Government category: 19669 books
by Elizabeth Warren
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
An unlikely political star tells the inspiring story of the two-decade journey that taught her how Washington really works—and really doesn't—in A Fighting Chance
As a child in small-town Oklahoma, Elizabeth Warren yearned to go to college and then become an...
Politics and Pasta
How I Prosecuted Mobsters, Rebuilt a Dying City, Dined with Sinatra, Spent Five Years in a Federally Funded Gated Community, and Lived to Tell the Tale
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
The story behind the podcast Crimetown, as told by the notorious Buddy Cianci himself.
An election is a war and "to the victor belongs the spoils." That’s the real democratic process. After all, you'll never see a victorious politician tell his supporters, "I want to thank...
Chris Christie
The Inside Story of His Rise to Power
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has become a national Republican Party figure, famous for his blunt public statements, his willingness to confront powerful special interests, and his determination to change the ingrown, corrupt, backroom political culture of New Jersey. In just two years as governor,...
Arrow to the Heart
The Last Battle at the Little Big Horn: The Custer Battlefield Museum vs. The Federal Government
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
In the spring of 2005 a federally orchestrated raid took place at the small Montana town of Garryowen. Christopher Kortlander, the private owner of Garryowen and the focus of the raid, was suspected of selling valuable historical artifacts with false provenance.
Kortlander vigorously fought...
A Farther Shore
Ireland's Long Road to Peace
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2003
He’s been imprisoned, shot at, denounced, shunned, and banned, yet Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams remains resolute in his belief that peace is the only viable option for the Irish people. Adams led the oldest revolutionary movement in Ireland on an extraordinary journey from armed insurrection...
This Fight Is Our Fight
The Battle to Save America's Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
#1 New York Times bestseller
The fiery U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and bestselling author offers a passionate, inspiring book about why our middle class is under siege and how we can win the fight to save it
Senator Elizabeth Warren has long been an outspoken champion of America’s...
El gobierno electrónico a nivel local
Experiencias, tendencias y reflexiones
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 3, 2013
En el marco de una clara necesidad de fortalecimiento democrático, las políticas públicas de gobierno electrónico, open data, transparencia y participación ciudadana aparecen cada vez más como un paso inevitable para los gobiernos locales.
Sin embargo, la gestión local posee particularidades...
Give People Money
How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
A brilliantly reported, global look at universal basic income—a stipend given to every citizen—and why it might be the answer for our age of rising inequality, persistent poverty, and dazzling technology.
Imagine if every month the government deposited $1,000 into your checking account, with...
The Entrepreneurial State
Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
The world's most popular products, from the iPhone to Google Search, were funded not by private companies, but the taxpayer.
In this sharp and controversial international bestseller, an award-winning economist debunks the pervasive myth that the government is sluggish and inept, and at odds...
by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
A Nobel prize winner challenges us to throw off the free market fundamentalists and reclaim our economy.
We all have the sense that the American economy—and its government—tilts toward big business, but as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains in his new book, People, Power, and Profits, the situation...
by Steve Forbes, Elizabeth Ames
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Why a return to sound money is our only hope for a true recovery and a healthy global economy
“Money clearly illustrates that sound money is an essential foundation for a free and prosperous society and that the Federal Reserve’s current policies are a greater threat to the economic future of...
The China Fantasy
Why Capitalism Will Not Bring Democracy to China
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2007
**The book that got China right: a prophetic work on how America's policies towards China led it away from liberalization and further towards authoritarianism, from the bestselling author of Rise of the Vulcans
"[The China Fantasy] predicted, China would remain an authoritarian country,...
Truth
The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
A riveting play-by-play of a reporter getting and defending a story that recalls All the President's Men, Truthputs readers in the center of the "60 Minutes II" story on George W. Bush's shirking of his National Guard duty. The firestorm that followed that broadcast--a conflagration that...
by Robert B. Reich
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
From one of America's foremost economic and political thinkers comes a vital analysis of our new hypercompetitive and turbo-charged global economy and the effect it is having on American democracy. With his customary wit and insight, Reich shows how widening inequality of income and wealth, heightened...