Political Science
SHORTEST HISTORY OF DEMOCRACY: 4,000 YEARS OF SELF-GOVERNMENT--A RETELLING FOR OUR TIMES
Written by Keane, John
The full chronological sweep of democracy, from the assemblies of ancient Mesopotamia and Athens to present perils around the globe.
PERSUADERS: AT THE FRONT LINES OF THE FIGHT FOR HEARTS, MINDS, AND DEMOCRACY
Written by Giridharadas, Anand
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change minds, bridge divisions, and fight for democracy--from disinformation fighters to a leader of Black Lives Matter to Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and more--by the best-selling author of Winners Take All and award-winning former New York Time
PANDEMIC POLITICS: THE DEADLY TOLL OF PARTISANSHIP IN THE AGE OF COVID
Written by Pepinsky, Thomas B
How the politicization of the pandemic endangers our lives--and our democracy COVID-19 has killed more people than any war or public health crisis in American history, but the scale and grim human toll of the pandemic were not inevitable.
VIRAL JUSTICE: HOW WE GROW THE WORLD WE WANT
Written by Benjamin, Ruha
From the author of Race After Technology, an inspiring vision of how we can build a more just world--one small change at a time "A true gift to our movements for justice."--Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow Long before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race, technology, and justice, focusing on big, structural changes
ON LYING AND POLITICS: A LIBRARY OF AMERICA SPECIAL PUBLICATION
Written by Arendt, Hannah
More urgent than ever, two landmark essays by the legendary political theorist on the greatest threat to democracy, gathered with a new introduction by David Bromwich "No one," Hannah Arendt observed, "has ever counted truthfulness as a political virtue." But why do politicians lie? What is the relationship between political lies and self-delusion?
PROJECT CENSORED'S STATE OF THE FREE PRESS 2023
As the United States grapples with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the nation's living legacy of systemic inequalities, and partisan threats to the foundations of democracy, the integrity of news--the focus of Project's Censored's work and this book--has never been more important. State of the Free Press 2023 continues Project Censored's tradition of publicizing the most important
RIGHT TO BE LAZY: AND OTHER WRITINGS
Written by Lafargue, Paul
Now in a new translation, a classic nineteenth-century defense for the cause of idleness by a revolutionary writer and activist (and Karl Marx's son-in law) that reshaped European ideas of labor and production. Exuberant, provocative, and as controversial as when it first appeared in 1880, Paul Lafargue's The Right to Be Lazy is a call for the workers of the world to unite--and s
UNTITLED
Written by Pompeo, Mike
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFormer Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spearheaded the Trump Administration's most significant foreign policy breakthroughs. Now, he reveals how he did it, and how it could happen again.
ADRIFT: AMERICA IN 100 CHARTS
Written by Galloway, Scott
From bestselling author and NYU business school professor Scott Galloway comes an urgent examination of the future of our nation - and how we got here. We are only just beginning to reckon with our post-pandemic future.
STORM IS HERE: AN AMERICAN CRUCIBLE
Written by Mogelson, Luke
The New Yorker's award-winning war correspondent returns to his own country to chronicle its accelerating civic breakdown, in an indelible eyewitness narrative of startling explanatory power After years of living abroad and covering the Global War on Terrorism, Luke Mogelson went home in early 2020 to report on the social discord that the pandemic was bringing to the fore across
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