Political Science
ACTIVISTS UNDER SURVEILLANCE: THE FBI FILES
Selections from FBI files on political activists including Betty Friedan, Abbie Hoffman, Martin Luther King, Aaron Swartz, and Malcolm X.The FBI has always kept tabs on political activists. During the directorship of J. Edgar Hoover, it was a Bureau-wide obsession. Did you see that guy who didn't quite look like a journalist, taking pictures at a demonstration? He was probably FBI.
WHY LIBERALISM WORKS: HOW TRUE LIBERAL VALUES PRODUCE A FREER, MORE EQUAL, PROSPEROUS WORLD FOR ALL
Written by McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen
An insightful and passionately written book explaining why a return to Enlightenment ideals is good for the world "Beginning with the simple but fertile idea that people should not push other people around, Deirdre McCloskey presents an elegant defense of 'true liberalism' as opposed to its well-meaning rivals on the left and the right.
LAST COWBOYS: A PIONEER FAMILY IN THE NEW WEST
Written by Branch, John
For generations, the Wrights of southern Utah have raised cattle and world-champion saddle-bronc riders--some call them the most successful rodeo family in history.
HOW ALL POLITICS BECAME REPRODUCTIVE POLITICS: FROM WELFARE REFORM TO FORECLOSURE TO TRUMP
Written by Briggs, Laura
Today all politics are reproductive politics, argues esteemed feminist critic Laura Briggs. From longer work hours to the election of Donald Trump, our current political crisis is above all about reproduction. Households are where we face our economic realities as social safety nets get cut and wages decline.
PEACEMAKERS: LEADERSHIP LESSONS FROM TWENTIETH-CENTURY STATESMANSHIP
Written by Jentleson, Bruce W
Those questions are at the heart of The Peacemakers, a kind of global edition of John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage.
VANITY FAIR'S SCHOOLS FOR SCANDAL
Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter shares a definitive, provocative collection of the magazine's finest dispatches on the political, sexual, and administrative scandals that have swept our nation's campuses. Vanity Fair's Schools for Scandal, edited by Graydon Carter, with an introduction by Cullen Murphy, brings together the magazine's finest reporting on the scand
WHAT HAPPENED
Written by Clinton, Hillary Rodham
A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR AND NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK "In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I've often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without a net.
MAKING TROUBLE
Written by Segal, Lynne
What happens when angry young rebels become wary older women, raging in a leaner, meaner time: a time which exalts only the "new," when the ruling orthodoxy daily disparages everything associated with the "old"?
NO LESS THAN MYSTIC: A HISTORY OF LENIN AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION FOR A 21ST-CENTURY LEFT
Written by Medhurst, John
Published in the centenary year of the 1917 Russian Revolution, No Less Than Mystic is a fresh and iconoclastic history of Lenin and the Bolsheviks for a generation uninterested in Cold War ideologies and stereotypes.
GLOBAL REFUGEE CRISIS: HOW SHOULD WE RESPOND?: THE MUNK DEBATES
Written by Steyn, Mark
The world is facing the worst humanitarian crisis since the Second World War. Over 300,000 are dead in Syria, and one and half million are either injured or disabled. Four and a half million people are trying to flee the country. And Syria is just one of a growing number of failed or failing states in the Middle East and North Africa.
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