|
Why liberals and conservatives clash
|
Bruce E. Fleming |
Why Liberals and Conservatives Clash offers an explanation for the extreme polarization between liberal and conservative that is the hallmark of the American political landscape today. It suggests th… |
OL12800155W |
|
Amsterdam
|
Russell Shorto |
As the subtitle says, this is a history of the world's most liberal city. To put it more to the point, it is about the world's most liberal capitalist city, a city that has been so from its early beg… |
OL16818699W |
|
Listen, Liberal
|
Thomas Frank |
How the Democratic Party lost its working class, and what happened afterward. |
OL17591440W |
|
Live Not By Lies
|
Rod Dreher |
For years, émigrés from the former Soviet bloc have been telling Rod Dreher they see telltale signs of "soft" totalitarianism cropping up in America--something more Brave New World than Nineteen Eigh… |
OL20771824W |
|
Political liberalism
|
John Rawls |
"This book continues and revises the ideas of justice as fairness that John Rawls presented in A Theory of Justice but changes its philosophical interpretation in a fundamental way. That previous wor… |
OL20947580W |
|
De la démocratie en Amérique
|
Gustave de Beaumont,Alexis de Tocqueville |
A contemporary study of the early American nation and its evolving democracy, from a French aristocrat and sociologist.
In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil… |
OL278001W |
|
Habitat
|
Ignasi Ribó |
The process of breaking up the large Western states into ecologically and socially meaningful political communities may have just started and could lead to a more democratic and sustainable world sys… |
OL28215818W |
|
Haiti in the new world order
|
Alex Dupuy |
"Thorough treatment of Haiti's recent political history details policies and strategies of President Aristide and the US within an analytic framework, taking into account both foreign and domestic fa… |
OL3298606W |
|
The strange death of Liberal England
|
George Dangerfield |
Its a book about England in the decade immediately preceding the outbreak of WWI, and it argues that the country was far from being peaceful and undisturbed, but was actually on the brink of social b… |
OL3365796W |
|
Individual Rights Reconsidered
|
Tibor R. Machan |
"The essays in this volume reconsider the case of the basic tenets of the U.S. political tradition, outlined in the Declaration of Independence and expressed in much of the U.S. legal system. The aut… |
OL450172W |
|
The Cloaking of Power
|
Paul O. Carrese |
In The Cloaking of Power, Paul O. Carrese provides a provocative and original analysis of the intellectual sources of today's powerful judiciary, arguing that Montesquieu, in his Spirit of the Laws, … |
OL8027284W |