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Worlds Apart Poverty and Politics in Rural America

Duncan Cynthia M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300196597, Yale University Press, December 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

First published in 1999, Worlds Apart examined the nature of poverty through the stories of real people in three remote rural areas of the United States: New England, Appalachia, and the Mississippi Delta. In this new edition, Duncan returns to her o...

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Political Science

White-Collar Government The Hidden Role of Class in Economic Policy Making

Carnes Nicholas

ISBN: PB: 9780226087146, ISBN: HB: 9780226087009, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 61 line drawings, 8 tables

Eight of the last twelve presidents were millionaires when they took office. Millionaires have a majority on the Supreme Court, and they also make up majorities in Congress, where a background in business or law is the norm and the average member has...

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Political Science

Wisdom of Syria's Waiting Game Foreign Policy Under the Assads

Scheller Bente

ISBN: PB: 9781849042864, Hurst Publishers, October 2013
244 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Syrian foreign policy, always opaque, has become an even greater puzzle during the Syrian revolt. Irrespective of the regime's international isolation in the wake of its violent response to domestic protest, it has paid lip-ser...

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Political Science

Wartime President Executive Influence and the Nationalizing Politics of Threat

Howell William G., Jackman Saul P., Rogowski Jon C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226048390, ISBN: HB: 9780226048253, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 line drawings, 31 tables

"It is the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority", wrote Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers. The balance of power between Congress and the president has been a powerful thread throughout American...

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What Changed When Everything Changed 9/11 and the Making of National Identity

Margulies Joseph

ISBN: HB: 9780300176551, Yale University Press, June 2013
288 pp., 21x14 cm

In this stirring protest over the direction of America's political conversation since the events of September 11, 2001, Joseph Margulies traces the evolving direction of American discourse. He shows how certain ideas that once seemed clearly antithet...

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Women Studies

Political Science

Women in the Club Gender and Policy Making in the Senate

Swers Michele L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226022826, ISBN: HB: 9780226022796, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 19 tables, 10 line illus.

In the run-up to the 2012 presidential election, Democrats and Republicans were locked in a fierce battle for the female vote. Democrats charged Republicans with waging a "war on women",‌ while Republicans countered that Democratic policies actually...

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Political Science

America

Writings of Abraham Lincoln

Smith Steven B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300181234, Yale University Press, May 2012
384 pp., 21x14 cm

Abraham Lincoln never wrote a book: his ideas are contained in speeches, letters, and various occasional writings. By bringing these works together into a single anthology, this book shows that Lincoln deserves to be counted among the great political...

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Biography & Memoires

Political Science

Walther Rathenau The Limits of Success

Volkov Shulamit

ISBN: HB: 9780300144314, Yale University Press, February 2012
256 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

This deeply informed biography of Walther Rathenau (1867-1922) tells of a man who – both thoroughly German and unabashedly Jewish – rose to leadership in the German War-Ministry Department during the First World War, and later to the exalted position...

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Political Science

America

Why Parties? A Second Look

Aldrich John H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226012742, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
400 pp., 22.6x15 cm, 24 tables, 24 line illus.

Since its first appearance fifteen years ago, "Why Parties?" has become essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the nature of American political parties. In the interim, the party system has undergone some radical changes. In this landmark...

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Media Studies

Political Science

Wikileaks and the Age of Transparency

Sifry Micah L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300176766, Yale University Press, March 2011
176 pp., 19.6x12.8 cm

It's one of the biggest news stories for years. A charismatic, white-haired Australian sets up a website devoted to publishing leaked documents in the public interest, and then, allegedly with the aid of a disaffected American soldier, starts releasi...

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