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1999: Victory Without Warby Richard M. NixonISBN 0671659928 (0-671-65992-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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1999: Victory Without War Richard Nixonby Richard NixonISBN 0671678345 (0-671-67834-5)
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Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century Americaby Richard RortyISBN 0674003128 (0-674-00312-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America'Book summary:There are many shameful incidents in America's past: the institution of slavery, genocidal assaults on the indigenous peoples of this continent, the escalation of the Vietnam War, and so on. What should our response to such acts be? Should we regard the nation as irredeemably tainted by sin and spend our time cataloging its evils, or should we acknowledge its shortcomings and make a conscious effort to turn it into a better nation?
Philosopher Richard Rorty believes that there is hope for America, but that today's Left is not meeting the challenge. He contrasts the cultural, academic Left's focus on our heritage of shame (which, he admits, has to the extent that it makes hatred intolerable had the positive effect of making America a more civil society) with the politically engaged reformist Left of the early part of this century. "The distinction between the old strategy and the new is important," he writes. "The choice between them makes the difference between what Todd Gitlin calls common dreams and what Arthur Schlesinger calls disuniting Americans. To take pride in being black or gay is an entirely reasonable response to the sadistic humiliation to which one has been subjected. But insofar as this pride prevents someone from also taking pride in being an American citizen, from thinking of his or her country as capable of reform, or from being able to join with straights or whites in reformist initiatives, it is a political disaster."
Not everyone, to be sure, is going to agree with Rorty's ideas. But his approach to civic life, which is pragmatic in the tradition of John Dewey and visionary in the tradition of Walt Whitman, is bound to provoke increased discussion of what it is to be a citizen, and his call for a renewed awareness of the history of American reformist activism can only be applauded. [via]
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The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White Houseby Bob Woodward, Julie RubensteinISBN 0671666843 (0-671-66684-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House'Book summary:Working behind the scenes for the eighteen months following Bill Clinton's election, conducting hundreds of interviews with administration insiders and other key officials, and gaining access to confidential internal memos, diaries, and meeting notes, Bob Woodward has discovered how the Clinton White House really works. Clinton's pledge for a new economic deal was the cornerstone of his 1992 campaign, and fulfilling it has been his central ambition and enterprise as president. By focusing on Clinton's efforts to pass a comprehensive economic recovery plan, Woodward takes us not only to the highest level meetings, the hard-fought debates, and the most difficult decisions but also to the very hear of this presidency -- and of this man. With its day-by-day, often minute-by-minute account, it is one of the most intimate portraits of a sitting president ever published. President Clinton is shown as he debates, scolds, pleads, celebrates, and rages in anger and frustration. What emerges also is a group portrait of Clinton's innermost circle of advisers in action -- including his wife, Hillary; Vice President Al Gore; Treasure Secretary Lloyd Bentsen and the economic team; George Stephanopoulos and David Gergen and the White House staff; James Carville, Paul Begala, and the other outside political strategists; Congressional leaders; and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. Using his proven research method -- returning time and again to key sources and relying on the paper trail of internal documentation -- Woodward has assembled an extensive archive of the early Clinton presidency. This microscopic examination of the Clintons and this administration, working under pressure on the nation's most important task, reveals the deep and still unsettled conflicts among President Clinton's advisers and within himself. The questions about the federal deficit, health care, welfare reform, taxes, jobs, government spending, interest rates, the roles and responsibilities of the [via]
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All the King's Menby Robert Penn WarrenISBN 0553204548 (0-553-20454-8)
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American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bushby Kevin P. PhillipsISBN 0670032646 (0-670-03264-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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It is hard to tell what offends Phillips the most: the Bushes' systematic deceit and secrecy, their shady business dealings, their cronyism, or their family philosophy that privileges the very wealthy and utterly dismisses all the rest. It is clearly all of these things combined. But at the top of Phillips' list is the dynastic nature of their family power, for it is that concentration of power and influence that strikes at the heart of our democracy. Past administrations have transgressed, albeit not so egregiously, and other political families have had dynastic ambitions. But none have succeeded as thoroughly as the Bushes. Jefferson and Madison would be horrified, and according to Phillips, we should be too. --Silvana Tropea [via]More editions of American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush:
The Anatomy of Antiliberalismby Stephen HolmesISBN 0674031857 (0-674-03185-7)
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At The Point Of A Gun: Democratic Dreams And Armed Interventionby David RieffISBN 0684808676 (0-684-80867-6)
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Balkan Ghosts : A Journey Through Historyby Robert D. KaplanISBN 0679749810 (0-679-74981-0)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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This enthralling and often chilling political travelogue fully deciphers the Balkans' ancient passions and intractable hatreds for outsiders. For as Kaplan travels among the vibrantly-adorned churches and soul-destroying slums of the former Yugoslavia, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, and Greece, he allows us to see the region's history as a time warp in which Slobodan Milosevic becomes the reincarnation of a fourteenth-century Serbian martyr; Nicolae Ceaucescu is called "Drac," or "the Devil"; and the one-time Soviet Union turns out to be a continuation of the Ottoman Empire. [via]
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The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Lifeby Richard J. Herrnstein, Charles MurrayISBN 0684824299 (0-684-82429-9)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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Breaking new ground and old taboos, Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray tell the story of a society in transformation. At the top, a cognitive elite is forming in which the passkey to the best schools and the best jobs is no longer social background but high intelligence. At the bottom, the common denominator of the underclass is increasingly low intelligence rather than racial or social disadvantage.
The Bell Curve describes the state of scientific knowledge about questions that have been on people's minds for years but have been considered too sensitive to talk about openly -- among them, IQ's relationship to crime, unemployment, welfare, child neglect, poverty, and illegitimacy; ethnic differences in intelligence; trends in fertility among women of different levels of intelligence; and what policy can do -- and cannot do -- to compensate for differences in intelligence. Brilliantly argued and meticulously documented, The Bell Curve is the essential first step in coming to grips with the nation's social problems. [via]
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The British Polityby Philip NortonISBN 0582282721 (0-582-28272-1)
Softcover, Longman
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Waterby Marc ReisnerISBN 0670199273 (0-670-19927-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germanyby Rogers BrubakerISBN 0674131789 (0-674-13178-9)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Classic Readings of International Relationsby Donald M. Goldstein, Jay M. Shafritz, Phil WilliamsISBN 0534171842 (0-534-17184-2)
Softcover, Cengage Learning College
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The Coming of the New Deal: 1933-1935, The Age of Rooseveltby Arthur M. SchlesingerISBN 0618340866 (0-618-34086-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Conservatism in Americaby Clinton L. RossiterISBN 0674165101 (0-674-16510-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Contemporary Political Ideologies: A Comparative Analysisby Lyman Tower SargentISBN 053460241X (0-534-60241-X)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Comtemporary Political Ideologies: A Comparative Analysis'Book summary:Explore current and emerging political ideologies--offering a comparative analysis of nationalism, the varieties of democracy, Marxism, and political Islam, as well as an effective introduction to the lesser-known ideologies surrounding anarchism, fascism and national socialism, environmentalism, feminism, and liberation theology with CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS. You'll find a balanced presentation of the ideologies covered in the text, and to objectively discuss the way that ideology functions today. Includes a discussion of terrorism. [via]
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Contemporary Political Ideologies: A Readerby Lyman Tower SargentISBN 0534128580 (0-534-12858-0)
Softcover, Cengage Learning
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Coup D'Etatby Edward LuttwakISBN 0674175476 (0-674-17547-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Culture and Imperialismby Edward W. SaidISBN 0679750541 (0-679-75054-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Culture and Imperialism'Book summary:Edward Said makes one of the strongest cases ever for the aphorism, "the pen is mightier than the sword." This is a brilliant work of literary criticism that essentially becomes political science. Culture and Imperialism demonstrates that Western imperialism's most effective tools for dominating other cultures have been literary in nature as much as political and economic. He traces the themes of 19th- and 20th-century Western fiction and contemporary mass media as weapons of conquest and also brilliantly analyzes the rise of oppositional indigenous voices in the literatures of the "colonies." Said would argue that it's no mere coincidence that it was a Victorian Englishman, Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, who coined the phrase "the pen is mightier . . ." Very highly recommended for anyone who wants to understand how cultures are dominated by words, as well as how cultures can be liberated by resuscitating old voices or creating new voices for new times. [via]
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The Dance of Legislationby Eric RedmanISBN 0671217461 (0-671-21746-1)
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The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansingby Michael MannISBN 052183130X (0-521-83130-X)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Death and Life of Great American Citiesby Jane JacobsISBN 067974195X (0-679-74195-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States: With Indexby Pauline Maier, United States, United States ConstitutionISBN 0553214829 (0-553-21482-9)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress issued a unanimous declaration: the thirteen North American colonies would be the thirteen United States of America, free and independent of Great Britain. Drafted by Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration set forth the terms of a new form of government with the following words: "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."
Framed in 1787 and in effect since March 1789, the Constitution of the United States of America fulfilled the promise of the Declaration by establishing a republican form of government with separate executive, legislative, and judicial branches. The first ten amendments, known as the Bill of Rights, became part of the Constitution on December 15, 1791. Among the rights guaranteed by these amendments are freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, and the right to trial by jury. Written so that it could be adapted to endure for years to come, the Constitution has been amended only seventeen times since 1791 and has lasted longer than any other written form of government. [via]More editions of The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States: With Index:
The Decline of American Political Parties 1952-1996by Martin P. WattenbergISBN 0674194357 (0-674-19435-7)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Democracy and Coercive Diplomacyby Kenneth A. SchultzISBN 0521796695 (0-521-79669-5)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Democracy and the Rule of Lawby Adam PrzeworskiISBN 0521825598 (0-521-82559-8)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Dialogues of Platoby Justin D. KaplanISBN 0671525247 (0-671-52524-7)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dialogues of Plato'Book summary:"The unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates's ancient words are still true, and the ideas sounded in Plato's "Dialogues" still form the foundation of a thinking person's education. This superb collection contains excellent contemporary translations selected for their clarity and accessibility to today's reader, as well as an incisive introduction by Erich Segal, which reveals Plato's life and clarifies the philosophical issues examined in each dialogue. The first four dialogues recount the trial execution of Socrates--the extraordinary tragedy that changed Plato's life and so altered the course of Western though. Other dialogues create a rich tableau of intellectual life in Athens in the fourth century B.C., and examine the nature of virtue and love, knowledge and truth, society and the individual. Resounding with the humor and astounding brilliance of Socrates, the immortal iconoclast, these great works remain powerful, probing, and essential. [via]
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The Dialogues of Platoby PlatoISBN 0553213717 (0-553-21371-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dialogues of Plato'Book summary:Socrates' ancient words are still true, and the ideas found in Plato's Dialogues still form the foundation of a thinking person's education. This superb collection contains excellent contemporary translations selected for their clarity and accessibility to today's reader, as well as an incisive introduction by Erich Segal, which reveals Plato's life and clarifies the philosophical issues examined in each dialogue. The first four dialogues recount the trial and execution of Socrates-the extraordinary tragedy that changed Plato's life and forever altered the course of Western thought. Other dialogues create a rich tableau of intellectual life in Athens in the fourth century b.c., and examine such timeless-and timely-issues as the nature of virtue and love, knowledge and truth, society and the individual. Resounding with the humor and astounding brilliance of Socrates, the immortal iconoclast, these great works remain powerful, probing, and essential. [via]
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The Fall of the New Class: A History of Communism's Self-Destructionby Milovan DjilasISBN 0679433252 (0-679-43325-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Milovan Djilas (1911-1995) was one of the most profoundly outspoken apostates of Communism. A loyal Stalinite and high-ranking official in the Yugoslav Party until the early 1950s, when he was ostracized for "revisionism" and eventually imprisoned for denouncing the Red Army's invasion of Hungary, he wrote one of the first internal critiques of the communist movement to be widely published, The New Class, describing how ideology was brutally imposed through bureaucratization and repression.
In this collection of thematically linked essays, Djilas returns to that theme, examining how the movement collapsed upon itself and reflecting on how he himself had come to reject its goals. "There is in each of us a Communist spirit," he writes, "hunger for fair dealing and social equality." But the world, he concluded, is simply not fair, and perfection, although it must be strived for, cannot be imposed upon humanity. Djilas had reservations about Westerners who criticized communism for its economic shortcomings; as a true insider, Djilas came to his understanding of its inherent flaws the hard way. [via]
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Fascistsby Michael MannISBN 0521831318 (0-521-83131-8)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Fire in the Lake : The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnamby Frances FitzGeraldISBN 0679723943 (0-679-72394-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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God Has Ninety-Nine Names: Reporting from a Militant Middle Eastby Judith MillerISBN 0684809737 (0-684-80973-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'God Has Ninety-Nine Names: Reporting from a Militant Middle East'Book summary:A comprehensive survey of militant Islam, or Islamism, from Judith Miller, former bureau chief for The New York Times in Cairo. She covers eight Arab countries, plus Iran and Israel, in providing a complete, if bleak, picture for Western readers: from poverty-stricken Egypt to rich Saudi Arabia, she believes Islamists are threatening Middle Eastern stability. Whether floundering under incompetent government, corruption, and repression, or, as in the case of Jordan, too dependent on one ruler, the states close to the West are weak, and vulnerable to a movement that promises social justice and moral righteousness. Miller is forthright in her condemnation of the intolerance and sexism of Islamic movements she sees as largely antithetical to Western democracy. A provocative and daring book. [via]
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The Handbook Of Political Sociology: States, Civil Societies, And Globalizationby Thomas Janoski, Mildred A. Schwartz, Robert R. Alford, Alexander M. HicksISBN 0521819903 (0-521-81990-3)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Hardball: How Politics Is Played, Told by One Who Knows the Gameby Chris MatthewsISBN 0671631608 (0-671-63160-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Illiberal Education : The Politics of Race and Sex on Campusby Dinesh D'SouzaISBN 0679738576 (0-679-73857-6)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Interest Group Societyby Jeffrey M. BerryISBN 0673525112 (0-673-52511-2)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Powerby Garry WillsISBN 0618134433 (0-618-13443-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them): A Fair and Balanced Look at the Rightby Al FrankenISBN 0525947647 (0-525-94764-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them): A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right'Book summary:Having previously dissected the factual inaccuracies of a single bellicose talk show host in Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot, Al Franken takes his fight to a larger foe: President George W. Bush, the Bush Administration, Ann Coulter, Bill OReilly, and scores of other conservatives whom, he says, are playing loose with the facts. It's a lot of ground to cover, as evidenced by the 43 chapters in Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, but the results are often entertaining and insightful. Franken occupies a unique place in the modern political dialogue as perhaps the media's only comedy writer and performer who is also a Harvard fellow as well as a liberal political commentator. This unique and vaguely lonely position lends a charming quixotic quality to adventures such as a tense encounter with the Fox News staff at the National Press Club, a challenge to fisticuffs with National Review Editor Rich Lowry, and an oddly sweet admissions visit to ultra-conservative Bob Jones University (with a young research assistant posing as his son when Franken's real-life son refuses to participate in the charade). Less useful are comic book dramatizations of "Supply Side Jesus" and a fictitious Vietnam War story featuring the numerous righties who, Franken intimates, improperly avoided service. And Franken's criticisms of conservative talk show hosts Sean Hannity, OReilly, and columnist Coulter, while admirable in their attention to detail, fail to shed much new light on people who have built careers on broad arguments and relentless self-aggrandizement. But Franken is at his best, and most compellingly readable, when he backs off the wackiness and the personal grudges and writes about more personal matters such as the political circus surrounding the memorial service of the late Senator Paul Wellstone. But even on these more serious topics, Franken's wit is still present and, in fact, grows sharper. In a time when much political discourse is composed of rage and shouting, it's refreshing that Al Franken is able to shout in a witty manner. --John Moe [via]
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The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jeffersonby Adrienne Koch, William PedenISBN 0679748946 (0-679-74894-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson'Book summary:On the occasion a dinner honoring Nobel Prize recipients, John F. Kennedy characterized his guests as "the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."
Mr. Jefferson, as he is still referred to at the University of Virginia, which he founded and designed, was a brilliant statesman, architect, scientist, naturalist, educator, and public servant.
Jefferson provided "the richest treasure house of historical information left to us by any single man" through journal entries, notes, addresses, and 70,000 letters. This first paperback edition of the Koch-Peden selection of his writings, published during the 250th anniversary of his birth, provides an engaging and timely representation of his thoughts.
Included in this volume are the autobiography (including the Declaration of Independence), travel journals, biographical sketches of some of his notable contemporaries, important public papers, Notes on Virginia -- his only published book -- and a generous selection of his letters on both public and private matters. The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson is a distinguished and important compilation. [via]More editions of The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson:
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The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jeffersonby Thomas JeffersonISBN 0679600620 (0-679-60062-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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and embraced in his view the whole future of man."
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The Logic of International Relationsby JonesISBN 0673524787 (0-673-52478-7)
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The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Yearsby Bernard LewisISBN 0684807122 (0-684-80712-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years'Book summary:To gain a better understanding of contemporary Middle Eastern culture and society, which is steeped in tradition, one should look closely at its history. Bernard Lewis, Professor of Near Eastern studies at Princeton University, considered one of the world's foremost authorities on the Middle East, spans 2000 years of this region's history, searching in the past for answers to questions that will inevitably arise in the future.
Drawing on material from a multitude of sources, including the work of archaeologists and scholars, Lewis chronologically traces the political, economical, social, and cultural development of the Middle East, from Hellenization in antiquity to the impact of westernization on Islamic culture. Meticulously researched, this enlightening narrative explores the patterns of history that have repeated themselves in the Middle East.
From the ancient conflicts to the current geographical and religious disputes between the Arabs and the Israelis, Lewis examines the ability of this region to unite and solve its problems and asks if, in the future, these unresolved conflicts will ultimately lead to the ethnic and cultural factionalism that tore apart the former Yugoslavia. [via]
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Monarch Notes on Warren's All the King's Menby George B. GerhardISBN 0671006975 (0-671-00697-5)
Hardcover, Peterson's
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Nineteen Ninety Nine: Victory Without Warby Richard NixonISBN 0671706268 (0-671-70626-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bulliesby Naomi KleinISBN 067697130X (0-676-97130-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Canada
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› Find signed collectible books: 'No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies'Book summary:We live in an era where image is nearly everything, where the proliferation of brand-name culture has created, to take one hyperbolic example from Naomi Klein's No Logo, "walking, talking, life-sized Tommy [Hilfiger] dolls, mummified in fully branded Tommy worlds." Brand identities are even flourishing online, she notes--and for some retailers, perhaps best of all online: "Liberated from the real-world burdens of stores and product manufacturing, these brands are free to soar, less as the disseminators of goods or services than as collective hallucinations."
In No Logo, Klein patiently demonstrates, step by step, how brands have become ubiquitous, not just in media and on the street but increasingly in the schools as well. (The controversy over advertiser-sponsored Channel One may be old hat, but many readers will be surprised to learn about ads in school lavatories and exclusive concessions in school cafeterias.) The global companies claim to support diversity, but their version of "corporate multiculturalism" is merely intended to create more buying options for consumers. When Klein talks about how easy it is for retailers like Wal-Mart and Blockbuster to "censor" the contents of videotapes and albums, she also considers the role corporate conglomeration plays in the process. How much would one expect Paramount Pictures, for example, to protest against Blockbuster's policies, given that they're both divisions of Viacom?
Klein also looks at the workers who keep these companies running, most of whom never share in any of the great rewards. The president of Borders, when asked whether the bookstore chain could pay its clerks a "living wage," wrote that "while the concept is romantically appealing, it ignores the practicalities and realities of our business environment." Those clerks should probably just be grateful they're not stuck in an Asian sweatshop, making pennies an hour to produce Nike sneakers or other must-have fashion items. Klein also discusses at some length the tactic of hiring "permatemps" who can do most of the work and receive few, if any, benefits like health care, paid vacations, or stock options. While many workers are glad to be part of the "Free Agent Nation," observers note that, particularly in the high-tech industry, such policies make it increasingly difficult to organize workers and advocate for change.
But resistance is growing, and the backlash against the brands has set in. Street-level education programs have taught kids in the inner cities, for example, not only about Nike's abusive labor practices but about the astronomical markup in their prices. Boycotts have commenced: as one urban teen put it, "Nike, we made you. We can break you." But there's more to the revolution, as Klein optimistically recounts: "Ethical shareholders, culture jammers, street reclaimers, McUnion organizers, human-rights hacktivists, school-logo fighters and Internet corporate watchdogs are at the early stages of demanding a citizen-centered alternative to the international rule of the brands ... as global, and as capable of coordinated action, as the multinational corporations it seeks to subvert." No Logo is a comprehensive account of what the global economy has wrought and the actions taking place to thwart it. --Ron Hogan [via]
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One Case at a Time: Judicial Minimalism on the Supreme Courtby Cass R. SunsteinISBN 0674005791 (0-674-00579-1)
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One Nation, After All: What Middle-Class Americans Really Thing About God, Country, Family, Racism, Welfare, Immigration, Homosexuality, Work, the Right, the Left, andby Alan WolfeISBN 0670876771 (0-670-87677-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Nation, After All: What Middle-Class Americans Really Thing About God, Country, Family, Racism, Welfare, Immigration, Homosexuality, Work, the Right, the Left, and'Book summary:Few academics write as crisply as the sociologist Alan Wolfe, and even fewer are capable of making the penetrating insights that sprinkle the pages of this engaging study of suburban psychology. Based on 200 extensive interviews with middle-class Americans, Wolfe's study uncovers a striking tolerance. Americans, according to the author, can be quite harsh when judging their own behavior, but they exhibit a hands-off approach with others. (Wolfe also cites an exception to this rule: homosexuality.) Americans are not torn apart by any kind of cultural war, contrary to the claims of intellectuals on both the right and left. Instead, writes Wolfe, they are a practical people willing to accept social change. Forget the shallow opinion polls that appear every few days in the news. One Nation, After All comes closer to the real pulse of the American people than just about any other you will find. [via]
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An Ordinary Man: an autobiographyby Paul RuseabaginaISBN 0670037524 (0-670-03752-4)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Ordinary Man: an autobiography'Book summary:The riveting life story of Paul Rusesabaginathe man whose heroism inspired the film Hotel Rwanda
As his country was being torn apart by violence during the Rwandan genocide of 1994, hotel manager Paul Rusesabaginathe "Oskar Schindler of Africa"refused to bow to the madness that surrounded him. Confronting killers with a combination of diplomacy, flattery, and deception, he offered shelter to more than twelve thousand members of the Tutsi clan and Hutu moderates, while homicidal mobs raged outside with machetes.An Ordinary Man explores what the Academy Award-nominated film Hotel Rwanda could not: the inner life of the man who became one of the most prominent public faces of that terrible conflict. Rusesabagina tells for the first time the full story of his lifegrowing up as the son of a rural farmer, the child of a mixed marriage, his extraordinary career path which led him to become the first Rwandan manager of the Belgian-owned Hotel Milles Collinesall of which contributed to his heroic actions in the face of such horror. He will also bring the reader inside the hotel for those one hundred terrible days depicted in the film, relating the anguish of those who watched as their loved ones were hacked to pieces and the betrayal that he felt as a result of the UNs refusal to help at this time of crisis.
Including never-before-reported details of the Rwandan genocide, An Ordinary Man is sure to become a classic of tolerance literature, joining such books as Thomas Keneallys Schindlers List, Nelson Mandelas Long Walk to Freedom, and Elie Wiesels Night. Paul Rusesabaginas autobiography is the story of one man who did not let fear get the better of hima man who found within himself a vast reserve of courage and bravery, and showed the world how one "ordinary man" can become a hero. [via]
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Ordinary Vicesby Judith N. ShklarISBN 0674641760 (0-674-64176-0)
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Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanonby Robert FiskISBN 0671747703 (0-671-74770-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoplesby Duncan Ivison, Paul Patton, Will SandersISBN 0521770483 (0-521-77048-3)
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Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoplesby Paul Patton, Duncan Ivison, Will SandersISBN 0521779375 (0-521-77937-5)
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Political Thinking: The Perennial Questionsby Glenn TinderISBN 0673993892 (0-673-99389-2)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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The Politics of Upheaval, 1935-1936: The Age of Rooseveltby Arthur M. SchlesingerISBN 0618340874 (0-618-34087-4)
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Preparing for the Twenty-First Centuryby Paul KennedyISBN 0679747052 (0-679-74705-2)
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The Presidential Difference : Leadership Style from FDR to Clintonby Fred I. GreensteinISBN 0684827336 (0-684-82733-6)
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Presidential Elections: Strategies of American Electoral Politicsby Nelson W. Polsby, Aaron B. WildavskyISBN 0684125625 (0-684-12562-5)
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The Princeby Niccolo Machiavelli, Daniel DonnoISBN 0553212273 (0-553-21227-3)
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Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalismby Max WeberISBN 0684164892 (0-684-16489-2)
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Reason to Believeby Mario CuomoISBN 0684825333 (0-684-82533-3)
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A Requiem for Karl Marxby Frank E. ManuelISBN 0674763270 (0-674-76327-0)
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Revolution in the Third Worldby Gerard ChaliandISBN 0670826375 (0-670-82637-5)
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The Right to Privacyby Ellen Alderman, Caroline KennedyISBN 0679744347 (0-679-74434-7)
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Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinetby James MannISBN 0670032999 (0-670-03299-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorismby Robert Baer, Seymour M. HershISBN 0609609874 (0-609-60987-4)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism'Book summary:Robert Baer was considered perhaps the best on-the-ground field officer in the Middle East. --Seymour M. Hersh, The New Yorker
Robert Baer [was] one of the most talented Middle East case officers of the past twenty years. Reuel Marc Gerecht, The Atlantic Monthly
In See No Evil, one of the CIAs top field officers of the past quarter century recounts his career running agents in the back alleys of the Middle East. In the process, Robert Baer paints a chilling picture of how terrorism works on the inside and provides compelling evidence about how Washington politics sabotaged the CIAs efforts to root out the worlds deadliest terrorists.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, the world witnessed the terrible result of that intelligence failure with the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In the wake of those attacks, Americans were left wondering how such an obviously long-term, globally coordinated plot could have escaped detection by the CIA and taken the nation by surprise. Robert Baer was not surprised. A twenty-one-year veteran of the CIAs Directorate of Operations who had left the agency in 1997, Baer observed firsthand how an increasingly bureaucratic CIA lost its way in the postcold war world and refused to adequately acknowledge and neutralize the growing threat of Islamic fundamentalist terror in the Middle East and elsewhere.
A throwback to the days when CIA operatives got results by getting their hands dirty and running covert operations, Baer spent his career chasing down leads on suspected terrorists in the worlds most volatile hot spots. As he and his agents risked their lives gathering intelligence, he watched as the CIA reduced drastically its operations overseas, failed to put in place people who knew local languages and customs, and rewarded workers who knew how to play the political games of the agencys suburban Washington headquarters but not how to recruit agents on the ground.
See No Evil is not only a candid memoir of the education and disillusionment of an intelligence operative but also an unprecedented look at the roots of modern terrorism. Baer reveals some of the disturbing details he uncovered in his work, including:
* In 1996, Osama bin Laden established a strategic alliance with Iran to coordinate terrorist attacks against the United States.
* In 1995, the National Security Council intentionally aborted a military coup detat against Saddam Hussein, forgoing the last opportunity to get rid of him.
* In 1991, the CIA intentionally shut down its operations in Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia, and ignored fundamentalists operating there.
When Baer left the agency in 1997 he received the Career Intelligence Medal, with a citation that says, He repeatedly put himself in personal danger, working the hardest targets, in service to his country. See No Evil is Baers frank assessment of an agency that forgot that service to country must transcend politics and is a forceful plea for the CIA to return to its original missionthe preservation of our national sovereignty and the American way of life.
From The Preface
This book is a memoir of one foot soldiers career in the other cold war, the one against terrorist networks. Its a story about places most Americans will never travel to, about people many Americans would prefer to think we dont need to do business with.
This memoir, I hope, will show the reader how spying is supposed to work, where the CIA lost its way, and how we can bring it back again. But I hope this book will accomplish one more purpose as well: I hope it will show why I am angry about what happened to the CIA. And I want to show why every American and everyone who cares about the preservation of this country should be angry and alarmed, too.
The CIA was systematically destroyed by political correctness, by petty Beltway wars, by careerism, and much more. At a time when terrorist threats were compounding globally, the agency that should have been monitoring them was being scrubbed clean instead. Americans were making too much money to bother. Life was good. The White House and the National Security Council became cathedrals of commerce where the interests of big business outweighed the interests of protecting American citizens at home and abroad. Defanged and dispirited, the CIA went along for the ride. And then on September 11, 2001, the reckoning for such vast carelessness was presented for all the world to see. [via]More editions of See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism:
Should We Consent to Be Governed?: A Short Introduction to Political Philosophyby Stephen NathansonISBN 0534167462 (0-534-16746-2)
Softcover, Cengage Learning College
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Social Science Methodology: A Criterial Frameworkby John GerringISBN 0521805139 (0-521-80513-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Social Science Methodology: A Criterial Framework'Book summary:This book is an introduction to methodological issues in the social sciences that is appropriate for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and general readers with some background in social science subjects. It is a concise and readable guide to doing and evaluating work in anthropology, economics, history, political science, psychology, and sociology. [via]
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Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations.by Samuel P. HuntingtonISBN 0674817362 (0-674-81736-2)
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Statecraft As Soulcraft: What Government Doesby George F. WillISBN 0671427342 (0-671-42734-2)
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Surprise, Security, and the American Experienceby John Lewis GaddisISBN 0674018362 (0-674-01836-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Surprise, Security, And The American Experience'Book summary:September 11, 2001, distinguished Cold War historian John Lewis Gaddis argues, was not the first time a surprise attack shattered American assumptions about national security and reshaped American grand strategy. We've been there before, and have responded each time by dramatically expanding our security responsibilities.
The pattern began in 1814, when the British attacked Washington, burning the White House and the Capitol. This early violation of homeland security gave rise to a strategy of unilateralism and preemption, best articulated by John Quincy Adams, aimed at maintaining strength beyond challenge throughout the North American continent. It remained in place for over a century. Only when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941 did the inadequacies of this strategy become evident: as a consequence, the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt devised a new grand strategy of cooperation with allies on an intercontinental scale to defeat authoritarianism. That strategy defined the American approach throughout World War II and the Cold War.
The terrorist attacks of 9/11, Gaddis writes, made it clear that this strategy was now insufficient to ensure American security. The Bush administration has, therefore, devised a new grand strategy whose foundations lie in the nineteenth-century tradition of unilateralism, preemption, and hegemony, projected this time on a global scale. How successful it will be in the face of twenty-first-century challenges is the question that confronts us. This provocative book, informed by the experiences of the past but focused on the present and the future, is one of the first attempts by a major scholar of grand strategy and international relations to provide an answer.
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A Theory Of Powerby Jeff VailISBN 0595330304 (0-595-33030-4)
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United States Foreign Policy and World Orderby James A. Nathan, James K. OliverISBN 0673396894 (0-673-39689-4)
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When Character Was King : A Story of Ronald Reaganby Peggy NoonanISBN 0670882356 (0-670-88235-6)
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Why Americans Hate Politicsby E. J. DionneISBN 0671778773 (0-671-77877-3)
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"At the heart of Why Americans Hate Politics is the view that ideas shape politics far more than most accounts of public life usually allow. I believe ideas matter not only to elites and intellectuals, but also to rank and file voters. Indeed, I often think that the rank and file see the importance of ideas more clearly than the elites, who often find themselves surprised by the rise of the movements that arise from the bottom up and shape our politics." [via]
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Why Societies Need Dissentby Cass R. SunsteinISBN 0674017684 (0-674-01768-4)
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Sunstein casts new light on freedom of speech, showing that a free society not only forbids censorship but also provides public spaces for dissenters to expose widely held myths and pervasive injustices. He provides evidence about the effects of conformity and dissent on the federal courts. The evidence shows not only that Republican appointees vote differently from Democratic appointees but also that both Republican and Democratic judges are likely to go to extremes if unchecked by opposing views. Understanding the need for dissent illuminates countless social debates, including those over affirmative action in higher education, because diversity is indispensable to learning.
Dissenters are often portrayed as selfish and disloyal, but Sunstein shows that those who reject pressures imposed by others perform valuable social functions, often at their own expense. This is true for dissenters in boardrooms, churches, unions, and academia. It is true for dissenters in the White House, Congress, and the Supreme Court. And it is true during times of war and peace.
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World Politics: The Menu For Choiceby Harvey Starr, Bruce Russett, David KinsellaISBN 0534604129 (0-534-60412-9)
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World Politics With Infotrac: The Menu for Choiceby Harvey Starr, Bruce Russett, David KinsellaISBN 0534604080 (0-534-60408-0)
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