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“michael j brown”

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  • Hope & Scorn

    Eggheads, Experts, & Elites in American Politics

    by Michael J. Brown ...
    Intellectuals "have been both rallying points and railed against in American politics, vessels of hope and targets of scorn," writes Michael J. Brown as he invigorates a recurrent debate in American life: Are intellectual public figures essential voices of knowledge and wisdom, or out-of-touch elites? Hope and Scorn investigates the role of high-profile experts and thinkers in American life and ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Itinerant Ambassador

    The Life of Sir Thomas Roe

    by Michael J. Brown ...
    Thomas Roe, born near London in 1580 or 1581 was a notable and influential figure in the England of Elizabeth and of the early Stuarts. In his wide-ranging career, he came into contact with an array of famous seventeenth-century persons ranging from Sir Walter Raleigh to Archbishop William Laud and from Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia to the Great Mogul Emperor of Hindustan. Roe was one of the most ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Nasty Women and Bad Hombres

    Gender and Race in the 2016 US Presidential Election

    by Christine A. Kray, De Anna J. Reese, Delia C. Gillis, Einav Rabinovitch-Fox, Gina Masullo Chen, Hinda Mandell, Jamia Wilson, Jane Caputi, Jenni M. Simon0, Jiyoung Lee1, Joanna Weiss2, Tamar W. Carroll4, Joshua D. Martin5, Katie Terezakis6, Kelsey N. Whipple7, Leora Tanenbaum8, Mark Ward Sr.9, Michael J. Brown0, Neal J. Powless1, O. Nicholas Robertson2, Pamela Aronson3, R. Brandon Anderson4, Rachel Parsons5, Roy Schwartzman6, Sally Campbell Galman7, Steve Almond8, Ana Stevenson9, Asma Uddin0, Barbara Winslow1, Beth L. Boser2, Carol M. Liebler3 ...
    Gender and racial politics were at the center of the 2016 US presidential contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The election was historic because Clinton was the first woman nominated by a major political party for thepresidency. Yet it was also historic in its generation of sustained reflection on the past. Clinton's campaign linked her with suffragist struggles--represented perhaps ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Intellectuals and Society

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    The influence of intellectuals is not only greater than in previous eras but also takes a very different form from that envisioned by those like Machiavelli and others who have wanted to directly influence rulers. It has not been by shaping the opinions or directing the actions of the holders of power that modern intellectuals have most influenced the course of events, but by shaping public ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Good and Mad

    The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

    by Rebecca Traister ...
    ***Updated with a new introduction*Journalist Rebecca Traister’s New York Times bestselling exploration of the transformative power of female anger and its ability to transcend into a political movement is “a hopeful, maddening compendium of righteous feminine anger, and the good it can do when wielded efficiently—and collectively” (Vanity Fair).**Long before Pantsuit Nation, before the Women’s ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Hayek's The Road to Serfdom

    A Brief Introduction

    by Bruce Caldwell ...
    Series series Chicago Shorts
    The Road to Serfdom, F. A. Hayek’s 1944 warning against the dangers of government control, continues to influence politics more than seventy years after it was turned down by three American publishers and finally published by the University of Chicago Press. A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, the definitive edition of The Road to Serfdom ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The New World

    by Winston S. Churchill ...
    Series Book 2 - A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
    The second volume of the Nobel Prize–winning prime minister's breathtaking history of Britain continues with the growth of monarchy and religious conflict.In the "wilderness" years after Winston S. Churchill unflinchingly guided his country through World War II, he turned his masterful hand to an exhaustive history of the country he loved above all else. And the world discovered that this ... Read more

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  • Blackout

    How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation

    by Candace Owens ...
    It’s time for a black exit.Political activist and social media star Candace Owens addresses the many ways that Democrat Party policies hurt, rather than help, the African American community, and why she and many others are turning right.Black Americans have long been shackled to the Democrats. Seeing no viable alternative, they have watched liberal politicians take the black vote for granted ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics

    by Christopher Lasch ...
    "A major and challenging work. . . . Provocative, and certain to be controversial. . . . Will add important new dimension to the continuing debate on the decline of liberalism." —William Julius Wilson, New York Times Book ReviewCan we continue to believe in progress? In this sobering analysis of the Western human condition, Christopher Lasch seeks the answer in a history of the struggle between ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Persona Non Grata

    The Death of Free Speech in the Internet Age

    by Tom Flanagan ...
    From an acclaimed professor and former advisor to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, a passionate and edgy defense of free speech in Canada, and the role the internet plays in the issue.In February 2013, Tom Flanagan, acclaimed academic, University of Calgary professor, and former advisor to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, made comments surrounding the issue of viewing child pornography that were ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Radicals for Capitalism

    A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement

    by Brian Doherty ...
    On Wall Street, in the culture of high tech, in American government: Libertarianism -- the simple but radical idea that the only purpose of government is to protect its citizens and their property against direct violence and threat -- has become an extremely influential strain of thought. But while many books talk about libertarian ideas, none until now has explored the history of this uniquely ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Kings & Queens of Great Britain

    Every Question Answered

    by David Soud ...
    From the House of Wessex to the House of Windsor, follow the pageant of personalities that have made Great Britain what it is today.Fascinating biographies of the British monarchs from the time of Roman Brittania to present day answer your every question about the country's aristocracy. Details of the kings' and queens' personalities are the focus, with a timeline across the bottom relating the ... Read more

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