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Price: $7.95
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Sale: $0.29
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Manufacturer: New York Review Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Garry Wills
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Publisher: New York Review Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 322.10973
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Publication Date: 2006-10-03
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Reading Level: 56
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Description: One of America’s foremost historians looks at the state of American democracy and the influence of the Catholic Church
How is it possible for minorities to rule majorities? An answer can be found by looking at both George Bush's Republican Party and the Catholic Church.
Bush’s Fringe Government is an inquiry into how an extremely conservative fringe in these organizations, although in the minority, have a disproportionate influence on a broad range of issues, and use their influence to govern the majority. By exploring the ways in which the election of Pope Benedict XVI has increased the influence of very conservative Catholics in the Vatican, Garry Wills offers a lucid and striking explanation of the political coalition between Catholics and evangelicals–a partnership that has been instrumental in electing Republicans in the United States and keeping conservative issues in the forefront of American political discourse. As Wills puts it, “How do you govern an apostate nation? When the entire culture is corrupted, the country can only be morally governed in spite of itself. A collection of aggrieved minorities must seize the levers of power in every way possible. One must govern not from a broad consensual center but from activist fringes of morality.”
Juxtaposing Karl Rove and the Bush administration’s political strategy to that of conservatives in the Catholic Church, Wills’s examination of extremist fringe elements is a major piece of political analysis by one of our most highly regarded commentators. Its timely publication is essential reading for the 2006 elections in the United States.
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Price: $34.95
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Sale: $22.25
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Manufacturer: Verso
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Verso
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320
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Publication Date: 2007-08-27
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Reading Level: 488
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Description: A volume in the acclaimed Reinventing Social Emancipation series.
Another Production is Possible analyzes the changing capital-labor conflict of the past two decades, as well as considering alternative models to capitalist development.
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Price: $22.95
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Sale: $5.88
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Manufacturer: Miramax
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: James Wolcott
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Publisher: Miramax
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Dewey Decimal Number: 070.92273
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Publication Date: 2004-08-25
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: They are coddled and well-groomed. They chase after the latest scandal and then run around in crazy circles, using the TV studio as their show ring and wee-wee pad. There is no controversy they can't trivialize, no issue they can't vulgarize. They obey their political masters and betray the trust of the audience with every bark. They're the attack poodles-a new breed of celebrity pundit. Wisecracking and impassioned, Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants laces into an all-star cast of blowhard egotists who pound our eardrums and insult our intelligence: Bill O'Reilly, Joe Scarborough, Peggy Noonan, Dennis Miller, Laura Ingraham, Tucker Carlson. But it also delves below the surface squall of infotainment to show how attack poodles function as pets of the Republican party, guard dogs for George Bush, and tail-waggers for war. In the iconoclastic spirit of Michael Moore's Stupid White Men, Al Franken's Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, and Molly Ivins' Bushwhacked, Attack Poodles makes serious fun of the pack mentality that has taken over politics and the press in this country and urges us to rip off our blindfolds before it's too late.
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Price: $44.95
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Sale: $44.95
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Manufacturer: CQ Press
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Lawrence Mayer::Frank Thames::Dennis Patterson
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Publisher: CQ Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320
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Publication Date: 2008-12-01
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Description: In addition to a well-chosen set of classic readings, Contending Perspectives also offers students access to cutting-edge research. By framing chapters around a central question in the field, the editors are able to show students how scholars approach inquiry with different perspectives, producing controversy and consensus in interesting and instructive ways. With these selections, students see work with data, theory, and analysis at its best and set in proper context not pieces chosen just for their currency or for pages of colorful detail. Chapter introductions and selection headnotes offer important background and critical thinking questions.
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Price: $51.50
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Sale: $51.50
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Manufacturer: University Press of America
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Thomas Molnar
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Publisher: University Press of America
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Dewey Decimal Number: 335.02
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Publication Date: 1990-02-16
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Reading Level: 260
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Description: The utopian is generally regarded as a harmless visionary, of course, whose system of thought suffers largely from a naivete about things as they really are. In this work, Thomas Molnar disputes this view and shows that the utopian thinker can be-and often has been-extremely dangerous. Thus it may surprise many that Molnar sees Teilhard de Chardin and Karl Marx sharing the same ideological umbrella, despite the theological differences between them. Going further, the author argues strongly that utopianism is a persistent historical phenomenon seriously at odds with that Christian realism which remains as one of the supports of Western civilization. For the utopian-religious or atheistic-aims, despite all disclaimers, at the deification of man. Further, in Thomas Molnar's cogent thesis, utopian doctrines implicitly deny the central Christian understanding of original sin. The perfection which they seek and the abstract Man of whom they speak alike conflict with the Christian understanding of the free human will and a personal, transcendent God. Co-published with The Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
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Price: $28.00
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Sale: $5.50
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Manufacturer: Intercollegiate Studies Institute
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Jeffrey Hart
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Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Institute
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Edition: illustrated edition
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320.520973
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Publication Date: 2005-10-01
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Reading Level: 380
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Description: National Review has been the leading conservative national magazine since it was founded in 1955, and in that capacity it has played a decisive role in shaping the conservative movement in the United States. In The Making of the American Conservative Mind, Jeffrey Hart provides an authoritative and high-spirited history of how the magazine has come to define and defend conservatism for the past fifty years. He also gives a firsthand account of the thought and sometimes colorful personalities—including James Burnham, Willmoore Kendall, Russell Kirk, Frank Meyer, William Rusher, Priscilla Buckley, Gerhart Niemeyer, and, of course, the magazine’s founder, William F. Buckley Jr., who contributed to National Review’s life and wide influence.
As Hart sees it, National Review has regularly veered toward ideology, but it has also regularly corrected its course toward, in Buckley’s phrase, a “politics of reality.” Its catholicity and originality, attributable to Buckley’s magnanimity and sense of showmanship —has made the magazine the most interesting of its kind in the nation, concludes Hart. His highly readable and occasionally contrarian history, the first history of National Review yet published, marks another milestone in our understanding of how the conservatism now so influential in American political life draws from, and in some ways repudiates, the intellectual project that National Review helped launch a half century ago.
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Price: $44.95
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Sale: $16.20
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Manufacturer: CQ Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: CQ Press
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320.973
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Publication Date: 2006-12
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Reading Level: 375
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Description: Designed to teach students in introduction to American government courses to think critically about the political information they encounter, this reader provides relevant, accessible selections with a contemporary focus. Students learn to read critically though a new five-step process that binds each article. Developed by the authors, this consistent critical-thinking strategy, referred to as CLUES, asks students to Consider the source; Lay out the argument; Uncover the evidence; Evaluate the conclusion; and Sort out the political end. To draw students' attention a special preface, To the Student, explains the critical-thinking approach of the text and introduces the tools used throughout. In every subsequent chapter an essay defines the institution or political process discussed and briefly explains the major issues, why they matter, and how the readings illustrate and explore them. Each of the 16 chapters contains three to five articles that correspond to standard topics covered in an introductory government course, including political culture, the Constitution and Federalism, civil liberties and rights, Congress, the presidency, elections, and the courts. - Engaging, contemporary articles from a variety of sources—print, broadcast, and the Internet—illustrate American government at all levels.
- Post-it-style call out notes within the readings draw students' attention to key passages to consider as they read.
- One classic reading per chapter, such as John F. Kennedy's inaugural address and Federalist No. 51, helps students understand and observe the changes or constants in key political arguments over time.
- Consistent end-of-chapter questions walk students through the CLUES method of critical thinking.
- Each chapter includes a personal account that shows the relevance of the political process to individual lives.Readings are balanced between objective and opinion-based points of view and vary in length and format to provide instructors with maximum flexibility.
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Sale: $3.98
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Manufacturer: Verso
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Laura Flanders
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Publisher: Verso
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Edition: Paperback Ed
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.9310922
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Publication Date: 2005-04-30
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Reading Level: 342
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Description: The women of the Bush administration, according to author and Bay Area talk show host Laura Flanders, have received something of a free ride from the press and the public. While many cheer the fact that women have risen to prominent cabinet-level posts, most ordinary people know little about such luminaries as Condoleeza Rice, Elaine Chao, Christie Whitman, Gale Norton, and Karen Hughes. Flanders provides extensive background information on these and other women and holds the actual events of their lives up to comparison against how their stories have been told for political purposes. Flanders' biographies reveal women who may appear more genteel and unthreatening than, say, Donald Rumsfeld, but who are actually much less moderate and centrist than one would expect. Having women in power, she suggests, allows the GOP to appeal to a traditionally shaky female voting demographic and the "up by the bootstraps" reputation of the Bushwomen obscures the Bush administration's record of selling out the interests of environmental, health, labor, and security issues in favor of well-moneyed corporate interests. And while these women have had successful careers in fields traditionally dominated by men, Flanders tells us that they have often done so with the assistance of questionable corporate connections. Bushwomen also suggests that the Bushwomen's political careers constitute, in many cases, a betrayal of the various forces (feminism, affirmative action, the civil rights movement) that put them in power. While Flanders' writing style is brisk and often witty, the tone is never overly glib or sardonic and, regardless of political stripe, her research into her subjects is fascinating in that it digs deep into the lives of public figures who, until now, have managed to stay quite private. --John Moe
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Price: $33.00
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Sale: $2.33
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Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Dante Germino
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320
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Publication Date: 1979-04-15
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Reading Level: 416
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Description: According to conventional periodization, a profound break in the continuity of Western political theory occurred around 1500 and marked the beginning of "modern" political thought. In Machiavelli to Marx Dante Germino examines the scholars of this period whose works he feels have made significant new approaches to the critical understanding of our world and, consequently, to the problems of our time. Beginning with Machiavelli, the author covers major political philosophers such as Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Burke and gives lucid, perceptive accounts of what they thought and taught about politics. He discusses utilitarianism, liberalism, scientism, and messianic nationalism through the writings of such influential thinkers as Bentham, Spencer, Saint-Simon, and Fichte and concludes with three of the foremost political philosophers of the nineteenth century—Fourier, Proudhon, and Marx.
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Price: $39.95
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Sale: $30.40
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Manufacturer: Transaction Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Transaction Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320.5570955
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Publication Date: 2005-11-09
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Reading Level: 706
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Description: Scores of books and articles have been published, addressing one or another aspect of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Missing from this body of scholarship, however, has been a comprehensive analysis of the intellectual and ideological cornerstones of one of the most dramatic revolutions in our time. In this remarkable volume, Hamid Dabashi brings together, in a sustained and engagingly written narrative, the leading revolutionaries who have shaped the ideological disposition of this cataclysmic event. Dabashi has spent over ten years studying the writings, in their original Persian and Arabic, of the most influential Iranian clerics and thinkers. Examining the revolutionary sentiments and ideas of such figures as Jalal Al-e Ahmad, Ali Sharicati, Morteza Motahhari, Sayyad Abolhasan Bani-Sadr, and finally the Ayatollah Khomeini, the work also analyzes the larger historical and theoretical implications of any construction of "the Islamic Ideology." Carefully located in the social and intellectual context of the four decades preceding the 1979 revolution, Theology of Discontent is the definitive treatment of the ideological foundations of the Islamic Revolution, with particular attention to the larger, more enduring ramifications of this revolution for radical Islamic revivalism in the entire Muslim world. This volume will be of interest to Islamicists, Middle East historians and specialists, as well as scholars and students of "liberation theologies," comparative religious revolutions, and mass collective behavior. Bruce Lawrence of Duke University calls this volume "a superb and unprecedented study...In brilliant figural strokes, he arrays Euro-American sociological theory as the crucial backdrop of a deeper understanding of contemporary Iranian history."
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