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The must-read summary of James Pierson's book: "Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism".
This complete summary of James Pierson's book "Camelot and the Cultural Revolution" presents his argument that Kennedy's death had a devastating impact on national life. In his book, the author states that the event was a turning point after which things began to move towards destructive decisions,...
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In 1972, Selma James set out a new political perspective. Her starting point was the millions of unwaged women who, working in the home and on the land, were not seen as "workers", and their struggles viewed as outside of the class struggle. Based on her political training in the Johnson-Forest Tendency, founded by her late husband C.L.R. James, on movement experience South and North, and on a respectful study of Marx, she redefined the working class...
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This collection brings together key texts and previously unavailable essays of the influential Italian feminist author and activist Mariarosa Dalla Costa. In recent years, there has been both a renewed interest in theories of social reproduction and an explosion of women's struggles and strikes across the world. The collection offers both historical and contemporary Marxist feminist analysis of how the reproduction of labor and life functions under...
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Nicola Miller is professor of Latin American history at University College London. Her books include Reinventing Modernity in Latin America: Intellectuals Imagine the Future, 1900–1930 and In the Shadow of the State: Intellectuals and the Quest for National Identity in Twentieth-Century Spanish America.
An enlightening account of the entwined histories of knowledge and nationhood in Latin America-and beyond
The rise of nation-states is a hallmark...
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Nunzio Pernicone's biography uses Carlo Tresca's (1879-1943) storied life as newspaper editor, labor agitator, anarchist, anti-communist, street fighter, and opponent of fascism as a springboard to investigate Italian immigrant and radical communities in the United States. From his work on behalf of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), the Sacco and Vanzetti Defense Committee, and his assassination on the streets of New York City, Tresca's passion...
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The world is facing an unprecedented crisis with the pandemic, climate disaster and an economic crash. Resistance is occurring on every continent against the capitalist system. The vision of Karl Marx for a new society is still relevant today. Simon Hannah gives an outline of Marxism and how it can help us to free people from exploitation and save the planet.
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The Democratic Party is now a party of leftist extremism -- radical to the point of insanity: socialist, anti-Christian, in favor of de facto infanticide, and opposed to the rule of law (when it does not suit their purposes, including on the border). Best-selling author David Limbaugh warns that the 2020 elections could be the deciding moment when America turns permanently socialist. Limbaugh offers a stirring call for all Americans who still love...
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Using colourful and detailed case material, Street-Level Democracy introduces a new method of researching everyday politics. It is a wide-ranging book that traces the conflicts between global power and local action. People in farming communities, town mosques, city markets, and fishing communities suffer the effects of wrenching change, but live far from the centres of power. From Britain and small-town USA to Nigeria, India, and Nicaragua, citizens...
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Gilles Kepel is professor of political science at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. His books include Beyond Terror and Martyrdom: The Future of the Middle East, The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West, and Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam.
The virulent new brand of Islamic extremism threatening the West
In November 2015, ISIS terrorists massacred scores of people in Paris with coordinated attacks on the Bataclan concert hall, cafés...
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Donald Trump's insurgent candidacy and subsequent presidency are larger than the man. He has ridden a wave of populist anger, conservatism, and fervor for reform that is aimed directly at The Swamp: the entrenched powers-that-be in Washington and elsewhere, the Old Order of an elite government-media-academia triad. Swamp rulers and warriors alike have set the tone for American politics virtually unchallenged for a generation; now, however, they are...
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The must-read summary of Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe's book: "Sarah from Alaska: the Sudden Rise and Brutal Education of a New Conservative Superstar".
This complete summary of "Sarah from Alaska" by Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe provides and overview of the behind-the-scenes story of Sarah Palin's improbable rise to political power and its complicated aftermath. They describe her talents and the traits that became liabilities under the...
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Now you can watch Congressman Ken Buck on the popular Facebook TV series "The Swamp."
Lavish parties. Committee chairmanships for sale. Pay-to-play corruption. Backroom arm-twisting. Votes on major legislation going to the highest bidder. Welcome to Washington, D.C., the swamp that President Donald Trump was elected to drain.
Congressman Ken Buck is blowing the whistle on the real-life House of Cards in our nation's capital. Elected in 2014 as...
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Our country has been built on numerous cultural ideas that no longer exist today. Twilight of the Idols: An American Story explains how the foundational principles of our society have been and are being eroded by a single root cause. A cause that has grown in a completely bi-partisan way under both parties since the 1980s.
While our wealth has tripled since the 1980s, 99 percent of families have experienced a net decline in their income, spending...
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Alessandro Orsini is one of Italy's premier analysts of political extremism. His investigation of the beliefs and mind-sets of Europe's political fringe has largely focused on anarchist and far-left groups, but in Sacrifice he turns his inquiry to the rapidly expanding neofascist movement. He joined local groups of a neofascist organization he names Sacrifice in two neighboring cities with very different political cultures. In this gripping, "insider"...
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German Blood, Slavic Soil reveals how Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, twentieth-century Europe's two most violent revolutionary regimes, transformed a single city and the people who lived there. During World War II, this single city became an epicenter in the apocalyptic battle between their two regimes.
Drawing on sources and perspectives from both sides, Nicole Eaton explores not only what Germans and Soviets thought about each other, but also...
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A new strain of coronavirus emerged sometime in November 2019, and within weeks a cluster of patients began to be, admitted to hospitals in Wuhan with severe pneumonia, most of them linked to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market. China's seemingly effective containment of the first stage of the epidemic, in glaring contrast with the uncontrolled spread in Europe and the United States, was heralded as a testament to the Chinese Communist Party's unparalleled...
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Le socialisme eut son heure de gloire aux États-Unis entre 1885 et 1922. Cette histoire est connue. Ce qui l'est moins, toutefois, c'est la contribution de l'immigration française à ce mouvement politique. Des exilés de la Commune de Paris aux mineurs du nord de la France, nombreux sont les ouvriers et militants francophones qui ont poursuivi leurs luttes politiques aux États-Unis après y avoir élu domicile.
L'historien Michel Cordillot nous...
1818) The Emergence of Globalism: Visions of World Order in Britain and the United States, 1939–1950
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"Winner of the 2019 Francisco Guiccardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations, International Studies Association" "Shortlisted for the 2018 Gladstone Prize, Royal Historical Society" "Finalist for the TSA/CUP Prize, Transatlantic Studies Association and Cambridge University Press" "One of CHOICE's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017" Or Rosenboim is a research fellow in politics at Queens' College, University of Cambridge. She...
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From nineteenth-century newspaper publishers to the protesters in the "Battle of Seattle" and the recent Greek uprising, anarchists have long been incited to action by the ideal of a "free society of free individuals"-a transformed world in which people and communities relate to each other intentionally and without hierarchy or domination. But what exactly would that look like, and how can we get there? Anarchism and Its Aspirations provides an accessible...
1820) The Future of Capitalism
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In Western societies, the capitalist system is facing a level of distrust not seen in decades. Economic inequality is rampant. Life expectancy is falling. The environment is being destroyed for profit. Political power is wielded by wealthy elites and big business. For capitalism's critics, it is clear that the system is not designed to help average people. Their solution is a top-to-bottom reform of the "free market" along more socialist and democratic...
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