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Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
x, 275 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In early 2012, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh claimed that Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown University law student who advocated for insurance coverage of contraceptives, "wants to be paid to have sex." Over the next few days, Limbaugh attacked Fluke personally, often in crude terms, while a powerful backlash grew, led by organizations such as the National Organization for Women. But perhaps what was most notable about the incident was that it wasn't...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Free Press hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
xvii, 452 p. : ill., 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a kaleidoscopic narrative, bestselling author David Talbot recounts the gripping story of San Francisco in the turbulent years between 1967 and 1982--and of the extraordinary men and women who led to the city's ultimate rebirth and triumph. Season of the Witch is the first book to fully capture the dark magic of San Francisco in this breathtaking period, when the city radically changed itself--and then revolutionized the world. The cool gray city...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
225 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A former chief Republican strategist and best-selling author examines the five driving forces on the Right--financers, propagandists, party support, legal theories to legitimize and shock troops--and makes clear how they are working in concert to end our democracy as we know it.
"Today's Republican party is not a "normal" political party in the American tradition. It has become an autocratic movement masquerading as a political party. As Stuart Stevens...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A liberty-defending survivor of Mao's Cultural Revolution in China makes a passionate case that history is eerily repeating itself as the Woke Revolution spreads across America. Xi Van Fleet lived through the horrors of the Chinese Cultural Revolution as a schoolgirl. Forced to the countryside with other young Chinese for re-education after high school, she later escaped communism and found freedom and new a life in America. But more than 30 years...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
87 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ronald Reagan might have been the first professional actor elected president, but, as Arthur Miller reminds us in his delightfully acerbic On Politics and the Art of Acting, President Reagan was by no means the only actor to occupy the White House in modern times." "Beginning with our latest farcical election, Arthur Miller considers the twin arts of acting and politics in our brave new Age of Entertainment and contrasts the relatively poor thespian...
Author
Publisher
Sentinel
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xxix, 188 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"We are told that empathy is the highest virtue-the key to being a good person. Is that true? Or has "empathy," like so many other words of our day- "tolerance," "justice," "acceptance"-been hijacked by bad actors who exploit compassion for their own political ends? In Toxic Empathy, Allie Beth Stuckey argues that empathy has become a tool of manipulation by left-wing activists who bully people into believing that they must adopt progressive positions...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xvii, 360 pages,12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this important, thought-provoking work, journalist Charles Clover, former Moscow bureau chief for the Financial Times, attempts to shed light on the sometimes perplexing political actions and ambitions of Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Clover suggests that a nearly century-old ideology known as Eurasianism has taken hold in the region following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, with Putin a strong proponent. Originally formulated as a counter...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xiv, 322 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In CROSSING THE THINNEST LINE, Lauren Leader-Chivee looks at America and describes the possibility for our nation when we embrace our differences. At the heart of America's current social conflict are fundamental questions about our values as a nation. What does it mean to be American? When will women be fully equal? Should gays and lesbians have equal rights? Does racism still exist? What should we do about immigration? As one of the most diverse...
370) 1948: Harry Truman's improbable victory and the year that transformed America's role in the world
Author
Publisher
Union Square Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xxiii, 520 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The 1948 election was a war for the soul of the Democratic Party, with accidental president Harry Truman pitted against Henry Wallace, his embittered left-wing predecessor as vice president, and young South Carolina segregationist Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond. On the GOP side, it's a four-way battle between cold-as-ice New Yorker Tom Dewey, Minnesota upstart Harold Stassen, stodgy but brilliant Ohio conservative Robert Taft, and imperious but aged Douglas...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
404 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The exhilarating story of the four-month campaign that changed American politics forever. In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt came out of retirement to challenge his close friend and handpicked successor, William Howard Taft, for the Republican Party nomination. To overcome the power of the incumbent, TR seized on the idea of presidential primaries, telling bosses everywhere to "Let the People Rule." The cheers and jeers of rowdy supporters and detractors...
Author
Publisher
World Editions, LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
365 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Born in exile, in Zambia, to a guerrilla father and a working mother, Sisonke Msimang is constantly on the move. Her parents, talented and highly educated, travel from Zambia to Kenya and Canada and beyond with their young family. Always the outsider, and against a backdrop of racism and xenophobia, Sisonke develops her keenly perceptive view of the world. In this sparkling account of a young girl's path to womanhood, Sisonke interweaves her personal...
374) Nixon's White House wars: the battles that made and broke a president and divided America forever
Author
Publisher
Crown Forum
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
436 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Pat Buchanan, bestselling author and former senior adviser to President Richard Nixon in the White House, for the first time describes his years advising the president throughout the two terms of his administration, up until he resigned office in August 1974 in the wake of Watergate"-- Provided by publisher.
"From Vietnam to the Southern Strategy, from the opening of China to the scandal of Watergate, Pat Buchanan--speechwriter and senior adviser...
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
6 audio discs (7 hr., 37 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A refreshing, thoughtful, and essential guide for navigating today's contentious political climate argues that people must shift their focus back to what unites them.
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media
Pub. Date
p2006
Edition
Unabridged library ed.
Physical Desc
8 sound discs (10 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Documents the ways in which George Washington's words, image, and mythology shaped America's fledgling republic in the first fifty years after the Revolutionary War, offering insight into the pivotal role played by slavery issues.
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