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  • Place Matters

    Metropolitics for the Twenty-First Century

    by Peter Dreier, John Mollenkopf, Todd Swanstrom ...
    Series series Studies in Government and Public Policy
    How can the United States create the political will to address our major urban problems—poverty, unemployment, crime, traffic congestion, toxic pollution, education, energy consumption, and housing, among others? That’s the basic question addressed by the new edition of this award-winning book. Thoroughly revised and updated for its third edition, Place Matters examines the major trends and ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • A Phoenix in the Ashes

    The Rise and Fall of the Koch Coalition in New York City Politics

    by John Hull Mollenkopf ...
    In the years following its near-bankruptcy in 1976 until the end of the 1980s, New York City came to epitomize the debt-driven, deal-oriented, economic boom of the Reagan era. Exploring the interplay between social structural change and political power during this period, John Mollenkopf asks why a city with a large minority population and a long tradition of liberalism elected a conservative ... Read more

    $56.89 USD

  • For Our Children

    A Dialogue of the American Dream

    by Tracy John Mollenkopf ...
    The president of the United States's speech, Therefore, by the grace of God, I humbly ask Congress to grant me this Executive Order, so that whatever we do, in word or deed, we shall do all in his name. For this is once and for all, who we are, President John Henry declared with firm conviction. To my children, I promise, from the rising of the sun, until the end of the world, America will stand ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Changing New York City Politics

    by Asher Arian, Arthur S. Goldberg, John H. Mollenkopf, Edward T. Rogowsky ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1991, Changing New York City Politics provides an important grounding for understanding where New York City politics is likely to go in the coming two years.Three decades after New York City’s first Black mayor was elected and then defeated after only one term, the city’s second Black mayor is facing challenges that in many ways are similar to those of his predecessor, yet ... Read more

    Was $69.99 USD Now $42.99 USD

  • Unsettled Americans

    Metropolitan Context and Civic Leadership for Immigrant Integration

    Edited by John Mollenkopf, Manuel Pastor ...
    The politics of immigration have heated up in recent years as Congress has failed to adopt comprehensive immigration reform, the President has proposed executive actions, and state and local governments have responded unevenly and ambivalently to burgeoning immigrant communities in the context of a severe economic downturn. Moreover we have witnessed large shifts in the locations of immigrants and ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

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    The Decline of American Unionism

    by Kim Moody ...
    Series series Haymarket Series
    Over the past decade American labor has faced a tidal wave of wage cuts, plant closures and broken strikes. In this first comprehensive history of the labor movement from Truman to Reagan, Kim Moody shows how the AFL-CIO’s conservative ideology of “business unionism” effectively disarmed unions in the face of a domestic right turn and an epochal shift to globalized production. Eschewing alliances ... Read more

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  • Takeover

    How the Left's Quest for Social Justice Corrupted Liberalism

    by Donald Critchlow, W.J. Rorabaugh ...
    "How did liberals get to be the way they are today?"That's the question many Americans are asking as they witness the efforts of the most left-wing president in American history. At last, historians Donald T. Critchlow and W. J. Rorabaugh supply the answer.As the authors show, it is a mistake to see the Obama administration's agenda as a single man's vision. Equally flawed, they reveal, is the now ... Read more

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  • The Conscience of a Liberal

    by Paul Krugman ...
    In this "clear, provocative" (Boston Globe) New York Times bestseller, Paul Krugman, today's most widely read economist, examines the past eighty years of American history, from the reforms that tamed the harsh inequality of the Gilded Age and the 1920s to the unraveling of that achievement and the reemergence of immense economic and political inequality since the 1970s. Seeking to understand both ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

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  • American Poison

    How Racial Hostility Destroyed Our Promise

    by Eduardo Porter ...
    A sweeping examination of how American racism has broken the country's social compact, eroded America's common goods, and damaged the lives of every American--and a heartfelt look at how these deep wounds might begin to heal.Compared to other industrialized nations, the United States is losing ground across nearly every indicator of social health. Its race problem, argues Eduardo Porter, is ... Read more

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  • Mad As Hell

    How the Tea Party Movement Is Fundamentally Remaking Our Two-Party System

    by Scott Rasmussen, Douglas Schoen ...
    Today's raucous revolt against Washington and Wall Street is a classic populist uprising. In Mad as Hell, political pollsters Scott Rasmussen and Doug Schoen discuss how the Tea Party movement is fundamentally remaking our two-party system and what it means for the future of American politics. For political junkies of every stripe—from both the left and the right side of the aisle— Mad as Hell is ... Read more

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  • A Fabulous Failure

    The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism

    by Nelson Lichtenstein, Judith Stein ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    How the Clinton administration betrayed its progressive principles and capitulated to the rightWhen Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992, he ended twelve years of Republican rule and seemed poised to enact a progressive transformation of the US economy, touching everything from health care to trade to labor relations. Yet by the time he left office, the nation’s economic and social policies ... Read more

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  • Democracy in America?

    What Has Gone Wrong and What We Can Do About It

    by Benjamin I. Page, Martin Gilens ...
    "Important and riveting . . . The solution isn't to redistribute wealth from the have-mores to the have-lesses. It's to redistribute political power to everyone." —Robert B. ReichAmerica faces daunting problems—stagnant wages, high health care costs, neglected schools, deteriorating public services. How did we get here? Through decades of dysfunctional government. In Democracy in America? veteran ... Read more

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