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  • Rude Democracy

    Civility and Incivility in American Politics

    by Susan Herbst ...
    Democracy is, by its very nature, often rude. But there are limits to how uncivil we should be. In her timely and important book, Rude Democracy, Susan Herbst explores the ways we discuss public policy, how we treat each other as we do, and how we can create a more civil national culture.Herbst uses the examples of Sarah Palin and Barack Obama to illustrate her case. She scrutinizes Palin as both ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • A Troubled Birth

    The 1930s and American Public Opinion

    by Susan Herbst ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    Pollsters and pundits armed with the best public opinion polls failed to predict the election of Donald Trump in 2016. Is this because we no longer understand what the American public is? In A Troubled Birth, Susan Herbst argues that we need to return to earlier meanings of "public opinion" to understand our current climate.Herbst contends that the idea that there was a public—whose opinions ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Political Polling in the Digital Age

    The Challenge of Measuring and Understanding Public Opinion

    by Susan Herbst, Scott Keeter, Anna Greenberg, Charles Franklin, Mark Blumenthal ...
    Series series Media and Public Affairs
    The 2008 presidential election provided a "perfect storm" for pollsters. A significant portion of the population had exchanged their landlines for cellphones, which made them harder to survey. Additionally, a potential Bradley effect -- in which white voters misrepresent their intentions of voting for or against a black candidate -- skewed predictions, and aggressive voter registration and ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe seven-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, Fox News star, and radio host Mark R. Levin explains how the dangers he warned against in the “timely yet timeless” (David Limbaugh, author of Jesus Is Risen) bestseller Liberty and Tyranny have come to pass.In 2009, Mark R. Levin galvanized conservatives with his unforgettable manifesto Liberty and Tyranny, by provi. ... Read more

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  • Intellectuals and Society

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    The influence of intellectuals is not only greater than in previous eras but also takes a very different form from that envisioned by those like Machiavelli and others who have wanted to directly influence rulers. It has not been by shaping the opinions or directing the actions of the holders of power that modern intellectuals have most influenced the course of events, but by shaping public ... Read more

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  • Our Own Worst Enemy

    The Assault from within on Modern Democracy

    by Tom Nichols ...
    A contrarian yet highly engaging account of the spread of illiberal and anti-democratic sentiment throughout our culture that places responsibility on the citizens themselves. Over the past three decades, citizens of democracies who claim to value freedom, tolerance, and the rule of law have increasingly embraced illiberal politicians and platforms. Democracy is in trouble--but who is really to ... Read more

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  • The Thomas Sowell Reader

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    A one-volume introduction to over three decades of the wide-ranging writings of one of America's most respected and cited authorsThese selections from the many writings of Thomas Sowell over a period of a half century cover social, economic, cultural, legal, educational, and political issues. The sources range from Dr. Sowell’s letters, books, and newspaper columns to articles in both scholarly ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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  • Why You Should Be a Socialist

    by Nathan J. Robinson ...
    A primer on Democratic Socialism for those who are extremely skeptical of it, from the founder and editor of Current Affairs ."A scrupulous, carefully argued work that will challenge liberals and confound conservatives." —Ryan Cooper, national correspondent for The WeekAmerica is witnessing the rise of a new generation of socialist activists. From the heyday of Occupy Wal... ... Read more

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  • The Rule of Nobody

    Saving America from Dead Laws and Broken Government

    by Philip K. Howard ...
    The secret to good government is a question no one in Washington is asking: “What’s the right thing to do?”What’s wrong in Washington is deeper than you think.Yes, there’s gridlock, polarization, and self-dealing. But hidden underneath is something bigger and more destructive. It’s a broken governing system. From that comes wasteful government, rising debt, failing schools, expensive health care, ... Read more

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  • Can It Happen Here?

    Authoritarianism in America

    Edited by Cass R. Sunstein ...
    . . . Or has it already? Experts in law, politics, and other fields discuss the state of American freedom—and its precarious future.With the 2016 election of Donald J. Trump, many on both the left and right feared that America's 240-year-old grand experiment in democracy was coming to an end, and that Sinclair Lewis' satirical novel It Can't Happen Here, written during the dark days of the 1930s, ... Read more

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  • Public Relations

    by Edward L. Bernays ...
    Public relations as described in this volume is, among other things, society’s solution to problems of maladjustment that plague an overcomplex world. All of us, individuals or organizations, depend for survival and growth on adjustment to our publics.Publicist Edward L. Bernays offers here the kind of advice individuals and a variety of organizations sought from him on a professional basis during ... Read more

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  • Imagine

    Living in a Socialist U.S.A.

    by Frances Goldin, Debby Smith, Michael Smith ...
    The polar ice caps are melting, hurricanes and droughts ravish the planet, and the earth's population is threatened by catastrophic climate change. Millions of American jobs have been sent overseas and aren't coming back. Young African-American men make up the majority of America's prison population. Half of the American population are poor or near poor, living precariously on the brink, while the ... Read more

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