Democracy
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The Shortest History of Democracy: 4,000 Years of Self-Government – A Retelling for Our Times
$15.95 Add to cartThis compact history unspools the tumultuous global story that began with democracy’s radical core idea: We can collaborate, as equals, to determine our own futures. Acclaimed political thinker John K… [more below]
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Keane, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1615198962
- Language: English
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The Insurrectionist: Major General Edwin A. Walker and the Birth of the Deep State Conspiracy
$44.95 Add to cartPeter Adams’s The Insurrectionist is the first comprehensive biography of Major General Edwin A. Walker, a figure who, in the 1950s and 1960s, became a leader of a far-right political movement known f
- Author: Adams, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 09, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179922
- Language: English
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Democracy in America: A New Abridgment for Students
$50.00 Read moreA New Abridgement of a Classic on the American Experiment.
?As debates rage over the future of America and the country’s relationship to its past, there is no better time to examine the American cultu- Author: de Tocqueville, Alexis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 09 2016
- ISBN10: 1577997654
- Language: English
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The Coming Caesars
$19.95 Add to cartFew Americans see the US presidents and the presidency outside of a sentimental idealism. Amaury de Riencourt, an author of more than eight books who lectured extensively in the US in the 1950s, pulls… [more below]
- Author: de Riencourt, Amaury
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 10 2014
- ISBN10: 193848004X
- Language: English
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Demagoguery and Democracy
$7.95 Read moreWhat is demagoguery? Some demagogues are easy to spot: They rise to power through pandering, charisma, and prejudice. But, as professor Patricia Roberts-Miller explains, a demagogue is anyone who redu
- Author: Roberts-Miller, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 17, 2020
- ISBN10: 1615196765
- Language: English
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Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World
$19.99 Add to cartA San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller – An NPR Best Book of the Year
The New York Times‘s Global Economics Correspondent masterfully reveals how billionaires’ systematic plunder of the world–brazenly
- Author: Goodman, Peter S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0063078317
- Language: English
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Why the People: The Case for Democracy
$28.99 Read moreThis witty and well-argued graphic novel is a must-have for anyone wanting to learn what power “we the people” actually have in a democracy.
Why the people?
Is democracy actually the best form of gove- Series: World Citizen Comics
- Author: Feathers, Beka
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 14, 2022
- ISBN10: 1250760704
- Language: English
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On Democracy
$17.99 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review New & Noteworthy Title
“For democracy’s weary champions, White’s time-tested prose is a shot of adrenaline” (Madeleine Albright).
“I am a member of a party of one, and I liv
- Author: White, E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 30 2020
- ISBN10: 0062905457
- Language: English
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Democracy May Not Exist, But We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone
$19.99 Add to cartWhat is democracy really? What do we mean when we use the term? And can it ever truly exist? Astra Taylor, hailed as a “New Civil Rights Leader” (LA Times), provides surprising answers.
There is no sh- Author: Taylor, Astra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 19 2020
- ISBN10: 1250231280
- Language: English
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Brutal Minds: The Dark World of Left-Wing Brainwashing in Our Universities
$29.99 Add to cart“If you are scratching your head as to how radicals could have seized control in Washington, and of American media, while defaming American democracy as a ‘white supremacist’ nightmare, look no furth
- Author: Ridgley, Stanley K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 163006226X
- Language: English
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Intimate Direct Democracy: Fort Mose, the Great Dismal Swamp, and the Human Quest for Freedom
$19.99 Read moreFrom the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, many African people who were enslaved in North America emancipated themselves and fled into vast swamplands and across colonial borders, beyond the reac
- Author: Kadalie, Modibo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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The Crooked Timber of Democracy in Israel: Promise Unfulfilled
$34.99 Add to cartA narrative chronicle of Israeli democracy that defines historic phases and follows thematic challenges to democracy, including: competition between religion and the rule of law; the statist society a… [more below]
- Series: Democracy in Times of Upheaval #7
- Author: Scheindlin, Dahlia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 277
- Publish Date: December 15 2023
- ISBN10: 3111395510
- Language: English
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If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty
$18.00 Add to cart#1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas delivers an extraordinary book that is part history and part rousing call to arms, steeped in a critical analysis of our founding fathers’ original in… [more below]
- Author: Metaxas, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 06 2017
- ISBN10: 1101979992
- Language: English
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Unlocking Your Inner Zelensky: Lessons We Can All Learn from an Unexpected Leader
$19.00 Add to cartVolodymyr Zelensky captivated the world when his country was invaded by Russia in February 2022. His appearances were accompanied by countless inspiring statements. But there’s a single one that infor
- Author: Kanzer, Jessie Asya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 125089476X
- Language: English
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Fool Proof: How Fear of Playing the Sucker Shapes Our Selves and the Social Order–And What We Can Do about It
$32.00 Read moreThe fear of playing the fool is a universal psychological phenomenon and an underappreciated driver of human behavior; in the spirit of Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink, Dan Ariely’s Predictably Irrational,
- Author: Wilkinson-Ryan, Tess
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0063214261
- Language: English
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A Real Right to Vote: How a Constitutional Amendment Can Safeguard American Democracy
$27.95 Read moreWhy it’s time to enshrine the right to vote in the Constitution
Throughout history, too many Americans have been disenfranchised or faced needless barriers to voting. Part of the blame falls on the Co- Author: Hasen, Richard L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 069125771X
- Language: English
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Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy: Third Edition
$19.99 Add to cart“Joseph Schumpeter’s classic Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy explains the process of capitalism’s ‘creative destruction’ — a key principle in understanding the logic of globalization.” — Thomas
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Thought
- Author: Schumpeter, Joseph A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 04 2008
- ISBN10: 0061561614
- Language: English
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American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good
$18.00 Add to cartThe author of American Nations examines the history of and solutions to the key American question: how best to reconcile individual liberty with the maintenance of a free society
The struggle between- Author: Woodard, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0143110004
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Greece: The Odyssey of a Nation from Myth to Modernity
$16.95 Add to cartPhilosophy, art, democracy, language, even computers–the glories of Greek civilization have shaped our world even more profoundly than we realize. Pericles and the Parthenon may be familiar, but what… [more below]
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Heneage, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1615199489
- Language: English
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Barack Obama Selected Speeches
$14.99 Read moreFind inspiration in these selected speeches from the 44th president of the United States.
This curated collection of landmark speeches chronicles Barack Obama’s presence on the national stage, covers- Series: Word Cloud Classics
- Author: Obama, Barack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 14, 2021
- ISBN10: 1645177890
- Language: English
