American Government
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America in Turmoil: Essays on Politics, the Economy, Society, and the Future
$29.99 Add to cartA wonderfully readable collection of trenchant essays addressing our society’s challenges and offering non-partisan solutions.” -William F. Weld, Governor of Massachusetts 1991-1997 (R), and author of
- Author: Briggs, John Deq
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1647047331
- Language: English
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Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
$17.00 Add to cart“Uncompromising and unconventional . . . Cornel West is an eloquent prophet with attitude.” — Newsweek”
“A timely analysis about the current state of democratic systems in America.” — The Boston Glo- Author: West, Cornel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 30 2005
- ISBN10: 0143035835
- Language: English
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A Black Man in the White House: Barack Obama and the Triggering of America’s Racial-Aversion Crisis
$16.00 Add to cartIn this book Cornell Belcher, award-winning pollster who twice served on President Barack Obama’s presidential election team, presents stunning new research that illuminates just how deep and jagged t
- Author: Belcher, Cornell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: April 12 2019
- ISBN10: 162134360X
- Language: English
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How the Obama Administration Has Politicized Justice: Reflections on Politics, Liberty, and the State
$5.99 Add to cartWith the Obama Justice Department under Attorney General Eric Holder’s direction, Americans are learning what really happens when law-enforcement power is co-opted by politics.
In this eye-popping Bro- Series: Encounter Broadsides #07
- Author: McCarthy, Andrew C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: January 26 2010
- ISBN10: 1594034745
- Language: English
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Blame and Political Attitudes: The Psychology of America’s Culture War
$27.99 Add to cartQuestions about the causes of events, from terrorist attacks to mass shootings to economic and public health crises dominate conversations across the US. Recent research in social psychology outlines … [more below]
- Author: Sahar, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: January 26 2023
- ISBN10: 303120235X
- Language: English
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Giuliani: The Rise and Tragic Fall of America’s Mayor
$19.99 Add to cartA New Yorker Best Book of the Year
What happened to Rudy Giuliani? Andrew Kirtzman, who has been following Giuliani since the 1990s, answers that question in this “masterful and engrossing” (The Guard- Author: Kirtzman, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 198215330X
- Language: English
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The Common Flaw: Needless Complexity in the Courts and 50 Ways to Reduce It
$35.00 Read moreA sitting judge makes the compelling argument that we should simplify lawsuits to create a more humane and accessible legal system.
Americans are losing faith in their courts. After long delays, judg- Series: Brandeis Law and Society
- Author: Moukawsher, Thomas G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 25, 2023
- ISBN10: 1684581648
- Language: English
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Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House
$28.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The knockdown, drag-out, untold story of the other scandal that rocked Nixon’s White House, and reset the rules for crooked presidents to come–with new reporting that expa… [more below]
- Author: Maddow, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0593136683
- Language: English
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Surviving Autocracy
$17.00 Add to cart“When Gessen speaks about autocracy, you listen.“ —The New York Times
“A reckoning with what has been lost in the past few years and a map forward with our beliefs intact.” —Interview
As seen on MSNB- Author: Gessen, Masha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 01, 2021
- ISBN10: 0593332245
- Language: English
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Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention May – September 1787
$19.99 Add to cart“Remarkable…If you read only one book on the Constitution in your life, this could be it” (Los Angeles Times): the classic history of the Federal Convention at Philadelphia in 1787, the stormy, dram… [more below]
- Author: Bowen, Catherine Drinker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: September 30 1986
- ISBN10: 0316103985
- Language: English
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Disunion Among Ourselves: The Perilous Politics of the American Revolution
$39.95 Read moreIn this eye-opening account, Eli Merritt reveals the deep political divisions that almost tore the Union apart during the American Revolution. So fractious were the founders’ political fights that the
- Author: Merritt, Eli
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: June 04, 2023
- ISBN10: 0826222811
- Language: English
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The Big Cheat: How Donald Trump Fleeced America and Enriched Himself and His Family
$19.00 Add to cartPulitzer Prize–winning reporter and dean of Trumpologists David Cay Johnston reveals years of eye-popping financial misdeeds by Donald Trump and his family.
While the world watched Donald Trump’s pre- Author: Johnston, David Cay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1982178043
- Language: English
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Communism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIf now in decline since the tumultuous events of 1989, communism was without doubt the great political movement of the twentieth century–at its peak, more than a third of the world’s population lived… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Holmes, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 21 2009
- ISBN10: 0199551545
- Language: English
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Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy
$19.99 Add to cart“Every thinking American must read” (The Washington Book Review) this startling and “insightful” (The New York Times) look at how concentrated financial power and consumerism has transformed American … [more below]
- Author: Stoller, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1501182897
- Language: English
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The January 6 Report: Findings from the Select Committee to Investigate the Attack on the U.S. Capitol with Reporting, Analysis and Visuals
$19.99 Add to cartWith exclusive reporting, eyewitness accounts and analysis from the Pulitzer Prize-winning staff of The New York Times, this edition of THE JANUARY 6 REPORT offers the definitive record of the attack … [more below]
- Author: The January 6 Select Committee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: December 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1538742152
- Language: English
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The Big Lie: Election Chaos, Political Opportunism, and the State of American Politics After 2020
$0.00 Read moreINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the WHITE HOUSE BUREAU CHIEF OF POLITICO and the host of MSNBC’s WAY TOO EARLY comes a probing and illuminating analysis of the current state of American politic- Author: Lemire, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 26, 2022
- ISBN10: 1250819628
- Language: English
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A User’s Guide to Democracy: How America Works
$19.99 Add to cartFrom Nick Capodice & Hannah McCarthy, the hosts of New Hampshire Public Radio’s Civics 101, and New Yorker cartoonist Tom Toro, A User’s Guide to Democracy is a lively crash course in everything you s
- Author: Capodice, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1250751845
- Language: English
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Reform the Kakistocracy: Rule by the Least Able or Least Principled Citizens
$14.95 Add to cartKakistocracy, a term that describes what our government has become, a government controlled by “leaders” who are the least able or least principled citizens. These leaders are labeled “kakistocrats.”
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- Author: Kovacs, William L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: April 11 2019
- ISBN10: 1640965149
- Language: English
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Gold Rush Stories: 49 Tales of Seekers, Scoundrels, Loss, and Luck
$30.00 Add to cartThis volume explores the deeply human stories of the California Gold Rush generation, drawing out all the brutality, tragedy, humor, and prosperity as lived by those who experienced it. In less than t… [more below]
- Author: Noy, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1597143847
- Language: English
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The January 6 Report
$19.99 Add to cartThe instant #1 New York Times bestseller
The official report and findings of the bipartisan Congressional investigation into the January 6 attack on the Capitol, and Donald Trump’s related coup conspir
- Author: January 6th Committee the
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: December 29 2022
- ISBN10: 0063315505
- Language: English
