many aspects of British and colonial affairs are illuminated. As a political analysis this very important contribution will be hard to refute...."
—Frederick B. Tolles, Political Science Quarterly
"He...
We're with Nobody
Two Insiders Reveal the Dark Side of American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
We're With Nobody is a thrilling, eye-opening insider’s view of a little-known facet of the political campaign process: the multi-million dollar opposition research industry, or “oppo” as it’s called. For sixteen years authors Alan Huffman and Michael Rejebian have been digging up dirt on...
A Leap in the Dark
The Struggle to Create the American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2003
It was an age of fascinating leaders and difficult choices, of grand ideas eloquently expressed and of epic conflicts bitterly fought. Now comes a brilliant portrait of the American Revolution, one that is compelling in its prose, fascinating in its details, and provocative in its fresh interpretations....
The Road to Camelot
Inside JFK's Five-Year Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
A “provocative reconstruction of John F. Kennedy’s ‘five-year campaign’ for the White House” (The New Yorker), beginning with his bold, failed attempt to win the vice presidential nomination in 1956 and culminating when he plotted his way to the presidency and changed the way we nominate...
Crisis? What Crisis?
The Callaghan government and the British 'winter of discontent'
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
On 22 January 1979, one and a half million workers were on strike - the highest number since the 1926 General Strike. Iconic images in the media of the industrial unrest that swept Britain in an Arctic winter captured mountains of uncollected rubbish in London's theatre land; militant shop stewards...
by Benjamin R. Barber, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2009
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
We have created a system in which votes made with the dollar speak louder than votes at the poll. Today’s capitalism, Benjamin Barber argues,...
by Ira Berkovic
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Debates and discussions between anarchist groups and writers and the Alliance for Workers' Liberty. This book presents both the historical and the current debates between Marxism and anarchism.
The Great Society
50 Years Later
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2014
A stirring profile of our 36th president, Lyndon B. Johnson, who presided over one of the most tumultuous eras in our country’s history.
Lyndon B. Johnson’s unprecedented and ambitious domestic vision in the 1960s changed the nation. It unraveled and restitched the very fabric of the American...