"--Richard Delgado, Jean Lindsley Professor of Law, University of Colorado "This book is a tour de force. Dudziak's brilliant analysis shows that the Cold War had a profound impact on the civil rights movement.

As this book shows, the People of the Congo have suffered throughout the past century from a particularly brutal experience of colonial rule, and a series of post-independence political conflicts.

Brilliantly he reveals why it is no wonder that Americans are apathetic about their common culture and see no point in arguing politics or voting.

But here, taking as her guide Thomas Paine’s subversive view that “Athens, by representation, would have surpassed her own democracy,” Nadia Urbinati challenges this accepted wisdom, arguing that political representation deserves to ...

"--Jon Elster, Columbia University "Making an important contribution to democratic theory, this outstanding book takes seriously the possibility of popular rule and successful democratic decision making.

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With a new preface, Robert Paul Wolff's classic analysis of the foundations of the authority of the state and the problems of political authority and moral autonomy in a democracy.

This thought-provoking book by Chantal Mouffe, a globally recognized political author, presents a timely account of the current state of democracy, affording readers the most relevant and up-to-date information.

Branded by Twain's aptitude for broad comedy and biting social satire, the grim truths of Twain's Camelot-fear, injustice, ignorance-resound as clearly now as when it was written Hank Morgan, a nineteenth-century American who is ...