Dangerous Ground. Squatters, Statesmen, and the Antebellum Rupture of American Democracy, Hardback - ***

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

A stirring and passionate defense of the central importance of public education to American democracy, vividly illustrating how the forces of react...

As power politics and authoritarianism gain strength, there are no guarantees facts will triumph over falsehoods and reason will dominate over emot...

Reducere. In this searing memoir, Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the forty-five days at the start of 2021 that permanently changed his life--and...

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

Weaving together biography and political history, Michael Woods restores Jefferson Davis and Stephen Douglas's fatefully entwined lives and careers...

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

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Robert WuthnowNumber of pages: 328Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 162 x 242 x 33Cover type: Hardb...

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...

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

The emergence of slavery in the District of Columbia profoundly transformed constitutional interpretation. Gilhooley's account of this interaction,...

Reducere. In their daily struggles to forge lives of dignity and meaning within an inhuman system, slaves in the Antebellum South demonstrated creativity, re...

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

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Lawrence R. (McKnight Presidential Chair in Public Affairs, the Walter F. and Joan Mondale Chair f...

Based on new research conducted in courthouse basements and storage sheds in rural Mississippi and Louisiana, Kimberly Welch draws on over 1, 000 e...

Reducere. For all that is known about the depth and breadth of African American history, we still understand surprisingly little about the lives of African A...

Reducere. National Book AwardsAvailable in paperback for the first time, these three volumes represent the definitive biography of Andrew Jackson. Volume One...

Over a career spanning American history from the 1880s to the 1950s, John Dewey sought not only to forge a persuasive argument for his conviction t...

In the remote and unpredictable Aleutians, danger comes without warning in an adrenaline rush of a novel by USA Today bestselling author Rachel Gra...

Publisher: Throne ClassicsAuthor(s): Robert Louis StevensonNumber of pages: 264Collection: Throne ClassicsPublication date: 2019Dimensions: 147 x 2...

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Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Lilliana MasonIllustration(s): 45 line drawings, 7 tablesNumber of pages: 216Collection: Chica...

A magnificent gallery of images from the vault of the Capitol Hill's best insider news source

Reducere. Dangerous Ground Special Agents for the Department of Diplomatic Security, Taylor MacAllister and Will Brandt have been partners and best friends f...

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

Publisher: Liverpool University PressAuthor(s): Haym SoloveitchikNumber of pages: 144Collection: The Littman Library of Jewish CivilizationPublicat...

Reducere. DescriptionA leading member of the Senate Judiciary Committee "spells out, in considerable detail, the extent of corporate influence over a variety...

Reducere. This volume, written by the highly acclaimed 19th century historian Joel Tyler Headley, explores the vital, but often neglected, role of ministers ...

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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A gripping exploration of the worst single incident of racial violence in American history, timed to coincide with its 100th anniversary.Illustrati...

"An urgent manifesto for the reconstruction of democratic belonging in our troubled times." --Davide PanagiaAcross the world, democracies are suffe...

Reducere. As a pediatric critical care physician and an ethicist, Jane Lee was accustomed to caring for children with a range of serious conditions and disab...

Reducere. The town's golden boy is murdered while returning for his high school reunion, and Leah Nash finds no shortage of suspects--or secrets.Almost every...

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

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

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...

How aesthetic religious experiences can create solidarity in marginalized communitiesLatine Catholics have used Our Lady of Guadalupe as a symbol i...

Reducere. The radical history of a dynamic, multiracial American neighborhood. "When I think of the future of the United States, and the history that matters...

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...

The world is in a mess. For more than a billion people, everyday life is played out against the backdrop of civil wars, military coups and failing ...

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...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): B XuNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 154 x 216 x 23Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farmecul ...

Reducere. This book draws on performance research from the cognitive and emotion sciences to help therapists negotiate the difficult emotional challenges the...

Reducere. The invitation of this book is for my readers who are Christian to consider the dimension of harm in the ongoing debates on affirming or not affirm...