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Louise W. Knight
Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy
Jane Addams was the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Now Citizen , Louise W. Knight's masterful biography, reveals Addams's early development as a political activist and social philosopher.  In this book we observe a powerful mind grappling with the radical ideas of he...
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Robert A. Cort
The First Eight and Beyond: James Clyburn Legacy of Leadership: Pioneering Black Congressmen and Clyburn's Battle for Democracy
The First Eight and Beyond: James Clyburn — Legacy of Leadership Pioneering Black Congressmen and Clyburn Battle for Democracy In The First Eight and Beyond, author Robert A. Cort delivers a powerful and deeply human biography that traces the remarkable life and influence of Congressman James E. C...
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Amy Chua
World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability
The reigning consensus holds that the combination of free markets and democracy would transform the third world and sweep away the ethnic hatred and religious zealotry associated with underdevelopment. In this revelatory investigation of the true impact of globalization, Yale Law School professor Am...
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Michelle Hoffmann
The Oath: Democracy Rising
When nations stop listening, democracies begin to decay. When citizens grow tired, power fills the silence. In this gripping work of political realism and moral reflection, Michelle Hoffmann imagines a near-future society emerging from the ruins of its own apathy. The Oath: Democracy Rising is n...
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John Zubrzycki
The Shortest History of India: From the World’s Oldest Civilization to Its Largest Democracy―A Retelling for Our Times (The Shortest History Series)
5,000 years of history―from the Bhagavad Gita to Bollywood―fill this masterful portrait of the world’s most populous nation and a rising global power. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read. India―a cradle of civilization with five m...
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Rejecting Kings Since 1776 Pro Democracy Unisex Comfort Color T-Shirt
DESIGN: Unisex protest t-shirt featuring bold "Rejecting Kings Since 1776" message, perfect for expressing pro-democracy values PATRIOTIC MESSAGE: Celebrates America's democratic principles and historical rejection of monarchy dating back to 1776 VERSATILE STYLE: Classic t-shirt design suitable for ...
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Walter A. McDougall
Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era, 1829-1877 – An Irreverent Epic Revealing Five Decades of National Transformation
From its shocking curtain-raiser—the conflagration that consumed Lower Manhattan in 1835—to the climactic centennial year of 1876, when Americans staged a corrupt, deadlocked presidential campaign (fought out in Florida), Walter A. McDougall's Throes of Democracy carries the saga of the Americ...
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Anna Harvey
Mere Machine: The Supreme Court, Congress, and American Democracy
Introductory textbooks on American government tell us that the Supreme Court is independent from the elected branches and that independent courts better protect rights than their more deferential counterparts. But are these facts or myths? In this groundbreaking new work Anna Harvey reports evidence...
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Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
The CIA and American Democracy: Third Edition
This third edition of Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones's engrossing history of the Central Intelligence Agency includes a new prologue that discusses the history of the CIA since the end of the Cold War focusing in particular on the intelligence dimensions of the terrorist attacks on 9/11. Praise for the earli...
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Jon Meacham
American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union: An Anthology
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Soul of America unites centuries of essential American voices to understand our national debates and divisions from 1619 to the present, with his signature commentary on the consequential speeches, letters, and essays that led us to this moment. ...
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Heather E. Douglas
The Rightful Place of Science: Science, Values, and Democracy: The 2016 Descartes Lectures
Starting from an embrace of both science and democracy, Heather Douglas argues in a series of vital lectures that science requires social and ethical values for both the direction of research and for sound scientific inference. Her forceful conclusion is that the “value-free ideal” is an inappro...
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Susan Herbst
Rude Democracy: Civility and Incivility in American Politics
Winner of the Doris Graber Award, American Political Science Association, 2013 Democracy is, by its very nature, often rude. But there are limits to how uncivil we should be. In the 2010 edition of  Rude Democracy , Susan Herbst explored the ways we discuss public policy, how we treat each other as...
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Stuart Sim
A Call to Dissent: Defending Democracy Against Extremism and Populism
Dogmatism, prejudice and bigotry are becoming ever more evident on the contemporary political scene and dissent is one of their main targets. The Politics of Dissent explores the negative impact this shift is having on public life, with radically-oriented governments striving to close down dissent...
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Ralph Brauer
The Age of Discontent: How Workers and Farmers Reinvented American Democracy
This revisionist view of late-nineteenth-century history credits Main Street, not Wall Street, with laying the foundations of modern America In American history, the prevailing narratives of the tumultuous late-nineteenth century focus on wealthy individuals and tycoons while downplaying the very ...
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Geoff K. Ward
The Black Child-Savers: Racial Democracy and Juvenile Justice
During the Progressive Era, a rehabilitative agenda took hold of American juvenile justice, materializing as a citizen-and-state-building project and mirroring the unequal racial politics of American democracy itself. Alongside this liberal "manufactory of citizens,” a parallel structure was enact...
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Mike Sanzu
The Price of Freedom: Reflections on Politics, Democracy and Justice
The Price of Freedom: Reflections on Politics, Democracy and Justice is a profound and thought-provoking analysis of the contemporary challenges of democracy, the relationship between freedom and governance, and the dilemmas that shape global politics. Through a philosophical, historical and economi...
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James Macdonald
A Free Nation Deep in Debt: The Financial Roots of Democracy
For the greater part of recorded history the most successful and powerful states were autocracies; yet now the world is increasingly dominated by democracies. In A Free Nation Deep in Debt , James Macdonald provides a novel answer for how and why this political transformation occurred. The pressure...
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June 14th Protest No Kings In America Since 1776
Patriotic Pro-Democracy Protest June 14 No Kings In America T-Shirt
Pro-democracy Protest Shirt For June 14th No Kings Protest, Independence Day, July Fourth, July 4th, Fourth Of July. Make Your Feelings Clear America Should Have No Kings. Patriotic, Pro-constitution, Pro-democracy. No Kings Since 1776. No Kings In The USA. Reject Authoritarianism. Patriotic Pro-USA...
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Paula McClain
American Government in Black and White: Diversity and Democracy
American Government in Black and White: Diversity and Democracy, Sixth Edition, covers the standard topics found in an Introduction to American Government text while also speaking to today's students who want to examine how racial inequality has shaped--and will continue to shape--who we are and wha...
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