Practical Politics category: 1369 books
by Vladimir Lenin
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
In July 1917, when the Provisional Government issued a warrant for his arrest, Lenin fled from Petrograd; later that year, the October Revolution swept him to supreme power. In the short intervening period he spent in Finland, he wrote his impassioned, never-completed masterwork The State and Revolution....
by Ricardo Mella, Paul Sharkey (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Ricardo Mella Cea (1861–1925), one of the first writers, intellectuals and anarchist activists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Spain, was considered to be one of the deepest, most penetrating and most lucid of the Spanish anarchist thinkers. In this work he addresses the question of...
Father Abraham
Lincoln's Relentless Struggle to End Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2006
Lincoln is the single most compelling figure in our history, but also one of the most enigmatic. Was he the Great Emancipator, a man of deep convictions who ended slavery in the United States, or simply a reluctant politician compelled by the force of events to free the slaves? In Father Abraham,...
by Stephen E. Frantzich
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Almost every politician has occasionally misspoken, sometimes with disastrous effect, sometimes with little effect at all. O.O.P.S.: Observing Our Politicians Stumble: The Worst Candidate Gaffes and Recoveries in Presidential Campaigns observes and analyzes this phenomenon to document why some gaffes...
The Prince of Providence
The True Story of Buddy Cianci, America's Most Notorious Mayor, Some Wiseguys, and the Feds
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2003
COP: “Buddy, I think this is a whorehouse.”
BUDDY CIANCI: “Now I know why they made you a detective.”
Welcome to Providence, Rhode Island, where corruption is entertainment and Mayor Buddy Cianci presided over the longest-running lounge act in American politics. In The Prince...
The Lost Majority
Why the Future of Government Is Up for Grabs - and Who Will Take It
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
In today's fraught political climate, one thing is indisputable: the dream of the emerging Democratic majority is dead. How did the Democrats, who seemed unstoppable only two short years ago, lose their momentum so quickly, and what does it mean for the future of our two-party system? Here, RealClearPolitics...
Inventing Al Gore
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
A “balanced, insightful” biography of the politician that “shows how the pressure to succeed has shaped virtually every aspect of Gore’s career” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Why did Al Gore, after angry opposition to the Vietnam War, submit to the draft? What happened in Vietnam...
The Interregnum
Rethinking New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
‘The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear’ Antonio GramsciIs New Zealand’s political settlement beginning to fray? And does this mean we’re entering the interregnum, that ambiguous...
Obama 2012
For a Compassionate America
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Using any lies to demonize Obama, the conservative crowd tries to frighten the
American people by accusing him of promoting CLASS WARFARE. During his
inspiring State of the Union, the President clearly stated that he and Democrats
are not at all against financial success. On the contrary, we admire...
Ron Paul's rEVOLution
The Man and the Movement He Inspired
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Presidential candidate and longtime representative Ron Paul of Texas is a true enigma in American politics: at once a libertarian who believes in outlawing abortion and halting illegal immigration, and a traditional conservative who fervently opposes the drug war, the PATRIOT Act, and America’s...
Pursuit of Unity
A Political History of the American South
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In Pursuit of Unity, Michael Perman presents a comprehensive analysis of the South's political history. In the 1800s, the region endured almost continuous political crisis--nullification, secession, Reconstruction, the Populist revolt, and disfranchisement. For most of the twentieth century, the region...
Crucifying Jesus and Secularizing America
The Republic of Faith Without Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
Jesus is crucified everyday in the United States. Christians, especially conservatives, show greater hostility toward their own faith and contribute far more to the nations secularization than often wrongly accused atheists, liberals, humanists, Democratic activists, or card carrying members of the...
Middle Church
Reclaiming the Moral Values of the Faithful Majority from the Religious Right
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2006
The radical religious right has put the wrong issues at the top of the moral agenda for America, says Bob Edgar, the general secretary of the National Council of Churches USA and a former six-term congressman. The moral issues that really matter to America's faithful majority -- to "Middle Church"...
The Runaway Campaign
A Year Inside the Republican Race for President
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
The year 2015 will be remembered as one of the most bizarrely compelling and genuinely unnerving in the nation’s modern political history. One contender entered the race as the scion to a political dynasty. Another entered as a reality television star. There were the religious factions, the Tea Partiers,...