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A Fury for God: The Islamist Attack on America
by Malise Ruthven
Publisher:
Granta UK (2004-02-01)
Binding/Media:
Paperback - 346 pages
Edition:
New edition
SKU:
52714
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VG-
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The terrorist attacks on New York and Washington were carried out by men steeped in a certain Islamic ideology, which has come to be called Islamism. In
A Fury for God,
Malise Ruthven first reconstructs the events of September 11 and the war in Afghanistan. He traces the role of the idea of "jihad" and examines the permissibility of suicide in Islam, and reconstructs the world view of Islamist intellectuals like Sayyid Qutb, the Egyptian thinker who has influenced an entire generation of radicals in the Arab world, notably Osama bin Laden. He also shows that it would be a mistake to treat these people as medieval fanaticstheir attitude to modernity is dangerous and ambivalent. And in a changing analysis, the author exposes the crucial importance of the Saudi connection, the massive sponsorship of "fundamentalism" by an authoritarian tribal regime that has been tolerated by the international community for the sake of Western economic stability. Ruthven's identification of the ambiguities in Western policy is powerfully provocative.
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America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy
by Francis Fukuyama
Publisher:
Yale University Press (2006-02)
Binding/Media:
Hardcover - 240 pages
SKU:
80847
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VG / VG-
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Francis Fukuyama’s criticism of the Iraq war put him at odds with neoconservative friends both within and outside the Bush administration. Here he explains how, in its decision to invade Iraq, the Bush administration failed in its stewardship of American foreign policy. First, the administration wrongly made preventive war the central tenet of its foreign policy. In addition, it badly misjudged the global reaction to its exercise of benevolent hegemony.” And finally, it failed to appreciate the difficulties involved in large-scale social engineering, grossly underestimating the difficulties involved in establishing a successful democratic government in Iraq.
Fukuyama explores the contention by the Bush administration’s critics that it had a neoconservative agenda that dictated its foreign policy during the president’s first term. Providing a fascinating history of the varied strands of neoconservative thought since the 1930s, Fukuyama argues that the movement’s legacy is a complex one that can be interpreted quite differently than it was after the end of the Cold War. Analyzing the Bush administration’s miscalculations in responding to the post-September 11 challenge, Fukuyama proposes a new approach to American foreign policy through which such mistakes might be turned aroundone in which the positive aspects of the neoconservative legacy are joined with a more realistic view of the way American power can be used around the world.
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Attack the Messenger: How Politicians Turn You Against the Media (American Political Challenges)
by Craig Crawford
Publisher:
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (2007-09-13)
Binding/Media:
Paperback - 208 pages
SKU:
83875
Condition:
NF
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Attack the Messenger is an objective look at the loss of public trust in the news media-and the resulting threat to American democracy. Biased, sloppy, and sometimes deceitful reporting is partly to blame, but this book primarily examines how politicians declared war on the media's role as an honest broker of information-and won. Craig Crawford takes readers who crave truth in news through the power struggle between the government and mainstream media, as well as directs them on how to avoid political propaganda and find the most reliable news sources.
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Beyond Left and Right: The Future of Radical Politics
by Anthony Giddens
Publisher:
Stanford University Press (1994-01-01)
Binding/Media:
Paperback - 284 pages
Edition:
First Edition
SKU:
80645
Condition:
VG+
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In the wake of the cataclysmic changes that have transformed the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries since 1989, what can it mean to be politically radical today? In this conceptually powerful work, the author applies his well-known and influential body of ideas about modernity to the present state and future of radical politics.
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Bloodthirsty Bitches and Pious Pimps of Power: The Rise and Risks of the New Conservative Hate Culture
by Gerry Spence
Publisher:
St. Martin's Press (2006-10-03)
Binding/Media:
Hardcover - 304 pages
Edition:
First Edition
SKU:
80814
Condition:
G+ / G+
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Ann Coulter. Laura Ingraham. Nancy Grace. Bill O'Reilly. Sean Hannity. Pat Robertson.
Their faces and voices are ubiquitous: the shrill shrieks and strident bellowings that drown out all debate and set every listener on edge, using God's and Jesus's names to justify oppression and ignorance, and spread falsehoods as if they were facts. They occupy the bully pulpit of the new American hate culture: the television and radio programs watched and heard by millions of people that shape the opinions and set the agendas of churches, school boards, political action groups, and ultimately those we have elected to represent all of us.
Gerry Spence takes dead aim at the media demagogues who wield their power with such virulent effect. Using the full force of his own rhetorical skill--developed through decades as a legendary defense attorney--Spence exposes the people behind the words, and carves their arguments with the rough edge of his tongue. Anyone who has had it up to here will cheer to see these bullies met and conquered on their own turf.
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Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth
by Ben Shapiro
Publisher:
Thomas Nelson (2004-05-06)
Binding/Media:
Hardcover - 256 pages
SKU:
80464
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VG+ / VG+
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When parents send their children off to college, mom and dad hope they'll return more cultivated, knowledgeable, and astute--able to see issues from all points of view. But, according to Ben Shapiro, there's only one view allowed on most college campuses: a rabid brand of liberalism that must be swallowed hook, line, and sinker. In this explosive book, Ben Shapiro, a college student himself, reveals how America's university system is one of the largest brainwashing machines on the planet. Examining this nationwide problem from firsthand experience, Shapiro shows how the leftists who dominate the universities--from the administration to the student government, from the professors to the student media--use their power to mold impressionable minds. Fresh and bitterly funny, this book proves that the universities, far from being a place for open discussion, are really dungeons of the mind that indoctrinate students to become socialists, atheists, race-baiters, and narcissists.
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Dogmas and Dreams: Political Ideologies in the Modern World (Chatham House Studies in Political Thinking)
by (Editor: Nancy S. Love)
Publisher:
Chatham House Pub (1991-04)
Binding/Media:
Paperback - 554 pages
SKU:
67037
Condition:
G-
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Updated with a new section on environmentalism and an expanded section on feminism, this anthology of modern political ideologies provides a valuable tool for students in introductory college courses. Nancy Love provides concise, insightful introductions to original selections by the thinkers, past and present, who have shaped today's political ideologies.
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Freefall of the American University: How Our Colleges Are Corrupting the Minds and Morals of the Next Generation
by Jim Nelson Black
Publisher:
Thomas Nelson (2004-09-22)
Binding/Media:
Hardcover - 288 pages
SKU:
83866
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VG / VG
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It's happening in colleges all across the country. Instead of being educational institutions designed to encourage the free discussion of ideas, universities have become prisons of propaganda, indoctrinating students with politically correct (and often morally repugnant) ideas about American life and culture. This book exposes the liberal bias in today's universities, providing hard evidence, in clear and unimpeachable terms, that shows how today's colleges are covertly and overtly proselytizing with leftist slants on sexuality, politics, and lifestyles. By naming names and providing specific and credible insights from faculty members, administrators, professional observers, and analysts who have witnessed and chronicled the intellectual and ethical collapse taking place within the academy, this book offers a broad overview of the issues, the history of the problems, analysis from a broad range of academics and professionals, and also observations of the university students themselves, in their own words, from schools all across the nation.
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From Trust To Terror The onset of the cold war, 1945-1950
by Herbert Feis
Publisher:
W W Norton (1970)
Binding/Media:
Hardcover - 428 pages
Edition:
[1st ed.]
SKU:
83572
Condition:
G+
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$17.90
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Growth of Political Stability In England 1675-1725
by J H Plumb
Publisher:
Macmillian Press (1967-12)
Binding/Media:
Paperback - 224 pages
SKU:
80039
Condition:
G
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