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Before Bostock
$34.95On June 15, 2020, the Supreme Court ruled in Bostock v. Clayton County, in a 6-to-3 decision with a majority opinion authored by conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch, that Title VII…
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Bootstrap Liberalism
$37.95Has Texas always been one of the United States’ most conservative states? The answer might surprise you. Bootstrap Liberalism offers a glimpse into the world of Depression-era Texas politics, revealing…
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Built on the Ruins of Empire
$39.95During the Cold War the British government oversaw the transition to independence of dozens of colonies. Often the most challenging aspect of this transition was the creation of a national…
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Early Struggles for Vicksburg
$44.95In Early Struggles for Vicksburg, Tim Smith covers the first phase of the Vicksburg campaign (October 1862-July 1863), involving perhaps the most wide-ranging and complex series of efforts seen in…
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Limits of Constraint
$44.95Adherents of originalism often present it as a theory that constrains legal decision-making in a clear and objective manner that is based on the text and original meaning of the…
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Newt Gingrich
$29.95Newt Gingrich is one of the most polarizing and consequential figures in US politics. First elected to the House of Representatives in 1978, he rose from a minority party backbencher…
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Presidential Control over Administration
$44.95The US Constitution recognizes the president as the sole legal head of the executive branch. Despite this constitutional authority, the president’s actual control over administration varies significantly in practice from…
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Schools for Statesmen
$49.95“Whatever Principles are imbibed at College will run thro’ a Man’s whole future Conduct.”—–William Livingston, signer of the ConstitutionSchools for Statesmen explores the fifty-five individual Framers of the Constitution in…
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Service above Self
$32.95The 2018 midterm elections were both record-breaking and pathbreaking. Americans elected four women to the Senate along with twenty-four women to the House. At the same time, nearly two hundred…
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Socialist Mayors in the United States
$24.95The United States is known as a country that has been highly antagonistic to Socialism of any form. Socialists in the United States have tended to be political outsiders, mounting…
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The Media Offensive
$44.95World War II was a media war. President Franklin D. Roosevelt used the press to a great extent, of course, but as the war progressed, the media also came to…
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Thomas Brackett Reed
$29.95Defining a “statesman” as “a successful politician who is dead,” Thomas Brackett Reed gave himself some latitude in pursuing his goals as a congressional leader. His leadership style is encapsulated…