Democracy
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
$30.00 Add to cart#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 yea… [more below]
- Author: Obama, Barack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0307237699
- Language: English
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Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America (Loa #147): A New Translation by Arthur Goldhammer
$42.50 Add to cartAn exclusive new translation of the most perceptive and influential book ever written about American politics and society—“the bible on democracy” (The Texas Observer)
This Library of America volume- Series: Library of America #147
- Author: Tocqueville, Alexis de
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: February 09 2004
- ISBN10: 1931082545
- Language: English
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Words to Win by: The Slogans, Logos, and Designs of America’s Presidential Elections
$24.99 Add to cartFrom “All the Way with LBJ” to red MAGA hats, famous and infamous slogans, logos, signage, and accessories from over a century of presidential elections are compiled in a striking visual encyclopedia.
- Author: Publishers, Apollo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 03 2020
- ISBN10: 194806264X
- 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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Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil
$19.95 Read moreOil is a curse, it is often said, that condemns the countries producing it to an existence defined by war, corruption and enormous inequality. Carbon Democracy tells a more complex story, arguing that… [more below]
- Author: Mitchell, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1804292494
- Language: English
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Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American Democracy
$19.00 Add to cartAn important work of scholarship that should be read by anyone concerned with America’s future. –Fareed Zakaria, author of The Post-American World
An urgent, historically-grounded take on the four ma- Author: Mettler, Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 1250797160
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Democracy: 4,000 Years of Self-Government – A Retelling for Our Times
$15.95 Add to cartThis compact history unspools the tumultuous global story that began with democracy’s radical core idea: We can collaborate, as equals, to determine our own futures. Acclaimed political thinker John K… [more below]
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Keane, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1615198962
- Language: English
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The Insurrectionist: Major General Edwin A. Walker and the Birth of the Deep State Conspiracy
$44.95 Add to cartPeter Adams’s The Insurrectionist is the first comprehensive biography of Major General Edwin A. Walker, a figure who, in the 1950s and 1960s, became a leader of a far-right political movement known f
- Author: Adams, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 09, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179922
- Language: English
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Democracy in America: A New Abridgment for Students
$50.00 Read moreA New Abridgement of a Classic on the American Experiment.
?As debates rage over the future of America and the country’s relationship to its past, there is no better time to examine the American cultu- Author: de Tocqueville, Alexis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 09 2016
- ISBN10: 1577997654
- Language: English
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The Coming Caesars
$19.95 Add to cartFew Americans see the US presidents and the presidency outside of a sentimental idealism. Amaury de Riencourt, an author of more than eight books who lectured extensively in the US in the 1950s, pulls… [more below]
- Author: de Riencourt, Amaury
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 10 2014
- ISBN10: 193848004X
- Language: English
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Demagoguery and Democracy
$7.95 Read moreWhat is demagoguery? Some demagogues are easy to spot: They rise to power through pandering, charisma, and prejudice. But, as professor Patricia Roberts-Miller explains, a demagogue is anyone who redu
- Author: Roberts-Miller, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 17, 2020
- ISBN10: 1615196765
- Language: English
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Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World
$19.99 Add to cartA San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller – An NPR Best Book of the Year
The New York Times‘s Global Economics Correspondent masterfully reveals how billionaires’ systematic plunder of the world–brazenly
- Author: Goodman, Peter S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0063078317
- Language: English
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Why the People: The Case for Democracy
$28.99 Read moreThis witty and well-argued graphic novel is a must-have for anyone wanting to learn what power “we the people” actually have in a democracy.
Why the people?
Is democracy actually the best form of gove- Series: World Citizen Comics
- Author: Feathers, Beka
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 14, 2022
- ISBN10: 1250760704
- Language: English
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On Democracy
$17.99 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review New & Noteworthy Title
“For democracy’s weary champions, White’s time-tested prose is a shot of adrenaline” (Madeleine Albright).
“I am a member of a party of one, and I liv
- Author: White, E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 30 2020
- ISBN10: 0062905457
- Language: English
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Democracy May Not Exist, But We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone
$19.99 Add to cartWhat is democracy really? What do we mean when we use the term? And can it ever truly exist? Astra Taylor, hailed as a “New Civil Rights Leader” (LA Times), provides surprising answers.
There is no sh- Author: Taylor, Astra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 19 2020
- ISBN10: 1250231280
- Language: English
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Brutal Minds: The Dark World of Left-Wing Brainwashing in Our Universities
$29.99 Add to cart“If you are scratching your head as to how radicals could have seized control in Washington, and of American media, while defaming American democracy as a ‘white supremacist’ nightmare, look no furth
- Author: Ridgley, Stanley K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 163006226X
- Language: English
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Intimate Direct Democracy: Fort Mose, the Great Dismal Swamp, and the Human Quest for Freedom
$19.99 Read moreFrom the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, many African people who were enslaved in North America emancipated themselves and fled into vast swamplands and across colonial borders, beyond the reac
- Author: Kadalie, Modibo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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The Crooked Timber of Democracy in Israel: Promise Unfulfilled
$34.99 Add to cartA narrative chronicle of Israeli democracy that defines historic phases and follows thematic challenges to democracy, including: competition between religion and the rule of law; the statist society a… [more below]
- Series: Democracy in Times of Upheaval #7
- Author: Scheindlin, Dahlia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 277
- Publish Date: December 15 2023
- ISBN10: 3111395510
- Language: English
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If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty
$18.00 Add to cart#1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas delivers an extraordinary book that is part history and part rousing call to arms, steeped in a critical analysis of our founding fathers’ original in… [more below]
- Author: Metaxas, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 06 2017
- ISBN10: 1101979992
- Language: English
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Unlocking Your Inner Zelensky: Lessons We Can All Learn from an Unexpected Leader
$19.00 Add to cartVolodymyr Zelensky captivated the world when his country was invaded by Russia in February 2022. His appearances were accompanied by countless inspiring statements. But there’s a single one that infor
- Author: Kanzer, Jessie Asya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 125089476X
- Language: English
