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  • Why Bernie Sanders Matters

    by Harry Jaffe ...
    Missionary. Radical. Hippy. Revolutionary. Red Mayor. Pragmatist. Socialist. Hot from the campaign trail, a vivid new biography that goes inside Bernie Sanders’s contradictions, his unusual life, and his electrifying quest to make the American dream a reality for all.Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders may be the least political person in politics—a brusque, unpolished, Jewish Socialist from Brooklyn ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Tea Party Goes to Washington

    by Rand Paul ...
    If the midterm elections were a declaration of war on the status quo, Rand Paul leads the battle charge. Voters fearful of growing government and debt have found voice in the Tea Party phenomenon and the movement continues to deliver a message that Washington, D.C. has found impossible to ignore.In THE TEA PARTY GOES TO WASHINGTON, the newly elected senator and self-described "constitutional ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Great Society

    50 Years Later

    by The Washington Post ...
    A stirring profile of our 36th president, Lyndon B. Johnson, who presided over one of the most tumultuous eras in our country's history.Lyndon B. Johnson's unprecedented and ambitious domestic vision in the 1960s changed the nation. It unraveled and restitched the very fabric of the American life. It knocked down racial barriers, provided health care for the elderly and food for the poor, ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Evolution, Creationism, and the Battle to Control America's Classrooms

    by Michael Berkman, Eric Plutzer ...
    Who should decide what children are taught in school? This question lies at the heart of the evolution-creation wars that have become a regular feature of the US political landscape. Ever since the 1925 Scopes 'monkey trial' many have argued that the people should decide by majority rule and through political institutions; others variously point to the federal courts, educational experts, or ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The MoveOn Effect

    The Unexpected Transformation of American Political Advocacy

    by David Karpf ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
    The Internet is facilitating a generational transition among American political advocacy organizations. This book provides a detailed exploration of how “netroots” advocacy groups - MoveOn.org, DailyKos.com, DemocracyforAmerica.com, and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee - differ from “legacy” peer organizations. It also explains the partisan character of these technological innovations. ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • American Revolution

    The Fall of Wall Street and the Rise of Barack Obama: Quarterly Essay 32

    by Kate Jennings ...
    Series Book 32 - Quarterly Essay
    Where were you when America elected Barack Obama?Kate Jennings was in New York, eyes wide open, completing her take on an amazing time- 'the run-up to the election . . . a time when every day felt like a year and we became slightly crazed from worry but also mesmerised, unable to switch off the cable news stations, obsessively tracking the DOW, VIX, LIBOR spreads, polls in red states. So much at ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • American Identity in the Age of Obama

    Edited by Amílcar Antonio Barreto, Richard L. O’Bryant ...
    Series series Routledge Series on Identity Politics
    The election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States has opened a new chapter in the country’s long and often tortured history of inter-racial and inter-ethnic relations. Many relished in the inauguration of the country’s first African American president — an event foreseen by another White House aspirant, Senator Robert Kennedy, four decades earlier. What could have only been ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • The Bill of Rights

    The Fight to Secure America's Liberties

    by Carol Berkin ...
    “Narrative, celebratory history at its purest” (Publishers Weekly)—the real story of how the Bill of Rights came to be: a vivid account of political strategy, big egos, and the partisan interests that set the terms of the ongoing contest between the federal government and the states.Those who argue that the Bill of Rights reflects the founding fathers’ “original intent” are wrong. The Bill of ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • The American Political Pattern

    Stability and Change, 1932-2016

    by Byron E. Shafer ...
    Series series Studies in Government and Public Policy
    Politicians are polarized. Public opinion is volatile. Government is gridlocked. Or so journalists and pundits constantly report. But where are we, really, in modern American politics, and how did we get there? Those are the questions that Byron E. Shafer aims to answer in The American Political Pattern. Looking at the state of American politics at diverse points over the past eighty years, the ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Executive Politics in Times of Crisis

    Edited by M. Lodge, K. Wegrich ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Executive Politics in Times of Crisis brings together leading international scholars to consider key trends and challenges that have defined executive politics over the past decade. It showcases key debates in executive politics and contributes to an understanding of the 'executive factor' in political life. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Red Fighting Blue

    How Geography and Electoral Rules Polarize American Politics

    by David A. Hopkins ...
    The national electoral map has split into warring regional bastions of Republican red and Democratic blue, producing a deep and enduring partisan divide in American politics. In Red Fighting Blue, David A. Hopkins places the current partisan and electoral era in historical context, explains how the increased salience of social issues since the 1980s has redefined the parties' geographic bases of ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • What Kind of America

    .....Do You Want to Leave Your Kids?

    by R. Eugene Spitzer ...
    This is an excellent book for people who are tired and fed up with what they see happening to their country. Whether its failing schools, a failing federal government, a failing economy, huge debt, and massive unemployment, youll want to read this book.Hollywood is a cesspool, likened to Soddom and Gomorrah, RAP music offends almost everyone, and is full of degrading lyrics; the whole alternative ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD