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  • The Bible And The Ballot Box

    Religion And Politics In The 1988 Election

    by James L Guth, John C Green ...
    The 1988 elections abruptly brought the importance of religion in American politics into sharp focus. Two ministers, Pat Robertson and Jesse Jackson, sought their party's presidential nominations by mobilizing key religious constituencies. In addition, a host of other religious groups, from the Catholic bishops to the Jewish community, sought to influence the election outcome. More than ever, ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Transforming America

    Barack Obama in the White House

    by John J. Coleman, James L. Guth, John F. Harris, James Hohmann, Bertram Johnson, Richard E. Matland, James M. McCormick, Nicol C. Rae, Andrea L. Walker, John K. White, John J. Pitney Jr., Steven E. Schier, Nancy Maveety, Raymond Tatalovich ...
    The presidency of Barack Obama seeks a major transformation of American politics and policy. This new collection, edited by Steven E. Schier, examines the unusual combination of risk and ambition in Obama's presidency concerning popular politics, Washington politics, and economic and foreign policy. It also places the Obama presidency in historical perspective, noting the unusual circumstances of ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Social Movements and American Political Institutions

    by Andrew S. McFarland, Lee Ann Banaszak, Jeffrey M. Berry, Paul Burstein, W Douglas Costain, Daniel M. Cress, Claude Dufour, John C. Green, James L. Guth0, Douglas R. Imig1, James P. Lester2, Mark I. Lichbach3, Michael W. McCann4, Oneida Meranto5, Deborah Schildkraut6, David A. Snow7, Laura R. Woliver8, Doug McAdam9, Sidney Tarrow0, Clyde Wilcox1 ...
    Series series People, Passions, and Power: Social Movements, Interest Organizations, and the P
    Social movements in the United States are important political actors because of their scale and duration, their generation of new ideas and understandings of existing problems, their ability to mobilize those who were previously passive citizens, and the impetus they provide for restructuring and broadening the agenda of American politics. This volume combines chapters by a distinguished group of ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Religion and the Struggle for European Union

    Confessional Culture and the Limits of Integration

    by Brent F. Nelsen, James L. Guth ...
    Series series Religion and Politics series
    In Religion and the Struggle for European Union, Brent F. Nelsen and James L. Guth delve into the powerful role of religion in shaping European attitudes on politics, political integration, and the national and continental identities of its leaders and citizens.Nelsen and Guth contend that for centuries Catholicism promoted the universality of the Church and the essential unity of Christendom. ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Holy Vote

    The Politics of Faith in America

    by Ray Suarez ...
    Not since the Civil War has the United States been so polarized, politically and ideologically. At the heart of this fracture is a fascinating, paradoxical marriage between our country's politics and religions.In The Holy Vote, Ray Suarez explores the advent of this polarization and how it is profoundly changing the way we live our lives. With hands-on reporting, Suarez explores the attitudes and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (Revised Edition)

    Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad

    by Fareed Zakaria ...
    “A work of tremendous originality and insight. ... Makes you see the world differently.”—Washington PostA modern classic that uses historical analysis to shed light on the present, The Future of Freedom is, as the Chicago Tribune put it, "essential reading for anyone worried about the promotion and preservation of liberty." Hailed by the New York Times as "brave and ambitious...updated Tocqueville ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Civil Rights

    Rhetoric or Reality

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    " A hard look at what has, and has not, been accomplished in the three decades since the struggle for racial equality began" ( New Perspectives , U.S. Commission on Civil Rights)."An important and necessary book." — The Washington PostIt is now more than three decades since the historic Supreme Court decision on desegregation, Brown v. Board of Education. Thomas S... ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Evangelicals

    The Struggle to Shape America

    by Frances FitzGerald ...
    * Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award* National Book Award Finalist* Time magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of the Year* New York Times Notable Book“We have long needed a fair-minded overview of this vitally important religious sensibility, and FitzGerald has now provided it” (The New York Times Book Review).Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Frances FitzGeral... ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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  • When the People Speak:Deliberative Democracy and Public Consultation

    Deliberative Democracy and Public Consultation

    by James Fishkin ...
    All over the world democratic reforms have brought power to the people-but under conditions where the people have little opportunity to think about the power that they exercise. Do we want a democracy inspired by Madison or by Madison Avenue? A democracy animated by deliberation or by manipulation? This book examines each of the principal democratic theories and makes the case for a democracy in ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • The End of White Christian America

    by Robert P. Jones ...
    Series series Award-Winning History
    “Quite possibly the most illuminating text for this election year” (The New York Times Book Review).*Winner of the Grawemeyer Award in Religion*Robert P. Jones, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute, spells out the profound political and cultural consequences of a new reality—that America is no longer a majority white Christian nation.For most of our nation’s history, White Christian ... Read more

    $22.50 CAD

  • The Imperative of Integration

    by Elizabeth Anderson ...
    A powerful new argument for reviving the ideal of racial integrationMore than forty years have passed since Congress, in response to the Civil Rights Movement, enacted sweeping antidiscrimination laws in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. As a signal achievement of that legacy, in 2008, Americans elected their first African American ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Flag and the Cross

    White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy

    by Philip S. Gorski, Samuel L. Perry ...
    A bracing examination of a force that imperils American democracy Most Americans were shocked by the violence they witnessed at the nation's Capital on January 6th, 2021. And many were bewildered by the images displayed by the insurrectionists: a wooden cross and wooden gallows; "Jesus saves" and "Don't Tread on Me;" Christian flags and Confederate Flags; even a prayer in Jesus' name after ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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