Politics category: 19839 books
Love & War
Twenty Years, Three Presidents, Two Daughters and One Louisiana Home
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
**New York Times bestseller
Twenty years after the publication of the bestselling All’s Fair, James Carville and Mary Matalin look at how they—and America—have changed in the last two decades.**
James Carville and Mary Matalin have long held the mantle of the nation’s most ideologically...
by Markham Pyle
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
RMS Titanic sank in 1912, a US presidential election year; and in the very first days of the great House of Commons debate on Home Rule for Ireland. The Marconi companies were heroes to the press and the public, who credited them with saving the lives that were saved; JP Morgan, who owned the shipping...
Unfinished Agenda
Urban Politics in the Era of Black Power
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Unfinished Agenda offers an inside look at the Black Power Movement that emerged during the Civil Rights Movement of the sixties. A political memoir that teaches grass-roots politics and inspires organizing for real change in the Age of Obama, this book will appeal to readers of black history, Occupy...
by Skye Blue
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Social and political commentator, Skye Blue, looks at an innovative solution to the GST issue in Australian politics.Do we have a revenue problem, or a spending problem? Who should decide what the GST rate is? Perhaps you should decide? Join Skye in this unique article about the GST.
The Last Three Miles
Politics, Murder, and the Construction of America's First Superhighway
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
An investigative history of Depression Era power brokers and labor wars in the construction of the Pulaski Skyway across the New Jersey Meadowlands.
In the 1930s, as America’s love affair with the automobile began, cars and trucks leaving the nation’s largest city were dumped out of the...
Some Great Idea
Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Invention of Toronto
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
Since 2010, Toronto's headlines have been consumed by the outrageous personal foibles and government-slashing, anti-urbanist policies of Mayor Rob Ford. But the heated debate at City Hall has obscured a bigger, decade-long narrative of Toronto's ascendance as a mature global city. Some Great Idea...
by Tom Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Who will be in power in the 21st century? Governments? Big business? Internet titans? And how do we influence the future? Digital technology is changing power at a faster rate than any time in history. Distrust and inequality are fuelling political and economic uncertainty. The scaffolding built around...
The Politics of Wine in Britain
A New Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
A unique look at the meaning of the taste for wine in Britain, from the establishment of a Commonwealth in 1649 to the Commercial Treaty between Britain and France in 1860 - this book provides an extraordinary window into the politics and culture of England and Scotland just as they were becoming the powerful British state.
Race, Class, and Political Symbols
Rastafari and Reggae in Jamaican Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Dr. Waters is one of a new breed of analysts for whom the interpenetration of politics, culture, and national development is key to a larger integration of social research. Race, Class, and Political Symbols is a remarkably cogent examination of the uses of Rastafarian symbols and reggae music in...
Song for My Father
Memoir of an All-American Family
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
On Election Day in 1960, a classmate of Stephanie Stokes Oliver threatened to beat her up. Why? Because in their class's mock presidential election, Stephanie revealed that she would follow her father's lead and vote for Nixon over Kennedy. Stephanie realized this day that her family was different...
Political Tribes
Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
The bestselling author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Yale Law School Professor Amy Chua offers a bold new prescription for reversing our foreign policy failures and overcoming our destructive political tribalism at home
Humans are tribal. We need to belong to groups. In many parts of...
Authentocrats
Culture, Politics and the New Seriousness
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
"The Authentocrats" claim to the be the new voice of common sense that speak for the common man and woman; right-wing, traditional and dangerous, Joe Kennedy argues that they are everything but what they purport to be.
In contemporary Britain, a lot has been said about what it is...
Identity
The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
The New York Times bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order offers a provocative examination of modern identity politics: its origins, its effects, and what it means for domestic and international affairs of state
In 2014, Francis Fukuyama wrote that American institutions were in...
The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America
Or, Why A Progressive Presidency Is Impossible
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
The publisher of Harper’s Magazine presents “an able, witty, and suitably pissed-off guide” (Bookforum) to American politics
Barack Obama swept into the White House in January 2009 still floating—or so it appeared to millions of his admirers—high above the crude realities of contemporary...