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James Comey, former FBI Director and New York Times bestselling author of A Higher Loyalty, uses his long career in federal law enforcement to explore issues of justice and fairness in the US justice system.
James Comey might best be known as the FBI director that Donald Trump fired in 2017, but he's had a long, varied career in the law and justice system. He knows better than most just what a force for good the US justice
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Schumpeter's Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy is perhaps the most important and influential book on the subject ever written. This volume is the result of an effort to weld into a readable form the bulk of almost forty years' thought, observation and research on the subject of socialism. The problem of democracy forced its way into the place it now occupies in this volume because it proved impossible to state my views on the relation between the...
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Barry M. Goldwater (1909-1998) was a five-term U.S. senator from Arizona whose 1964 campaign for president is credited with reviving American conservatism. His books include With No Apologies and a memoir, Goldwater. CC Goldwater is the granddaughter of Barry Goldwater and the producer of the HBO documentary Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater
In 1960, Barry Goldwater set forth his brief manifesto in The Conscience of a Conservative. Written...
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Threshold Editions
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2021.
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"Enough with the infighting, the truth-denying, the wild conspiracy claims, the looking backward, and the refusal to focus on the dangerous Biden agenda. Here's Chris Christie's urgent guide for recapturing Republican glory and winning elections again, told with all the New Jersey frankness and news-breaking insights that have made the two-term governor, Trump early endorser, and presidential candidate an indispensable voice and instant New York Times...
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"Honest and funny, passionate and contrite, meticulously researched and deeply philosophical: an essential document on the '60s."
-Washington Post
Mark Rudd, former '60s radical student leader and onetime fugitive member of the notorious Weather Underground, tells his compelling and engrossing story for the first time in Underground. The chairman of the SDS and leader of the 1968 student uprising at Columbia University, Rudd offers a gripping...
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Aquesta publicació reuneix les tesis defensades a la jornada celebrada al 2015 entre la Universitat de Valencia i el collectiu d'instituts d'estudis comarcals i municipals, centrada en un tema clau i d'actualitat com és l'anàlisi i debat al voltant dels resultats de les eleccions locals de 2015 i les seues repercussions territorials en l'escala local valenciana. El llibre recull les reflexions territorials dels instituts i docents participants...
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La hegemonía neoliberal que se impuso hasta la crisis financiera de 2008 es mucho más que políticas de austeridad, financierización de la economía a expensas de la economía productiva, gobierno de expertos y brecha cada vez mayor entre élites privilegiadas que toman las decisiones y una sociedad que sólo se despierta cuando ve afectada su capacidad de consumo. Esa hegemonía trajo consigo la posdemocracia, la indiferencia política, la sospecha...
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This inspiring memoir is about working for a more just, compassionate, and sustainable world, while cultivating the wisdom that supports and deepens this work. Everyone who is trying to make waves – to bring about needed social and institutional change – will enjoy this real-world guide to effectively navigating the currents to achieve success while also maintaining balance, compassion, and hope. Charles Halpern, one of America's most distinguished...
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Klassisches Heldentum steht im Widerspruch zur Gleichheitsideologie.
Der klassische Held, also der, der für andere oder eine Idee die Schädigung seiner Gesundheit zumindest billigend in Kauf nimmt und den Tod einkalkuliert, ist für den hedonistischen Mainstream eine suspekte Figur. In der Gegenwart hat der klassische Held nichts mehr zu suchen, ein solcher Widerspruch zur Gleichheitsideologie kann nicht geduldet werden. Denn in dieser soll trotz...
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The real threat to the United States is not terrorism. The real threat is the sophisticated forces of Islamism, which have collaborated with the American Left not only to undermine U. S. national security, but to shred the fabric of American constitutional democracy - freedom and individual liberty. In The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America, bestselling author Andrew C. McCarthy provides a harrowing account of how the global Islamist...
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It's About Time.
America has been craving leadership-and at last a gun-slinging, mega-rock star, deer slayer, and patriot has stepped forward to provide it. Make way for Ted Nugent. Cocked, locked, and ready to rock, the Motor City Madman, the thinking man's Abraham Lincoln, has unleashed the ultimate high-octane political manifesto for the ages in Ted, White, and Blue-the most important patriotic statement since the Constitution. In Ted, White,...
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The Struggle for the Independence of Puerto Rico (La lucha por la independencia de Puerto Rico) is an essay on the history of Puerto Rico's attempts at liberation from colonial rule from Spain, in the 19th century, and from United States colonialism from 1898 to the present. Written in 1949, not only is it an outline for historians, but it is also an eyewitness account of Puerto Rican history that has been purposely excluded from the country's official...
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Politics and sports: they're two of America's greatest passions. And George Allen-former U.S. Senator, former Virginia Governor, and son of the great NFL coach George Allen, Sr.-brings these two worlds together in his new book, What Washington Can Learn From the World of Sports. Having spent his life with one foot in the sports arena and the other in the political arena, Allen brings his unique perspective and experiences to What Washington Can Learn...
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Revolt! is a battle cry for the newly elected Republican majority from the New York Times bestselling authors of Outrage, Fleeced, Catastrophe, and 2010: Take Back America. Dick Morris and Eileen McGann offer a blueprint for rolling back the worst of the legislation passed by the Obama administration and an agenda for establishing new, conservative policies. Revolt! provides the necessary keys to economic recovery and outlines positive steps in the...
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When Millennials Rule offers an optimistic story about how the generation that grew up through 9/11 and the Great Recession will rise above these setbacks to unify around common-sense solutions and take back America's future. China has swallowed our jobs. Social security is going bankrupt. Radical Islamic terrorists threaten our safety. Our planet is on the brink of environmental disaster. Meanwhile, politicians pound their chests in ideological wars...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Arlie Russell Hochschild's Strangers in Their Own Land by Instaread Preview: Strangers in their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right describes a liberal sociologist's journey toward understanding the emotional appeal of the Tea Party. Author Arlie Russell Hochschild, who is based in Berkeley, California, traveled to the American South to speak with more than 60 men and women who identified with the Tea Party....
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