Democracy

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Comprehensive, enlightening, and terrifyingly timely."The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITH BOOK PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post Time Foreign Affairs WBUR PasteDonald Trump's presidency has raise...

A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America?s turn towards authoritarianism.On November 9th, millions of Americans woke up to the impossible: the election of Donald Trump as president. Against all predictions, one of the mostdisliked presidential candidates in history had swept the electoral college, elevating a man w...

The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern stateWriting in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition." In The New York Times Book Review, Michael Lind described the book as "a major achievement by ...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"Everyone worried about the state of contemporary politics should read this book."AnneMarie Slaughter"A trenchant survey from 1989, with its democratic euphoria, to the current map of autocratic striving."David Remnick, New YorkerThe world is in turmoil. From Russia and Turkey across Europe to the Un...

Meticulously scrutinizes the social and political consequences of our increasingly digitized world.' KirkusThe internet was meant to set us free.Tech has radically changed the way we live our lives. But have we unwittingly handed too much away to shadowy powers behind a wall of code, all manipulated by a handful of Silicon Valley utopians, ad me...

A multicultural cast of children imagines what it would be like to be president....

Across the course of several seemingly unrelated but ultimately connected actions by different children, we watch how kids turn a lonely island into a community?and watch a journey from what the world should be to what the world could be....

This lucid book by the preeminent democratic theorist of our time explains the nature, value, and mechanics of democracy. This new edition includes two additional chapters by Ian Shapiro. One deals with the prospects for democracy in light of developments since the advent of the Arab spring in 2010. The other takes up the effects of inequality and ...

This classic text is a comparative political study, based on extensive survey data that defined and analysed the Greek concept of civic virtuelture: the political and social attitudes that are crucial to the success of modern democracy in Western nations. Cited extensively, the book was origionall published in 1963....

An elderly African American woman, en route to vote, remembers her family?s tumultuous voting history in this picture book publishing in time for the fiftieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.As Lillian, a onehundredyearold African American woman, makes a ?long haul up a steep hill? to her polling place, she sees more than trees and ...

A fresh, fun, and "thoughtprovoking" New York Times bestseller about the American electoral college and why every vote counts from bestselling and awardwinning duo Kelly DiPucchio and LeUyen Pham. "Where are the girls" When Grace's teacher reveals that the United States has never had a female president, Grace decides she wants to be the nation's...

Democracy is in bad health. The symptoms are familiar: the rise of fearmongering populists, widespread distrust in the establishment, personality contests and pointscoring in place of reasoned debate, slogans instead of expertise. Against Elections offers a new diagnosis ? and an ancient remedy. In this ingenious book, David Van Reybrouck reminds...

Eleanor Roosevelt?s book on citizenship for young people now revised and updated for a contemporary audience.In the voice of one of the most iconic and beloved political figures of the twentieth century comes a book on citizenship for the future voters of the twenty-first century. Eleanor Roosevelt published the original edition of When You Grow Up...

In this followup to the New York Times bestseller Grace for President, awardwinning duo Kelly DiPucchio and LeUyen Pham present a fun, kidfriendly introduction to the branches of American government as well as the struggle and joys that comes with being a public servant."Who's in charge here"When Grace learns about the three branches of the Uni...

From campaigns to voting booths, from local elections to national races, this fun and factfilled booknow in chapter book format!celebrates the fundamental American idea that "we the people" get to decide who runs the show.Did you know that we have more than ninety thousand state and local governments in the US Or that Election Day celebration...

The author of Mesmerized delivers another fascinating glimpse into history, this time the story of two brave suffragists on a trek across America to spread the word: Votes for Women!In April 1916, Nell Richardson and Alice Burke set out from New York City in a little yellow car, embarking on a bumpy, muddy, unmapped journey ten thousand miles long....

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Fiction, Democracy, Children's lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

If you ran for president, you would have to do a lot of hard work. You would study the nation's problems, tell the American people about your platform, select a running mate, and debate your opponents on live television. If you ran for president, you would have to do a lot of hard work. You would study the nation's problems, tell the American peopl...

This new version of the Caldecottwinning classic by illustrator David Small and author Judith St. George is updated with current facts and new illustrations to include our fortysecond president, George W. Bush. There are now three Georges in the catalog of presidential names, a Bush alongside the presidential family tree, and a new face on the en...