Practical Politics category: 1369 books
The Republic of Gupta
A Story of State Capture
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
What was Ajay Gupta doing on Thabo Mbeki's ‘secret’ advisory council? Did the Guptas play a role in Jacob Zuma's rise to power? How did the Guptas capture South African cricket? What is their interest in the controversial nuclear procurement deal? What influence have they had in the hiring and...
He Who Must Be Obeid
The Untold Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Queensland had the Fitzgerald Inquiry and the Moonlight State. New South Wales has Eddie Obeid.
Meet Australia's most corrupt politician whose brazen misdeeds were said to be on a scale "unexceeded since the days of the Rum Corps".
From the shadows Obeid ran the state as his...
The Defining Moment
FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
This is the story of a political miracle -- the perfect match of man and moment. Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in March of 1933 as America touched bottom. Banks were closing everywhere. Millions of people lost everything. The Great Depression had caused a national breakdown. With the craft...
The President's Keepers
Those keeping Zuma in power and out of prison
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Investigative journalist Jacques Pauw exposes the darkest secret at the heart of Jacob Zuma’s compromised government: a cancerous cabal that eliminates the president’s enemies and purges the law-enforcement agencies of good men and women. As Zuma fights for his political life following the 2017...
Hammer of the Left
The Battle For the Soul of the Labour Party
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
“We went into the general election with an unelectable leader, in a state of chaos with a manifesto that might have swept us to victory in cloud cuckoo land, but which was held in contempt in the Britain of 1983.” It is said that those who do not learn from past mistakes are doomed to repeat them,...
Presidential Pork
White House Influence over the Distribution of Federal Grants
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Presidential earmarks? Perhaps even more so than their counterparts in Congress, presidents have the motive and the means to politicize spending for political power. But do they?
In Presidential Pork, John Hudak explains and interprets presidential efforts to control federal spending and accumulate...
by Max Holland
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2004
A major work of documentary history–the brilliantly edited and annotated transcripts, most of them never before published, of the presidential conversations of Lyndon B. Johnson regarding the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath.
The transition from John F. Kennedy to Johnson was arguably...
Summary of Plunder and Deceit
by Mark R. Levin | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Plunder and Deceit: by Mark R. Levin | Includes Analysis Preview: Plunder and Deceit is about what author Mark R. Levin calls a threat to the United State’s experiment with democracy. At the heart of the threat is an executive branch of government that is running amok. Its...
by Douglas Carswell
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
The west is in crisis Governments have grown too big, living beyond their means - and ours. The true costs of extra officialdom have been concealed. Parasitical politicians have been hopeless at holding to account the elites who now preside over us. As a result, Western nations are mired in debt and...
Understanding Brexit Options
What future for Britain?
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
The crucial decision the British government has taken will have enormous consequences for our children, grandchildren and all future generations.
This book clearly describes the different options available, their impact on the UK economy and on individual Britons resident both in the UK and...
Lives of Moral Leadership
Men and Women Who Have Made a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
In this rich and illuminating book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author Robert Coles creates a portrait of moral leadership--what it is, and how it is achieved--through stories of people who have led and inspired him: Robert Kennedy, Dorothy Day, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Erik Erikson, a Boston...
Closing the Leadership Gap
Add Women, Change Everything
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2007
The defining examination of the new role of women in America?now fully revised
When first published in 2004, Marie Wilson?s Closing the Leadership Gap finally drew attention to what everyone knew but no one talked about?the lack of women in America?s leadership positions, even though compelling...
A City in Turmoil – Dublin 1919–1921
The War of Independence
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Dublin was the cockpit of the Irish Revolution. It was in the capital that Dáil Éireann convened and built an alternative government to challenge the authority of Dublin Castle; it was where the munitions strike that crippled the British war effort in 1920 began and it was where rival intelligence...