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W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
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[2022]
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"An insightful exploration of political polling and a bold defense of its crucial role in a modern democracy. Public opinion polling is the ultimate democratic process; it gives every person an equal voice in letting elected leaders know what they need and want. But in the eyes of the public, polls today are tarnished. Recent election forecasts have routinely missed the mark and media coverage of polls has focused solely on their ability to predict...
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The New Press
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"In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country--a stronghold of the conservative right. As she gets to know people who strongly oppose many of the ideas she famously champions, Hochschild nevertheless finds common ground and quickly warms to the people she meets--among them a Tea Party activist whose...
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Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
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"The climate change agenda has nothing to do with a pristine environment. Instead, it's a devious scheme designed to upend America's foundational rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Originally conceived by early disciples of Marx, this scheme relies on ecological crises--both real and imagined--to frighten the masses into cult-like submission as it seeks to create a brave new world. Advanced by the United Nations, promoted by the...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
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This book provides an objective and authoritative portrait of Bin Laden that will show him to be a man of remarkable leadership skills, strategic genius and considerable rhetorical abilities. For ten years, he has eluded capture despite being the most hunted man in the world.
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The New Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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"On November 9, 2016, many Americans feared that our democracy was on the verge of collapse. But is it? In an erudite and brilliant evaluation of the current state of our government, noted constitutional scholar Burt Neuborne administers a stress test to democracy and concludes that our unprecedented sets of constitutional protections, all endorsed by both major parties, stand between us and an authoritarian federal regime fronted by Donald Trump’s...
8) Founding partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the brawling birth of American politics
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"From bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands, a revelatory history of the shocking emergence of vicious political division at the birth of the United States. Founding Partisans is a lively narrative of the early years of the republic as the Founding Fathers fought one another with competing visions of what our nation would be. To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were an existential threat to republican virtues....
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
c2006
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"Winner of the 2006 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Philosophy, Association of American Publishers" Joshua Foa Dienstag is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Dancing in Chains: Narrative and Memory in Political Theory.
Pessimism claims an impressive following--from Rousseau, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, to Freud, Camus, and Foucault. Yet "pessimist" remains a term of abuse--an...
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A story of five families shattered by pervasive conspiracy theories and the aftermath of their choices.
""SHED MY DNA": three excruciating words uttered by a QAnon-obsessed mother, once a highly respected lawyer, to her only son, once the closest person in her life. QAnon beliefs and adjacent conspiracy theories have had devastating political consequences as they've exploded in popularity. What's often overlooked is the lasting havoc they wreak on...
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Clarity Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
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"Ever since large parts of the world were placed in lockdown in March 2020 in the name of public health, there has been a growing public suspicion that some sort of global seizure of power and social transformation is being implemented under guise of the extraordinary suspension of democracy and unprecedented restrictions of basic freedoms occurring in so many countries at the same time. This book contends that since the financial collapse of 2008,...
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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"In democracies, citizens must accept loss; we can't always be on the winning side. But in the United States, the fundamental civic capacity of being able to lose is not distributed equally. Propped up by white supremacy, whites (as a group) are accustomed to winning; they have generally been able to exercise political rule without having to accept sharing it. Black citizens, on the other hand, are expected to be political heroes whose civic suffering...
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Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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"The threat of cyberwar can feel like something out of a movie: nuclear codes hacked, powerplants melting down, immediate crisis. In reality, state-sponsored hacking looks nothing like this. It's covert, insidious, and constant. Ben Buchanan reveals the cyberwar that's already here, reshaping the global contest for geopolitical advantage"--
"Ever since WarGames, we have been bracing for the cyberwar to come, conjuring images of exploding power plants...
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Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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"Sanctions have become a go-to diplomatic tool for the US, be it against Iran, Russia or Turkey. However, sanctions come with unexpected, global side-effects that are rarely discussed. All of these side-effects have a meaningful impact on businesses, financial markets and governments. First, US sanctions are pushing countries that are at odds with the US, such as Turkey, Russia and Iran, closer to each other, with massive consequences on traditional...
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Stanford University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
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The headscarf is an increasingly contentious symbol in countries across the world. Those who don the headscarf in Germany are referred to as "integration-refusers." In Turkey, support by and for headscarf-wearing women allowed a religious party to gain political power in a strictly secular state. A niqab-wearing Muslim woman was denied French citizenship for not conforming to national values. And in the Netherlands, Muslim women responded to the hatred...
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The University of North Carolina Press
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2014.
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"Challenging the conventional wisdom of perpetual hostility between the United States and Cuba--beyond invasions, covert operations, assassination plots using poison pens and exploding seashells, and a grinding economic embargo--this fascinating book chronicles a surprising, untold history of bilateral efforts toward rapprochement and reconciliation. Since 1959, conflict and aggression have dominated the story of U.S.-Cuban relations. Now, LeoGrande...
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
c2008
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"Winner of the 2009 Award of Merit in History/Biography, Christianity Today" Mark A. Noll is the Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. His books include America's God, The Civil War as a Theological Crisis, and The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind.
The combustible mix of race and religion in American history
Religion has been a powerful political force throughout American history. When race enters the mix the...