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State Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century
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Deborah Stone · 416 pages
Policy making is a political struggle over values and ideas. By exposing the paradoxes that underlie even seemingly straightforward policy decisions, Policy Paradox shows students that politics cannot be cleansed from the process in favor of "rationality." Author Deborah Stone has fully revised and updated this popular text, which now includes many paradoxes that have arisen since September 11. Ex
A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
Thomas Sowell · 310 pages
Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts which endure for generations or for centuries show a remarkably consistent pattern. This book maintains that the enduring political controversies of the past two centuries reflect radically different assumptions about the nature of man. The very meaning of such words as "freedom," "equality," "rights," and "power" is drastically
The New Road to Serfdom: A Letter of Warning to America
Daniel Hannan · 200 pages
A prominent British conservative warns Americans to stop President Obama from leading their country down the path to European-style socialism.
From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000
Lee Kuan Yew · 752 pages
Plunder and Deceit: Big Government's Exploitation of Young People and the Future
Mark R. Levin · 250 pages
The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy
T.R. Reid · 312 pages
World Orders, Old and New
Noam Chomsky · 327 pages
**World Orders Old and New** is a book by Noam Chomsky, first published in 1994 and updated in 1996 by Columbia University Press. In the book, Chomsky writes about the international scene since 1945, devoting particular attention to events following the collapse of the Soviet Union. He critiques Western government, from imperialist foreign policies to the Clinton administration's promises to the p
American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century
Kevin Phillips · 499 pages
From America's premier political analyst, an explosive examination of the axis of religion, politics, and borrowed money that threatens to destroy the nationIn his two most recent New York Times bestselling books, American Dynasty and Wealth and Democracy, Kevin Phillips established himself as a powerful critic of the political and economic forces that are ruling—and imperiling—the United States.
Throw Them All Out: How Politicians and Their Friends Get Rich Off of Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals, and Cronyism That Would Send the Rest of Us to Prison
Peter Schweizer · 211 pages
Schweizer, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, discusses the state of government and the depths of its political corruption.
Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government
P.J. O'Rourke · 233 pages
In 1988 the author moved to Washington to take a long look at our government and to find an answer to the question every American asks: What the hell do these guys do all day, and why does it cost so much money? In his Introduction, he proffers the theory that we are suffering under a dictatorship of boredom. Adopting the manner of a high school civics textbook, he covers the three branches of gov
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Aristotle · 319 pages
"This new translation of one of the fundamental texts of Western political thought combines strict fidelity to Aristotle's Greek with a contemporary English prose style. Lord's intention throughout is to retain Aristotle's distinctive style. The accompanying notes provide literary and historical references, call attention to textual problems, and supply other essential information and interpretati
The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era
Michael Grunwald · 518 pages
A riveting story about change in the Obama era--and an essential handbook for voters who want the truth about the president, his record, and his enemies by "Time" senior correspondent Grunwald.
Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed
Jason L. Riley · 210 pages
The author believes that "many efforts by liberals to help the black underclass not only fail but often harm the intended beneficiaries. The intentions behind welfare programs may be noble, but in practice they have slowed the self-development that was necessary for other groups to advance. Minimum-wage laws may lift earnings for people who are already employed, but they also have a long history o
The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad
Fareed Zakaria · 304 pages
Examines the influence of democracy on politics, business and economics, law, culture, and religion in different regions of the world; explores the dark side of the democratic process; and reflects on the future of world democracy.
No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
Naomi Klein · 264 pages
Journalist Naomi Klein explains that Trump is not an aberration but a logical extension of the worst and most dangerous trends of the past half-century.
Broke : The Plan to Restore our Trust, Truth and Treasure
Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe
Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream
Arianna Huffington · 276 pages
The ABCs of Socialism
Bhaskar Sunkara · 141 pages
"Slim, accessible, inexpensive, irreverent introduction to socialism by the writers of Jacobin magazine The remarkable run of self-proclaimed "democratic socialist" Bernie Sanders for president of the United States has prompted--for the first time in decades and to the shock of many--a national conversation about socialism. A New York Times poll in late November found that a majority of Democrats