Best of
Political-Science

1964

A Nation of Immigrants


John F. Kennedy - 1964
    Kennedy was passionate about the issue of immigration reform. He believed that America is a nation of people who value both tradition and the exploration of new frontiers, people who deserve the freedom to build better lives for themselves in their adopted homeland. This modern edition of his posthumously published, timeless work—with a new introduction by Senator Edward M. Kennedy and a foreword by Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League—offers the late president's inspiring suggestions for immigration policy and presents a chronology of the main events in the history of immigration in America.As continued debates on immigration engulf the nation, this paean to the importance of immigrants to our nation's prominence and success is as timely as ever.

The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays


Richard Hofstadter - 1964
    In The Paranoid Style in American Politics, acclaimed historian Richard Hofstadter examines the competing forces in American political discourse and how fringe groups can influence — and derail — the larger agendas of a political party. He investigates the politics of the irrational, shedding light on how the behavior of individuals can seem out of proportion with actual political issues, and how such behavior impacts larger groups. With such other classic essays as “Free Silver and the Mind of 'Coin' Harvey” and “What Happened to the Antitrust Movement?”, The Paranoid Style in American Politics remains both a seminal text of political history and a vital analysis of the ways in which political groups function in the United States."Recent months have witnessed an attack of unprecedented passion and ferocity against the national government. The Republican Party has apparently embarked on a crusade to destroy national standards, national projects, and national regulations and to transfer domestic governing authority from the national government to the states. A near majority of the Supreme Court even seems to want to replace the Constitution by the Articles of Confederation…"Unbridled rhetoric is having consequences far beyond anything that antigovernment politicians intend. The flow of angry words seems to have activated and in a sense legitimized what the historian Richard Hofstadter called the 'paranoid strain' in American politics." - Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Wall Street Journal, June 7, 1995

The City and Man


Leo Strauss - 1964
    Together, the essays constitute a brilliant attempt to use classical political philosophy as a means of liberating modern political philosophy from the stranglehold of ideology. The essays are based on a long and intimate familiarity with the works, but the essay on Aristotle is especially important as one of Strauss's few writings on the philosopher who largely shaped Strauss's conception of antiquity. The essay on Plato is a full-scale discussion of Platonic political philosophy, wide in scope yet compact in execution. When discussing Thucydides, Strauss succeeds not only in presenting the historian as a moral thinker of high rank, but in drawing his thought into the orbit of philosophy, and thus indicating a relation of history and philosophy that does not presuppose the absorption of philosophy by history.

Parliamentary Socialism: A Study in the Politics of Labour


Ralph Miliband - 1964
    Demonstrating how empirical and flexible the Labor Party has been about certain issues, this reference also touches on how it is one of the most dogmatic political parties in regards to the parliamentary system. Commenting on why its leaders have always made devotion to this system their fixed point of reference, this political overview proves that this has always been the conditioning factor of their political behavior, as they consistently reject any kind of political action which has fallen outside the framework and conventions of Parliament. Stating that there is no distinction to be made between Labor’s political and industrial leaders, this study illustrates the party as it is now and has always been—one of modest social reform in a capitalist system within whose confines it is ever more firmly and by now irrevocably rooted.

The Burden And The Glory


John F. Kennedy - 1964
    s/t: The Hopes & Purposes of President Kennedy's Second & Third Year in Office as Revealed in His Public Statements & Addresses

Reflections of a Russian Statesman


Konstantin Pobedonostsev - 1964
    This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe & America 1760-1800


R.R. Palmer - 1964
    Published in 2 volumes: The Challenge ('59) which won the Bancroft Prize in History & The Struggle ('64). This masterwork traced the growth of two competing forces--ideas of democracy & equality, on one hand, & the growing power of aristocracies in society, on the other--& the extraordinary results of the collision between these forces, including both the American & French Revolutions. The book foreshadowed the development in the 1990s & early 2000s of ideas of Atlantic history & global history, & remains to this day a valuable resource for scholars. In 1971 he published a slightly revised & condensed version of the 2nd volume as The World of the French Revolution.

Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism


James Burnham - 1964
    Through studious research into past civilizations, Burnham diagnoses the 20th century and finds it afflicted with destructive, "suicidal" tendencies--all of which arise from the "Liberal syndrome" and its inherent implications.

Europe the World's Banker, Eighteen Seventy to Nineteen Fourteen: An Account of European Foreign Investment & the Connection of World Finance & Diplom


Herbert Feis - 1964
    

Federalism: Origin, Operation, Significance


William H. Riker - 1964
    

Democracy and Capitalism: Property, Community, and the Contradictions of Modern Social Thought


Samuel Bowles - 1964
    They show that 'capitalism' and 'democracy' - although widely held jointly to characterize Western society - are sharply contrasting systems regulating both the process of human development and the historical evolution of whole societies. They examine in detail the relationship between political theory and economics, and explore the multifaceted character of power in modern societies.

The Strategy of Subversion


Paul W. Blackstock - 1964
    Today, nations throughout the world - most notably the United States and Soviet Russia - place increasing reliance on subversive techniques to influence the internal affairs of other countries. Little information about this web of intrigues reaches the people.Here is the first analysis of complex problems and dangers inherent in the policy, management, and control of programmed subversions; of spies, agents, guerrillas, and "modern mercenaries" who provoke revolutionary or counter-insurgency movements in crisis areas; of the whole range of covert operations which can lead to open intervention and even to war.

Mussolini: A Study in Power


Ivone Kirkpatrick - 1964
    List of IllustrationsChart & MapsIntroductionThe Road to PowerPowerDeclineFallNotesBiographical & Explanatory NotesBibliographyAcknowledgmentIndexThe Author & His Bookillustrated w/photos, charts & maps