Democracy
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Distorting Democracy: The Forgotten History of the Electoral College–And Why It Matters Today
$21.95 Add to cartThe complicated history of how America elects presidents and why this matters to the next election
An engaging mix of history and political science, Distorting Democracy will awaken Americans to the p
- Author: DuPont, Carolyn Ren?e
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1493085980
- Language: English
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Partisan Nation: The Dangerous New Logic of American Politics in a Nationalized Era
$29.00 Read moreA provocative exploration of how America’s democratic crisis is rooted in a dangerous mismatch between our Constitution and today’s nationalized, partisan politics.
The ground beneath American politic
- Author: Pierson, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0226836436
- Language: English
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The Forever War: America’s Unending Conflict with Itself
$30.00 Read moreFrom the author of When America Stopped Being Great, an insightful and urgent reassessment of America’s past, present and future – as a country which is forever at war with itself.
The Forever War tel- Author: Bryant, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1399409301
- Language: English
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The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley
$27.95 Add to cartAn insider offers a “forceful critique…of Big Tech’s steady erosion of democracy” (The New Yorker) and describes what must be done to stop it
Over the past decades, under the cover of “innovation,”- Author: Schaake, Marietje
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0691241171
- Language: English
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Plan Red: China’s Project to Destroy America
$24.99 Add to cart“A much needed wake-up call that China assumes that it is open season on Americans.”
–Victor Davis Hanson
“There is a Red Storm rising in the East—and America is already under assault from the Chinese
- Author: Chang, Gordon G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1630062804
- Language: English
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Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps, and Representation
$32.00 Add to cartHow we can repair our democracy by rebuilding the mechanisms that power it
What’s the best way to determine what most voters want when multiple candidates are running? What’s the fairest way to alloca- Author: Volic, Ismar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 069124880X
- Language: English
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Trump Derangement Syndrome: A psychological analysis of leftist ideology
$33.27 Add to cartTrump Derangement Syndrome has taken over major portions of society, spreading throughout America, tearing apart the mental stability of those inflicted, taking them to the brink and destroying cities
- Author: Pappas, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1963102258
- Language: English
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Tyranny of the Minority
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late–from the authors of How Democracies Die
“[Levitsky and Ziblatt] write with terrifying clarity a- Author: Levitsky, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0593443098
- Language: English
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The Court V. the Voters: The Troubling Story of How the Supreme Court Has Undermined Voting Rights
$29.95 Read moreAn urgent and gripping look at the erosion of voting rights and its implications for democracy, told through the stories of 9 Supreme Court decisions–and the next looming case
In The Court v. The Vo- Author: Douglas, Joshua A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 807010936
- Language: English
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The Age of Reconstruction: How Lincoln’s New Birth of Freedom Remade the World
$35.00 Add to cartA sweeping history of how Union victory in the American Civil War inspired democratic reforms, revolutions, and emancipation movements in Europe and the Americas
The Age of Reconstruction looks beyond- Series: America in the World #54
- Author: Doyle, Don H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0691256098
- Language: English
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Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy
$24.95 Add to cartAmerica is at a crossroads. Conflicting political and social perspectives reflect a need to collectively define our moral imperatives, clarify cultural values, and inspire meaningful change. In that p… [more below]
- Author: Buntin, Simmons
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: March 31 2020
- ISBN10: 159534912X
- Language: English
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Indispensable Remedy: The Broad Scope of the Constitution’s Impeachment Power
$12.95 Add to cartPresidential impeachments are rare in American constitutional history: in the 230 years since ratification, only three presidents have faced serious attempts to remove them from office. Indispensable
- Author: Healy, Gene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: November 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1948647354
- Language: English
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How Do You Kill 11 Million People?: Why the Truth Matters More Than You Think
$16.99 Add to cartHow do you get away with the murder of 11 million people? The answer is simple–and disturbing. You lie to them. Learn how you can become an informed, passionate citizen who demands honesty and integr
- Author: Andrews, Andy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0849948355
- Language: English
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Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought – Expanded Edition
$24.95 Read morePolitics and Vision is a landmark work by one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century. This is a significantly expanded edition of one of the greatest works of modern political theory. Sheldon
- Series: Princeton Classics #23
- Author: Wolin, Sheldon S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 792
- Publish Date: September 12 2016
- ISBN10: 0691174059
- Language: English
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Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights: The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix It
$28.27 Add to cartEssays by Thomas Frank, Clay Shirky, David Simon, and others: “Anyone concerned about the state of journalism should read this book.” —Library Journal
The sudden meltdown of the news media has spark- Author: McChesney, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 03 2011
- ISBN10: 1595585486
- Language: English
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America’s Last Chance
$14.99 Add to cartThe battle for control of the Republican Party has been ongoing for decades; however, it has been especially intense over the last few years, the time period chronicled in this book. On the one side a
- Author: Crouere, Jeff J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: June 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0997297700
- Language: English
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Defying the Dragon: Hong Kong and the World’s Largest Dictatorship
$29.99 Add to cartDefying the Dragon tells a remarkable story of audacity: of how the people of Hong Kong challenged the PRC’s authority, just as its president reached the height of his powers. Is Xi’s China as unshake… [more below]
- Author: Vines, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1787384551
- Language: English
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Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from Within on Modern Democracy
$29.99 Add to cartA contrarian yet highly engaging account of the spread of illiberal and anti-democratic sentiment throughout our culture that places responsibility on the citizens themselves.
Over the past three deca- Author: Nichols, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0197518877
- Language: English
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Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College
$22.00 Add to cart“People have been arguing against the Electoral College from the beginning. But no one has laid out the case as comprehensively and as readably as Jesse Wegman.” –Josh Chafetz, New York Times Book Re
- Author: Wegman, Jesse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1250221994
- Language: English
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Breaking Through Power: It’s Easier Than We Think
$13.95 Add to cart“Nader’s assessment of how concentrated wealth and power undermine democracy is clear and compelling, but it’s his substantive vision of how we ought to respond that makes Breaking Through Power essen
- Series: City Lights Open Media
- Author: Nader, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 872867056
- Language: English
