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1) Washington
Author
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Editor and columnist Meg Greenfield shares her insights on the behavior of Washington politicians.
Author
Publisher
Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A practical guide to effecting change in today's world from Senator Bernie Sanders. Throughout the 2016 Presidential campaign, Sanders promised voters a future to believe in through his progressive platform and a vision for America worth fighting for. This vision calls for an economic, environmental, health care, and social justice revolution beyond the stagnant agendas of Democrat and Republican politicians to build an equitable future for all Americans,...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 304
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A compilation of essays and nonfiction writings spanning more than forty years includes the author's reflections on politics, lifestyle, place, and cultural figures, including such topics as Haight-Ashbury, the Manson family, the Black Panthers, California earthquakes, and Bill Clinton.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Bill Schneider, former CNN senior political analyst, takes us inside the voting booth to show how Americans vote and why their votes sometimes seem to make no practical sense. In the 1960s, a rift developed between the Old America and the New America that resulted in a populist backlash that ultimately elected Donald Trump in 2016. Schneider describes an American populism that is economically progressive and culturally conservative. Liberals are...
8) Talk radio's America: how an industry took over a political party that took over the United States
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The march to the Trump presidency began in 1988, when Rush Limbaugh went national. Brian Rosenwald charts the transformation of AM radio entertainers into political kingmakers. By giving voice to the conservative base, they reshaped the Republican Party and fostered demand for a president who sounded as combative and hyperbolic as a talk show host.--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Stuart Stevens spent decades electing Republicans at every level, from presidents to senators to local officials. He knows the GOP as intimately as anyone in America, and in this new book he offers a devastating portrait of a party that has lost its moral and political compass. This is not a book about how Donald J. Trump hijacked the Republican Party and changed it into something else. Stevens shows how Trump is in fact the natural outcome of five...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2015.
Language
English
Description
George H. W. Bush is much too modest to brag about what he accomplished as the 41st President of the United States. As a result, the conventional wisdom about his presidency misses many of his greatest achievements. Now this insider account by former chief of staff John H. Sununu finally gives Bush full credit for the positive impact he had on the United States and the world. Though Bush is rightfully remembered for orchestrating one of the largest...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"From Truman to Trump, the deep corruption of our political leaders unveiled. Many critiques of the Trump era contrast it with the latter half of the twentieth century, when the United States seemed governed more by statesmen than by special interests. Without denying the extraordinary vigor of President Trump's assault on traditional ethical and legal norms, Jonathan Marshall challenges the myth of a golden age of American democracy. Drawing on a...
Author
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"James Hamilton has been a fly on the wall of American history through his involvement in the investigations concerning Watergate, the Kennedy assassination, "Debategate," the Keating Five, the Clinton impeachment, Vince Foster's suicide, the Valerie Plame affair, Benghazi, and the Major League Baseball steroids scandal. Arguing against Brett Kavanaugh (in Kavanaugh's only Supreme Court argument), Hamilton won the Supreme Court case establishing that...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In this brilliant biography, Jon Meacham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, chronicles the life of George Herbert Walker Bush. Drawing on President Bush's personal diaries, on the diaries of his wife, Barbara, and on extraordinary access to the forty-first president and his family, Meacham paints an intimate and surprising portrait of an intensely private man who led the nation through tumultuous times. From the Oval Office to Camp David, from his...
Author
Series
Publisher
City Lights Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In this collection of twelve previously unpublished speeches, Davis confronts the interconnected issues of power, race, gender, class, incarceration, conservatism, and the ongoing need for social change in the United States.
What is the meaning of freedom? Angela Y. Davis' life and work have been dedicated to examining this fundamental question and to ending all forms of oppression that deny people their political, cultural, and sexual freedom. In...
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