St. Martin's Press / Social science

The U.S. Senate

by Tom Daschle & Charles Robbins

The second entry in the civics series clearly and concisely explains how the United States Senate works.  

The U.S. Senate is the second book in the Fundamentals of American Government civics series, exploring...

The Winner Effect

by Ian H. Robertson

What makes a winner? Why do some people succeed both in life and in business, and others fail? Why do a few individuals end up supremely powerful, while many remain powerless?

The “winner effect” is a term...

Blackwards

by Ron Christie

The iconoclastic Black Republican strategist calls out leaders who fan the flames of racial rhetoric and sabotage a post-racial America

The euphoria surrounding Barack Obama’s historic election had commentators...

The Great American Railroad War

by Dennis Drabelle

How two of America’s greatest authors took on the Central Railroad monopoly  The notorious Central Pacific Railroad riveted the attention of two great American writers: Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris. In...

Selecting a President

by Eleanor Clift & Matthew Spieler

The debut of a brand-new civics series for high school seniors and college freshmen, that clearly, concisely and cleverly explains how the United States elects its president Selecting a President explains...

Digital Vertigo

by Andrew Keen

"Digital Vertigo provides an articulate, measured, contrarian voice against a sea of hype about social media. As an avowed technology optimist, I'm grateful for Keen who makes me stop and think before committing...

Life Among the Cannibals

by Sen. Arlen Specter & Charles Robbins

A revealing memoir of how Washington is changing---and not for the better

During a storied thirty-year career in the U.S. Senate, Arlen Specter rose to Judiciary Committee chairman, saved and defeated Supreme...

A Nation of Moochers

by Charles J. Sykes

We have experienced a shift in American character: we’ve become a nation of moochers. Increasingly dependent on the efforts of others over our own, Americans are free to freeload. From the corporate bailouts...

The Swing Vote

by Linda Killian

As our country’s politicians engage in bitter partisan battles, focused on protecting their own jobs but not on doing the nation’s business, and political pundits shout louder and shriller to improve their...

After the Fall

by Walter Laqueur

A master historian takes us deep into the heart of Europe's current political and financial crisis Walter Laqueur was one of the few experts who predicted Europe's current financial and political crisis when...

The Sexual History of London

by Catharine Arnold

If Paris is the city of love, then London is the city of lust. From the bath houses of Roman Londinium to the sexual underground of the twentieth century and beyond, this is an entertaining, vibrant chronicle...

Suicide of a Superpower

by Patrick J. Buchanan

America is disintegrating. The “one Nation under God, indivisible” of the Pledge of Allegiance is passing away. In a few decades, that America will be gone forever. In its place will arise a country unrecognizable...

Left Turn

by Tim Groseclose, PhD

Dr. Tim Groseclose, a professor of political science and economics at UCLA, has spent years constructing precise, quantitative measures of the slant of media outlets. He does this by measuring the political...

Global Girlfriends

by Stacey Edgar

Start small, dream big, change lives— how one woman harnessed the power of fair trade to help women in poverty help themselves

Seven years ago, Stacey Edgar had a $2,000 tax return and a deep desire to help...

Welcome to the Jungle

by Geoffrey T. Holtz

The population bomb/a white one for twenty-one days, a pink one for seven/pretty baby/it's a mad mad mad mad world/meet your new family/the warehouse generation/quality time/give a hoot dont pollute/birth of...

Vote.com

by Dick Morris

As the print and broadcast media-commonly referred to as the Fourth Estate-falters and fails, a new social and political force is rising in power. The Fifth Estate, as Morris has dubbed it, is made up of the...

Politics and Pasta

by Vincent "Buddy" Cianci, Jr., David Fisher & Buddy Cianci

An election is a war and "to the victor belongs the spoils."  As I learned so well, that's the real democratic process.  After all, you'll never see a victorious politician tell his supporters, "I want to...

Less Than Human

by David Livingstone Smith

Winner of the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction A revelatory look at why we dehumanize each other, with stunning examples from world history as well as today’s headlines

“Brute.” “Cockroach.”...

The New Reagan Revolution

by Jim Denney, Michael Reagan & Newt Gingrich

“There are cynics who say that a party platform is something that no one bothers to read and it doesn’t very often amount to much.  Whether it is different this time than it has ever been before, I believe...

Castles Made of Sand

by Andre Gerolymatos

With roots in imperialism and the nineteenth-century mindset of the “Great Game,” Western nations have waged an intricate spy game this past century to establish control over the Middle East, secure access...