The Second Bill of Rights: FDR's Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More Than Ever
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The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath
The enormous concentration of wealth in the United States during the 1980s--most of it in the hands of the top 1% of the population--will provoke what Phillips calls a watershed change in American politics. His masterly analysis portrays the public's growing concern over this unequal distribution...
| Author | Jeff Shesol |
| ISBN | 0393064743 |
Roosevelt’s fiercest, most unyielding opponent was neither a foreign power nor “fear itself”—it was the U.S. Supreme Court.
During Franklin Roosevelt’s first term, a narrow conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court struck down several key elements of the New Deal legislation....
| Author | Philip Dray |
| ISBN | 0385526296 |
From an award-winning historian, a stirring (and timely) narrative history of American labor from the dawn of the industrial age to the present day.
From the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, the first real factories in America, to the triumph of unions in the twentieth century and...
| Author | Michael Curtis |
| ISBN | 0380012359 |
The philosophy of politics
This carefully selected compilation of the significant writings of the great political philosophers, scientists, and thinkers will be an invaluable guide to the general reader as well as to the serious student of history, political science, and government....
| Author | Thomas Paine |
| ISBN | 0140444963 |
This major collection demonstrates the extent to which Thomas Paine (1737—1809) was an inspiration to the Americans in their struggle for independence, a passionate supporter of the French Revolution and perhaps the outstanding English radical writer of his age. It contains all of Paine's key...
| Author | Kathleen M. Sullivan |
| ISBN | 1587787768 |
Now in its 15th edition, Sullivan and Gunther's "Constitutional Law" is one of the leading casebooks on the subject. This thorough treatment of constitutional law focuses on three core areas -- The Judicial Function in Constitutional Cases, The Structure of Government, and Individual Rights. The...
| Author | Edward Lazarus |
| ISBN | 0143035274 |
When Closed Chambers was first published, it was met with a firestorm of controversy--as well as a shower of praise--for being the first book to break the code of silence about the inner workings of this country's most powerful court. In this eloquent, trailblazing account, with a new chapter covering...
| Author | Christopher J. Bickerton |
The essential Pelican introduction to the European Union - its history, its politics, and its role today
For most of us today, 'Europe' refers to the European Union. At the centre of a seemingly never-ending crisis, the EU remains a black box, closed to public understanding. Is it a state? An...
| Author | Paul Kriwaczek |
| ISBN | 1400033772 |
Paul Kriwaczek begins this illuminating and immensely pleasurable chronicle of Yiddish civilization during the Roman empire, when Jewish culture first spread to Europe. We see the burgeoning exile population disperse, as its notable diplomats, artists and thinkers make their mark in far-flung...
| Author | Dean Baker |
| ISBN | 1411693957 |
In his new book, economist Dean Baker debunks the myth that conservatives favor the market over government intervention. In fact, conservatives rely on a range of "nanny state" policies that ensure the rich get richer while leaving most Americans worse off. It's time for the rules to change. Sound...
| Author | Jonathan Chait |
| ISBN | 0618685405 |
American politics has been hijacked. Over the past three decades, a fringe group of economic hucksters has corrupted and perverted our nation’s policies. With dark, engaging wit, Jonathan Chait reveals how these canny zealots first took over the Republican Party and then gamed the political system...
In Reckless Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near-Triumph of American Eugenics
| Author | Victoria F. Nourse |
| ISBN | 0393065294 |
In the 1920s and 1930s, thousands of men and women were sterilized at asylums and prisons across America. Believing that criminality and mental illness were inherited, state legislatures passed laws calling for the sterilization of “habitual criminals” and the “feebleminded.” But in...
The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920's
| Author | Paula S. Fass |
| ISBN | 0195024923 |
I read this for research purposes. The book was far more academic in nature than I expected, and an especially slow read through the first half. I was hoping for a more general overview of American youth through this period with information about slang and culture, but the data cited throughout almost...
Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan
More than fifty years later, the decision that brought prompt and utter destruction to the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki continues to generate enormous interest and controversy. In this concise and balanced account, J. Samuel Walker offers a new look at the events and circumstances that lay behind...
The Godless Constitution: A Moral Defense of the Secular State
| Author | Isaac Kramnick |
| ISBN | 0393328376 |
The Godless Constitution is a ringing rebuke to the religious right's attempts, fueled by misguided and inaccurate interpretations of American history, to dismantle the wall between church and state erected by the country's founders. The authors, both distinguished scholars, revisit the historical...
| Author | Lewis Mumford |
| ISBN | 0766127907 |
Utopia has long been another name for the unreal and the impossible. We have set utopia over against the world. As a matter of fact, it is our utopias that make the world tolerable to us: the cities and mansions that make people dream of are those in which they finally live. The more that men react upon their...
| Author | Michael J. Klarman |
| ISBN | 0195310187 |
A monumental investigation of the Supreme Court's rulings on race, From Jim Crow To Civil Rights spells out in compelling detail the political and social context within which the Supreme Court Justices operate and the consequences of their decisions for American race relations. In a highly provocative...
A History of American Law
| Author | Lawrence M. Friedman |
| ISBN | 0684869888 |
In this brilliant and immensely readable book, Lawrence M. Friedman tells the whole fascinating story of American law from its beginnings in the colonies to the present day. By showing how close the life of the law is to the economic and political life of the country, he makes a complex subject understandable...
To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown
| Author | Stephen B. Oates |
| ISBN | 0870234587 |
One hundred thirty-five years after his epochal Harpers Ferry raid to free the slaves, John Brown is still one of the most controversial figures in American history. In 1970, Stephen B. Oates wrote what has come to be recognized as the definitive biography of Brown, a balanced assessment that captures...
| Author | Quentin Skinner |
| ISBN | 0521293375 |
This is NOT the sort of book that deserves to be skimmed. Due to external circumstances, though, I did not have a very long time to spend with it, and I had to read it much more quickly than I would have liked. I'd like to come back to it someday, but for now it's very possible that I missed important nuances here...
| Author | John Carey |
| ISBN | 0897335074 |
In this landmark study, John Carey analyzes the elitest views of some of the most highly respected literary icons of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This book, as defined in his preface, "is about the response of the English literary intelligentsia to the new phenomenon of mass culture." Readers...
| Author | Rawn James Jr. |
| ISBN | 1596916060 |
The riveting story of the two crusading lawyers who led the legal battle to end segregation, one case and one courtroom at a time. The Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education is widely considered a seminal point in the battle to end segregation, but it was in fact the culmination of a decades-long...
