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  The Case for Impeachment

  Allan J. Lichtman

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  NATIONAL BESTSELLER  
  “Lichtman has written what may be the most important book of the 
  year.”  —The Hill 
  What are 
  the ranges and limitations of presidential authority? What are the standards of 
  truthfulness that a president must uphold? What will it take to impeach Donald J. Trump? Professor Allan J. 
  Lichtman, who has correctly forecasted thirty years of presidential outcomes, answers 
  these questions, and more, in The Case for Impeachment—a deeply convincing 
  argument for impeaching the 45th president of the United States.  
  In the fall of 2016, Allan J. Lichtman made headlines when he 
  predicted that Donald J. Trump would defeat the heavily favored Democrat, 
  Hillary Clinton, to win the presidential election. Now, in clear, nonpartisan 
  terms, Lichtman lays out the reasons Congress could remove Trump from the Oval 
  Office: his ties to Russia before and after the election, the complicated 
  financial conflicts of interest at home and abroad, and his abuse of executive 
  authority. 
  The Case for Impeachment also 
  offers a fascinating look at presidential impeachments throughout American 
  history, including the often-overlooked story of Andrew Johnson’s impeachment, 
  details about Richard Nixon’s resignation, and Bill Clinton’s hearings. 
  Lichtman shows how Trump exhibits many of the flaws (and more) that have doomed 
  past presidents. As the Nixon Administration dismissed the reporting of Bob 
  Woodward and Carl Bernstein as “character assassination” and “a vicious abuse 
  of the journalistic process,” Trump has attacked the “dishonest media,” 
  claiming, “the press should be ashamed of themselves.” 
  Historians, legal scholars, and politicians alike agree: we are 
  in politically uncharted waters—the durability of our institutions is being 
  undermined and the public’s confidence in them is eroding, threatening American 
  democracy itself. 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  Most 
  citizens—politics aside—want to know where the country is headed. Lichtman 
  argues, with clarity and power, that for Donald Trump’s presidency, smoke has 
  become fire.

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  The Radical Imagination of Black...

  Pearl K. Ford Dowe

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  Including interviews with Black women holding political office at the national, state, and local levels, as well as focus group data, The Radical Imagination of Black Women challenges political science's current approach to political ambition by exploring how Black women decide to seek political office. Pearl K. Ford Dowe argues that ambition for Black women cannot be measured only by political candidacies and ascents of the political chain of power. Black women are uniquely positioned within their communities to influence politics and public policy, which stems from unique variables of socialization, gender and racial identity, and marginalization that shape the political attitudes of Black women. Thus, Dowe asserts that Black women's political ambition often manifests outside formal politics, in activism and community building, a process that is linked to a wider radical vision for a full democracy. This is ambition that occurs in a specific context of marginalization, and both motivation and the conditions surrounding such motivation are critical to understanding the full range of Black women's political work. By focusing on Black women's experiences in elite politics, The Radical Imagination of Black Women is a much-needed intervention in the literature on electoral ambition, women in politics, and candidates and elections.

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  China's Quest for Military...

  Phillip C. Saunders, Joel Wuthnow

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  China's military has entered a new era. It has acquired modern weapons to rival the world's finest, undergone a massive restructuring under Xi Jinping, and been on the frontlines of territorial disputes with Japan, India, Vietnam, and the Philippines. It is readying forces to be able to seize Taiwan sometime in the next decade. It aims to be a "world-class" military on par with the United States. 
   
   
   
  China's Quest for Military Supremacy provides a broad and accessible exploration of Chinese military power, including relations between the Chinese Communist Party and its army, the strategic worldview of Chinese leaders, military strategy and resourcing, conventional and nuclear modernization, military diplomacy and coercion, preparations for war, and the People's Liberation Army's emerging global role. It also identifies the challenges facing China's military and shows how its focus on supremacy in the region means that it is not yet prepared to fight with the same lethality beyond Asia. Different futures are possible, and the book concludes with a preview of what it might take for a truly "world-class" Chinese military to take the global stage.

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  Women Who Invented the Sixties -...

  Steve Golin

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  Women Who Invented the Sixties tells the story of how four women helped define the 1960s and made a lasting impression for decades to follow. 
   
   
   
  In 1960, Ella Baker played the key role in the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which became an essential organization for students during the civil rights movement and the model for the antiwar and women's movements. In 1961, Jane Jacobs published The Death and Life of Great American Cities, changing the shape of urban planning irrevocably. In 1962, Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, creating the modern environmental movement. And in 1963, Betty Friedan wrote The Feminine Mystique, which sparked second-wave feminism and created lasting changes for women. Their four separate interventions helped, together, to end the 1950s and invent the 1960s. 
   
   
   
  Women Who Invented the Sixties situates each of these four women in the 1950s—Baker's early activism with the NAACP and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Jacobs's work with Architectural Forum and her growing involvement in neighborhood protest, Carson's conservation efforts and publications, and Friedan's work as a labor journalist and the discrimination she faced—before exploring their contributions to the 1960s and the movements they each helped shape.

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  The Problem of Democracy -...

  Shadi Hamid

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  What happens when democracy produces "bad" outcomes? Is democracy good because of its outcomes or despite them? This "democratic dilemma" is one of the most persistent, vexing problems for America abroad, particularly in the Middle East—we want democracy in theory but not necessarily in practice. 
   
   
   
  When Islamist parties rise to power through free elections, the United States has too often been ambivalent or opposed, preferring instead pliable dictators. With this legacy of democratic disrespect in mind, and drawing on new interviews with top American officials, Shadi Hamid explores universal questions of morality, power, and hypocrisy. Why has the United States failed so completely to live up to its own stated ideals in the Arab world? And is it possible for it to change? 
   
   
   
  In The Problem of Democracy, Hamid offers an ambitious reimagining of this ongoing debate and argues for "democratic minimalism" as a path to resolving democratic dilemmas in the Middle East and beyond. In the seemingly eternal tension between democracy and liberalism, recognized by the ancient Greeks and the American founders alike, it may be time to prioritize one over the other, rather than acting as if the two are intertwined when increasingly they are not.

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  All Measures Short of War - The...

  Thomas J. Wright

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  The two decades after the Cold War saw unprecedented cooperation between the major powers as the world converged on a model of liberal international order. Now, great power competition is back, and the liberal order is in jeopardy. 
  Russia and China are increasingly revisionist in their regions. The Middle East appears to be unraveling. And many Americans question why the United States ought to lead. What will great power competition look like in the decades ahead? Will the liberal world order survive? What impact will geopolitics have on globalization? And, what strategy should the United States pursue to succeed in an increasingly competitive world. 
   In this book, Thomas Wright explains how major powers will compete fiercely even as they try to avoid war with each other. Wright outlines a new American strategy—responsible competition—to navigate these challenges and strengthen the liberal order.

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