PM Press, December 2011. Paper Back. In Farquhar McHarg's autobiography, a young boy from Glasgow finds himself in the middle of Barcelona's revolutionary underworld at the tail end of World War I. Volume One chronicles McHarg's liaisons between the British Secret Service Bureau and the Spanish anarchists. McHarg tells of..... More
Basic Books, February 2002. Trade Paperback. Does money make the world go round, as Cabaret's Master of Ceremonies sang to us? In The Cash Nexus, acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson offers a radical and surprising answer-No. Conventional wisdom has long claimed that economic change is the prime mover of political change..... More
Knopf, September 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. From the front lines of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, a searing, unforgettable book that captures, in stunning vignettes, snapshots, and episodes, the human essence of the greatest conflict of our time. New York Times correspondent Dexter Filkins's work in Iraq was hailed by..... More
Basic Books, December 2021. Hardcover. A leading historian argues that Johnny Cash was the most important political artist of his time Johnny Cash was an American icon, known for his level, bass-baritone voice and somber demeanor, and for huge hits like "Ring of Fire" and "I Walk the Line." But..... More
Metropolitan Books, August 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. From the author of the landmark bestseller "What's the Matter with Kansas?," a jaw-dropping investigation of the decades of deliberate--and lucrative--conservative misrule In his previous book, Thomas Frank explained why working America votes for politicians who reserve their favors for the rich. Now..... More
Wesleyan University Press, December 2002. Trade Paperback. A concise, lively account of Marxist thought and American culture The Incomplete Projects reevaluates the role of Marxist theory in the study of culture and makes a case for Marxist cultural analysis as a relevant political practice. Part I provides the reader with..... More
Doubleday Anchor, 1964. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. 'A Doubleday Anchor Original', this mass market paperback edition 'is the first publication' of the title. Darkened, edgeworn cover with heavily darkened spine. Previous dealer's price sticker affixed front cover. Creases back cover at top edge. Dog-eared top corner rear of book..... More
Mariner Books, November 1990. Trade Paperback. In this classic about economics, freedom, and the relationship between the two, Milton and Rose Friedman explain how our freedom has been eroded and our prosperity undermined through the explosion of laws, regulations, agencies, and spending in Washington, and how good intentions often produce..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May 2022. Hardcover. A short book about the challenges to liberalism from the right and the left by the bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order. Classical liberalism is in a state of crisis. Developed in the wake of Europe's wars over religion and nationalism..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May 2022. Hardcover. A short book about the challenges to liberalism from the right and the left by the bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order. Classical liberalism is in a state of crisis. Developed in the wake of Europe's wars over religion and nationalism..... More
Viking, April 2022. Hardcover. "Wry and fascinating...Gajda is a nimble storyteller [and] an insightful guide to a rich and textured history that gets easily caricatured, especially when a culture war is raging."--The New York Times "This brilliant and thought-provoking book shows how America's well-known emphasis on freedom of the press..... More
Franklin Library, January 1978. First Edition. Leather. Blue bound leather with gold lettering and gold decorative panels front and rear covers. Gold textblock edges. Moire end pages heavily sun-faded at margins front & rear. Otherwise like new overall. Signed by Galbraith on 2nd blank page after FFEP with protective fly..... More
William A Davis, 1796. Leather. A solid calf binding with typical shelf wear. Foxing throughout, including on the four fold-out folding tables in rear, all present. A rival of Alexander Hamilton's Federalism, in fervent opposition to public debt, Gallatin eventually served as Thomas Jefferson's Secretary of the Treasury. He composed..... More
Chelsea Green Publishing Company, September 2004. Trade Paperback. 'Don't Think of an Elephant' offers analysis of the key issues in the 2004 U.S. election and beyond, discussing how progressives need to better examine issues in order to counter conservative arguments. More
Verso, February 2016. Trade Paperback. "Marx did not reject the idea of a human nature. He was right not to do so." That is the conclusion of this passionate and polemical new work by Norman Geras. In it, he places the sixth of Marx's Theses on Feuerbach under rigorous scrutiny..... More
Random House Inc, November 1999. Hardcover. Offers an insider's look at American politics and political journalism and presents firsthand commentary on political campaigns and personalities. 3rd printing. In very good+ dustjacket. Quarter bound: black cloth spine with silver lettering & black paper covered boards with blind stamped author's initials. Clean..... More
Bantam Dell Pub Group, August 1993. Trade Paperback. Say "the Sixties" and the images start coming, images of a time when all authority was defied and millions of young Americans thought they could change the world--either through music, drugs, and universal love or by "putting their bodies on the line"..... More
Basic Books, February 1976. First Edition. Cloth. Should government try to remedy persistent racial and ethnic inequalities by establishing and enforcing quotas and other statistical goals? Here is one of the most incisive books ever written on this difficult issue. Nathan Glazer surveys the civil rights tradition in the United..... More
Dover Pubns, 1970 (reprint). Trade Paperback. The strong feelings she aroused are understandable. She was an alien, a practicing anarchist, a labor agitator, a pacifist in World War I, an advocate of political violence, a feminist, a proponent of free love and birth control, a communist, a street-fighter for justice..... More
Oxford University Press, October 1978. Trade Paperback. This condensed version of Lawrence Goodwyn's Democratic Promise, the highly-acclaimed study on American Populism which the Civil Liberties Review called a brilliant, comprehensive study, offers new political language designed to provide a fresh means of assessing both democracy and authoritarianism today. More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 2017. Hardcover. This is the ultimate insider's view of perhaps the darkest chapter of the Forever Wars. Michael Gordon knows everyone, was seemingly everywhere, and brings a lifetime of brilliant reporting to telling this crucial story. --Retired U.S. Navy admiral James Stavridis, 16th Supreme Allied..... More
Oneworld Publications, February 2020. Hardcover. The foundations upon which our democracies stand are inherently flawed, vulnerable to corrosion from within. What is the remedy? A. C. Grayling makes the case for a clear, consistent, principled and written constitution, and sets out the reforms necessary - among them addressing the imbalance..... More
Macmillan Pub Co, October 1982. Hardcover. Edges foxed. More
Metropolitan Books, March 2014. Hardcover. The New York Times Bestseller In May 2013, Glenn Greenwald set out for Hong Kong to meet an anonymous source who claimed to have astonishing evidence of pervasive government spying and insisted on communicating only through heavily encrypted channels. That source turned out to be..... More
Custom House, October 2018. Hardcover. In An Uncivil War, the Washington Post's Greg Sargent sounds an urgent alarm about the deeper roots of our democratic backsliding--and how we can begin to turn things around between now and 2020. American democracy is facing a crisis as fraught as we've seen in..... More
