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  • The 1976 House Majority Leadership Contest

    Stepping Stone in the Transition to Conditional Party Government

    In this book, Bruce I. Oppenheimer and the late Robert L. Peabody analyze the 1976 House majority leader race and present the result of their unrivaled insider access to this turning point in congressional history. This fierce contest among the Democratic leadership marked the transition of the House of Representatives into the party-dominated institution that is so familiar today.The 1976 ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Hospital Sketches

    Enriched edition. A Revealing Glimpse into Civil War Hospitals

    In "Hospital Sketches," Robert Swain Peabody offers a poignant and perceptive collection of observations from his experiences as a volunteer nurse during the American Civil War. Written in a compelling, journalistic style, the book balances humor and pathos, painting a vivid picture of life in a military hospital. Its literary context aligns with the broader canon of war literature, merging ... Read more

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    The Untapped Power of Independents

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  • An Apology for Idlers

    Series series Penguin Great Ideas
    An irresistible invitation to reject the work ethic and enjoy life's simple pleasures (such as laughing, drinking and lying in the open air), Robert Louis Stevenson's witty and seminal essay on the joys of idleness is accompanied here by his writings on, among other things, growing old, visiting unpleasant places and the overwhelming experience of falling in love.Throughout history, some books ... Read more

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    How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America

    Fresh from the first 10 billion election campaign, two award-winning authors show how unbridled campaign spending defines our politics and, failing a dramatic intervention, signals the end of our democracy.Blending vivid reporting from the 2012 campaign trail and deep perspective from decades covering American and international media and politics, political journalist John Nichols and media critic ... Read more

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  • Shorter Prose Pieces

    by Oscar Wilde ...
    Short collection of short pieces, including Phrases And Philosophies for the Use of The Young, Mrs. Langtry as Hester Grazebrook, Slaves of Fashion, Woman's Dress, More Radical Ideas upon Dress Reform, Costume, The American Invasion, Sermons in Stones at Bloomsbury, and L'Envoi. According to Wikipedia: "Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 - 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and ... Read more

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  • Spoiled Rotten

    How the Politics of Patronage Corrupted the Once Noble Democratic Party and Now Threatens the American Republic

    by Jay Cost ...
    A popular columnist for The Weekly Standard, conservative journalist Jay Cost now offers a lively, candid, diligently researched revisionist history of the Democratic Party. In Spoiled Rotten, Cost reveals that the national political organization, first formed by Andrew Jackson in 1824, that has always prided itself as the party of the poor, the working class, the little guy is anything but that ... Read more

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  • Rogue Elephant

    How the Republicans Went from the Party of Business to the Party of Chaos

    by Paul Heideman ...
    Rogue Elephant traces the radicalization of the Republican Party over the past fifty years, arguing that its subordination to Donald Trump was not an anomaly, but rather the culmination of processes at work for decades. Providing a new perspective on figures from Newt Gingrich and George W. Bush to the Koch brothers and Donald Trump, it shows that the party’s lurch to the far right was the product ... Read more

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  • Upending American Politics

    Polarizing Parties, Ideological Elites, and Citizen Activists from the Tea Party to the Anti-Trump Resistance

    Edited by Theda Skocpol, Caroline Tervo ...
    The election of Barack Obama in 2008 was startling, as was the victory of Donald Trump eight years later. Because both presidents were unusual and gained office backed by Congresses controlled by their own parties, their elections kick-started massive counter-movements. The Tea Party starting in 2009 and the "resistance" after November 2016 transformed America's political landscape. Upending ... Read more

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  • Sauntering

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    Edited by Duncan Minshull ...
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  • American Political Parties and Elections

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    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Few Americans and even fewer citizens of other nations understand the electoral process in the United States. Still fewer understand the role played by political parties in the electoral process or the ironies within the system. Participation in elections in the United States is much lower than in the vast majority of mature democracies. Perhaps this is because of the lack of competition in a ... Read more

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