Politics category: 19839 books
Summary and Analysis of Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
Based on the Book by Jane Mayer
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Dark Money tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Jane Mayer’s book.
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American Maelstrom
The 1968 Election and the Politics of Division
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
In his presidential inaugural address of January 1965, Lyndon B. Johnson offered an uplifting vision for America, one that would end poverty and racial injustice. Elected in a landslide over the conservative Republican Barry Goldwater and bolstered by the so-called liberal consensus, economic prosperity,...
Collision 2012
The Future of Election Politics in a Divided America
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
From the bestselling author of The Battle for America 2008 and longtime Washington Post correspondent, an inside view and analysis of the Obama-Romney presidential race
In 2008 a bright young candidate triumphed on a theme of change and hope. Four years later an embattled President struggled...
The Social and Political Thought of George Orwell
A Reassessment
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Stephen Ingle is Professor at the Politics Department, University of Stirling. His main academic interests are in the relationship between politics and literature and in adversarial (two party) politics, especially in the UK.
by Erin McHugh
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
A collection of entertaining and cautionary tales of political missteps in American history, from the birth of the nation through the present day.
Political Suicide is a history of the best and most interesting missteps, peccadilloes, bad calls, back room hijinks, sordid pasts, rotten breaks,...
by
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Hemingway has been labeled a ‘communist sympathizer,’ ‘elitist’, and a ‘rugged individualist.’ This volume embraces the complexity of political advocacy in Hemingway’s novels and short stories. Hemingway’s characters physically, intellectually and spiritually become part of resisting...
by Pierre Rosanvallon
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2007
Democracy Past and Future is the first English-language collection of Pierre Rosanvallon's most important essays on the historical origins, contemporary difficulties, and future prospects of democratic life.
One of Europe's leading political thinkers, Rosanvallon proposes in these essays new...
by Paul Gilroy
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2004
In an effort to deny the ongoing effect of colonialism and imperialism on contemporary political life, the death knell for a multicultural society has been sounded from all sides. That's the provocative argument Paul Gilroy makes in this unorthodox defense of the multiculture. Gilroy's searing analyses...
Jacques Rancière
History, Politics, Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009
The French philosopher Jacques Rancière has influenced disciplines from history and philosophy to political theory, literature, art history, and film studies. His research into nineteenth-century workers’ archives, reflections on political equality, critique of the traditional division between...
Reforming Ideas in Britain
Politics and Language in the Shadow of the French Revolution, 1789–1815
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Between 1789 and 1815, Britain faced a surge of challenges brought about by the French Revolution. Growing tensions with France, then the outbreak of war, exacerbated domestic political controversy, giving rise to new forms of political protest, to which the government responded with ever-increasing...
The Invention of International Relations Theory
Realism, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the 1954 Conference on Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
The 1954 Conference on Theory, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, featured a who's who of scholars and practitioners debating the foundations of international relations theory. Assembling his own team of experts, all of whom have struggled with this legacy, Nicolas Guilhot revisits a seminal...
by Joe Amico
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Is the American Dream real? Do we have a right to it, or is it just suggestion? Where did it come from? Joseph Amico, the son of Sicilian immigrants, provides the answers to these key questions in this essay on American history and politics. More importantly, he explains why the dream is in jeopardy...
Popular Perceptions of Soviet Politics in the 1920s
Disenchantment of the Dreamers
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
This is the first study of popular opinions in Soviet society in the 1920s. These voices which made the Russian revolution characterize reactions to mobilization politics: patriotic militarizing campaigns, the tenth anniversary of the revolution and state attempts to unite the nation around a new Soviet identity.
by Aristotle
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
What is the relationship of the individual to the state? What is the ideal state, and how can it bring about the most desirable life for its citizens? What sort of education should it provide? What is the purpose of amassing wealth? These are some of the questions Aristotle attempts to answer in one...