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Political parties and elections are increasingly political theatre, with real power hidden behind a smokescreen of propaganda, carefully manipulated cultural and religious wars, and voting rituals. But there is another kind of hidden power in America: the grassroots social movements working for progressive change. If the Democratic Party can ally with these movements, America can be returned to its people. Derber sees American history as a succession...
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As our country's politicians engage in bitter partisan battles, focused on protecting their own jobs but not on doing the nation's business, and political pundits shout louder and shriller to improve their ratings, it's no wonder that Americans have little faith in their government. But, is America as divided as the politicians and talking heads would have us believe? Do half of Americans stand on the right and the other half on the left with a no-man's-land...
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A timely analysis of political parties in the United States from 1787 to the present. It is little known that political parties were seen in the United States as deleterious to civil society by the founding fathers. This book revisits the viewpoints expressed by the founding fathers about political parties. It is an exposition of the nature of political parties and how they have achieved and continue to maintain control of federal and state governments....
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Everyone's interested in U.S. politics. They want to know how the Republicans became the party of the rich, and Democrats became so damned liberal. History buffs often ponder the origin and changes that took place in the Republican Party since its inception long before the Civil War. Through the help of researchers, the history has come to light, including the beginnings before calling themselves Republicans. Then, the Early Republicans and the Civil...
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The American Government, including the national, state, and local levels, has more than 400,000 elected and appointed public officials according to a New York Times estimate. This book is written to guide every potential new politician down the path of filing for, gathering support, and running for local office. You will start by reading a complete list of everything you need to know about the process of running for office. You will learn how to organize...
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El principal mérito de este trabajo consiste en que el autor, con potente originalidad, toma el complejo y multívoco concepto de comunidad para adentrarse en la comprensión del ser-en-común propio del peronismo clásico para, desde allí, darnos que pensar y darnos qué pensar en torno a los desafíos más acuciantes del mundo contemporáneo.
'Fenomenología del peronismo' tiene otra gran virtud: está muy bien escrito. El aparato conceptual y...
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Las Falanges Juveniles de Franco fueron un elemento privilegiado de la política de juventud del franquismo en las décadas de 1940 y 1950, cuyo principal objetivo fue la socialización de sus integrantes en el ideario nacional-sindicalista. Creadas en 1942 como la organización juvenil del régimen siempre estuvieron bajo el control directo de los falangistas. Tras casi dos décadas de intervención en la juventud española fueron sustituidas en...
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La Unión Europea negocia con Estados Unidos un Tratado Transatlántico de Comercio e Inversión (TTIP) a espaldas de la población. Un tratado cuya firma está considerada una prioridad política. A pesar de que el Tratado se ha publicitado como un motor de crecimiento económico, las negociaciones y el contenido del TTIP se han mantenido ocultos hasta que, tras numerosas denuncias y presiones de organizaciones y movimientos sociales, la Comisión...
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011: Top 25 Books" Peter Trubowitz is professor of government at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of Defining the National Interest.
Why do some national leaders pursue ambitious grand strategies and adventuresome foreign policies while others do not? When do leaders boldly confront foreign threats and when are they less assertive? Politics and Strategy shows that grand strategies...
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Journalist Rich Miniter uses his unparalleled access to sources and stories throughout the Middle East, Africa, and the United States. He paints a devastating portrait of how close the U.S. military was to killing bin Laden--on multiple occasions--and how, each time, Clinton dropped the ball and allowed bin Laden to grow stronger and more dangerous.
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El sector eléctrico español es un ejemplo de manual de lo que sucede, y cómo sucede, cuando se deja en manos privadas un sector estratégico. El resultado final es tristemente conocido. los métodos (marco discursivo, argumentos concretos y maniobras) que usaron entonces las elites económicas y políticas, no tanto. Es de interés recordarlos ahora que esas mismas elites pretenden hacer algo equivalente, y de idéntica forma, con otros sectores...
72) That Should Still Be Us: How Thomas Friedman's Flat World Myths Are Keeping Us Flat on Our Backs
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Chronicles the damage Thomas Friedman's flat wrong, "Flat Earth" ideas have caused to the American economy
As Martin Sieff convincingly argues, Thomas Friedman's prescriptions have played a major role in causing America's economic decline, yet many executives and politicians, including President Obama, still look to him as their guru. Sieff exposes Friedman fallacies on the nature of globalization, the information technology revolution, political...
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This book is a primer. It minimizes the descriptions of the science its conclusions are based on. It briefly describes what is essential to human nature, after the complexities of culture are subtracted out. It also only briefly describes how human nature separates on gender roles determined by the sexual process. In abbreviated form, it tells the story of life, from animals to us, and from us as individuals to us as members of society. It shows how...
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In Toxic Talk, Bill Press exposed the ways in which the extreme right-wing media has done an end run around the American voting populace by exerting a disproportionate control over open political debate. In The Obama Hate Machine, Press returns to show how the Right has taken rhetoric to slanderous new levels in attacking the nation's forty-fourth president.
But, presidents have always been attacked like this, right? Wrong. As the author shows, while...
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A biography of the person seen by many as the honest face of Australian politics, this intimate exploration of Bob Brown's world details his difficult adolescence, shy struggles with sexuality, search for intimacy, and conversion from conservative country doctor to environmental activist and political revolutionary.
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Since the day Aaron Burr, the sitting vice president of the United States, shot and killed Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers, the Democratic Party has been at war with America. With a history that includes murder, treason, slavery, segregation, sedition, bribery, and systemic vote theft, it can argued that the Democrats are, at root, the anti-American party.In this incendiary Broadside--a heartfelt j'accuse--Michael Walsh traces the...
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From our nation's inception, there has been a constant dynamic of tension between those political philosophies that we have labeled, the left and the right, despite the fact that the vast majority of American voters really fall into the category of moderates. During the early years, the shifts between the two were dramatic and frequent: the Federalists on one side, the Jeffersonians on the other, as the young democracy came to grips with the two opposing...
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Es un movimiento, es un partido, es un sentimiento. Es de derecha y de izquierda. Es pragmático e ideológico. Es revolucionario y conservador. Para muchos, es el símbolo de la inclusión y el ascenso social de millones de trabajadores; para otros, representa el mayor obstáculo para el desarrollo argentino. El peronismo es la identidad política más persistente del país y, por eso, un enigma controvertido y apasionante.
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After the 2004 election, the Republican Party held the White House, both houses of Congress, twenty-eight governorships, and a majority of state legislatures. One-party rule, it seemed, was here to stay.
Herding Donkeys tells the improbable tale of the grassroots resurgence that transformed the Democratic Party from a lonely minority to a sizable majority. It chronicles the inside story of Howard Dean's visionary yet deeply controversial fifty-state...
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