Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, a psychology professor at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, and an expert on twentysomethings, ascribes their optimism to their lack of life experience. “The dreary, deadend jobs, the bitter divorces, ...
The host of the award-winning humorous news program offers tongue-in-cheek insight into American democracy with coverage of such topics as the republican qualities of ancient Rome, the antics of our nation's founders, and the ludicrous ...
• A New Republic Best Book of the Year • The Globalist Top Books of the Year • Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fiction • Particularly relevant in understanding who voted for who in this presidential election year, this is ...
The peopling of the United States is one of the most important stories of the last five hundred years, and in Shaping our Nation, bestselling author and demographics expert Michael Barone illuminates a new angle on America’s rise, using a ...
"This book shows how the Bible decisively shaped American national history even as that history decisively influenced the use of Scripture.
The former Secretary of State under Richard Nixon argues that a coherent foreign policy is essential and lays out his own plan for getting the nation's international affairs in order. 150,000 first printing.
It is the concept of e pluribus unumout of many, onethat summarizes the sense of national unity that Americans feel, and one that author Martin Street seeks to convey in Taking the Pulse of America.
In this expanded new edition, he includes and in-depth analysis of the domestic component of both the American creed and the American antithesis. Barack Obama's improbable election to the presidency illustrates well the first strand.
Within the following pages of this book appropriately entitled, If I was President, I intend to outline what I believe, hopefully with most all Americans in agreement, are the paths to recovery and road to prosperity We The People of the ...
Bestselling author and strategist Ian Bremmer argues that Washington’s directionless foreign policy has become expensive and dangerous.