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Big ideas that changed the world volume 4
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
124 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
"Narrated by Abigail Adams, We the People! explores how Athenian and Greek assemblies inspired our legislative and judiciary branches; how Enlightenment ideals of reason, toleration, and human progress shaped our founding fathers' thinking; how Mali's Manden Charter and England's Magna Carta influenced our Bill of Rights; and how the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy directly shaped the US Constitution. Explaining the fundamentals of democracy--liberty,...
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
385 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the American Revolution explains why it remains the most significant event in our history. In a series of elegant and illuminating essays, Wood explores the ideological origins of the revolution--from ancient Rome to the European Enlightenment--and the founders' attempts to forge an American democracy.
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America's most irascible and hilarious curmudgeon turns a kind and benevolent eye toward brave, hardy, and hardworking souls around the country who have found ways to break free from corporate tentacles; redefine success in business, politics, and life in general; and blaze new pathways toward a richer and happier way of life, from the farmers' cooperative that said "NO!" to Wal-Mart and thrived to the economists who got into the coffee business by...
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume : illustrations (colour) ; 21 cm
Description
"America is the greatest democracy in the world...isn't it? Author Elizabeth Rusch examines some of the more problematic aspects of our government but, more importantly, offers ways for young people to fix them"--
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"A scathing wake-up call derailing the many ways that wealth manipulates American politics, labor, media, environment and the quality of national life today. By telling the success stories of average Americans, the iconic consumer advocate and big-business anti-hero makes the case about how the nation can--and must--be managed by communities, not corporations. Nader at his best--indignant and inspired"--
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xiii, 240 pages ; 21 cm
Description
A Washington D.C. insider discusses both the historical and current influence of African Americans in our electoral process and offers ideas for how they can use their rising power to affect elections and overcome voter suppression efforts.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
272 pages cm
Description
"A huge swath of Americans see the rest of the country building a future that doesn't have a place for them. It's no wonder they'd rather burn it all down. But the fire can be stopped by Americans who act now to protect their country and its democracy"--
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Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
175 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
"Not since Schoolhouse Rock has such a clever, highly relevant, and easy-to-understand explanation of the Constitution of the United States been created specifically for kids aged 8-12 to understand how our government really works"--
15) The unknown American Revolution: the unruly birth of democracy and the struggle to create America
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
xxix, 512 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
An exploration of the ideas and radical sentiments that prompted the American Revolution argues that the war was a people's revolution and civil war, as well as an insurrection against colonial control.
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"In a compelling narrative, bookended by Donald Trump's 2016 victory and his 2020 defeat, Rubin delivers an absorbing analysis of the women's counter-Trump revolution. Resistance tracks a set of dynamic women voters, activists and politicians who rose up when Donald Trump took the White House and fundamentally changed the political landscape. From the first Women's March the day after Trump's inauguration to the Blue Wave in the 2018 midterms to the...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xxii, 249 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"By integrating democratic government with cutting-edge American innovation, the lieutenant governor of California charts a bright future for open-source America. Citizenville is the story of how ordinary citizens can use new digital tools to dissolve political gridlock and transform American democracy"--
18) Dark money
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Examines one of the greatest present threats to American democracy: the influence of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials. The film takes viewers to Montana, a frontline in the fight to preserve fair elections nationwide, to follow a local journalist working to expose the real-life impacts of the US Supreme Court's Citizens United decision.
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Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
xviii, 743 p. ; 25 cm
Description
In this revisionist history of the American state, former Reagan budget director and bestselling author David Stockman shows where capitalism went wrong, how it was corrupted, and how it might be restored. He argues that Washington -- and especially the Federal Reserve -- have fallen prey to the politics of crony capitalism and the ideologies of fiscal stimulus, monetary central planning, and financial bailouts. These policies have converged to bloat...
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