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1) Golden age
Author
Series
Last hundred years trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The third book of a trilogy about a farm family from Iowa, which takes them from the late 1980s through the present and into the future"--
2) Some luck
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"An epic novel that spans thirty years in the lives of a farm family in Iowa, telling a parallel story of the changes taking place in America from 1920 through the early 1950s"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Iowa, family patriarch Walter Langdon has died, and his children have fanned out across the country. The narrative moves year by year from 1953 to 1986, encompassing the dark years of the Cold War, Sixties rebellion, and escalating wealth into the 1980s.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In The Greatest Generation, his landmark bestseller, Tom Brokaw eloquently evoked for America what it meant to come of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Now, in BOOM!, one of America’s premier journalists gives us an epic portrait of another defining era in America as he brings to life the tumultuous Sixties, a fault line in American history. Brokaw takes us on a memorable journey through a remarkable time, exploring...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Documents the kaleidoscopic year during which transformative talents from Hollywood, Sunset Boulevard, and Beverly Hills heavily influenced pop culture, politics, and social movements.
Los Angeles in 1974 exerted more influence over popular culture than any other city in America. Working in film, recording, and television studios, a cluster of transformative talents produced an explosion in popular culture which reflected the demographic, social,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
So the presidential election of 2016 happened. You cried, you ranted, you marched. But how do you stay engaged for the long term? How do you keep fighting while also continuing your real life? How do you get involved when you feel far from the action? How do you stay vigilant without being furious? All. The. Time. Needing to take action after the election, Emma Gray, Executive Women's Editor at HuffPost, put on her journalist hat and set out to get...
Publisher
Razorbill/Dutton
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
990L
Physical Desc
xiv, 218 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Glimmer of Hope is the official, definitive book from The March for Our Lives founders. Glimmer of Hope tells the story of how a group of teenagers raced to channel their rage and sorrow into action, and went on to create one of the largest youth-led movements in global history. In keeping up with their ongoing fight to end gun-violence in all communities, the student leaders of March for Our Lives have decided not to be paid as authors of the book....
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxviii, 274 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Bad Feminist and The Sum of Us, Black Skinhead sparks a radical conversation about Black America and political identity. In Black Skinhead, Brandi Collins-Dexter, former Senior Campaign Manager for Color Of Change, explores the fragile alliance between Black voters and the Democratic party. Through sharp, timely essays that span the political, cultural, and personal, Collins-Dexter reveals decades of simmering disaffection in Black America,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 403 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A provocative, intimate look at the evolution of America's political soul through the lives of six political figures--from Whittaker Chambers to Christopher Hitchens--who abandoned the left and joined the right."--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.8 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
ix, 165 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Uses art, music, protest posters, and sixties lingo to show how young Americans played a role in the social movements of the 1960s.
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs : Bowling for Columbine. Where to Invade Next. Fahrenheit 11/9. Sicko.
Language
English
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Description
This Binge box includes films from award winning director Michael Mooore.
Titles included: Bowling for Columbine. Where to Invade Next. Fahrenheit 11/9. and Sicko.
Author
Publisher
Disney/Jump at the Sun
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
243 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Hand in Hand presents the stories of ten men from different eras in American history, organized chronologically to provide a scope from slavery to the modern day. The stories are accessible, fully-drawn narratives offering the subjects' childhood influences, the time and place in which they lived, their accomplishments and motivations, and the legacies they left for future generations as links in the "freedom chain."
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First American Edition.
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Explore how Americans have worked to change our society through the history of the United States. From local community movements to campaigns for voting and civil rights."--
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (120 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Presents the theory that the American dream, all but abandoned in the United States, has been adopted successfully in other countries, including Italy, France, Finland, Slovenia, Germany, Portugal, Norway, Tunisia, and Iceland, looking at such areas as worker benefits, public expenditure for the common good, and state-funded higher education.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An insider's groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to "change the world" preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve. Former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, where the rich and powerful fight for equality and justice any way they can--except ways that threaten the social order and their position atop it. We...
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