Heresies right and left: some political assumptions reexamined
Harper & Row, January 1973. Paper Back. More
Politics
The Just State: Rethinking Self-government
Humanity Books, March 2005. Hardcover. At a time when the enemies of democracy cannot be dissuaded by appeals to shared values and conventions, nothing is more pressing than a thoroughgoing investigation of what the state should be. Whereas contemporary thinkers have mostly relativized political justice or conceived it as a.... More
Class & class conflict in Australia
Longman, January 1996. Soft Cover. More
Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Knopf, April 2002. Hardcover. Book Three of Robert A. Caro's monumental work, The Years of Lyndon Johnson--the most admired and riveting political biography of our era--which began with the best-selling and prizewinning The Path to Power and Means of Ascent. Master of the Senate carries Lyndon Johnson's story through one... More
The Common Good
Knopf, February 2018. Hardcover. From the best-selling author of Saving Capitalism and The Work of Nations, a passionate, clear-eyed manifesto on why we must restore the idea of the common good to the center of our economics and politics. With the warmth and lucidity that have made him one of... More
The Cat in the Hat for President
OR Books, April 2018. Paper Back. "Robert Coover remains our foremost verbal wizard, our laughter in the dark." --T.C. Boyle Fifty years after the original release of Coover's satire, this rollicking fable of the grotesque, unhinged Cat in the Hat (and the stuffed shirts who bet on his success) makes... More
Its the Media, Stupid
Consortium Book Sales & Dist, June 2000. Paper Back. An argument for media reform, Free the Media explores the takeover of U.S. media by transnational conglomerates and shows how journalism, electoral entertainment, and the arts have suffered. More
Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East
Penguin Press HC, The, February 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Dreams and Shadows is an extraordinary tour de horizon of the new Middle East, with on-the-ground reportage of the ideas and movements driving change across the region--and the obstacles they confront. Minor shelf wear on jacket. Name in marker on the... More
Conservatism
St. Martin's Press, June 2018. Hardcover. ..".one of the most eloquent and even moving evocations of the conservative tradition in Western politics, philosophy and culture I have ever read...the ideal primer for those who are new to conservative ideas..." --Richard Aldous, Wall Street Journal A brief magisterial introduction to the... More
The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America
Flatiron Books, April 2018. Paper Back. NEW YORK TIMES and MIBA BESTSELLER From the St. Louis-based journalist often credited with first predicting Donald Trump's presidential victory. "A collection of sharp-edged, humanistic pieces about the American heartland...Passionate pieces that repeatedly assail the inability of many to empathize and to humanize." --... More
The Little Black Book of Innovation: How It Works, How to Do It
Harvard Business Review Press, December 2011. Hardcover. Innovation may be the hottest discipline around todayin business circles and beyond. And for good reason. Innovation transforms companies and markets. It s the key to solving vexing social problems. And it makes or breaks professional careers. For all the enthusiasm the topic... More
Trump / Russia
Melville House, June 2018. Hardcover. "Hettena is a first-rate reporter and wonderful story-teller, and the tale he tells here is mind-boggling."--Jane Mayer, author of New York Times bestseller Dark Money Uncovering the sordid history of the decades-long association between Donald Trump and Russia "Seth Hettena skillfully weaves many threads--most fresh... More
Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman
New Press, September 2007. Oversize Softcover. The anarchist and radical hero Emma Goldman, brought to vivid life in a graphic biography by an acclaimed artist. "You are a terrible child and will grow into a worse woman! You have no respect for your elders or for authority! You will surely... More
The Real Cyber War: The Political Economy of Internet Freedom (History of Communication)
University of Illinois Press, March 2015. Trade Paperback. Contemporary discussion surrounding the role of the internet in society is dominated by words like: internet freedom, surveillance, cybersecurity, Edward Snowden and, most prolifically, cyber war. Behind the rhetoric of cyber war is an on-going state-centered battle for control of information resources... More
The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Theology
Verso, February 2012. Hardcover. The return to religion has perhaps become the dominant cliché of contemporary theory, which rarely offers anything more than an exaggerated echo of a political reality dominated by religious war. Somehow, the secular age seems to have been replaced by a new era, where political action... More
Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?: Five Interventions in the (Mis)use of a Notion
Verso, March 2001. Hardcover. Totalitarianism, as an ideological notion, has always had a precise strategic function: to guarantee the liberal-democratic hegemony by dismissing the leftist critique of liberal democracy as the obverse, the twin, of the rightist Fascist dictatorship. Slavoj Zizek, addresses the prevalence of the consensus-view of totalitariansim, which... More
The Critique of Capitalist Democracy
Paine-Whitman, January 1957. Hardcover. In spine tanned, price clipped dust jacket. More
The Poisoner: The Life and Crimes of Victorian England's Most Notorious Doctor
Overlook Hardcover, May 2014. Hardcover. The first major retelling of William Palmer s story in over sixty years, The Poisoner takes a fresh look at the infamous doctor s life and disputed crimes. Using previously undiscovered letters from Palmer and new forensic examination of his victims, journalist Stephen Bates presents... More
Do You Have Who It Takes?: Managing Talent Risk in a High-Stakes Technical Workforce
Greenleaf Book Group Press, June 2017. Hardcover. How can you be sure you have enough of the right expertise and technical ability on your team to meet your business goals? As a leader, you do your best to manage risk diligently in most business areas, but "people risks" are often... More
The Future of Democracy: Lessons from the Past and Present to Guide Us on Our Path Forward
Regent Pr, September 2016. Trade Paperback. What is democracy and where did it come from? Is it a new development or was it always present in human society? And perhaps the most important question: what can we do to preserve and strengthen democracy among the forces that oppose it? In... More
Tailspin
Knopf, May 2018. Hardcover. From the award-winning journalist and best-selling author of America's Bitter Pill: a tour de force examination of 1) how and why major American institutions no longer serve us as they should, causing a deep rift between the vulnerable majority and the protected few, and 2) how... More
Global Markets Transformed: 1870-1945
Belknap Press, April 2014. Trade Paperback. Offering a fresh look at trade during the second industrial revolution, Global Markets Transformed describes a world of commodities on the move--wheat and rice, coffee and tobacco, oil and rubber, all jostling around the planet through a matrix of producers, processors, transporters, and buyers... More
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
William Morrow, May 2005. Hardcover. Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? What kind of impact did Roe v. Wade have on violent... More
The Age of American Unreason
Pantheon, February 2008. Hardcover. Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon--one that is at odds with our heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular knowledge and science. With mordant wit, she surveys an anti-rationalist landscape extending from pop culture to a pseudo-intellectual... More
The Anti-American Manifesto
Seven Stories Press, October 2010. Trade Paperback. In arguably the most radical book published in decades, cartoonist/columnist Ted Rall has produced the book he was always meant to write: a new manifesto for an America heading toward economic and political collapse. While others mourn the damage to the postmodern American... More
