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
Plume, October 1980. Trade Paperback. 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
Owl Books (NY), September 2004. Trade Paperback. Masterly on the way philanthropy works. -The New York Observer For more than a century, the United States has stood as a beacon of prosperity and democracy, proof that big business and big dreams could flourish side by side. Yet few Americans realize..... More
PublicAffairs, March 2022. Hardcover. The 40-year history of how Democrats chose political opportunity over addressing inequality--and how the poor have paid the price For decades, the Republican Party has been known as the party of the rich: arguing for "business-friendly" policies like deregulation and tax cuts. But this incisive political..... More
Belt Publishing, October 2021. Hardcover. "This book made me laugh out loud and also gave me glimpses of an entire horizon of possibility I hadn't seen before."--Chris Hayes, host of MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes End the filibuster. Abolish the Senate. Make everyone vote. Only if we do this..... 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
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
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
Custom House, January 2022. Hardcover. From the New York Times's Global Economics Correspondent, a masterwork of explanatory journalism that exposes how billionaires' systematic plunder of the world--brazenly accelerated during the pandemic--has transformed 21st-century life and dangerously destabilized democracy. Davos Man will be read a hundred years from now as a...... 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
Basic Books, July 2020. Paper Back. A stirring defense of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our time from an award-winning and New York Times bestselling author. Not since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack, from both right and left. The crisis of democracy..... 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
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
Doubleday Anchor, 1960. First Edition. Paper Back. A Doubleday Anchor Original. Heavily darkened spine & mild marginal darkening at edges of cover. Lightly shelf worn. (455 pp.). More
Random House, March 1998. Hardcover. The Children is David Halberstam's brilliant and moving evocation of the early days of the civil rights movement, as seen through the story of the young people--the Children--who met in the 1960s and went on to lead the revolution. Magisterial in scope, with a strong..... More
Doubleday and Co, January 1971. Hardcover. In dust jacket. More
Seal Press (CA), August 2019. Hardcover. From microaggressions to the wage gap, The Memo empowers women of color with actionable advice on challenges and offers a clear path to success. Most business books provide a one-size-fits-all approach to career advice that overlooks the unique barriers that women of color face..... More
Verso, March 2010. Trade Paperback. "My aim is to get you to read a book by Karl Marx called Capital, Volume 1, and to read it on Marx's own terms..." The biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression has generated a surge of interest in Marx's work in the effort..... More
Fromm International, June 1998. Trade Paperback. Havel has never played by the rules of the game -- not as a dissident imprisoned under Czechoslovakia's communist regime and not as president of the Czech Republic ... The Art of the Impossible is no ordinary, collection of political speeches. Better to think..... More
Random House (NY), May 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Tom Hayden emerged as a major political figure in the 1960s as a member of the Chicago Seven, the group that led the protests at the Democratic convention of 1968. In this autobiography, he examines his career and reaffirms his commitment to..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, March 2018. Trade Paperback. In A Colony in a Nation, New York Times best-selling author and Emmy Award-winning news anchor Chris Hayes upends the national conversation on policing and democracy. Drawing on wide-ranging historical, social, and political analysis, as well as deeply personal experiences with..... More
Anchor, June 2003. Trade Paperback. Hedges, a veteran correspondent, has reported on the front lines in the Balkans, the Middle East and Central America. Here, he discusses how friends, enemies, colleagues and strangers can become intoxicated and even addicted to the heady brew of war. More
