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Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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Description
Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon-one that is at odds with our heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular knowledge and science. With mordant wit, Jacoby surveys an antirationalist landscape extending from pop culture to a pseudo-intellectual universe of "junk thought." Disdain for logic and evidence defines a pervasive malaise fostered by the mass media,...
5) The death of the grown-up: how America's arrested development is bringing down Western civilization
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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A Canadian veteran of D-Day travels through New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, struggling with his memories of the war and experiencing firsthand America's postwar social and racial divisions. The story is told in verse and illustrations --
Author
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Explores the connection between social movements, technology, and inequality. It also shows how just as new technologies helped fuel the growth of new movements throughout U.S. history, even newer technologies have emerged in the last decade that are beginning to help groups counter different forms of inequality"--
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
From bestselling historian H. W. Brands, an incisive chronicle of the events and trends that guided--and sometimes misguided--our nation from the A-bomb to the iPhone. Ultimately Brands captures the national experience through the last six decades and reveals the still-unfolding legacy of dreams born out of a global cataclysm.
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Racism. Sexism. Russian interference. A few thousand votes in key swing states. There are no shortage of explanations for the stunning 2016 election of Donald Trump. In How Trump Happened, political experts Steven Schier and Todd Eberly step back to trace the factors driving his election, arguing that Trump's victory was decades in the making. As Americans prepare once again to cast their presidential ballots, How Trump Happened will be indispensable...
Publisher
Grey House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This book explores American life in the 1940s through personal profiles of individuals and families and their lives at home, at work and in the community; includes lists of significant events and milestones for America, from technical advances and political events to new products and popular movies, and lists of recorded popular songs in the United States; and 1940 Census summary and comparison data.
Author
Publisher
Brookings Institution Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The deliberate devaluation of Blacks and their communities-stemming from America's centuries-old history of slavery, racism, and other state-sanctioned policies like redlining-have tangible, far-reaching, and negative economic and social impacts. Rejecting policies shaped by flawed perspectives, this book gives fresh insights on these impacts and provides a new value paradigm to limit them. Noted educator, journalist, and scholar Andre Perry takes...
16) With her fist raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the transformative power of Black community activism
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Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Dorothy Pitman Hughes was a transformative community organizer in New York City in the 1970s who shared the stage with Gloria Steinem for 5 years, captivating audiences around the country. After leaving rural Georgia in the 1950s, she moved to New York, determined to fight for civil rights and equality. Historian Laura L. Lovett traces Hughes’s journey as she became a powerhouse activist, responding to the needs of her community and building a platform...
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A parody featuring the continuing adventures of Barack Obama and Joe Biden, who as time-traveling superheroes guided by Samuel L. Jackson, are transported to the past in order to change history for the better following the 2016 presidential election.
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
For more than fifty years, Bella Abzug championed the powerless and disenfranchised, as an activist, congresswoman, and leader in every major social initiative of her time--from Zionism and labor in the 40s to the ban-the-bomb efforts in the 50s, to civil rights and the anti-Vietnam War movements of the 60s, to the women's movement in the 70s and 80s, to environmental awareness and economic equality in the 90s. Her political idealism never waning,...
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Publisher
NewSouth Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Frye Gaillard has given us a deeply personal history, bringing his keen storyteller's eye to this pivotal time in American life. He explores the competing story arcs of tragedy and hope through the political and social movements of the times - civil rights, black power, women's liberation, the Vietnam War and the protests against it. But he also examines the cultural manifestations of change--music, literature, art, religion, and science--and so...
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A tale based on the story of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, the only Americans put to death for espionage during the Cold War, traces the experiences of their friend and neighbor, who takes in the couple's young sons when they are arrested by the FBI in 1950.
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