Practical Politics category: 1369 books
Fast Future
How the Millennial Generation Is Shaping Our World
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
A millennial examines how his generation is profoundly impacting politics, business, media, and activism
They’ve been called trophy kids, entitled, narcissistic, the worst employees in history, and even the dumbest generation. But, argues David Burstein, the millennial generation’s unique...
Power Trip
A Decade of Policy, Plots and Spin
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
Hailed as the must-read political book of the year by commentators on all sides of the great divide, Power Trip is the explosive memoir of one of Westminster's most controversial figures. From 1999 to 2009, Damian McBride worked at the heart of the Treasury and No. 10. He was a pivotal member of Gordon...
Power Trip
The Epilogue
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
*The Explosive New Chapters* The long-awaited epilogue to what's been hailed as the must-read political book of the year by commentators on all sides of the great divide. In addition to material covering the phone-hacking scandal previously excluded for legal reasons, in these final three chapters...
Compassionate Conservatism
What It Is, What It Does, and How It Can Transform America
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2000
Compassionate conservatism is a new political force in the land, sweeping the grassroots of people of all faiths, races, and ethnicities. In its parts it offers solutions to many of our most intractable problems; in its whole it is nothing less than an innovative philosophy of government. No author...
Until Julius Comes
Adventures in the Political Jungle
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
"Until Julius Comes" is a boisterous, unprecedented journey through the wilds of South African politics in an election year. With his sharp wit and perceptive observations, Richard Poplak exposes the tricks of the political trade and the skulduggery that comes with it. Writing under the...
The Year of Voting Dangerously
The Derangement of American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Maureen Dowd's incendiary takes and takedowns from 2016--the most bizarre, disruptive and divisive Presidential race in modern history.
Trapped between two candidates with the highest recorded unfavorables, Americans are plunged into The Year of Voting Dangerously. In this perilous and shocking...
by Anthony King
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
The British system has been radically transformed in recent decades, far more than most of us realise. As acclaimed political scientist and bestselling author Anthony King shows, this transformation lies at the heart of British politics today. Imagining - or pretending - that the British political...
The Cabinet Office, 1916–2018
The Birth of Modern Government
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Since its creation in the depths of the Great War in December 1916, the Cabinet Office has retained a uniquely central place in the ever-changing political landscape of the last century.
While the revolving door of 10 Downing Street admits and ejects its inhabitants every few years, the Cabinet...
The Obama Victory
How Media, Money, and Message Shaped the 2008 Election
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2010
Barack Obama's stunning victory in the 2008 presidential election will go down as one of the more pivotal in American history. Given America's legacy of racism, how could a relatively untested first-term senator with an African father defeat some of the giants of American politics? In The Obama Victory,...
The Next Revolution
Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
From Athens to New York, recent mass movements around the world have challenged austerity and authoritarianism with expressions of real democracy. For more than forty years, Murray Bookchin developed these democratic aspirations into a new left politics based on popular assemblies, influencing a wide...
We're with Nobody
Two Insiders Reveal the Dark Side of American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
We're With Nobody is a thrilling, eye-opening insider’s view of a little-known facet of the political campaign process: the multi-million dollar opposition research industry, or “oppo” as it’s called. For sixteen years authors Alan Huffman and Michael Rejebian have been digging up dirt on...
A Leap in the Dark
The Struggle to Create the American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2003
It was an age of fascinating leaders and difficult choices, of grand ideas eloquently expressed and of epic conflicts bitterly fought. Now comes a brilliant portrait of the American Revolution, one that is compelling in its prose, fascinating in its details, and provocative in its fresh interpretations....
The Road to Camelot
Inside JFK's Five-Year Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
A “provocative reconstruction of John F. Kennedy’s ‘five-year campaign’ for the White House” (The New Yorker), beginning with his bold, failed attempt to win the vice presidential nomination in 1956 and culminating when he plotted his way to the presidency and changed the way we nominate...
The Survivor
Bill Clinton in the White House
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2005
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The definitive account of one of the most accomplished, controversial, and polarizing figures in American history
Bill Clinton is the most arresting leader of his generation. He transformed American politics, and his eight years as president spawned arguments...