It's a common complaint that a presidential candidate's style matters more than substance and that the issues have been eclipsed by mass-media-fueled obsession with a candidate's every slip, gaffe, and peccadillo. This book explores political communication in American presidenti…
"Neaira grew up in a Corinthian brothel in the fourth century B.C. and became one of the city-state's priciest courtesans while yet a teenager. In her twenties she served as the sex slave of two former clients and endured an abusive relationship with an unsavory Athenian. Finall…
"Neaira grew up in a Corinthian brothel in the fourth century B.C. and became one of the city-state's priciest courtesans while yet a teenager. In her twenties she served as the sex slave of two former clients and endured an abusive relationship with an unsavory Athenian. Finall…
"What did the early rulers of the Soviet Union -- Stalin, Trotsky, Bukharin, Kamenev, Zinoviev, Dzerzhinsky, among others -- truly think and feel about each other? Piggy Foxy and the Sword of Revolution provides a window into the soul of Bolshevism, the Bolshevik leaders, and th…
Sketching on notebook pages, official letterheads, or the margins of various draft documents, prominent Soviet leaders in the 1920s and 1930s amused themselves and their fellows with drawings of one another. This book presents a selection of nearly 200 of these informal sketches…
The politics of New Order Jakarta and the regime's dependence on the continued prosecution of somewhat phantasmic internal enemies.
"A book about contemporary political culture in Washington, DC."
