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Matthew C. Ehrlich
Journalism in the Movies (The History of Media and Communication)
From cynical portrayals like  The Front Page  to the nuanced complexity of  All the President’s Men,  and  The Insider , movies about journalists and journalism have been a go-to film genre since the medium's early days. Often depicted as disrespectful, hard-drinking, scandal-mongering misfit...
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John Fabian Witt
The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America
From Pulitzer Prize finalist John Fabian Witt comes the “engrossing” ( The New York Times ) secret history of an epic experiment to remake American democracy. Before the dark money of the Koch Brothers, before the billions of the Ford Foundation, there was the Garland Fund. In 1922, a young id...
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Hahrie Han
Prisms of the People: Power & Organizing in Twenty-First-Century America (Chicago Studies in American Politics)
Grassroots organizing and collective action have always been fundamental to American democracy but have been burgeoning since the 2016 election, as people struggle to make their voices heard in this moment of societal upheaval. Unfortunately much of that action has not had the kind of impact partici...
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Michele Alacevich
Inequality: A Short History (The Short Histories)
Inequality endangers the fabric of our societies, distorts the functioning of democracy, and derails the globalization process. Yet, it has only recently been recognized as a problem worth examining. Why has this issue been neglected for so long? In Inequality: A Short History , Michele Alacevich a...
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Mark L. Clifford
The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong's Greatest Dissident, and China's Most Feared Critic
The “extraordinary life story” ( Publishers Weekly ) of the billionaire businessman Jimmy Lai, a leading Hong Kong democracy activist fighting for freedom of speech who became China’s most famous political prisoner. Jimmy Lai escaped mainland China when he was twelve years old, at the height...
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Henry Thomson
Food and Power: Regime Type, Agricultural Policy, and Political Stability
The relationship between development and democratization remains one of the most compelling topics of research in political science, yet many aspects of authoritarian regime behavior remain unexplained. This book explores how different types of governments take action to shape the course of economic...
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Kimberly K. Smith
The Dominion of Voice: Riot, Reason, and Romance in Antebellum Politics
In this work of historically informed political theory, Kimberly Smith sets out to understand how nineteenth-century Americans answered the question of how the people should participate in politics. Did rational public debate, the ideal that most democratic theorists now venerate, transcend all othe...
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Michael Coppedge
Democratization and Research Methods (Strategies for Social Inquiry)
Democratization and Research Methods is a coherent survey and critique of both democratization research and the methodology of comparative politics. The two themes enhance each other: the democratization literature illustrates the advantages and disadvantages of various methodological approaches, an...
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Wendy Brown
Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution (Near Futures, 4)
Neoliberal rationality ― ubiquitous today in statecraft and the workplace, in jurisprudence, education, and culture ― remakes everything and everyone in the image of homo oeconomicus . What happens when this rationality transposes the constituent elements of democracy into an economic register?...
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Mark L. Clifford
The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong's Greatest Dissident, and China's Most Feared Critic
The “extraordinary life story” ( Publishers Weekly ) of the billionaire businessman Jimmy Lai, a leading Hong Kong democracy activist fighting for freedom of speech who became China’s most famous political prisoner. Jimmy Lai escaped mainland China when he was twelve years old, at the height...
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Sara E. Gorman
The Anatomy of Deception: Conspiracy Theories, Distrust, and Public Health in America
Veteran health writer Sara Gorman compellingly argues that the backbone of medical conspiracy theories is not misinformation but lack of trust--in our hospitals and in our democracy writ large. In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, trust in the healthcare system seems to be at an all-time lo...
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Stanley Bill
Good Change: The Rise and Fall of Poland’s Illiberal Revolution
Few countries serve as a more useful case study for understanding the global tension between liberal and illiberal conceptions of democracy than Poland. Under the populist Law and Justice (PiS) –led government, a large part of the Polish electorate welcomed the party's "Good Change"―as it descri...
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Hershel Daniels Junior
The Black Folks Plan, how did we get here?: A $6T #BlackFolksPlan for a #JustEconomy
This book tells the story of a $6T #BlackFolksPlan from its start to the second quarter of 2022. We did this work since January 27th, 2020, based on an economic liberalism whose political and economic ideology supports a market economy based on individualism and private property in the means of pro...
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Erin R. Pineda
Seeing Like an Activist: Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement
There are few movements more firmly associated with civil disobedience than the Civil Rights Movement. In the mainstream imagination, civil rights activists eschewed coercion, appealed to the majority's principles, and submitted willingly to legal punishment in order to demand necessary legislative ...
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Olukunle P. Owolabi
Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects: The Divergent Legacies of Forced Settlement and Colonial Occupation in the Global South
An examination of the divergent developmental legacies of forced settlement and colonial occupation on both sides of the Black Atlantic world. The European powers that colonized much of the world over the last few hundred years created a variety of social systems in their various colonies. In Ru...
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American Social History Project
Who Built America? Vol. 1: Working People and the Nation's History
Who Built America? explores fundamental conflicts in United States history by placing working peoples’ struggle for social and economic justice at center stage. Unique among U.S. history survey textbooks for its clear point of view, Who Built America is a joint effort of Bedford/St. Martin’s ...
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Bill Clinton
Citizen: My Life After the White House
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful, candid, and richly detailed memoir from an American icon, revealing what life looks like after the presidency: triumphs, tribulations, and all. On January 20, 2001, after nearly thirty years in politics—eight of them as president of the United States—...
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Jill Wine-Banks
Watergate Girl
Obstruction of justice, the specter of impeachment, sexism at work, shocking revelations: Jill Wine-Banks takes us inside her trial by fire as a Watergate prosecutor. It was a time, much like today, when Americans feared for the future of their democracy, and women stood up for equal treatment. A...
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Edward M. Harris
Demosthenes, Speeches 23-26 (The Oratory of Classical Greece)
This is the fifteenth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline. These translations are especially designed fo...
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