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This fast-paced book by Yale professors Michael Graetz and Ian Shapiro unravels the following mystery: How is it that the estate tax, which has been on the books continuously since 1916 and is paid by only the wealthiest two percent of Americans, was repealed in 2001 with broad bipartisan support?

Why do so many different people with widely dissimilar ideas and customs get along as Americans?

This scrupulous political biography of Dan Rostenkowski follows his rise to power from modest origins in the Democratic ward politics of Chicago's Polish northwest side, through his national legislative triumphs, and ultimately to his criminal conviction and imprisonment for abuses of House practice.

False charges of racial profiling threaten to obliterate the crime-fighting gains of the last decade, especially in America's inner cities.

State failure, ethnopolitical war, genocide, famine, and refugee flows are variants of a type of complex political and humanitarian crisis, exemplified during the 1990s in places like Somalia, Bosnia, Liberia, and Afghanistan.

An essential primer on impeachment for today's divided public squareWe are witnessing an unprecedented moment in American politics in which impeachments are increasingly common.

Comprising a number of short essays, Why the Homeless Have No Chance: The Dismantling of Success documents a sociological journey through the homeless services industry and describes todays wrong-headed approach to this lingering social problem.

All Our Todays is the first book about the BBC's most influential news and current affairs programme, published to celebrate Today's 40th anniversary in October 1997.

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The hazards of perfect memory in the digital ageDelete looks at the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and reveals why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget.

How do we fix a healthcare system that's too complex, costly, and often unequal?

The Insider dominated the media on publication in March 2005 and instantly became a No.

They were 'Cudlipp' and 'Mr King' when they met in 1935.

This companion provides a comprehensive survey of the life, work and legacy of Benjamin Franklin - the oldest, most distinctive, and multifaceted of the founders.

This companion provides a comprehensive survey of the life, work and legacy of Benjamin Franklin - the oldest, most distinctive, and multifaceted of the founders.

The book will enable readers to understand the purposes of the different budgets and forecasts and it will explain in detail how they are prepared and used.

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The South Caucasus in a Reconnecting Eurasia examines the full scope of South Caucasus-Eurasia relations and analyzes the broad outlines of U.

The United States Space Force, the sixth branch of the armed forces, will soon play a leading role in American foreign policy and will be necessary to protect its economic, political, and social interests at home and abroad.

This work will provide an authoritative and illuminating overview of the U.

This work provides a concise, authoritative, and illuminating overview of the Executive Office of the President of the United States.

With thorough analysis and balanced reporting, Ghost Guns: Hobbyists, Hackers, and the Homemade Weapons Revolution is an essential resource for readers seeking to understand the rise of homemade firearms and future options for managing them.

This indispensable one-volume narrative examines the history, culture, environment, economy, politics, future, and more of the city of Tokyo, Japan's political and cultural capital.

This book provides an accessible introduction to food inequality in the United States, offering readers a broad survey of the most important topics and issues and exploring how economics, culture, and public policy have shaped our current food landscape.

An all-in-one resource for understanding the issue of torture and enhanced interrogations, including their history as an instrument of state power and warfare, debates over the morality of their use in different contexts, and efforts by human rights organizations and nations to end torture and enhanced interrogation techniques worldwide.

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Understand everything you need to know about our democratic systemfrom the Constitution to present-day electionswith The Everything American Government Book.

How did the federal judiciary transcend early limitations to become a powerful institution of American governance?

The Social Democratic Executive Committee in the Nazi Era provides a comprehensive and deeply researched account of the German Social Democratic Party's (S.

Reforms at Risk is the first book to closely examine what happens to sweeping and seemingly successful policy reforms after they are passed.

How can we ensure high-quality public services such as health care and education?

A comparative look at the astonishing economic rise of modern China and IndiaThe recent economic rise of China and India has attracted a great deal of attention-and justifiably so.

"e;The simple truth is that we've lost control of our own borders, and no nation can do that and survive.

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America's greatness comes from people working hard to fulfill their dreams.

In a book that is as certain to be as controversial as it is meticulously researched, a former special assistant to the president for National Security Affairs and senior official of the Central Intelligence Agency shows that the U.

A hard-hitting, ruthlessly honest political biography of Sen.

The former Republican presidential candidate "e;advances new ideas .

Why was the government not capable of responding to human need in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina?

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Tree-huggers may actually be squeezing the life out of the environment.

This is a book about winning elections in an age when security has trumped almost every other issue and the technology of political effectiveness is evolving with lightning quickness.

Has America, in its quest for goodness, sacrificed its sense of greatness?

Why policymaking in the United States privileges the rich over the poorCan a country be a democracy if its government only responds to the preferences of the rich?

Ever since the French Revolution, Madame de Pompadour's comment, "e;Apres moi, le deluge"e; (after me, the deluge), has looked like a callous if accurate prophecy of the political cataclysms that began in 1789.

The regulation of intimate relationships has been a key battleground in the culture wars of the past three decades.

The final book from a towering pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality-a critically important examination of poverty around the worldIn this, his final book, economist Anthony Atkinson, one of the world's great social scientists and a pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality, offers an inspiring analysis of a central question: What is poverty and how much of it is there around the globe?

A gripping behind-the-scenes account of the dramatic legal fight to hold leaders personally responsible for aggressive warOn July 17, 2018, starting an unjust war became a prosecutable international crime alongside genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.

Why political inequality is to blame for economic and social injusticePolitical equality is the most basic tenet of democracy.