Political Science - Public Policy

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The War on Normal People: The Truth a...

Andrew Yang

From 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, a captivating account of how "a skinny Asian kid from upstate" became a successful entrepreneur, only to find a new mission: calling attention to the urgent steps Amer...

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Published: Apr 2019

Change We Can Believe in: Barack Obam...

Barack Obama

At this defining moment in our history, Americans are hungry for change. After years of failed policies and a failed politics from Washington, this is our chance to reclaim the American dream. Barack Obama has proven to be a new kind ...

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Published: Sep 2008

Culture Warrior

Bill O'Reilly

With three straight #1 bestsellers and more than 4 million copies of his books in print, the most powerful traditional force in the American media now takes off his gloves in the ongoing struggle for America's heart and soul. Bill O'R...

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Published: Oct 2007

The Truth about Social Security: The ...

Nancy J. Altman

Nancy Altman, President of Social Security Works and renowned Social Security expert, brings us her third book, in which she uses the founders' own words to debunk myths and reveal the truth about the most popular and successful gover...

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Published: Aug 2018

The American Health Care Paradox: Why...

Elizabeth H. Bradley

Foreword by Harvey V. Fineberg, President of the Institute of MedicineFor decades, experts have puzzled over why the US spends more on health care but suffers poorer outcomes than other industrialized nations. Now Elizabeth H. Bradley...

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Published: Mar 2015

The Truth Has Changed

Josh Fox

The Emmy Award–winning creator of GASLAND tells his intimate and damning, personal story of our world in crisis. With a foreword by Bill McKibben.            The rules have changed.            The water has c...

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Published: Sep 2018

Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and De...

Vandana Shiva

Inspired by women's struggles for the protection of nature as a condition for human survival, award-winning environmentalist Vandana Shiva shows how ecological destruction and the marginalization of women are not inevitable, economica...

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Published: Mar 2016

Shakedown Socialism

Oleg Atbashian

This is a brilliant study, profusely illustrated with cartoons and propaganda posters. Atbashian explains why Socialism cannot work. He exposes the injustice of "Collective Greed" and shows why Economic Equality is a fraud. ...

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Published: Aug 2010

Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitar...

Rupert Darwall’s Green Tyranny traces the alarming origins of the green agenda, revealing how environmental scares have been deployed by our global rivals as a political instrument to contest American power around the world. Drawin...

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Published: Mar 2019

Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminali...

Awarded “Special Recognition” by the 2018 Robert F. Kennedy Book & Journalism AwardsFinalist for the American Bar Association’s 2018 Silver Gavel Book AwardNamed one of the “10 books to read after you've read Evicted” by the...

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Published: Jul 2019

The Green New Deal and Beyond: The Ro...

A clear and urgent call for the national, social, and individual changes required to prevent catastrophic climate change. "An iconoclast of the best kind, Stan Cox has an all-too-rare commitment to following arguments wherever t...

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Published: Jun 2020

The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Sa...

When the Red Nation released their call for a Red Deal, it generated coverage in places from Teen Vogue to Jacobin to the New Republic, was endorsed by the DSA, and has galvanized organizing and action. Now, in response to popular dem...

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Published: Apr 2021

The Arc of Protection: Reforming the ...

Alex Aleinikoff

The international refugee regime is fundamentally broken. Designed in the wake of World War II to provide protection and assistance, the system is unable to address the record numbers of persons displaced by conflict and violence toda...

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Published: Sep 2019

Game Changers: Energy on the Move

Robert C. Armstrong

It is becoming increasingly obvious that the United States needs reliable and inexpensive energy to propel our economy and protect our national security interests. Game Changers presents five research and development efforts from Amer...

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Published: Jun 2014

We Own the Future: Democratic Sociali...

Kate Aronoff

A stunningly original and timely collection that makes the case for "socialism, American style"It's a strange day when a New York Times conservative columnist is forced to admit that the left is winning, but as David Brook...

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Published: Jan 2020

The New Prophets of Capital

Nicole Aschoff

A deft and caustic takedown of the new prophets of profit, from Bill Gates to Oprah As severe environmental degradation, breathtaking inequality, and increasing alienation push capitalism against its own contradictions, mythmaking has...

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Published: Mar 2015

Rigged: How Globalization and the Rul...

Dean Baker

There has been an enormous upward redistribution of income in the United States in the last four decades. In his most recent book, Baker shows that this upward redistribution was not the result of globalization and the natural working...

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Published: Oct 2016

Charged: The New Movement to Transfor...

Emily Bazelon

NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER - A renowned journalist and legal commentator exposes the unchecked power of the prosecutor as a driving force in America's mass incarceration crisis--and charts a way out. "An important, thoughtful, an...

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Published: May 2020

Deadbeat Dams: Why We Should Abolish ...

Daniel P. Beard

Deadbeat Dams informs and educates people about how their tax dollars are being used and misused, why we are ignoring some immediate problems, and what can be done to correct this state of affairs. The faults of the present system of ...

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Published: Mar 2015

Seasons of Hope

Frank Bice

In Seasons of Hope, author Frank Bice reflects upon his experience with gratitude and service in the world of football and lacrosse. With coaches as father figures, and highlighting the athletic fields of Manhasset, Saint Mary's, Cran...

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Published: Aug 2016

The Voter's Guide to Healthcare: A No...

Den Bishop

IS A HEALTHCARE SOLUTION WITHIN REACH? Healthcare impacts every one of us, our businesses, and the nation, and you better believe it's going to be a hot topic in the 2020 presidential election.So, why has healthcare become so politica...

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Published: Jan 2020

Austerity: The History of a Dangerous...

Mark Blyth

Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse. In contrast, they have advan...

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Published: Jan 2015

The Case for Carbon Dividends

James Boyce

The supreme challenge of our time is tackling climate change. We urgently need to curtail our use of fossil fuels – but how can we do so in a just and feasible way?In this compelling book, leading economist James Boyce shows that th...

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Published: Jul 2019

New Dark Age: Technology and the End ...

James Bridle

"New Dark Age is among the most unsettling and illuminating books I've read about the Internet, which is to say that it is among the most unsettling and illuminating books I've read about contemporary life."  – New Yor...

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Published: Jun 2019

Tailspin: The People and Forces Behin...

Steven Brill

In this revelatory narrative covering the years 1967 to 2017, Steven Brill gives us a stunningly cogent picture of the broken system at the heart of our society. He shows us how, over the last half century, America’s core values—m...

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Published: Apr 2019

Superman's Not Coming: Our National W...

Erin Brockovich

From the environmental activist, consumer advocate, and renowned crusader—a stirring call to action that gives us the tools we need to take action ourselves, to make our voices heard, to ensure our water is safe, and to finally ...

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Published: Apr 2021

The Kill Chain: Defending America in ...

Christian Brose

From a former senior advisor to Senator John McCain comes an urgent wake-up call about how new technologies are threatening America's military might.For generations of Americans, our country has been the world's dominant milit...

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Published: Mar 2022

Trapped in America's Safety Net: One ...

Andrea Louise Campbell

When Andrea Louise Campbell's sister-in-law, Marcella Wagner, was run off the freeway by a hit-and-run driver, she was seven-and-a-half months pregnant. She survived-and, miraculously, the baby was born healthy. But that's where the g...

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Published: Sep 2014

Government Ruins Nearly Everything: R...

Laura Carno

What government touches, it breaks. So why do we ask it to solve our most pressing and personal issues: abortion, schools, guns and marriage? Has its failures with VA hospitals, the war on drugs, farm subsidies, the IRS, NSA leaks, an...

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Published: Mar 2016

Open: The Progressive Case for Free T...

Kimberly Clausing

A Financial Times Best Economics Book of the Year A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year A Fareed Zakaria GPS Book of the Week “A highly intelligent, fact-based defense of the virtues of an open, competitive economy and so...

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Published: Sep 2020
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