Democracy
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Fool Proof: How Fear of Playing the Sucker Shapes Our Selves and the Social Order–And What We Can Do about It
$32.00 Read moreThe fear of playing the fool is a universal psychological phenomenon and an underappreciated driver of human behavior; in the spirit of Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink, Dan Ariely’s Predictably Irrational,
- Author: Wilkinson-Ryan, Tess
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0063214261
- Language: English
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A Real Right to Vote: How a Constitutional Amendment Can Safeguard American Democracy
$27.95 Read moreWhy it’s time to enshrine the right to vote in the Constitution
Throughout history, too many Americans have been disenfranchised or faced needless barriers to voting. Part of the blame falls on the Co- Author: Hasen, Richard L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 069125771X
- Language: English
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Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy: Third Edition
$19.99 Add to cart“Joseph Schumpeter’s classic Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy explains the process of capitalism’s ‘creative destruction’ — a key principle in understanding the logic of globalization.” — Thomas
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Thought
- Author: Schumpeter, Joseph A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 04 2008
- ISBN10: 0061561614
- Language: English
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American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good
$18.00 Add to cartThe author of American Nations examines the history of and solutions to the key American question: how best to reconcile individual liberty with the maintenance of a free society
The struggle between- Author: Woodard, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0143110004
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Greece: The Odyssey of a Nation from Myth to Modernity
$16.95 Add to cartPhilosophy, art, democracy, language, even computers–the glories of Greek civilization have shaped our world even more profoundly than we realize. Pericles and the Parthenon may be familiar, but what… [more below]
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Heneage, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1615199489
- Language: English
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Barack Obama Selected Speeches
$14.99 Read moreFind inspiration in these selected speeches from the 44th president of the United States.
This curated collection of landmark speeches chronicles Barack Obama’s presence on the national stage, covers- Series: Word Cloud Classics
- Author: Obama, Barack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 14, 2021
- ISBN10: 1645177890
- Language: English
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An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War Over Slavery, and the Refounding of America
$32.50 Add to cartThis is a story about a dangerous idea–one which ignited revolutions in America, France, and Haiti; burst across Europe in the revolutions of 1848; and returned to inflame a new generation of intelle
- Author: Stewart, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1324003626
- Language: English
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We’ve Got to Try: How the Fight for Voting Rights Makes Everything Else Possible
$18.99 Read more“Uplifting. . . . O’Rourke gets an A-plus on both the moral frisson of the long fight and the rightness of the cause. . . . The happy warrior from Texas is inspiring.” –The Washington Post
Activist a- Author: O’Rourke, Beto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250852463
- Language: English
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Patriarcha: The Complete Political Works – Imperium Press
$20.95 Add to cartRobert Filmer is the greatest proponent of the divine right of kings the English-speaking world has ever produced. Writing in defence of the Stuart kings against an increasingly strident parliament, h
- Author: Filmer, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: September 29 2021
- ISBN10: 1922602167
- Language: English
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Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government
$24.95 Add to cartWhy our belief in government by the people is unrealistic–and what we can do about it
Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic po- Series: Princeton Studies in Political Behavior #4
- Author: Achen, Christopher H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: August 29 2017
- ISBN10: 0691178240
- Language: English
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Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
$19.95 Add to cartA new edition of a celebrated contemporary work on race and racism
Praised by a wide variety of people from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Zadie Smith, Racecraft “ought to be positioned,” as Bookforum put it, “a- Author: Fields, Barbara J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 183976564X
- Language: English
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A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution
$24.99 Add to cartFrom an award-winning historian, a “vivid” (Wall Street Journal) account of the revolution that created the modern world
The French Revolution’s principles of liberty and equality still shape our ideas
- Author: Popkin, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1541620178
- Language: English
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Democracy: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Democracy refers to both ideal and real forms of government. The concept of democracy means that those governed — the demos — have a say in gov- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Zack, Naomi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0192845063
- Language: English
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We Need to Build: Field Notes for Diverse Democracy
$18.95 Add to cartFrom the former faith adviser to President Obama comes an inspirational guide for those who seek to promote positive social change and build a more diverse and just democracy
The goal of social change- Author: Patel, Eboo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0807008230
- Language: English
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Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People–And the Fight to Resist It
$30.00 Read moreA riveting account of the decades-long effort by reactionary white conservatives to undermine democracy and entrench their power—and the movement to stop them.
The mob that stormed the Capitol on Janu- Author: Berman, Ari
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 037460021X
- Language: English
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It Could Happen Here: Why America Is Tipping from Hate to the Unthinkable-And How We Can Stop It
$19.99 Add to cart“Refreshingly candid . . . Get off Instagram and read this book.” –Sacha Baron Cohen
From the dynamic head of ADL, an impassioned argument about the terrifying path that America finds itself on today
- Author: Greenblatt, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0063269139
- Language: English
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The American Revolution: A History
$21.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“An elegant synthesis done by the leading scholar in the field, which nicely integrates the work on the American Revolution over the last three decades but never loses contact… [more below]- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Wood, Gordon S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 19 2003
- ISBN10: 0812970411
- Language: English
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A People’s History of the United States
$27.99 Add to cartTHE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER
“A wonderful, splendid book–a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for
- Series: Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: June 28 2016
- ISBN10: 0061965596
- Language: English
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Democracy in America and Two Essays on America
$16.00 Add to cartA contemporary study of the early American nation and its evolving democracy, from a French aristocrat and sociologist
In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil serv- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Tocqueville, Alexis de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 992
- Publish Date: July 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0140447601
- Language: English
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Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom
$44.00 Add to cartFrom the former secretary of state and bestselling author — a sweeping look at the global struggle for democracy and why America must continue to support the cause of human freedom.
“This heartfelt- Author: Rice, Condoleezza
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 1455540188
- Language: English
