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Breakthrough: Our Guerilla War to Expose Fraud and Save Democracy

de James O'Keefe

Acorn Planned Parenthood NPR Medicaid VOTER FRAUD The New Jersey educational association Labor Unions Hailed by David Weigel in Slate as having had more of an impact on the 2012 election than any journalist,...

Why John Roberts Was Wrong about Healthcare: A Conservative Critique of the Supreme Court's Obamacare Ruling

de Mike Lee

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

Essays on the Presidents: Principles and Politics

de Paul F. Boller

This collection of essays by Dr. Paul F. Boller Jr. shares the humorous, intriguing, and little-known or widely misunderstood aspects of the American presidency. Personality—of the most interesting presidents...

Religion, Politics, and Polarization: How Religiopolitical Conflict Is Changing Congress and American Democracy

de William V. D'Antonio, Steven A. Tuch & Josiah R. Baker

In Religion, Politics, and Polarization: How Religiopolitical Conflict are Changing Congress and American Democracy, three esteemed scholars trace the confluence of religion and party in the U.S. Congress over...

A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government

de Garry Wills

In A Necessary Evil, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Garry Wills shows that distrust of government is embedded deep in the American psyche. From the revolt of the colonies against king and parliament to present-day...

Nigeria: Dancing on the Brink

de John Campbell

In this thoroughly updated edition, John Campbell explores Nigeria’s post-colonial history and presents a nuanced explanation of the events and conditions that have carried this complex, dynamic, and very...

Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era

de Joseph S., Jr. Nye

This book examines the foreign policy decisions of the presidents who presided over the most critical phases of America's rise to world primacy in the twentieth century, and assesses the effectiveness and ethics...

Act of Congress: How America's Essential Institution Works, and How It Doesn't

de Robert G. Kaiser

An eye-opening account of how Congress today really works—and doesn’t—that follows the dramatic journey of the sweeping financial reform bill enacted in response to the Great Crash of 2008.

The founding...

Presidents and the Dissolution of the Union: Leadership Style from Polk to Lincoln

de Fred I. Greenstein & Dale Anderson

The United States witnessed an unprecedented failure of its political system in the mid-nineteenth century, resulting in a disastrous civil war that claimed the lives of an estimated 750,000 Americans. In his...

DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODicans: No More Gangs in Government

de Jesse Ventura & Dick Russell

DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans uncovers the truth about how corporations have bought the American electoral and legislative process through the power of lobbyists, campaign contributions, and political action...

Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns

de Glenn Beck

When our founding fathers secured the Constitutional “right of the people to keep and bear arms,” they also added the admonition that this right SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.

It is the only time this phrase appears...

AMERICAN CASINO: The Rigged Game That's Killing Democracy

de Douglas E. Schoen

A controversial presentation of how new elections laws and practices--PACs, Super PACs, 527s, and related mechanisms--are allowing a handful of rich, anonymous individuals to buy elections and effectively deny...

The Cross and Reaganomics: Conservative Christians Defending Ronald Reagan

de Eric R. Crouse

The Cross and Reaganomics: Conservative Christians Defending Ronald Reagan, by Eric R. Crouse, offers important insights on why Reaganomics was a major reason conservative Christians supported Reagan at the...

Science & Governance - Taking European Knowledge Society Seriously

de Various

“This report is the product of an expert working group acting under mandate from the European Commission Directorate General for Research (DG RTD), on the topic of European science and governance. We interpreted...

Simpler: The Future of Government

de Cass R. Sunstein

Simpler government arrived four years ago. It helped put money in your pocket. It saved hours of your time. It improved your children’s diet, lengthened your life span, and benefited businesses large and small....

Confirmation Wars: Preserving Independent Courts in Angry Times

de Benjamin Wittes

In Confirmation Wars, Benjamin Wittes examines the degradation of the judicial nominations process over the past fifty years. Drawing on years of reporting on judicial nominations, including numerous interviews...

The European Union and Emerging Powers in the 21st Century: How Europe Can Shape a New Global Order

de Thomas Renard & Sven Biscop

Analysing the shifts in the global structure of power, leading European contributors reflect on how the EU can utilise collective strength to engage and compete with rapidly developing nations. They examine...

Roads to Regionalism: Genesis, Design, and Effects of Regional Organizations

de Tanja A. Börzel & Lukas Goltermann

Many publications focus on a narrow set of regional organizations or display a strong bias towards the European Union as the supposedly most sophisticated integration scheme. This book, in contrast, goes beyond...

The EU's Lisbon Treaty: Institutional Choices and Implementation

de Finn Laursen

This book gathers leading international scholars to examine the institutional choices and innovations of the Lisbon Treaty and discuss the likely effects of the changes that it set out to accomplish. Will the...

Presidents, Oligarchs and Bureaucrats: Forms of Rule in the Post-Soviet Space

de Susan Stewart & Margarete Klein

Using case studies from the post-Soviet region, a broad range of international contributors present an original and innovative contribution to the debate. They explore the character of post-Soviet regimes and...