Political/Historical
In our current age of hyper-partisan politics, people have taken sides about the Trump presidency. For Trump zealots, their president has not only committed no crimes, he has done nothing wrong. For anti-Trump zealots, nothing Trump has done is good. Everything he has done is wrong, and since it is wrong, it must necessarily be criminal. This deeply undemocratic fallacy-that political sins must be investigated and prosecuted as criminal-is an exceedingly dangerous trend by the most prominent civil rights lawyer of all time, Alan Dershowitz.
“a boycott divestment and sanction against Israel and consists of previous writings, speeches and reflections”
The Case Against Impeaching Trump seeks to reorient the debate over impeachment to the same standard that Dershowitz has steadfastly upheld for decades: the law of the United States of America, as established by the Constitution.
The Case Against the Democratic House Impeaching Trump includes and expands upon Dershowitz’s 2018 book. It puts recent political events―including the hyper-partisan Kavanaugh hearings, the unrestrained power of the Mueller investigation, and the generally intolerant current political discourse―into context. American democracy, Dershowitz argues, is suffering from political hypocrisy. And two years of impeachment proceedings brought by the House―and the media circus that would undoubtedly surround them―is clearly not the answer. This book is Alan Dershowitz’s plea for honest dialogue―for arguments that would be made even if the shoe was on the other foot.
Professor Julie Suk, a distinguished legal scholar, builds off a century of momentum, telling the heroic stories of women who protested, resisted, and persisted to establish their constitutional rights. The year 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women’s constitutional right to vote. But have we come far enough?
After the adoption and ratification of the 19th Amendment, a bold group of women proposed the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). It took Congress almost fifty years to adopt it in 1972. The fight for ratification in the states took another fifty years, culminating in Virginia’s historic ratification in January 2020.
Why did the ERA take so long? Is it too late to add it to the Constitution? And what could it do for women?
Suk follows the history of the ERA through the voices of the relentless women who pursued it. For over 100 years, women’s efforts to enshrine their rights in the Constitution have faced opposition and subterfuge. And, despite significant gains, the triumphs of gender equality have not met the needs of all women – especially working mothers. Exploring the ERA’s past and future, Suk explains hot-button issues such as pregnancy discrimination, violence against women, and unequal pay.
The rise of movements like the Women’s March and #MeToo have ignited and united women across the country. Unstoppable women are challenging male abuse of power, getting elected, and changing the law. We the Women puts the founding mothers of the ERA and the forgotten mothers of the kids next door at the forefront of constitutional change.
World-renowned lawyer Alan Dershowitz recounts stories from his many years of defending the state of Israel.
Alan Dershowitz has spent years advocating for his "most challenging client"―the state of Israel―both publicly and in private meetings with high level international figures, including every US president and Israeli leader of the past 40 years. Replete with personal insights and unreported details, Defending Israel offers a comprehensive history of modern Israel from the perspective of one of the country's most important supporters. Readers are given a rare front row seat to the high profile controversies and debates that Dershowitz was involved in over the years, even as the political tides shifted and the liberal community became increasingly critical of Israeli policies.
Daniel Weiss, the CEO and President of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has lectured across the nation and internationally at universities, museums, and colleges. In In That Time, he tells a powerful personal story and a compellingly universal one. The book chronicles the story of Major Michael O'Donnell, a poet and selfless Vietnam helicopter pilot whose chopper was shot down while attempting a daring rescue of a deep reconnaissance team being aggressively pursued by enemy militants.
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A powerful reflection on the universal art museum, considering the values critical to its history and anticipating its evolving place in our cultural future.
Art museums have played a vital role in our culture, drawing on Enlightenment ideals in shaping ideas, advancing learning, fostering community, and providing spaces of beauty and permanence. In this thoughtful and often personal volume, Daniel H. Weiss contemplates the idea of the universal art museum alongside broad considerations about the role of art in society and what defines a cultural experience. The future of art museums is far from secure, and Weiss reflects on many of the difficulties these institutions face, from their financial health to their collecting practices to the audiences they engage to ensuring freedom of expression on the part of artists and curators.
Part of the “Why X Matters” series published by Yale University Press. Floyd Abrams, the most prominent first amendment attorney in the country, offers his perspective on the importance of the First Amendment in a contemporary and historical context. Other works in that series include Mark Tushnet’s Why the Constitution Matters(2011) and Louis Begley’s Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters (2010).
Some of Floyd Abrams' most stirring cases representative of the First Amendment's principles, include the Pentagon Papers case and the Brooklyn Museum's display of offensive art and the Judy Miller case. It describes the disconnect between the high level of legal protection afforded in most areas and the increasing public disenchantment with the press and Hollywood . Floyd Abrams appeared as the judge in the 2008 movie, Nothing But the Truth. The ten city tour included Nightline, Today Show, Charlie Rose. And the Abrams Report on MSNBC. Elie Wiesel and Dan Rather contributed cover blurbs for the book.
As one of the first female reporters at the Wall Street Journal and the first female deputy bureau chief for the Journal’s London bureau, Joann S. Lublin has significant experience cracking glass ceilings. Earning It turns to over fifty female CEO's to share their anecdotes and advice about how to be a strong woman in the workplace. Women such as Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors, and Brenda Barnes, former CEO of Sara Lee share stories of the obstacles they faced and female leaders, and how they ultimately prevailed. Lublin has traveled all over the world discussing the book.
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A first-hand look at Detroit’s astonishing financial collapse and the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. Bomey examines the implications of the Detroit bankruptcy for urban governments, Washington, but — most importantly — for the people of Detroit, who face a humanitarian crisis on a daily basis. Currently a reporter for USA Today, and previously the lead bankruptcy reporter for the Detroit Free Press, Bomey has won critical acclaim for the groundbreaking report he co-authored in September 2013, winning awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and more.
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Blending political history and personal memoir, merging the contemporary and historical based on her thirty years of conversations and interviews with her great-grandfather’s political opponents such as Molotov, and intellectual supporters like Mikhail Gorbachev, and combing through old diaries and war letters, Khrushcheva sets out to uncover whether Leonid was really a traitor, or he, like 20 million other Russians, lost his life during the war. To get to the truth, the author, professor of International Affairs at New School University in New York, traveled to the Kaluga woods, a mysterious area southwest of Moscow where Leonid’s plane was last seen in a battle. The narrative of that journey turns into a scathing indictment of president Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the neo-Soviet land he is building. She is the author of Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics and member of Council on Foreign Relations.
Schoen’s latest examines the 37th president's political legacy in broad-ranging ways that make clear the breadth and duration of his influence on American political life. The book argues that Nixon is the key political figure in postwar American politics in multiple ways, some barely acknowledged until now. While not discounting Nixon's many misdeeds, Schoen treats his presidency and its importance with the seriousness--and evenhandedness--that the subject deserves.
A preeminent political analyst, Douglas E. Schoen provides a fresh, compelling analysis of the global loss of trust that challenges governments worldwide, and what it means for our future. Revolutions in the Middle East. He examines currency crises and public unrest in Europe, from Athens to Madrid, from Rome to London, massive crowds in the streets of Moscow, protesting tainted elections, grass-roots movements for political reform and economic fairness, from New Delhi to Santiago, from Tel Aviv to downtown Manhattan.
Preeminent political analyst Douglas E. Schoen provides a compelling analysis of how the political class is systematically undermining American democracy. Schoen argues that the political class' disregard for the population's distrust of institutions leads to the fraying of the basic fabric of our society. This book is filled with proprietary poll data that has not appeared anywhere else, and real-world examples and people that bring to life the poll statistics and findings. Doug Schoen had worked on the campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Ed Koch and has worked with heads of state of over 15 countries including Tony Blair and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berulusconi and three Israeli Prime Ministers. Doug Schoen is the author of Mad as Hell: How the Tea Party Movement s Fundamentally Remaking Our Two-Party System and The Threat Closer to Home: Hugo Chávez and the War Against America and the author of Declaring Independence: The Beginning of the End of the Two-Party System, The Power of the Vote: Electing Presidents, Overthrowing Dictators, and Promoting Democracy Around the World, and On the Campaign Trail: The Long Road of Presidential Politics, 1860-2004. Doug is also a political anaylst for Fox News and a columnist for the Daily Beast.
Michael Cherkasky as the former President and CEO of Kroll, the world's preeminent security firm with 55 offices in 18 countries and Alex Prud'homme, a nationally recognized investigative reporter and formidable writer. The book combines an eye-opening explanation of the new dangers of the post-9/11 world; a scathing appraisal of our failures to adapt to these threats; a trove of compelling stories told by an insider; and thoughtful policy recommendations. This book has been sold in Canada, Australia and other foreign countries.
The real story of the events leading to the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson on June 12, 1994. Kato Kaelin spent one year living with Nicole in her house on Gretna Green and six months in O.J.'s Rockingham estate. Kato Kaelin lived with both the primary victim and her alleged killer and became the confidant of both. Author Marc Eliot has written eight books, including Walt Disney: Hollywood's Dark Horse. This book spent six weeks on The New York TimesBest Seller List, and sold over 500,000 copies. HarperAudio produced the audio tape narrated by the author. This book has been sold in Canada and Australia, and author appeared on all the major talk shows.
The crucial religious liberty issue is whether religious individuals and organizations should be required to obey the rule of law. In the 1990 landmark case of Employment Division v. Smith, the Supreme Court rules that the First Amendment does not defend against religious followers breaking laws. Hamilton provides real-life case studies to demonstrate the court's wisdom: the Catholic Church and sexual abuse, the Native American Church's use of peyote, Christian Scientists and medical neglect of children, Islamic radicals attacking the World Trade Center, Rastafarians and prison hair regulations, Santerians' animal sacrifice, and Mormons' polygamy. Marci Hamilton is currently a professor at the Cardozo School of Law and has been a visiting professor and scholar at the NYU School of Law, Emory University School of Law, and the Princeton Theological Seminary.
General Kahalani, Israel's most decorated tank commander relives his greatest battles. Badly burned in his tank in the six day war of 1967, General Kahalani went on to lead a battalion of tanks in a miraculous defense against the Syrians onslaught in the Yom Kippur War. He presents a commander's view of battle and examples of heroism. The book is a wrenching story of the General, who continues to contribute to the vitality of Israel today. (Published in Israel and America.) He was a noted Israeli Knesset member.
Wattenberg was an author, columnist, pundit and Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He has written and co-authored fourteen books including best-seller The Real Majority and is also the moderator of Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg, a nationally-broadcast program on PBS. Fighting Words details the neo-conservative agenda and weaves his political experiences with many influential leaders such as Lyndon Johnson, Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rudy Giuliani. Part memoir, and part insider history, this witty narrative recounts a man's intellectual and political development -- from unabashed “liberal” to proud “neo-con”-- in a way that connects his shift with a general trend in American politics. Appearances on The Daily Show with John Stewart, CBS Radio Weekend Report, and Michael Savage Show. Reviewed by Publisher's Weekly, The Washington Times, The Philadelphia Bulletin, The New Republic, the American Conservative Review, and Senator Joe Lieberman.
Margery Kempe is a polarizing, illiterate mother of 14 children who left her family to pursue her faith in Christ, was repeatedly arrested for heresy, but somehow had the pluck and determination to barely escape being burnt alive at the stake by the very same men who had Joan of Arc burnt to death. Elizabeth MacDonald is an award-winning journalist formerly with the Wall Street Journal and Forbes Magazine who is on television daily at the FOX Business Network as well as on FOX News. Her columns have a broad Internet following, and she appears on nationwide radio shows regularly. Additionally, MacDonald has a devoted following on the Internet, where her TV and radio appearances, as well as her columns, get picked up daily.
In this biography, Gerald and Deborah Strober draw from original source materials and numerous interviews to detail the life and career of the esteemed Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum, a seminal 20th century figure in interfaith relations in the US and around the world. From his position as Director of Interreligious Affairs at the American Jewish Committee, Rabbi Tanenbaum was deeply involved in the historic Vatican II Council, which promulgated a landmark encyclical on Catholic-Jewish relations. Rabbi Tanenbaum also was one of the few Jewish leaders who worked closely with Reverend Billy Graham and other evangelicals. He worked tirelessly as a civil rights activist and was active in the cause of Soviet Jewry, as well.
Confronting Hate details this esteemed career and his interactions with the likes of television legends Norman Lear, Don Hewitt, and Franco Zeffirelli; Jesse Jackson; Martin Luther King, Jr.; and several US presidents, from Dwight D. Eisenhower to George H.W. Bush. This book leaves no stone unturned in covering the public and private aspects of the life of “the human rights rabbi.” The authors bring to light the immense international influence that Rabbi Tanenbaum has even today, more than twenty-five years after his passing.
Sixteen of today's greatest unsolved mathematical puzzles in a story-driven, illustrated volume that invites readers to peek over the edge of the unknown.
Most people think of mathematics as a set of useful tools designed to answer analytical questions, beginning with simple arithmetic and ending with advanced calculus. But, as Mage Merlin's Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries shows, mathematics is filled with intriguing mysteries that take us to the edge of the unknown. This richly illustrated, story-driven volume presents sixteen of today's greatest unsolved mathematical puzzles, all understandable by anyone with elementary math skills. These intriguing mysteries are presented to readers as puzzles that have time-traveled from Camelot, preserved in the notebook of Merlin, the wise magician in King Arthur's court.
In The Case for Liberalism in an Age of Extremism, Alan Dershowitz—New York Times bestselling author and one of America’s most respected legal scholars—makes a classical liberal argument for centrist government in the US, as the Founding Fathers and the Constitution intended.
Alan Dershowitz has been called “one of the most prominent and consistent defenders of civil liberties in America” by Politico and “the nation’s most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer and one of its most distinguished defenders of individual rights” by Newsweek. Yet he has come under intense criticism for his consistent classical liberalism in the face of a rapidly polarizing political landscape and for his steadfast support of centrist governance over either “progressive” or reactionary radicalism.
The Case for Liberalism in an Age of Extremism is a defense of liberalism and its renewed relevance today. It makes the case for classic liberal values and programs over radical-left and reactionary right-wing agendas, and for centrism over extremism in general, showing why the United States has thrived throughout history because of its enduringly centrist base. It seeks to restore contemporary liberalism to its important place in the American political landscape, and attempts to persuade centrists from both the left and right—who may today call themselves progressives or moderate conservatives—that they, too, belong in the big tent of centrist liberalism.
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Dr. Phyllis Chesler presents a brilliant feminist analysis and an important understanding on how unchecked child sexual abuse can lead to devastating consequences in adults. The criminal justice system does not take into account the totality of the situation.
The liberal arts are dying. They are dying because most Americans don’t see the point of them. Americans don’t understand why anyone would study literature or history or the classics—or, more contemporarily, feminist criticism, whiteness studies, or the literature of postcolonial states—when they can get an engineering or business degree.
Even more concerning is when they read how “Western civilization” has become a term of reproach at so many supposedly thoughtful institutions; or how fanatical political correctness works hard to silence alternative viewpoints; or, more generally, how liberal studies have become scattered, narrow, and small. In this atmosphere, it’s hard to convince parents or their progeny that a liberal education is all that wonderful or that it’s even worthy of respect.
The liberal arts are dying. They are dying because most Americans don’t see the point of them. Americans don’t understand why anyone would study literature or history or the classics—or, more contemporarily, feminist criticism, whiteness studies, or the literature of postcolonial states—when they can get an engineering or business degree.
Even more concerning is when they read how “Western civilization” has become a term of reproach at so many supposedly thoughtful institutions; or how fanatical political correctness works hard to silence alternative viewpoints; or, more generally, how liberal studies have become scattered, narrow, and small. In this atmosphere, it’s hard to convince parents or their progeny that a liberal education is all that wonderful or that it’s even worthy of respect.
The Unbelievable True Story of Robert Abrams, the man who changed the New York Attorney General's Office for Good.
At the heart of this political memoir is the story of how the office of state attorney general, an historically sleepy backwater post, has evolved into a front line major protector of the rights of citizens across the country. New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams exercised leadership in organizing attorneys general throughout the nation to take collective action against the Reagan administration’s punishing laissez-faire anti-regulatory policies. Abrams and his fellow attorneys general set the precedent for the successful challenges mounted by today’s attorneys general against the Trump administration’s immigration policies and rollback of consumer and civil rights protections.
In The Luckiest Guy in the World, Robert Abrams wears his progressive values on his sleeve, providing an optimistic view about our nation’s return to its fundamental values.
Society's increasingly tenuous commitment to the truth laid the groundwork for someone like Trump to rise to power. On Facebook, we present images of our lives that ignore reality and intentionally mislead our friends and family. We consume fake news stories online and carelessly circulate false rumors. Donald Trump did not usher the post-fact era into being. He was simply a product of it.
In Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education, Justin Reich delivers a sobering report card on the latest supposedly transformative educational technologies. Reich takes readers on a tour of MOOCs, autograders, computerized “intelligent tutors,” and other educational technologies whose problems and paradoxes have bedeviled educators. Learning technologies―even those that are free to access―often provide the greatest benefit to affluent students and do little to combat growing inequality in education. And institutions and investors often favor programs that scale up quickly, but at the expense of true innovation. It turns out that technology cannot by itself disrupt education or provide shortcuts past the hard road of institutional change.
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For much of recorded history, people considered the heart to be the most important organ in the body. In cultures around the world, the heart—not the brain—was believed to be the location of intelligence, memory, emotion, and the soul. Over time, views on the purpose of the heart have transformed as people sought to understand the life forces it contains.
This book traces the evolution of our understanding of the heart from the dawn of civilization to the present. Vincent Figueredo considers the science of heart disease, recent advancements in heart therapies, and what the future may hold. He highlights the emerging field of neurocardiology, which has found evidence of a “heart-brain connection” in mental and physical health, suggesting that ancient views hold more truth than moderns suspect.
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Nonprofits can be both inspiring and frustrating. Why do they sometimes break our hearts? How can we bring out the best in them? Run It Like A Business: What’s Wrong With Nonprofits and How to Fix Them answers these important questions. Written for a general audience, it identifies the root causes of problems at nonprofits and explains how to solve them.
