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Quarterly Essay 47 Political Animal
The Making of Tony Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Tony Abbott is the most successful Opposition leader of the last forty years, but he has never been popular. Now Australians want to know: what kind of man is he, and how would he perform as prime minister?In this dramatic portrait, David Marr shows that as a young Catholic warrior at university, Abbott...
From My Cold, Dead Hands
Charlton Heston and American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2006
Charlton Heston is perhaps most famous for his portrayal of Moses in Cecil B. DeMille's epic The Ten Commandments and for his Academy Award--winning performance in the 1959 classic Ben-Hur. Throughout his long career, Heston used his cinematic status as a powerful moral force to effect social and...
by Tim Shipman
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2017 #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘The best political book of the year’ Andrew Marr ‘A superb work of storytelling and reporting. Sets new benchmark for the writing of contemporary political history’ Guardian The only book to tell the full story of how and why...
Common Sense
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Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. It was first published anonymously on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution. Common Sense was signed "Written by an Englishman", and it became an immediate success. In relative proportion to the population of the colonies...
Independent Nation
How the Vital Center Is Changing American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
Fifty percent of American voters define themselves as political moderates, two-thirds favor political solutions that come from the center of the political spectrum, and Independents outnumber both Democrats and Republicans. Bill Clinton and George W. Bush each explicitly used Centrist strategies to...
by Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh, Zoe Trodd, Donna Kornhaber
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Though he was a recipient of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature, American novelist John Steinbeck (1902--1968) has frequently been censored. Even in the twenty-first century, nearly ninety years after his work first appeared in print, Steinbeck's novels, stories, and plays...
by Leonard Weinberg, Ami Pedahzur, Arie Perliger
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
This book is the definitive guide to the topical issue of the relationship between political parties that embrace the democratic process and terrorist groups which eschew the legal and procedural strictures of democracy.
The fully revised edition continues to provide the most detailed theoretical...
Clinton, Inc.
The Audacious Rebuilding of a Political Machine
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Weekly Standard editor Daniel Halper provides a meticulously researched account of the brilliant calculations, secret deals, and occasionally treacherous maneuverings that led to the Clintons’ return to political prominence.
In the twelve years since the Clintons left the White House, they...
Introducing Political Philosophy
A Graphic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Essential illustrated guide to key ideas of political thought. Philosophers have always asked fundamental and disturbing questions about politics. Plato and Aristotle debated the merits of democracy. The origins of society, the state and government authority were issues addressed by Hobbes, Rousseau,...
Politics without Vision
Thinking without a Banister in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
From Plato through the nineteenth century, the West could draw on comprehensive political visions to guide government and society. Now, for the first time in more than two thousand years, Tracy B. Strong contends, we have lost our foundational supports. In the words of Hannah Arendt, the state of...
Chantal Mouffe
Hegemony, Radical Democracy, and the Political
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Chantal Mouffe’s writings have been innovatory with respect to democratic theory, Marxism and feminism. Her work derives from, and has always been engaged with, contemporary political events and intellectual debates. This sense of conflict informs both the methodological and substantive propositions...
Political Extremes
A conceptual history from antiquity to the present
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
The Western tradition of the constitutional state, with its ancient roots, defines political extremes as the epitome of that what must be absolutely rejected. It highlights tyranny, despotism, despotic rule, non-autonomy, ruthless enforcing of interests as ‘extreme’, contrasting this to a virtuous...
by G. A. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
G. A. Cohen was one of the most gifted, influential, and progressive voices in contemporary political philosophy. At the time of his death in 2009, he had plans to bring together a number of his most significant papers. This is the first of three volumes to realize those plans. Drawing on three decades...
Interfaith Advocacy
The Role of Religious Coalitions in the Political Process
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Using the historic Minnesota state government shutdown of 2011 as a backdrop, Interfaith Advocacy describes the work of the Joint Religious Legislative Coalition, an interfaith advocacy group that brings together leaders from Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and Muslim traditions to advocate on behalf...