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  • Boomerang: Health Care Reform and the Turn against Government

    Theda Skocpol

    Paperback

    How did the debate on health reform turn into the most concerted attack on government in recent American history?

  • At a Century's Ending: Reflections, 1982-1995

    George F. Kennan

    Paperback

    “Thoughtful critiques of many of the major issues confronting American foreign policymakers in the 1980s and early ‘90s. . . .Kennan’s voice is unique, tempered by three decades of life in Stalinist Europe and informed by a deep, unmatched knowledge of Russia’s people and history.” —Matthew DallekBoston Book Review

  • American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword

    Seymour Martin Lipset

    Paperback

    Is America unique? One of our major political analysts explores the deeply held but often inarticulated beliefs that shape the American creed.

  • Fidel Castro

    Robert E. Quirk

    Paperback

    In this masterly biography, the prize-winning historian Robert E. Quirk paints a portrait of the charismatic leader who for more than three decades—and over eight American presidencies—managed to sustain a communist regime in the western hemisphere.

  • Haven in a Heartless World

    Christopher Lasch

    Paperback

    In the American political vocabulary, "family" and "family values" no longer simply evoke pictures of harmonious scenes; they also push our buttons (left and right) about what is wrong with society.