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Category:  Politics (Sorted by Author's last name)


Physics and Politics: or Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "Natural Selection" and "Inheritance" to Political Society (1863) - Walter Bagehot (02/03/1826 -03/24/1877)    (Grade:B+)

The Long Night Of The Watchman: Essays 1977-1989 (2018) - Vaclav Benda (8/08/1946 -6/02/1999)    (Grade:A-)

Terror and Liberalism (2003) - Paul Berman ( -)    (Grade:B+)

Hollywood Party: How Communism Seduced the American Film Industry in the 1930s and 1940s (1998) - Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley (-)    (Grade:C)

The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law (1990) - Robert H. Bork (03/01/1927 -12/19/2012)    (Grade:A+)

The Strange Death of American Liberalism (2002) - H. W. Brands (08/07/1953 -)    (Grade:B-)

Bad Bet on the Bayou: The Rise of Gambling in Louisiana and the Fall of Governor Edwin Edwards (2001) - Tyler Bridges (-)    (Grade:B-)

The American Republic: Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny (1866) - Orestes Augustus Brownson (09/16/1803 -1876)    (Grade:A)

Ambling Into History : The Unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush (2002) - Frank Bruni (-)    (Grade:A-)

A Republic, Not an Empire: Reclaiming America's Destiny (1999) - Patrick J. Buchanan (11/02/1938 -)    (Grade:B)

Living It Up At National Review: A Memoir (2005) - Priscilla L. Buckley (-)    (Grade:A)

The Unmaking of a Mayor (1966) - William F. Buckley, Jr. (11/24/1925 -2/27/2008)    (Grade:A+)

Witness (1952) - Whittaker Chambers (4/01/1901 -7/09/1961)    (Grade:A+)

How to Win an Election: An Ancient Guide for Modern Politicians [Commentariolum Petitionis] (2012) - Quintus Tullius Cicero (102 BC -43 BC)    (Grade:A-)

Between Hope and History: Meeting America's Challenges for the 21st Century (1996) - William J. Clinton (1946-)    (Grade:D)

Silent Coup: The Removal of a President (1991) - Len Colodny (-)    (Grade:C+)

High Crimes and Misdemeanors : The Case Against Bill Clinton (1998) - Ann H. Coulter (12/08/1961-)    (Grade:A-)

What it Takes : The Way to the White House (1992) - Richard Ben Cramer (06/12/1950 -01/07/2013)    (Grade:A+)

Letters to a Young Conservative (The Art of Mentoring Series) (2002) - Dinesh D'Souza (1961-)    (Grade:B-)

How Democratic Is the American Constitution? (2001) - Robert Alan Dahl (1915-)    (Grade:C-)

Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses (2005) - Theodore Dalrymple (10/11/1949 -)    (Grade:A+)

One Soldier's Story: A Memoir (2005) - Bob Joseph Dole (07/22/1923-)    (Grade:B+)

The Communist Manifesto (1848) - Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)    (Grade:F)

American Nomad: Pop Visions, Restless Politics, and Apocalyptic Memories at the End of the Millennium (1997) - Steve Erickson (1950-)    (Grade:A)

The Rage and The Pride (2002) - Oriana Fallaci (06/19/1930-)    (Grade:C+)

Pocket Book of Patriotism (2005) - Jonathan Foreman (-)    (Grade:B+)

What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America (2004) - Thomas Frank (1965-)    (Grade:D)

Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot: and Other Observations (1996) - Al Franken (1951-)    (Grade:F)

The Conscience of a Conservative (1960) - Barry Goldwater (1909-1998)    (Grade:A+)

The Two Faces of Liberalism (2000) - John Gray (4/17/1948 -)    (Grade:C)

Lift Every Voice: Turning a Civil Rights Setback into a New Vision of Social Justice (1998) - Lani Guinier (-)    (Grade:D+)

In Defense of Elitism (1994) - William A. Henry III (1950-1994)    (Grade:B-)

The Myth of Digital Democracy (2009) - Matthew Hindman (1976-)    (Grade:B+)

No One Left To Lie To: The Values of the Worst Family (2000) - Christopher Hitchens (4/13/1949 -12/15/2011)    (Grade:B)

The World Turned Right Side Up : A History of the Conservative Ascendancy in America (1996) - Godfrey Hodgson (-)    (Grade:C)

The American Political Tradition: and the Men Who Made It (1948) - Richard Hofstadter (08/16/1916 -10/24/1970)    (Grade:F)

The Right and the Power (1977) - Leon Jaworski (-)    (Grade:C)

My Declaration of Independence (2001) - James M. Jeffords (1934-)    (Grade:F)

Events are in the Saddle and They Ride the Neocons (2002) - Orrin Corson Judd (12/02/1961-)    (Grade:F)

Redefining Sovereignty (March 2006) - Orrin Corson Judd (12/02/1961-)    (Grade:A+)

Libertarianism vs. Conservatism () - Orrin Corson Judd (12/02/1961-)    (Grade:C)

The Emerging Democratic Majority (2002) - John B. Judis (-)    (Grade:D)

Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Orde (2003) - Robert Kagan ( -)    (Grade:A)

Democracy: The Two Majorities (1963) - Willmoore Kendall (1909 -6/30/1967)    (Grade:A)

Christian Faith and Modern Democracy: God and Politics in the Fallen World (2001) - Robert P. Kraynak (1949 -)    (Grade:A)

Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate--The Essential Guide for Progressives (2004) - George Lakoff (1941-)    (Grade:D)

Liberalism as a Way of Life (2024) - Alexander Lefebvre ( -)    (Grade:B)

Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle over Civil Rights (2017) - Steven Levingston (-)    (Grade:B)

How Democracies Die (2018) - Steven Levitsky (01/17/1968-)    (Grade:C)

Public Opinion (1922) - Walter Lippmann (09/23/1889-12/14/1974)    (Grade:D)

Democracy and Populism : Fear and Hatred (2005) - John Lukacs (01/31/1924 -)    (Grade:D)

Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear (2006) - Frank Luntz (02/23/1962-)    (Grade:B+)

Miami and the Siege of Chicago : An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968 (1968) - Norman Mailer (01/31/1923 -11/10/2007)    (Grade:C)

The New New Left : How American Politics Works Today (2005) - Steven Malanga (-)    (Grade:B+)

Welcome to the Homeland: A Journey to the Rural Heart of America's Conservative Revolution (2006) - Brian Mann (1965-)    (Grade:B-)

Manliness (2006) - Harvey C. Mansfield (3/21/1932 -)    (Grade:B)

The Communist Manifesto (1848) - Karl Marx (5/05/1818 -3/14/1883)    (Grade:F)

In Defense of Freedom and Related Essays () - Frank S. Meyer (1909-1972)    (Grade:A+)

How to Hack a Party Line: the Democrats and Silicon Valley (2001) - Sara Miles (-)    (Grade:C+)

A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat (2003) - Zell Miller (02/24/1932-)    (Grade:A)

Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History (2003) - James A. Morone (-)    (Grade:C-)

Workin' on the Chain Gang: Shaking off the Dead Hand of History (2000) - Walter Mosley (01/12/1952 -)    (Grade:F)

Willmoore Kendall: Maverick of American Conservatives (2002) - John A. Murley (-)    (Grade:A)

Fighting Terrorism : How Democracies Can Defeat Domestic and International Terrorists (1995) - Benjamin Netanyahu (1949-)    (Grade:A)

Memoirs of a Superfluous Man (1943) - Albert Jay Nock (10/13/1870 -8/19/1945)    (Grade:A+)

Completing the Revolution : A Vision for Victory in 2000 (2000) - Robert D. Novak (1931-)    (Grade:B+)

Parliament of Whores : A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government (1991) - P.J. O'Rourke (11/14/1947 -2/15/2022)    (Grade:A)

Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (2001) - Rick Perlstein (9/03/1969 -)    (Grade:A)

Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (2008) - Rick Perlstein (9/03/1969 -)    (Grade:B-)

Russian Conservatism and Its Critics: A Study in Political Culture (2005) - Richard Pipes (07/11/1923-)    (Grade:B+)

The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life (2006) - Ramesh Ponnuru (08/16/1974-)    (Grade:A)

The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress (1998) - Virginia Postrel (-)    (Grade:A-)

Thatcher For Beginners (1997) - Peter Pugh (-)    (Grade:B)

For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today (1999) - Jedediah Purdy (1974-)    (Grade:D)

Demosclerosis: The Silent Killer of American Government (1994) - Jonathan Rauch (1960-)    (Grade:B+)

A Theory of Justice (1971) - John Rawls (02/21/1921 -11/24/2002)    (Grade:F)

Without Marx or Jesus: The New American Revolution Has Begun (1971) - Jean-Francois Revel (1924-)    (Grade:B)

Anti-Americanism (2003) - Jean-Francois Revel (1924-)    (Grade:B+)

Achieving Our Country : Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America (1998) - Richard Rorty (10/04/1931 -6/08/2007)    (Grade:D+)

At Any Cost : How Al Gore Tried to Steal the Election (2001) - Bill Sammon (1959 -)    (Grade:B+)

The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis--and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance (2017) - Ben Sasse (02/22/1972 -)    (Grade:B-)

A Choice Not an Echo (1964) - Phyllis Schlafly (08/15/1924 -)    (Grade:C+)

Allies: The U.S., Britain, and Europe, and the War in Iraq (2003) - William Shawcross (05/28/1946-)    (Grade:A)

Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age (2010) - Clay Shirky (1964-)    (Grade:A)

How I Accidentally Joined the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy (and Found Inner Peace) (2000) - Harry Stein (11/25/1948 -)    (Grade:A-)

All Too Human : A Political Education (1999) - George Stephanopoulos (1961-)    (Grade:C+)

The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: Its Basis and Its Genesis () - Leo Strauss (09/20/1899 -10/18/1973)    (Grade:B+)

Why the Democrats are Blue: Secular Liberalism and the Decline of the People's Party (2007) - Mark Stricherz (1970-)    (Grade:B+)

Virtually Normal : An Argument About Homosexuality (1995) - Andrew Sullivan (8/10/1963 -)    (Grade:A-)

Numbers Rule: The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy, from Plato to the Present (2010) - George C. Szpiro (-)    (Grade:B)

A Foreign Policy for Americans (1951) - Robert Alphonso Taft (09/08/1889 -07/31/1953)    (Grade:A)

Republicanism (1999) - Maurizio Viroli ( -)    (Grade:A-)

Arguing About War (2004) - Michael Walzer ( -)    (Grade:A)

Ideas Have Consequences (1948) - Richard M. Weaver (3/03/1910 -4/01/1963)    (Grade:A+)

On the Abolition of All Political Parties (1943) - Simone Weil (02/03/1909 -08/24/1943)    (Grade:F)

Perjury () - Allen Weinstein (-)    (Grade:A+)

Maestro: Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom (2000) - Bob Woodward (1943-)    (Grade:B+)

The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House (1994) - Bob Woodward (1943-)    (Grade:B)

The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (2003) - Fareed Zakaria ( -)    (Grade:A)