Posts Tagged ‘Politics’

Flynt Leverett, Hillary Mann Leverett

January 28 . 2013

Middle East experts, Flynt and Hillary Leverett draw on years of research and access to high-level officials in Going to Tehran to explain how Iran sees the world and why its approach to foreign policy is hardly the irrational behavior of a rogue nation.

Taylor Branch

January 15 . 2013

Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch brings to life eighteen pivotal dramas in The King Years, beginning with the impromptu speech that turned an untested, twenty-six-year-old Martin Luther King forever into a public figure on the first night of the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Loren Collins

January 9 . 2013

Loren Collins reveals how rumors are started as well as the types of rhetorical techniques and logical fallacies often found in misleading or outright false claims in Bullspotting.

Richard Lingeman

January 8 . 2013

Richard Lingeman examines a brief but momentous and crowded time, the years between VJ Day and the beginning of the Korean War, describing how we got from there to here in The Noir Forties.

 

John Jenkins

January 2 . 2013

John A. Jenkins has produced the first full biography of  William Rehnquist, exploring the roots of his political and judicial convictions and showing how he began his career on the Court in The Partisan.

Joan Walsh

September 28 . 2012

Joan Walsh talks about race in honest, unflinching, unfamiliar terms, acknowledging not just Republican but Democratic Party political mistakes—and her own in What’s the Matter With White People?

Steven Johnson

September 25 . 2012

At a time when the conventional wisdom holds that the political system is hopelessly gridlocked with old ideas, Steven Johnson‘s, Future Perfect makes the timely and inspiring case that progress is still possible, and that new solutions are on the rise.

Sasha Issenberg, John Wade

September 20 . 2012

Journalist Sasha Issenberg tells the hidden story of the analytical revolution upending the way political campaigns are run in the 21st century in The Victory Lab. Later, a collection of quotes from Ronald Reagan’s most notable speeches is divided into topics such as God, the economy, pop culture, and politics in Ronald Reagan’s Wisdom for the Twenyt-First Century.

Mickey Edwards

September 18 . 2012

Former congressman, Mickey Edwards witnessed firsthand how important legislative battles can devolve into struggles not over principle but over party advantage in The Parties Versus the People.

Hank Campbell

September 12 . 2012

In Science Left Behind, Dr. Alex B. Berezow and Hank Campbell have drawn open the curtain on the left’s fear of science; it reveals, vague inclinations about the wholesomeness of all things natural, the unhealthiness of the unnatural, and many other seductive fallacies have led to an epidemic of misinformation making both sides culpable.