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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812991741Author Pat MiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 493gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

The Affirmative Action Debate collects the leading voices on all sides of this crucial dialogue. A provocative range of politicians, researchers, legal experts, and businesspeople dispute the best way to fight discrimination. Their essays explore such...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593474136Author Jim SciuttoFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint DuttonPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 595g

This book examines the current status of Mexicano and Latino politics in the United States. Political scientist and community activist Armando Navarro maintains that both represent a dysfunctional and failed mode of politics, attributable to their system...

An inside account of politics, crisis, and architecture on Capitol Hill The domed US Capitol Building is recognized around the world as America’s most iconic symbol, the forum for representative democracy, and the physical stage for the transfer of...

This is the first book that explains the Tea Party's successful "primary" campaign against Republicans in Name Only (RINOs). Grassroots Tea Party activists adopted this strategy in 2009 shortly after the movement emerged. The first successful...

Irreconcilable Differences is an attempt to peer into the future in the light of recent and ongoing events. Author David Cole proposes that Americans may be living through the beginning of the devolution of the United States of America - a development...

A multi-chapter book that examines the FBI files on two well known persons of Mexican origin, Luisa Moreno and Ernesto Galarza; four Chicanos, Ambassador Raymond Telles and his wife Delfina Navarro, Francisco "Pancho" Medrano, Freddy Fender; two...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793616043Author J. Michael MartinezFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington BooksWeight(grams) 152g

In 2001, George W. Bush created the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. The driving force behind the policy was to create a "level playing field" where faith-based organizations could compete on an equal footing with...

The attitudes of individual citizens play a central role in a democracy. In the United States today, the two major parties are each associated with a broad set of policy positions representing the conservative and liberal political ideologies. The two...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793624550Author Jose Angel GutierrezFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington BooksWeight(grams) 152g

This is the first book that explains the Tea Party's successful "primary" campaign against Republicans in Name Only (RINOs). Grassroots Tea Party activists adopted this strategy in 2009 shortly after the movement emerged. The first successful...

The 2020 US presidential race was one of the most hotly contested and contentious in recent American history. While the election produced the greatest turnout in American history and the highest percentage turnout in 60 years, the election still came...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857287731Author Stig Toft MadsenFormat HardbackPage Count 324Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 680g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857287670Author Vasudha ChhotrayFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 680g

An urgent and witty manifesto, Monopolies Suck "lucidly explains how monopolies threaten democracy, worsen inequality, and imperil the American Dream-and why it's more important than ever to take action" (David Cicilline). Something's not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940771410Author Carl CavalliFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint University of North GeorgiaPublisher University of North GeorgiaWeight(grams) 626g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897071410Author Tom WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Between the LinesPublisher Between the Lines

A decade into its hard-won democracy, South Africa and its ruling party, the ANC, have been through turbulent times. Confrontation between Thabo Mbeki, and his then deputy, Jacob Zuma; the dismissal of Zuma as Deputy; Zuma's defeat of Mbeki in ANC...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843318965Author Kristian StokkeFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 590g

Discover a groundbreaking vision for how to unlock America's full potential for greatness from one of the country's foremost conservative leaders: David McCormick, the former CEO of Bridgewater Associates.It's easy to be pessimistic about the state of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781797177496Author Phillip C McGrawImprint Simon & Schuster AudioPublisher Simon & Schuster AudioWeight(grams) 318g

The Congress of the United States operates in the shadow of the American presidency, which can make the legislative branch appear less important than the executive in our constitutional system of government. And yet Congress is a co-equal branch of...

President Donald J. Trump said he wants to "drain the swamp." But is it a swamp or an ocean? It's about time the American people had some hard facts regarding the federal bureaucracy. In Operation Drain The Swamp, we expose all of it. We...

A U.S. senator, leading the fight against money in politics, chronicles the long shadow corporate power has cast over our democracy In Captured, U.S. Senator and former federal prosecutor Sheldon Whitehouse offers an eye-opening take on what corporate...

The debate over the size and scope of the federal government has raged from the New Deal right up through the 2016 presidential race. So why have opponents of big government so rarely made political headway? Because they fail to address the fundamental...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594039119Author David SchoenbrodFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Encounter Books,USAPublisher Encounter Books,USA

Long established as a leading introduction to the American presidency, Presidential Leadership, Thirteenth Edition, provides students with a comprehensive survey that addresses the capacity of chief executives to fulfill their tasks, exercise their...

New York Times Bestseller! Now with five additional documents and a new introduction, let Governor Jesse Ventura take you through the paperwork that the US government tried to keep secret from the world--JFK and Vietnam, chemical and biological warfare,...

For nearly a century and a half, Americans lived by a powerful tradition in which no President served more than two terms. Then came Franklin Delano Roosevelt, restricted by custom but not by law, who won a third term in 1940 and a fourth in 1944...

For nearly a century and a half, Americans lived by a powerful tradition in which no President served more than two terms. Then came Franklin Delano Roosevelt, restricted by custom but not by law, who won a third term in 1940 and a fourth in 1944...

"A Washington insider draws on decades of experience to deliver a blistering critique of the state of American government" (Kirkus Reviews) in an authoritative scrutiny of the forces that run our society and a call to fix our democracy before...

At the intersection of the growing national conversation about our food system and the long-running debate about our government's role in society is the complex farm bill. American farm policy, built on a political coalition of related interests with...

Examines the coded language of the Republican Party In The Wrongs of the Right, Matthew W. Hughey and Gregory S. Parks set postracial claims into relief against a background of pre- and post-election racial animus directed at President Obama, his...

The progressive movement is on the march in America and this accessible book points toward a destination. Sixteen for '16 offers a new agenda for the 2016 US election crafted around sixteen core principles that all progressives can believe in, from...

The 2014 midterm election was one of the most significant in recent memory, with a decisive turning of the tables in favor of Republicans. With a now-Republican-controlled Senate and House at odds with a Democratic president with only two years left in...

Political role models are people that voters form a connection with, and who provoke them to think differently about and engage with politics. Inspired Citizens examines the impact role models have in American politics through the lens of political...

American Government: A Brief Introduction teaches students how to interpret and question data in charts, graphs, and polls that they encounter daily in social media. Drawing on her expertise as both a teacher and researcher, new co-author Hahrie Han...

This book addresses the body of statutory and case law covering both the military and military conduct. Four chapters discuss the relationship between the Supreme Court and military justice, covering the Civil War era, World War II, the post-war period...