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James Madison and the spirit of republican self-government
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Colleen A. Sheehan |
In the first study that combines an in-depth examination of Madison's National Gazette essays of 179192 with a study of The Federalist, Colleen Sheehan traces the evolution of Madison's conception of… |
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There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster
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Chester Hartman |
There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster is the first critical scholarly book on the catastrophic impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans. The disaster will go down in record as one of the wor… |
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Static
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Amy Goodman |
In Static, the brother-sister team of Amy Goodman, host of the popular international TV and radio news show Democracy Now!, and investigative journalist David Goodman once again take on government li… |
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Like no other time
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Thomas Daschle,Tom Daschle,Michael D'Orso |
Offers an insider's account of the workings of the U.S. government during two extraordinary years of American history, covering the presidential election of 2000, the September 11th terrorist attacks… |
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The radical center : the future of American politics
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Ted Halstead,Michael Lind |
"The hair-breadth closeness of the 2000 election and the growing number of voters who identify themselves as independents make it clear that most Americans no longer think in terms of the conventiona… |
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Saving the Reagan presidency
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Richard E. Neustadt,David M. Abshire |
"What did the president know, and when did he know it? Once again, only a dozen years after Watergate, the nation faced these troubling questions. Would we see another president forced to resign or b… |
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Jews in American Politics
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Ira N. Forman,Donald Altschiller,Louis Sandy Maisel,Joseph Lieberman |
"Jews in American Politics brings together for the first time a complete picture of the past, present, and future of Jewish political participation. Years in the making, this monumental work includes… |
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Steering the Elephant
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Robert Rector |
From Publishers Weekly
This collection is for those who are curious about the problems faced by Reagan-administration appointees as they have tried to change the vast bureaucracies within the federa… |
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The limits of power
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Andrew J. Bacevich |
Bacevich traces how America's messianic exceptionalism coupled with the rise of the military from Truman on has lead to the current dismal relationship between America and the world. |
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Take My Land, Take My Life
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Donald Craig Mitchell |
"Take My Land, Take My Life concludes the story of the 134-year history of the U.S. government's relations with Alaska's Indian, Eskimo, and Aleut peoples that Don Mitchell's first book, Sold America… |
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