Political category: 85882 books
by James E. McGreevey
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In August 2004, Governor James E. McGreevey of New Jersey made history when he stepped before microphones, declared "My truth is that I am a gay American," and announced his resignation. The story made international headlines—but what led to that moment was a human and political drama...
by Charles de Montesquieu
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This treatise on political theory, originally published anonymously in 1748, has become one of the most influential works of political science ever written. French philosopher Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu wrote this piece under the inspiration of such political theorists as René Descartes,...
An Age of Infidels
The Politics of Religious Controversy in the Early United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Historian Eric R. Schlereth places religious conflict at the center of early American political culture. He shows ordinary Americans—both faithful believers and Christianity's staunchest critics—struggling with questions about the meaning of tolerance and the limits of religious freedom. In doing...
by Robin Harris
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Margaret Thatcher is one of the most significant political figures of the twentieth century—a Prime Minister whose impact on modern English history is comparable only to Winston Churchill's. Like them or not, her radical policies made Britain the country it is today. And like her or not, Margaret...
The Red and the Blue
The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
From MSNBC correspondent Steve Kornacki, a lively and sweeping history of the birth of political tribalism in the 1990s—one that brings critical new understanding to our current political landscape from Clinton to Trump
In The Red and the Blue, cable news star and acclaimed journalist Steve...
Newcomers, Outsiders, and Insiders
Immigrants and American Racial Politics in the Early Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
"The authors have done a commendable and impressive job of addressing a topic of long-lasting and increasing significance in U.S. politics."
---F. Chris Garcia, University of New Mexico
"This is a path-breaking book that will be read across disciplines beyond political science."
---James...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
The subject of rights occupies a central place in liberal political thought. This tradition posits that rights are entitlements of individuals by virtue of their personhood and that rights stand apart from politics, that rights in fact hold at bay intrusions of state policy. The essays in Identities,...
by Peter Francis Fenwick
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Liberty at Risk: Tackling Today’s Political Problems is a compilation of twenty-three commentaries on current affairs from a libertarian perspective.It is a companion to Peter Fenwick’s previous work - The Fragility of Freedom: Why Subsidiarity Matters.Libertarianism is the political philosophy...
Her Way
The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2007
The truth about the most important woman in America
In Her Way, two Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times investigative journalists deliver:
Previously undisclosed details about the Clinton's multi-decade plan for powerincluding 8 years in the White House for Bill and 8 years for Hillary
Never-before-revealed...
Eric Voegelin and the Continental Tradition
Explorations in Modern Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Twentieth-century political philosopher Eric Voegelin is best known as a severe critic of modernity. Much of his work argues that modernity is a Gnostic revolt against the fundamental structure of reality. For Voegelin, “Gnosticism” is the belief that human beings can transform the nature of reality...
by Raymond Aron
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Raymond Aron's 1955 masterpiece The Opium of the Intellectuals, is one of the great works of twentieth- century political reflection. Aron shows how noble ideas can slide into the tyranny of "secular religion" and emphasizes how political thought has the profound responsibility of telling...
Two
The Machine of Political Theology and the Place of Thought
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The debate on “political theology” that ran throughout the twentieth century has reached its end, but the ultimate meaning of the notion continues to evade us. Despite all the attempts to resolve the issue, we still speak its language—we remain in its horizon.
The reason for this, says...
Means Without End
Notes on Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2000
An essential reevaluation of the proper role of politics in contemporary life. In this critical rethinking of the categories of politics within a new sociopolitical and historical context, the distinguished political philosopher Giorgio Agamben builds on his previous work to address the status and...
by John Stuart Mill
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
John Stuart Mill was a prominent English philosopher and political economist in the 19th century. Mill is considered to be one of the most influential liberal thinkers in history and he was a significant contributor to many fields such as social theory, political theory, and political economy. Mill...