Political Science : Essays

Gore Vidal—novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialist—is America's premier man of letters. No other living writer brings more sparkling wit, vast learning, indelible personality, and provocative mirth to the job of writing an essay. more...

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African American political scientists speak out about their discipline, academic issues and racism in the profession more...

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With his critically acclaimed bestselling memoir,. This Just In, Bob Schieffer proved a natural storyteller,. a gifted writer able to capture current. affairs, television news—and himself—with remarkable wit and. insight. It is a gift he has also been able to bring to his awardwinning. commentaries for Face the Nation. No one had done commentaries for CBS since Eric Sevareid’s. retirement in 1977, when, in April 1994, Schieffer decided. his show that week on the death of Richard Nixon needed a few. closing words to put the subject into context. The reaction was. overwhelmingly positive, and he has been doing them ever since. Bob Schieffer’s America brings together 168 of his best essays,. pieces that cover a broad range: from the hard issues of today to. the human stories that show us who we are; from politics. and presidents and tragedy to the things that touch us, make. us laugh, or reveal the small shifts in our culture that sometimes. just creep up on us. Smart, humorous, commonsensical, pitch-perfect—sometimes. bitingly critical and plainspoken, other times suffused. with wonder or delight—these essays speak to us all. “My objective,” says Schieffer, “has never been to convert. someone to my way of thinking, but merely to provoke thought,. to explain a complicated subject, or to call attention to a human. foible. The greatest compliment to me is not when viewers. write to say they agree with my conclusion, but when they say,. ‘I really never thought of it that way before.’”. In addition to these outstanding essays, Schieffer has written. a wealth of brand-new material—“commentaries on my. commentaries”—that run throughout the book, offering further. anecdotes, reflections, updates, and insights. In all, it is as Jim. Lehrer described This Just In: “A delight, a joy—a treasure.” more...

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Until about 1844 Macaulay’s writings appeared chiefly in the Edinburgh Review. These collected articles, which expressed the complacency of the English middle classes over their new prosperity and growing political power, are perhaps the most widely known critical and historical essays in the language. more...

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An extraordinary collection of essays on the recently concluded Iraq War by Nobel Peace laureates and leading scholars. The Iraq War and its Consequences is the First and Only book that brings together more than 30 Nobel Peace laureates and eminent scholars to offer opinions, analyses and insights on the war that has drawn both widespread opposition and strong support. In this intellectually captivating book, Professor Irwin Abrams, considered the leading authority world-wide on the history of the Nobel Peace Prize and Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Antioch University, as well as Professor Wang Gungwu, renowned historian and Director of the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore, have collected works of notable laureates and scholars from diverse backgrounds. more...

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