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In HANDS OFF MY GUN, Dana Loesch - co-founder of the Tea Party in St Louis, 2012 winner of Accuracy in Media's Grassroots Journalism Award and Nielsen-rated one of the top 16 most powerful mothers online - tells the hard truth and pulls no punches as she...

Surveying American politics from Eisenhower to Clinton, this text analyzes the role of the election campaign - its promises and processes - on the development of consistent, clear and comprehensive policies. It explores basic issues of governability and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438481333Author Sara CarpenterFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

1. Puts US national politics in international perspective, giving students a broader understanding of how American government compares to other countries. 2. Shows current challenges to democracy including populism, totalitarian impulses, and...

Where do most of the former members of Congress go after leaving office? This book is a chronicle of where former members are living, what they are doing, how they happened to leave Congress—voluntarily or not—and what they see for themselves in the...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...

This book, first published in 1972, offers a detailed analysis of the post-war formulation of foreign policy, as Britain sought to detach itself from its imperialist past and moved towards a European future. The contributors - all experts in their fields...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679728252Author Alexis De TocquevilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 403gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588347060Author Founding FathersFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 567g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637630136Author Geoff DuncanFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Forefront BooksPublisher Forefront BooksWeight(grams) 137g

When do committees that share jurisdiction over an issue choose to seek agreement rather than engage in a turf war? Overlapping and ambiguous turf has become endemic in Congress over the last three decades, especially on issues at the top of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307946454Author Thomas Byrne EdsallFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 272g

Originally published in 1957, this book gives a comprehensive account of the scope and variety of the work previously performed by Scottish Government departments in Whitehall during the second half of the 20th Century. The then Secretary of State for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780762471898Author Ben SheehanFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Running Press,U.S.Publisher Running Press

• The only long-established American government text under 350 pages, Basics provides a brief, current, easily-understood introduction to American politics and government for beginning college and community college students. • With simple, focused...

American Democracy is at a Turning Point Most of the American people believe our government is on the wrong track, is broken, and is not capable of solving our major problems. Our national leaders have for too long made the rules for how we are governed...

This edited volume brings together critical insights that address the multifaceted problems of governance and democracy in the developing regions with specific reference to Africa. It explores both the externally prescribed and home-grown governance...

Intervention is as American as apple pie, writes Robert Jervis in the introduction to this book. Illustrating this proposition, twelve authorities draw a general portrait of American military intervention since the end of the cold war by examining...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633886582Author Bill PetrocelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Prometheus BooksPublisher Prometheus BooksWeight(grams) 140g

-- Mark Greif, Times Literary SupplementBook InformationISBN 9780231110457Author Paul C. MishlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Columbia University PressPublisher Columbia University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588347084Author Abraham LincolnFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian Books

From decisions about the end of life to choices about the creation of life and, more recently, to questions concerning the cost and accessibility of health care, bioethics is a field of vigorous and sometimes rancorous public debate. Indeed the moral...

Islam: An American Religion demonstrates how Islam as formed in the United States has become an American religion in a double sense-first through the strategies of recognition adopted by Muslims and second through the performance of Islam as a faith. ...

Describes modern American society, examines America's domestic and foreign policy, and identifies trends in government.Book InformationISBN 9780231069229Author James SchlesingerFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Columbia University PressPublisher...

This title focuses on Haiti from an international perspective. Haiti has endured undue influence from successive French and US governments; its fragile 'democracy' has been founded on subordination to and dominance of foreign powers. This book examines...

THE WAY FORWARD challenges conventional thinking, outlines his political vision for 2014 and beyond, and shows how essential conservatism is for the future of our nation. Beginning with a careful analysis of the 2012 election - including a look at the...

The aim of this book is to explore and analyze the Islamic axioms, foundation principles and values underpinning the field of governance in an attempt to construct the architectonics of a new systemic and dynamic theory and formulate the articulation of...

Thomas Paine, a native of Thetford, England, arrived in America's colonies with little in the way of money, reputation, or prospects, though he did have a letter of recommendation in his pocket from Benjamin Franklin. Paine also had a passion for liberty...

Since the late 1960s, the burgeoning gay rights movement has begun to have a profound effect on the politics of many American cities. This book presents a comprehensive exploration of gay and lesbian politics in urban settings. The study presents a...

In the entire history of the United States of America: We've never elected a woman as our president. We've only had one president who is not a white man. With two presidential campaigns under her belt, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, MSNBC's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644212004Author Nina BurleighFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 140g

This volume inquires into the working mechanisms, the inner logic, and the durability of authoritarian rule in Arab countries. Written by leading American, European, and Arab experts, the collected essays explore the ongoing political dynamics of the...

The year 2008 will be remembered as the moment when the US elected its first African American president. This revealing book seeks to place the extraordinary rise of Barack Obama within the larger context of a possible historic political realignment in...

This book is the first analysis of political defections over a long time span. It investigates all the Liberal/Liberal Democrat MPs and former MPs who defected from the party between the elections of December 1910 and May 2010 - around one sixth of all...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the British Labour Party was broadly supportive of Irish home rule. However, from the end of the First World War, Labour anticipated a place in government, and as a modern, maturing party in British politics, it...

The sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy is arguably the most acute crisis Catholicism has faced since the Reformation. The prevalence of clergy sexual abuse and its shocking cover-up by church officials have obscured the largely untold story of...

The Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia in 1978 and the consequent outbreak of the Cambodian conflict brought Southeast Asia into instability and deteriorated relations between Vietnam and the subsequently established Vietnam-backed government in Cambodia on...

Drawing on twenty-four years of experience in government, Michael H. Armacost explores how the contours of the U.S. presidential election system influence the content and conduct of American foreign policy. He examines how the nomination battle impels...

Examines the impact of sex role stereotyping on the electability of women candidates, and as a central factor in the conduct and consequences of statewide campaigns.Kahn examines the impact of sex role stereotyping on the electability of women...

As a U.S. Senator and former federal prosecutor, Sheldon Whitehouse has had a front-row seat at the spectacle of dark money in government. In his widely praised book Captured, he describes how corporations buy influence over our government - not only...