Politics category: 19839 books
Remembering America
A Voice from the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
From the speechwriter and top adviser to presidents Kennedy and Johnson: A behind-the-scenes history of the most momentous decade in American politics.
Richard N. Goodwin entered public service in 1958 as a law clerk for Supreme Court Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter. He left politics ten...
Crucifying Jesus and Secularizing America
The Republic of Faith Without Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
Jesus is crucified everyday in the United States. Christians, especially conservatives, show greater hostility toward their own faith and contribute far more to the nations secularization than often wrongly accused atheists, liberals, humanists, Democratic activists, or card carrying members of the...
Middle Church
Reclaiming the Moral Values of the Faithful Majority from the Religious Right
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2006
The radical religious right has put the wrong issues at the top of the moral agenda for America, says Bob Edgar, the general secretary of the National Council of Churches USA and a former six-term congressman. The moral issues that really matter to America's faithful majority -- to "Middle Church"...
The Uprising
An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
An All-Access Pass to the Populist
Insurrection Brewing Across the Country
Job outsourcing. Perpetual busy signals at government agencies. Slashed paychecks. Stolen elections. A war without end, fatally mismanaged. Ordinary Americans on both the Right and Left are tired of being disenfranchised...
The Runaway Campaign
A Year Inside the Republican Race for President
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
The year 2015 will be remembered as one of the most bizarrely compelling and genuinely unnerving in the nation’s modern political history. One contender entered the race as the scion to a political dynasty. Another entered as a reality television star. There were the religious factions, the Tea Partiers,...
The Obama Doctrine
American Grand Strategy Today
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
By mid-2015, the Obama presidency will be entering its final stages, and the race among the successors in both parties will be well underway. And while experts have already formed a provisional understanding of the Obama administration's foreign policy goals, the shape of the "Obama Doctrine"...
The Logos Reader
Rational Radicalism and the Future of Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2005
The online publication Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture was launched in response to the atmosphere of triumphant conservatism and militarism that pervades American political culture in the aftermath of 9/11. Aiming to revitalize the moribund political left, several world-renowned intellectual...
The Irony of Barack Obama
Barack Obama, Reinhold Niebuhr and the Problem of Christian Statecraft
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Drawing on the political theology of Reinhold Niebuhr, described by Barack Obama as 'one of my favourite philosophers', this book assesses the challenges facing the President during his first term. It evaluates his success in adhering to Niebuhr's path of 'Christian realism' when faced with the pragmatic...
Open and Shut
Why America Has Barack Obama, and Canada Has Stephen Harper
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
Last November America elected its first black president. Canada, too, went to the polls that month. The difference for the two nations was remarkable: Americans had a clear choice between an indecisive, has-been who represented at best more of the same and a progressive, eloquent, African American,...
The Spirit of Compromise
Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2014
To govern in a democracy, political leaders have to compromise. When they do not, the result is political paralysis—dramatically demonstrated by the gridlock in Congress in recent years. In The Spirit of Compromise, eminent political thinkers Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson show why compromise is...
Degrees of Inequality
How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
America's higher education system is failing its students. In the space of a generation, we have gone from being the best-educated society in the world to one surpassed by eleven other nations in college graduation rates. Higher education is evolving into a caste system with separate and unequal tiers...
by Diane Hamby
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
Diane Hamby has used her many years of working in all level of politics to write an informative easy to understand book. This timely read is for anyone who wants to understand how politics, big money, and greed have given us this terrible economy, the great recession. The 1% has spent the last 30years...
Contemporary Latin America
Development and Democracy beyond the Washington Consensus
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Latin America has changed dramatically over the past few years. While the 1990s were dominated by the politically orthodoxy of the Washington Consensus and the political uniformity of centre right governments the first decade of the new century is being characterised by the emergence of a plurality...
Political Bubbles
Financial Crises and the Failure of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Behind every financial crisis lurks a "political bubble"--policy biases that foster market behaviors leading to financial instability. Rather than tilting against risky behavior, political bubbles--arising from a potent combination of beliefs, institutions, and interests--aid, abet, and...