Scoundrels: Political Scandals in American History 1538130793, 9781538130797

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Ron Robin takes an intriguing look at the shifting nature of academic and public discourse in this incisive consideratio

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The Founding Fathers who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787 distrusted political parties, popular democracy,

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African American Political Thought offers an unprecedented philosophical history of thinkers from the African American c

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