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by Thomas Sowell (Author)One of conservatism's most articulate voices dissects today's most important economic, racial, political, education, legal, and social issues, sharing his entertaining and thought-provoking insights on a wide range of contentious subjects. --This book contains an abundance of wisdom on a large number of economic issues. --Mises ReviewAuthor BiographyThomas Sowell is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution, Stanford Univers...

Pistols and Politics: Feuds, Factions, and the Struggle for Order in Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1810-1935 - Paperback

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by Samuel C. Hyde (Author)In Pistols and Politics, Samuel C. Hyde, Jr., reveals the reasons behind the remarkable levels of violence in Louisiana's Florida parishes in the nineteenth century. This updated and expanded edition deftly brings the analysis forward to account for the continuation of violence and mayhem in the region in the early twentieth century. Numerous pockets of small communities formed in the nineteenth-century South with cultures and values independent from those of the dom...

From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy: The Question of India and the Transformation of Geopolitics in Qing China - Paperback

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by Matthew Mosca (Author)Between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, Qing rulers, officials, and scholars fused diverse, fragmented perceptions of foreign territory into one integrated worldview. In the same period, a single "foreign" policy emerged as an alternative to the many localized "frontier" policies hitherto pursued on the coast, in Xinjiang, and in Tibet. By unraveling Chinese, Manchu, and British sources to reveal the information networks used by the Qing empire to gat...

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by Jason Stanley (Author)How propaganda undermines democracy and why we need to pay attention Our democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so, many of us believe that propaganda and manipulation aren't problems for us--not in the way they were for the totalitarian societies of the mid-twentieth century. In How Propaganda Works, Jason Stanley de...

From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America - Paperback

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by Elizabeth Hinton (Author)Co-Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial PrizeA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Wall Street Journal Favorite Book of the YearA Choice Outstanding Academi Number of Pages: 464 Dimensions: 1.3 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN Publication Date: September 04, 2017

Brazil: The Fortunes of War: World War II and the Making of Modern Brazil - Hardcover

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by Neill Lochery (Author)When World War II erupted in 1939, Brazil seemed a world away. Lush, remote, and underdeveloped, the country and its capital of Rio de Janeiro lured international travelers seeking a respite from the drums of the war. "Rio: at the end of civilization, as we know it," claimed Orson Welles as he set out for the city in 1942. But Brazil's bucolic reputation as a distant land of palm trees and pristine beaches masked a more complex reality--one that the country's leaders ...

World Peace: (And How We Can Achieve It) - Hardcover

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by Alex J. Bellamy (Author)For as long as there has been war, there have been demands for its elimination. The quest for world peace has excited and eluded political leaders, philosophers, religious elders, activists, and artists for millennia. With war on the rise once again, we rarely reflect nowadays on what world peace might look like; much less on how it might be achieved. World Peace aims to change all that and show that world peace is possible. Because the motives, rationales, and impu...

Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938 - Paperback

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by Stephen F. Cohen (Author), Cohen (Author)This classic biography carefully traces Bukharin's rise to and fall from power, focusing particularly on the development of his theories and programmatic ideas during the critical period between Lenin's death in 1924 and the ascendancy of Stalin in 1929. Number of Pages: 560 Dimensions: 1.3 x 7.15 x 5.06 IN Publication Date: February 07, 1980

Buying the Vote: A History of Campaign Finance Reform - Paperback

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by Robert E. Mutch (Author)Are corporations citizens? Is political inequality a necessary aspect of a democracy or something that must be stamped out? These are the questions that have been at the heart of the debate surrounding campaign finance reform for nearly half a century. But as Robert E. Mutch demonstrates in this fascinating book, these were not always controversial matters. The tenets that corporations do not count as citizens, and that self-government functions best by reducing pol...

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by Sulome Anderson (Author)In this gripping blend of reportage, memoir, and analysis, a journalist and daughter of one of the world's most famous hostages, Terry Anderson, takes an intimate look at her father's captivity during the Lebanese Hostage Crisis and the ensuing political firestorm on both her family and the United States--as well as the far-reaching implications of those events on Middle Eastern politics today.In 1991, seven-year-old Sulome Anderson met her father, Terry, for the fi...

Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World - Paperback

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by Daniel Hannan (Author)British politician Daniel Hannan's Inventing Freedom is an ambitious account of the historical origin and spread of the principles that have made America great, and their role in creating a sphere of economic and political liberty that is as crucial as it is imperiled.According to Hannan, the ideas and institutions we consider essential to maintaining and preserving our freedoms--individual rights, private property, the rule of law, and the institutions of representat...

Making a Difference: Stories of Vision and Courage from America's Leaders - Paperback

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by Chesley B. Sullenberger (Author)As a follow up to his phenomenal New York Times bestselling memoir, Highest Duty, Captain Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger explores exactly what it takes to lead and inspire. In Making a Difference, one of the most captivating American heroes of this century--the courageous pilot who brought the crippled US Airways Flight 1549 safely down in New York's Hudson River--engages some of the most accomplished men and women in the fields of technology, medicine, edu...

The Free Market Capitalist's Survival Guide: How to Invest and Thrive in an Era of Rampant Socialism - Paperback

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by Jerry Bowyer (Author)America is hurtling toward socialism. What should a free-market capitalist do with his money? Economist Jerry Bower, a frequent contributor to the National Review, Townhall, and Forbes online editions, presents a crucial investment guide for laissez faire thinkers as the nation enters its most disturbingly anti-wealth and anti-business era in history.Back JacketAmerica has already tilted decisively toward socialism. Conservatives have not yet succeeded in reversing the...

Inside Gitmo: The True Story Behind the Myths of Guantanamo Bay - Paperback

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by Gordon Cucullu (Author)The U.S. military detention center at Guant namo Bay--known to the public as Gitmo--has been called the American Gulag, a scene of medieval horrors where innocent farmers and goat herders swept up in Afghanistan and Iraq have been sequestered, tortured, and abused for years on end without access to legal counsel or basic medical services.Gordon Cucullu, a retired army colonel, was so appalled by these reports that he decided to see for himself. In a series of visits ...

The Making of the President 1972 - Paperback

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by Theodore H. White (Author)" White] revolutionized the art of political reporting." --William F. BuckleyThe Making of the President 1972 is the fourth book in Theodore H. White's landmark series, a riveting account of the 1972 presidential campaign and Richard M. Nixon's precedent-shattering landslide victory. White had made history with his groundbreaking narrative The Making of the President 1960, winning the Pulitzer Prize for revolutionizing the way that presidential campaigns were repo...

The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America - Paperback

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by Shelby Steele (Author)In this controversial essay collection, award-winning writer Shelby Stelle illuminates the origins of the current conflict in race relations--the increase in anger, mistrust, and even violence between black and whites. With candor and persuasive argument, he shows us how both black and white Americans have become trapped into seeing color before character, and how social policies designed to lessen racial inequities have instead increased them. The Content of Our Char...

Cry from the Deep: The Sinking of the Kursk, the Submarine Disaster That Riveted the World and Put the New Russia to the Ultimate Test - Paperback

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by Ramsey Flynn (Author)A gripping account of the disastrous Russian submarine explosion that killed the entire crew, devastated the Russian people, and defined Vladimir Putin's post-Cold War regime. What were Russian officials thinking when they waited 48 hours to acknowledge their most prized submarine was in trouble? Why did they track the desperate tappings of an unknown number of trapped sailors without sending an international SOS? Why did they repeatedly decline international rescue of...

Fighting Fascism: How to Struggle and How to Win - Paperback

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by Clara Zetkin (Author), Mike Taber (Editor), John Riddell (Editor)Clara Zetkin's report and resolution on fascism at the June 1923 enlarged plenum of the Communist International's Executive Committee.Author BiographyClara Zetkin was a German Marxist theorist, activist, and advocate for women's rights. In 1911, she organized the first International Women's Day Philip S. Foner was one of the most prominent Marxist historians in the United States. A prolific author and editor, he tirelessly do...

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by R. P. Barston (Author)Contemporary, thoughtful and extensively illustrated, Modern Diplomacy examines a broad range of current diplomatic practice. This leading and widely used book - now in its fifth edition - equips students with a detailed analysis of important international issues that reflect and impact upon diplomacy and its relations. The subject is brought to life through case studies and examples which highlight the working of contemporary diplomacy within the international politi...

Battlefield America: A Citizen's Guide to Surviving the New World - Paperback

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by Brian Maloy (Author)Somewhere in the sands of time we have lost our humanity. Recent years have brought the greatest level of violence the free world has ever witnessed. But the one question that we all have in common is why? How can the leaders of the free world let their own country implode from the inside out? Battlefield America A Citizen's Guide to Surviving the New World fearlessly dives into Brian's unfiltered discussions on: What contributed to this dark tribulation of America T...

The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies - Paperback

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by Robert Boyers (Author)From public intellectual and professor Robert Boyers, "a powerfully persuasive, insightful, and provocative prose that mixes erudition and first-hand reportage" (Joyce Carol Oates) addressing recent developments in American culture and arguing for the tolerance of difference that is at the heart of the liberal tradition. Written from the perspective of a liberal intellectual who has spent a lifetime as a writer, editor, and college professor, The Tyranny of Virtue is ...

The Retreat of Western Liberalism - Paperback

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by Edward Luce (Author)From Financial Times chief US columnist and commentator Edward Luce, The Retreat of Western Liberalism offers a sharp and insightful look at why the values the West has long championed are now in danger, with a new afterword for the paperback. Luce argues that today's the erosion of middle-class incomes has eaten away at liberal democratic consensus, resulting in today's crisis. We are continuing on a menacing trajectory brought about by ignorance of what it took to bui...

The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy - Paperback

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by Christopher Lasch (Author)In a front-page review in the Washington Post Book World, John Judis wrote: "Political analysts have been poring over exit polls and precinct-level votes to gauge the meaning of last November's election, but they would probably better employ their time reading the late Christopher Lasch's book." And in the National Review, Robert Bork says The Revolt of the Elites "ranges provocatively [and] insightfully." Controversy has raged around Lasch's targeted attack on th...

Wall Street y los Bolcheviques - Paperback

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by Antony Cyril Sutton (Author)Como puede apreciarse, el panorama general es realmente complicado. Pero, en esto Anthony Sutton tiene una gran virtud: se atiene a la documentaci n concreta, verificable y confirmada, de la poca. La obra est literalmente sembrada de citas textuales de documentos obtenidos de los archivos del Departamento de Estado de los EE.UU., del Senado y del Congreso norteamericano, de la Inteligencia brit nica y de otras fuentes similarmente s lidas. No es, por cierto, u...

Leverage for Good: An Introduction to the New Frontiers of Philanthropy and Social Investment - Paperback

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by Lester M. Salamon (Author)With the resources of both governments and traditional philanthropy barely growing or in decline, yet the problems of poverty, ill-health, and environmental degradation ballooning daily, new models for financing social and environmental objectives are urgently needed. Fortunately, a revolution is underway in the instruments and institutions available to meet this need. Loans, loan guarantees, private equity, barter arrangements, social stock exchanges, bonds, soci...

Burma/Myanmar: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) - Paperback

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by David I. Steinberg (Author)No country in Asia in recent years has undergone so massive a political shift in so short a time as Myanmar. Until recently, the former British colony had one of the most secretive, corrupt, and repressive regimes on the planet, a country where Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was held in continual house arrest and human rights were denied to nearly all. Yet events in Myanmar since the elections of November 2010 have profoundly altered the internal moo...

Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, from Eisenhower to the Tea Party - Paperback

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by Geoffrey Kabaservice (Author)The chaotic events leading up to Mitt Romney's defeat in the 2012 election indicated how far the Republican Party had rocketed rightward away from the center of public opinion. Republicans in Congress threatened to shut down the government and force a U.S. debt default. Tea Party activists mounted primary challenges against Republican officeholders who appeared to exhibit too much pragmatism or independence. Moderation and compromise were dirty words in the Rep...

Equality and Tradition: Questions of Value in Moral and Political Theory - Paperback

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by Samuel Scheffler (Author)This collection of essays by noted philosopher Samuel Scheffler combines discussion of abstract questions in moral and political theory with attention to the normative dimension of current social and political controversies. In addition to chapters on more abstract issues such as the nature of human valuing, the role of partiality in ethics, and the significance of the distinction between doing and allowing, the volume also includes essays on immigration, terrorism...

Fairness and Freedom: A History of Two Open Societies: New Zealand and the United States - Hardcover

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by David Hackett Fischer (Author)Fairness and Freedom compares the history of two open societies--New Zealand and the United States--with much in common. Both have democratic polities, mixed-enterprise economies, individuated societies, pluralist cultures, and a deep concern for human rights and the rule of law. But all of these elements take different forms, because constellations of value are far apart. The dream of living free is America's Polaris; fairness and natural justice are New Zeal...

The Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge in an Uncertain World - Paperback

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by Ian Bremmer (Author), Preston Keat (Author)As Ian Bremmer and Preston Keat reveal in this innovative book, volatile political events such as the 2008 Georgia-Russia confrontation--and their catastrophic effects on business--happen much more frequently than investors imagine. On the curve that charts both the frequency of these events and the power of their impact, the "tail" of extreme political instability is not reassuringly thin but dangerously fat. Featuring a new Foreward that accoun...

Sharp's Dictionary of Power and Struggle: Language of Civil Resistance in Conflicts - Paperback

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by Gene Sharp (Author), Adam Roberts (Foreword by)From the 494 B.C. plebeians' march out of Rome to gain improved status, to Gandhi's nonviolent campaigns in India, to the liberation of Poland and the Baltic nations, and the revolutions in North Africa, nonviolent struggles have played pivotal roles in world events for centuries. Sharp's Dictionary of Power and Struggle is a groundbreaking reference work on this topic by the "godfather of nonviolent resistance." In nearly 1,000 entries, the D...

Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) - Paperback

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by Mark A. R. Kleiman (Author), Jonathan P. Caulkins (Author), Angela Hawken (Author)While there have always been norms and customs around the use of drugs, explicit public policies--regulations, taxes, and prohibitions--designed to control drug abuse are a more recent phenomenon. Those policies sometimes have terrible side-effects: most prominently the development of criminal enterprises dealing in forbidden (or untaxed) drugs and the use of the profits of drug-dealing to finance insurgency ...