History & Theory
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Antisemitism: Part One of the Origins of Totalitarianism
$16.99 Add to cartThe first volume of Arendt’s celebrated three-part study of the philosophical origins of the totalitarian mind. This volume focuses on the rise of antisemitism in Europe in the late nineteenth and ear… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Arendt, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: March 20 1968
- ISBN10: 0156078104
- Language: English
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The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory
$18.99 Add to cartJesse Walker’s The United States of Paranoia presents a comprehensive history of conspiracy theories in American culture and politics, from the colonial era to the War on Terror.
The fear of intrigue a
- Author: Walker, Jesse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0062135562
- Language: English
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In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz
$19.99 Add to cartKnown as “the Leopard,” the president of Zaire for thirty-two years, Mobutu Sese Seko, showed all the cunning of his namesake — seducing Western powers, buying up the opposition, and dominating his p
- Author: Wrong, Michela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0060934433
- Language: English
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Soong Dynasty
$21.99 Add to cartAn inside account of the Soong family, whose wealth and power have dominated China and U.S.-Asia policy in the 20th century.
- Author: Seagrave, Sterling
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 19 1986
- ISBN10: 60913185
- Language: English
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The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind
$19.95 Add to cart“The most creative and courageous social theorist working today” examines the ethical binds that emerge within the force field of violence (Cornel West).
” . . . nonviolence is often seen as passive a- Author: Butler, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1788732774
- Language: English
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On Practice and Contradiction
$24.95 Add to cartThese early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions, and their clarion calls to insurrection remain some of the most stirring of all time. Drawing on a dizzying array of references … [more below]
- Series: Revolutions
- Author: Mao Tse-Tung
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 17 2007
- ISBN10: 1844675874
- Language: English
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Dialogues of Plato
$8.99 Add to cartIn these influential dialogues–Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo, Symposium–Plato employs the dialectic method to examine the trial and death of his mentor, Socrates, and address the eternal q… [more below]
- Series: Enriched Classics
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 21 2010
- ISBN10: 1439169489
- Language: English
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El Principe / The Prince
$24.99 Add to cartEl Principe, de Nicholas Maquiavelo, es una obra clasica en materia poli-tica y de gran trascendencia dentro de la cultura occidental. Maquiavelo es, ademas de un gran teorico del pensamiento politico… [more below]
- Author: Machiavelli, Niccolo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 12 2008
- ISBN10: 1638232261
- Language: Spanish
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Realigners
$21.00 Add to cartA VITAL NEW VOICE: Shenk is a leading new voice of the millennial left, and a rising historian who’s something of a prodigy. His ambitious dissertation Inventing the American Economy will be published
- Author: Shenk, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872936
- Language: English
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Commentaries on the Republic
$14.95 Add to cartThrough a series of thought-provoking book reviews and public policy essays, the author offers enduring insights concerning the nature of government and its relationship to the governed, particularly
- Author: Headen, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: July 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1684988942
- Language: English
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Lincoln and the Indians: Civil War Policy and Politics
$19.95 Add to cartThe only thorough treatment of Lincoln’s Indian policy during the Civil War and the corrupt “Indian System” of government aid that mainly benefited ambitious whites.
- Author: Nichols, David A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: June 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0873518756
- Language: English
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A Politician Thinking: The Creative Mind of James Madison
$29.95 Add to cartJames Madison presented his most celebrated and studied political ideas in his contributions to The Federalist, the essays that he, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay wrote in 1787-1788 to secure ratifi
- Series: Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture #14
- Author: Rakove, Jack N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: September 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0806157372
- Language: English
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Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man: A Biography
$18.00 Add to cartChristopher Hitchens, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great has been called a Tom Paine for our times, and in this addition to the Books that Changed the World Series, he vivid… [more below]
- Series: Books That Changed the World
- Author: Hitchens, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0802143830
- Language: English
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Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission Failed the Nation and Why
$27.99 Add to cartThe Warren Commission’s major conclusion was that Lee Harvey Oswald was the “lone assassin” of President John F. Kennedy. Gerald McKnight rebuts that view in a meticulous and devastating dissection of… [more below]
- Author: McKnight, Gerald D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: October 04 2005
- ISBN10: 0700619399
- Language: English
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Who Financed Hitler: The Secret Funding of Hitler’s Rise to Power, 1919-1933 the Secret Funding of Hitler’s Rise to Power, 1919-1933
$28.95 Read moreCalled “one of the most useful and illuminating studies of Nazism” by The New Yorker, this highly acclaimed work of history unravels the secret financial web which Hitler spun across Europe and around… [more below]
- Author: Pool, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 22 2006
- ISBN10: 0671760831
- Language: English
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Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes After the Cold War
$55.25 Add to cartCompetitive authoritarian regimes – in which autocrats submit to meaningful multiparty elections but engage in serious democratic abuse – proliferated in the post-Cold War era. Based on a detailed stu… [more below]
- Series: Problems of International Politics
- Author: Levitsky, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: August 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0521709156
- Language: English
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Critique of the Gotha Program
$15.95 Add to cartMarx’s Critique of the Gotha Program is a revelation. It offers the fullest elaboration of his vision for a communist future, free from the shackles of capital, but also the state. Neglected by the st
- Series: Spectre
- Author: Marx, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1629639168
- Language: English
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Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit
$18.99 Add to cartIn Chris Matthews’s New York Times bestselling portrait of Robert F. Kennedy, “Readers witness the evolution of Kennedy’s soul. Through tragedy after tragedy we find the man humanized” (Associated Pre… [more below]
- Author: Matthews, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1501111876
- Language: English
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Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It
$16.95 Read moreBlockchain Radicals uncovers the radical political potential of the blockchain, showing how it can be used by the left in the fight against capitalism.
Over the last decade, blockchains and crypto hav- Author: Dávila, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1914420853
- Language: English
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The Origins of Totalitarianism: With a New Introduction by Anne Applebaum
$21.99 Add to cartHannah Arendt’s definitive work on totalitarianism–an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history–now with a new introduction by Anne Applebaum.
In recent years, The Origi
- Author: Arendt, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0063354489
- Language: English
