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Cambridge University Press Problems of Market Liberalism
Problems of Market Liberalism by Ellen Frankel Paul
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Cambridge University Press The New Liberalism
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Cambridge University Press The New Liberalism
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Cambridge University Press The Ethics and Politics of Asylum
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Cambridge University Press The Limits of Nationalism
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Cambridge University Press Liberalism Democracy and Development
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Cambridge University Press Liberal Pluralism
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Cambridge University Press The Practice of Liberal Pluralism
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Cambridge University Press French Political Thought from Montesquieu to Tocqueville Liberty in a Levelled Society 89 Ideas in Context Series Number 89
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Cambridge University Press Citizenship and Community
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Cambridge University Press Riding the Populist Wave
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Cambridge University Press Reimagining Prosperity
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Cambridge University Press The Politics of Immigration Beyond Liberal States
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Cambridge University Press The Prophet of Modern Constitutional Liberalism
Book SynopsisJohn Stuart Mill is the father of modern liberalism. His most remembered work, On Liberty, which was published in 1859, changed the course of the liberal tradition. What is less well-known is that his ideas have profoundly influenced the American constitutional rights tradition of the latter half of the twentieth century. Mill''s ''harm principle'' inspired the constitutional right to privacy recognized in Griswold v Connecticut, Roe vs Wade and other cases. His defense of freedom of expression influenced Justices Holmes, Brandeis, Douglas, Brennan and others and led to greatly expanded freedom of speech in the twentieth century. Finally, Mill was an ardent feminist whose last important work, The Subjection of Women, was a full-scale and, for its time, radical defense of complete gender equality. This is a book for lawyers who want to understand the intellectual origins of modern constitutional rights, and for political philosophers interested in the constitutional implications of Mill''s conception of freedom.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Mill and his Place in the Liberal Tradition: 1. Mill's life, work and character; 2. Liberalism before Mill; 3. Inventing modern liberalism; Part II. Mill and the Constitution: 4. Constitutional liberties before Mill; 5. The intellectual origins of the right to privacy; 6. Mill and the right of freedom of expression; 7. A new equality.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Why Liberals Win Even When They Lose Elections
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc American Prophets
Book SynopsisFrom one of the country’s most respected religion reporters, a paradigm-shifting discussion of how the Religious Left is actually the moral compass that has long steered America’s political debates, including today.Since the ascendancy of the Religious Right in the 1970s, common wisdom holds that it is a coalition of fundamentalist powerbrokers who are the “moral majority,” setting the standard for conservative Christian values and working to preserve the status quo.But, as national religion reporter Jack Jenkins contends, the country is also driven by a vibrant, long-standing moral force from the left. Constituting an amorphous group of interfaith activists that goes by many names and takes many forms, this coalition has operated since America’s founding — praying, protesting, and marching for common goals that have moved society forward. Throughout our history, the Religious Left has embodied and championed the progressive values at the heart of American democracy—abolition, labor reform, civil rights, environmental preservation.Drawing on his years of reporting, Jenkins examines the re-emergence of progressive faith-based activism, detailing its origins and contrasting its goals with those of the Religious Right. Today’s rapidly expanding interfaith coalition — which includes Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and other faiths — has become a force within the larger “resistance” movement. Jenkins profiles Washington political insiders—including former White House staffers and faith outreach directors for the campaigns of Barack Obama, John Kerry, and Hillary Clinton—as well as a new generation of progressive faith leaders at the forefront today, including: Rev. William Barber II, leader of North Carolina’s Moral Mondays and co-chair of the nationwide Poor People’s campaign Linda Sarsour, co-chair of the Women’s March Rev. Traci Blackmon, a pastor near Ferguson, Missouri who works to lift up black liberation efforts across the country Sister Simone Campbell, head of the Catholic social justice lobby and the “Nuns on the Bus” tour organizer Native American “water protectors” who demonstrated against the Dakota Access Pipeline in Standing Rock Bishop Gene Robinson, the first openly gay Episcopal bishop An exciting reevaluation of America’s moral center and an inspiring portrait of progressive faith-in-action, American Prophets will change the way we think about the intersection of politics and religion.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Hispanic Republican
Book SynopsisAn illuminating and thought-provoking history of the growth of Hispanic American Republican voters in the past half century and their surprising impact on US politics, updated with new material reflecting on the 2020 election In the lead-up to every election cycle, pundits predict that Latino Americans will overwhelmingly vote in favor of the Democratic candidate. And it’s true—Latino voters do tilt Democratic. Hillary Clinton won the Latino vote in a “landslide,” Barack Obama “crushed” Mitt Romney among Latino voters in his reelection, and, four years earlier, the Democratic ticket beat the McCain-Palin ticket by a margin of more than two to one. But those numbers belie a more complicated picture. Because of decades of investment and political courtship, as well as a nuanced and varied cultural identity, the Republican party has had a much longer and stronger bond with Hispanics. How is this possible for a party so associated with draconian immigration and racial policies?In The Hispanic Republican, historian and political commentator Geraldo Cadava illuminates the history of the millions of Hispanic Republicans who, since the 1960s, have had a significant impact on national politics. Intertwining the little understood history of Hispanic Americans with a cultural study of how post-World War II Republican politicians actively courted the Hispanic vote during the Cold War (especially Cuban émigrés) and during periods of major strife in Central America (especially during Iran-Contra), Cadava offers insight into the complicated dynamic between Latino liberalism and conservatism, which, when studied together, shine a crucial light on a rapidly changing demographic that will impact American elections for years to come.
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HarperCollins The MAGA Doctrine The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future
Book SynopsisAs the mainstream media keep churning out lies about the “real reasons” behind the new conservative agenda, Charlie Kirk’s The MAGA Doctrine is a powerful reminder of the true narrative of freedom and greatness that swept Donald Trump to the presidency.Trade Review"If you love America and support this president, if you want to explain to your snowflake friends what is happening in politics today, and if you want to defend President Donald Trump—this book is a MUST-READ!” — Donald J. Trump, Jr. “The MAGA Doctrine is a must-read by the laser-focused Charlie Kirk, who more than anyone has gotten empowered young people to support making America great.” — Judge Jeanine Pirro “Charlie Kirk is a fighter and leader in the Trump movement, and his new book, The MAGA Doctrine, will inspire the next generation to Make America Great Again.” — Sarah Huckabee Sanders “I am often astonished at how few in Washington understand the MAGA base. This is the book to read to understand the ideas that motivate President Trump and the rest of us!” — Congressman Matt Gaetz
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Recessional
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Origins of Woke
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University of Chicago Press The Making of the New Deal Democrats Paper Voting
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The University of Chicago Press Living Liberalism Practical Citizenship in
Book SynopsisIn the mid-Victorian era, liberalism was a practical politics: it had a party, it informed legislation, and it had adherents who identified with and expressed it as opinion. This title argues that the properties of liberalism - citizenship, the vote, the candidate, and reform - were developed in response to a chaotic and antagonistic world.Trade Review"Reading Living Liberalism puts you in the presence of a kind of genuine greatness. Hadley gives a drama to Victorian liberalism that one can't help identify with and gives today's liberalism a sort of existential pathos. Superb." - Bruce Robbins, Columbia University"
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The University of Chicago Press Republic of Signs Liberal Theory and American
Book SynopsisNorton examines the enactment of liberal ideas in popular culture; in the possessions of ordinary people and the habits of everyday life. She sees liberalism as the common sense of the American people: a set of conventions unconsciously adhered to, a set of principles silently taken for granted. The author ranges over a wide expanse of popular activities (e.g. wrestling, roller derby, lotteries, shopping sprees, and dining out), as well as conventional political topics (e.g., the Constitution, presidency, news media, and centrality of law). Yet the argument is pointed and probling, never shallow or superficial. Fred and Wilma Flintstone are as vital to the republic as Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. In discussions that range from the Constitution and the presidency to money and shopping, voting, lotteries, and survey research, Norton discerns and imaginatively invents possibilities that exceed recognized actualities and already approved opportunities.--Richard E. Flathman, American PolTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1: Republic of Signs 2: Culture of Consumption 3: The President as Sign 4: Our Homeland the Text 5: Before the Law 6: Representation and the Silences of Politics Afterword: Democratic Excesses Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Democratic Surround
Book SynopsisReveals in The Democratic Surround, the decades that brought us the Korean War and communist witch hunts also witnessed an extraordinary turn toward explicitly democratic, open, and inclusive ideas of communication and with them new, flexible models of social order.Trade Review"In what will surely be a controversial revision, Fred Turner maps the attempts of social scientists, industrial designers, European expats and others to mold democratic personalities as a bulwark against authoritarianism, forming a civil foundation upon which arose spatial media experiments of the arts and counterculture of the 1960s. From an Americana more associated with Aaron Copeland comes the radical surround sound of John Cage; from image management of psyches, psychedelic media environments." -Douglas Kahn, author of Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts"
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Back Bay Books Union A Democrat a Republican and a Search for
Book Synopsis Two friends—a Democrat and a Republican—travel across America 'on a deeply personal journey through the heart of a divided nation . . . to find growth, hope and fundamental strength in their own lives' (Bob Woodward) and the country they love, in good times and bad. In the year before Donald Trump was elected president, Jordan Blashek, a Republican Marine, and Chris Haugh, a Democrat from Berkeley, CA, formed an unlikely friendship. Jordan was fresh off his service in the Marines and feeling a bit out of place at Yale Law School. Chris was yearning for a sense of mission after leaving Washington D.C. Over the months, Jordan and Chris's friendship blossomed not in spite of, but because of, their political differences. So they decided to hit the road in search of reasons to strengthen their bond in an era of strife and partisanship. What follows is a three-year adventure story, across forty-four states and
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WW Norton & Co Tom Paines Iron Bridge Building a United States
Book SynopsisThe little-known story of the architectural project that lay at the heart of Tom Paine’s political blueprint for the United States.Trade Review"Fascinating and important: Gray gives us Paine as we have never seen him before…as committed to building a new order as he was to tearing down the old." -- Kathleen DuVal - Wall Street Journal"Ed Gray deftly reveals Paine as a polymath who designed innovative bridges as well as radical politics. Vividly written and rich with insight, Tom Paine’s Iron Bridge illuminates the nexus of politics, science, and aesthetics in the Age of Revolutions." -- Alan Taylor, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Internal Enemy"If you thought nothing more could be said of Thomas Paine, you were wrong. Ed Gray’s new book is a game-changer. An iron bridge, a unified economy, a legislative heart of the union: Ed Gray demonstrates as never before Paine’s greater vision." -- Ray Raphael, author of A People’s History of the American Revolution"In his engaging new book, Edward Gray introduces us to Thomas Paine, the visionary nation-builder. Paine’s design for an iron bridge to transcend the new nation’s divisions was in its way as revolutionary as his call for an independent American republic in Common Sense." -- Harvey J. Kaye, author of Thomas Paine and the Promise of America"Americans want to see the nation’s adolescence as a time of infinite possibility, and so did Thomas Paine. But Edward Gray’s engrossing account of Paine’s lifelong fixation on bridge-building reminds us that a host of human vices, from religious bigotry to political and sectional bias, were always there, waiting as patiently as the wolf at the door." -- Woody Holton, author of Abigail Adams"Another gem from one of America's most imaginative historians." -- Gordon S. Wood, author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution
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WW Norton & Co The Fall of Wisconsin The Conservative Conquest
Book SynopsisNational bestseller "Masterful." —Jane Mayer, best-selling author of Dark MoneyTrade Review"[The Fall of Wisconsin] laments the state’s recent trajectory and chronicles ‘the conservative war’ on its political legacy.… Sharply reported." -- Michael O’Donnell - New York Times Book Review"Belongs with well-known recent studies such as J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy and Arlie Russell Hochschild’s Strangers in Their Own Land." -- Ron Elving - NPR"Dan Kaufman shows how the state became a conservative test case.… Kaufman believes that Wisconsin’s extreme makeover portends something scary for the rest of us." -- Jennifer Szalai - New York Times"Kaufman’s taut primer on Wisconsin progressivism hits his mark.… [A]n indispensable guide for activists who wish to have any hope of taking on the vast Republican infrastructure." -- Jake Wertz - Los Angeles Review of Books"The Fall of Wisconsin shows that the most important story in American politics was hiding in plain sight." -- Jeffrey Toobin"A deep, heartbreaking dive into a state’s shift to the right tells the story of national politics in miniature." -- Newsweek"Absorbing.… [Kaufman] presents the state as emblematic of nationwide trends." -- M.J. Andersen - Boston Globe"Kaufman burrows badgerlike into the politics of America’s Dairyland, unearthing the personal histories of its people.… In doing so, he reveals Wisconsin’s transformation from a ‘pioneering beacon’ of progressive policies, responsible for the nation’s first worker’s-comp and unemployment-insurance programs, to ‘a laboratory for corporate interests.’" -- Michelle Hart - O Magazine"This is a book about political power, its seizure, its uses, and its victims—a powerful amassing of tiny stories of struggle and resistance and often defeat against impossible odds." -- John Dolan - Bookforum"A highly readable, thoroughly engrossing report." -- Jim Swearingen - National Book Review
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WW Norton & Co The Fall of Wisconsin The Conservative Conquest
Book SynopsisNational Bestseller The untold story behind the most shocking political upheaval in the country.Trade Review"Through the microcosm of one state Dan Kaufman does a masterful job explaining what’s happened to America, and why. It’s not a happy tale, but it’s an important one." -- Jane Mayer, best-selling author of Dark Money"Full of sharply reported details…[The Fall of Wisconsin] laments the state’s recent trajectory and chronicles ‘the conservative war’ on its political legacy." -- Michael O'Donnell - New York Times Book Review"Kaufman argues that what’s been happening in Wisconsin has historical significance because it made the state a model for conservative activists…[The Fall of Wisconsin] belongs with well-known recent studies such as J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy and Arlie Russell Hochschild’s Strangers in Their Own Land." -- Ron Elving - NPR"In The Fall of Wisconsin, Dan Kaufman shows how the state became a conservative test case…Clean air, clean water, good schools: The public infrastructure that was considered common sense for Wisconsinites has been attacked by the right as if it were a red menace…Kaufman believes that Wisconsin’s extreme makeover portends something scary for the rest of us." -- Jennifer Szalai - The New York Times"Kaufman burrows badgerlike into the politics of America’s Dairyland, unearthing the personal histories of its people: an ironworker turned activist, a conservation biologist, a Native American tribal elder. In doing so, he reveals Wisconsin’s transformation from a 'pioneering beacon' of progressive policies, responsible for the nation’s first worker’s-comp and unemployment-insurance programs, to ‘a laboratory for corporate interests.'" -- Michelle Hart - O, the Oprah Magazine"What was the matter with Kansas is now the matter with Wisconsin. Once one of the most liberal states in the union, on election night 2016 Wisconsin was the state that put Trump over the top. How did such a big change happen, and what should we do about it? For starters, read this book—and let these agonizingly true stories sink in." -- Thomas Frank, best-selling author of What’s the Matter with Kansas?"Dan Kaufman chronicles how his home state—the birthplace of progressivism, Aldo Leopold’s land ethic, and Earth Day—was transformed into a showcase for right-wing ideology. The Fall of Wisconsin is illuminating, unsettling, and profoundly relevant." -- Elizabeth Kolbert, best-selling author of The Sixth Extinction"Dan Kaufman, a native son, will take you deeper into this story than I would have thought possible. Tirelessly reported, full of heroes and their tormentors, it’s a devastating portrait of a beautiful, besieged state reeling into the Trump era." -- William Finnegan, best-selling author of Barbarian Days"The Fall of Wisconsin shows that the most important story in American politics was hiding in plain sight—how the progressive bastion of the upper Midwest turned into Alabama-with-snow. With elegant ferocity, Dan Kaufman tells a story that is rooted in the soul of Wisconsin but relevant to the whole country as well." -- Jeffrey Toobin, best-selling author of American Heiress
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Sentinel Resistance Is Futile How the TrumpHating Left
Book SynopsisSince the day Donald Trump announced his presidential campaign, the left has waged a demented war against him. Liberals used to pride themselves on their ultra-hipness, but Trump has turned them into weeping little girls in pink party dresses. The very people who once mocked right-wingers for (allegedly) overreacting to every little thing are now the ones hyperventilating and hatching insane conspiracy theories.During the campaign, and even more so after his victory, the left went nuts. Everything Trump does sends them into a moral panic. Everything is a constitutional crisis.Members of the self-proclaimed Resistance -- journalists, politicians, professors, judges, comedians, movie stars, Twitter pundits, even Oprah and Lindsey Vonn! -- are literally shaking because Trump is literally Hitler!Now Ann Coulter skewers the various elements of The Resistance -- the pussy-hat brigade, the Russian-collusion witch hunters, the med
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Penguin Young Readers Tyranny Inc.
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Random House USA Inc Hit Em Where It Hurts
Book SynopsisA radical, urgent plan for how the Democratic Party and its supporters can win elections at one of the most pivotal moments in the history of our nation’s democracy“Bitecofer hits hard against the GOP tactics of fear and anger and the Democrats’ status quo narratives around political engagement and winning elections.”—Michael Steele, former RNC chairWhy do Democrats fail to win voters to their side, and what can they do to develop new winning political strategies—especially as the very fate of democracy hangs in the balance in 2024? Too often the carefully constructed, rational arguments of the Left meet a grisly fate at the polls, where voters are instead swayed by Republican candidates hawking anger, fear, and resentment. Only when Democrats are handed an overwhelming motivational issue—like the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade—have they found a way to counter this ef
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Sentinel In Trump We Trust E Pluribus Awesome
Book SynopsisDonald Trump won the presidency by being a one-man wrecking ball against our dysfunctional and corrupt establishment. Now Ann Coulter, with her unique insight, candor, and sense of humor, makes the definitive case for why we should all join his revolution. The media have twisted themselves in knots, trying to grasp how Donald Trump won over millions of Americans and what he'll be like as president. But Ann Coulter isn't puzzled. She knows why Trump was the only one of seventeen GOP contenders who captured the spirit of our time. She gets the power of addressing the pain of the silent majority and saying things the PC Thought Police considers unspeakable. She argues that a bull in the china shop is exactly what we need to make America great again. In this powerful book, Coulter explains why conservatives, moderates, and even disgruntled Democrats should set aside th
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Random House USA Inc Guardian of the Republic An American Ronins
Book SynopsisThe inspiring life and uncensored views of a veteran, patriot, former Congressman, conservative icon, and warrior for personal liberty… Over the course of the past few decades, Allen West has had many titles bestowed on him, among them Lt. Colonel, U.S. Representative, “Dad,” and Scourge of the Far Left. He rose from humble beginnings in Atlanta where his father instilled in him a code of conduct that would inform his life ever after. Throughout his years leading troops, raising a loving family, serving as Congressman in Florida’s 22nd district, and emerging as one of the most authentic voices in conservative politics, West has never compromised the core values on which he was raised: family, faith, tradition, service, honor, fiscal responsibility, courage, freedom. Today, these values are under attack as never before, and as the far Left intensifies its assaults, few have been as vigorous as West in pushing back.
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Mont Pelerin 1947
Book SynopsisMarking the 75th anniversary of the first meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society, in 1947, this volume presents for the first time the original transcripts from this landmark event. The transcripts reveal what was said on a wide range of topics, including free markets, monetary reform, wage policy, the future of Germany, and liberalism, and more.
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Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC Reading Legitimation Crisis in Tehran Iran and
Book SynopsisThe Iran depicted in the headlines is a rogue state ruled by ever-more-defiant Islamic fundamentalists. Yet inside the borders, an unheralded transformation of a wholly different political bent is occurring. A liberal renaissance, as one Iranian thinker terms it, is emerging in Iran, and in this pamphlet, Danny Postel charts the contours of the intellectual upheaval. Reading Legitimation Crisis in Tehran examines the conflicted positions of the Left toward Iran since 1979, and, in particular, critically reconsiders Foucault's connection to the Iranian Revolution. Postel explores the various elements of the subtle liberal revolution and proposes a host of potential implications of this transformation for Western liberalism.He examines the appeal of Jürgen Habermas, Hannah Arendt, and Isaiah Berlin among Iranian intellectuals and ponders how their ideas appear back to us when refracted through a Persian prism. Postel closes with a thought-provoking conversation with eminent Iranian philo
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BookBaby America in Crisis
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Picador USA Listen Liberal
Book SynopsisA SCATHING LOOK AT THE STANDARD-BEARERS OF LIBERAL POLITICSA BOOK THAT ASKS: WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH DEMOCRATS?Hailed as the most prescient book of the year, Listen, Liberal accurately described what ailed the Democratic Party even before the election of 2016 made their weaknesses obvious. It is the story of how the Party of the People detached itself from its historic constituency among average Americans and chose instead to line up with the winners of our new economic order.Now with a new afterword, Thomas Frank's powerful analysis offers the best diagnosis to date of the liberal malady. Drawing on years of research and firsthand reporting, Frank points out that the Democrats have over the last decades increasingly abandoned their traditional goals: expanding opportunity, fighting for social justice, and ensuring that workers get a fair deal. With sardonic wit and lacerating logic, he uncovers the corporate and cultural elitism that have largely eclips
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Picador USA Wildland
Book SynopsisINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAfter a decade abroad, the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prizewinning writer Evan Osnos returns to three places he has lived in the United StatesGreenwich, CT; Clarksburg, WV; and Chicago, ILto illuminate the origins of America's political fury.Evan Osnos moved to Washington, D.C., in 2013 after a decade away from the United States, first reporting from the Middle East before becoming the Beijing bureau chief at the Chicago Tribune and then the China correspondent for The New Yorker. While abroad, he often found himself making a case for his home country, urging the citizens of Egypt, Iraq, or China to trust that even though America had made grave mistakes throughout its history, it aspired to some foundational moral commitments: the rule of law, the power of truth, the right of equal opportunity for all. But when he returned to the United States, he found each o
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Simon & Schuster Buyers Remorse
Book SynopsisSynopsis coming soon.......Trade Review"Bill Press makes the case why, long after taking the oath of office, the next president of the United States must keep rallying the people who elected him or her on behalf of progressive causes. That is the only way real change will happen. Read this book." -- Senator Bernie Sanders"Bill Press speaks truth to power: on radio, on television, and in this book. And the truth is, while President Obama has done a lot of good, his Administration has let many progressives down." -- Congressman Keith Ellison"In Buyer's Remorse, Bill Press outlines why many progressives feel let down by the Obama years. On the one hand there's a massive expansion of health care, more progressive taxes and a long economic crisis, but one nowhere as bad as Europe's. But the 1 percent's hold on the economy still stands, and we see stagnating or falling wages." -- Robert Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor"A stinging but not unreasonable j'accuse." -- Kirkus
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Bloomsbury Academic The Comeback
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Twelve Fortitude: American Resilience in the Era of
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Twelve The Biden Malaise: How America Bounces Back from
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Basic Books Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who
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Little, Brown & Company Trump: America First: The President Succeeds
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University of Massachusetts Press The New Deal and the Triumph of Liberalism
Book SynopsisIn this collection of essays, a group of political scientists and historians re-evaluate the legacy of the New Deal. They show how Roosevelt and his allies forged an enduring public philosophy - modern liberalism - that redefined the relationship of government and governed.Trade ReviewThis collection is multidisciplinary in approach and includes political scientists of national reputation and historians, among whom are arguably the most prominent scholars writing on the New Deal. The book is also well edited, I do not know of any volume quite like this one with the quality of contributing authors, scope of concerns, and points for discussion. It is exceptionally well done and both thoughtful and thought provoking. - William Crotty, Northeastern University
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NewSouth, Incorporated The Southernization of America: A Story of
Book SynopsisPulitzer Prize-winner Cynthia Tucker and award-winning author Frye Gaillard reflect in a powerful series of essays on the role of the South in America’s long descent into Trumpism. In 1974 the great Southern author John Egerton published his seminal work, The Americanization of Dixie: The Southernization of America, reflecting on the double-edged reality of the South becoming more like the rest of the country and vice versa. Tucker and Gaillard dive even deeper into that reality from the time that Egerton published his book until the present. They see the dark side—the morphing of the Southern strategy of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan into the Republican Party of today with its thinly disguised (if indeed it is disguised all all) embrace of white supremacy and the subversion of democratic ideals. They explore the "birtherism" of Donald Trump and the roots of the racial backlash against President Obama; the specter of family separation on our southern border, with its echoes of similar separations in the era of slavery; as well as the rise of the Christian right, the demonstrations in Charlottesville, the death of George Floyd, and the attack on our nation’s capital—all of which, they argue, have roots that trace their way to the South. But Tucker and Gaillard see another side too, a legacy rooted in the civil rights years that has given us political leaders like John Lewis, Jimmy Carter, Raphael Warnock, and Stacy Abrams. The authors raise the ironic possibility that the South, regarded by some as the heart of the country’s systemic racism, might lead the way on the path to redemption. Tucker and Gaillard, colleagues and frequent collaborators at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, bring a multi-racial perspective and years of political reporting to bear on a critical moment in American history, a time of racial reckoning and of democracy under siege.
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Algonquin Books The Opposite of Hate: A Field Guide to Repairing
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WW Norton & Co The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the
Book SynopsisAs nativism, xenophobia, vile racism, and assaults on the rule of law threaten the very fabric of our nation, The Corrosion of Conservatism presents an urgent defense of American democracy. Pronouncing Mexican immigrants to be “rapists,” Donald Trump announced his 2015 presidential bid, causing Max Boot to think he was watching a dystopian science-fiction movie. The respected conservative historian couldn’t fathom that the party of Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Reagan could endorse such an unqualified reality-TV star. Yet the Twilight Zone episode that Boot believed he was watching created an ideological dislocation so shattering that Boot’s transformation from Republican foreign policy adviser to celebrated anti-Trump columnist becomes the dramatic story of The Corrosion of Conservatism. No longer a Republican, but also not a Democrat, Boot here records his ideological journey from a “movement” conservative to a man without a party, beginning with his political coming-of-age as a young émigré from the Soviet Union, enthralled with the National Review and the conservative intellectual tradition of Russell Kirk and F. A. Hayek. Against this personal odyssey, Boot simultaneously traces the evolution of modern American conservatism, jump-started by Barry Goldwater’s canonical The Conscience of a Conservative, to the rise of Trumpism and its gradual corrosion of what was once the Republican Party. While 90 percent of his fellow Republicans became political “toadies” in the aftermath of the 2016 election, Boot stood his ground, enduring the vitriol of his erstwhile conservative colleagues, trolled on Twitter by a white supremacist who depicted his “execution” in a gas chamber by a smiling, Nazi-clad Trump. And yet, Boot nevertheless remains a villain to some partisan circles for his enduring commitment to conservative fiscal and national security principles. It is from this isolated position, then, that Boot launches this bold declaration of dissent and its urgent plea for true, bipartisan cooperation. With uncompromising insights, The Corrosion of Conservatism evokes both a president who has traduced every norm and the rise of a nascent centrist movement to counter Trump’s assault on democracy. Trade Review"[A] lively memoir and acidic anti-Trump polemic…Like many of the best memoirs of ideas, Boot's story is one of conversion and de-conversion--of faith gained and then lost... Boot bolted. It was a decision both understandable and admirable. And he does a very good job of telling the story of what led him to it." -- Damon Linker, New York Times Book Review"Boot’s book attempts to answer a looming question for conservatives unhappy with the current occupant of the White House: What now? The Corrosion of Conservatism does double duty as a mea culpa memoir and a political manifesto, detailing Boot’s "heartbreaking divorce" from the Republican Party after decades of unstinting loyalty…. [A] candid, reflective book." -- Jennifer Szalai, New York Times"[Boot] has written one of the most impressive and unflinching diagnoses of the pathologies in Republican politics that led to Trump’s rise. What makes Boot’s argument admirable is that he doesn’t simply follow his ideology in a mechanical fashion.... [he] accordingly retraces the steps both of his own career and the history of the movement he joined to try to discover where it all went wrong, what parts can be salvaged and which cannot…. Boot is making an astonishing break in his suggestion that the Republicanism of Eisenhower was actually good, and that the conservative alternative of McCarthy, Buckley, and Goldwater was misguided.... The truly radical act in The Corrosion of Conservatism is its clear-eyed excavation of the movement’s history." -- Jonathan Chait, New York"Max Boot came to America as a young refugee whose parents fled the old Soviet Union. A conservative inspired by Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan, Boot now finds himself a political refugee rightly offended by the excesses of Trump’s Republican Party and the continued collapse of American conservatism. His latest work is an important must-read for anyone hoping to better understand where the right went wrong and what the future of American politics has in store for us all." -- Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC's Morning Joe"In this searching and heartfelt account of his personal political evolution, Max Boot has given us a particular story with universal import. In this chaotic time, his sane and sober voice is a vital one, and his story is testament to the battle our better angels must wage against the insidious forces of darkness." -- Jon Meacham, author of The Soul of America"Boot has written the essential book of the Trump era, the one that needs to be read immediately by those of all political stripes." -- Allen Barra, Alternet"I found Boot’s book to be a valuable and provocative dissection of the things we had glossed over, rationalized, or ignored. He has sparked a debate that we need to have: to what extent does Trump retrospectively discredit the modern conservative movement?" -- Charlie Sykes, Weekly Standard"In this poignant and brave political memoir, Max Boot digs deep and chronicles the intellectual journey that caused him to question previous beliefs and quit the Republican Party of Donald Trump. Both an intriguing confessional and an insightful behind-the-scenes exploration of how the conservative movement went awry, this candid, engaging, and important account provides critical lessons for the current moment and the days ahead." -- David Corn, co-author of Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump""Bracingly honest.... If all the Never Trumpers had the humility that Max Boot has in The Corrosion of Conservatism, I think we’d go a long way to healing the breach on the right, which is deep. A brilliantly revealed memoir…. I want everyone to read [this] story."" -- Hugh Hewitt, The Hugh Hewitt Show"In The Corrosion of Conservatism, Boot charts his ideological odyssey. He deftly recounts his early attraction to the conservative cause and his revulsion at its embrace of Trump…. He explains what it was like to immerse himself in what amounted to a conservative madrassa. In describing his self-conversion from zealot to apostate, he emerges as the Candide of the right, offering fascinating insights into the psychology of a true believer.... His readiness to reexamine his old convictions is admirable.”" -- Jacob Heilbrunn, Washington Monthly"[A] page-turner…. Max Boot reveals himself as a thoughtful and serious individual who is wary of dogmatism from either political side. We who are readers of his books and regular columns should be thankful for his insight into the conservative movement, and for his intellectual growth and honesty." -- Ron Radosh, Tablet"Max Boot mixes lively memoir with sharp analysis to make an important argument about the state of conservatism in America today. This is a book conservatives are going to have to reckon with and that all of us can learn from." -- William Kristol, Founder and Editor at large, The Weekly Standard"This is a significant book, and an elegantly written and enjoyable one. In explaining his own intellectual and political evolution, Max Boot presents a vivid modern version of America's timeless immigrant making-it saga--and also documents the catastrophic decision of many of his colleagues to abandon conservative principles in favor of Trump-era resentments and tribalism. This book will stand as a clear-eyed look at our times, and as part of the effort to find a better way forward." -- James Fallows, national correspondent, The Atlantic"Max Boot is one of our sharpest contemporary thinkers about politics, world affairs and America’s role in the global crisis facing liberal democracy. Unsparing, acute and wonderfully well–written, The Corrosion of Conservatism is a bracing repudiation of Ideological myopia, moral compromise and intellectual corruption. More than that, it is an indispensable dissection of how conservatism devolved from the philosophical rigor of William Buckley to the toxic tribalism of Donald Trump – and what we must do to set our future right." -- Richard North Patterson, bestselling author of Loss of Innocence"Washington Post columnist and CNN global affairs analyst Boot (The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam, 2018) contemplates the collapse of the GOP under the poisonous influence of Donald Trump. The author is convinced that the Republican Party will suffer repeated and devastating defeats for its embrace of extremism, conspiracy mongering, ignorance, isolationism, and white nationalism…. Republicans particularly need to read this book." -- Kirkus Reviews
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