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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men — bodies exploited through slavery and segregation,...
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Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
233 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this passionate blend of autobiography and cultural history, love and sex and art collide with hatred, withering French xenophobia, and death. How does Paris, with all its faults, remain not only the world's most visited tourist destination, but also the locus of endless sexual fantasy and the very image of the good life for Americans, and for writer and art historian Eunice Lipton? In sensual and intellectually thrilling prose, Lipton explores...
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
x, 302 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Drawn from his odyssey through France where he talked with people and revisited historical events, the author presents a narrative about France's true involvement in World War II and how the French live with the dark secrets of the war even today.
Author
Language
English
Description
American Millennials—the generation born in the 1980s and 1990s—have been leaving organized religion in unprecedented numbers. For a long time, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was an exception: nearly three-quarters of people who grew up Mormon stayed that way into adulthood. In The Next Mormons, Jana Riess demonstrates that things are starting to change. Drawing on a large-scale national study of four generations of current...
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Publisher
Filiquarian Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
383 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Written by one of the most influential men of his times and one of the greatest journalists in history, Public Opinion is an incisive examination of democratic theory, the role of citizens in a democracy, and the impact of the media in shaping thoughts and actions. It changed the nature of political science as a scholarly discipline and introduced concepts that continue to play an important role in current political theory.
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Publisher
Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
x, 413 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A vivid, surprising portrait of the civic and economic reinvention taking place in America, town by town and generally out of view of the national media. A realistically positive and provocative view of the country between its coasts. For the last five years, James and Deborah Fallows have been traveling across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, they have met hundreds of civic leaders, workers, immigrants, educators,...
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Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
373 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
At the time of his death, Ulysses S. Grant was the most famous person in America, considered by most citizens to be equal in stature to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Yet today his monuments are rarely visited, his military reputation is overshadowed by that of Robert E. Lee, and his presidency is permanently mired at the bottom of historical rankings. In an insightful blend of biography and cultural history, Joan Waugh traces Grant's shifting...
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Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
An "important, revelatory new book" (Elle) that is a powerful argument for abortion as a moral right and force for social good. Forty years after the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, "abortion" is still a word that is said with outright hostility or vague discomfort by many, this despite the fact that one in three American women will have terminated at least one pregnancy by the time they reach menopause. Even those who support a woman's right to terminate...
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Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xvi, 264 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In How to Talk to a Science Denier, Lee McIntyre tells the story of his own adventures in talking face to face with science deniers and their victims-including a Flat Earth convention in Denver, coal miners in rural Pennsylvania, and fishermen in the Maldives-and what he learned from the experience"--
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Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
254 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents an analysis of the prevalence of apocalyptic thinking in America, discussing its Puritan roots in a Judeo-Christian world view and emphasizing the need to distingush between imagined perils and real world problems that need solving.
Publisher
Little Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xxii, 535 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Analyzing the movement's deep-seated origins in questions that the country has sought too long to ignore, some of the greatest economic minds and most incisive cultural commentators -- from Paul Krugman, Robin Wells, Michael Lewis, Robert Reich, Amy Goodman, Barbara Ehrenreich, Gillian Tett, Scott Turow, Bethany McLean, Brandon Adams, and Tyler Cowen to prominent labor leaders and young, cutting-edge economists and financial writers whose work is...
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xii, 252 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A fascinating account of Russia's famous dissident and the politics he embodies.
Who is Alexei Navalny? Poisoned in August 2020 and transported to Germany for treatment, the politician returned to Russia in January 2021 in the full glare of the world media. His immediate detention at passport control set the stage for an explosive showdown with Vladimir Putin.
But Navalny means very different things to different people. To some, he is a democratic...
14) Sicko
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Michael Moore interviews Americans who have been denied treatment by the United States health care insurance companies -- companies who sacrifice essential health services in order to maximize profits. Sheds light on the how complicated it can become for communities and individuals, and the sacrifices they have made when they are denied health care coverage.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"After serving in Iraq as an officer in the U.S. Marines, Klay returned home to produce two exceptional pieces of fiction shaped by his experience of war: the National Book Award-winning story collection Redeployment and the debut novel Missionaries, best-booked by the Wall Street Journal. Here he collects essays written over the past decade that explore what the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have really meant to the people of the United States, for...
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Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xix, 207 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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"The age of transnational humanities has arrived. According to Steven Salaita, the seemingly disparate fields of Palestinian studies and American Indian studies have more in common than one may think. In Inter/Nationalism, Salaita argues that American Indian and Indigenous studies must be more central to the scholarship and activism focusing on Palestine. Salaita offers a fascinating inside account of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement--which,...
17) Hearts and minds
Series
Criterion collection volume 156
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (32 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language
English
Description
Examines the American consciousness that led to involvement in Vietnam. Includes interviews with General William Westmoreland; former Secretary of Defense, Clark Clifford; Senator William Fulbright; Walt Rostow; and Daniel Ellsberg.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
408 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Americans are greatly concerned about the number of our troops killed in battle -- 100,000 dead in World War I; 300,000 in World War II; 33,000 in the Korean War; 58,000 in Vietnam; 4,500 in Iraq; over 1,000 in Afghanistan--and rightly so. But why are we so indifferent, often oblivious, to the far greater number of casualties suffered by those we fight and those we fight for? This is the compelling, largely unasked question John Tirman answers in...
Publisher
Carolina Productions, Inc
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (78 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines Rupert Murdoch's Fox News media empire and the dangers inherent in large corporations controlling the public's right to know. Includes interviews with former Fox News employees and media experts.
Publisher
Smithsonian Books, in association with the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xvi, 256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Debunking common myths and providing information about everything from katsina dolls to casinos and Pocahontas to powwows, Native staff members at the National Museum of the American Indian have handled a wide array of questions over the years. This book presents nearly 100 of their answers. This accessible and informative book counters deeply embedded stereotypes while providing a lively introduction to diverse Native histories and contemporary...
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