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The Battle for Social Security by Nancy Altman (Hardcover - John Wiley & Sons Inc)
 

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The Battle for Social Security by Nancy Altman (Hardcover - John Wiley & Sons Inc)
This book illuminates the politics and policy of the current struggle over Social Security in light of the program's compelling history and ingenious structure. After a brief introduction describing the dramatic response of the Social Security Administration to the 9/11 terrorist attack, the book recounts Social Security�s lively history. Although President Bush has tried to convince Americans that Social Security is designed for the last century and unworkable for an aging population, readers will see that the President's assault is just another battle in a longstanding ideological war. Prescott Bush, the current President�s grandfather, remarked of FDR, "The only man I truly hated lies buried in Hyde Park." The book traces the continuous thread leading from Prescott Bush and his contemporaries to George W. Bush and others who want to undo Social Security. The book concludes with policy recommendations which eliminate Social Security's deficit in a manner consistent with the program's philosophy and structure.

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If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans by Ann Coulter (Paperback - Reprint)
 

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If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans by Ann Coulter (Paperback - Reprint)
A provocative compilation of hundreds of quotations by the controversial conservative spokesperson offers never-before-published witticisms, insights, and observations on Democrats, dating, environmentalism, religion, evolution, Reagan, terrorism, television, and hundreds of other topics, from her interviews, speeches, and media appearances. Reprint. 250,000 first printing.

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McGraw-Hill's U.S. Citizenship Test by Karen Hilgeman (PACKAGE - McGraw-Hill)
 

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McGraw-Hill's U.S. Citizenship Test by Karen Hilgeman (PACKAGE - McGraw-Hill)
Offers an informative guide to the new N-400 application test in an illustrated course book with a companion DVD that explains and details the various topics on which aspiring citizens will be tested, including reading, writing, and oral questions. Original.

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Half A Crown by Jo Walton (Hardcover - Tor Books)
 

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Half A Crown by Jo Walton (Hardcover - Tor Books)
A final installment in the alternate-world historical trilogy that began with Farthing and Ha'penny follows a 1960 peace conference that brings together the allied leaders of Britain, Germany, and Japan to oversee the final partition of the world, an effort that is challenged by coup-plotting street fighters. 10,000 first printing.

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Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot by Al Franken (Paperback - Delacorte Pr)
 

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Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot by Al Franken (Paperback - Delacorte Pr)
Move over P.J. O'Rourke! From Al Franken, America's premier liberal satirist, comes a hilarious homage to the wonderful, awful, and always absurd American political process that skewers a whole new crop of presidential hopefuls--just in time for the 1996 presidential election. "(Franken is) responsible in part for some of the most brilliant political satire of our time".--John Podhoretz, New York Post.

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Outrage by Dick Morris (Paperback - Reprint)
 

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Outrage by Dick Morris (Paperback - Reprint)
A conservative political analyst and his wife address top issues facing Americans today, charging the government, big businesses, and others with engaging in corrupt practices that are costing taxpayers billions, in a lively collection of essays that includes such sections as "The Top 10 Worst Senators" and "Five Ways the Government Is Picking Your Pocket." Reprint. 75,000 first printing.

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Natural Right and History by Leo Strauss (Paperback - Reissue)
 

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Natural Right and History by Leo Strauss (Paperback - Reissue)
The problem of natural right is one of the most controversial and significant issues in contemporary political and social philosophy. Leo Strauss, eminent author of The Political Philosophy of Hobbes, examines the current status of this problem and shows that the reasons which have led to a rejection of natural right are not valid.

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International Politics on the World Stage by John Rourke (Paperback - McGraw-Hill Humanities Social)
 

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International Politics on the World Stage by John Rourke (Paperback - McGraw-Hill Humanities Social)
Much praised for being both accessible and scholarly, John Rourke's text uses current examples to illustrate theories. The eleventh edition has been meticulously revised to recognize new scholarship and to update coverage of world events and trends, including elections in Iraq, Israel's withdrawal from Gaza, the defeat of the E.U. Constitution by French and Dutch voters, the tsunami in Indonesia, the first investigations of the International Criminal Court, corruption in the UN's oil-for-food program, and growing U.S.-China tensions over China's arms program.

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Patterns of Democracy by Arend Lijphart (Paperback - Yale Univ Pr)
 

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Patterns of Democracy by Arend Lijphart (Paperback - Yale Univ Pr)
In this updated and expanded edition of his highly acclaimed book Democracies, Arend Lijphart offers a broader and deeper analysis of worldwide democratic institutions than ever before. Examining thirty-six democracies during the half-century from 1945 to 1996, Lijphart arrives at important -- and unexpected -- conclusions about what type of democracy works best. While conventional wisdom suggests that majoritarian democracies like those in the United States and Great Britain are superior to consensual systems like those in Switzerland and Israel, Lijphart shows this is not so. In fact, consensual systems stimulate economic growth, control inflation and unemployment, and limit budget deficits just as well as majoritarian democracies do. And, consensus democracies clearly outperform majoritarian systems on measures of political equality, women's representation, citizen participation in elections, and proximity between government policies and voter preferences. Systematically comparing cabinets, legislatures, parties, election systems, supreme courts, and -- for the first time in this volume -- interest groups and central banks, Lijphart demonstrates that the more consensual a democracy, the "kinder and gentler" it is when addressing welfare, environmental, criminal justice, and foreign aid issues. These findings are of far-reaching import not only for countries designing their first democratic constitutions but also for established democracies seeking practical approaches to reform.

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The Ides of March by Thornton Wilder (Paperback - Perennial)
 

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The Ides of March by Thornton Wilder (Paperback - Perennial)

Drawing on such unique sources as Thornton Wilder's unpublished letters, journals, and selections from the extensive annotations Wilder made years later in the margins of the book, Tappan Wilder's Afterword adds a special dimension to the reissue of this internationally acclaimed novel.

The Ides of March, first published in 1948, is a brilliant epistolary novel set in Julius Caesar's Rome. Thornton Wilder called it "a fantasia on certain events and persons of the last days of the Roman republic." Through vividly imagined letters and documents, Wilder brings to life a dramatic period of world history and one of history's most magnetic, elusive personalities.

In this inventive narrative, the Caesar of history becomes Caesar the human being. Wilder also resurrects the controversial figures surrounding Caesar -- Cleopatra, Catullus, Cicero, and others. All Rome comes crowding through these pages -- the Rome of villas and slums, beautiful women and brawling youths, spies and assassins.

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