History & Theory - General
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Speechwriting in Theory and Practice
$37.99 Add to cartThis book provides students, researchers, and practitioners of speechwriting with a unique insight in the theory, history, and practice of speechwriting. The combination of theory and practice with ca… [more below]
- Series: Rhetoric, Politics and Society
- Author: Kjeldsen, Jens E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: March 26 2019
- ISBN10: 3030036847
- Language: English
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Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream
$19.99 Add to cartFirst published in 1990, Songs of the Doomed is back in print–by popular demand! In this third and most extraordinary volume of the Gonzo Papers, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson recalls high and hideous momen… [more below]
- Author: Thompson, Hunter S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0743240995
- Language: English
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The Prince: Introduction by Dominic Baker-Smith
$25.00 Add to cartThat Machiavelli’s name has become synonymous with cold-eyed political calculation only heightens the intrinsic fascination of The Prince-the world’s preeminent how-to manual on the art of getting an
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Machiavel, Nicolas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: June 30 1992
- ISBN10: 0679410449
- Language: English
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The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli, Political Science, History & Theory, Literary Collections, Philosophy
$16.95 Add to cart“Machiavellianism” is a widely used negative term to characterize unscrupulous politicians of the sort Machiavelli described most famously in The Prince.
The Catholic Church banned The Prince. Humanist
- Author: Machiavelli, Nicolo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: August 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1598189360
- Language: English
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Cointelpro: The Fbi’s Secret War on Political Freedom
$15.00 Add to cartThe FBI’s spying and disruption against socialists and activists in the Black and antiwar movements.
- Author: Blackstock, Nelson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 221
- Publish Date: January 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0873488776
- Language: English
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The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization
$24.00 Add to cartThe national bestseller that shocked the nation–The Death of the West is an unflinching look at the increasing decline in Western culture and power.
The West is dying. Collapsing birth rates in Europ- Author: Buchanan, Patrick J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0312302592
- Language: English
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The Republic and the Laws
$12.95 Add to cartCicero’s The Republic is an impassioned plea for responsible government written just before the civil war that ended the Roman Republic in a dialogue following Plato. Drawing on Greek political theory… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Cicero
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019954011X
- Language: English
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Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?
$32.00 Add to cartAmerica is disintegrating. The one Nation under God, indivisible of the Pledge of Allegiance is passing away. In a few decades, that America will be gone forever. In its place will arise a country unr
- Author: Buchanan, Patrick J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 05 2012
- ISBN10: 125000411X
- Language: English
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The King’s Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology
$29.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 1957, this classic work has guided generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. Throughout history, the notion of two bodies has permitt
- Series: Princeton Classics #22
- Author: Kantorowicz, Ernst
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 632
- Publish Date: May 10 2016
- ISBN10: 0691169233
- Language: English
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The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order
$22.95 Add to cartA sweeping history of the drama, intrigue, and rivalry behind the creation of the postwar economic order
When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for ‘a new B- Series: Council on Foreign Relations Books (Princeton University Press)
- Author: Steil, Benn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 23 2014
- ISBN10: 0691162379
- Language: English
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The Political Theory of the American Founding
$42.00 Add to cartThis book provides a complete overview of the American Founders’ political theory, covering natural rights, natural law, state of nature, social compact, consent, and the policy implications of these … [more below]
- Author: West, Thomas G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 428
- Publish Date: April 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1316506037
- Language: English
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The Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution
$14.00 Add to cartWhat is the President, Congress, and the Supreme Court really allowed to do? This unique and handy guide includes the documents that guide our government, annotated with accessible explanations from o… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Civic Classics #01
- Author: Beeman, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 28 2012
- ISBN10: 0143121960
- Language: English
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Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class
$21.99 Add to cartCampaigning for president in 1980, Ronald Reagan told stories of Cadillac-driving “welfare queens” and “strapping young bucks” buying T-bone steaks with food stamps. In trumpeting these tales of welfa… [more below]
- Author: Haney L?pez, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 01 2015
- ISBN10: 019022925X
- Language: English
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The Prince
$14.00 Add to cartRejecting the traditional values of political theory, Machiavelli drew upon his own experiences of office in the turbulent Florentine republic to write his celebrated treatise on statecraft. While Mac… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Machiavel, Nicolas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 06 2005
- ISBN10: 0143036335
- Language: English
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On the Social Contract
$6.00 Read more“Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains. This man believes that he is the master of others, and still he is more of a slave than they are. How did that transformation take place? I don’t k
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 13 2003
- ISBN10: 0486426920
- Language: English
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Two Treatises of Government
$9.95 Add to cartJohn Locke laid the groundwork of modern liberalism. He argued that political societies exist to defend the lives, liberties and properties of their citizens and that no government has any authority e… [more below]
- Series: Everyman
- Author: Locke, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 15 1993
- ISBN10: 0460873563
- Language: English
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The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition
$39.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 1975, The Machiavellian Moment remains a landmark of historical and political thought. Celebrated historian J.G.A. Pocock looks at the consequences for modern historical and so
- Series: Princeton Classics #25
- Author: Pocock, John Greville Agard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 664
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0691172234
- Language: English
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The Federalist Papers
$15.95 Add to cartThe Federalist Papers–85 essays published in the winter of 1787-8 in the New York press–are some of the most crucial and defining documents in American political history, laying out the principles t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hamilton, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0192805924
- Language: English
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Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Experience and American Prospects-Revised & Updated
$24.99 Add to cartA guide to the decline of the American empire for individuals, families and communities
The United States is in steep decline. Plagued by runaway debt, a shrinking economy, and environmental catastr
- Author: Orlov, Dmitry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0865716854
- Language: English
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The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made It
$20.00 Add to cartThe American Political Tradition is one of the most influential and widely read historical volumes of our time. First published in 1948, its elegance, passion, and iconoclastic erudition laid the grou… [more below]
- Author: Hofstadter, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 23 1989
- ISBN10: 0679723153
- Language: English
