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Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxx, 302 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
This book "challenges us to go beyond the headlines, which often focus on what politicians do (or say they'll do), and to concentrate instead on what's really important: what shapes our response. Shenkman argues that, contrary to what we tell ourselves, it's our instincts rather than arguments appealing to reason that usually prevail. Pop culture tells us we can trust our instincts, but science is proving that when it comes to politics our Stone-Age...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
396 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Big Guy loves his family, money and country. Undone by the results of the 2008 presidential election, he taps a group of like-minded men to reclaim their version of the American Dream. As they build a scheme to disturb and disrupt, the Big Guy also faces turbulence within his family. His wife, Charlotte, grieves a life not lived, while his 18-year-old daughter, Meghan, begins to realize that her favorite subject--history--is not exactly what...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 252 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
He argues that global trends decades and even centuries in the making have reduced a world of logic and fact into one driven by emotions--particularly fear and anxiety. This has ushered in an age of "nervous states," both in our individual bodies and our body politic. Eloquently tracing the history of accounting, statistics, science, and human anatomy from the Enlightenment to the present, Davies shows how we invented expertise in the seventeenth...
7) Life's a campaign: what politics has taught me about friendship, rivalry, reputation, and success
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Famous for demanding the truth from his Hardball guests, Chris Matthews reveals how people running this country got to the top and exposes the tactics, tricks, and truths that help people get ahead–and can help you, too–whatever your field of ambition. Here are the methods, showcased in fascinating anecdotes and case histories, that presidents, senators, and other powerful people use to persuade others and win–and the life...
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 278 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A collection of political profiles and other reportage by Mark Leibovich, the author of This Town"--
"Author of the groundbreaking #1 New York Times bestseller This Town, Mark Leibovich returns with a masterly collection of portraits of Washington's elite, and wannabe elites. Hailed by The Washington Post as a 'master of the political profile, ' Leibovich has spent his career writing memorable, buzz-worthy, and often jaw-dropping features about...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 249 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"From humanist moral philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum comes a thorough examination of the current political crisis and recommendations for how to mend our divided country. Although today is marked by partisanship, divisive rhetoric, and the inability of the halves of the country to communicate with one another, Nussbaum focuses on what so many pollsters and pundits have overlooked. She sees a simple truth at the heart of the problem: the political is...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xxvii, 276 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"With Ballots & Bullets reveals disquieting relationships between mass partisanship and violence in the Civil War era. The book provides historical insights on the impact of ordinary people in the loyal states, but it also speaks to the nature of partisan conflict across time. It challenges and affirms historical and political scholarship with evidence from America's most costly and consequential conflict, a cataclysm that still resounds in our politics...
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