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"America's most popular progressive radio host and New York Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann paves the way to saving our democracy. In this powerful, sweeping history and analysis of American democracy, Thom Hartmann shows how democracy is the one form of governance most likely to produce peace and happiness among people. With the violent exception of the Civil War, American democracy resisted the pressure to disintegrate into factionalism for...
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[2023]
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Nothing is what it seems when John Weir, a master of deception in the world of corporate espionage, is framed for murder by powerful forces with the ability to influence and control populations. The series stars Emmy Award Winner, Kiefer Sutherland as private espionage operative John Weir, who finds himself in the midst of a battle over the preservation of democracy in a world at odds with misinformation, behavioral manipulation, the surveillance...
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"One of BBC History Magazine's Best Books of 2020" David Stasavage is dean for the social sciences and Julius Silver Professor of Politics at New York University. His books include Taxing the Rich and States of Credit (both Princeton). Twitter @stasavage
"One of the most important books on political regimes written in a generation."-Steven Levitsky, New York Times–bestselling author of How Democracies Die
A new understanding of how and why early...
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Viking
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[2023]
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"From historian and author of the popular daily newsletter LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN, a vital narrative that explains how America, once a beacon of democracy, now teeters on the brink of autocracy -- and how we can turn back. In the midst of the impeachment crisis of 2019, Heather Cox Richardson launched a daily Facebook essay providing the historical background of the daily torrent of news. The essays soon turned into a newsletter and, spread by word...
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In an age of email lists and discussion groups, e-zines and weblogs, bringing together users, consumers, workers and activists from around the globe, what kinds of political subjectivity are emerging? What kinds of politics become possible in a time of information overload and media saturation? What structures of power and control operate over a self-organising system like the internet?
In this highly original new work, Tiziana Terranova investigates...
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New perspectives on Iran's relationship to democracy
Can Islamic societies embrace democracy? In Democracy in Modern Iran, Ali Mirsepassi maintains that it is possible, demonstrating that Islam is not inherently hostile to the idea of democracy. Rather, he provides new perspective on how such a political and social transformation could take place, arguing that the key to understanding the integration of Islam and democracy lies in concrete social...
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Get the Summary of Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt's How Democracies Die in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "How Democracies Die" by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt examines the erosion of democratic norms and the rise of authoritarian leaders through historical and contemporary examples. The authors highlight the cases of Mussolini, Hitler, and Chávez, where political elites mistakenly believed they could...
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Paul Edward Gottfried is Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College and author of, among other books, Carl Schmitt: Politics and Theory, The Search for Historical Meaning; and The Conservative Movement. Editor in chief of This World, he is also a senior editor of Telos and a contributing editor to Chronicles and Humanitas.
In this trenchant challenge to social engineering, Paul Gottfried analyzes a patricide: the slaying of nineteenth-century...
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Bringing together many Surrealist texts that have never previously been available in English, this collection is an essential guide for anyone who wishes to understand the Surrealist movement.
It traces its development in the words of the Surrealists themselves, offering a definitive expression of Surrealism as a collective movement. It shows the extent of Surrealist positions and interests and shows how, having become a major cultural phenomenon...
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The End of Democracy? The fall of the Berlin Wall. The collapse of the Iron Curtain. The Orange Revolution. The Arab Spring. The rush of events in recent decades seems to confirm that Alexis de Tocqueville was right: the future belongs to democracy. But take a closer look. The history of democracy since the 1830s, when Tocqueville wrote Democracy in America, reveals a far more complicated picture. And the future, author Chilton Williamson Jr. demonstrates,...
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Voici plusieurs années maintenant qu'un vent mauvais se lève sur l'Europe. Sur la scène politique de ses pays, tant de l'Est que de l'Ouest, on assiste au retour de partis qualifiés tantt d'extrême droite, tantt de nationalistes et tantt de populistes. La plupart des Parlements du continent – y compris en Belgique – comptent des élus de ces formations se nourrissant sans vergogne des peurs collectives quant à un avenir incertain et faisant...
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The vibrant fine arts and mass culture that the United Stated exported to Britain in the postwar period had a powerful and far-reaching impact on many British artists, art students and critics. In a fascinating social and cultural history covering the period from the 1940s to the 1990s, but with emphasis on the 1950s and 1960s, John A. Walker offers a scholarly but accessible account of America's Cold War cultural offensive and the role played by...
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In this interpretive study, Amos Perlmutter offers a comparative analysis of the twentieth century's three most significant world orders: Wilsonianism, Soviet Communism, and Nazism. Anchored in three hegemonical states--the United States, the Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany--these systems, he argues, shared certain characteristics that distinguished them from other attempts to restructure the international political scene. While Communism and Nazism...
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"Winner of the 2012 Book Award, North American Society for Social Philosophy" Ben Berger is associate professor of political science at Swarthmore College.
Handwringing about political apathy is as old as democracy itself. As early as 425 BC, the playwright Aristophanes ridiculed his fellow Athenians for gossiping in the market instead of voting. In more recent decades, calls for greater civic engagement as a democratic cure-all have met with widespread...
15) Republics Ancient and Modern, Volume III: Inventions of Prudence: Constituting the American Regime
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First published in 1992 and now available in three volumes, Paul Rahe's ambitious and provocative book bridges the gap between political theory, comparative history and government, and constitutional prudence. Rahe challenges prevailing interpretations of ancient Greek republicanism, early modern political thought, and the founding of the American republic. Volume I: The Ancien Regime in Classical Greece: Where social scientists and many ancient...
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From John Della Volpe, the director of polling at the Harvard Institute of Politics, Fight is an exploration of Gen Z, the issues that matter most to them, and how they will shape the future.
9/11. The war on terror. Hurricane Katrina. The 2008 financial crisis. The housing crisis. The opioid epidemic. Mass school shootings. Global warming. The Trump presidency. COVID-19.
Since they were born, Generation Z (also known as "zoomers")—those born...
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Get the Summary of Stuart Stevens's The Conspiracy to End America in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Conspiracy to End America" by Stuart Stevens offers an in-depth analysis of the transformation of the Republican Party and the role of conservative media in shaping political narratives. Stevens, a former political consultant, reflects on his career and the influence of figures like Roger Ailes, who later led...
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'Remarkable ... a major contribution to our understanding and handling of one of the crucial contemporary issues that acquires more gravity by the day.' Zygmunt Bauman
This is an in-depth sociological study of the phenomenon of anti-racism, as both political discourse and social movement practice in western Europe.
Lentin develops a comparative study of anti-racism in Britain, France, Italy and Ireland. While 'race' and racism have been...
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The turn of the millennium is characterised by exponential growth in everything related to communication – from the internet and email to air traffic. Tyranny of the Moment deals with the most perplexing paradoxes of this new information age.
Who would have expected that apparently timesaving technology results in time being scarcer than ever? And has this seemingly limitless access to information led to confusion rather than enlightenment?
Eriksen...
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Get the Summary of Adam Kinzinger's Renegade in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Renegade" by Adam Kinzinger offers a detailed account of the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack, the events leading up to it, and its aftermath from the perspective of the congressman and former Air Force pilot. Kinzinger, a critic of Trumpism, describes the former president's inaction during the assault and his role in spreading election...
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