Susan & Martin Tolchin's Books

Glass Houses

Congressional Ethics And The Politics Of Venom

By: Susan & Martin Tolchin,Martin Tolchin

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Glass Houses

Congressional Ethics And The Politics Of Venom

By: Susan & Martin Tolchin,Martin Tolchin

While members of the House and Senate confront the public's changing attitudes toward money, sex, and power, they are also forced to raise ever-escalating sums to finance their campaigns. Practices tolerated a decade ago now may cost lawmakers their seats or land them in jail. Lawmakers often don't know if they live in Salem or Gomorrah. Using new information culled from dozens of Capitol Hill interviews, Susan and Martin Tolchin show how ethics in Washington have changed over two centuries while offering new interpretations of past ethics cases. The first book to analyze the politicization of the ethics process, Glass Houses reveals in wicked and telling detail the forces that drive the modern lawmaker into a maelstrom of fierce corruption battles.

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217

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0786751010

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9780786751013

The Angry American

How Voter Rage Is Changing The Nation

By: Susan Tolchin

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The Angry American

How Voter Rage Is Changing The Nation

By: Susan Tolchin

The Clinton scandals. The Rise of militia and patriot groups. The proliferation of ?trash? TV. Record U.S. trade deficits. Isolated events, or is there some connecting thread? Susan Tolchin says it's anger?mainstream, inclusive, legitimate public anger?and it's not going to vanish until we as a polity acknowledge it and harness its power. How to tap into this pervasive political anger and release its creative energy without being swept away by its force is the dilemma of the 1990s for government leaders and citizens alike. The second edition of this acclaimed volume has been completed revised and updated to account for the ways in which recent events have contributed to the history, causes, and consequences of anger in American politics today. The book embraces positive solutions to problems we are all entitled to be angry about: economic uncertainty, cultural divisiveness, political disintegration, and a world changing faster than our ability to assimilate. Tolchin's solutions incorporate a renewed sense of community, enhanced political access, and responsive rather than reactive government.

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185

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Routledge

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042997647X

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9780429976476

PINSTRIPE PATRONAGE

By: Martin Tolchin,Susan J. Tolchin

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PINSTRIPE PATRONAGE

By: Martin Tolchin,Susan J. Tolchin

Political patronage - awarding discretionary favors in exchange for political support - is alive and well in 21st century America. This book examines the little understood patronage system, showing how it is used by 'pinstripe' elites to subvert the democratic process. 'Pinstripe patronage' thrives on the billions of dollars distributed by government for the privatisation of public services. Martin and Susan Tolchin introduce us to government grants specified for the use of an individual, corporation, or community and 'hybrid agencies', with high salaries for top executives and board members. In return for this corporate welfare pinstipe partons giving politicians the ever-increasing funds needed to conduct their political campaigns. As budget cuts begin to bite, the authors argue that it is time to clamp down on the corrupt practice of pinstripe patronage.

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297

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Routledge

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131725418X

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9781317254188

A World Ignited

How Apostles of Ethnic, Religious, and Racial Hatred Torch the Globe

By: Martin Tolchin,Susan J. Tolchin

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A World Ignited

How Apostles of Ethnic, Religious, and Racial Hatred Torch the Globe

By: Martin Tolchin,Susan J. Tolchin

War. Torture. Humiliation. Exploitation. Fear. Futility. The daily news is bleak. And it's not reserved to just one corner of the globe. World wide we are bombarded with graphic, emotionally-laden examples of inhumanity. These challenges to peace and freedom have become so commonplace that public and government responses are sedate or self-righteous. Meanwhile in more malevolent countries, manipulative politicians and sadistic terrorists have become skilled at exploiting this state of affairs. And we ignore it at our own peril. A World Ignited is about the surge of hatred that has swept the world in the last decade, its myriad causes, its toll in lives and human misery. This condition is amplified by modern communications technology, especially television and the Internet, and made more lethal by modern weaponry, including assault rifles and rocket launchers, and unprecedented tactics that strive for mass death and anguish. Anger is fed by economic disparities, religious and cultural wars that go back centuries, and deep-seated feelings of defeat and humiliation. The book takes aim at the Bush administration for its penchant for provocative and unilateral policies that have inspired unprecedented waves of anti-Americanism, but it also breaks new ground on both Bush's unsung role in combating worldwide anti-Semitism, and the role of the United States as the fount of hate on the Internet. The authors conclude this important and timely book in a positive manner with a look at the politics of hope and what can be done to halt, and even reverse, this cacophony of hate.

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269

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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1461711657

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9781461711650

Women as Candidates in American Politics

By: Susan J. Carroll

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Women as Candidates in American Politics

By: Susan J. Carroll

In this second edition, Susan Carroll updates her pioneering study of women candidates and their campaigns in the aftermath of the "Year of the Woman." Although in many regards the political climate has become vastly more favorable for female candidates, opportunities are still limited by the political structure. Carroll examines a number of possible reforms and actual developments which may eventually mean larger numbers of women being elected to public office.

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260

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Indiana University Press

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0253313198

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9780253313195

The Americans with Disabilities Act

By: Susan Dudley Gold

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The Americans with Disabilities Act

By: Susan Dudley Gold

Takes a behind the scenes look to show the drama that led to the Americans with Disabilities Act being passed and the effect this piece of legislation has had in the development of our country.

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128

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Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC

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1608703401

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9781608703401

Selling Our Security

The Erosion of America's Assets

By: Martin Tolchin,Susan J. Tolchin

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Selling Our Security

The Erosion of America's Assets

By: Martin Tolchin,Susan J. Tolchin

The first book to pinpoint, case by case, name by name, how our political leaders have permitted America's vital security and technnological assets to be sold off to foreign-owned companies. This eagerly anticipated book points the way out of the quagmire and has already been hailed by William Safire as "the sleeper bestseller" of 1992.

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458

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Alfred A. Knopf

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0394583094

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9780394583099

From Margin to Mainstream

American Women and Politics Since 1960

By: Susan M. Hartmann

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From Margin to Mainstream

American Women and Politics Since 1960

By: Susan M. Hartmann

This is a detailed and comprehensive account of women's participation in mainstream American politics at national, state, and local levels during the last 30 years. Hartmann traces their growing role in the political process and describes the issues around which they have mobilized--Equal Rights Amendment, the Equal Pay Act, Federal child care programs, and the appointment of women to high government posts. She notes how the black civil rights movement provided a new frame of reference for a women's movement, and discusses women's participation in the grassroots movements of the 1960s, in major women's organizations, such as the National Organization for Women and National Women's Political Caucus, and looks at women as political candidates and officeholders, and shapers of public policy. ISBN 0-394-35610-1: $29.95.

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