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“samir sengupta”

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  • CPI-M Rule in West Bengal: the Reign of Terror

    by Samir Sengupta ...
    The book describes in brief some gory incidents of mass killings, rapes and vandalism which were the common characteristics of the 34 year CPI-M rule in West Bengal, Indi from 1977 to May 2011. ... Read more

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    How government can implement more successful policies, more oftenFrom healthcare to workplace and campus conduct, the federal government is taking on ever more responsibility for managing our lives. At the same time, Americans have never been more disaffected with Washington, seeing it as an intrusive, incompetent, wasteful giant. Ineffective policies are caused by deep structural factors ... Read more

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  • Washington Journal

    Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon's Downfall

    by Elizabeth Drew ...
    An updated edition of the landmark work of political journalism: "Unquestionably the best book yet on Watergate, and conceivably the best we will ever get." —Greil Marcus, Rolling StoneWashington Journal opens in 1973 and follows the deterioration of Richard Nixon's presidency in real time. With her unprecedented access to the top figures, Elizabeth Drew's on-the-scene reporting is even more ... Read more

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  • A Discourse by Three Drunkards on Government

    by Nakae Chomin ...
    A Discourse by Three Drunkards on Government takes the form of a debate between a spokesman for Western ideals of democracy and progress, and an advocate for adherence to traditional samurai values. Their discussion is moderated by the imperturbable Master Nankai, who loves nothing more than to drink and argue politics. The fiction of the drinking bout allowed Chomin to debate freely topical ... Read more

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  • The Great Exception

    The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics

    by Jefferson Cowie ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    How the New Deal was a unique historical moment and what this reveals about U.S. politics, economics, and cultureWhere does the New Deal fit in the big picture of American history? What does it mean for us today? What happened to the economic equality it once engendered? In The Great Exception, Jefferson Cowie provides new answers to these important questions. In the period between the Great ... Read more

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  • Divided by God

    America's Church-State Problem--and What We Should Do About It

    by Noah Feldman ...
    A Timely Exploration of the Profound Conflict Between Religion and Politics in AmericaEven before George W. Bush gained reelection by wooing religiously devout "values voters," it was clear that the relationship between church and state in the United States had reached a crisis point. In Divided by God, Noah Feldman shows that this crisis is as old as the nation itself—and offers a compelling look ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • After Appomattox

    Military Occupation and the Ends of War

    by Gregory P. Downs ...
    “Original and revelatory.”—David Blight, author of Frederick DouglassAvery O. Craven Award FinalistA Civil War Memory/Civil War Monitor Best Book of the YearIn April 1865, Robert E. Lee wrote to Ulysses S. Grant asking for peace. Peace was beyond his authority to negotiate, Grant replied, but surrender terms he would discuss. The distinction proved prophetic.After Appomattox reveals ... ... Read more

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  • Grover Norquist The Fool Who Would Be King

    by Stephen Paul West ...
    Grover Norquist. The Man. The Myth. The Little Dictator.The hard hitting deep coverage you would expect from a political satire.This book gives more honest information about Grover Norquist than any other source. Unfortunately, the reality is painfully humorous. In an end-of-the-world kind of humor.Good political satire is satisfying in the same manner that removing shoes that pinch feels GREAT – ... Read more

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  • Defending Life

    A Moral and Legal Case against Abortion Choice

    by Francis J. Beckwith ...
    Defending Life is arguably the most comprehensive defense of the pro-life position on abortion - morally, legally, and politically - that has ever been published in an academic monograph. It offers a detailed and critical analysis of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey as well as arguments by those who defend a Rawlsian case for abortion-choice, such as J. J. Thomson. The author defends ... Read more

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  • Deeply Divided

    Racial Politics and Social Movements in Post-War America

    by Doug McAdam, Karina Kloos ...
    By many measures--commonsensical or statistical--the United States has not been more divided politically or economically in the last hundred years than it is now. How have we gone from the striking bipartisan cooperation and relative economic equality of the war years and post-war period to the extreme inequality and savage partisan divisions of today? In this sweeping look at American politics ... Read more

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  • The Bill of Rights

    The Fight to Secure America's Liberties

    by Carol Berkin ...
    “Narrative, celebratory history at its purest” (Publishers Weekly)—the real story of how the Bill of Rights came to be: a vivid account of political strategy, big egos, and the partisan interests that set the terms of the ongoing contest between the federal government and the states.Those who argue that the Bill of Rights reflects the founding fathers’ “original intent” are wrong. The Bill of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Godless Democrats and Pious Republicans?

    Party Activists, Party Capture, and the 'God Gap'

    by Ryan L. Claassen ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics
    Do Evangelical activists control the Republican Party? Do secular activists control the Democratic Party? In Godless Democrats and Pious Republicans?, Ryan Claassen carefully assesses the way campaign activists represent religious and non-religious groups in American political parties dating back to the 1960s. By providing a new theoretical framework for investigating the connections between macro ... Read more

    $27.89 USD