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  • When Bad Policy Makes Good Politics

    Running the Numbers on Health Reform

    by Robert P. Saldin ...
    Series series Studies in Postwar American Political Development
    Since the 1960s, America's policymaking system has transitioned from one in which leaders like Lyndon Johnson could simply disparage the concept of budget projections to one in which policymakers consciously manipulate cost estimates. Paradoxically, the very safeguards put in place to thwart economically unsound legislation now cause chaos by incentivizing the development of flawed, even blatantly ... Read more

    $37.59 CAD

  • War, the American State, and Politics since 1898

    by Robert P. Saldin ...
    This book examines major foreign conflicts from the Spanish-American War through Vietnam, arguing that international conflicts have strong effects on American political parties, elections, state development, and policymaking. First, major wars expose and highlight problems requiring governmental solutions or necessitating emergency action. Second, despite well-known curtailments of civil liberties ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Never Trump

    The Revolt of the Conservative Elites

    by Robert P. Saldin, Steven M. Teles ...
    As it became increasingly apparent that Donald Trump might actually become the Republican party's 2016 presidential nominee, alarmed conservatives coalesced behind a simple, uncompromising slogan: Never Trump. Although the movement initially included a large number of Republican office-holders, its white-hot core was always comprised of the policy experts, public intellectuals, and campaign ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

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    Never Trump

    The Revolt of the Conservative Elites

    by Robert P. Saldin, Steven M. Teles ...
    Narrated by Rick Adamson ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 56 min

    As it became increasingly apparent that Donald Trump might actually become the Republican party's 2016 presidential nominee, alarmed conservatives coalesced behind a simple, uncompromising slogan: Never Trump. Although the movement initially included a large number of Republican office-holders, its core was always comprised of the policy experts, public intellectuals, and campaign professionals ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Beyond Outrage: Expanded Edition

    What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix it

    by Robert B. Reich ...
    America’s economy and democracy are working for the benefit of an ever-fewer privileged and powerful people. But rather than just complain about it or give up on the system, we must join together and make it work for all of us.In this timely book, Robert B. Reich argues that nothing good happens in Washington unless citizens are energized and organized to make sure Washington acts in the public ... Read more

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    Restoring American Democracy

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    "I don't take responsibility at all." Those words of Donald Trump at a March 13, 2020, press conference are likely to be history's epitaph on his presidency.A huge swath of Americans has put their faith in Trump, and Trump only, because they see the rest of the country building a future that doesn't have a place for them.If they would risk their lives for Trump in a pandemic, they will certainly ... Read more

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  • Saving Capitalism

    For the Many, Not the Few

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  • It Was All a Lie

    How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump

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