History & Theory
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Democracy in America: Abridged Edition
$18.99 Add to cartThe abridged edition of the enduring masterwork–a classic portrait of America’s culture and people.
Originally penned in the mid-nineteenth century by Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in Ame
- Series: P.S.
- Author: de Tocqueville, Alexis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0060008733
- Language: English
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Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It)
$19.95 Add to cartWhy our workplaces are authoritarian private governments-and why we can’t see it
One in four American workers says their workplace is a “dictatorship.” Yet that number almost certainly would be higher- Series: University Center for Human Values #44
- Author: Anderson, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 30, 2019
- ISBN10: 0691192243
- Language: English
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The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence
$15.95 Add to cartWe are in the midst of a global crisis of care. How do we get out of it?
The Care Manifesto puts care at the heart of the debates of our current crisis: from intimate care–childcare, healthcare, elde- Author: The Care Collective
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 1839760966
- Language: English
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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
$19.95 Add to cartThis “sparkling” and world-famous work examines what drives people to live, die, and kill in the name of nations–revealing the surprising origins and development of nationalism (The Guardian).
The f- Author: Anderson, Benedict
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 13 2016
- ISBN10: 1784786756
- Language: English
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Democracy in America
$8.95 Add to cartFrench nobleman Alexis de Tocqueville’s classic treatise on the American way of life.
Over 175 years ago, Alexis de Tocqueville, an astute political scientist, came to the United States to evaluate th- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Tocqueville, Alexis de
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 06 2010
- ISBN10: 0451531604
- Language: English
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The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives
$49.92 Add to cartA powerful case for democracy and how it can adapt and survive–if we want it to
Is democracy in trouble, perhaps even dying? Pundits say so, and polls show that most Americans believe that their coun- Author: Manville, Brook
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0691218609
- Language: English
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Democracy in America
$26.00 Add to cartAlexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) came to America in 1831 to see what a great republic was like. What struck him most was the country’s equality of conditions, its democracy. The book he wrote on his re… [more below]
- Author: Tocqueville, Alexis De
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 722
- Publish Date: April 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0226805360
- Language: English
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The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power
$21.99 Add to cartFrom one of America’s foremost historians, The Kennedy Imprisonment is the definitive historical and psychological analysis of the Kennedy clan. The winner of a Pulitzer Prize, Garry Wills reveals a f
- Author: Wills, Garry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 14, 2002
- ISBN10: 0618134433
- Language: English
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Justice by Means of Democracy
$27.50 Add to cartFrom leading thinker Danielle Allen, a bold and urgent articulation of a new political philosophy: power-sharing liberalism.
At a time of great social and political turmoil, when many residents of t- Author: Allen, Danielle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 28 2023
- ISBN10: 022677709X
- Language: English
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The Penguin Guide to the United States Constitution: A Fully Annotated Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution and Amendments, and Selections f
$15.00 Add to cartWhat is the President, Congress, and the Supreme Court really allowed to do? This unique and handy guide includes the documents that guide our government, annotated with accessible explanations from o… [more below]
- Author: Beeman, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 31, 2010
- ISBN10: 0143118102
- Language: English
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Between Past and Future: Eight Exercises in Political Thought
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of Totalitarianism, “a book to think with through the political impasses and cultural confusions of our day” (Harper’s Magazine)
Hannah Arendt- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Arendt, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 1, 2006
- ISBN10: 0143104810
- Language: English
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Politics
$12.95 Add to cartThe Politics is one of the most influential texts in the history of political thought, and it raises issues which still confront anyone who wants to think seriously about the ways in which human socie… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 15, 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538735
- Language: English
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Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures
$19.95 Add to cartA collection of transcripts from Mark Fisher’s final series of lectures at Goldsmiths, University of London, in late 2016.
Edited and with an introduction by Matt Colquhoun, this collection of lecture- Author: Fisher, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 12, 2021
- ISBN10: 191346248X
- Language: English
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All the President’s Men
$18.99 Add to cart50th Anniversary Edition–Now with a new Foreword by Bob Woodward “The work that brought down a presidency…perhaps the most influential piece of journalism in history” (Time)–from the #1 New York T… [more below]
- Author: Woodward, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 3, 2014
- ISBN10: 1476770514
- Language: English
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Women in Politics: Breaking Down the Barriers to Achieve True Representation
$18.99 Add to cart“Women belong in all places where decisions are being made.”
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s words reflect a reality that has plagued the United States for centuries: We have work to do whe
- Author: Hayashi, Mary Chung
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 25, 2023
- ISBN10: 9798989003907
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
$20.99 Add to cartThe most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half century before crashing against the forces of Trumpism on the right and a new progressivism on the l… [more below]
- Author: Gerstle, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0197676316
- Language: English
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Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
$15.99 Add to cart“One of the Best Books of the 21st Century.”
—The Guardian“No writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that’s marked this new millennium.”
–Bill McKibben“An
- Author: Solnit, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: March 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1608465764
- Language: English
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How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy
$30.00 Read moreA groundbreaking examination of a central question in international relations: Do states act rationally?
To understand world politics, you need to understand how states think. Are states rational? Mu- Author: Mearsheimer, John J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0300269307
- Language: English
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Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times
$27.50 Read moreThe Cold War roots of liberalism’s present crisis
“[A] daring new book.”–Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post By the middle of the twentieth century, many liberals looked glumly at the world modernity ha- Author: Moyn, Samuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0300266219
- Language: English
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Leviathan
$14.00 Add to cart“During the time men live without a common Power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called Warre”
Written during the turmoil of the English Civil War, Leviathan is an ambitio- Author: Hobbes, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 0141395095
- Language: English
