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• The Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World's Government in the 21st Century by Michael Mandelbaum

  Call Number: JZ1480 .M3258 2009

  ISBN: 9780786734689

  Publication Date: 2009-02-23
• Conservatism in a Divided America: The Right and Identity Politics by George Hawley

  Call Number: JC573.2.U6

  ISBN: 0268203768

  Publication Date: 2022
• The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the politics of race in America by Michael Eric Dyson

  Call Number: E185.615 .D9449 2016

  ISBN: 9780544386426

  Publication Date: 2016-02-02
• A Better Politics : How Government Can Make Us Happier by Danny Dorling

  Call Number: B65 .D67 2016eb

  ISBN: 9781907994548

  Publication Date: 2016
• Voting in context : a brief economic history of American politics by John Rogers

  Call Number: HC103 .R64 2020

  ISBN: 9781527542648

  Publication Date: 2020