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  • Soldiers on the Home Front

    The Domestic Role of the American Military

    When crisis requires American troops to deploy on American soil, the country depends on a rich and evolving body of law to establish clear lines of authority, safeguard civil liberties, and protect its democratic institutions and traditions. Since the attacks of 9/11, the governing law has changed rapidly even as domestic threats—from terror attacks, extreme weather, and pandemics—mount. Soldiers ... Read more

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  • Soldiers on the Home Front

    The Domestic Role of the American Military

    When crisis requires American troops to deploy on American soil, the country depends on a rich and evolving body of law to establish clear lines of authority, safeguard civil liberties, and protect its democratic institutions and traditions. Since the attacks of 9/11, the governing law has changed rapidly even as domestic threats—from terror attacks, extreme weather, and pandemics—mount. Soldiers ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

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    A "brilliant" examination of the growth of presidential power from George Washington to George W. Bush, by a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian ( Newsweek).Over the course of two centuries, the power of the president of the United States has grown exponentially. From George Washington to Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon to George W. Bush, presidential power has both served and ... Read more

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  • Making Our Democracy Work

    A Judge's View

    The Supreme Court is one of the most extraordinary institutions in our system of government. Charged with the responsibility of interpreting the Constitution, the nine unelected justices of the Court have the awesome power to strike down laws enacted by our elected representatives. Why does the public accept the Court’s decisions as legitimate and follow them, even when those decisions are highly ... Read more

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  • The Second Amendment

    A Biography

    The life story of the most controversial, volatile, and misunderstood provision of the Bill of Rights and “a welcome re-injection of historical context into the present debate over the rightful role of guns in American culture” (Chicago Tribune).At a time of increasing gun violence in America, Waldman’s book provoked a wide range of discussion. This book looks at history to provide some surprising ... Read more

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  • Politically Incorrect Guide to American History

    “The problem in America isn’t so much what people don’t know; the problem is what people think they know that just ain’t so.” —Thomas E. WoodsMost Americans trust that their history professors and high school teachers will give students honest and accurate information. ***The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History***makes it quite clear that liberal professors have misinformed our ... Read more

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  • The Words We Live By

    Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution

    by Linda R. Monk ...
    An informative look at America's Constitution, updated with rulings on issues such as immigration, gay marriage, gun control, and affirmative action.In The Words We Live By, Linda R. Monk probes the idea that the Constitution may seem to offer cut-and-dried answers to questions regarding personal rights, but the interpretations of this hallowed document are nearly infinite. For example, in the ... Read more

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  • Presidential Misconduct

    From George Washington to Today

    Edited by James M. Banner ...
    Named a best book of the year by The Economist and Foreign Affairs"A whole book devoted exclusively to the misconduct of American presidents and their responses to charges of misconduct is without precedent." —from the introduction to the 1974 edition by C. Vann Woodward, Pulitzer Prize–winning Yale historianThe historic 1974 report for the House Committee on the Judiciary, updated for today by ... Read more

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  • How to Get Rid of a President

    History's Guide to Removing Unpopular, Unable, or Unfit Chief Executives

    by David Priess ...
    A vivid political history of the schemes, plots, maneuvers, and conspiracies that have attempted -- successfully and not -- to remove unwanted presidentsTo limit executive power, the founding fathers created fixed presidential terms of four years, giving voters regular opportunities to remove their leaders. Even so, Americans have often resorted to more dramatic paths to disempower the chief ... Read more

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  • Gunfight

    The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America

    by Adam Winkler ...
    A provocative history that reveals how guns—not abortion, race, or religion—are at the heart of America's cultural divide.Gunfight is a timely work examining America’s four-centuries-long political battle over gun control and the right to bear arms. In this definitive and provocative history, Adam Winkler reveals how guns—not abortion, race, or religion—are at the heart of America’s cultural ... Read more

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  • The Presidents and the Constitution

    A Living History

    by Ken Gormley ...
    How forty-four presidents have shaped power and the law: "Everything you ever wanted to know about the Supreme Court and the Presidency but were afraid to ask." —Nina Totenberg, NPR legal affairs correspondentIn this sweepingly ambitious volume, the nation's foremost experts on the American presidency and the U.S. Constitution join together to tell the intertwined stories of how each American ... Read more

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  • Lies the Government Told You

    Myth, Power, and Deception in American History

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERYOU’VE BEEN LIED TO BY THE GOVERNMENTWe shrug off this fact as an unfortunate reality. America is the land of the free, after all. Does it really matter whether our politicians bend the truth here and there?When the truth is traded for lies, our freedoms are diminished and don’t return.In Lies the Government Told You, Judge Andrew P. Napolitano reveals how America’s... ... Read more

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