Political Parties category: 994 books
Ambitious Politicians
The Implications of Career Ambition in Representative Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
"[T]hose people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it." This is how writer Douglas Adams neatly expressed the common view of political ambition. And yet, it’s hard to imagine any politician getting far without it. Ambitious Politicians brings a welcome...
by Lauri Siisiäinen
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2018
Political resistance is flourishing. In this context, there is a growing interest to reread Michel Foucault’s work, especially from the late period, from the perspective of resistance, social movements and affirmative biopolitics. Yet what has been missing so far is a book-length, comprehensive...
Conscience of a Conservative
A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A thoughtful defense of traditional conservatism and a thorough assault on the way Donald Trump is betraying it.”—David Brooks, in his New York Times column
In a bold act of conscience, Republican Senator Jeff Flake takes his party to task for embracing...
American Carnage
On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019
Politico Magazine’s chief political correspondent provides a rollicking insider’s look at the making of the modern Republican Party—how a decade of cultural upheaval, populist outrage, and ideological warfare made the GOP vulnerable to a hostile takeover from the unlikeliest of insurgents: Donald...
Ontology and World Politics
Void Universalism I
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Together these two companion volumes develop an innovative theory of world politics, grounded in the reinterpretation of the concepts of ‘world’ and ‘politics’ from an ontological perspective.
Ontology and World Politics presents a new approach to political universalism, grounded in...
The New American Revolution
The Making of a Populist Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
In the bestselling tradition of Hillbilly Elegy comes an exploration of the American heartland—a fascinating and eye-opening collection of interviews and stories about the powerful grassroots populist movement of frustrated Americans left behind by the government that changed the landscape of political...
Hollywood Left and Right
How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
In Hollywood Left and Right, Steven J. Ross tells a story that has escaped public attention: the emergence of Hollywood as a vital center of political life and the important role that movie stars have played in shaping the course of American politics. Ever since the film industry relocated to Hollywood...
85 Days
The Last Campaign of Robert Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
The “definitive account” (Washington Post) of Robert F. Kennedy’s seminal presidential campaign.
85 Days is veteran Washington journalist Jules Witcover’s masterpiece of political reportage. It brilliantly captures a lost moment in time when the politics of conviction seemed to converge...
The Swamp
Washington's Murky Pool of Corruption and Cronyism and How Trump Can Drain It
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
When Washington D.C. was first built, it was on top of a swamp that had to be drained. Donald Trump says it's time to drain it again.
In The Swamp, bestselling author and Fox News Channel host Eric Bolling presents an infuriating, amusing, revealing, and outrageous history of American politics,...
by Mungo MacCallum
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
We were a motley mob, we sans-culottes of Canberra …
In this vastly entertaining book, Mungo MacCallum captures the spirit of a nation-changing time. He portrays the Whitlam government’s key figures – from Gough and Margaret to Lionel Murphy, Bill Hayden and Jim Cairns – as well as...
Showtime
The Inside Story of Fianna Fáil in Power
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2009
In boom and in bust, Ireland has been led by Fianna Fáil. Showtime gets behind the party's remarkable dominance of the political landscape and leading political writer Pat Leahy, tells the gripping story of how it won, kept and has used power since the mid-1990s.
Showtime explains how Fianna...
by Kari Frederickson
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
In 1948, a group of conservative white southerners formed the States' Rights Democratic Party, soon nicknamed the "Dixiecrats," and chose Strom Thurmond as their presidential candidate. Thrown on the defensive by federal civil rights initiatives and unprecedented grassroots political activity by African...
by Max Boot
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Warning that the Trump presidency presages America’s decline, the political commentator recounts his extraordinary journey from lifelong Republican to vehement Trump opponent.
As nativism, xenophobia, vile racism, and assaults on the rule of law threaten the very fabric of our nation, The...
Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion
The Making of a President, 1884
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2003
The presidential election of 1884, in which Grover Cleveland ended the Democrats' twenty-four-year presidential drought by defeating Republican challenger James G. Blaine, was one of the gaudiest in American history, remembered today less for its political significance than for the mudslinging and...