Democracy

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Robert B. Reich
Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America (Vintage)
For anyone who believes that liberal isn’t a dirty word but a term of honor , this book will be as revitalizing as oxygen. For in the pages of Reason , one of our most incisive public thinkers, and a former secretary of labor mounts a defense of classical liberalism that’s also a guide for ...
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S. Adam Seagrave
Liberty and Equality: The American Conversation (American Political Thought)
Alexis de Tocqueville, one of the greatest commentators on the American political tradition, viewed it through the lens of two related ideas: liberty and equality. These ideas, so eloquently framed by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, have remained inextricably and uniquely conjoi...
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William Michael K
Happy Birthday America: 250th Semiquincentennial
A Baby Boomer's perspective of growing up in post-World War II America, witnessing America's establishment as the leader of the free world, and its growth as a full-fledged democracy and superpower. But, as America prepares to celebrate the 250th anniversary of its existence, political divisiveness ...
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Robert Paul Wolff
In Defense of Anarchism (with a New Preface)
In Defense of Anarchism is a 1970 book by the philosopher Robert Paul Wolff, in which the author defends individualist anarchism. He argues that individual autonomy and state authority are mutually exclusive and that, as individual autonomy is inalienable, the moral legitimacy of the state collapse...
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Danielle Allen
Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality
“A tour de force. . . . No one has ever written a book on the Declaration quite like this one.” ―Gordon S. Wood, New York Review of Books Our Declaration has already come to be regarded as a seminal work that reinterprets the promise of American democracy through our founding text. On the 25...
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Mike Davis
Under the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See
Three muckraking essays on the underside of San Diego cover the city’s historically recent turn from red to blue while highlighting a new cast of villains and tenacious activists fighting for social justice—now in a new, updated, twentieth-anniversary edition. "Behind the luminous veneer of Sa...
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Olivier Zunz
Philanthropy in America: A History (Politics and Society in Modern America)
How philanthropy has shaped America in the twentieth century American philanthropy today expands knowledge, champions social movements, defines active citizenship, influences policymaking, and addresses humanitarian crises. How did philanthropy become such a powerful and integral force in American...
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Duy Lap Nguyen
The unimagined community: Imperialism and culture in South Vietnam (Cultural History of Modern War)
The unimagined community proposes a reexamination of the Vietnam War from a perspective that has been largely excluded from historical accounts of the conflict, that of the South Vietnamese. Challenging the conventional view that the war was a struggle between the Vietnamese people and US imperialis...
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Walter Lippmann
Public Opinion (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
In his groundbreaking work Public Opinion (1922), Walter Lippmann, an eminent American writer and political commentator, delves into the intricate dynamics of democracy, shedding light on the pivotal role of citizens. He warns against the perils of propaganda, anticipating its sway on public perce...
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Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
Ground Wars: Personalized Communication in Political Campaigns
Winner of the 2014 Doris Graber Award, given by the American Political Science Association to recognize the best book published on political communication in the last ten years. Political campaigns today are won or lost in the so-called ground war--the strategic deployment of teams of staffers, vo...
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Raymond A. Joseph
For Whom the Dogs Spy: Haiti: From the Duvalier Dictatorships to the Earthquake, Four Presidents, and Beyond
When the 2010 earthquake struck Haiti, Raymond Joseph, the former Haitian ambassador to the United States, found himself rushing back to his beloved country. The earthquake ignited a passion in Joseph, inspiring him to run for president against great competition, including two well-known Haitian pop...
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Alan M. Hantman
Under the Dome: Politics, Crisis, and Architecture at the United States Capitol
An inside account of politics, crisis, and architecture on Capitol Hill The domed US Capitol Building is recognized around the world as America's most iconic symbol, the forum for representative democracy, and the physical stage for the transfer of executive power. As the United States grew in siz...
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Shashi Tharoor
B. R. Ambedkar: The man who gave hope to India's dispossessed (Global Icons)
A household name throughout India, B. R. Ambedkar is one of the country’s most important figures, second only to Mahatma Gandhi. He played a major role in drafting the constitution for a newly independent India and led the fight against caste-based discrimination. Ambedkar was born into a Dalit c...
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Jim Rough
Society's Breakthrough!: Releasing Essential Wisdom and Virtue in All the People
Good News! Important news! There is a Breakthrough answer to today's crucial issues ? the threat of terrorism, racism, the lop-sided distribution of wealth, the corporate takeover of democracy, the non-involvement of citizens in government, materialism, alienation and spiritual decay.Sound too good ...
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Barbara McQuade
The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government
The New York Times bestselling author and former U.S. Attorney offers a piercing exposé on the escalating threat of far-right politics—and a clear roadmap for saving our democracy. In The Fix , McQuade draws on her decades of experience as a federal prosecutor to reveal how systems of organi...
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David Pepper
2025
Amid the 2024 election, Donald Trump and Project 2025 have laid out detailed plans if Trump returns to power. They include everything from weaponizing the Department of Justice, to banning abortion access and IVF, to undermining public schools. 2025 imagines how these specific plans, if put into ef...
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Cameron Ross
John Dewey: A Clear Introduction to the Big Ideas and the Core Concepts
John Dewey refuses the separation of philosophy from lived experience. Against traditions that seek certainty through abstraction, he begins where life becomes problematic, where habits fail and intelligence must respond. Thought is not contemplation but action guided by inquiry. Knowledge, in Dewey...
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Jon Meacham
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how—and why—he confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery to expand the possibilities of America. “Meacham has given us the Lincoln f...
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Wolfgang Streeck
How Will Capitalism End?: Essays on a Failing System
One of the “Best Books of the Year”: Guardian • Financial Times • Times Higher Education A major collection of essays that questions whether contemporary capitalism will end with a bang or a whimper—from a leading political economist and the author of Buying Time . After years o...
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Vincent Gabrielsen
Financing the Athenian Fleet: Public Taxation and Social Relations
To meet the enormous expenses of maintaining its powerful navy, democratic Athens gave wealthy citizens responsibility for financing and commanding the fleet. Known as trierarchs —literally, ship commanders—they bore the expenses of maintaining and repairing the ships, as well as recruiting and...
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