Politics Book Reviews Samples For Students

This epic book captures the mood and the general feeling at the times of World War 1, when one of the most lethal viruses called influenza erupted in an army camp in Kansas. Given that it was a time of war, military camps were crowded, therefore: the virus found carriers among the military men. When the army moved eastwards, influenza moved with them and in the process, it killed millions of people. It is sad to note that, the epic influenza killed more people in a period of twenty-four months, more than AIDS ever did in twenty-four years. For Continue reading...

Introduction

Elaine Kamarck seeks to explain the bureaucratic approaches in keeping with the information age economy. This argument, although it seems illogical, stems from the assertions that have risen from political leaders that suggest that the government in modern days has shifted from being the necessary solution to becoming a problem. Such statements will not be taken lightly by citizens who look up to the government to provide solutions to the many problems they face. One man who is against such an opinion is Kamarck. Largely, Kamarck supports the endeavors that the government takes in order to make the citizens Continue reading...

Book Review: Realistic Visionary A Portrait of George Washington

Introduction
Realistic Visionary: A Portrait of George Washington by Peter Henriques tries to explain the first president of the United States of America as a person and not a symbol as most books have done. It is because it focusses on both his public and private life. The author looks at the reputation of George Washington as he tries to merge them with the facts about him. The book describes the first president as a war hero who is very serious and uptight. It means that the book explains the character of the president and relates it with the Continue reading...

Publisher: New York, NY: Harper, 2005, ©2004.

Summary
The enormous explosion of the Kursk submarine happened on 12 august 2000 during a crucial military demonstration. The explosion resulted in the sinking of the Russian most expensive nuclear submarine, which was known as the Kursk. All those who were in the submarine perished as the Russian president refused the help of the foreign countries.
The note became the cry of the sea of the Russian souls that were tormented, as some of the people of the briefed families and the citizens confronted the Russian government. They were inquiring to know what was important to the Russian government Continue reading...

In the book, Urban Sprawl, Global warming, and the Empire of Capital, Gonzalez places all the faults on the Government and American business leaders. He says that they are responsible for the global climate change. He opposed all the efforts used in the account of global warming problem. The definition and explanation were based on transnational factors such as the greenhouse effect. The core researchers expounded and affirmed that global climatic change was due to economic transition and development. They also argued that it was due to enter border development of goods and services. Others argued the global climatic Continue reading...

‘A child’s garden’ is a novel describing a kid, Milena Shibush, the main character in this novel who feels that there is nothing wrong with her. It deals with the transformation of human existence on a global and an individual’s scale. In a future semi-tropical London, treatment for cancer has been discovered but has resulted to a decrease to the human life span by almost 50%. Moreover, capitalism has been replaced by socialism, the world in general has been transformed by global warming, and genetically engineered life forms have replaced the normal human livelihood. However, Milena is Continue reading...

Who need to be considered as the primary cause of racism in the United States? Does having a black president mean the US is already free or clear of racial issues; that things have already changed especially in the field of how the justice system is implicated? Michelle Alexander’s written work The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, explicates the truth behind the supposed color blinded justice system in the US. Relatively, she notes of the expectations that were given attention to by the American people and by the world as the new president [ Continue reading...

Revolution, Revival and Religious Conflict in Sandinista Nicaragua by Calvin L. Smith

In his book, Smith brings out the rise of the Sandinistas. The course of their rise is along the emblements of social, economic and political spheres. In this regard, the rise was envisaged in the year nineteen seventy nine. It is significant to denote that, the war was facilitated by religion on a great extent. The protestant believers are believed to have significantly supported ambitions of the Sandinistas. In essence, this followed a schism along religious lines in the United States of America. Proactively, the Sandinistas were anti-Christian. In the same cordial relationship between the Protestants and the Evangelicals, Continue reading...

The Second World War has been regarded as the Good War for many reasons, and many have defended the participation of the United States in it as morally and rationally justified. This justification is based on the belief that Germany and Japan were threatening the power balance of the world and would have posed an impending danger to America and the rest of the free world if they were not stopped.
The book was written in 1972, in a time where the United States had waged many other wars, and the public had started to question the stand taken Continue reading...

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Anderson, James D. Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935. The University of North Carolina Press.
In “Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935” Anderson covers the years before the Civil War (1861-1865) and those that followed. Anderson tries to “tell the story of the unique system of public and private education that developed by and for black southerners between 1860 and 1935” (1). As the pro-slavery force, the Southerners found it hard to view previous slaves as their equals. Slaves were viewed as mere property and were as a result Continue reading...

Edmund Morris is best renowned as a biographies’ writer; especially for writing the biographies of Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, the United States’ Presidents. He acquired his early tutoring in Kenya. Afterwards, he went to South Africa to attend the Rhodes University. Later, he moved to London and became an advertising copywriter. In 1968, he migrated to the USA. "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt” is a classic non-fiction historical account of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris and stands out as one of the best biographies of the contemporary times. In 1980, the mentioned biography won the Pulitzer Prize and Continue reading...

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Britain played a crucial role in shaping the economic and political history through the way it colonized various countries in the Middle East and North Africa. The aspects of European imperialism are shown clearly how it influenced the economic and political activities in the countries in the Middle East and North Africa. Several forms of European imperialism were reflected between the period of 1750 to 1914 in countries like Algeria, Egypt and Tunisia. Napoleon brought a great influence and impact in Egypt while French colonization in Algeria contributed to the way various economic and political forces were shaped in Continue reading...

Is the Federal Reserve Good For Business?

Federal Reserve System is the main banking unit of the United States. It was enacted under the Federal Reserve act in 1993.Its establishment was influenced by the need to address financial shocks in 1907. It is the central bank of United States whose role includes the supervision of commercial banks, government’s bank, and formulation of monetary policies and lender of last resort.

The main point of discussion is the role played by federal system in the United States economy. According to Daniel Indiviglio, Federal Reserve is the backbone of United States economy and why the economy has withstands Continue reading...

Should the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act be declared obsolete following the Wal-Mart case in 2012? In the opinion of Jeffrey Miron, it should. He holds that the Act should be abolished, but Wal-Mart should be prosecuted. This is because its existence alone is bound to increase the rate of corruption. In business, bribes are mainly given to get around minor laws that are deemed unnecessary. These laws are an excessive invasion by the government into the businesses of its citizens. They make expansion of these businesses unnecessarily hard. This is because it is hard to open different outlets of Continue reading...

Book Review:

George Washington Bush stands as the 43rd president of the United States of America who led the country for two elective terms each consisting of four years. Like most of the other International players, he wrote a memoir after his constitutional term in the presidency office. The memoir captures his life, the presidency choices made and their consequences. The title of the memoir is Decision points. The book was launched on 9th November 2010 and in less than two months more than two million copies had been sold out, also at this time it topped on the New York Continue reading...

The culture of Greece has changed quite a bit from early Greece, classical Greece, and late Greece. However, despite these differences some cultural tradition remained. By looking at these different periods one can better understand life during those periods and how they compare and contrast.
Early Greece differs from the other two periods because of its lack of organized government in favor of tyrants. While there was town or city government, outside law was not uncommon. Agriculture, trading, and merchants were of upmost importance.
Classical Greece had much more emphasis on law and government with a near direct democracy. Continue reading...

Written and published after his release in 1990, Nelson Mandela’s A Long Walk to Freedom gives precious insight into the life of the heroic South African president. Though his long-standing devotion to the fight against racial oppression won him both the Noble Peace Prize and the position as president of his country, the book reveals the less agreeable aspects of his life choice as political and moral leader. A Long Walk to Freedom provides not only an intimately reflective account of Mandela’s life, but also unmasks the grander story of the efforts of South Africans of color Continue reading...

Graham Greene’s novel, The Quiet American explores themes such as love, politics, ideals and engagement through the characters both major and minor. The three major characters in the novel, Pyle, Fowler and Phuong are in a way representative of their countries at that time. The way each looks at the other brings out the basic conflict between them.
Pyle stands for everything that is the idealistic New America, heroic, nosey with a savior mentality that wants to usher in democracy in countries that do not really welcome it. Fowler, the ageing journalist is a character that is symptomatic Continue reading...

The Civil Rights Movement

The Movements of the New Left, 1950-1975:
A Brief History with Documents by Van Gosse
Hannah Wilson
In the 1960s, America underwent a monumental change, and everything changed in terms of its culture, status of specific population categories, domestic and foreign policies, and many other aspects under the large-scale, massive, and irreversible influence of the New Left movements. The 1960s were obviously a highly revolutionary period in the US history, mainly due to the rise of many fundamental social movements such as feminists, civil rights protectors, anti-Vietnam war pacifists, and voting rights. For example, Gosse (2005) noted that “in Continue reading...

"The Prince" is one of the most important works of philosophy, which Machiavelli created in 1513. It was published only in 1532 - after the death of the author. Since it was written by Italian writer it is necessary to pay attention to what political situation in Italy in those days. Italy at that time was divided to few small states. In these states, have preserved the outward forms of the republican system, but in fact the city-states were ruled by representatives of a noble families.
Italy has become a kind of arena of wars, which was constantly attacked Continue reading...

At the wake of the 15th century, a young Italian man found himself in the trap of the spell of the classical past. In spite of his limited educational exposure, the romans and the Greeks seemed to be speaking directly to him. The story of the Cyriacus when the author gives a recap of this young merchant whose life has been shaped by the trading activities. As much as it’s assumed that the Romans would speak to him through books, the truth of the matter is that Cyriacus of Ancona used to get the information about the romans Continue reading...

Summary of Chapter 3-7 of American Crucible

American Crucible by Gary Gerstle stems from the racialism and ethnicity. This was after Roosevelt led his riders to victory in a war between America and Spain he boasted a lot about Americans been strengthened by war and years later would still inspire the Americans. The objective of this paper is to analyze the book from chapter 3 to chapter seven focusing on the key points and arguments of the author.

Chapter 3

In chapter 3 Gary tries to focus on the boundaries of the nation, 1917 to 1929. Roosevelt’s dream in this chapter is coming true in a battle Continue reading...

The book ‘Fight or Flight: Britain, France, and their Roads from Empire’ written by Martin Thomas is one of the unique books on the concept of decolonization. In the book, the author explains shows how Britain’s imminent withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan and the dispatch of troops to the Central African Republic by France are the recent observations of a long-standing trend of decolonization. Author Thomas begins in the book, a vast and impressive study to examine the entire range of acts of decolonization, differentiating those where scurry or flight were the order. In the case of the Continue reading...

Dalton defines a good citizen according to the first half of the 20th century as an individual who has the qualities of loyalty, compliance, and obligation to authority and also has a “subject” mentality. Dalton describes this norm as “duty-based citizenship” (Dalton, 80) However, since the 1960s to date, the definition of a good citizen has changed to one who has higher tolerance, approaches government affairs more directly, and is concerned about the well being of other individuals in the U.S. as well as globally. This new definition of good a good citizen constitutes the new norm described as “ Continue reading...

Assignment Questions

Question one
According to Moyo, there are three categories of aid namely, charity-based aid, emergency or humanitarian aid and systematic aid. The author focuses on the systematic aid, which is the sum, total of grants and concessional loans that is given by the donor country to the recipient country (Moyo, 2009). It is a loan from the government of a developed country to the government of the developing country or from international financial institutions such as World Bank and IMF to the government of the developing countries. This type of aid is the most damaging and it is has Continue reading...

The importance that the author places on the idea of how what a person is attempting to communicate within the political realm is effected by the language that is used, or how the idea is disseminated, is essentially characterized by the context of the idea that is being distributed. Luntz argues that there are various ways to communicate these ideas in a way that they will be well-received by a large audience.
He makes the claim that the way that this can be done is, by first reflecting the importance of creating something that people have not been able Continue reading...

‘The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden’ is a well-acclaimed book by Mark Bowden. The author gives a spellbinding account of operation that was carried out by American Seals commandos to annihilate the world’s most wanted terrorist Osama Bin Laden the book provides detailed information of operation and describes how Osama was killed. Bowden has a huge experience of writing on issues of defense and due to his wide experience he was able to write this book. This paper intends to discuss Mark Bowden’s book, ‘The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden’ along with presenting Continue reading...

According to Ramsbotham, Woodhouse, and Mial there are four methods that can be used in the prevention of terrorism. These are prevention, persuasion, denial, and coordination. Prevention involves eliminating and reducing issues that lead to terrorism such as global inequalities, poverty, and lack of equal opportunity. Secondly, persuasion involves reducing the motivation towards terrorism and recruitment. Encouraging terrorists to take up other methods to deal with issues that they may have can achieve this objective. Third is denial, which involves denying individuals engaging in terrorism access to finances, weapons and other factors that encourage terrorism. This also takes into Continue reading...

The minds of assassins generally teem with oddities. For example, Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President William McKinley, was so devoted to his anarchist principles that he refused to talk to anyone whom he perceived to be an authority figure in the aftermath of the assassination. This included his court-appointed attorneys and the judge at his trial, which led to his attorneys attempting to secure a finding of insanity but ended up exasperating the jury, which only required an hour of deliberations to find him guilty of first-degree murder and sentence him to the electric chair. When he finally Continue reading...

The Nine is a non-fictitious book written by Jeffrey Toobin, who is a legal analyst and former assistant attorney in the United States. He uses his knowledge in law to bring to light the changing aspects and forces at work at the Supreme Court. He also uses his knowledge to establish major decisions that were made by the Supreme Court. In his book, he describes how political masterminds used the Supreme Court to gain their political milestones. For instance, according to Toobin, when President George Bush added John G. Roberts Jr. and Samuel A. Alito Jr. to the Supreme Continue reading...

Sheila Fitzpatrick was one of the most prominent social historians of the epoch of Stalinism and Soviet Union. The author began to write from the cultural prospect and all her sociological researches relate to the topic of a culture. The issue of the Russian Revolution had a great resonance in the world and influenced many historical processes in the world. The investigation of its main factors was central to Fitzpatrick in her scientific research.
Sheila Fitzpatrick asks the question: “When does the Russian revolution end?” (2). Finding the answer on this question is the main argument of the book. Continue reading...

In "Confessions of an Economic Hitman," John Perkins tells the story about how he and others like him were able to have a huge impact on the world today in ways that many of the elite in society would rather keep secret. The story involves a lot of deceit, murderers, and traitors who are motivated by greed and power. Perkins gives details on how strong countries have the power to exploit another and even goes so far as to influence their politics. He explains how some countries are willing to go to extremes such as robbing another country of Continue reading...

Yahya Hakki’s The Lamp of Umm Hashim is a tale embedded in colonialism where the Egyptian protagonist Ismail goes to Europe for higher studies. It is a quintessential tale of ‘colonized meets colonizer.’ Egypt was under colonial rule and throughout the text, there are strong current of stereotypical representations f differences that had come to characterize the dichotomy of East vs. West. While in Europe, Ismail is exposed to the scientific way of thinking as he goes about learning ophthalmology. As scientific enlightenment piles on, his traditional and religious beliefs begin to wean away. Alienation in a foreign Continue reading...

Introduction

The money supply in Canada was reducing. The ratio of single mothers was rising, and the market of prostitution was getting hot as well. The percentage growth of suicides in the country was overwhelming to say the least. All of the determinants previously discussed pointed out to one and only one trend that was social and economic inequality. The natural system works in such a way that it makes sure that everyone can get their due share of income and livelihood, but in Canada, human factor was so corrupt that they were unduly influencing the money supply in the Continue reading...

8. From Postwar Demobilization Toward Great Power Status, 1865 – 1898
9. The Birth of an American Empire, 1898 – 1902
The Mexican Governor Valeriano Weyler initiated the re-concentration policy to cede independence to United States. America watched the Cuban war from a bird’s eye view since they were opposed to the humanitarian issue while any disruption effort to avert the war would threaten American investments. The American nation proclaimed neutrality while it was hard to maintain the coastal patrols, and it was costly to prosecute offenders. According to the authors, President McKinley was pro-intervention since he considered concentrating in Continue reading...

There are few theories and theoretical frameworks in the realm of sociology that can rival structuralism and semiology in its scope and lasting impact in the academic realm. The “Durkheim School” as it was called in the academe, was primarily concerned with the matter of treating ‘social facts as things’. The sociologist from which this movement shares its name – Emile Durkheim – advocated for a sociology that was not based on a theory which took the individual as the starting-point of analysis (Thompson 35). Subsequent sociologists that followed Durkheim’s philosophy were also concerned with the objectivity of the field, Continue reading...

The book is written in a memoir fashion for the events that took place in Benjamin Franklin’s life. It is a descriptive book on Benjamin Franklin’s character as well as how he was tormented with his life and the different scenarios that were presented to him in wake of revolt and other major issues facing the union. The book comprises of years that initiate from 1726 all the way to 1790 when he died. This book provides key insight to all the details that went into the life of one of the most famous founding fathers of Continue reading...

Book review

Citation and acknowledgement
Ellen Eslinger (1999). Citizens of Zion: The Social Origins of Camp Meeting Revivalism. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999. ISBN 978-1-57233-033-7
Eslinger received assistance from the DePaul University, where she works as a Historian. The content of the book was from her doctoral dissertation that she wrote while in the university. From the analysis of the sources that are quoted, with a sampling of 30 pages, from page 100-130, she uses approximately 60% of secondary sources, mainly from articles as well as published books from notable authors, where she challenges previous theories with her well perceived Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

REGULATORS

Published in 2003, Cindy Skrzycki’s book entitled The Regulators: Anonymous Power Brokers in American Politics collates her interesting column articles in her widely-read Washington Post and Bloomberg column, The Regulators which has been into print for the more than 20 years. A seasoned journalist and columnist, Cindy Skrzycki puts together her most compelling and most controversial columns that tackled issues of regulation and the influence of various administrations in shaping the regulations.
Skrzycki’s book gathers her insights on different issues on the regulatory system in the Washington and its impact on the American citizens. In the compilation, Continue reading...