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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
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465 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"An eminent political scientist's brilliant synthesis of social and political trends over the past century that shows how we have gone from an individualistic society to a more communitarian society and then back again -- and how we can use that experience to overcome once again the individualism that currently weakens our country"--
This is the worst of times... but we've been here before. During the Gilded Age of the late 1800s, America was highly...
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Stop thinking about who you might offend and start thinking about who you might inspire.
Fans are always asking Tomi Lahren where she gained the confidence and candor that have made her who she is: a celebrated free-speech advocate, a conservative media star, and one of the most controversial pundits in America.
In Never Play Dead, Tomi cheers on anyone, especially other young women willing to speak their minds. She takes readers on a tour of the...
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A fearless deep dive into the 2020 election from former MSNBC "Road Warrior" and now NBC Capitol Hill correspondent Ali Vitali, who covered the campaign trail every step of the way, investigating the gendered double standards placed on women presidential candidates of that cycle and those who came before, and what it will take for a woman to finally break the glass ceiling and win the White House.
Opening with the moment when Joe Biden and Kamala...
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Foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness Fiona Hill reveals how declining opportunity has set America on the grim path of modern Russia--and shows how we can return hope to our forgotten places. In this deeply personal account, she shares what she has learned, and explains that only by expanding opportunity can we save our democracy.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
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x, 243 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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This program is read by the author.
How can a nation composed of states that range from Utah ("The church of states") to Vermont ("The state of relevant old people") possibly hang together? In Colin Quinn's new audiobook, the popular comedian, social commentator, and star of the shows Red State Blue State and Unconstitutional tackles the condition of our union today.
Running state-by-state, from Connecticut to Hawaii, Quinn calls us out and identifies...
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English
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The number one New York Times bestselling author of Bias delivers another bombshell-this time aimed at . . .100 People Who Are Screwing Up America. No preaching. No pontificating. Just some uncommon sense about the things that have made this country great-and the culprits who are screwing it up.
Bernard Goldberg takes dead aim at the America Bashers (the cultural elites who look down their snobby noses at "ordinary" Americans) . . . the Hollywood...
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Pulitzer Prize-winner Cynthia Tucker and award-winning author Frye Gaillard reflect in a powerful series of essays on the role of the South in America's long descent into Trumpism. In 1974 the great Southern author John Egerton published his seminal work, The Americanization of Dixie: The Southernization of America, reflecting on the double-edged reality of the South becoming more like the rest of the country and vice versa. Tucker and Gaillard dive...
9) Secret empires: how the American political class hides corruption and enriches family and friends
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English
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Clinton Cash comes an explosive new political expose!
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English
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A narrative account of the twentieth president's political career offers insight into his background as a scholar and Civil War hero, his battles against the corrupt establishment, and Alexander Graham Bell's failed attempt to save him from an assassin's bullet.
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English
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Juxtaposes the meteoric rise of Barack Obama with far-reaching-and disturbing-shifts in black leadership in post -Civil Rights America.
Barack Obama's sudden arrival on the national scene has created a wave of excitement in American politics, a phenomenon that has been dubbed "Obamamania." In What's Wrong with Obamamania?, Ricky L. Jones places Obama's run for the presidency in the context of deep and often disturbing shifts in black leadership since...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 857 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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In his follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Metaphysical Club, Louis Menand offers a new intellectual and cultural history of the postwar years
The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense - economic and political, artistic and personal. In The Free World, the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar and critic Louis Menand tells the story of American culture in the pivotal years from the end...
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"Monica Crowley offers a rollicking, sharp-elbowed tour of the damage caused by Barack Obama's reckless spending and radical political agenda. But she also sets the stage for the inevitable conservative comeback, arguing that the time has come for a revival of the Reaganesque "Happy Warrior' spirit"--
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A comprehensive history and analysis of the origins, evolution, and current life, legacy, and impact of conspiracy theories in American culture and politics, from the colonial era to today.
Conspiracies have been woven through America's social tapestry since the beginning of its history. The United States of Paranoia is a unique and fascinating look at how these commonly held beliefs-true or not-have helped shape the American cultural imagination....
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English
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The New York Times opinion writer, media commentator, outspoken Republican and Christian critic of the Trump presidency offers a spirited defense of politics and its virtuous and critical role in maintaining our democracy and what we must do to save it before it is too late.
"Any nation that elects Donald Trump to be its president has a remarkably low view of politics."
Frustrated and feeling betrayed, Americans have come to loathe politics...
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