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Aditya Mukherjee
Nehru's India (The Most Definitive Book on Jawaharlal Nehru): Past, Present & Future (Penguin History of Modern India)
Sovereignty, democracy, secularism, pro-poor orientation and modern scientific outlook , core values of the India’s Independence Movement have in short been described as ‘the Idea of India’ . Jawaharlal Nehru not only fought for these values during the freedom struggle but also played a pivot...
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Mark Tushnet
Power to the People: Constitutionalism in the Age of Populism
Self-described populist leaders around the world are dismantling their nation's constitutions. This has led to a widespread view that populism as such is inconsistent with constitutionalism. This book proposes that some forms of populism are inconsistent with constitutionalism, while others aren't. ...
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Stephen M. Feldman
Please Don't Wish Me a Merry Christmas: A Critical History of the Separation of Church and State (Critical America, 30)
Whether in the form of Christmas trees in town squares or prayer in school, fierce disputes over the separation of church and state have long bedeviled this country. Both decried and celebrated, this principle is considered by many, for right or wrong, a defining aspect of American national identity...
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Robert A. Pape
Our Own Worst Enemies: America and the Age of Violent Populism
The nation’s leading expert on political violence diagnoses the gravest threat to American democracy—and how to overcome it The January 6th riot, the attempted kidnapping of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the shootings of Minnesota legislators, the two attempted assassinations of Donald Trump, attacks ...
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A.E. McCarthy
The Great Republic: My journey through the intellectual and spiritual war of my generation
In the days following the election of 2016, I watched the media panic, wringing their hands vocally in unison claiming ‘this is the end of our democracy’ on every newscast and social commentary. I felt compelled to start a blog to explain to the millions of confused citizens what had happened. I...
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Marian E. Schlotterbeck
Beyond the Vanguard: Everyday Revolutionaries in Allende's Chile
For a thousand days in the early 1970s, Chileans experienced revolution not as a dream but as daily life. Alongside Salvador Allende’s attempt to democratically bring about a socialist regime, new understandings of the meaning of revolutionary change emerged. In her groundbreaking book Beyond the...
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Matthew Connelly
The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America's Top Secrets
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE • Every day, thousands of new secrets are created by the United States government. What is all this secrecy really for? And whom does it benefit? “A brilliant, deeply unsettling look at the history and inner workings of ‘the dark state'.... At a tim...
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Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
These United States: A Nation in the Making, 1890 to the Present
A powerful history of the making and unmaking of American democracy and global power, told in sweeping scope and intimate detail. In the winter of 1936, Franklin Roosevelt remarked in a fireside chat, “I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.” Ce...
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Dan Kovalik
Plot to Overthrow Venezuela: How the US Is Orchestrating a Coup for Oil
“Helps to cut through the Orwellian lies and dissembling …just when such truth-telling is so desperately needed.”—Oliver Stone, Activist and Director, from his Foreword Since 1999 when Hugo Chavez became the elected president of Venezuela, the US has been conniving to overthrow his governmen...
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Sarah Riccardi-Swartz
Between Heaven and Russia: Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia (Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought)
How is religious conversion transforming American democracy? In one corner of Appalachia, a group of American citizens has embraced the Russian Orthodox Church and through it Putin’s New Russia. Historically a minority immigrant faith in the United States, Russian Orthodoxy is attracting Americans...
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Michael Waldman
The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America
A “terrific, if chilling, account” ( The Guardian ) of how the Supreme Court’s new conservative supermajority is overturning decades of law and leading the country in a dangerous political direction. In The Supermajority , Michael Waldman explores the tumultuous 2021­­–2022 Supreme Cour...
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Rodolfo D Torres
The Latino Question: Politics, Laboring Classes and the Next Left
In the United States, the number of Latinos struggling in pursuit of the American Dream has never been greater. Millions work towards this ideal each year, only to find themselves trapped in a cycle of debt and labor. The need for a vivid, empirically grounded study on Latino politics, culture, and ...
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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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Nicholas Jacobs
What Happened to the Vital Center?: Presidentialism, Populist Revolt, and the Fracturing of America
Taking the reader through a long view of American history, What Happened to the Vital Center? offers a novel and important contribution to the ongoing scholarly and popular discussion of how America fell apart and what might be done to end the Cold Civil War that fractures the country and weakens ...
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HASE Fiero
Jan 6th: The Insurrection That Never Happened in Broad Daylight: Anatomy of an American Insurgency (Information War Book Series)
📘 Jan 6th: The Insurrection That Never Happened in Broad Daylight By HASE Fiero Format: Paperback Kindle Audiobook (Narrated by the Author) 🔥 A Truth Bomb in an Age of Disinformation “This wasn’t just a riot. It was a rehearsal.” While news outlets scrambled to capture the chaos of...
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Karl R. Popper
The Open Society and Its Enemies (Princeton Classics)
A landmark defense of democracy that has been hailed as one of the most important books of the twentieth century One of the most important books of the twentieth century, The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual ...
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David Dyzenhaus
Law as Politics: Carl Schmitt’s Critique of Liberalism
While antiliberal legal theorist Carl Schmitt has long been considered by Europeans to be one of this century’s most significant political philosophers, recent challenges to the fundamental values of liberal democracies have made Schmitt’s writings an unavoidable subject of debate in North Ameri...
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Carol Anderson
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner New York Times Bestseller USA Today Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year A Boston Globe Best Book of 2016 A Chicago Review of Books Best Nonfiction Book of 2016 From...
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Jeffrey L. High
Thomas Mann’s Antifascist Radio Addresses, 1940–1945: Listen, Germany! (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture, 253)
First complete English translation of Mann's uncannily insightful wartime anti-Nazi radio addresses, once again urgently topical in the context of the current worldwide rise of anti-democratic movements. Upon Hitler's rise to power in 1933, the great German writer Thomas Mann, 1929 Nobel Prize lau...
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Emma Saunders-Hastings
Private Virtues, Public Vices: Philanthropy and Democratic Equality
A thought-provoking challenge to our ideas about philanthropy, marking it as a deeply political activity that allows the wealthy to dictate more than we think. Philanthropy plays a huge role in supporting the provision of many public goods in contemporary societies. As a result, decisions that a...
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