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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
338 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
This collection of eight essays covering U.S. politics between 1988 and 2000 is a critical look at what author Joan Didion calls "the ways in which the political process did not reflect but increasingly proceeded from a series of fables about American experience."
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
214 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Controversial television journalist Bill O'Reilly discusses the state of America at the end of the twentieth century, commenting on such topics as class, sex, the media, parents, celebrity, politics, race, religion, and several other subjects.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xxii, 327 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Provides a close examination of the final two years of the Bush Presidency in a revealing and riveting look at the new House of Representatives, elected in the history-making 2010 midterm elections.
84) Public opinion
Author
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.
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xxvii, xxii, 724 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Celadon Books and The New Yorker present the report by the Select Committee to Investigate the Jan 6 Attack on the United States Capitol.
On January 6, 2021, insurgents stormed the U.S. Capitol, an act of domestic terror without parallel in American history, designed to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power. In a resolution six months later, the House of Representatives called it "one of the darkest days of our democracy," and established a special...
Author
Publisher
Regnery Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
278 pages
Language
English
Description
The coronavirus pandemic conferred enormous power on certain government officials. They have no intention of giving it up.
In the space of a few weeks in early 2020, Americans witnessed the imposition of previously unimagined social controls by the biomedical security state—the unelected technocrats who suddenly enjoyed nearly absolute power to incarcerate, isolate, and medicate the entire population. In this chilling new book, a dissident scientist...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In The Supermajority, Michael Waldman explores the tumultuous 2021--2022 Supreme Court term. He draws deeply on history to examine other times the Court veered from the popular will, provoking controversy and backlash. And he analyzes the most important new rulings and their implications for the law and for American society. Waldman asks: What can we do when the Supreme Court challenges the country? Over three days in June 2022, the conservative...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In No Apology, Mitt Romney asserts that American strength is essential—not just for our own well-being, but for the world’s. Governments such as China and a newly-robust Russia threaten to overtake us on many fronts, and radical Islam continues its dangerous rise. Drawing on history for lessons on how great powers collapse, Romney shows how and why our national advantages have eroded. From the long-term decline of our manufacturing base, our...
90) Founding partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the brawling birth of American politics
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands, a revelatory history of the shocking emergence of vicious political division at the birth of the United States Founding Partisans is a lively narrative of the early years of the republic as the Founding Fathers fought one another with competing visions of what our nation would be. To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were an existential threat to republican virtues....
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
vii, 476 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Brodner's daily graphic diary of the COVID-19 years is a testament to those who died and those who lived through it, and it is a searing indictment of the leaders who failed us.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
viii, 662 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The definitive biography of the fiercely vigilant and politically astute First Lady who shaped one of the most consequential presidencies of the 20th century: Nancy Reagan"--
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
On a school field trip to Washington, D.C., student council member Grace and her classmates learn about the three branches of the federal government, how school government operates, the qualities of effective leadership, and how to be a good citizen.
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xi, 417 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The senior White House reporter for the Wall Street Journal presents a deeply reported account of the 2020 presidential election that reveals how Donald Trump became the first incumbent in thirty years to lose reelection, and the only candidate in the country's history whose defeat resulted in a violent insurrection.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
90 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the events leading up to the Declaration of Independence as well as the personalities and politics behind its framing.
98) Glenn Beck's common sense: the case against an out-of-control government, inspired by Thomas Paine
Author
Publisher
Threshold
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xii, 174 p. : maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In any era, great Americans inspire us to reach our full potential. They know with conviction what they believe within themselves. They understand that all actions have consequences. And they find commonsense solutions to the nation's problems. One such American, Thomas Paine, was an ordinary man who changed the course of history by penning Common Sense, the concise 1776 masterpiece in which, through extraordinarily straightforward and indisputable...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Few White House advisors have had such an expansive portfolio or constant access to the president. From his office next to Trump, senior adviser Jared Kushner operated quietly behind the scenes, preferring to leave the turf wars and television sparring to others. Now, Kushner finally tells his story--a fast-paced and surprisingly candid account of how an earnest businessman with no political ambitions found himself pulled into a presidency that no...
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