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  • The Lost Soul of the American Presidency

    The Decline into Demagoguery and the Prospects for Renewal

    The American presidency is not what it once was. Nor, Stephen F. Knott contends, what it was meant to be. Taking on an issue as timely as Donald Trump’s latest tweet and old as the American republic, the distinguished presidential scholar documents the devolution of the American presidency from the neutral, unifying office envisioned by the framers of the Constitution into the demagogic, partisan ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Democracy Awakening

    Notes on the State of America

    **A New York Times BestsellerA vital and urgent call to action about the precarious state of American democracy, charting its historical challenges and current threats, from one of our era’s most important and insightful historians, with a new afterword by the author.“Magisterial.” –The Washington Post“An excellent primer for anyone who needs the important facts of the last 150 years of American ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Death of a Nation

    Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party

    The #1 New York Times–bestselling author tackles the biggest lie of the left—that America is a society based on white supremacy. Now a major motion picture.Who is killing America? Is it really Donald Trump and a GOP filled with white supremacists? In a major new work of historical revisionism, Dinesh D'Souza makes the provocative case that Democrats are the ones killing America by turning it into ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • All We Say

    The Battle for American Identity: A History in 15 Speeches

    by Ben Rhodes ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • What does it mean to be American? Who gets to decide? This sweeping history of the United States told through fifteen speeches relives the battle over American identity, from a New York Times bestselling author and one of President Barack Obama’s former speechwriters.“At a time of moral and political drift, Ben Rhodes reminds us what American greatness actually sounds ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Hamilton's Curse

    How Jefferson's Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution--and What It Means for Americans Today

    Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton--two of the most influential Founding Fathers--were also fierce rivals with two opposing political philosophies and two radically different visions for America.While Jefferson is better remembered today, it is actually Hamilton’s political legacy that has triumphed--a legacy that has subverted the Constitution and transformed the federal government into the ... Read more

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  • To Make Men Free

    A History of the Republican Party

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Democracy Awakening**, the paradoxical evolution of the Republican Party—founded to give the poor equal opportunity, but too often aligned with the country's elites.****"The most comprehensive account of the GOP and its competing impulses.” —**Los Angeles TimesWhen Abraham Lincoln helped create the Republican Party on ... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Black History 1619-2019

    An Illustrated and Documented African-American History

    BLACK HISTORY 1619 TO 2019 is an inspiring and educational journey through history. It is an in-depth look at the events which shaped the lives and contributions of the African-American community in the United States of America. This book is designed to restore the integrity of African-American history and is based on extensive research and documentation related to the African-American experience ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

  • Don't Know Much About® the American Presidents

    From a New York Times bestselling author comes a "guided tour" of the presidents of the United States.From the heated debates among the framers of the Constitution in 1787 over an "elected king," to the creation of the presidency, and on through rich profiles of each man who has held the office, author Kenneth C. Davis examines each chief executive, from the low lights to the bright lights, the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Dissent

    The History of an American Idea

    by Ralph Young ...
    Historian Ralph Young's Dissent: The History of an American Idea "covers both the liberal and conservative movements that changed American history."A Ralph Waldo Emerson Award FinalistOne of * Bustle's Books For Your Civil Disobedience Reading ListRalph Young's stunningly comprehensive volume examines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States, focusing on those who, from ... Read more

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  • The Presidents and the People

    Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It

    **Winner of the American Bar Association's 2025 Silver Gavel AwardAmerican presidents have often pushed the boundaries established for them by the Constitution; this is the inspirational history of the people who pushed back.**Imagine an American president who imprisoned critics, spread a culture of white supremacy, and tried to upend the law so that he could commit crimes with impunity.In this ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Presidents and the Constitution

    A Living History

    by Ken Gormley ...
    How forty-four presidents have shaped power and the law: "Everything you ever wanted to know about the Supreme Court and the Presidency but were afraid to ask." —Nina Totenberg, NPR legal affairs correspondentIn this sweepingly ambitious volume, the nation's foremost experts on the American presidency and the U.S. Constitution join together to tell the intertwined stories of how each American ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Injustices

    The Supreme Court's History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted

    by Ian Millhiser ...
    Now with a new epilogue-- an unprecedented and unwavering history of the Supreme Court showing how its decisions have consistently favored the moneyed and powerful.Few American institutions have inflicted greater suffering on ordinary people than the Supreme Court of the United States. Since its inception, the justices of the Supreme Court have shaped a nation where children toiled in coal mines, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD