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Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 271 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author offers observations on the absurdities of modern political culture, discussing how liberals have lost perspective while criticizing conservatives for lacking the nerve to stick to their principles.
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
The author offers his opinion about the rapidly declining state of politics, Hollywood, Medicare, and every social echelon of the nation, scathingly examining such powerful and famous people as Susan Sarandon, George W. Bush, and Dick Morris.
Author
Publisher
Tiller Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Tiller Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The journalistic collective Ohio Valley ReSource offers a searing on-the-ground perspective of an often-overlooked region that is also a bellwether for the nation at large. Includes stories like the recent Harlan County miners' strike, against a backdrop of environmental crisis, addiction, and rising white nationalism"--
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
Do you think mainstream America needs to find its voice? If so, you’re not alone. The country is under attack by extremists at the fringes who put ideology before sanity and stoke division for their own gain. They are trying to rob America of its common sense and deny empirical truths, and we’re all suffering the consequences.
In We’ve Got Issues: How You Can Stand Strong for America’s Soul and Sanity, Dr. Phil employs his signature no-nonsense...
47) Rage
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An essential account of the Trump presidency draws on interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, diaries, and confidential documents to provide details about Trump's moves as he faced a global pandemic, economic disaster, and racial unrest.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The knockdown, drag-out, untold story of the other scandal that rocked Nixon's White House, and reset the rules for crooked presidents to come-with new reporting that expands on Rachel Maddow's Peabody Award-nominated podcast. Is it possible for a sitting vice president to direct a vast criminal enterprise within the halls of the White House? To have one of the most brazen corruption scandals in American history play out while nobody's paying attention?...
50) Ronald Reagan
Author
Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Author
Publisher
W W Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
"A gut-wrenching story told with honesty, restraint, and dignity." -Ha Jin, National Book Award-winning author of Waiting
Chanrithy Him felt compelled to tell of surviving life under the Khmer Rouge in a way "worthy of the suffering which I endured as a child."
In a mesmerizing story, Chanrithy Him vividly recounts her trek through the hell of the "killing fields." She gives us a child's-eye view of a Cambodia where rudimentary labor camps for both...
Author
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Hirsi Ali has come to believe that a Muslim "Reformation", a revision of Islamic doctrine aimed at reconciling the religion with modernity, is at hand, and may even already have begun. Partly in response to the barbaric atrocities of Islamic State and Boko Haram, Muslims around the world have at last begun to speak out for religious reform.
53) Prelude to war
Author
Publisher
school and library d
Pub. Date
[1977]
Physical Desc
216 p. illus.
Language
English
54) Enough
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ever since a childhood visit to Washington, DC, Cassidy Hutchinson aspired to serve her country in government. Raised in a working-class family with a military background, she was the first in her immediate family to graduate from college. Despite having no ties to Washington, Hutchinson landed a vital position at the center of the Trump White House.
Her life took a dramatic turn on January 6th, 2021, when, at twenty-four, she found herself in one...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
237 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The truth may hurt-but the lies will kill us. In They Knew, New York Times best-selling author Sarah Kendzior explores the United States' "culture of conspiracy," putting forth a timely and unflinching argument: uncritical faith in broken institutions is as dangerous as false narratives peddled by propagandists. Conspiracy theories are on the rise because officials refuse to enforce accountability for real conspiracies. They Knew discusses conspiracy...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
415 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant, revelatory account of the Cold War origins of the data-mad, algorithmic twenty-first century, from the author of the acclaimed international bestseller, These Truths. The Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters, accelerated news, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge--decades before Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Cambridge Analytica. Silicon Valley likes to imagine it has...
59) Calvin Coolidge
Author
Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In The Case for Trump, award-winning historian and political commentator Victor Davis Hanson explains how a celebrity businessman with no political or military experience triumphed over sixteen well-qualified Republican rivals, a Democrat with a quarter-billion-dollar war chest, and a hostile media and Washington establishment to become president of the United States--and an extremely successful president. Trump alone saw a political opportunity in...