History & Theory - General
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How Democratic Is the American Constitution?
$21.00 Read moreA Washington Post Book World Best Seller
“Robert A. Dahl . . . is about as covered in honors as a scholar can be. . . . He knows what he is talking about. And he thinks that the Constitution has somet- Series: Castle Lectures in Ethics, Politics, & Economics (Hardcover)
- Author: Dahl, Robert A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 10 2003
- ISBN10: 0300095244
- Language: English
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Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 50th Anniversary Edition
$46.67 Add to cartCrisis of the House Divided is the standard historiography of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Harry Jaffa provides the definitive analysis of the political principles that guided Lincoln from his reentry
- Author: Jaffa, Harry V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0226391183
- Language: English
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Quest for the Presidency: The Storied and Surprising History of Presidential Campaigns in America
$36.95 Add to cartQuest for the Presidency gathers in a single volume the compelling stories behind every presidential campaign in American history, from 1789 through 2020. Bob Riel takes us inside the 1800 clash betwe… [more below]
- Author: Riel, Bob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1640122303
- Language: English
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Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance
$32.00 Read moreA thorough investigation of the current combination of austerity and extravagance that characterizes government spending and central bank monetary policy
At the close of the 1970s, government treasuri- Author: Cooper, Melinda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 568
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1942130937
- Language: English
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States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China
$24.00 Add to cartState structures, international forces, and class relations: Theda Skocpol shows how all three combine to explain the origins and accomplishments of social-revolutionary transformations. Social revolu… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Skocpol, Theda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 421
- Publish Date: September 29 2015
- ISBN10: 1107569842
- Language: English
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On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State
$19.95 Add to cartThe modern state, however we conceive of it today, is based on a pattern that emerged in Europe in the period from 1100 to 1600. Inspired by a lifetime of teaching and research, On the Medieval Origin
- Series: Princeton Classics #21
- Author: Strayer, Joseph R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 29 2016
- ISBN10: 0691169330
- Language: English
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Common Sense
$14.00 Add to cartThe radical pamphlet that helped incite the American Revolution
Penguin presents a series of six portable, accessible, and–above all–essential reads from American political history, selected by lead- Series: Penguin Civic Classics
- Author: Paine, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 28 2012
- ISBN10: 0143122002
- Language: English
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Time, Labor, and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx’s Critical Theory
$40.00 Add to cartIn this ambitious book, Moishe Postone undertakes a fundamental reinterpretation of Marx’s mature critical theory. He calls into question many of the presuppositions of traditional Marxist analyses an… [more below]
- Author: Postone, Moishe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: July 13 1996
- ISBN10: 0521565405
- Language: English
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C. S. Lewis on Politics and the Natural Law
$27.00 Add to cartConventional wisdom holds that C. S. Lewis was uninterested in politics and public affairs. The conventional wisdom is wrong. As Justin Buckley Dyer and Micah J. Watson show in this groundbreaking wor… [more below]
- Author: Watson, Micah J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: May 18 2017
- ISBN10: 1107518970
- Language: English
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Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity
$21.00 Add to cartIn his bestselling The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama argued that the end of the Cold War would also mean the beginning of a struggle for position in the rapidly emerging order of … [more below]
- Author: Fukuyama, Francis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 18 1996
- ISBN10: 0684825252
- Language: English
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Speechwriting in Theory and Practice
$37.99 Add to cartThis book provides students, researchers, and practitioners of speechwriting with a unique insight in the theory, history, and practice of speechwriting. The combination of theory and practice with ca… [more below]
- Series: Rhetoric, Politics and Society
- Author: Kjeldsen, Jens E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: March 26 2019
- ISBN10: 3030036847
- Language: English
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Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream
$19.99 Add to cartFirst published in 1990, Songs of the Doomed is back in print–by popular demand! In this third and most extraordinary volume of the Gonzo Papers, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson recalls high and hideous momen… [more below]
- Author: Thompson, Hunter S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0743240995
- Language: English
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The Prince: Introduction by Dominic Baker-Smith
$25.00 Read moreThat Machiavelli’s name has become synonymous with cold-eyed political calculation only heightens the intrinsic fascination of The Prince-the world’s preeminent how-to manual on the art of getting an
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Machiavel, Nicolas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: June 30 1992
- ISBN10: 0679410449
- Language: English
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The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli, Political Science, History & Theory, Literary Collections, Philosophy
$16.95 Add to cart“Machiavellianism” is a widely used negative term to characterize unscrupulous politicians of the sort Machiavelli described most famously in The Prince.
The Catholic Church banned The Prince. Humanist
- Author: Machiavelli, Nicolo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: August 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1598189360
- Language: English
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Cointelpro: The Fbi’s Secret War on Political Freedom
$15.00 Add to cartThe FBI’s spying and disruption against socialists and activists in the Black and antiwar movements.
- Author: Blackstock, Nelson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 221
- Publish Date: January 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0873488776
- Language: English
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The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization
$24.00 Add to cartThe national bestseller that shocked the nation–The Death of the West is an unflinching look at the increasing decline in Western culture and power.
The West is dying. Collapsing birth rates in Europ- Author: Buchanan, Patrick J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0312302592
- Language: English
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The Republic and the Laws
$12.95 Add to cartCicero’s The Republic is an impassioned plea for responsible government written just before the civil war that ended the Roman Republic in a dialogue following Plato. Drawing on Greek political theory… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Cicero
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019954011X
- Language: English
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Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?
$32.00 Add to cartAmerica is disintegrating. The one Nation under God, indivisible of the Pledge of Allegiance is passing away. In a few decades, that America will be gone forever. In its place will arise a country unr
- Author: Buchanan, Patrick J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 05 2012
- ISBN10: 125000411X
- Language: English
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The King’s Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology
$29.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 1957, this classic work has guided generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. Throughout history, the notion of two bodies has permitt
- Series: Princeton Classics #22
- Author: Kantorowicz, Ernst
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 632
- Publish Date: May 10 2016
- ISBN10: 0691169233
- Language: English
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The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order
$23.95 Add to cartA sweeping history of the drama, intrigue, and rivalry behind the creation of the postwar economic order
When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for ‘a new B- Series: Council on Foreign Relations Books (Princeton University Press)
- Author: Steil, Benn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 23 2014
- ISBN10: 0691162379
- Language: English
