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  The Politicos Guide to the New...

  Tim Carr

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  In the wake of the most unprecedented election result in recent memory, the question on everyone's lips is: what just happened to the UK's political landscape - and why? And who are the 182 new faces on the House of Commons benches? In The Politicos Guide to the New House of Commons 2015, public affairs consultant Tim Carr teams up with editors of the bestselling Politicos Guide to the 2015 General Election Iain Dale and Robert Waller to present an all-inclusive and essential postelection document for academics, journalists, students and political enthusiasts alike in the wake of the poll-defying 2015 general election.
  Wide-ranging and accessible, this essential guide provides, amongst much else:
  • Biographies of the class of 2015, alongside details of their majorities and constituencies;
  • Demographic analysis by age, gender, ethnic origin, education and background;
  • Lists of new marginal constituencies, possible targets seats, defeated MPs, and more;
  • Expert commentary from political journalists and pollsters, exploring the role of the media, the historic result in Scotland and the future impact of fixed-term parliaments.
  Ranging from the disastrous pre-election polls to the failure of UKIP to make a breakthrough - and the massacre of Scottish Labour - The Politicos Guide to the New House of Commons 2015 is a must-read for anyone eager to know the details of the election result that has so dramatically re-shaped the country's political landscape.

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  Breaking Through Power - It's...

  Ralph Nader

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  In Breaking Through Power, Ralph Nader draws from a lifetime waging — and often winning — David vs. Goliath battles against big corporations and the US government.In this succinct, Tom Paine-style wake-up call, the iconic consumer advocate highlights the success stories of fellow Americans who organize change and work together to derail the many ways in which wealth manipulates politics, labor, media, the environment, and the quality of national life today. Nader makes an inspired case about how the nation can — and must — be democratically managed by communities guided by the US Constitution, not by the dictates of big businesses and the wealthy few.This is classic Ralph Nader, a crystallization of the core political beliefs and commitments that have driven his lifetime of advocacy for greater democracy.

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  The American Reader - A Brief...

  Worth Books

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  The three most important documents in American history—expanded and explained.  In the centuries since the creation of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, as well as its Bill of the Rights, the liberties set forth within these documents have faced many challenges, including war, unrest, political debate, and legal disputes. Such trials persist today, but the initial strength of our founding papers—shining as beacons of hope and freedom to America and beyond—continues to stand the test of time.   Now, The American Reader provides a brief summary and analysis of these landmark documents: examining constitutional interpretation, specifically originalism vs. living Constitution; exploring the Declaration’s “saving principles,” expressed by Frederick Douglass, one of many influential leaders referenced in this concise guide; and more. Also included are noteworthy facts about the founding fathers, a detailed timeline of events, and other fascinating trivia.   At a time when our understanding of individual liberties in America is especially imperative, this essential reference puts our country’s foundational beliefs into much-needed modern perspective.

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  The Impeachment of Donald Trump...

  Investigation Federal Bureau of,...

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  This edition provides the complete overview of all the reports and documents related to the impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump, including declassified documents, transcripts and reports of various US security agencies and other actors involved in the investigation of the Russian Interference in the 2016 United States Elections, most recent telephone conversation with President Zelenskyy of Ukraine, as well as the connection of the American president with the Russian Government.
  Impeachment: An Overview of Constitutional Provisions, Procedure, and Practice  
   Efforts to Impeach Donald Trump  
   The Mueller Report  
   Telephone Conversation with President Zelenskyy of Ukraine  
   Documents & Transcripts Related to Impeachment Attempt  
   Resolution of Inquiry Clarifying Any Potential Misunderstanding as to Whether Actions Taken by President-elect Donald Trump Constitute a Violatiogn of the Emoluments Clause, and Calling on President-elect Trump to Divest His Interest in, and Sever His Relationship to the Trump Organization  
   Dismissal of James Comey  
   James Comey FBI Farewell Letter  
   Representative Al Green Calls for Trump Impeachment  
   Jason Chaffetz Letter to FBI Over Comey Memo  
   Legal Grounds for Appointing a Special Counsel  
   The Jurisdiction and the Power of a Special Counsel  
   Appointment of Special Counsel to Investigate Russian Interference With the 2016 Presidential Election and Related Matters  
   Comey Statement for the Record Senate Select Committee on Intelligence  
   Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for High Crimes and Misdemeanors  
   Documents Related to Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election  
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  The Movement

  Thomas C. Holt

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  The civil rights movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Not only did it decisively change the legal and political status of African Americans, but it prefigured as well the moral premises and methods of struggle for other historically oppressed groups seeking equal standing in American society. And, yet, despite a vague, sometimes begrudging recognition of its immense import, more often than not the movement has been misrepresented and misunderstood. For the general public, a singular moment, frozen in time at the Lincoln Memorial, sums up much of what Americans know about that remarkable decade of struggle.In The Movement, Thomas C. Holt provides an informed and nuanced understanding of the origins, character, and objectives of the mid-twentieth-century freedom struggle, privileging the aspirations and initiatives of the ordinary, grassroots people who made it. Holt conveys a sense of these developments as a social movement, one that shaped its participants even as they shaped it. He emphasizes the conditions of possibility that enabled the heroic initiatives of the common folk over those of their more celebrated leaders. This groundbreaking book reinserts the critical concept of ""movement"" back into our image and understanding of the civil rights movement.

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  Invisible Sovereign - Imagining...

  Mark G. Schmeller

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  This history of early American political thought examines the emergence, evolution, and manipulation of public opinion.   In the early American republic, the concept of public opinion was a recent—and ambiguous—invention. While appearing to promise a new style of democratic politics, the concept was also invoked to limit self-rule, cement traditional prejudices, stall deliberation, and marginalize dissent. As Americans contested the meaning of this essentially contestable idea, they expanded and contracted the horizons of political possibility and renegotiated the terms of political legitimacy.   Tracing the concept from its late eighteenth-century origins to the Gilded Age, Mark G. Schmeller’s Invisible Sovereign argues that public opinion is a central catalyst in the history of American political thought. Schmeller treats it as a contagious idea that infected a broad range of discourses and practices in powerful, occasionally ironic, and increasingly contentious ways.   Ranging across a wide variety of historical fields, Invisible Sovereign traces a shift over time from early “political-constitutional” concepts, which wrapped pubic opinion in the language of constitutionalism, to more modern, “social-psychological” concepts, which defined public opinion as a product of social action and mass communication.

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