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  • By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed

    A Catholic Defense of Capital Punishment

    by Edward Feser, Joseph Bessette ...
    The Catholic Church has in recent decades been associated with political efforts to eliminate the death penalty. It was not always so. This timely work reviews and explains the Catholic Tradition regarding the death penalty, demonstrating that it is not inherently evil and that it can be reserved as a just form of punishment in certain cases.Drawing upon a wealth of philosophical, scriptural, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Imperial Presidency and the Constitution

    Edited by Gary Schmitt, Andrew E. Busch, Joseph M. Bessette ...
    Time and again, in recent years, the charge has been made that sitting presidents have behaved “imperially,” employing authorities that break the bounds of law and the Constitution. It is now an epithet used to describe presidencies of both parties. The Imperial Presidency and the Constitution examines this critical issue from a variety of perspectives: analyzing the president’s role in the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Presidency in the Constitutional Order

    An Historical Examination

    Edited by Joseph M. Bessette, Jeffrey Tulis ...
    This classic collection of studies, first published in 1980, contributes to the revival of interest in the powers and duties of the American presidency. Unlike many previous books on the constitution and the president, the contributors to this volume are political scientists, not law professors. Accordingly, they display political scientists' concern with structures as well as power, with conflict ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Obama Presidency in the Constitutional Order

    A First Look

    by David Alvis, Andrew E. Busch, James W. Ceaser, Anthony Corrado, Joshua Dunn, David K. Nichols, Stephen F. Knott, Marc Landy ...
    The Obama administration is shaping up to be one of the most consequential in recent American history. In this book, a diverse group of presidential scholars step back from the partisan debate to consider the first two years of the Obama presidency through the lens of the U.S. constitution's theory, structure, and powers. They ask how Barack Obama understands and exercises the President's formal ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

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    by Glenn Thrush, Jonathan Martin ...
    The fourth and final eBook in POLITICO’s Playbook 2012 series once again provides an unprecedented minute-by-minute account of the race for the presidency. The End of the Line follows President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney as their campaign teams go all-in to win in the critical final weeks of the 2012 election.From Mitt Romney’s “47 percent” video to Clint Eastwood’s speech ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • Clinton Cash

    The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich

    by Peter Schweizer ...
    The definitive takedown by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Secret Empires.In 2000, Bill and Hillary Clinton owed millions of dollars in legal debt. Since then, they’ve earned over $130 million. Where did the money come from? Most people assume that the Clintons amassed their wealth through lucrative book deals and high-six figure fees for speaking gigs. Now, Peter Schweizer shows who ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Mornings on Horseback

    The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt

    by David McCullough ...
    The National Book Award–winning biography that tells the story of how young Teddy Roosevelt transformed himself from a sickly boy into the vigorous man who would become a war hero and ultimately president of the United States, told by master historian David McCullough.Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt. Hailed as “a masterpiece” (John A. Gable, Newsday ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Days of Fire

    Bush and Cheney in the White House

    by Peter Baker ...
    In Days of Fire, Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times, takes us on a gripping and intimate journey through the eight years of the Bush and Cheney administration in a tour-de-force narrative of a dramatic and controversial presidency.Theirs was the most captivating American political partnership since Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger: a bold and untested president ... Read more

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  • The Making of the President 2016

    How Donald Trump Orchestrated a Revolution

    by Roger Stone ...
    In the tradition of Theodore White’s landmark books, the definitive look at how Donald J. Trump shocked the world to become presidentFrom Roger Stone, a New York Times bestselling author, longtime political adviser and friend to Donald Trump, and consummate Republican strategist, comes the first in-depth examination of how Trump’s campaign tapped into the national mood to deliver a stunning ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Land is Ours

    Black Lawyers and the Birth of Constitutionalism in South Africa

    by Tembeka Ngcukaitobi ...
    The Land Is Ours tells the story of South Africa’s first black lawyers, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In an age of aggressive colonial expansion, land dispossession and forced labour, these men believed in a constitutional system that respected individual rights and freedoms, and they used the law as an instrument against injustice.The book follows the lives, ideas and ... Read more

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  • Blood Feud

    The Clintons vs. the Obamas

    by Edward Klein ...
    #1 New York Times BestsellerIn this highly anticipated follow-up to his blockbuster The Amateur, former New York Times Magazine editor-in-chief Edward Klein delves into the rocky relationship between the Obamas and the Clintons. An old-school reporter with incredible insider contacts, Klein reveals just how deep the rivalry between the Obamas and the Clintons runs, with details on closed-door ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Post-American Presidency

    The Obama Administration's War on America

    by Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer ...
    Popular conservative blogger Pamela Geller and New York Times bestselling author Robert Spencer sound a wake-up call for Americans to stop the Obama administration from limiting our hard-won freedoms, silencing our democratic voices, and irreparably harming America for generations to come.America is being tested in a way that she has never been tested before. Since taking the oath of office in ... Read more

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