Captured: The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy, Paperback - Sheldon Whitehouse

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It has been called the political crime of the century: This book from Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Greg Miller uncovers for the ...

An important work of scholarship that should be read by anyone concerned with America's future. --Fareed Zakaria, author of The Post-American World...

Contributor(s): Author: Mary L. DudziakIn 1958, an African-American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for stealing two do...

A vivid and fast-paced history, Gary May's Bending toward Justice offers a dramatic account of the birth and precarious life of the 1965 Voting Rig...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): George J. SanchezNumber of pages: 390Collection: American CrossroadsPublication date: 2022Dimen...

Contributor(s): Author: Sheldon S. WolinIntroduction by: Chris HedgesDemocracy is struggling in America--by now this statement is almost clich . Bu...

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Engstrom and Roberts show how politicians use ballot design to influence voting and elections. This book is of interest to the broad community of s...

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More than five thousand American civilian men, women, and children living in the Philippines during World War II were confined to internment camps....

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Alex CareyNumber of pages: 240Collection: History of CommunicationPublication date: 1996Dimension...

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Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Professor Daniel Q. GillionIllustration(s): 17 b/w illus. 7 tables.Number of pages: 224Collection: ...

Going Low examines how the offensive style of contemporary politics challenges liberal democratic institutions. Considering the rise of illiberal p...

Dangerous Ground examines how white squatters in the American West came to occupy a central and destabilizing position in US political culture in t...

Acclaimed as the definitive study of the period by one of the greatest American historians, The Rise of American Democracy traces a historical arc ...

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DescriptionSheldon Wolin was one of the most influential and original political thinkers of the past fifty years. In Fugitive Democracy, the breath...

Reducere. The success and survival of American democracy have never been guaranteed. Political polarization, presidential eccentricities, the trustworthiness...

Reducere. Investigating the essential role that the postal system plays in American democracy and how the corporate sector has attempted to destroy it.With F...

DescriptionThe 2020 presidential election will determine the very survival of American democracy. To restore popular faith in government--and win t...

Before and during World War II, the Japanese army conducted horrifying scientific experiments upon live human beings, but were granted immunity fro...

DescriptionHow is it possible for six men to take a Liberian-flagged oil tanker hostage and negotiate a huge pay out for the return of its crew and...

Reducere. We need young people to be civically engaged in order to define and address public problems. Their participation is important for democracy, for in...

Reducere. Koritha Mitchell analyzes canonical texts by and about African American women to lay bare the hostility these women face as they invest in traditio...

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This book delves into the corporate takeover of public morality, or 'woke capitalism'. Discussing the political causes that it has adopted, and the...

By 1926 the Mexican government of Plutarco El as Calles had sparked widespread discontent with its radical social policies. Plots to overthrow the ...

Reducere. In the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty promised an array of federal programs to assist working-class families. In the 1980...

Tensions of American Federal Democracy uses an original analytical framework combined with comparative perspectives - including those of other mode...

Conventional wisdom dates the origins of activist federal government to the New Deal. William J. Novak shows that the roots run deeper. Tracing the...

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Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Eric S. HintzIllustration(s): 38 figuresNumber of pages: 336Collection: Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and...

Reducere. How policies forged after September 11 were weaponized under Trump and turned on American democracy itself In the wake of the September 11 terror a...

Captured on Kauaiby R. Barri Flowers Trusting each other could cost them everything...Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Jennifer D. Bok...

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Organised by themes and complemented by brief commentaries introducing underlying business concepts or additional information, these reader-friendl...

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Thom Hartmann, the most popular progressive radio host in America and a New York Times bestselling author, looks at the history of the battle again...

Reducere. Reveals the important role of Muslim Americans in American politics Since the 1950s, and especially in the post-9/11 era, Muslim Americans have pla...

Reducere. The infamous Sonny Barger once declared that the Hells Angels would never be infiltrated. Running with the Devil chronicles the story of the ATF st...

The story of an extraordinary escapade, hitherto ignored by the historians.This thorough and scholarly expose of MI5's constitutional inability to ...