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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...
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David A. Hollinger is the Preston Hotchkis Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. His many books include Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America and After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Protestant Liberalism in Modern American History (both Princeton).
Tracing the rise of evangelicalism and the decline of mainline Protestantism in American religious and cultural life
How did...
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
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First edition.
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xi, 178 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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Identifies the fundamental differences between Snowflakes, who take offense to views that challenge their own, and traditional Old Schoolers, and evaluates the Snowflake movement's efforts to diminish Old School philosophies.
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
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First edition.
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237 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"An indictment of the Republican Party from one of the most successful Republican political operatives of his generation"--
Stevens spent decades electing Republicans at every level, from presidents to senators to local officials. Here he offers a devastating portrait of a party that has lost its moral and political compass. Stevens shows how Trump is the natural outcome of five decades of hypocrisy and self-delusion, dating all the way back to the...
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All Points Books
Pub. Date
2018.
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First U.S. edition.
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164 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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This program includes an introduction read by the author. A brief, magisterial audiobook introduction to the conservative tradition by one of Britain's leading intellectuals. In Conservatism, Roger Scruton offers listeners an invitation into the world of political philosophy by explaining the history and evolution of the conservative movement over the centuries. With the clarity and authority of a gifted teacher, he discusses the ideology's perspective...
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[2008]
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English
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The late-twentieth-century descendants of anti-slavery emigrants worry about maintaining religious superiority over a rival family while launching a harassment campaign against a Wiccan newcomer, an effort that is challenged by a young man's military service.
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Metropolitan Books
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2004.
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First edition.
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x 306 pages : map ; 22 cm
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English
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With a New Afterword by the Author
Hailed as "dazzlingly insightful and wonderfully sardonic" (Chicago Tribune), "very funny and very painful" (San Francisco Chronicle), and "in a different league from most political books" (The New York Observer), What's the Matter with Kansas? unravels the great political mystery of our day: Why do so many Americans vote against their economic and social interests? With his acclaimed wit and acuity, Thomas Frank...
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Sentinel
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[2018]
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x, 273 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Since the day Donald Trump announced his presidential campaign, the left has waged a demented war against him. Liberals used to pride themselves on their ultra-hipness, but Trump has turned them into weeping little girls in pink party dresses. The very people who once mocked right-wingers for (allegedly) overreacting to every little thing are now the ones hyperventilating and hatching insane conspiracy theories. During the campaign, and even more...
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
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First edition.
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xxxii, 256 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"An award-winning scholar uncovers Lincoln's strategy for abolishing slavery in this groundbreaking history of the sectional crisis and Civil War. Some celebrate Lincoln for freeing the slaves; others fault him for a long-standing conservatism on abolition and race. James Oakes gives us another option in this brilliant exploration of Lincoln and the end of slavery. Through the unforeseen challenges of the Civil War crisis, Lincoln and the Republican...
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Bombardier Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
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212 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Florida firebrand Matt Gaetz, one of President Trump's key supporters in Congress, ... skewers the 'enemies' of the MAGA revolution and lays out his own vision for the future of the populist movement"--Publisher marketing.
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Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
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389 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES The eight-time #1 New York Times In American Marxism Insightful and hard-hitting as ever, Levin proves that since its establishment, the Democrat Party has set out to rewrite history and destroy the foundation of freedom in America. More than a political party, it is the entity through which Marxism has installed its philosophy and its new revolution. As in a Thomas Paine pamphlet or a clarion call from Paul Revere,...
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Crown Forum
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[2006]
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First edition.
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xi, 259 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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When a colleague teased writer Dreher one day about his visit to the "lefty" local food co-op, he started thinking about the ways he and his conservative family lived that put them outside the bounds of conventional Republican politics. Shortly thereafter, Dreher wrote an essay about "crunchy cons," people whose "Small Is Beautiful" style of conservative politics often put them at odds with GOP orthodoxy. Dreher was deluged by e-mails from conservatives...
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Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2015.
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First Threshold Editions hardcover edition.
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viii, 244 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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In modern America, talk radio host Levin argues, the civil society is being steadily devoured by a ubiquitous federal government. But as the government grows into an increasingly authoritarian and centralized federal Leviathan, many parents continue to tolerate, if not enthusiastically champion, grievous public policies that threaten their children and successive generations with a grim future at the hands of a brazenly expanding and imploding entitlement...
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Page Street Publishing Co
Pub. Date
2022.
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279 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Harper "Band Geek" McKinley just wants to make it through her senior year of marching band-and her Republican father's presidential campaign. That was a tall order to start, but everything was going well enough until someone made a fake gay dating profile posing as Harper. The real Harper can't afford for anyone to find out about the Tinder profile for three very important reasons: 1. Her mom is the school dean and dating profiles for students are...
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