777円 What is the President, Congress, and the Supreme Court really allowed to do? This unique and handy guide includes the documents that guide our government, annotated with accessible explanations from one of America's most esteemed constitutional scholars. In one portable volume, with accessible an...

2,254円 Winner of the Society for History in the Federal Government's George Pendleton Prize for 2013 The United States Senate has fallen on hard times. Once known as the greatest deliberative body in the world, it now has a reputation as a partisan, dysfunctional chamber. What happened to the house that...

777円 **“Exceptional... a remarkable study of the key chapter of American history and its ongoing influence on American character.”ーPublishers Weekly (starred review) The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Founding Era reflects on the birth of American nationhood and explains why the American Rev...

403円 Herbert Allen Giles (8 December 1845 – 13 February 1935) was a British diplomat and sinologist, educated at Charterhouse. He modified a Mandarin Chinese Romanization system earlier established by Thomas Wade, resulting in the widely known Wade-Giles Chinese transliteration system. Among his prol...

1,088円 Watergate. Billygate. Iran-Contra. Teapot Dome. Monica Lewinsky.American history is marked by era-defining misdeeds, indiscretions, and the kind of tabloid-ready scandals that politicians seem to do better than anyone else. Now, for the first time, one volume brings together 300 years of politica...

5,570円 The founders of the American republic believed presidents should be wise and virtuous statesmen consistently advocating community interests when conducting American foreign policy. Yet the most common theoretical model used today for explaining the behavior of politicians is grounded in self-inte...

933円 **A #1 New York Times bestseller A gripping expose that delves into the heart of Washington D.C., and the intersection of big politics, big money, big media, and big vanity** Through the eyes of author Mark Leibovich, we discover how the funeral for a beloved newsman becomes the social event of t...

350円 The world order is structured in three levels; factions, authorities and collectives. Symbolically, it is a triangle, but more accurately a Pyramid. Factions are the power at the pinnacle, the authorities the instrument of power beneath and the collectives the builders of value at the base. It is...

4,245円 Although there is a widespread belief that uneven voter turnout leads to biased outcomes in American democracy, existing empirical tests have found few effects. By offering a systematic account of how and where turnout matters in local politics, this book challenges much of what we know about tur...

933円 Most Americans believe the United States had been an isolationist power until the twentieth century. This is wrong. In a riveting and brilliantly revisionist work of history, Robert Kagan, bestselling author of Of Paradise and Power, shows how Americans have in fact steadily been increasing their...

12,933円 Over the past two decades, book-length analyses of politics in Southeast Asia, like those addressing other parts of the developing world, have focused closely on democratic change, election events, and institution building. But recently, democracy’s fortunes have ebbed in the region. In the Phili...

618円 “Our political system is subverted today by what has become a re-election syndrome – i.e., one producing careerist, conflicted, and money-dependent politicians more indebted to those who fund their campaigns and media exposure than the majorities responsible for their election. The dismal effects...