Politics

Politics (from Greek πολιτικός, "of, for, or relating to citizens"), is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions. The term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs. It also refers to behavior within civil governments. However, politics can be observed in other group interactions, including corporate, academic, and religious institutions. It consists of "social relations involving authority or power" and refers to the regulation of public affairs within a political unit, and to the methods and tactics used to formulate and apply po ...more

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American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union: An Anthology
Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
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We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America
The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin's Greatest Enemy
Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth
The Chosen and The Damned: Native Americans and the Making of Race in the United States
To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right
Don’t Tell the President: The Best, Worst, and Mostly Untold Stories from Presidential Advance
Red Dawn Over China: How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity
Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage
American Reich: A Murder in Orange County, Neo-Nazis, and a New Age of Hate
Miracle Children: Race, Education, and a True Story of False Promises
The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon
107 Days
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Abundance
So Far Gone
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Nuclear War: A Scenario
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The Communist Manifesto
Animal Farm
1984
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Napoléon Bonaparte
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Napoleon Bonaparte

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