Civics category: 1212 books
by Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe—"That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men...
by Carla Blumenkranz
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2011
The first book to explore the Occupy movement in depth, with reportage and analysis.In the fall of 2011, a small protest camp in downtown Manhattan exploded into a global uprising, sparked in part by the violent overreactions of the police. An unofficial record of this movement, Occupy! combines...
American Legacy
The United States Constitution and Other Essential Documents of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
More than a pocket Constitution, American Legacy is a collection of documents that encompass essential ideas of American democracy. These seminal works are arranged chronologically beginning with the Mayflower Compact.
American Legacy includes the full text of the U.S. Constitution and the...
Told You So
The Big Book of Weekly Columns
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
“What sets Ralph Nader apart is that he has moved beyond social criticism to effective political action.”
**—*****The New York Times ***
The column is the most natural literary form for a citizen’s advocate, and Ralph Nader may be its most robust and forceful practitioner. The Big...
by Rand Paul
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
If the midterm elections were a declaration of war on the status quo, Rand Paul leads the battle charge. Voters fearful of growing government and debt have found voice in the Tea Party phenomenon and the movement continues to deliver a message that Washington, D.C. has found impossible to ignore.
In...
The Great American Awakening
Two Years that Changed America, Washington, and Me
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Following his New York Times best seller, Saving Freedom, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint's The Great American Awakening chronicles two tumultuous years from the presidential election of 2008 through the mid-term elections of 2010. Untold insider views of the controversial stimulus bill passage, corporate...
Rebooting the American Dream
11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
America does not need an “upgrade.” For years the Right has been tampering with one of the best political operating systems ever designed. The result has been economic and environmental disaster. In this hard-hitting new book, nationally syndicated radio and television host and bestselling author...
In Pursuit of Justice
Collected Writings 2000-2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Ralph Nader is one of America’s most controversial—and uncompromising— public figures. He is a man on a mission who believes that taking on the powers that be involves more than just talking about it—it also means taking action. From car safety in the 1960s to opposition to the World Trade...
AWOL
The Unexcused Absence of America's Upper Classes from Military Service -- and How It Hurts Our Country
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Military service was once taken for granted as a natural part of good citizenship, and Americans of all classes served during wartime.
Not anymore.
As Kathy Roth-Douquet and Frank Schaeffer assert in this groundbreaking work, there is a glaring disconnect between the "all volunteer...
We the People High School Textbook
The Citizen and the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
The We the People: The Citizen & the Constitution textbook teaches high school students about government and citizenship. Students explore the history and principles of constitutional democracy through critical-thinking exercises, cooperative-learning and participation in a simulated congressional hearing. The We the People textbook contains six units and 39 lessons.
by Michael Waldman
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
“An important new book” (The Washington Post) on the long struggle to win voting rights for all citizens by the author of The Second Amendment: A Biography and president of The Brennan Center, a legal think tank at NYU.
Michael Waldman’s The Second Amendment traced the ongoing argument...
Greater Freedom
The Evolution of the Civil Rights Struggle in Wilson, North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Greater Freedom offers a groundbreaking long-term community study of Wilson County, North Carolina. Charting the evolution of Wilson's civil rights movement, Charles McKinney argues that African Americans in Wilson created an expansive notion of freedom that influenced every aspect of life in the...
by James L. Cotton Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2018
Former Sen. Howard Baker aptly descibes the book in his Foreword:"The Greatest Speech, Ever was written to be more than a specialized monograph about the Gettysburg Address. The author, Judge James L. Cotton Jr. digressed along the way into side excursions and back roads of Abraham Lincoln s...
American Grace
How Religion Divides and Unites Us
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
American Grace is a major achievement, a groundbreaking examination of religion in America.
Unique among nations, America is deeply religious, religiously diverse, and remarkably tolerant. But in recent decades the nation’s religious landscape has been reshaped.
America has experienced...