ilość książek w kategorii: 2697
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
ISBN: 9781568584126 / Angielski / Miękka / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Acclaimed historian Rick Perlstein chronicles the rise of the conservative movement in the liberal 1960s. At the heart of the story is Barry Goldwater, the renegade Republican from Arizona who loathed federal government, despised liberals, and mocked "peaceful coexistence" with the USSR. Perlstein's narrative shines a light on a whole world of conservatives and their antagonists, including William F. Buckley, Nelson Rockefeller, and Bill Moyers. Vividly written, Before the Storm is an essential book about the 1960s.
Acclaimed historian Rick Perlstein chronicles the rise of the conservative movement in the liberal 1960s. At the heart of the story is Barry Goldwater...
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95,36 zł |
Red Highways: A Liberal's Journey Into the Heartland
ISBN: 9780979482274 / Angielski / Miękka / 229 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tired of speaking to like-minded people, San Francisco blogger and radio journalist Rose Aguilar quit her job, bought a Toyota van, picked up her boyfriend, and took off on a six-month road trip through southern and mountain states. There she interviewed a wide array of people who rarely, if ever, appear in the national media. They include a former Republican evangelical pastor who now preaches inclusion in Tulsa; anti-war, pro-choice, and green Republicans; and a Montana hunter planning to leave his job as a conservationist to fight for gay rights.This political travelogue challenges...
Tired of speaking to like-minded people, San Francisco blogger and radio journalist Rose Aguilar quit her job, bought a Toyota van, picked up her boyf...
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182,02 zł |
Common Ground: How to Stop the Partisan War That Is Destroying America
ISBN: 9780061236358 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Inspired by their popular USA Today column, conservative Cal Thomas and liberal Bob Beckel unmask the hypocrisy of the issues, organizations, and individuals that have created and deepened the partisan divide at the center of American politics, and make a strategic case for why this bickering must stop. Thomas and Beckel explain how bipartisanship and consensus politics are not only good for the day-to-day democratic process but also essential for our nation's future well-being. Entertaining and informative, funny and healing, Common Ground is a must-read for all... Inspired by their popular USA Today column, conservative Cal Thomas and liberal Bob Beckel unmask the hypocrisy of the issues, organizatio... |
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86,69 zł |
Hijacking America: How the Secular and Religious Right Changed What Americans Think
ISBN: 9780745644608 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. George Bush leaves the White House in January 2009 and the United States goes back to "normal," right? Wrong, argues Susan George in this fascinating, thorough and often chilling account of the decades-long transformation of American society and political culture. Using the four "Ms" - money, media, marketing, management--but above all with a keen sense of mission, the American secular and religious right has made its "long march through the institutions" and changed the way Americans think. As the left went about its business in blissful ignorance, convinced that its policies, programmes and...
George Bush leaves the White House in January 2009 and the United States goes back to "normal," right? Wrong, argues Susan George in this fascinating,...
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292,79 zł |
Hijacking America: How the Religious and Secular Right Changed What Americans Think
ISBN: 9780745644615 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. George Bush leaves the White House in January 2009 and the United States goes back to "normal," right? Wrong, argues Susan George in this fascinating, thorough and often chilling account of the decades-long transformation of American society and political culture. Using the four "Ms" - money, media, marketing, management--but above all with a keen sense of mission, the American secular and religious right has made its "long march through the institutions" and changed the way Americans think. As the left went about its business in blissful ignorance, convinced that its policies, programmes and...
George Bush leaves the White House in January 2009 and the United States goes back to "normal," right? Wrong, argues Susan George in this fascinating,...
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79,80 zł |
The First Liberal: A Secular Look at Jesus' Socio-Political Ideas and How They Became the Basis of Modern Liberalism
ISBN: 9780595430536 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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82,17 zł |
Beyond Left and Right : The Future of Radical Politics
ISBN: 9780745614397 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How should one understand the nature and possibilities of political radicalism? The political radical is normally thought of as someone who stands on the Left, opposing backward-looking conservatism. In the 1990s, however, the Left has turned defensive, while the Right has become radical, advocating the free play of market forces no matter what obstacles of tradition or custom stand in their way. What explains such a curious twist of perspective?
How should one understand the nature and possibilities of political radicalism? The political radical is normally thought of as someone who stands on ...
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101,09 zł |
Right Face: Organizing the American Conservative Movement 1945-65
ISBN: 9788772897202 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work analyzes the intellectual and organizational development of the American conservative movement, from an unlikely alliance of scattered voices in the early postwar years to a well-organized political network in the 1960s, ready to conquer the Repu
This work analyzes the intellectual and organizational development of the American conservative movement, from an unlikely alliance of scattered voice...
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303,39 zł |
The Meaning of Conservatism
ISBN: 9780333803776 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1980, this contribution to political thought is a statement of the traditional conservative position. Roger Scruton challenges those who would regard themselves as conservatives, and also their opponents.
First published in 1980, this contribution to political thought is a statement of the traditional conservative position. Roger Scruton challenges thos...
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382,84 zł |
Issue Politics in Congress
ISBN: 9780521671323 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Do representatives and senators respond to the critiques raised by their challengers? This study, exploring how legislators' experiences as candidates shape their subsequent behavior as policymakers, demonstrates that winning legislators regularly take up their challengers' priority issues from the last campaign and act on them. This attentiveness to their challengers' issues reflects a widespread and systematic yet largely unrecognized mode of responsiveness in the U.S. Congress. Tracy Sulkin reveals the important benefits for these legislators as well as the health and legitimacy of the...
Do representatives and senators respond to the critiques raised by their challengers? This study, exploring how legislators' experiences as candidates...
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121,24 zł |
British Conservatism: The Politics and Philosophy of Inequality
ISBN: 9781845113520 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Defense of inequality has always been a core principle of the Conservative Party in Great Britain. Yet the Conservatives have enjoyed great electoral success in a British society marked by widespread inequalities of wealth and income. Peter Dorey here examines the intellectual and political arguments which Conservatives use to justify inequality. He also considers debates between Conservatives over how much inequality is desirable or acceptable. Should inequality be unlimited, in order to promote liberty, incentives and rewards? Or should inequality be kept within certain bounds to prevent... Defense of inequality has always been a core principle of the Conservative Party in Great Britain. Yet the Conservatives have enjoyed great elector... |
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657,46 zł |
Right Face – Organizing the American Conservative Movement 1945–65
ISBN: 9788772898094 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tells the story of how the American conservative movement in the two decades following World War II managed to move from being unknown to the centre stage of national politics. This book also provides an analysis of the conservative movement and the forces
Tells the story of how the American conservative movement in the two decades following World War II managed to move from being unknown to the centre s...
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191,59 zł |
The Liberal Project and Human Rights: The Theory and Practice of a New World Order
ISBN: 9780521709590 / Angielski / Miękka / 434 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 'Liberal Project' aims to transform society in accordance with liberal values and practices. This volume argues that the United Nations regime on human rights is an attempt to realise this project on an international level. The authors provide an engaging theoretical and historical context for this argument, defining the concept of liberalism, its origins and evolution, and identify it as a universal value that constitutes the very essence of the international human rights regime. The book explores the possibility of a cross-cultural consensus on the issue being reached, but problems of...
The 'Liberal Project' aims to transform society in accordance with liberal values and practices. This volume argues that the United Nations regime on ...
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211,52 zł |
The Liberal Project and Human Rights
ISBN: 9780521883146 / Angielski / Twarda / 446 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 'Liberal Project' aims to transform society in accordance with liberal values and practices. This volume argues that the United Nations regime on human rights is an attempt to realise this project on an international level. The authors provide an engaging theoretical and historical context for this argument, defining the concept of liberalism, its origins and evolution, and identify it as a universal value that constitutes the very essence of the international human rights regime. The book explores the possibility of a cross-cultural consensus on the issue being reached, but problems of...
The 'Liberal Project' aims to transform society in accordance with liberal values and practices. This volume argues that the United Nations regime on ...
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250,65 zł |
Reinventing the Left
ISBN: 9780745613918 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this important new book a remarkable group of authors - academics, journalists and politicians - offer a radical reappraisal of the future of Left political theory and policy in the context of recent changes in society. Compiled by the Institute for Public Policy Research, the volume includes contributons by Anthony Giddens, Perry Anderson, Gordon Brown, Anne Phillips, Michel Rocart, David Marquand and Will Hutton among others and sets out many new ideas and concepts.
In this important new book a remarkable group of authors - academics, journalists and politicians - offer a radical reappraisal of the future of Left ...
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101,09 zł |
Saviors or Sellouts: The Promise and Peril of Black Conservatism, from Booker T. Washington to Condoleezza Rice
ISBN: 9780807083765 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first book by an African American liberal about black conservatism and its growing appeal among African Americans today. What exactly is a black conservative, and why would anyone choose to be one? This question, deemed largely irrelevant in years past, is one that liberals can no longer afford to leave unanswered. While the 2006 midterm elections buoyed liberals, Democrats have in fact been losing ground with their African American base. In 1972, fewer than 10 percent of African Americans identified themselves as conservative; today nearly 30 percent-11.2 million-do. By contrast, the...
The first book by an African American liberal about black conservatism and its growing appeal among African Americans today. What exactly is a black c...
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127,72 zł |
East Asia and the Trials of Neo-Liberalism
ISBN: 9780415360135 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A much-needed examination of the impact of neo-liberalism in East Asia in the years since the 1997 to 1998 Asian Economic Crisis. These leading contributors tackle the nature of neo-liberalism, and the forces and institutions driving it. With fresh case studies of Indonesia, Thailand, South Korea, Malaysia, China and Vietnam, showing how domestic elites are critical to the ways in which the neo-liberal agenda is manifested, modified and rejected. They also engage with the key question of why there has been a dramatic restructuring of state and economic power, with some elements of... A much-needed examination of the impact of neo-liberalism in East Asia in the years since the 1997 to 1998 Asian Economic Crisis. These lea... |
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657,46 zł |
U.S. vs. Them: Conservatism in the Age of Nuclear Terror
ISBN: 9780143115106 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A challenging, clear-eyed, and authoritative history of American conservatism and its grave effect on our country's foreign policy
In this compelling and sometimes alarming analysis, J. Peter Scoblic, executive editor of The New Republic, traces the history of American foreign policy and how it has evolved from the Cold War conservatism of the 1950s to today. The belligerence, intransigence, and disinclination for diplomacy that mars the right wing once brought us to the brink of nuclear war with the Soviet Union. More recently it has failed to meet the post-9/11 challenges... A challenging, clear-eyed, and authoritative history of American conservatism and its grave effect on our country's foreign policy
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104,08 zł |
Why We're Liberals: A Handbook for Restoring America's Most Important Ideals
ISBN: 9780143115229 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The bestselling author and Newsweek columnist takes a characteristically irreverent look at the rampant mistreatment of liberals and liberalism
The "most honest and incisive media critic writing today"(National Catholic Reporter), Eric Alterman is committed to restoring the liberal tradition to its honored place as the political philosophy of mainstream American citizens. In this bracing and well-documented counterattack on right- wing spin and misinformation, Alterman briskly disposes of the canards and false definitions that have been foisted upon liberals by the... The bestselling author and Newsweek columnist takes a characteristically irreverent look at the rampant mistreatment of liberals and liberal...
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104,08 zł |
The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
ISBN: 9789659124114 / Angielski / Miękka / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk is arguably one of the greatest contributions to twentieth-century American Conservatism.
Brilliant in every respect, from its conception to its choice of significant figures representing the history of intellectual conservatism, The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk launched the modern American Conservative Movement. A must-read.
The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk is arguably one of the greatest contributions to twentieth-century American Conservatism.
Brilliant in every... |
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108,37 zł |