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Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs, a member of the Perseus Book Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Big Money is a rollicking tour of a new political world dramatically reordered by ever-larger flows of cash. Ken Vogel has breezed into secret gatherings of big-spending Republicans and Democrats alike -- from California poolsides to DC hotel bars -- to brilliantly expose the way the mega-money men (and rather fewer women) are dominating the new political landscape. Great wealth seems to attach itself to outsize characters. From the casino magnate...
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Provides an inside look at the investigations of the United States Congress, the groundwork for Donald Trump's win in 2016, and the events that occurred during his four years as president--an inside story of the internal struggle for direction within the Republican Party.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
""Obama was born in Kenya"..."Obama is a Muslim and a terrorist sympathizer"..."Obama is a Communist who wants to institute death panels"...The extent to which these undying lies have taken hold in the American mindset shows just how ruthless, destructive, and all-powerful the right-wing machine--hijacked by extremists in the media and fueled by corporate coffers--has become in America. And no one has inspired such venom as our nation's current president,...
Author
Publisher
Crown Forum
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The Fox News star outlines his rules and tricks for winning any argument against a liberal by using patience, research, humor, and creative thinking. Revealing the strategies that have helped him keep a steady job for almost three decades. Gutfield gives readers the tools they'll need to argue, influence, and convince their friends, family and foes throughout the 2016 election cycle. --Publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
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Description
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...
Publisher
Praeger, An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
This book provides a comprehensive examination of the Obama Presidency covering key issues ranging from education to political mobilization to racial stratification. It poses critical questions and offers insightful answers from expert contributors, provides a balanced critique of President Obama's accomplishments and challenges, and considers the national and international impact President Obama's tenure had on politics.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"After the 2012 election, the GOP was in the wilderness. Lost and in disarray. And doggedly determined to do whatever it took to get back to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. McKay Coppins has had unparalleled access to Republican presidential candidates, power brokers, lawmakers, and Tea Party leaders. Based on more than 300 interviews, The Wilderness is the book that [examines] the party like never before: the deep passions, larger-than-life personalities,...
Author
Publisher
BenBella Books, Inc
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, the second Republican governor in the state's history to win a second term and known for being a rare, anti-Trump Republican, gives a memoir of his many challenges, including surviving non-Hodgins lymphoma"--
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
An examination of the campaign strategies of the 2016 presidential election describes how Donald Trump's abrasive tactics struck a chord with previously unaligned segments of the country, undermining Clinton's traditional campaign efforts.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In the year before Donald Trump was elected president, Jordan Blashek, a Republican Marine, and Chris Haugh, a Democrat and son of a single mother from Berkeley, CA, formed an unlikely friendship. Jordan was fresh off his service in the Marines and feeling a bit out of place at Yale Law School. Chris was yearning for a sense of mission after leaving Washington D.C. Over the months, Jordan and Chris's friendship blossomed not in spite of, but because...
Author
Publisher
Sentinel
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Donald Trump isn't a politician--he's a one man wrecking ball against our dysfunctional and corrupt establishment. Now Ann Coulter, with her unique insight, candor, and sense of humor, makes the definitive case for why we should all join his revolution."--
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books/Karen Hunter Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Keith Ellison is the first Muslim elected to Congress. In fact, the first nonwhite that Minnesota has ever elected to Congress. This memoir, while filled with delightful family ancecdotes and personal recollections, he ran for office in hopes of making a difference in the ever-changing face of America: his "sweet land of libery."
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
"A play-by-play of the political forces (both right and left) and media culture that vilified Hillary Clinton during her 2016 Presidential campaign, from cultural critic and feminist scholar Susan Bordo. The Destruction of Hillary Clintonis an answer to the question we've all been asking: How did an extraordinarily well-qualified, experienced, and admired candidate--whose victory would have been as historic as Barack Obama's--come to be seen as a...
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...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
From the former secretary of defense, a strikingly candid, vivid account of serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. After working for six presidents in both the CIA and the National Security Council, Robert M. Gates was happily serving as president of Texas A&M University. But when he was asked to help a nation mired in two wars and to aid the troops doing the fighting, he answered what he felt was...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
The prophetic author of the bestselling Government Zero, Dr. Michael Savage is back with his most urgent and powerful work. Listeners to Dr. Savage's top-rated radio talk show, The Savage Nation, know him to be an articulate and engaged spokesman for traditional American values of borders, language, and culture. Now, after eight divisive years of Barack Obama, Dr. Savage lays out an irrefutable case for how our nation has been undermined by terrorists...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A promising young diplomat's account of her assignment in South Sudan, the world's youngest nation on the brink of civil war, and an explanation of the ways US foreign policy has utterly failed in its diplomacy and accountability around the world"--
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
In a divided country desperate for unity, two sons of South Carolina show how different races, life experiences, and pathways can lead to a deep friendship--even in a state that was rocked to its core by the 2015 Charleston church shooting.
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