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Books on Political Science
( 2002 & Older )
 | "Outgunned: Up Against The N.R.A. – The First Complete Insider Account of The Battle Over Gun Control" [2002] by Peter Harry Brown & Daniel G. Abel Free Press hardcover [12/2002] for $18.20 |
 | "The Democracy Owners' Manual: A Practical Guide To Changing the World" [2002] by Jim Shultz Rutgers Univ Press 9x6 pb [2/2002] for $22.95 Rutgers Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [2/2002] for $59.00 |
 | "Our Media, Not Theirs: The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media" [2002] by Robert W. McChesney & John Nichols
Seven Stories Press 7x5 pb [12/2002] for $9.95 {an expansion of pamphlet "It's The Media, Stupid"} SSP/Open Media 6¾x3¼ pamphlet [6/2000] out of print/used |
 | "Where Have All The Voters Gone?" [2002] by Martin P. Wattenberg Harvard Univ Press 8.4x5½ pb [11/2002] for $18.95 Harvard Univ Press 8½x5¾ hardcover [11/2002] for $39.95 |
 | "Why The Left Hates America: Exposing The Lies That Have Obscured Our Nation's Greatness" [2002] by Daniel J. Flynn Unsupported blather from an angry fascist-racist-sexist right-wing Republican — do not buy this book! |
 | "The Vanishing Voter: Public Involvement In An Age Of Uncertainty" [2002] by Thomas E. Patterson Knopf 9½x6½ hardcover [9/2002] for $17.50 |
 | "The Silent Takeover: Global Capitalism & The Death of Democracy" [2002] by Noreena Hertz "One of the best books of the year" — The Sunday Times of London HarperBusiness 8x5.3 pb [9/2003] for $10.47 Free Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [6/2002] for $17.50 |
 | "Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace: How We Got To Be So Hated" [2002] by Gore Vidal Thunder's Mouth Press 7.6x5 pb [3/2002] for $8.00 |
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"Blinded By The Right: The Conscience of An Ex-Conservative" [2002] by David Brock The author participated in the very real 'vast right-wing conspiracy' that sought to bring down the Clinton presidency; this book sets the record straight with much documentary evidence. Crown 9½x6½ hardcover [3/2002] for $18.17 Crown Adobe Reader ebook [4/2002] for $20.00 Crown M/S Reader ebook [4/2002] for $20.00 |
 | "Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses For The State of The Nation!" [2002] by gadfly filmmaker Michael Moore largest selling non-fiction book in America for 2002 Regan Books 8x5¼ pb [5/2004] for $11.86 Regan Books 9x5¾ hardcover [2/2002] for $14.97 |
 | "Too Close To Call: The Thirty-Six-Day Battle To Decide The 2000 Election" [2001] by Jeffrey Toobin Random House pb [10/2002] for $10.47 Random House 9½x6.4 hardcover [10/2001] for $18.17 |
 | "Who Rules America?: Power & Politics" [2001] by G. William Domhoff McGraw-Hill 8¾x6 pb [6/2001] for $37.65 |
 | "The Conscience of A Liberal: Reclaiming The Compassionate Agenda" [2001] by Sen. Paul Wellstone
Univ of MN Press 8½x5½ pb [10/2002] for $12.57 Random House 8½x5¾ hardcover [5/2001] for $16.77 |
 | "Supreme Injustice: How The High Court Hijacked Election 2000" [2001] by Alan M. Dershowitz Oxford Univ Press pb [10/2002] for $10.47 Oxford Univ Press 9½x6.4 hardcover [6/2001] for $17.50 |
 | "The Betrayal of America: How The Supreme Court Undermined The Constitution & Chose Our President" [2001] by Vincent Bugliosi Thunder's Mouth Press 7½x5 pb [5/2001] for $9.95 |
 | "Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth" [2001] by David Bollier "A tour de force narrative that draws the reader into high alert...." — activist Ralph Nader Routledge 9x6 pb [6/2003] for $12.57 Routledge 9¼x6.3 hardcover [3/2002] for $18.20 |
 | "Empire" [2000] by Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri
"an unabashedly utopian work of political philosophy" Harvard Univ Press 9¼x6¼ pb [7/2001] for $17.95 Harvard Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [3/2000] for $45.00 also see their subsequent book "Multitude" at top "Empire's New Clothes: Reading Hardt & Negri" [2003] Edited by Paul A. Passavant & Jodi Dean Routledge 9x6¼ pb [11/2003] for $14.93 Routledge 9¼x6¼ hardcover [11/2003] for $104.95 [sic] |
 | "While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness & The Threat To Peace" [2000] by historians Donald & Frederick W. Kagan Griffin 9¼x6 pb [11/2001] for $12.57 St. Martin 9¼x6¼ hardcover [9/2000] out of print/used |
 | "If The Gods Had Meant Us To Vote, They Would Have Given Us Candidates" [2000] by Jim Hightower
Harper 8x5¼ pb [2/2001] for $11.20 HarperCollins hardcover [3/2000] out of print/used author website |
 | "The Electoral College Primer 2000" [1999] by Lawrence D. Longley & Neal R. Peirce Yale Univ Press 8¼x5½ pb [9/99] for $18.00 Yale Univ Press 8½x5¾ hardcover [10/99] out of print/used |
 | "The Wave Principle of Human Social Behavior & The New Science of Socionomics" [1999] by Robert R. Prechter, Jr. New Classics Library hardcover [6/2002] for $27.30 New Classics Library 9¾x6½ hardcover [3/99] for $40.99 |
 | "Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought In Twentieth-Century America" [1998] by Richard Rorty [1931-2007]
Rorty holds that the Critical Left offers few solutions, while the Progressive Left is committed to ongoing pragmatic achievement. Harvard Univ Press 8¼x5¾ pb [9/99] for $10.17 Harvard Univ Press 8¾x6 hardcover [4/98] for $25.00 book entry at Wikipedia |
 | "An Economic Theory of Democracy" [1997] by Anthony Downs Addison Wesley 8x5½ pb [1/97] for $60.60 |
 | "The Death & Rebirth of American Radicalism" [1996] by Stanley Aronowitz Routledge 9x6 pb [12/96] for $26.95 Routledge 9½x6¼ hardcover [12/96] for $96.99 [!] |
 | "Up From Conservatism: Why The Right Is Wrong For America" [1996] by Michael Lind Free Press 8x6 pb [7/97] for $13.00 Free Press 10x6½ hardcover [7/96] out of print/used |
 | "The Populist Persuasion: An American History" [1995] by Michael Kazin Cornell Univ Press 9½x6 pb [10/98] for $19.95 Basic Books 9¾x6½ hardcover [2/95] out of print/used author homepage |
 | "The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America" [1995] by Philip K. Howard {chairman of Common Good} Warner 8x5¼ pb [3/96] for $11.16 Random House hardcover [1/95] out of print/used Publishing Mills audio [6/96] out of stock/used |
 | "Criminal Justice?: The Legal System Versus Individual Responsibility" [14 essays; 1995] Edited by Robert James Bidinotto Fndtn for Economic Educ'n pb [6/95] out of print/used Fndtn for Economic Educ'n hardcover [6/95] out of print/used |
 | "The Power Game: How Washington Works" [1988] by journalist Hedrick Smith Ballantine 8¼x5½ pb [9/96] for $11.53 Random House hardcover [2/88] out of print/used |
 | "Democracy: Theory and Practice" [1992] by John Arthur Wadsworth 9¼x7½ pb [1/92] out of print/used at Amazon |
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"Why Americans Still Don't Vote: And Why Politicians Want It That Way" [1988] by Frances Fox Piven & Richard A. Cloward Beacon Press pb [rev 9/2000] for $12.60 |
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"The Politics of War: The Story of Two Wars Which Altered Forever The Political Life of The American Republic, 1890-1920" [1979] by Walter Karp Moyer Bell Ltd. 8¼x5¼ pb [11/2003] for $11.86 Harper & Row hardcover [1/79] out of print/used |
"The Triumph of Politics: Why The Reagan Revolution Failed" [1986]
by David Stockman
"No other book comes close to understanding America's domestic
political process." — J. Roberts (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Avon pb [1/87] out of print/many used
HarperCollins hardcover [5/86] out of print/many used
Sept 2003 Slate article by Timothy Noah
 | "Culture and Society, 1780-1950" [1966] by Raymond Williams Columbia Univ Press 8¼x5½ pb [4/83] for $30.50 |
Classic Books on Political Science
 | "Locke: Two Treatises of Government" [1690 classic] by John Locke [1632-1704]; Edited by Mark Goldie [1991] Tuttle/Everyman 7¾x5 pb [9/91] for $8.95 Kessinger/Everyman 11x8¼ pb [6/2004] for $10.95 Edited by Peter Laslett [1960] Cambridge Univ Press 8½x5½ pb [10/88] for $11.00 Cambridge Univ 8¾x6 hardcover [12/67] for $110.00 {sic} |
 | "On Liberty" [1859 classic] by John Stuart Mill [1806-73]
Penguin 7¾x5 pb [2/75] for $9.95 Digireads 9x6 pb [1/2005] for $4.99 BN Publng audio CD [10/2005] for $19.99 Edition by David Bromwich & George Kateb [2003] Yale Univ Press 8¼x5½ pb [1/2003] for $12.95 Yale Univ Press 11x6½ hardcover [1/2003] for $27.50 |
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"Essays In The History of Liberty" [1877] by Lord Acton, edited by J. Rufus Fears Liberty Fund 8¾x6 pb [9/85] for $13.78 Liberty Fund 9¼x6¼ hardcover [9/85] for $22.80 "The History Of Freedom and Other Essays" [1907] by Lord Acton Obscure Press 8½x5½ pb [2/2006] for $34.95 Cosimo Classics 7¾x5 pb [8/2005] for $27.95 Ayer Co. Publng hardcover [orig 1907] for $31.95 John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton [1834-1902] Wikipedia entry • Acton Institute [est. 1990] |
 | "Democracy and Education" [1916 classic] by John Dewey [1859-1952] For Dewey, democracy and education were both the means and end for the building of a good and just progressive society. Digireads 9x6 pb [1/2005] for $9.49 Dover 8½x5½ pb [4/2004] for $10.36 Free Press 8¼x5½ pb [2/97] for $16.95 |
 | "It Is Later Than You Think: The Need For A Militant Democracy" [orig 1938, revised 1943] by Max Lerner [1902-1992] Transaction Publrs hardcover [1/89] for $39.95 |
 | "Ideas Are Weapons: The History & Uses of Ideas" [1939 classic] by Max Lerner [1902-1992]
Transaction Publrs 9¼x6¼ pb [1/91] for $34.95 |
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"Reveille For Radicals" [1946 classic; revised 1969] by Saul D. Alinsky [1909-72] Vintage 8¼x5¼ pb [10/89] for $13.60 |
 | "The American Political Tradition & The Men Who Made It" [Knopf 1948 classic] by Richard Hofstadter [1916-70] Vintage 8¼x5¼ pb [4/89] for $9.72 A.C.L.S. 9x6 hardcover [12/99] for $45.00 2006 Hofstadter bio by David S. Brown Hofstadter entry at Wikipedia |
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"The Origins of Totalitarianism" [1951 classic, rev 1973] by Hannah Arendt [1906-75] "Generally regarded as the definitive work on totalitarianism." Harvest Books 8x5½ pb [3/73] for $12.35 Schocken 9½x6½ hardcover [4/2004] for $22.05 book entry at Wikipedia |
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"The Genius of American Politics" [1953 classic] by Daniel J. Boorstin Univ of Chicago Press 8x5.3 pb [6/53] for $19.00 Univ of Chicago press hardcover [6/53] out of print/used |
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"The Conservative Mind: From Burke To Eliot" [orig 1953, rev 1986] by Russell Kirk [1918-94] Regnery 9x6 7th edition pb [11/2001] for $12.97 Regnery 9¼x6½ 7th edition hardcover [9/86] out of print/used Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal |
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"Liberal Tradition In America: An Interpretation of American Political Thought Since The Revolution" [1955 classic] by Louis Hartz Harcourt 8x5¼ pb [5/91] for $10.40 |
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"Man, The State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis" [1959 classic] by Kenneth N. Waltz
Columbia Univ Press 8x5¼ pb [4/2001] for $26.00 |
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"The Image: A Guide To Pseudo-Events In America" [1962 classic] by Daniel J. Boorstin Vintage 8x5¼ pb [9/92] for $10.47 Vintage pb [11/71] out of print/many used Peter Smith Publng hardcover [12/84] out of print/used Blackstone audio [8/97] 7 tapes for $49.95 |
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"On Revolution" [1963] by Hannah Arendt [1906-75] Penguin Classics pb [9/2006] for $10.40 Penguin Classics 7¾x5 pb [2/91] for $10.40 Greenwood Press 8¾x5¾ hardcover [10/82] for $94.94 [sic] |
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"The Active Society: A Theory of Societal & Political Processes" [1968 classic] by Amitai Etzioni
"The modern sociological classic that Etzioni considers his most important sociological work, [which] extends the analysis of effective government to the broader theoretical question of how and under what circumstances society can transform itself. In this context, [it] examines the respective roles of societal knowledge, strategy and decision making, consensus building, mobilization, coalition building, and basic human needs ... [weaving] together rich and complex social theory ... with the more universally accessible message that the people’s lives could be much improved by the systematic application of sociological theory and method to deliberate societal change." — Richard M. Coughlin, University of New Mexico Free Press hardcover [3/68] out of print/used Free Press pb [3/71] out of print/used |
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"The Creation of The American Republic, 1776-1787" [1969] by Gordon S. Wood "One of the half dozen most important books ever written about the American Revolution." — The New York Times Book Review Univ NC Press 9x6 pb [4/98] for $19.95 Univ NC Press 9½x6½ hardcover [4/98] for $55.00 |
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"Rules For Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer For Realistic Radicals" [1971 classic] by Saul D. Alinsky [1909-72] Vintage 8x5 pb [10/89] for $9.60 Random House hardcover [5/71] out of print/used |
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"Impeachment: A Handbook" [1974 classic] by Charles L. Black, Jr. [1915-2001] Foreward by Akhil Reed Amar of Yale Yale Univ Press 8¼x5¼ hardcover [10/98] for $27.00 Yale Univ Press 8x5 pb [10/98] for $11.95 |
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"The Conservative Intellectual Movement In America Since 1945" [1976 classic] by George H. Nash I.S.I. 9x6 pb [4/98] for $22.05 I.S.I. hardcover [12/96] for $15.72 publisher Intercollegiate Studies Institute [est. 1953] |
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"The Populist Moment: A Short History of The Agrarian Revolt In America" [1978 abridged version of 'Democratic Promise']
Oxford Univ Press 8x5¼ pb [10/78] for $17.95 Oxford Univ Press 8½x6 hardcover [10/78] out of print/used "Democratic Promise: The Populist Moment In America" [1976 classic] by Lawrence Goodwyn Oxford Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [6/76] out of print/rare |
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"Theory of International Politics" [1979 classic] by Kenneth N. Waltz McGraw-Hill 9¼x6½ pb [1/79] for $79.06 |
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"The Virtue of Civility: Selected Essays On Liberalism, Tradition & Civil Society" [1997] by Edward Albert Shils, edited by Steven Grosby recommended by Tony Hillerman Liberty Fund 9¼x6¼ pb [7/97] for $11.99 Liberty Fund 9¾x6½ hardcover [7/97] for $19.99 |
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"The Collapse of Complex Societies" [1988] by Joseph Tainter Cambridge Univ Press 9¾x7 pb [3/90] for $29.59 Cambridge Univ Press hardcover [5/88] out of print/rare |
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"Post-Capitalist Society" [1993 bestseller] by Peter F. Drucker [1909-2005] Collins 8x5¼ pb [4/94] for $11.70 HarperCollins 9½x5½ hardcover [4/93] out of print/used |
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"A People's History of The United States: 1492 - Present" [1999] by Howard Zinn Perennial Classics 8x5¼ pb [4/2003] for $13.26 HarperCollins 9½x6½ hardcover [rev 2/2003] for $24.45 "A People's History of the United States CD: Highlights From The 20th Century", narrated by Matt Damon HarperAudio audio CD [2/2003] for $20.37 HarperAudio ABR audio [12/99] for $17.65 |
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"The U.S. Constitution: And Fascinating Facts About It" [1999] by Terry L. Jordan Oak Hill 6¼x3.4 pamphlet [5/99] for $4.94 |
Political Science Documentary Films
 | "The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of The Politics of Fear" [BBC2 documentary Aug 2004] Written & directed by Adam Curtis BN Publng CD-ROM [9/2005] for $19.99 BN Publng video CD-ROM [11/2005] for $19.95 feature DVD [11/2005] for $39.99 full credits at IMDb • B.B.C. News webpage |
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"The Corporation" [docu feature Jan 2004]
Co-directed by Jennifer Abbott & Mark Achbar; co-written by Harold Crooks from Joel Bakan's book; interviewees include Noam Chomsky, Peter Drucker, Milton Freidman, Ray Anderson & Michael Moore Zeitgeist color DVD [4/2005] 2 disks for $20.99 official movie website • full credits from IMDb |
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"The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit & Power" [2004] by Joel Bakan Free Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [3/2004] for $17.00 |
 | "Understanding Government Boxed Set: Executive Branch, Legislative Branch, Judicial Branch" [2000]
Goldhil color DVD [10/2000] 3 disks - out of prodn/used |
Magazines
 | "The Progressive" Magazine [est. 1909] The mission of The Progressive is to be a journalistic voice for peace and social justice at home and abroad. The magazine, its affiliates, and its staff steadfastly oppose militarism, the concentration of power in corporate hands, the disen-franchisement of the citizenry, poverty, and prejudice in all its guises. We champion peace, social and economic justice, civil rights, civil liberties, human rights, a preserved environment, and a reinvigorated democracy. subscription: 12/issues/year for $32.00 |
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