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  • The Radical Fund

    How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America

    by John Fabian Witt ...
    Winner of the Terry McAdam Book AwardAs recommended on The Ezra Klein ShowFrom Pulitzer Prize finalist John Fabian Witt comes the “engrossing” (The New York Times) secret history of an epic experiment to remake American democracy. Before the dark money of the Koch Brothers, before the billions of the Ford Foundation, there was the Garland Fund.In 1922, a young idealist named Charles Garland ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Step Right Up

    Carnival of Mysteries

    by L.A. Witt ...
    Narrated by Michael Ferraiuolo, John Solo ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 17 min

    Jason Richards is ridiculously in love with his friend and coworker, Ahmed Kazimi. Unfortunately, Ahmed is a package deal—he has a boyfriend who, as far as Jason is concerned, needs to be launched into the sun.Then a mysterious carnival rolls into town, and Jason and Ahmed can’t resist going. Not even if Ahmed’s boyfriend can be depended on to make everybody miserable.When Ahmed wins a strange ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment

    by John Witte, Joel A. Nichols, Richard W. Garnett ...
    This accessible and authoritative introduction tells the American story of religious liberty from its colonial beginnings to the latest Supreme Court cases. The authors analyze closely the formation of the First Amendment religion clauses and describe the unique and enduring principles of the American experiment in religious freedom - liberty of conscience, free exercise of religion, religious ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

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    The Radical Fund

    How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America

    by John Fabian Witt ...
    Narrated by Kevin R. Free ...

    Unabridged

    21 hours 26 min

    Winner of the Terry McAdam Book AwardAs recommended on The Ezra Klein ShowFrom Pulitzer Prize finalist John Fabian Witt comes the “engrossing” (The New York Times) secret history of an epic experiment to remake American democracy. Before the dark money of the Koch Brothers, before the billions of the Ford Foundation, there was the Garland Fund.In 1922, a young idealist named Charles Garland ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Aftermath

    by L.A. Witt ...
    Narrated by Greg Boudreaux, John Solo ...
    Series series Vino & Veritas

    Unabridged

    12 hours 18 min

    Brent Weyland was the life of the party until an injury ended his hockey career. Now he's retreated alone to a lakefront house, trying to make sense of a life and body that doesn't feel like his anymore.Jon Norquist was happily married right up until he wasn't. Now a single father in his forties, he's trying to figure out what comes next. In the meantime, he pours his heartache and regret into the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Presidency of Joseph R. Biden

    A First Historical Assessment

    by Kathryn Cramer Brownell, María Cristina García, Joel K. Goldstein, Michael Kazin, Daniel C. Kurtzer, Joyce Mao, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Timothy Naftali, Ekaterina Pravilova, Noah Rosenblum, Paul Sabin, Timothy Stewart-Winter, Sean H. Vanatta, John Witt, Mary Ziegler ...
    Leading historians offer the first look at Biden’s four years in the White HouseThe Presidency of Joseph R. Biden presents a first draft of history by providing insights into how this one-term president fits within the broader historical forces shaping the United States in the twenty-first century. Acclaimed political historian Julian Zelizer brings together some of today’s leading scholars to ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Rush for Black Diamonds, Volume One

    From John Locke to Thomas Jefferson—The Transatlantic Slave Trade to Chattel Slavery in the UK and the US

    by George Walters-Sleyon ...
    The Rush for Black Diamonds, Volume One is the first of two volumes. It explores the Transatlantic slave trade and its mutation into chattel slavery. Volume One focuses on the involvement of two prominent Enlightenment philosophers as the architects of the political, legal, economic, and philosophical justifications for the human trade in the United Kingdom and the United States: John Locke (1632 ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Christianity And Democracy In Global Context

    by John Witte ...
    In the past, Christianity has had both positive and negative influences on democracy. Christian churches have served as benevolent agents of welfare and catalysts of political reform. But they have also served as belligerent allies of repression and censors of human rights. Christian theology has helped to cultivate democratic ideas of equality, li ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Lincoln's Code

    The Laws of War in American History

    by John Fabian Witt ...
    This acclaimed, award-winning book is a “sweeping history” (The New York Times Book Review) of the code of laws of war for American armies, set forth by Abraham Lincoln in the midst of the Civil War.In the closing days of 1862, just three weeks before Emancipation, the administration of Abraham Lincoln commissioned a code setting forth the laws of war for US armies. It announced standards of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • American Contagions

    Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID–19

    by John Fabian Witt ...
    A concise history of how American law has shaped—and been shaped by—the experience of contagion"Contrarians and the civic-minded alike will find Witt's legal survey a fascinating resource"—Kirkus, starred review"Professor Witt's book is an original and thoughtful contribution to the interdisciplinary study of disease and American law. Although he covers the broad sweep of the American experience ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Bookstore Clerks & Significant Others

    Tsunami Press 1

    by Scott Landfield, S. G. Ellerhoff, D. S. Rhodes, Jenny Root, Michael McGriff, Matthew Dickman, Meli Hull, Elly Bookman, Kelsey Yoder, Mose Tuzik Mosley, Bronwynn Dean, Emily Poole, Bob Craven, Valerie Ihsan, Ken Babbs, Deb Casey, Brian Cutean, Cecelia Hagen, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Jorah LaFleur, Dorianne Laux, Carter McKenzie, Joseph Millar, Erik Muller, Eve Müller, Maxine Scates, Tom A. Titus, John Witte ...
    Series Book 1 - Tsunami Press
    Fiction, poetry, prose, and illustration by fourteen Tsunami Books clerks and fourteen significant others. A retrospective, a showcase, and a thank you to the people who, for twenty-seven years, have helped build an independent bookstore and community events center in Eugene, Oregon—and now, also, a new press in a new era. After a quarter century of bookselling and hard-won stewardship, our ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Christianity and Human Rights

    An Introduction

    Edited by John Witte, Jr, Frank S. Alexander ...
    Combining Jewish, Greek, and Roman teachings with the radical new teachings of Christ and St. Paul, Christianity helped to cultivate the cardinal ideas of dignity, equality, liberty and democracy that ground the modern human rights paradigm. Christianity also helped shape the law of public, private, penal, and procedural rights that anchor modern legal systems in the West and beyond. This ... Read more

    $36.09 USD