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American Leviathan: The Birth of the Administrative State and Progressive Authoritarianism

Ned Ryun - Encounter Books
Format: Paperback

American Leviathan is the story of the rise of Progressive Statism and their massive, bureaucratic Administrative State at the turn of the 20th century and how we got to where we are today in the 21st century with governmental abuse by a class of so-called experts. Because of Progressives'...

Up in Arms: How Military Aid Stabilizes—and Destabilizes—Foreign Autocrats

Adam E Casey - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

How support from foreign superpowers propped up - and pulled down - authoritarian regimes during the Cold War, offering lessons for today's great power competition. Throughout the Cold War, the United States and Soviet Union competed to prop up friendly dictatorships abroad. Today,...

Dawn's Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America

Kevin Roberts - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover

Heritage Foundation president and Project 2025 head Kevin Roberts outlines a peaceful "Second American Revolution" for voters looking to shift the power back into the hands of the people.America is on the brink of destruction. A corrupt and incompetent elite has uprooted our way of life...

The Price of Power: How Mitch McConnell Mastered the Senate, Changed America, and Lost His Party

Michael Tackett - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The first definitive biography of Mitch McConnell, revealing an intimate look at the personal and political life of one of the most powerful senators in American history.. In the long history of American government, few senators have wielded as much power as Kentucky's Mitch McConnell....

Let's Start the Revolution: Tools for Displacing the Corporate State and Building a Country that Works for the People

Ralph Nader - Skyhorse
Format: Hardcover

In his latest eye-opening exploration, political maverick Ralph Nader dissects the astonishing twists and turns of the 2020 presidential election, a race that left the nation on the edge of its seat. Although Joe Biden clinched victory with a substantial popular vote lead, Nader unveils...

Holy Winter

Maria Stepanova - New Directions
Format: Paperback

A deeply moving poem about winter and exile, war and the pandemic from "Russia's greatest living poet" (Poetry) and the acclaimed author of In Memory of MemoryThe outbreak of Covid-19 cut short Maria Stepanova's 2020 stay in Cambridge. Back in Russia, she spent the ensuing...

Others Like Me: The Lives of Women without Children

Nicole Louie - Dialogue Books
Format: Paperback

A deeply personal exploration of childless and childfree women in their own words.Others Like Me is the story of fourteen women around the world, from different walks of life, who don't have children. It's also the story of why Nicole Louie had to find these women and what they...

Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn

Christopher Cox - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A timely reassessment of Woodrow Wilson and his role in the long national struggle for racial equality and women's voting rights.. More than a century after he dominated American politics, Woodrow Wilson still fascinates. With panoramic sweep, Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn reassesses...

The Wagner Group: Inside Russia's Mercenary Army

Jack Margolin - Reaktion Books
Format: Hardcover

"At once deeply-researched and as readable as a thriller." - Mark Galeotti * "An important book about the world's most dangerous mercenary outfit. Margolin unearths new details that will surprise readers." - Sean McFate * "Margolin takes readers deep into...

Comforting Myths: Concerning the Political in Art (Kapnick Foundation Distinguished Writer-in-Residence Lectures)

Rabih Alameddine - University of Virginia Press
Format: Hardcover

A timely and urgent inquiry by one of global literature's leading lights. In this concisely argued and illuminating book, the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author Rabih Alameddine takes the subject of politics and art head-on, questioning the very premise of dividing these two pillars...

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