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Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to address climate change, have even modest environmental efforts been defeated again and again? Why have protections for employees been decimated? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax rate than middle-class workers? --Publisher
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"In 2009, Mark R. Levin galvanized conservatives with his unforgettable manifesto Liberty and Tyranny, by providing a philosophical, historical, and practical framework for halting the liberal assault on Constitution-based values. That book was about standing at the precipice of progressivism's threat to our freedom and now, over a decade later, we're fully over that precipice and paying the price. In American Marxism, Levin explains how the core...
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Knopf
Pub. Date
2006
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xii, 96 p. ; 20 cm.
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Argues that the increasing power of Christian fundamentalists in American politics threatens the country's citizens, blames the Bible for promoting intolerance of other faiths, and describes atheism as "an admission of the obvious."
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New Press
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2016.
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xii, 351 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
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"In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country--a stronghold of the conservative right. As she gets to know people who strongly oppose many of the ideas she famously champions, Hochschild nevertheless finds common ground and quickly warms to the people she meets--among them a Tea Party activist whose...
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Free Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
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viii, 327 pages ; 24 cm
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"In Everything Trump Touches Dies, political campaign strategist and commentator Rick Wilson brings his darkly funny humor and biting analysis to the absurdity of American politics in the age of Trump. Wilson mercilessly exposes the damage Trump has done to the country, to the Republican Party he served for decades, and to the conservative movement that has abandoned its principles for the worst President in American history."--Amazon.com.
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"With his trademark blend of political history, social science, economics, and pop culture ... Jonah Goldberg makes the timely case that America and other democracies are in peril as they lose the will to defend the values and institutions that sustain freedom and prosperity. Instead we are surrendering to populism, nationalism and other forms of tribalism."--Amazon.com summary.
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Free Press
Pub. Date
2018.
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243 pages ; 22 cm
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"The popular FOX News star of Tucker Carlson Tonight offers his signature fearless and funny political commentary on how America's ruling class has failed everyday Americans. "You look on in horror, helpless and desperate. You have nowhere to go. You're trapped on a ship of fools." --From the Introduction In Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution, Tucker Carlson tells the truth about the new...
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2007
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viii, 369 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
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As the Supreme Court continues to rule on important issues, it is essential to understand how it operates. Based on exclusive interviews with the justices themselves and other insiders, this is a timely "state of the union" about America's most elite legal institution. From Anthony Kennedy's self-importance, to Antonin Scalia's combativeness, to David Souter's eccentricity, and even Sandra Day O'Connor's fateful breach with President George W. Bush,...
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Viking
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[2017].
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334 pages ; 24 cm
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"An explosive expose of the right's relentless campaign to eliminate unions, suppress voting, privatize public education, and change the Constitution. "Perhaps the best explanation to date of the roots of the political divide that threatens to irrevocably alter American government." --Booklist (starred review) Behind today's headlines of billionaires taking over our government is a secretive political establishment with long, deep, and troubling roots....
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Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2018
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xi, 308 pages ; 25 cm
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Biography of Mike Pence written by two award-winning journalists
"Little-known outside his home state until Donald Trump made him his running mate, Mike Pence--who proclaims himself a Christian first, a conservative second, and a Republican third--has long worn a carefully-constructed mask of Midwestern nice. Behind his self-proclaimed humility and self-abasing deference, however, hides a man whose own presidential ambitions have blazed since high...
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Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2009
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x, 245 p. ; 22 cm.
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A nationally syndicated talk radio host and author of Rescuing Sprite presents a volume of essays for today's conservative leaders that recommends specific approaches to such issues as immigration, health care, and foreign policy.
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Sentinel, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
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x, 273 pages ; 22 cm
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"Liberals used to pride themselves on their ultra-hipness; they mocked right-wingers for supposedly overreacting to headlines and believing in conspiracies. But as soon as candidate Trump emerged, 100 percent of the moral panic has come from the left. They think everything Trump does isn't merely wrong--it's a national crisis. While Trump governs mostly as a middle-of-the-road Republican, the so-called "Resistance"--journalists, comedians, movie stars,...
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Crown Forum
Pub. Date
[2015]
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viii, 228 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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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.
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Threshold Editions
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©2015.
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viii, 244 pages ; 22 cm.
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Author and talk-radio host Mark R. Levin outlines his concerns about the federal government's role in civil society, touching on issues of debt, immigration, healthcare, education, and the environment, especially as they relate to young Americans.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
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"After a decade abroad, the National Book Award--and Pulitzer Prize--winning writer Evan Osnos returns to three places he has lived in the United States-Greenwich, CT; Clarksburg, WV; and Chicago, IL--to illuminate the origins of America's political fury"--
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