Eric: 6009 books
Young Guns
A New Generation of Conservative Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
America urgently needs a new direction. But who will provide it?
The time has come to move the country forward with a clear agenda based on common sense for the common good.
THERE IS A BETTER WAY.
Make no mistake: Congressmen Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan, and Kevin McCarthy are proud...
Find, Fix, Finish
Inside the Counterterrorism Campaigns that Killed bin Laden and Devastated Al Qaeda
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
On 9/11 the U.S. had effectively no counterterrorism doctrine. Fast forward ten years: Osama bin Laden is dead; al Qaeda is organizationally ruined and pinned in the tribal areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan; there has been no major attack on American soil; and while there has been at least one instance...
The U.N. Exposed
How the United Nations Sabotages America's Security and Fails the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2006
Less than five miles from Ground Zero in Manhattan sits an international hotbed of anti-Americanism.
The United Nations was created after World War II to promote peace and international understanding. But over the years, and today more than ever, the U.N. has failed to achieve its original...
April 4, 1968
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How it Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
On April 4, 1968, at 6:01 p.m., while he was standing on a balcony at a Memphis hotel, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and fatally wounded. Only hours earlier King ended his final speech with the words, I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight, that we as a people will get to...
Why We're Liberals
A Handbook for Restoring America's Most Important Ideals
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2008
The bestselling author and Newsweek columnist takes a characteristically irreverent look at the rampant mistreatment of liberals and liberalism
The "most honest and incisive media critic writing today"(National Catholic Reporter), Eric Alterman is committed to restoring the liberal...
Reefer Madness
Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
New York Times Bestseller: The shadowy world of “off the books” businesses—from marijuana to migrant workers—brought to life by the author of Fast Food Nation.
America’s black market is much larger than we realize, and it affects us all deeply, whether or not we smoke pot, rent a...
No Pressure, Mr. President! The Power Of True Belief In A Time Of Crisis
The National Prayer Breakfast Speech
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2012
America's Bonhoeffer moment is here.
There is a difference between real faith in God and mere religion. There is a kind of religion that is lifeless and is the bitter enemy of true faith. Think of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s prophetic attempts to waken the sleeping German church, often unwitting...
A History of Connecticut Wine
Vineyard in Your Backyard
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
Wine has been meticulously crafted in Connecticut ever since colonists discovered wild grapes growing on their land. At first glance the New England climate appears inhospitable for this fastidious fruit but a number of varieties thrive here, including pinot gris, chardonnay, cabernet franc, cayuga white...
Forever Free
The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
From one of our most distinguished historians, a new examination of the vitally important years of Emancipation and Reconstruction during and immediately following the Civil War–a necessary reconsideration that emphasizes the era’s political and cultural meaning for today’s America.
In...
by Roger H. Davidson, Walter J. Oleszek, Mr. Eric Schickler
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2017
The gold standard for Congress courses for over 30 years
Congress and Its Members, Sixteenth Edition, by Roger H. Davidson, Walter J. Oleszek, Frances E. Lee, and Eric Schickler, offers readers current, comprehensive coverage of Congress and the legislative process by examining the tension...
Bush's Law
The Remaking of American Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
In the aftermath of 9/11, President Bush declared that the struggle against terrorism would be nothing less than a war—a war that would require new tools and a new mind-set. As legal sanction was given to covert surveillance and interrogation tactics, internal struggles brewed over programs and...
Contesting the Postwar City
Working-Class and Growth Politics in 1940s Milwaukee
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Focusing on mid-century Milwaukee, Eric Fure-Slocum charts the remaking of political culture in the industrial city. Professor Fure-Slocum shows how two contending visions of the 1940s city - working-class politics and growth politics - fit together uneasily and were transformed amid a series of social...
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men
The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 1995
Since its publication twenty-five years ago, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men has been recognized as a classic, an indispensable contribution to our understanding of the causes of the American Civil War. A key work in establishing political ideology as a major concern of modern American historians,...
by Zachary Callen, J. Eric Oliver, Shang E. Ha
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
Local government is the hidden leviathan of American politics: it accounts for nearly a tenth of gross domestic product, it collects nearly as much in taxes as the federal government, and its decisions have an enormous impact on Americans' daily lives. Yet political scientists have few explanations...