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melissa m deckman

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  • Women and Politics

    Paths to Power and Political Influence

    Women and Politics: Paths to Power and Political Influence examines the role of women in politics from the early women's movement to the female politicians in power today. Focusing on women whose stories have not yet been told, this book includes new analysis and scholarship on the experiences and viewpoints of conservative women, women of color, LGBT women, and millennial women. Students will ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Women and Politics

    Paths to Power and Political Influence

    Women and Politics: Paths to Power and Political Influence examines the role of women in politics from the early women's movements to the female politicians in power today. The revised fourth edition includes:a new preface analyzing the 2020 elections, focusing on the historic victory of Kamala Harris and the gendered and racist critiques she endured on the campaign trail.recognition of the ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

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  • White Rural Rage

    The Threat to American Democracy

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens—who are also the least likely to defend its core principles“This is an important book that ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand politics in the perilous Age of Trump.”—David Corn, New York Times bestselling author of American PsychosisWhite rural voters hold the greatest electoral sway ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Where Have All the Democrats Gone?

    The Soul of the Party in the Age of Extremes

    Named a Best Book of the Year by The Wall Street Journal and Foreign AffairsA much-needed wake-up call for the Democrats, which reveals how the party has lost sight of its core principles and endangered its political future—from the authors of “one of the most influential political books of the 21st century” (The New York Times).For decades, American politics has been plagued by a breakdown ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Let them Eat Tweets

    How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality

    A New York Times Editors’ ChoiceAn “essential” (Jane Mayer) account of the dangerous marriage of plutocratic economic priorities and right-wing populist appeals — and how it threatens the pillars of American democracy.In Let Them Eat Tweets, best-selling political scientists Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson argue that despite the rhetoric of Donald Trump, Josh Hawley, and other right-wing ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Gradual

    The Case for Incremental Change in a Radical Age

    A call to tone down our political rhetoric and embrace a common-sense approach to change. Many experts believe that we are at a fulcrum moment in history, a time that demands radical shifts in thinking and policymaking. Calls for bold change are everywhere these days, particularly on social media, but is this actually the best way to make the world a better place? In Gradual, Greg Berman and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Unstable Majorities

    Polarization, Party Sorting, and Political Stalemate

    America is "currently fighting its second Civil War." Partisan politics are "ripping this country apart." The 2016 election "will go down as the most acrimonious presidential campaign of all." Such statements have become standard fare in American politics. In a time marked by gridlock and incivility, it seems the only thing Americans can agree on is this: we're more divided today than we've ever ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Engagement

    America's Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage

    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • The riveting story of the conflict over same-sex marriage in the United States—the most significant civil rights breakthrough of the new millennium"Full of intimate details, battling personalities, heated court cases, public persuasion.” —John Williams, The New York TimesOn June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state bans on gay marriage were ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Dollars for Life

    The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Fall of the Republican Establishment

    by Mary Ziegler ...
    A new understanding of the slow drift to extremes in American politics that shows how the anti-abortion movement remade the Republican Party“A timely and expert guide to one of today’s most hot-button political issues.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)“A sober, knowledgeable scholarly analysis of a timely issue.”—Kirkus Reviews“[Ziegler’s] argument [is] that, over the course of decades, t... ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Disconnect: The Breakdown of Representation in American Politics

    The Breakdown of Representation in American Politics

    Series series The Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series
    Red states, blue states . . . are we no longer the United States? Morris P. Fiorina here examines today’s party system to reassess arguments about party polarization while offering a cogent overview of the American electorate.Building on the arguments of Fiorina’s acclaimed Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America, this book explains how contemporary politics differs from that of previous eras ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Formidable

    American Women and the Fight for Equality: 1920-2020

    “An essential history of the struggle by both Black and white women to achieve their equal rights.”—Hillary Rodham ClintonThe Nineteenth Amendment was an incomplete victory. Black and white women fought hard for voting rights and doubled the number of eligible voters, but the amendment did not enfranchise all women, or even protect the rights of those women who could vote. A century later, women ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Rural Voter

    The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America

    The widening gulf between rural and urban America is becoming the most serious political divide of our day. Support for Democrats, up and down the ballot, has plummeted throughout the countryside, and the entire governing system is threatened by one-party dominance. After Donald Trump’s surprising victories throughout rural America, pundits and journalists went searching for answers, popping into ... Read more

    $31.99 USD