 | 1912 : Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs -The Election that Changed the Country
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by Simon & Schuster
Hardcover
(10 May, 2004)
(5 reviews) 
Customer Review: The Story Behind a Seminal Election: This is a great story. The election of 1912 was one of the few times since 1804 when the country was given the opportunity to debate its future.J |
 | 9/11: The Big Lie
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by Continental Sales
Paperback
(01 August, 2002)
(6 reviews) 
Customer Review: This book IS "The Big Lie": A littany of distortions and fabrications, on par with Holocaust-denial. Think the USA provoked WW-II? |
 | A Brighter Tomorrow : Fulfilling the Promise of Nuclear Energy
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by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Hardcover
(November, 2004)
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 | A Civil Action
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by Vintage
Paperback
(27 August, 1996)
(298 reviews) 
Editorial Review: In America, when somebody does you wrong, you take 'em to court. W. R. Grace and Beatrice Foods had been dumping a cancer-causing industrial solvent into the water table of Woburn, Massachusetts, for years; |
 | A Matter of Interpretation
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by Princeton University Press
Paperback
(27 July, 1998)
(15 reviews)
Customer Review: An Insightful Discussion: In this tidy book, Justice Scalia puts forward his theory of jurisprudence and takes on the subject of judicial philosophy and what he calls the modern movement of judicial activism. |
 | A People's History of the United States : 1492-Present (Perennial Classics)
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by Perennial Classics
Paperback
(01 April, 2003)
(404 reviews)
Customer Review: Is This American History?: Those who read A People's History of the United States 1492-Present may think that Howard Zinn is the embodiment of a modern day Karl Marx. |
 | Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders
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by Nelson Current
Hardcover
(11 September, 2003)
(4 reviews) 
Customer Review: I"m shocked!..shocked!...Rick, there's gambling going on....: The subtitle provides more than a clue. Political outsiders wind up in the House of Representatives and then they are under tremendous pressure to conform, |
 | Breaking The News : How the Media Undermine American Democracy
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by Vintage
Paperback
(14 January, 1997)
(18 reviews)
Customer Review: Is the Pot Calling the Kettle Black?: James Fallows certainly deserves credit for writing an interesting and clearly presented
argument for media reform. |
 | Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential
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by Wiley
Hardcover
(21 February, 2003)
(41 reviews)
Editorial Review: Political consultants are nothing new in American politics; they are the big guns called in to work on a campaign or deal with the occasional crisis, then dismissed for another day. Not so with White House Senior Advisor Karl Rove. |
 | Can America Survive?: The Rage of the Left, the Truth, and What to Do About It
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by New Beginnings
Hardcover
(15 July, 2004)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: Unique and Interesting: Just picked this up over the weekend and have been thinking about its message all day. This is a quick and insightful read. |
 | Capitalism and Freedom : Fortieth Anniversary Edition
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by University of Chicago Press
Paperback
(15 November, 2002)
(62 reviews)
Customer Review: Insight for those who wish to be free: Nobel laureate Milton Friedman is quite possibly the most brilliant economist in the world today and a man on the cutting edge of libertarian (classical liberal) thought. |
 | China's New Order : Society, Politics, and Economy in Transition
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by Harvard University Press
Hardcover
(28 November, 2003)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: A unique perspective on China, from China: Most Western perspectives on China fall into two (equally wrong)camps: the celebrations of the emergence of a new economic superpower reminiscent of William Gibson on 1980s Japan or the typical right-wing paranoia of China as the new enemy. |
 | Closed Chambers: The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Modern Supreme Court
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by Penguin Books
Paperback
(01 June, 1999)
(45 reviews)
Customer Review: A restrained view of ideological splits at the Supreme Court: Lazarus, who clerked for Justice Blackmun during the 1988-89 term, |
 | Coercing Virtue: The Worldwide Rule of Judges
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by American Enterprise Institute Press
Hardcover
(01 September, 2003)
(20 reviews)
Customer Review: Excellent Topic, but a little Thin: On what basis does the U.S. Supreme Court decide the constitutionality of laws on abortion, homosexuality, religion, and other cultural issues? |
 | Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order
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by W. W. Norton & Company
Hardcover
(16 August, 2004)
Editorial Review: While numerous books have been written criticizing the policies and practices of the George W. Bush administration, few have been as foreboding about the meaning of those policies and practices as Mark Crispin Miller's Cruel and Unusual. |
 | Dawn over Baghdad: How the U.S. Military Is Using Bullets and Ballots to Remake Ira
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by Encounter Books
Hardcover
(01 July, 2004)
(7 reviews)
Customer Review: Do yourself a favor - read it!: Excellent overview of our current (2004) situation in Iraq - both the successes and problems. A good antidote to the non-stop doom and gloom from the US media. |
 | Deadlock: The Inside Story oF America's Closest Election
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by PublicAffairs
Hardcover
(06 March, 2001)
(13 reviews)
Customer Review: BEST BOOK I'VE READ ON 2000 ELECTION: I personally think the Washington Post and NY Times are liberal rags that are generally not worth the paper they are printed on. |
 | Death of Common Sense : How Law is Suffocating America
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by Warner Books
Paperback
(01 March, 1996)
(47 reviews)
Customer Review: Law has replaced humanity and process supercedes reason.: Philip Howard's insights help us understand why government appears arbitrary, |
 | Democracy And Education
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by Free Press
Paperback
(01 February, 1997)
(11 reviews)
Customer Review: Why is this book ignored by educators?: Dewey describes a philosophy of education that values and respects the learner through experiential and situated educational experiences. |
 | Democracy in America: And Two Essays on America (Penguin Classics)
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by Penguin Books
Paperback
(01 July, 2003)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: The Bevan Translation: This translation of Democracy in America is the one to buy. As you would expect from a Penguin edition, the typeface is clear and the paper is of good quality. |
 | Democracy in America
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by Signet Book
Mass Market Paperback
(05 September, 2001)
(22 reviews)
Customer Review: Brilliant: De Tocqueville is every bit as brilliant and insightful as he has been said to be. The book is as relevant now as when written and is a must read for every american who is serious about understanding his country. |
 | Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
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by Penguin Books
Hardcover
(02 September, 2004)
Editorial Review: n Democracy Matters, Cornel West's follow-up to 1993's Race Matters, the author's diagnosis of the state of modern American democracy is grim. The institution suffers, he says, from what he calls free market fundamentalism, |
 | Democracy Under Pressure : 2002 Election Update (with InfoTrac)
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by Wadsworth Publishing
Unbound
(30 December, 2002)
(4 reviews)
Customer Review: Good but Long: I was surprised at how interesting this book made government. It's not boring like so many other college text books are. |
 | Democracy: The God that Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy,
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by Transaction Publishers
Paperback
(01 October, 2001)
(24 reviews)
Customer Review: down with democracy.: Hans-Hermann Hoppe is a very important political economist and philosopher in the intellectual tradition of the Austrian School of Economics -- I would say he is without a doubt the most important anarchocapitalist thinker since Murray Rothbard. |
 | Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Endangered America's
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by Regnery Publishing
Hardcover
(01 March, 2003)
(440 reviews)
Editorial Review: Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Robert "Buzz" Patterson was a military aide to President Clinton from May 1996 to May 1998 and one of five individuals entrusted with carrying the "nuclear football"—t |
 | Dick: The Man Who is President (Dick Cheney)
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by New Press
Hardcover
(30 September, 2004)
Editorial Review: A Vice President, by definition, will always receive less scrutiny than the fellow at the top of the ticket. Fortunately for Dick Cheney, that lower profile works out quite nicely since, according to author John Nichols, |
 | Dictionary of Legal Terms: A Simplified Guide to the Language of Law
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by Barron's Educational Series
Paperback
(01 January, 1998)
(3 reviews)
Customer Review: Way too general: This dictionary may be good for the layman, but it is far too general for a law student or lawyer. Only the most common legal words are included, |
 | Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate--The Essential
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by Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Paperback
(15 September, 2004)
Editorial Review: In the first of his three debates with George W. Bush, 2004 presidential candidate John Kerry argued against the war in Iraq not by directly condemning it but by citing the various ways in which airport and commercial shipping security had been jeopardized due to the war's sizable price tag. |
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