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  • The Postmodern Predicament

    Existential Challenges of the Twenty-First Century

    by Bruce Ackerman ...
    One of our most influential political theorists offers a boundary-breaking—and liberating—perspective on the meaning of life in the internet ageHuman beings have taken one thing for granted since our earliest days: we are bodily creatures dealing with one another on a face-to-face basis. The internet has shattered this fundamental feature of human existence. We are suddenly living our lives in two ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Decline and Fall of the American Republic

    by Bruce Ackerman ...
    Series Book 12 - The Tanner Lectures
    "Audacious . . . offers a fierce critique of democracy's most dangerous adversary: the abuse of democratic power by democratically elected chief executives." (Benjamin R. Barber, New York Times bestselling author of Jihad vs. McWorld )Bruce Ackerman shows how the institutional dynamics of the last half-century have transformed the American presidency into a potential platform for political ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • We the People, Volume 2

    Transformations

    by Bruce Ackerman ...
    Series Book 2 - We the People
    Constitutional change, seemingly so orderly, formal, and refined, has in fact been a revolutionary process from the first, as Bruce Ackerman makes clear in We the People: Transformations. The Founding Fathers, hardly the genteel conservatives of myth, set America on a remarkable course of revolutionary disruption and constitutional creativity that endures to this day. After the bloody sacrifices ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Revolutionary Constitutions

    Charismatic Leadership and the Rule of Law

    by Bruce Ackerman ...
    A robust defense of democratic populism by one of America’s most renowned and controversial constitutional scholars—the award-winning author of We the People.Populism is a threat to the democratic world, fuel for demagogues and reactionary crowds—or so its critics would have us believe. But in his award-winning trilogy We the People, Bruce Ackerman showed that Americans have repeatedly rejected ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • We the People, Volume 1

    Foundations

    by Bruce Ackerman ...
    Series Book 1 - We the People
    Bruce Ackerman offers a sweeping reinterpretation of our nation’s constitutional experience and its promise for the future. Integrating themes from American history, political science, and philosophy, We the People confronts the past, present, and future of popular sovereignty in America. Only this distinguished scholar could present such an insightful view of the role of the Supreme Court. ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Future of Liberal Revolution

    by Bruce Ackerman ...
    Since 1989, the Cold War has ended, new nations have emerged in Eastern Europe, and revolutionary struggles to establish liberal ideals have been waged against repressive governments throughout the world. Will the promise of liberalism be realized? What can liberals do to make the most of their opportunities and construct enduring forms of political order? In this important and timely book, a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Decline and Fall of the American Republic

    by Bruce Ackerman ...
    Series series Tanner lectures on human values
    Constitutional thought is currently dominated by heroic tales of the Founding Fathers — who built an Enlightenment machine that can tick-tock its way into the twenty-first century, with a little fine-tuning by the Supreme Court. However, according to Bruce Ackerman, the modern presidency is far more dangerous today than it was when Arthur Schlesinger published the Imperial Presidency in 1973. In ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Failure of the Founding Fathers

    by Bruce ACKERMAN ...
    Based on seven years of archival research, the book describes previously unknown aspects of the electoral college crisis of 1800, presenting a revised understanding of the early days of two great institutions that continue to have a major impact on American history: the plebiscitarian presidency and a Supreme Court that struggles to put the presidency's claims of a popular mandate into ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Social Justice in the Liberal State

    by Bruce Ackerman ...

    $40.99 USD

  • We the People, Volume 3: The Civil Rights Revolution

    by Bruce Ackerman ...
    Series Book 3 - We the People
    The Civil Rights Revolution carries Bruce Ackerman’s sweeping reinterpretation of constitutional history into the era beginning with Brown v. Board of Education. From Rosa Parks’s courageous defiance, to Martin Luther King’s resounding cadences in “I Have a Dream,” to Lyndon Johnson’s leadership of Congress, to the Supreme Court’s decisions redefining the meaning of equality, the movement to end ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Private Property and the Constitution

    by Bruce Ackerman ...

    $28.99 USD

  • The Case Against Lame Duck Impeachment

    by Bruce Ackerman ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    An incisive legal argument that the attempt to impeach then-President Bill Clinton was not only ethically troubling, but actually against the basic legal procedures of the House and Senate and thus unconstitutional. A wake-up call, relevant even today, of the lengths to which the American right will go in order to bring down their rivals, even under the scrutinizing eyes of the world. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD