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With keen and original insight, Vox journalist Zack Beauchamp traces how a reactionary antidemocratic ethos born and bred in America has come to infect democracies around the worldThere is a fundamental contradiction at the heart of American politics...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865977549Author Ludwig von MisesFormat PaperbackPage Count 345Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 578g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945875137Author Dennis W ArcherFormat HardbackPage Count 440Imprint Atkins & Greenspan WritingPublisher Atkins & Greenspan WritingWeight(grams)...

Aesthete, sensualist, bookworm, politician of Machiavellian cunning: Francois Mitterrand was a man of exceptional gifts and exceptional flaws who, during his fourteen years as President, strove to drag his tradition-bound and change-averse country into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982140779Author Troy SenikFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375701733Author William Lee MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 437gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805069631Author Elizabeth DrewFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Times BooksPublisher Times BooksWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 147mm * 19mm

'Admirably brief and necessarily brutal... Highly recommended.' - NICK COHEN, THE SPECTATOR 'Compact and easily digestible. I'd encourage anyone who is confused, fascinated or frustrated by Brexit to read this book - you'll be far wiser by the end of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781761037719Author Jerry WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 62Imprint Ingram PublishingPublisher Ingram PublishingWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Often portrayed as an inept and stubborn tyrant, South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem has long been the subject of much derision but little understanding. Philip Catton's penetrating study provides a much more complex portrait of Diem as both a...

Stalin and War, 1918-1953 is the first book to examine the patterns of radicalized internal violence that characterized the Stalinist regime across the whole of the dictator's rule, and it is one of the only works to connect patterns of internal violence...

Packaging Politics 2nd Edition examines the various ways in which politicians, spin doctors and special advisers, in political parties, in central and local government and in Parliament have become increasingly enthusiastic and effective in using mass...

This volume focuses on the 2016 Presidential campaign from a communication perspective, with each chapter considering a specific area of political campaign communication and practice. The first section includes chapters on the early candidate nomination...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781649600806Author Jon HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Ambassador InternationalPublisher Ambassador InternationalWeight(grams)...

One of the most momentous stories of the last century is China's rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society into a global power that promises to one day rival the United States. Chiang Kai-shek, an autocratic, larger-than-life figure,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812981254Author Ronald C. White, Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 864Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770417144Author Bill MorneauFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

Fifty-two men and one woman have held the post of Prime Minister during the past three centuries - from Sir Robert Walpole to David Cameron. In this omnibus edition, which includes Eighteenth-Century British Premiers, Nineteenth-Century British Premiers,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912759019Author Oswald SpenglerFormat HardbackPage Count 274Imprint Black House PublishingPublisher Black House PublishingWeight(grams)...

Famously beating Churchill in the 1945 election, Attlee's post-war government enacted a broad programme of socialist legislation in spite of conditions of austerity in which rationing was actually extended. He also gave independence to India, Pakistan,...

Attila the Hun - godless barbarian and near-mythical warrior king - has become a byword for mindless ferocity. His brutal attacks smashed through the frontiers of the Roman empire in a savage wave of death and destruction. His reign of terror shattered...

The recent turmoil in North Africa and the Middle East disproves the idea that dictatorships are acceptable to the people of these nations. From the uprising in Tunisia to the overthrow of Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and rebellion across the region, the tide...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909905917Author Dave MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint Spark FurnacePublisher Spark FurnaceWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 21mm

"One of the most important books on political regimes written in a generation."-Steven Levitsky, New York Times-bestselling author of How Democracies DieA new understanding of how and why early democracy took hold, how modern democracy evolved, and what...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143118107Author Richard BeemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 147gDimensions(mm) 188mm * 109mm...

The Hundred Days, Franklin Roosevelt's first fifteen weeks in office, have become the stuff of legend, a mythic yardstick against which every subsequent American president has felt obliged to measure himself. The renowned historian Anthony J. Badger cuts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583948958Author Monica SharmaFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Joseph Chamberlain was a dynamic orator, notable reformer and superb parliamentary tactician of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In his early political career Chamberlain was a radically minded Liberal Party member and a supporter of political...

When the first edition of this book appeared in 2003, it was chosen as a Main Selection of both the Book-of-the-Month Club and History Book Club and quickly became the standard work on the modern American presidency - from William McKinley through...

This fourth edition of the classic text on the Weimar Republic begins with Germany's defeat in 1918 and the revolutionary disturbances which followed the collapse of Wilhelm II's Empire. It describes the strengths and weaknesses of the new regime, and...

It is virtually impossible to understand the history of modern Guyana without understanding the role played by Forbes Burnham. As premier of British Guiana, he led the country to independence in 1966 and spent two decades as its head of state until his...

Neutrality has, supposedly, long been a pillar of the Irish national identity. But examining the concept reveals it to be a vague, flimsy and elastic notion that, throughout history, various governments have been happy to stretch or, in some cases,...

This book analyses the determinants behind the openings in party leader selection rules (leaders' selectorate) in 10 Western European countries and more than 55 parties between the mid-1980s and the mid-2010s. Presenting a novel and revealing theoretical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594038990Author Jay NordlingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Encounter Books,USAPublisher Encounter Books,USAWeight(grams) 425gDimensions(mm)...

Covering the impact of austerity, Brexit, the Scottish Independence Referendum and the collapse of the Northern Ireland Executive, this book discusses how wider national developments shape and are shaped by the process of devolution in Scotland, Wales,...

'[A] superb study of the way FDR successfully created a presidency that could renew America' - Times Literary Supplement One of the greatest American presidents, Franklin Delano Roosevelt built a coalition of labour, ethnic, urban, low-income and...

A powerful case for why majority rule-not representation-is the defining feature of democratic politicsThe idea that democratic governance rests on active self-rule by citizens plays surprisingly little part in current theories of democracy, which...

Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Postcommunist World examines three waves of democratic change that took place in eleven different former Communist nations. It draws important conclusions about the rise, development, and breakdown of both democracy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358108474Author P.W. SingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing CompanyPublisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt...

In spite of the global diffusion of democracy and a general commitment to democratic values, there is a widespread alienation from the political process in advanced democracies. Deliberative democracy has received much attention in recent years as a...