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Francis Fukuyama
Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
The New York Times bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order offers a provocative examination of modern identity politics: its origins, its effects, and what it means for domestic and international affairs of state In 2014, Francis Fukuyama wrote that American institutions were in d...
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Alejandro Velasco
Barrio Rising: Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela
Beginning in the late 1950s political leaders in Venezuela built what they celebrated as Latin America’s most stable democracy. But outside the staid halls of power, in the gritty barrios of a rapidly urbanizing country, another politics was rising―unruly, contentious, and clamoring for inclusio...
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Colleen Elizabeth Kelley
Digital Information Technologies and Democratic Discourse: American Public Culture and Political Character (Bloomsbury Studies in Political
Colleen Elizabeth Kelley and Michael J. Miller explore how democracy both functions and falters when media, politics, and rhetorical discourses collide. Democracy thrives on information and public engagement. Digital spaces and technologies, while significantly enriching our cyberculture and playi...
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Alan Maimon
Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning
“ Twilight in Hazard paints a more nuanced portrait of Appalachia than Vance did...[Maimon] eviscerates Vance's bestseller with stiletto precision.” —Associated Press From investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist Alan Maimon comes the story of how a perfect storm of events has ...
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Roslyn Arlin Mickelson
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: School Desegregation and Resegregation in Charlotte
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow  provides a compelling analysis of the forces and choices that have shaped the trend toward the resegregation of public schools. By assembling a wide range of contributors—historians, sociologists, economists, and education scholars—the editors provide a comprehe...
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[Then] President-Ele Barack Obama
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Barack Obama's lucid vision of America's place in the world and call for a new kind of politics that builds upon our shared understandings as Americans, based on his years in the Senate "In our lowdown, dispiriting era, Obama's talent for proposing humane, sensi...
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John Michael
Anxious Intellects: Academic Professionals, Public Intellectuals, and Enlightenment Values
Intellectuals occupy a paradoxical position in contemporary American culture as they struggle both to maintain their critical independence and to connect to the larger society. In Anxious Intellects John Michael discusses how critics from the right and the left have conceived of the intellectual...
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Design: The prominent U.S. flag design and "USA" text declare unwavering national pride, reflecting loyalty to American ideals like freedom, democracy, and opportunity Perfect Gifts: The sterling silver patriotic ring is ideal for your families, friends, loved ones or co-workers for any patriotic oc...
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John Locke
Two Treatises of Government
Uncover the Foundations of Modern Democracy: John Locke's Two Treatises of Government Delve into the cornerstone of liberal thought with this essential edition of John Locke's Two Treatises of Government, a foundational text in Western political philosophy. This complete edition presents both the ...
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Noam Chomsky
Chomsky on MisEducation (Critical Perspectives) (Critical Perspectives Series: A Book Series Dedicated to Paulo Freire)
In this book, Chomsky builds a larger understanding of our educational needs, starting with the changing role of schools today, yet broadening our view toward new models of public education for citizenship. “Chomsky and Macedo provide a brilliant analysis of schooling that draws upon a language of...
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Steve J. Stern
Battling for Hearts and Minds: Memory Struggles in Pinochet’s Chile, 1973–1988 (Latin America Otherwise)
Battling for Hearts and Minds is the story of the dramatic struggle to define collective memory in Chile during the violent, repressive dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, from the 1973 military coup in which he seized power through his defeat in a 1988 plebiscite. Steve J. Stern provides a r...
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Steven Klein
The Work of Politics
The Work of Politics advances a new understanding of how democratic social movements work with welfare institutions to challenge structures of domination. Klein develops a novel theory that depicts welfare institutions as “worldly mediators,” or sites of democratic world-making fostering politic...
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Erik Olin Wright
Understanding Class
Few ideas are more contested today than “class.” Some have declared its death, while others insist on its centrality to contemporary capitalism. It is said its relevance is limited to explaining individuals’ economic conditions and opportunities, while at the same time argued that it is a stru...
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Jimmy Tickey
Organizing to Win: The Art and Science of Running for Office
Jimmy Tickey's Organizing to Win is a timely, practical, and empowering guide for anyone who wants to make a real difference in their community. In an era of growing cynicism and deepening inequality, this book reminds us that democracy thrives when citizens engage. Whether you're frustrated with ...
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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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Joe Brian Soss
Unwanted Claims: The Politics of Participation in the U.S. Welfare System
Large numbers of Americans claim public resources and participate in direct relationships with government through the diversity of welfare programs found in the United States. Most public debates ignore the political importance of these activities, focusing instead on the economic and moral question...
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Michelle A. Amazeen
Content Confusion: News Media, Native Advertising, and Policy in an Era of Disinformation (Information Policy)
How mainstream news organizations and advertisers contribute to and legitimize disinformation by blurring the line between ads and journalism. We often blame social media for the rampant problem of disinformation, but the truth is that mainstream news media is often equally at fault. Not only do n...
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John Wood Sweet
Bodies Politic: Negotiating Race in the American North, 1730-1830 (Early America: History, Context, Culture)
Finalist for the 2004 Frederick Douglass Prize A century after the Pilgrims' landing, the ongoing interactions of conquered Indians, English settlers, and enslaved Africans in southern New England had produced a closely interwoven, though radically divided, colonial society. In Bodies Politic , Joh...
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John Quiggin
Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So Badly
A masterly introduction to the key ideas behind the successes―and failures―of free-market economics Since 1946, Henry Hazlitt’s bestselling Economics in One Lesson has popularized the belief that economics can be boiled down to one simple lesson: market prices represent the true cost of ev...
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