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Apprentice In Wonderland - How Donald Trump And Mark Burnett Took America Through The Looking Glass (Hardcover): Ramin Setoodeh Apprentice In Wonderland - How Donald Trump And Mark Burnett Took America Through The Looking Glass (Hardcover)
Ramin Setoodeh
R669 R585 Discovery Miles 5 850 Save R84 (13%) In Stock

From the editor in chief of Variety and author of the New York Times bestseller "Ladies Who Punch", the never-fully-told, behind-the-scenes story of Donald Trump and The Apprentice, the long-running reality series that catapulted him to the White House.

Here for the first time is the definitive untold story of Donald Trump’s years as a reality TV star. Trump himself admits he might not have been president without The Apprentice. Now, just as he uncovered the chaos inside the daytime favorite The View in his bestselling "Ladies Who Punch", Ramin Setoodeh chronicles Trump’s dramatic tenure as New York’s ultimate boss in the boardroom, a mirage created by Survivor producer Mark Burnett and NBC boss Jeff Zucker.

With unprecedented access, including hours of interviews with Trump, his boardroom advisers George Ross and Carolyn Kepcher, Eric Trump, and some of the most memorable contestants, and writing with flair and authority, Setoodeh shares all the untold tales from this legendary show that has left its mark on popular culture, shaped the legend of its star, and ultimately changed American history.

Landslide - The Final Days Of The Trump Presidency (Paperback): Michael Wolff Landslide - The Final Days Of The Trump Presidency (Paperback)
Michael Wolff
R470 R431 Discovery Miles 4 310 Save R39 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

New York Times bestselling author of Fire And Fury and Siege completes the trilogy on the presidency of Donald J. Trump.

We all witnessed some of the most shocking and confounding political events of our lifetime: the careening last stage of Donald J. Trump’s reelection campaign, the president’s audacious election challenge, the harrowing mayhem of January 6, the buffoonery of the second impeachment trial. But what was really going on in the inner sanctum of the White House during these calamitous events? What did the president and his dwindling cadre of loyalists actually believe? And what were they planning?

Michael Wolff pulled back the curtain on the Trump presidency with his 2 previous bestsellers and now he closes the door on the presidency with a final, astonishingly candid account.

Wolff embedded himself in the White House in 2017 and gave us a vivid picture of the chaos that had descended on Washington. Almost four years later, Wolff finds the Oval Office even more chaotic and bizarre, a kind of Star Wars bar scene. At all times of the day, Trump, behind the Resolute desk, is surrounded by schemers and unqualified sycophants who spoon-feed him the “alternative facts” he hungers to hear―about COVID-19, Black Lives Matter protests, and, most of all, his chance of winning reelection. Once again, Wolff has gotten top-level access and takes us front row as Trump’s circle of plotters whittles down to the most enabling and the president reaches beyond the bounds of democracy as he entertains the idea of martial law and balks at calling off the insurrectionist mob that threatens the institution of democracy itself.

As the Trump presidency’s hold over the country spiraled out of control, an untold and human account of desperation, duplicity, and delusion was unfolding within the West Wing. Landslide is that story as only Michael Wolff can tell it.

The Times Will Suit Them - Postmodern conservatism in Australia (Paperback): Geoff Boucher The Times Will Suit Them - Postmodern conservatism in Australia (Paperback)
Geoff Boucher
R1,080 Discovery Miles 10 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

John Howard said, The times will suit me,' and they did. For over a decade John Howard took advantage of international crises and local anxieties to not only stay in government, but to radically reshape Australian public life.The Times Will Suit Them digs behind the headlines to explain the success of Howard's radical new conservatism. It shows how the Howard government and its small legion of culture warriors responded to deep changes engendered by two decades of economic reform by importing moral agendas from the US. The result was a brand of deeply postmodern' conservatism which undermined much that traditional conservatives hold dear.From Hansonism to children overboard to the Intervention in the Northern Territory and beyond, The Times Will Suit Them offers a fresh and provocative analysis from two Young Turks. It is compelling reading for anyone seeking to understand the drivers in contemporary Australian politics.

In the Arena - Good Citizens, a Great Republic, and How One Speech Can Reinvigorate America (Paperback): Pete Hegseth In the Arena - Good Citizens, a Great Republic, and How One Speech Can Reinvigorate America (Paperback)
Pete Hegseth
R460 R427 Discovery Miles 4 270 Save R33 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Conservative Century - The Conservative Party since 1900 (Hardcover): Anthony Seldon, Stuart Ball Conservative Century - The Conservative Party since 1900 (Hardcover)
Anthony Seldon, Stuart Ball
R1,959 Discovery Miles 19 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Conservative Party has been the dominant force in twentieth-century British politics. On its own or as the predominant partner in a coalition it has held power for more than sixty years since 1900. Despite this it has been the most neglected and misunderstood of all the main parties. This book is the first systematic attempt to survey the history and politics of the Conservative Party across the whole of the twentieth century from the `Khaki' election of 1900 to John Major's victory of 1992 and beyond. Traditional boundaries between history and political science have been ignored, with each of the authoritative team of contributors pursuing an important theme within three main areas; the composition and structure of the Party; its ideas, policies and actions in government; and its public image and sources of support in the country. The essays are based upon new research, in particular in the Conservative Party archives. Conservative Century will be essential reading for both students and specialists, and it offers a mine of fascinating information for anyone interested in British politics.

American Fascists - The Christian Right and the War on America (Paperback): Chris Hedges American Fascists - The Christian Right and the War on America (Paperback)
Chris Hedges
R471 R441 Discovery Miles 4 410 Save R30 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Twenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists first spoke of the United States becoming a Christian nation that would build a global Christian empire, it was hard to take such hyperbolic rhetoric seriously. Today, such language no longer sounds like hyperbole but poses, instead, a very real threat to our freedom and our way of life. In "American Fascists, " Chris Hedges, veteran journalist and author of the National Book Award finalist "War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, " challenges the Christian Right's religious legitimacy and argues that at its core it is a mass movement fueled by unbridled nationalism and a hatred for the open society.

Hedges, who grew up in rural parishes in upstate New York where his father was a Presbyterian pastor, attacks the movement as someone steeped in the Bible and Christian tradition. He points to the hundreds of senators and members of Congress who have earned between 80 and 100 percent approval ratings from the three most influential Christian Right advocacy groups as one of many signs that the movement is burrowing deep inside the American government to subvert it. The movement's call to dismantle the wall between church and state and the intolerance it preaches against all who do not conform to its warped vision of a Christian America are pumped into tens of millions of American homes through Christian television and radio stations, as well as reinforced through the curriculum in Christian schools. The movement's yearning for apocalyptic violence and its assault on dispassionate, intellectual inquiry are laying the foundation for a new, frightening America.

"American Fascists, " which includes interviews and coverage of events such as pro-life rallies and weeklong classes on conversion techniques, examines the movement's origins, its driving motivations and its dark ideological underpinnings. Hedges argues that the movement currently resembles the young fascist movements in Italy and Germany in the 1920s and '30s, movements that often masked the full extent of their drive for totalitarianism and were willing to make concessions until they achieved unrivaled power. The Christian Right, like these early fascist movements, does not openly call for dictatorship, nor does it use

physical violence to suppress opposition. In short, the movement is not yet revolutionary. But the ideological architecture of a Christian fascism is being cemented in place. The movement has roused its followers to a fever pitch of despair and fury. All it will take, Hedges writes, is one more national crisis on the order of September 11 for the Christian Right to make a concerted drive to destroy American democracy. The movement awaits a crisis. At that moment they will reveal themselves for what they truly are -- the American heirs to fascism. Hedges issues a potent, impassioned warning. We face an imminent threat. His book reminds us of the dangers liberal, democratic societies face when they tolerate the intolerant.

Selected Works of Juan Donoso Cortés (Hardcover): Juan Donoso Cortés Selected Works of Juan Donoso Cortés (Hardcover)
Juan Donoso Cortés; Translated by Jeffrey P. Johnson; Edited by Jeffrey P. Johnson; Introduction by Jeffrey P. Johnson
R3,935 Discovery Miles 39 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Growing interest in the ideas of the German legal and political theorist Carl Schmitt have sparked an interest in the thinkers and ideas that influenced him. Chief among those influences stands the 19th-century Spanish and conservative thinker Juan Donoso Cortes (1809-1853). Donoso stands in a unique place in the ideological trajectory of conservative, counter-revolutionary thought that started with the reaction of Joseph de Maistre and Louis de Bonald against the French Revolution and culminated in the rise of fascism in the early twentieth century. As the philosophical successor of de Maistre, Donoso kept de Maistre's ideas on authority and infallibility alive in the midst of the ideological and political controversies and the revolutionary tumult of Europe in the mid-19th century. Donoso's theories on infallibility played a crucial role in the definition of papal infallibility during the First Vatican Council in 1870. His theory on dictatorship changed the focus of continental conservative thought away from emphasizing the restoration of a hierarchically ordered civilization through the restoration of the monarchical ancient regime to the establishment of order and hierarchy by any necessary and effective means. This theory and his critique of parliamentarianism were especially reflected in the Franco regime in Spain and in the political and legal theories of Carl Schmitt.

All the speeches and writings of Cortes that influenced Schmitt are contained in this volume. These major theoretical works appear in English for the first time. Only the Speech on Dictatorship has appeared in English to date. Johnson's Introduction provides extensive commentary on the works and theories developed in them by showing the historical and philosophical context from which they emerged and by pointing out their significance in the development of the counter-revolutionary ideological trajectory leading from de Maistre to fascism. Until now, Donoso has been studied by a small group of mostly conservative and Catholic scholars. This translation makes his ideas more readily available for study by students and scholars of political theory.

On the Principles of English University Education (Paperback): William Whewell On the Principles of English University Education (Paperback)
William Whewell
R489 Discovery Miles 4 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Research Agenda for Austrian Economics (Hardcover): Steven Horwitz, Louis Rouanet A Research Agenda for Austrian Economics (Hardcover)
Steven Horwitz, Louis Rouanet
R2,899 Discovery Miles 28 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. This thought-provoking Research Agenda examines themes within economic studies that have become active areas of commentary for economists of the Austrian School. Contributors establish their own distinctive interpretations of how an Austrian Research Agenda should appear, clearly demonstrating there is no set dogma within Austrian economics. Chapters provide state-of-the-art dialogues surrounding the many complex dimensions of Austrian economics, including the School’s responses to behavioral economics and the theory of public goods. This book portrays Austrian economics as constantly evolving and its ultimate endeavour is to prompt further contributions and discussions surrounding the Austrian School. This erudite Research Agenda will be highly beneficial for graduate students studying political economics, market processes and economic development, seeking to understand the unique dimensions of Austrian economics. It will also be of great value to academics endeavouring to conduct comparative studies of different economic schools of thought.

The Witches Are Coming (Paperback): Lindy West The Witches Are Coming (Paperback)
Lindy West 1
R458 R422 Discovery Miles 4 220 Save R36 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
American Contempt for Liberty (Paperback): Walter E. Williams American Contempt for Liberty (Paperback)
Walter E. Williams
R572 R543 Discovery Miles 5 430 Save R29 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Throughout history, personal liberty, free markets, and peaceable, voluntary exchanges have been roundly denounced by tyrants and often greeted with suspicion by the general public. Unfortunately, Americans have increasingly accepted the tyrannical ideas of reduced private property rights and reduced rights to profits, and have become enamored with restrictions on personal liberty and control by government. In this latest collection of essays selected from his syndicated newspaper columns, Walter E. Williams takes on a range of controversial issues surrounding race, education, the environment, the Constitution, health care, foreign policy, and more. Skewering the self-righteous and self-important forces throughout society, he makes the case for what he calls the "the moral superiority of personal liberty and its main ingredient - limited government." With his usual straightforward insights and honesty, Williams reveals the loss of liberty in nearly every important aspect of our lives, the massive decline in our values, and the moral tragedy that has befallen Americans today: our belief that it is acceptable for the government to forcibly use one American to serve the purposes of another.

The Little Blue Book - The Essential Guide to Thinking and Talking Democratic (Paperback): George Lakoff, Elisabeth Wehling The Little Blue Book - The Essential Guide to Thinking and Talking Democratic (Paperback)
George Lakoff, Elisabeth Wehling
R400 R369 Discovery Miles 3 690 Save R31 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"The essential handbook for thinking and talking Democratic--must reading not only for every Democrat but for every responsible citizen" (Robert B. Reich, former Secretary of Labor and author of "Beyond Outrage").
Voters cast their ballots for what they believe is right, for the things that make moral sense. Yet Democrats have too often failed to use language linking their moral values with their policies. The Little Blue Book demonstrates how to make that connection clearly and forcefully, with hands-on advice for discussing the most pressing issues of our time: the economy, health care, women's issues, energy and environmental policy, education, food policy, and more. Dissecting the ways that extreme conservative positions have permeated political discourse, Lakoff and Wehling show how to fight back on moral grounds and in concrete terms. Revelatory, passionate, and deeply practical, The Little Blue Book will forever alter the way Democrats and progressives think and talk about politics.

A Liberal's Search for Truth, Justice and the American Way (Hardcover, 3rd ed.): David W. Williams A Liberal's Search for Truth, Justice and the American Way (Hardcover, 3rd ed.)
David W. Williams
R839 Discovery Miles 8 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Ideology - Conservatives, Liberals and Socialists (Hardcover): David Reisman Ideology - Conservatives, Liberals and Socialists (Hardcover)
David Reisman
R3,184 Discovery Miles 31 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This insightful book sheds light on three competing ideological windows on the world: conservatism, liberalism and socialism. David Reisman explores the importance of these perspectives not only to generating public policy, but also in our capacity to explain the very nature of reality. Surveying the diversity of beliefs that govern and guide contemporary society, Reisman illustrates the pre-eminence of three all-encompassing meta-ideologies that capture heterogenous philosophies. The book traces the history of these meta-ideologies through key figures and moments in their development, illuminating the paradox at the heart of political beings: the conceptual wedding of independence and integration. Refusing a partisan perspective, Reisman argues in favour of a tolerant vision of society that promotes understanding as an avenue by which to achieve the peaceable coexistence of plurality and diversity. Offering a clear, intellectual and unbiased presentation of contemporary political philosophy, this book is crucial reading for researchers and students of social and political thought, particularly those focusing on ideology and the history of philosophy.

Right-Wing Authoritarianism (Paperback): Bob Altemeyer Right-Wing Authoritarianism (Paperback)
Bob Altemeyer
R1,024 R831 Discovery Miles 8 310 Save R193 (19%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 1981, this still-timely volume surveys the history of social psychological research on right-wing authoritarianism and describes a more fruitful direction for future work. It concludes with a disturbing comment on the pervasiveness of authoritarian behaviour in our society.

The Silenced Majority (Hardcover): Reed Pryor The Silenced Majority (Hardcover)
Reed Pryor
R796 Discovery Miles 7 960 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Liars - How Progressives Exploit Our Fears for Power and Control (Paperback): Glenn Beck Liars - How Progressives Exploit Our Fears for Power and Control (Paperback)
Glenn Beck
R401 Discovery Miles 4 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Big Shift (Paperback): Darrell Bricker, John Ibbitson The Big Shift (Paperback)
Darrell Bricker, John Ibbitson
R414 R392 Discovery Miles 3 920 Save R22 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The political, media and business elites of Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal ran this country for almost its entire history. But in the last few years, they have lost their power, and most of them still do not realize it's gone. The Laurentian Consensus, a name John Ibbitson coined for the dusty Liberal elite, has been replaced by a new, powerful coalition based in the west and supported by immigrant voters in Ontario. So what happened?

Great global migrations have washed over Canada. Most people aren't aware that the keystone economic and political driver of this country is no longer Ontario, but rather, a Pacific province dominated by immigrants from China, India, and other Asian countries, who have settled there. Those in politics and business have greatly underestimated how conservative these newcomers are, and how conservative they are making our country. Canada, with an ever-evolving and growing economy and a constantly changing demographic base, has become divorced from the traditions of its past and is moving in an entirely new direction.

In The Big Shift, John Ibbitson and Darrell Bricker argue that one of the world's most consensual countries is polarizing, with the west versus the east, suburban versus urban, immigrants versus old school, coffee drinkers versus consumers of energy drinks. The winners--in politics, in business, in life--will figure out where the people are and go there too.

Speaker for the Powerless - Conversations We'd Have if Our Leaders Could Hear Us (Hardcover): Todd Lederman Speaker for the Powerless - Conversations We'd Have if Our Leaders Could Hear Us (Hardcover)
Todd Lederman
R657 Discovery Miles 6 570 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Crisis of Conservatism? - The Republican Party, the Conservative Movement and American Politics after Bush (Hardcover): Joel D.... Crisis of Conservatism? - The Republican Party, the Conservative Movement and American Politics after Bush (Hardcover)
Joel D. Aberbach, Gillian Peele
R2,043 Discovery Miles 20 430 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

To many observers, the 2008 elections augured the end of the conservative era in American politics. Buoyed by a reaction against Great Society liberalism and the Republican Party's shrewd race-based "Southern Strategy, " the modern conservative movement first enjoyed success in the late 1960s. By the 1980s, the movement had captured the White House. And in the early 2000s conservatives scaled the summit as a conservative true believer, George W. Bush, won two presidential elections - and the Republican Party captured both houses of Congress. But currently they have few credible presidential prospects. Today's most recognizable Republican, Sarah Palin, is regarded by most of the electorate as an ill-informed extremist. And the Democrats have commanding majorities in both the Senate and the House. What happened? The Crisis of Conservatism gathers a broad range of leading scholars of conservatism to assess the current state of the movement and where it is most likely headed in the near future. Featuring both empirical essays that analyze the reasons for the movement's current parlous state and more normative essays that offer new directions for the movement, the book is a comprehensive account of contemporary conservatism at its nadir. Throughout, the editors and the contributors focus on three issues. The first is the extent to which the terrain of American politics remains favorable to the Republican Party and conservative causes, notwithstanding the Obama victory of 2008. The second is the strategic ability of the Republicans and the wider conservative movement to renew their strength after the shattering experience of the past few years. The third issue they focus on is the extent to which conservative attitudes and values, policy preferences and impulses of the period since 1980 have in fact created a new consensus, one which the Obama administration will find it difficult to escape, regardless of his "change " rhetoric. They conclude that if conservatism does in fact remain a powerful shaper of the electorate's values, then the American right could very well reconfigure itself and begin the journey back to credibility and power.

How I Saved the World [Large Print] (Paperback, Large type / large print edition): Jesse Watters How I Saved the World [Large Print] (Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
Jesse Watters
R743 R659 Discovery Miles 6 590 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Republicans in the South - Voting for the State House, Voting for the White House (Hardcover, New): Terrel Rhodes Republicans in the South - Voting for the State House, Voting for the White House (Hardcover, New)
Terrel Rhodes
R2,351 Discovery Miles 23 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

As a result of national political and judicial actions, the political landscape of the South has experienced a partisan realignment from the Democratic to the Republican party. At the same time, the South has continued to have a tremendous impact on the national agenda through continued dominance of the national political scene through its new allegiance to the Republican party and has been instrumental in the rise of the Republican party nationally.

However, as Rhodes makes clear in this analysis, the realignment has not been uniform among the states of the region, nor has it led to the demise of the Democratic party. Although the Republican realignment appears to continue to trickle down to the local and state legislative levels, the Democratic party remains competitive across the South in most arenas. Rhodes suggests that the increasing wealth and suburbanization of the South strengthens the Republican presence and the party has maximized its growth in the South to a level of competitiveness at most electoral levels. Nonetheless, issues that have characterized politics in the South in the past--race, gender, class, and religion--continue to permeate the new politics of the South. An important analysis for scholars, students, and other researchers involved with Southern and party politics.

Commissar Conservatives - How Laissez-faire Libertarianism Is Disturbingly Similar to Communism (Hardcover): F L Cocozzelli Commissar Conservatives - How Laissez-faire Libertarianism Is Disturbingly Similar to Communism (Hardcover)
F L Cocozzelli
R738 R654 Discovery Miles 6 540 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Thank God For Trump Supporters 2020 (Hardcover): Scott M Flynn Thank God For Trump Supporters 2020 (Hardcover)
Scott M Flynn
R739 Discovery Miles 7 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Politics of Deception - Target America (Hardcover): Capt John Pulsinelli Usn (Ret) The Politics of Deception - Target America (Hardcover)
Capt John Pulsinelli Usn (Ret)
R740 R662 Discovery Miles 6 620 Save R78 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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