Political Parties category: 994 books
It's Even Worse Than It Looks
How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Hyperpartisanship is as old as American democracy. But now, acrimony is not confined to a moment; it's a permanent state of affairs and has seeped into every part of the political process. Identifying the overriding problems that have led Congress-and the United States-to the brink of institutional...
by Byron York
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2005
“We have to fight back.” —Al Franken
The Left is angry—angry at President George W. Bush, the war in Iraq, the “right-wing media,” and more. And as National Review investigative writer Byron York reveals in this stunning, meticulously reported book, liberal activists have harnessed...
The Right Moment
Ronald Reagan's First Victory and the Decisive Turning Point in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2000
Ronald Reagan's first great victory, in the 1966 California governor's race, seemed to come from nowhere and has long since confounded his critics. Just two years earlier, when Barry Goldwater lost to Lyndon Johnson by a landslide, the conservative movement was pronounced dead. In California, Governor...
by Michael Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Since the day Aaron Burr, the sitting vice president of the United States, shot and killed Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers, the Democratic Party has been at war with America. With a history that includes murder, treason, slavery, segregation, sedition, bribery, and systemic vote theft,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
As the governing party of peace and reform, and then as the third party striving to keep the flame of freedom alive, the Liberal Party, the SDP and the Liberal Democrats have played an undoubtedly crucial role in the shaping of contemporary British society. And yet, the leaders who have stood at its...
Radicals for Capitalism
A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
On Wall Street, in the culture of high tech, in American government: Libertarianism-the simple but radical idea that the only purpose of government is to protect its citizens and their property against direct violence and threat- has become an extremely influential strain of thought. But while many...
Right Turn
How the Tories Took Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 1995
It wasn’t so much a big blue machine that chugged its way across Ontario’s political landscape in the spring of 1995 — it was more a big purple bulldozer driven by leader Mike Harris and a new breed of Tories. Gone were the pinstripes and the cigar-chomping backroom boys of the forty-two years...
Spygate
The Attempted Sabotage of Donald J. Trump
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Everyone has an opinion about whether or not Donald Trump colluded with the Russians to defeat Hillary Clinton in 2016. The number of actors involved is staggering, the events are complicated, and it’s hard to know who or what to believe. Spygate bypasses opinion and brings facts together to expose...
Why We're Liberals
A Handbook for Restoring America's Most Important Ideals
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2008
The bestselling author and Newsweek columnist takes a characteristically irreverent look at the rampant mistreatment of liberals and liberalism
The "most honest and incisive media critic writing today"(National Catholic Reporter), Eric Alterman is committed to restoring the liberal...
by Junius Irving Scales, Richard Nickson, Telford Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Born in 1920 in Greensboro, North Carolina, Junius Scales, whose great-uncle had been governor of the state, grew up in the privileged environment of his family’s estate. The only black people he knew were the servants. Wanting to improve the lot of workers, mainly African-American, he joined the...
Blue Grit
Making Impossible, Improbable, and Inspirational Political Change in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2008
As the right-wing has known for decades: in tight elections, motivated grassroots groups with grit make the difference. Don’t sell them out, Democrats, for the centrist voter on the fence, says Flanders. There’s a tide of progressive activism rising that’s changing what’s possible in American...
The Persuadable Voter
Wedge Issues in Presidential Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
The use of wedge issues such as abortion, gay marriage, and immigration has become standard political strategy in contemporary presidential campaigns. Why do candidates use such divisive appeals? Who in the electorate is persuaded by these controversial issues? And what are the consequences for American...
by Tom Bevan, Carl M. Cannon
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Real Clear Politics’ in-depth account of the 2012 primary battles of the Republican Party and the look ahead to the race between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama
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With intimate access to the White House, GOP candidates, and their campaign staffs, Real Clear Politics is the latest in a series of...
by Joseph E. Lowndes
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
The role the South has played in contemporary conservatism is perhaps the most consequential political phenomenon of the second half of the twentieth century. The region’s transition from Democratic stronghold to Republican base has frequently been viewed as a recent occurrence, one that largely stems...