Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Indiana

Utopia: The Perenial Heresy

Adam Hochschild

The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis

National Bestseller * New Yorker "Best Books of 2022" selection * New York Times Editor's Choice * a most anticipated book of Fall 2022: the New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune

From legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a "masterly" (New York Times) reassessment of the overlooked but startlingly resonant period between World War I and the Roaring Twenties, when the foundations of American democracy were threatened by war, pandemic, and violence fueled by battles over race, immigration, and the rights of labor

The nation was on the brink. Mobs burned Black churches to the ground. Courts threw thousands of people into prison for opinions they voiced--in one notable case, only in private. Self-appointed vigilantes executed tens of thousands of citizens' arrests. Some seventy-five newspapers and magazines were banned from the mail and forced to close. When the government stepped in, it was often to fan the flames.  

This was America during and after the Great War: a brief but appalling era blighted by lynchings, censorship, and the sadistic, sometimes fatal abuse of conscientious objectors in military prisons--a time whose toxic currents of racism, nativism, red-baiting, and contempt for the rule of law then flowed directly through the intervening decades to poison our own. It was a tumultuous period defined by a diverse and colorful cast of characters, some of whom fueled the injustice while others fought against it: from the sphinxlike Woodrow Wilson, to the fiery antiwar advocates Kate Richards O'Hare and Emma Goldman, to labor champion Eugene Debs, to a little-known but ambitious bureaucrat named J. Edgar Hoover, and to an outspoken leftwing agitator--who was in fact Hoover's star undercover agent. It is a time that we have mostly forgotten about, until now. 

In American Midnight, award-winning historian Adam Hochschild brings alive the horrifying yet inspiring four years following the U.S. entry into the First World War, spotlighting forgotten repression while celebrating an unforgettable set of Americans who strove to fix their fractured country--and showing how their struggles still guide us today.  

American Midnight

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Bundle includes:
21st Century Revenge
Out Of Business
How To Disappear Completely And Never Be Found
How To Start Your Own Country
Tenant's Revenge
School Of Assassin's
Citizen Soldier
Reborn In Canada
How To Create A New Identity
The Complete Guide To Lock picking
How To Legally Obtain A Second Citizenship
New I.D. In America
Plus a few related materials
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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Oregon

Down and Dirty Tactics for the Millennium

The bad news: Technology has made some classic revenge tactics obsolete.

The good news: Technology has opened the door to a slew of modern revenge methods never before possible!

Master revenge writer Victor Santoro (author of Gaslighting, Techniques of Revenge, and Frauds, Rip-Offs and Con Games) explains how to turn technology to your advantage in the art of revenge. In 21st Century Revenge: Down and Dirty Tactics for the Millennium, you'll learn:
-- How to protect yourself from caller ID -- and how to make it work for you
-- How to turn political correctness into political chaos
-- The "multiplier effect": how to make others do the work for you
-- The best ways to cover your tracks -- physically and electronically
-- Why your target's garbage can be his undoing
-- How the Internet is your world-wide resource for revenge

This book not only shows you how to form the ultimate revenge plan, but also how to protect yourself from those seeking revenge on you!

You may think you'll never need to take justice into your own hands, get back at a vicious boss or co-worker, or seek vengeance against someone who has wronged you or others. But this knowledge is power, and one day, your peace of mind may depend on it.

Adult Humor/Parody Bundle

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California

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Wired magazine

#hardcover #Somalia #socialscience #politics 

Washington

Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp

Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Named a Best of Book of the Year by The Economist and Foreign Affairs
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist

The Dadaab refugee camp is many things: to the charity workers, it's a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, a "nursery for terrorists"; to the Western media, a dangerous no-go area. But to its half a million residents, it's their last resort.

Situated hundreds of miles from any other settlement, deep within the inhospitable desert of northern Kenya where only thorn bushes grow, Dadaab is a city like no other. Its buildings are made from mud, sticks, or plastic. Its entire economy is grey. And its citizens survive on rations and luck. Over the course of four years, Ben Rawlence became a firsthand witness to a strange and desperate place, getting to know many of those who had come seeking sanctuary. Among them are Guled, a former child soldier who lives for football; Nisho, who scrapes an existence by pushing a wheelbarrow and dreaming of riches; Tawane, the indomitable youth leader; and Kheyro, a student whose future hangs upon her education.

In City of Thorns, Rawlence interweaves the stories of nine individuals to show what life is like in the camp, sketching the wider political forces that keep the refugees trapped. Lucid, vivid, and illuminating, City of Thorns is an urgent human story with deep international repercussions, brought to life through the people who call Dabaab home.

City of Thorns

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A vintage, fictional book, a gathering of fables, if you will, from the childhood of Woodrow Wilson. Published in 1950 by Bobbs Merrill, with illustrations by Syd Browne 

The Childhood of Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson: Boy President

Exterior in fantastic condition for age, some aging to pages & some minor wear to DJ (see photos)

A Novel

Little Men, Big World (1st Edt)

Lee H. Hamilton

Jordan Tama

The Foreign Policy Roles of the President and Congress

With an insider's perspective based on thirty-four years in Congress, Hamilton elucidates current domestic and international pressures influencing U.S. foreign policy, strengths and weaknesses in the foreign policy process, and ways to improve the performance of the president and Congress. A Creative Tension argues that better consultation between the executive and legislative branches is the most effective way to strengthen American foreign policy.

A Creative Tension

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Richard North Patterson

He's a decorated Gulf War pilot. A fashion plate. A ladies' man. An independent thinker who speaks his mind and never takes no for an answer. The only thing Americans can expect from Corey Grace is the unexpected... Love him or hate him, the country can't wait to see how this charismatic white senator from Ohio--who now has fallen in love with black movie star Lexie Hart--will perform in the most brutal of political contests. Will Grace endure in spite of his controversial lifestyle, and a tragic mistake buried deep in his past? Or will he perish under pressure--from players on both sides of the party line? Nothing and no one in Grace's life is off-limits once the race begins. Now the only thing this candidate has to lose is...everything.

The Race

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Texas

Liberal Victims and Their Assault on America

Guilty

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The Age of Conversation

Alaska

White House Ghosts

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Kansas

The World’s Best Orations Volume 7 

#paperback #internationalrelations #politics #strategy #terrorism

Fragile States, Global Threats, and International Security

Conventional wisdom holds that weak and failing states are the source of the world's most pressing security threats. After all, the 9/11 attacks originated in an impoverished, war-ravaged country, and transnational crime appears to flourish in weakly governed states. However, our assumptionsabout the threats posed by failing states are based on anecdotal arguments, not on a systematic analysis of the connections between state failure and transnational security threats.Analyzing terrorism, transnational crime, WMDs, pandemic diseases, and energy insecurity, Stewart Patrick shows that while some global threats do emerge in fragile states, most of their weaknesses create misery only for their own citizenry. Moreover, many threats originate farther up the chain, inwealthier and more stable countries like Russia and Venezuela. Weak Links will force policymakers to rethink what they assume about state failure and transnational insecurity.

Weak Links

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#nonfiction #politicalscience #polysci #politics #political #paperback #2011arabspring #femenism 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

New Jersey

Engagement and Activism During the 2011 Arab Springs

 Women and the Egyptian Revolution 

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George magazine

GEORGE MAGAZINE- Gisele Bundchen June 2000 JFK Jr Magazine ~ Patriots & Politics

Bob Woodward

North Carolina

Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate

Examines the legacy of Watergate in terms of how Nixon's disgrace forever altered American politics and culture

Shadow

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Michael I. Handel

Tennessee

Classical Strategic Thought: Sun Tzu, Clausewitz, Jomini and Machiavelli

Masters of War is the first comprehensive study based on a detailed textual analysis of the classical works on war by Clausewitz and Sun Tzu, and to a lesser extent, by Jomini and Machiavelli. Brushing stereotypes aside, the author takes a fresh look at what these strategic thinkers actually said - not what they are widely believed to have said. He finds that despite their apparent differences in terms of time, place, cultural background, and level of material/technological development, all had much more in common than previously supposed. In fact, the central conclusion of this book is that the logic of waging war and of strategic thinking is as universal and timeless as human nature itself.

Masters of War

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A rare 1899 Henry Altemus Company Philadelphia edition of Sir Walter Scott’s Epic poem The Lady of the Lake. Great condition. Beautiful illustrations by S.E. Cassini. Some discoloration on back endpapers (see photos for condition).

Final sale. 

(This isn’t Arthurian just FYI, it’s a Scottish political epic poem.)

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

Henry Altimus Company Edition Philadelphia

1899 The Lady of the Lake 

Government

A Primer

California Politics

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The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes

Mobility justice is one of the crucial political and ethical issues of our day We are in the midst of a global climate crisis and experiencing the extreme challenges of urbanization. In Mobility Justice, Mimi Sheller makes a passionate argument for a new understanding of the contemporary crisis of movement. Sheller shows how power and inequality inform the governance and control of movement. She connects the body, street, city, nation, and planet in one overarching theory of the modern, perpetually shifting world. Concepts of mobility are examined on a local level in the circulation of people, resources, and information, as well as on an urban scale, with questions of public transport and “the right to the city.” On the planetary level, she demands that we rethink the reality where tourists and other elites are able to roam freely, while migrants and those most in need are abandoned and imprisoned at the borders. Mobility Justice is a new way to understand the deep flows of inequality and uneven accessibility in a world in which the mobility commons have been enclosed. It is a call for a new understanding of the politics of movement and a demand for justice for all.

Mobility Justice

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Mark Lilla

“Lilla in his new book issues an important, passionate and highly critical wake-up call to liberals who, he believes, are stuck in the mud…. Lilla’s message to liberals is timely and welcome.” — Arlie Hochschild, Washington Post

After Identity Politics

From one of the country’s most admired political thinkers, an urgent wake-up call to American liberals to turn from the divisive politics of identity and develop a vision of our future that can persuade all citizens that they share a common destiny. In The Once and Future Liberal, Mark Lilla offers an impassioned, tough-minded, and stinging look at the failure of American liberalism over the past two generations. Although there have been Democrats in the White House, and some notable policy achievements, for nearly 40 years the vision that Ronald Reagan offered—small government, lower taxes, and self-reliant individualism—has remained the country’s dominant political ideology. And the Democratic Party has offered no convincing competing vision in response. Instead, as Lilla argues, American liberalism fell under the spell of identity politics, with disastrous consequences. Driven originally by a sincere desire to protect the most vulnerable Americans, the left has now unwittingly balkanized the electorate, encouraged self-absorption rather than solidarity, and invested its energies in social movements rather than in party politics. With dire consequences. Lilla goes on to show how the left’s identity-focused individualism insidiously conspired with the amoral economic individualism of the Reaganite right to shape an electorate with little sense of a shared future and near-contempt for the idea of the common good. In the contest for the American imagination, liberals have abdicated. Now they have an opportunity to reset. The left is motivated, and the Republican Party, led by an unpredictable demagogue, is in ideological disarray. To seize this opportunity, Lilla insists, liberals must concentrate their efforts on recapturing our institutions by winning elections. The time for hectoring is over. It is time to reach out and start persuading people from every walk of life and in every region of the country that liberals will stand up for them. We must appeal to – but also help to rebuild – a sense of common feeling among Americans, and a sense of duty to each other. A fiercely-argued, no-nonsense book, enlivened by Lilla’s acerbic wit and erudition, The Once and Future Liberal is essential reading for our momentous times.

The Once and Future Liberal

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David Horowitz

Illinois

The War to Destroy Christian America

Argues that a progressive war is being waged against America's Christian principles, contending that secular agendas for issues ranging from school prayer to globalism are linked to communist origins.

Dark Agenda

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