Politics & Government Books

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...

Few have achieved more for the American worker than Lane Kirkland: fewer still have received less credit than Lane for their pivotal roles. In Lane...

"A compelling account of Jackson's Indian-fighting days . . . as well a grand sweep of the conquest of the trans-Appalachian West, a more complex, ...

An inside tour of the incredible—and probably dangerous—plans to counteract the effects of climate change through experiments that range from the p...

The outpouring of grief and heartfelt tributes following Ronald Reagan’s death demonstrated the love and admiration people still have for our natio...

From John Adams’s sons two hundred years ago to the Bush brothers today, America has witnessed a long line of dynastic sons who have been forced in...

"Well written, witty, and wise. Jesse Larner's book goes well beyond its brief: it helps us understand where the left has been going for the last f...

A comprehensive look at the War on Terror and the best way to a safer futureScholar Daniel Byman offers a new approach to fighting the war on terro...

AlterNet editor Joshua Holland demolishes the Right's biggest and most outrageous myths about the economy   Taxes kill growth. Labor unions hurt t...

Abundant, newly discovered sources shatter long-held beliefs The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 revealed, among many other things, a hidden w...

In late November 1943, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his Joint Chiefs of Staff secretly boarded the battleship USS Iowa to attend a confe...