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Driftby Rachel Maddow
Crown Publishing Group 2012; US$ 12.99"One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier," Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792. Neither Jefferson nor the other Founders could ever have envisioned the modern national security state, with its tens of thousands of "privateers"; its bloated Department of Homeland Security; its rusting nuclear weapons, ill-maintained and difficult to dismantle; and its strange fascination with an unproven counterinsurgency doctrine. Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow's Drift argues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war, with all the financial and human costs that entails. To understand how we've arrived at such a dangerous place, Maddow... more...
Hardballby Chris Matthews
Free Press 1999; US$ 12.99Timed to re-release simultaneously with Chris Matthews’s new book Jack Kennedy, which Simon & Schuster will publish this fall, this national bestseller explores the fascinating, largely unknown, relationship between Nixon and Kennedy and the crucial ways in which it shaped them—and the nation. Hardball is a tough, funny, tell-all revelation of how politics really works. From tales of raw ambition and brutal rivalry to behind-the-scenes stories of famous disagreements, Matthews reveals the truth about master politicians such as JFK, LBJ, and Richard Nixon, while he explains the real meaning of rules such as “Only talk when it improves the silence;” “Positioning is everything;” and “Always concede... more...
Eyewitness To Powerby David Gergen
Simon & Schuster 2001; US$ 12.99From Nixon to Clinton, Watergate to Whitewater, few Americans have observed the ups and downs of presidential leadership more closely over the past thirty years than David Gergen. A White House adviser to four presidents, both Republican and Democrat, he offers a vivid, behind-the-scenes account of their struggles to exercise power and draws from them key lessons for leaders of the future. Gergen begins Eyewitness to Power with his reminiscence of being the thirty-year-old chief of the White House speechwriting team under Richard Nixon, a young man at the center of the Watergate storm. He analyzes what made Nixon strong -- and then brought him crashing down: Why Nixon was the best global strategist among recent presidents. How others... more...
Full Disclosureby Archon Fung; Mary Graham; David Weil
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 16.00Full Disclosure is the first analysis of national and international transparency policies. more...
Japan's Reluctant Realismby Michael J. Green
Palgrave Macmillan 2001; US$ 70.00This text examines Japan's foreign policy in the decade since the end of the Cold War. Michael J. Green uses case studies from various countries and institutions in order to consider Japanese objectives and the heart of Japanese foreign policy initiatives. more...
End the Fedby Ron Paul
Grand Central Publishing 2009; US$ 9.99In the post-meltdown world, it is irresponsible, ineffective, and ultimately useless to have a serious economic debate without considering and challenging the role of the Federal Reserve. Most people think of the Fed as an indispensable institution without which the country's economy could not properly function. But in END THE FED, Ron Paul draws on American history, economics, and fascinating stories from his own long political life to argue that the Fed is both corrupt and unconstitutional. It is inflating currency today at nearly a Weimar or Zimbabwe level, a practice that threatens to put us into an inflationary depression where $100 bills are worthless. What most people don't realize is that the Fed -- created by the Morgans and... more...
Welfare States and Public Opinionby Claus Wendt; Monika Mischke; Michaela Pfeifer
Edward Elgar Publishing 2011; US$ 40.00Welfare States and Public Opinion comprises an informed inquiry into three fields of social policy - health policy, family policy, and unemployment benefits and social assistance. Though the analyses stem from research spanning fifteen countries across Europe, the conclusions can be applied to social policy problems in nations worldwide. Combining a detailed analysis of the institutional structure of social policy with the study of public attitudes toward healthcare, family policy, and benefits for the unemployed and poor, this book represents a new stream in public opinion research. The authors demonstrate that the institutional designs of social policies have a great impact on inequalities among social groups, and provide best practices for... more...
A Century of Dishonorby Helen Hunt Jackson
Digital Scanning, Inc. 2001; US$ 4.95First published in 1881, Helen Hunt Jackson's A Century of Dishonor is a classic account of the U.S. government's flawed Indian policy and the unfair and cruel treatment afforded North American Indians by expansionist Americans. Jackson wrote the book as a polemic to 'appeal to the hearts and conscience of the American people', who she hoped would demand legislative reform from Congress and redeem the country's name from the stain of a 'century of dishonor'. Her efforts, which constitute a landmark in Indian reform, helped begin the long process of public awareness for Indian rights that continues to the present day. more...
Resource Allocation in the Public Sectorby Colin Fisher
Routledge 1998; US$ 74.95What determines the allocation of resources in the public sector? This book examines the competing values that underlie the public service ethic including the role of markets and quasi-markets. more...
Arming the Two Koreasby Taik-Young Hamm; Michael Leifer
Routledge 1999; US$ 195.00This brilliantly argued book taps into a great deal of news interest in North Korea at the moment in the wake of recent hostility against Japan. more...









