Politics & Government Books

In The Blue Book of Freedom, R. J. Rummel asserts that democracy is the solution to the scourges that face the world. A student of war and peace fo...

What you need to know now about America's energy future "Hi, I'm the United States and I'm an oil-oholic." We have an energy problem. And everybod...

Personal and Passionate Reflections on the Land and Its People"The Mediterranean landscape, the exuberance of the Israelis, the way politics is a ...

"A stinging account of how public policy and private businesses have failed to adapt to working mothers."--Jennifer Ludden, NPR Why life is har...

As the Cold War reaches its height, so does postwar prosperity, and the American people celebrate their optimism by electing as president the young...

One of America’s best-known progressive commentators reveals that, far from betraying conservative ideals, George W. Bush’s administration has beha...

An eye-opening exposé of America's torture regime Myths about torture abound: Waterboarding is the worst we've done. The soldiers were hardened pr...

Everything we know about drugs-from acid to epidemics to DARE and salvia-turns out to be wrong Stock up on munchies and line up your water bottles...

Chronicles the damage Thomas Friedman's flat wrong, Flat Earth ideas have caused to the American economy As Martin Sieff convincingly argues, Thom...

"For eight years, Nancy Soderberg served with distinction and creativity at the highest levels of American government. She is uniquely positioned t...

A guide to the American legal system, told through the story of two actual court cases The Steps to the Supreme Court takes a lively, narrative ap...

"Nobody approaches the objectivity and precision of Bush and O'Hanlon when it comes to analysis of the military and political dimensions of the Tai...

"Fascinating and well researched.... Dr. Swift is the first to concentrate on this unusual subject with such a wealth of sympathetic detail."-Sarah...

Award-winning presidential scholar and speechwriter Wynton Hall brings together the Republican Party’s greatest oratorical gems, from Lincoln's Get...

Why Israel's greatest weakness is its greatest strength, and what its supporters and enemies can learn from its success Israel's critics in the We...

This is an accessible book that delineates how progressives and the progressive movement have created the American idea and ideals and forged the k...

The Korean War, the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, Cambodia, Lebanon, El Salvador, Grenada, Iran-Contra, Nicaragua, Panama, the G...

A U.S. senator and Pulitzer Prizewinner, both experts on Southeast Asia, offer a bold new approach to address radical Islam and fight global terror...

On the same day that reporter Jeffrey Kaye visited the Tondo hospital in northwest Manila, members of an employees association wearing hospital uni...

An award-winning journalist and renowned political cartoonist present over 1,200 entries of the silly, stupid, offensive, arrogant, racist and just...

This fact-packed exposé reveals all the dirty little secrets that Michele Bachmann would rather you didn't know When Michele Bachmann became a fro...

"An extremely important book. The Long War for Freedom finally presents to the Western world an in-depth portrait of those 'small voices' in the Ar...

"Alan Weisman has come as close as anyone to unraveling one of the big mysteries of the television age: who is the real Dan Rather? Weisman has dev...

Global climate change? We can stop it.Addiction to oil? We can replace it.Technological innovation? We can create it.But we can't wait twenty, thir...