Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are, or how they got there. They don't know they've been chosen for a very specific purpose.

To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were a fatal threat to republican virtues. They had suffered the consequences of partisan politics in Britain before the American Revolution, and they wanted nothing similar for America. Yet parties emerged even before the Constitution was ratified, and they took firmer root in the following decade. In Founding Partisans, master historian H. W. Brands has crafted a fresh and lively narrative of...

"When an election is coming up, you usually expect a face-off between the two major US political parties Democrats and Republicans. It's easy to forget that there are numerous minor parties--and even groups within a single party--that have different goals. Why do we need political parties? In modern elections, they are important in shaping candidates' positions on issues, determining who is nominated to run on a party ticket, and working behind the...

This is the first book dealing with any period in American history which attempts to describe and analyze national politics through studying voting patterns in state legislatures. During the 1780s two relatively stable legislative parties" emerged in every state, and each state possessed common characteristics. Main labels these parties "localists" and "cosmopolitans" and show how such issues as funding of debts, paper money, and land prices provided...

The cohost of Fox News' "The Five" chronicles various stories of political scandal in Washington, DC, and ends by offering recommendations on how President Trump can rid America's capital of political corruption.

"In the vein of On Tyranny and How Democracies Die, the bestselling author of Republic, Lost argues that our democracy no longer represents us and shows that reform is both necessary and possible"--

Volveremos, en los años setenta. Vamo a volvé, en 2019. ¿En qué consiste el Medioevo Peronista? ¿Por qué se produce su eterno-retorno? ¿Es cierto que nuestros días más felices siempre fueron peronistas? ¿Será que el peronismo es un intérprete legítimo de las aspiraciones de democracia y justicia social argentinas? ¿O será que las promesas enunciadas por la Leyenda Peronista y su hijo, el Relato Kirchnerista, son más importantes a la...

Summary of In Trump We Trust by Ann Coulter | Includes Analysis Preview: In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome! is conservative pundit Ann Coulter's wholehearted endorsement of Donald Trump in his bid for the presidency in 2016. While Coulter acknowledges that Trump may not be the polished candidate of the Republican Party's dreams, she supports him as the only person who can save conservative America and bring its values into the White House. Given...

Si el populismo no ha muerto, si está "insoportablemente vivo", es porque funciona. Y su eficacia se debe, en buena medida, a que ofrece una forma convincente de explicar el mundo, reflejar las preocupaciones y los miedos de los ciudadanos y proponerles una salida concreta. En otras palabras, sostiene un discurso, una historia con héroes y villanos que da sentido a una realidad que, en el siglo XXI, parece haberlo perdido. Esto vale tanto para Hugo...

La Transición a la democracia es sin duda uno de los procesos que más interés ha despertado no sólo entre los investigadores sino también entre el público general. Su complejidad se hace evidente si tenemos en cuenta que el propio proceso acabó por engullir a la elite que lo había orquestado. En este libro el lector encontrará un análisis que contempla la evolución de la UCD valenciana, y proporciona algunas de las claves para comprender...