History & Theory
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Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
$28.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A brilliant evocation of one of the greatest presidents in American history by the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War
“It- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: September 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0307277941
- Language: English
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Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty
$20.00 Add to cart“Dan Jones has an enviable gift for telling a dramatic story while at the same time inviting us to consider serious topics like liberty and the seeds of representative government.” –Antonia Fraser
Fr- Author: Jones, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0143108956
- Language: English
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Black Panthers Speak
$20.00 Add to cartA sweeping collection of the most vital and representative writings of the Black Panther party.
- Author: Foner, Philip S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 25 2014
- ISBN10: 1608463281
- Language: English
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All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s
$25.00 Add to cartIn the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and War on Poverty promised an array of federal programs to assist working-class families. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan declared the GOP the party of “famil
- Author: Self, Robert O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 17 2013
- ISBN10: 0809026740
- Language: English
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Aristotle’s Art of Rhetoric
$19.00 Add to cartFor more than two thousand years. Aristotle’s “Art of Rhetoric” has shaped thought on the theory and practice of rhetoric, the art of persuasive speech. In three sections, Aristotle discusses what rhe… [more below]
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 12 2021
- ISBN10: 022678990X
- Language: English
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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated
$15.00 Add to cartThe United States has been engaged in what the great historian Charles A. Beard called “perpetual war for perpetual peace.” The Federation of American Scientists has cataloged nearly 200 military incu… [more below]
- Author: Vidal, Gore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: April 10 2002
- ISBN10: 156025405X
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Democracy: 4,000 Years of Self-Government – A Retelling for Our Times
$15.95 Read moreThis 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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Conservatism: A Rediscovery
$29.99 Add to cartThe idea that American conservatism is identical to “classical” liberalism–widely held since the 1960s–is seriously mistaken.
The award-winning political theorist Yoram Hazony argues that the best- Author: Hazony, Yoram
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1684511097
- Language: English
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Utopia
$19.95 Read moreFive-hundred-year anniversary edition of More’s Utopia, with writing from major science fiction writers
Five hundred years since its first publication, Thomas More’s Utopia remains astonishingly radic- Author: More, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 08 2016
- ISBN10: 1784787604
- Language: English
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Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the End of Revolution, Updated Edition
$29.95 Add to cartA wide-ranging, comprehensive look at Russia and its leader . . . well written, well reported, and well organized.—The New York Times
With the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia launched itself
- Author: Baker, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 478
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1597971227
- Language: English
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How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left Got High on Nietzsche
$16.95 Read moreA how-to guide for the left on how to overcome Nietzsche’s divisive and damaging influence.
”Exemplary… Tutt’s evaluation of the consequences of Nietzschean politics is more lucid than Left Nietzsc- Author: Tutt, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1914420624
- Language: English
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What It Takes: The Way to the White House
$27.00 Add to cart“Quite possibly the finest book on presidential politics ever written, combining meticulous reporting and compelling, at times soaringly lyrical, prose.” — Cleveland Plain Dealer
An American Iliad in- Author: Cramer, Richard Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1072
- Publish Date: June 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0679746498
- Language: English
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The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville
$26.95 Add to cart- Author: Zunz, Olivier
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0691254141
- Language: English
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Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia
$24.95 Add to cartIn Sideshow, journalist Shawcross presents the first full-scale investigation of the secret and illegal war the United States fought with Cambodia from 1969 to 1973, paving the way for the Khmer Rouge… [more below]
- Author: Shawcross, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 542
- Publish Date: August 14 2002
- ISBN10: 081541224X
- Language: English
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Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political Writing
$29.95 Add to cartBlack Communist women throughout the early to mid-twentieth century fought for and led mass campaigns in the service of building collective power in the fight for liberation. Through concrete material… [more below]
- Author: Burden-Stelly, Charisse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 183976497X
- Language: English
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The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World
$19.95 Add to cartClimate change is not only about the exhaustion of the planet, it’s about the exhaustion of so many of us, our lives, our worlds, even our minds. So, what is to be done?
To answer this question, Ajay- Author: Chaudhary, Ajay Singh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1915672112
- Language: English
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The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
$19.99 Add to cartA riveting account of how the Nazi Party came to power and how the failures of the Weimar Republic and the shortsightedness of German politicians allowed it to happen.
Why did democracy fall apart so- Author: Hett, Benjamin Carter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 18 2019
- ISBN10: 1250210860
- 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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The Future Is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism
$26.95 Read moreWe need to break free from the capitalist economy. Degrowth gives us the tools to bend its bars.
Economic growth isn’t working, and it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economi
- Author: Schmelzer, Matthias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1839765844
- Language: English
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The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
$29.99 Add to cart“It is inconceivable even to imagine, let alone hope for, a dominant conservative movement in America without Kirk’s labor.” — WILLIAM F BUCKLEY
“A profound critique of contemporary mass society, an- Author: Kirk, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 534
- Publish Date: September 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0895261715
- Language: English
