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A Free Nation Deep in Debt: The Financial Roots of Democracy
by James Macdonald  Publisher Comments For the greater part of recorded history the most successful and powerful states were autocracies; yet now the world is increasingly dominated by democracies. In "A Free Nation Deep in Debt," James Macdonald provides a novel answer for how and why this...
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Faustian Foreign Policy From Woodrow Wilson To George W. Bush: Dreams of Perfectibility (08 Edition)
by Joan Hoff Publisher Comments Professor Joan Hoff??'s A Faustian Foreign Policy: Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush critiques U.S. foreign policy during this period by showing how moralistic diplomacy has increasingly taken on Faustian overtones. As long as the ideological outcome of...
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A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies
by James Bamford Publisher Comments The bestselling author of "Body of Secrets" and "The Puzzle Palace" presents a sweeping, authoritative, and fearless account of the failures of America's intelligence agencies and the Bush administration's calculated efforts to sell a war to the American...
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The Geneva Convention: The Hidden Origins of the Red Cross
by Angela Bennett Publisher Comments This is the story of the Geneva Convention and the extraordinary events which brought it into being. Who would have thought that the world's first treaty on human rights could have been founded by two young men - Henry Dunant and Gustave Moynier - who...
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Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy
by Stephen D. Krasner Publisher Comments "Stephen Krasner weighs in on a growing debate over the continued relevance of sovereignty today. Is it declining or not? Is the state system about to be replaced by something else? Krasner's book will spark much debate and become required reading for...
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The Act of Creation: The Founding of the United Nations
by Stephen Schlesinger Publisher Comments In Act of Creation, Stephen C. Schlesinger tells a pivotal and little-known story of how Secretary of State Edward Stettinius and the new American President, Harry Truman, picked up the pieces of the faltering campaign initiated by Franklin Roosevelt to...
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The Prince (Signet Classics)
by Niccolo Machiavelli Publisher Comments For over four hundred years, The Prince has been the basic handbook of politics, statesmanship, and power. Written by a Florentine nobleman whose name has become a synonym for crafty plotting, this fascinating document is as pertinent today as when it...
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News from Nowhere: Or an Epoch of Rest; Being Some Chapters from "A Utopian Romance" (Dover Books on Literature & Drama)
by William Morris Publisher Comments One of the most literary utopian novels, "News from Nowhere" chronicles the impressions of a 19th-century visitor to the 22nd century, who finds England transformed into a socialist paradise. Morris' idyllic society echoes themes from the writings of...
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Global Governance and the New Wars: The Merging of Development and Security
by Mark R. Duffield Publisher Comments War is now an important part of development discourse. Aid agencies have become involved in humanitarian assistance, conflict resolution and the social reconstruction of war-torn societies. This deeply thoughtful book explores the growing merger of...
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Overthrow a Fascist Regime on $15 a Day
by Wayne Madsen Publisher Comments The highs and lows of the Bush administration from the vantage point of a political dissenter are revealed in this undaunted analysis of American government. Formerly an executive at a Fortune 500 company, Wayne Madsen quit his job and moved to...
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New York City Politics: Governing Gotham
by Bruce F. Berg Book News Annotation Berg (political science, Fordham U.) presents an introduction to New York City politics that examines the interplay between what he sees as three equally important forces: economic development, fiscal and policy relationships between the city and the...
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The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill
by Ron Suskind Publisher Comments Updated with a new afterword and including a selection of key documents, this is the explosive account of how the Bush administration makes policy on war, taxes, and politics — its true agenda exposed by a member of the Bush cabinet. This vivid,...
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The Political Ideas of Leo Strauss
by Shadia B. Drury Publisher Comments Now in paperback, this book explores the political thought of Leo Strauss, a philosopher most noted for playing a key role in neoconservative thought in America. Drury explores Strauss's thought and its role in American politics, exposing what she argues...
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Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
by P W Singer Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-326) and index....
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Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
by Jurgen Habermas Publisher Comments In "Between Facts and Norms" JÃ ¼ rgen Habermas works out the legal and political implications of his "Theory of Communicative Action" (1981), bringing to fruition the project announced with his publication of "The Structural...
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Religion and the Continental Congress, 1774-1789: Contributions to Original Intent (Religion in America Life)
by Derek Davis Publisher Comments This book offers the first comprehensive examination of the role of religion in the proceedings, ideas, and goals of the Continental Congress. Those who argue that the U.S. was founded as a "Christian Nation" have made much of the religiosity of the...
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Sinister Forces-The Nine: A Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft
by Peter Levenda Publisher Comments The roots of coincidence and conspiracy in American politics, crime, and culture are examined in this book, exposing new connections between religion, political conspiracy, and occultism. Readers are taken from ancient American civilization and the...
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Road To White House, 2008 (8TH 08 Edition)
by Stephen J. Wayne Publisher Comments Stephen Wayne, a leading scholar of presidential electoral politics, describes and analyzes the crucial politics, procedures, and strategies behind campaign finance, media relations, nominating politics, and the politics and meaning of the general...
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The Deliberative Practitioner: Encouraging Participatory Planning Processes
by John Forester Publisher Comments Citizen participation in such complex issues as the quality of the environment, neighborhood housing, urban design, and economic development often brings with it suspicion of government, anger between stakeholders, and power plays by many--as well as...
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The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn
by Diane Ravitch Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-245) and index....
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