The America that Alexander Hamilton knew was largely agricultural and built on slave labor. He envisioned something else: a multi-racial, urbanized, capitalistic America with a strong central government. He believed that such an America...
Political science
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Author:Kanefield, TeriSummary: - Author:Trump, Fred C.Summary:
With revealing, never-before-told stories, Fred C. Trump III, nephew of President Donald Trump, breaks his decades-long silence in this revealing memoir and sheds a whole new light on the family name. For the record... Fred Trump never...
- Author:Zygarʹ, MikhailSummary:
Based on an unprecedented series of interviews with Vladimir Putin's inner circle, Zygar presents a radically different view of power and politics in Russia, and a reconstruction of the machinations of courtiers running riot.
- Author:Woodward, Bob, Bernstein, CarlSummary:
The most devastating political detective story of the century: two Washington Post reporters, whose brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation smashed the Watergate scandal wide open, tell the behind-the-scenes drama the way it...
- Author:Landler, MarkSummary:
A deeply-reported, firsthand account of how Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have come to embody two competing visions for the role of the United States in the world-and what that means for the 2016 presidential election. New York Times...
- Author:Garrison, JamesSummary:
In America as Empire, Jim Garrison urges us to face up to the complexities and responsibilities inherent in the indisputable fact that America is now the world's single preeminent power. "America," Garrison writes, "has become what it...
- Author:Alberta, Tim.Summary:
Politico Magazine's chief political correspondent provides a rollicking insider's look at the making of the modern Republican Party-how a decade of cultural upheaval, populist outrage, and ideological warfare made the GOP...
- Author:Hedges, ChrisSummary:
Twenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists first spoke of the United States becoming a Christian nation that would build a global Christian empire, it was hard to take such hyperbolic rhetoric seriously...
- Author:Waskiewicz, Sylvie, Krutz, Glen S.Summary:
American Government is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the single-semester American Government course. This title includes innovative features designed to enhance student learning, including Insider Perspective...
- Author:Krutz, Glen S.Summary:
American Government 2e is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the single-semester American Government course. This title includes innovative features designed to enhance student learning, including Insider...
- Author:Waskiewicz, Sylvie, Krutz, Glen S.Summary:
American Government 3e aligns with the topics and objectives of many government courses. Faculty involved in the project have endeavored to make government workings, issues, debates, and impacts meaningful and memorable to students...
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American Government does more than any other text to get students to think analytically about American politics and government. The successful Five Principles of Politics framework integrated throughout the full and core versions helps...
- Author:Duthu, N. BruceSummary:
Duthu highlights the major events, the differing principles, and the evolving perspectives that have governed relations among the Native American Indian tribes, the federal government, and the states.
- Author:Carew, AnthonySummary:
During the Cold War, American labour organizations were at the centre of the battle for the hearts and minds of working people. At a time when trade unions were a substantial force in both American and European politics, the fiercely...
- Author:Kennedy, Robert F.Summary:
With rich detail, compelling honesty, and a storyteller's gift, RFK Jr. describes growing up Kennedy in a tumultuous time in history that eerily echoes the issues of nuclear confrontation, religion, race, and inequality that we confront...
- Author:Shrivastava, MeenalSummary:
As a precocious young girl, Surekha knew very little about the details of her mother Amma's unusual past and that of Babu, her mysterious and sometimes absent father. The tense, uncertain family life created by her parents'...
- Author:Cullors, PatrisseSummary:
The audiobook features an introduction written and read by Prentis Hemphill as well as an exclusive bonus conversation with the author and Adrienne Maree Brown. In this book, Cullors charts a framework for how everyday activists can...
- Author:Hudema, Mike, Rolfe, JacobSummary:
An Action A Day Keeps Global Capitalism Away, according to Mike Hudema, describing his action guide for the 21st century. This lively, challenging, and decidedly fun book is designed for activists and concerned citizens who want to...
- Author:Armstrong, Melissa DianeSummary:
During the apartheid era, thousands of South African political activists, militants, and refugees fled arrest by crossing into neighbouring southern African countries. Although they had escaped political oppression, many required...
- Author:Olive, DavidSummary:
Barack Obama, junior senator from Illinois, first captured America’s attention with his keynote address to the Democratic National Convention in 2004. Now, as presumptive Democratic candidate for President, Obama’s superb and...
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