Politics & Government Books

There is a hidden country within the United States. It was formed from the astonishing number of secrets held by the government and the growing ra...

Radio talking head Ziegler has been fired numerous times in his career for using language or terms deemed inappropriate. He talks about how this wo...

America's power is in decline, its allies alienated, its soldiers trapped in a war that even generals regard as unwinnable. What has happened these...

In public and private  circles, the mere mention of race or the charge of racism generates a predictable response: silence. in Culture Whiplash, la...

Why conservatism equals terrible government-and always willTax cuts that produce gargantuan budget deficits, an ill-conceived war that has diminish...

"For years," Burt Prelutsky says, "the ranks of the Right were so bereft of amusing people they had to point to William F. Buckley Jr. as their tok...

In The Case for Peace, Dershowitz identifies twelve geopolitical barriers to peace between Israel and Palestine–and explains how to move around the...

Peoplehood—everyone's talking about it. But what does it actually mean and why is it important to the future of Judaism? "Why is this conversation ...

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...