GEORGE WASHINGTON: LESSONS FROM OUR FOUNDING FATHER. Milestones, Ideas and Values from the First President of the First Modern Democracy. Because we need ... democracy alive

The Future We Need: Organizing for a Better Democracy in the Twenty-First Century 9781501764844

In The Future We Need, Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta bring a novel perspective to building worker power and what labor o

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The First Presidential Contest: 1796 and the Founding of American Democracy

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From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia 9780691231075

Why some of Asia’s authoritarian regimes have democratized as they have grown richer—and why others haven’t Over the pa

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Reimagining Democracy: Lessons in Deliberative Democracy from the Irish Front Line 9781501749346

The Lawrence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal, presented by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State, recogni

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Twenty-First Century Democracy 9780773566798

According to a recent feature in The Economist, democracy has been only half achieved this century and should flower in

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The First Inauguration: George Washington and the Invention of the Republic [1 ed.] 0271087277, 9780271087276

“Among the vicissitudes incident to life, no event could have filled me with greater anxieties than that of which the no

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Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from within on Modern Democracy 9780197518892, 2021939765

A contrarian yet highly engaging account of the spread of illiberal and anti-democratic sentiment throughout our culture

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George Whitefield: America's Spiritual Founding Father 9780300182125

In the years prior to the American Revolution, George Whitefield was the most famous man in the colonies. Thomas Kidd’s

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From Plassey to Pakistan: The Family History of Iskander Mirza, the First President of Pakistan

In this historical survey, Humayun Mirza traces the fortunes of his ancestors, the powerful rulers of Bengal, Bihar, and

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Democracy and Constitutions: Putting Citizens First 9781487537227

Bold and unconventional, this book advocates for an institutional turn-about in the relationship between democracy and c

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