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9781421430676 Academic Inspection Copy
  • Downsizing Democracy

  • How America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public
  • Originally publushed in 2002. In Downsizing Democracy, Matthew A. Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg describe how the once powerful idea of a collective citizenry has given way to a concept of personal, autonomous democracy. Today, political change is effected through litigation, lobbying, and term limits, rather than active participation in ......

  • ISBN-13: 9781421430676 (Paperback)
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
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  • Local release date: 14/05/2020
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  • Categories: Politics & government [JP]
  • What Washington Gets Wrong

  • The Unelected Officials Who Actually Run the Government and Their Misconceptions about the American People
  • Each year unelected federal administrators write thousands of regulations possessing the force of law. What do these civil servants know about the American people whom they ostensibly serve? Not much, according to this enlightening and disturbing study. The authors surveyed federal agency officials, congressional and White House staffers, and ......
  • ISBN-13: 9781633882492 (Hardback)
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: PROMETHEUS
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  • Local release date: 14/12/2016
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  • How the Jews Defeated Hitler

  • Exploding the Myth of Jewish Passivity in the Face of Nazism
  • One of the most common assumptions about World War II is that the Jews did not actively resist their own extermination. Ginsberg convincingly argues that the Jews not only resisted the Nazis, but actually played a major role in Germany's defeat. In this compelling, cogent history, we discover that Jews contributed powerfully to Hitler's end.
  • ISBN-13: 9781442252745 (Paperback)
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  • Local release date: 14/08/2016
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  • Categories: Military history [HBW]
  • The Worth of War

  • Although war is terrible and brutal, history shows that it has been a great driver of human progress. So argues political scientist Benjamin Ginsberg in this incisive, well-researched study of the benefits to civilization derived from armed conflict. Ginsberg makes a convincing case that war selects for and promotes certain features of societies ......
  • ISBN-13: 9781616149505 (Hardback)
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  • Local release date: 14/11/2014
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  • Categories: Sociology [JHB]
  • The Value of Violence

  • Though violence is commonly deplored, political scientist Ginsberg argues that in many ways it is indispensable, unavoidable, and valuable. Ginsberg sees violence manifested in society in many ways. ""Law-preserving violence"" (using Walter Benjamin's phrase) is the chief means by which society preserves social order. Behind the security of a ......
  • ISBN-13: 9781616148317 (Hardback)
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  • Local release date: 14/11/2013
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  • Categories: Sociology [JHB]
9780801894640 Academic Inspection Copy
  • Moses of South Carolina

  • A Jewish Scalawag during Radical Reconstruction
  • Franklin Moses Jr. is one of the great forgotten figures in American history. Scion of a distinguished Jewish family in South Carolina, he was a firebrand supporter of secession and an officer in the Confederate army. Moses then reversed course. As Reconstruction governor of South Carolina, he shocked and outraged his white constituents by ......
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  • Local release date: 14/06/2010
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  • Categories: History of the Americas [HBJK]
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