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Crisis of Responsibility
Our Cultural Addiction to Blame and How You Can Cure It
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Across the globe a “revolt” of sorts is taking place against elitism. No more will big government, big media, big banks, big bureaucracy, and big institutions hold the secret nuggets of truth and dictate our lives and fortunes. Financial markets, political punditry, and cultural leaders are all...
by Eric Alterman
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
It is, as he writes in the preface, “an attempt to move beyond the day-to-day headlines that dominate our political debate. By placing Bill de Blasio’s words, and the actions of his administration, into a political, cultural, social, and intellectual context, we can see just how daunting the task...
by John D. Buenker
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Published in Wisconsin's Sesquicentennial year, this fourth volume in The History of Wisconsin series covers the twenty tumultuous years between the World's Columbian Exposition and the First World War when Wisconsin essentially reinvented itself, becoming the nation's "laboratory of democracy."
The...
The Tyranny of Good Intentions
How Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
A thousand years of legal protections against tyranny are being stolen right before our eyes. Under the guise of good intentions, personal liberties as old as the Magna Carta have become casualties in the wars being waged on pollution, drugs, white-collar crime, and all of the other real and imagined...
American Dreams
Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
In 1956, Marco Rubio’s parents came to America as poor immigrants with grade-school educations. They found a land of opportunity where anyone could work hard, play by the rules, and build a better future for themselves and their children. His family proved the reality of the American Dream, where...
Just the Facts
The First Step in Building a National Strategic Agenda for America
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
“No Labels has the answer for how we unite this country and put it back on the path to prosperity and progress. The how is the NATIONAL STRATEGIC AGENDA. And JUST THE FACTS is essential reading for anyone who wants to help build this agenda. If you want to understand how America got itself into...
The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.
From "Solo" to Memphis
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
The author of Bearing the Cross, the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Martin Luther King Jr., exposes the government’s massive surveillance campaign against the civil rights leader
When US attorney general Robert F. Kennedy authorized a wiretap of Martin Luther King Jr.’s phones by...
by David T. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2013
Sensemaking diagnoses the ills of the US Intelligence community and provides solutions to its shortcomings. This critical thinking book is among the most available books for government, intelligence, military, and corporate leaders.
by Rachelle Kaufman
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Come learn about what it’s like to see a synagogue in ruin, meet the warm people of Hungary and to see a makeshift Holocaust memorial, put up in front of a statue referred to as “a monument to the government’s arrogance”. Guide book author Rachelle Kaufman talks about Hungary from...
A Most Canadian Odyssey
Education Diplomacy and Federalism, 1844-1984
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
This book was first published as a peer-reviewed monograph by Althouse Press at Western University in London, Canada. Now, the original manuscript has been reprinted for worldwide distribution. Drawing on historical research, John Allison documents the history and development of Educational...
Bomb Power
The Modern Presidency and the National Security State
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
**From Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills, a groundbreaking examination of how the atomic bomb profoundly altered the nature of American democracy and has left us in a state of war alert ever since.
Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What the Qur'an Meant, coming fall 2017.**
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by J. William Fulbright
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
“The Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has suddenly become the most celebrated public critic of the nation’s foreign politics. . . . His new book, The Arrogance of Power, is remarkable because it . . . transforms mere criticism into bitter condemnation. It portends, or perhaps...
Right Now
A 12-Step Program For Defeating The Obama Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
President Obama ran on promises of bipartisanship and centrism, but he’s delivered something else: unprecedented government borrowing and spending, unsustainable debt, and audacious attempts to usher in a colossal, overbearing government, the likes of which we’ve never seen. In Right Now, Republican...
by Benjamin Ginsberg
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
Noted political scientist Benjamin Ginsberg has written an essential text for courses on the United States presidency. An invaluable resource, Ginsberg’s comprehensive analysis emphasizes the historical, constitutional, and legal dimensions of presidential power. He explores the history and essential...