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“benjamin ginsberg”

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  • Big Brother and the Grim Reaper

    Political Life After Death

    by Benjamin Ginsberg ...
    States are thought only to exercise power over the land of the living. Benjamin Ginsberg argues otherwise, exploring the state’s reach into the realm of the Grim Reaper, bureaucratizing death to strengthen the state’s hold on life. He notes that increasingly institutions are using the regulation of death as an essential source of power. They do this by not only threatening death to their enemies ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Presidential Government

    by Benjamin Ginsberg ...
    Noted political scientist Benjamin Ginsberg has written an essential text for courses on the United States presidency. An invaluable resource, Ginsberg’s comprehensive analysis emphasizes the historical, constitutional, and legal dimensions of presidential power. He explores the history and essential aspects of the office, the president’s relationship to the rest of the executive branch and to a ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • The New American Anti-Semitism

    The Left, the Right, and the Jews

    by Benjamin Ginsberg ...
    The New American Anti-Semitism: The Left, the Right, and the Jews is a clarion call—not only to Jews, but to all Americans. As a nation, we must wake up and face the rising anti-Semitic threat and act accordingly.But that threat is not coming from its usual source. The most virulent form of anti-Semitism today, Ginsberg warns, is the result of toxic identity politics and anti-Israeli sentiment ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Politics by Any Other Name

    Bureaucratic Struggle, Lawfare and Violence in American Politics

    by Benjamin Ginsberg ...
    This book critiques a modern U.S. political system characterized by the partisan weaponization of bureaucratic systems and institutions.Competition for political power in the United States today is not just about winning elections. Competing political forces attempt to win at the polls, but they do not bet all their chips on electoral outcomes. Each party has built an institutional bastion within ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Fall of the Faculty:The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters

    by Benjamin Ginsberg ...
    Until very recently, American universities were led mainly by their faculties, which viewed intellectual production and pedagogy as the core missions of higher education. Today, as Benjamin Ginsberg warns in this eye-opening, controversial book, "deanlets"--administrators and staffers often without serious academic backgrounds or experience--are setting the educational agenda. The Fall of the ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • The Imperial Presidency and American Politics

    Governance by Edicts and Coups

    by Benjamin Ginsberg ...
    Those who saw Donald Trump as a novel threat looming over American democracy and now think the danger has passed may not have been paying much attention to the political developments of the past several decades. Trump was merely the most recent—and will surely not be the last—in a long line of presidents who expanded the powers of the office and did not hesitate to act unilaterally when so doing ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Moses of South Carolina

    A Jewish Scalawag during Radical Reconstruction

    by Benjamin Ginsberg ...
    Franklin Moses Jr. is one of the great forgotten figures in American history. Scion of a distinguished Jewish family in South Carolina, he was a firebrand supporter of secession and an officer in the Confederate army. Moses then reversed course. As Reconstruction governor of South Carolina, he shocked and outraged his white constituents by championing racial equality and socializing freely with ... Read more

    $45.89 USD

  • Worth of War

    by Benjamin Ginsberg, author of The Fatal Embra ...
    Although war is terrible and brutal, history shows that it has been a great driver of human progress. So argues political scientist Benjamin Ginsberg in this incisive, well-researched study of the benefits to civilization derived from armed conflict. Ginsberg makes a convincing case that war selects for and promotes certain features of societies that are generally held to represent progress. These ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Downsizing Democracy

    How America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public

    by Matthew A. Crenson, Benjamin Ginsberg ...
    Originally published in 2002. In Downsizing Democracy, Matthew A. Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg describe how the once powerful idea of a collective citizenry has given way to a concept of personal, autonomous democracy. Today, political change is effected through litigation, lobbying, and term limits, rather than active participation in the political process, resulting in narrow special interest ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

  • Congress

    The First Branch

    by Benjamin Ginsberg, Kathryn Wagner Hill ...
    An introduction to the U.S. Congress, from seasoned political historians and teachersIn this accessible overview of the United States Congress’s past and present, Ginsberg and Hill introduce students to the country’s most democratic institution. This text surveys Congressional elections, the internal structure of Congress, the legislative process, Congress and the President, and Congress and the ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Unmaking of American Citizenship

    How Americans Learned Not to Love Their Country and What Can Be Done About It

    by Benjamin Ginsberg, Dorothea Israel Wolfson ...
    This book explores the ideologies and educational and cultural trends that have alienated Americans from their own country and offers a guide to the restoration of American citizenship. The authors examine the genealogy of ideologies that are leading to a decline in American citizenship, illuminate educational and historical trends in both K-12 learning and higher education, and offer an even ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Value of Violence

    by Benjamin Ginsberg, author of The Fatal Embra ...
    This provocative thesis calls violence the driving force not just of war, but of politics and even social stability. Though violence is commonly deplored, political scientist Ginsberg argues that in many ways it is indispensable, unavoidable, and valuable. Ginsberg sees violence manifested in society in many ways. "Law-preserving violence" (using Walter Benjamin's phrase) is the chief means by ... Read more

    $14.99 USD