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2023.
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"A bold guide to how we must re-envision citizenship if American democracy is to survive The United States faces dangerous threats from Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, terrorists, climate change, and future pandemics, but the greatest peril to the country comes not from abroad but from within, from none other than ourselves. The question facing us is whether we are prepared to do what is necessary to save our democracy. The Bill of Obligations is...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
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x, 309 pages ; 22 cm
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"For more than twenty years, Naomi Klein has been the foremost chronicler of the economic war waged on both people and planet-and an unapologetic champion of a sweeping environmental agenda with justice at its center. In lucid, elegant dispatches from the frontlines of contemporary natural disaster, she pens surging, indispensable essays for a wide public: prescient advisories and dire warnings of what future awaits us if we refuse to act, as well...
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Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
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194 pages ; 22 cm
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Examines how free speech in the United States has been corrupted by the politically powerful and how the contemporary landscape of social media and social polarization have eroded the safeguards built into the Constitution to protect speech.
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Custom House
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[2018]
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246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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The writer of the influential "Plum Line" blog presents a cautionary assessment of the subversion of democracy by corrupt politicians, plutocrats, foreign governments, racism, propaganda and the vulnerabilities of the electoral system. In An Uncivil War, Sargent reveals why weve fallen into the ditchand how to get out of it. Drawing upon years of research and reporting, he exposes the unparalleled sophistication and ambition of GOP tactics, including...
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"We are living in the midst of an American Awakening, without God and without forgiveness. The first two Awakenings brought religious renewal; the third-the social gospel movement and its aftermath (1880-1910)-invoked the authority of religion to bring about political and social transformation, but lost sight of Christianity along the way. The Awakening through which we are now living comprehends politics through the categories of religion without...
10) It could happen here: why America is tipping from hate to the unthinkable - and how we can stop it
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Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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294 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
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"From the dynamic head of ADL, an impassioned argument about the terrifying path that America finds itself on today--and how we can save ourselves."
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Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
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406 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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The editor-in-chief of the Daily Wire and host of "The Ben Shapiro Show," a top conservative podcast in the nation, asks how far Americans are actually willing to go in forcing each other to fall in line.
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Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2019]
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xvi, 205 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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"Two friends on opposite sides of the aisle provide a practical guide to grace-filled political conversation while challenging readers to put relationship before policy and understanding before argument. More than ever, politics seems driven by conflict and anger. People sitting together in pews every Sunday have started to feel like strangers, loved ones at the dinner table like enemies. Sarah Stewart Holland and Beth Silvers say there is a better...
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Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
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307 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
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"Rarely does a work of history contain startling implicationsfor the present, but in The People, No Thomas Frank pulls off that explosive effect by showing us that everything we think we know about populism is wrong. Today "populism" is seen as a frightening thing, a term pundits use to describe the racist philosophy of Donald Trump and European extremists. But this is a mistake. The real story of populism is an account of enlightenment and liberation;...
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2008
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276 p. ; 25 cm.
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"Dana Milbank writes The Washington Post's 'Washington Sketch' column, a takedown of the ridiculous and the powerful that appears four times a week, and has earned the title of 'the most hated man in the White House Press Corps.' Here he skewers the peculiar and alien tribal culture of politics, examining the mating rituals of Homo politicus, demonstrating how status is exhibited in the Beltway's rigid caste system, and detailing the ritual sequence...
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Crown Forum
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[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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Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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400 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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When he left Congress in 2017, Jason Chaffetz still thought elections could save us. For generations, conservatives have hoped that freedom-loving congressional majorities could turn back the tide and restore America’s liberties and prosperity. But now, he says, winning elections will not be enough. Increasingly, the work of government is being done by people outside the government—unelected power brokers who are invisible to the American public...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
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[xvi, 301] pages ; 24 cm
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"While much of the country has been focused on Russia, David Frum has been collecting the lies, obfuscations, and flagrant disregard for the traditional limits placed on the office of the presidency. In Trumpocracy, he documents how Trump and his administration are steadily damaging the tenets and accepted practices of American democracy. During his own White House tenure as George W. Bush?s speechwriter, Frum witnessed the ways the presidency is...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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"In Why We're Polarized, Klein reveals the structural and psychological forces behind America's descent into division and dysfunction. Neither a polemic nor a lament, this book offers a clear framework for understanding everything from Trump's rise to the Democratic Party's leftward shift to the politicization of everyday culture. America is polarized, first and foremost, by identity. Everyone engaged in American politics is engaged, at some level,...
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