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Andrew Weissmann

Liar's Kingdom

From the veteran US legal analyst and leading Robert Mueller prosecutor, Andrew Weissmann issues an urgent summons to tackle the scourge of political lies - and prevent a figure like Donald Trump from eve…

Frederick H Fleitz

Iran, Nuclear Brinkmanship, and the Oval Office

Only nine countries have possessed nuclear weapons in the roughly eighty years since the US first introduced the atomic bomb to the world. Since then, a dangerous game of "will they, won't they?"…

Poison Idea

We Must Burn

Trevor Aaronson

Bad Guys

How the FBI built the most powerful-and least accountable-domestic intelligence operation in American history, exposing how the post-9/11 era of surveillance and entrapment left the Bureau vulnerable to t…

Phil Tinline

Ghosts of Iron Mountain

"Spellbinding." ---Rick Perlstein * "A clever, fast-paced read of dazzling originality." ---William I. Hitchcock"An excellent new book, both important and unsettling" (The Ne…

Robert J Spitzer

Gun Law History

Gun Law History accomplishes two important purposes. First, it brings together the full panoply of types of old weapons laws, numbering in the thousands. No work has presented as comprehensive, coherent, …

Robert J Spitzer

Gun Law History

Gun Law History accomplishes two important purposes. First, it brings together the full panoply of types of old weapons laws, numbering in the thousands. No work has presented as comprehensive, coherent, …

Oscar Guardiola-Rivera,

A Hopeful Political Imagination

Bringing political criticism, a variety of theoretical approaches, and the author's concrete experiences together, this book offers a political definition of hope as a utopian signifier, rooted in concret…

Simon Rattle - Musik im 20.Jahrhundert

Felicity Palmer, Anne Sofie von Otter, Amanda Roocroft, Peter Donohoe, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Wayne Marshall, Jeanne Loriod, Rex Lawson, Willard White, Lydia Ariken, Gidon Kremer, London Sinfonietta Voic…

Andrew J Taylor

A Tolerance for Inequality

"A nuanced reassessment of US democratic responsiveness and public opinion on economic policy that explores the real reasons government does not do more to mitigate inequality. Many believe that the …

Ted J. Richards

Lincoln's Shakespearean Education

Few figures have received more popular and scholarly attention than Abraham Lincoln - and yet few works have focused on the impact of his self-education. Tradition holds that this education consisted prim…

Fabian Holt

Organize or Burn

A successful political playbook for fighting climate change and expanding democracy from the New York socialist movement Climate inaction is already causing widespread suffering and devastation around the…

Laura R Bume

Art of Trafficking, The

The Art of Trafficking is a powerful condemnation of the U.S.-led War on Drugs and makes a strong case for urgent policy changes, both in the U.S. as well as in Central America.

The Obama Administration

Choice 2025 Outstanding Academic Title This collection offers a detailed assessment of the varied ways in which President Barack Obama was received by audiences beyond America's borders and assesses what …

Family Policies in Latin America

This book examines family policies in Latin America. The first half of the book adopts a thematic approach to assess how the concept of 'family' has changed over the last few decades, and how family polic…

Hannah Gurman

The Opportunists

The first biography of the new generation of thinkers shaping the next era of right wing politics, in the U.S. and beyond Since 2016, the spectacle of Trump has overshadowed the emergence of an equally se…

Raymond J. La Raja, Zachary Albert

Small Donors in US Politics

A myth-busting investigation of small donors: who they are, how they spend their money, and whose campaigns actually benefit from their donations.Many political reformers argue that more robust small dono…

Justin de Benedictis-Kessner

The Fog of Accountability

An astute, data-rich examination of the structural reasons that elections fail to hold US city officials accountable.In the United States, hundreds of thousands of elected and appointed officials serve mo…

Cybelle Fox

Unauthorized Welfare

The evolution of federal welfare policies between the 1930s and the 1970s, and the roots of today's anti-immigrant politicsBetween 1935 and 1972, US federal welfare policy did not distinguish between citi…