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Inside the Shadow Government: National Emergencies and the Cult of Secrecy

By Harry L. Helms

On 1 March 2002, The Washington Post reported that a parallel shadow government' had been activated in the wake of September 11. The first in-depth exploration of this frightening topic,...

Hearings on National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993--H.R. 2100 and Oversight of Previously Authorized Programs Before...

By United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Military Installations and Facilities

Hearings on National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993--H.R. 2100 and Oversight of Previously Authorized Programs Before...

Health Reform and Pharmaceutical Innovation

By Henry G. Grabowski

This text argues that generic usage, mandatory rebates to Medicare, budgetary caps on premiums, price controls, and a top-down cost-containment approach could delay introduction of drugs, cost US jobs and...

Pursuing the American Dream: Opportunity and Exclusion Over Four Centuries

By Calvin C. Jillson

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: these words have long represented the promise of America, and, even before they were penned, this country was seen as the land of...

Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission Failed the Nation and why

By Gerald McKnight

That recent appraisal reflects a growing consensus that the Warren Commission largely failed in its duty to our nation. Echoing that sentiment, the Gallup organization has reported that 75 percent...

Building a Healthy Culture: Strategies for an American Renaissance

By Don E. Eberly

Written by a team of stellar thinkers (including Zbigniew Brzezinski, Charles Krauthammer, Christopher Wolfe, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Stephen Goldsmith, and Michael Medved) this volume explores the state of American culture. The...

Campaigns And Elections American Style

By James Thurber, Candice J Nelson

For the first time, leading political scientists and experienced campaign professionals have come together to consider the nuts-and-bolts of American campaigns and elections in conjunction with academic theories and research....

Federalism and the Way to Peace

By Daniel Judah Elazar

The end of the Cold War has ushered in a new and dangerous era of fragmentation, ethnic conflict and heightened nationalism worldwide. The promise of peace remains unfulfilled. The Argument...

Red State Rebels: Tales of Grassroots Resistance in the Heartland

By Jeffrey St. Clair, Joshua Frank

A Red States rebellion is breaking out. It's been going on for some time. The stakes are high and the odds are long and the battles are waged over the...

A Colony of the World: The United States Today : America's Senior Statesman Warns His Countrymen

By Eugene J. McCarthy

"In his introduction to A Colony of the World, Eugene McCarthy asserts that classical, historical colonialism is marked by distinctive political, military, economic, demographic and cultural characteristics. Politically and militarily,...

No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities

By Ellen Schrecker

The story of McCarthyism's traumatic impact on government employees and Hollywood screenwriters during the 1950s is all too familiar, but what happened on college and university campuses during this period...

Religious Liberty and State Constitutions

By Albert J. Menendez, Edd Doerr

In 1787, the new United States of America formulated a Constitution, which for more than two hundred years has remained the greatest single advance in the long evolution of democracy...

Did George W. Bush Steal America's 2004 Election?: Essential Documents

By Steven Rosenfeld, Robert J. Fitrakis, Harvey Wasserman

Did George W. Bush Steal America's 2004 Election?: Essential Documents

Informe de una Fuerza de Trabajo Independiente. Reflexiones sobre el control internacional de las drogas: Nuevas Directivas Para La Politica...

By Jess Reyes Heroles, Fondo De Cultura Economica

En la lucha contra la drogadiccion, Estados Unidos ha gastado mas de 25 000 millones de dolares desde 1981. Para examinar los resultados el Consejo de Relaciones Exteriores reunio una...