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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The elevation of Bannon to head Trump's flagging presidential campaign on August 17, 2016, seemed to signal the meltdown of the Republican Party. Bannon was a bomb-throwing pugilist despised by Democrats and Republicans alike. Green shows that, to understand Trump's extraordinary rise and Clinton's fall, you have to weave Trump's story together with Bannon's, or else it doesn't make sense.
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Language
English
Description
"An examination of the profound impact that the War on Terror had in pushing American politics and society in an authoritarian direction for an entire generation, at home and abroad, the United States has waged an endless conflict known as the War on Terror. In addition to multiple ground wars, it has pioneered drone strikes and industrial-scale digital surveillance, as well as detaining people indefinitely and torturing them. These conflicts have...
Author
Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
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Fifty years after Michael Harrington published his groundbreaking book The Other America, in which he chronicled the lives of people excluded from the Age of Affluence, poverty in America is back with a vengeance. It is made up of both the long-term chronically poor and new working poor-the tens of millions of victims of a broken economy and an ever more dysfunctional political system. In many ways, for the majority of Americans, financial insecurity...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In October 2016, every poll gave Hillary Clinton a commanding lead in the upcoming presidential election. Then, a single, unprecedented intervention changed the course of American political history, dooming Clinton's chances and ushering in the era of Donald Trump. This is the up-close, inside story of how that happened, who was responsible, and why America may never recover from it. The decisive act came from James Comey, director of the FBI, when...
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