Politicians Book Reviews Samples For Students

Bipartisan politics full of cutthroat politicians are often considered to be relatively new additions to the American political system. It is not uncommon for people to decry the current state of American politics, thinking about to a time when there was a kinder, more forward-thinking brand of politician in America. However, according to Michael Holt, this idea that there was once a type of American politician unconcerned with bipartisan politics is as much a fictionalization of the past as the narrative that slavery caused the American Civil War (Holt).
Holt argues that partisan politics played a fundamentally important role in the Civil War, ...

Book review Breach of Trust by Tom Coburn

In his book, Breach of Trust, Tom Coburn narrates some of his experience in the US House of representatives as a congressman. He is a former businessman and a practicing physician with equally ardent views about the congress, religion and implementation of the constitution. Tom Coburn is a true legislator and he even honored his pledge of serving for only three terms as a congressional representative then leave Washington. Breach of trust offers a candid look at the internal workings of congress, and why ‘Washington turns insiders into outsiders’. The reader’s are served with shocking behind-the-scenes stories and why the reforms that the country ...

Book Review - The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War
In Michael F. Holt's The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War, the American Whig Party is given a comprehensive review of its history during the Jacksonian Era. During the history of Jacksonian historiography, more and more sympathetic depictions of the Whigs have been creeping into the works of noted scholars; according to them, the Whig party staunchly defended the virtues of merchant capitalism against the Jacksonian Democratic ...

Book Review - Stare in the Darkness: The Limits of Hip Hop and Black Politic

Lester K. Spence's 2011 book Stare in the Darkness: The Limits of Hip Hop and Black Politics takes a long, hard look at the current state of African-Americans in the predominant political discourse. In essence, Spence explores through this book and its scholarship the idea that rap and hip-hop culture may actually be bad for black politics; "this work represents an attempt to examine the core questions of black politics as well as the politics of the present using rap and hip-hop as the vehicle" (Spence 157). Despite galvanizing many African-Americans and creating a unique subculture, it is claimed that the ...

Introduction

Journalism is a field that can have many faces. One may even go as far as saying that this industry is the best one when it comes to making perfect disguise. Throughout history, it can be attested that journalism and political science has been merged, perhaps subconsciously by the people working in these fields. In modern day politics, for example, a stage where democracy appears to be the dominant player, as evidenced by the fact that the number of counties that are based on a democratic and liberal type of government is far larger than those that are based on monarchy and ...

David Halberstam is a renowned American author who is known for his work in various fields. He drew most of work on the experienced that he achieved during his life. Perhaps his profession as a journalist played a huge role in his book The Powers That Be .this book covers the period between 1950s and 1970s. In this book, Halberstam illustrates how the media in the United States has changed from an institution that conveys information to one that influenced and made it. It shows the influence of four key media houses, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and Time ...

Dante’s inferno is a story in the 14th century that was developed to show the experiences that are found in hell as well as in heaven. This story has been narrated by Dante himself, who had experienced problems in hell. This story has been very influential to many audiences in the world. It has also been narrated as a poem. In addition to this, there are games that reflect the happenings in this story. It forms the initial part of the poem of Divine Comedy. This poem was also written by Dante to express his experience both in the real ...

Book Report- Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy

Introduction
Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy is a book by Professor Michael H. Hunt that describes the history of the American foreign policy and how it has affected the nation. The author has taken us through historical events and facts that led to the implementation of the policy and what the initiators thought would impart on the nation. This is made in relation to the events that followed its implementation, which includes various resistances from people who thought America was being too selfish1. The author looks at both the positive and negative impacts of the US foreign policy to ...

THE GREAT INFLUENZA

The book the great influenza by john Barry takes us back to arguably one of the greatest medical disasters in human history, the book focuses on the influenza pandemic which took place in the year 1918. The world was at war in the First World War and with everyone preoccupied with happenings in Europe and winning the war the influenza pandemic displayed more of its opportunistic tendencies and struck when the human race was least ready and most distracted by happenings all over the world. In total the influenza pandemic killed over a hundred million people on a global scale, clearly ...

English: Book Review

“Politics and the English Language” is an essay written by George well in 1946. In the article, Orwell severely criticizes the poor written English language during his era. He observes the political conventions and degradation of the language and highlights the weak areas causing the same. The paper attempts to carry out an analysis and produces a review of the essay.
George Orwell discusses the English language used by politicians. The writer highlights that use of English language in politics is meant to cover the lies and portray them as total truth. The language used in politics makes even a ...

In Ward Just's 1997 novel Echo House, the titular house is a mansion that has been owned for three generations by the Behl family. This family is one of the hidden powerhouses behind American politics, who are always shaping public policy and keeping secrets for people. Three generations of the Behl family are focused on in the book, which demonstrates the potential for political power as well as its price in the 20th century. Senator Adolph Bell, in the 1930s, is first nearly guaranteed that he will have the vice-presidentship. However, once he is refused that title, he is despondent. ...

Introduction

Chicago Housing Authority abbreviated as CHA, was established in 1937 by the state of Illinois and had the jurisdiction for the administrative oversight of the public housing within the Chicago city. The mission of the agency is guided by a Board of commissioners who are appointed by the mayor of the city. This agency has a budget which is independent to that of the City of Chicago. This agency has built a number of public housing projects over the last few years. The agency was hit by a setback in 1966 when a suit was brought against the agency. This forced the US department ...

Introduction

Casino Capitalism is a vivid description of the international financial markets, their behavior, and the economic strength they yield to various entities. The book goes on to describe the advantages of international financial markets and some of the evils associated with the same. The author, Susan Strange was a former student of the British international relations studies; she is mostly renowned for her contributions to the creation of the international political economy. Apart from her major publication of the Casino Capitalism in 1986, she also published other books, namely: States and Markets (1988), The Retreat of the State (1996) ...

The book Wolf by the Ears authored by John Van Atta explicitly describes the events of the sectional conflict that proliferated to the American Civil War and later triggered the balkanizing war over Missouri statehood (Atta 30). The author notes that the Louisiana territory purchase was organized to position it entirely on the Northwest of Ohio and West of Mississippi; however, the Missouri crisis bore a strategic significance based on anti-and pro slavery movements. In particular, the congressional representatives from North supported the expansion of slavery, while those from South expressed outrage and fired sectional attack to the Northerners. ...

The Review of ‘The Glory and the Dream’ by William Manchester

Describe the central theme and objective of this reading. Cite examples from the reading.
Recently I’ve read the book on history called ‘The Glory and the Dream’ by William Manchester. ‘One more boring history book,’ you may say. But you shouldn’t draw any firm conclusions at once. Let me prove you that even history books can be interesting and absorbing. Are you ready? So, let’s go.
There are two volumes of this book which the author called a narrative history of America. It comprises the information about the years from 1932 to 1972. And, unlike other ...

The book Jesus for President was written by Shane Claiborne and Chris Haw. The book is generally a provocative text to what Shane calls the Christian based political imagination. The authors of this book are one of the provocative people that have dared to bring out several concepts Christianity that no preacher has ever dared to say. The context from which Claiborne approaches the current situation on earth is so much critical and relevant to be addressed by every person who needs to see good living for all on earth. Imagining of the conditions that are happening in the world ...

Question One: Is there a settled vision of human rights as the western idealists, academics, human rights crusaders and some politicians would have people believe? This question emanates from the discourse on alternative perspective by Joseph Chan on page 29 of Chapter 3 in the second paragraph towards the last sentence. Chan is at pains to explain how dissatisfied he is, with advocates and lawyers in conferences who deprecate the Asian values of human rights citing them as an excuse for the continued violation of human rights. He then states that these human rights advocates and lawyers constantly call on ...

Guide to California planning-4th Edition is a very invaluable text written by William Fulton and Paul Shigley. It gives very important information on the planning processes in the state of California. To begin with, it fully explores the elaborate city and urban planning exercise used by stakeholders in the development and expansion of the urban centers. As the authors argue, the planning exercise is a very vital process which is guided by numerous state and federal ordinances. These are enforced both by the country and state authorities.
More importantly, there is the laying out of all the laws used in ...

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx theory of conflict has a lot to offer about wilding behaviour in the United States. Wilding behaviour is all about self interest, individualism and many others which do not conform or are not supported by others resulting in a conflict. Conflict is a misunderstanding that is derived from any decision made by another with or without the intentions of hurting others but mainly as a way of being in power. This is shown in the Karl Marx theory of conflict where there are two classes in the society, one is the ruling and the other is the ruled.
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What does the author mean by India’s strange rise?

India’s ‘strange rise’ is a phrase which is the reader encounter on the title of the book, In Spite Of the Gods: the Rise of Modern India. It is hard to explain what the author meant by the phrase without looking into the detailed meaning of the whole title. It is also proper in the outset that the author wrote the book while living in India where he worked for the financial times in the period 2001 to 2006 in New Delhi. The contents of the book, In Spite Of the Gods: the Rise of Modern India, are therefore a ...

Introduction:

Politics and leadership have always been important parts of the world’s historical makeup and these will definitely never go away. Obviously one has to keep in mind that times change and the sort of leadership that was right and correct for the 19th century is probably anathema today. In his seminal book, Carnes Lord attempts to examine various world leaders who have made a name for themselves, be it as autocrats, as visionaries or as plain and simple democratic leaders. He also inserts an interesting but heavy dose on the politics of the renowned Florentine, Machiavelli whose ‘The Prince’ ...

Book Report on Enchantment and Exploitation: The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range

Introduction
A lot of things have happened over Northern New Mexico and its Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Mexicans at that time basically called it home even though there were a lot of changes about the mountains that they witnessed. This paper tackles the main themes presented by the book “Enchantment and Exploitation: The Life and hard times of a New Mexico Mountain Range”. The book was divided into two. The first book discusses the changing character of New Mexico together, focusing on the three major cultures which were a significant part of its history: The Hispanic, Anglo and the Native American ...

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ANOTHER INCONVENIENT TRUTH

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ABSTRACT

In the years following the Revolution, anti-slavery sentiment created an opportunity to rid the nation of what even many slaveholders considered a negative and destructive influence. The generally accepted view of this period is that the Constitutional Convention was overwhelmed by wealthy southern planters, anxious to preserve their wealth and way of life. In Race and Revolution, Professor Gary B. Nash examines the role played by northern authorities in eroding the move toward abolition. Nash also criticizes historians both past and present for ignoring this more complex perspective, choosing instead to divide the issue along neatly assigned lines ...

French Mentality

Although history might seem a concrete science about events and their chronological order of occurrence, it is far from giving concrete answers and explanation of the reasons for those events to happen and their socio-cultural dimension of occurrence. Usually, historians explain events in terms of political reasons or military necessity or state interest, forgetting that those events were carried out by simple people that belonged to their specific socio-economic and cultural communities. Those people embodied their epoch and opportunity to choose their destiny. The main reason why Eugen Weber wrote this book was that he wanted to outline another dimension ...

Joseph J. Ellis Day and Time

The main idea of the book is that the early history of the new republic of the United States was not as trouble-free as we are sometimes led to believe. Ellis argues that in the popular imagination, the break from the British and the ideals of the American Revolution are seen as inevitable – almost part of what we might call America’s manifest destiny. However, he reveals that the unity of the early republic was a very fragile thing and that it almost broke up because of disagreements between the different states. Ellis further argues that the Union of the ...