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Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Description
Part of an inspiring series of books that supports students in understanding government and civics in the United States, Making the Rules interweaves historical context, events, and personalities with the experiences of modern Americans to help students understand key social studies topics, including the origins of American institutions and values and their relevance to young people's lives today. The book explores government's impact on daily life,...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2023].
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
An incisive analysis of how the Supreme Court's new conservative supermajority is overturning decades of law and leading the country in a dangerous political direction. In The Supermajority, Michael Waldman explores the tumultuous 2021Ư2022 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...
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"Weird But True! Know-It-All titles take the same classic branding of Weird But True and dive deeper to provide kids with a comprehensive overview of everything they need to know about a single subject, while packing in all the wacky, weird tidbits! Thisedition explores a complicated and timely subject: the government of the United States!"--
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Publisher
Crown
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An honest, inspiring, and laugh-out-loud funny memoir about re-energizing our politics and standing up to corporate America--while carting three kids around in a minivan. Never having run for office before, Katie Porter charted a new path in 2018 when she was elected to Congress as a Democrat in historically conservative Orange County, California. Underestimated as a single mom and chided for her progressive values, Katie defied expectations. Then,...
Author
Publisher
Academica Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
390 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"This is the untold story of the origins, political awakening, and rise of what the United States and its allies call the Haqqani Network, and what the Haqqani family calls the Haqqani Mujahideen. The author lived with the Haqqanis as a young reporter for the New York Times in the 1980s, in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, when they were America's allies in the Afghan-Soviet war. After 9/11, the network became America's enemy. This book tells...
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Publisher
Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
400 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Description
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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"On January 20, 2021, standing where only two weeks earlier police officers had battled with right-wing paramilitaries, Joe Biden took his oath of office. The American people were still sick with COVID-19, his economists were already warning him of an imminent financial crisis, and his party, the Democrats, had the barest of majorities in the Senate. Yet, faced with an unprecedented set of crises, Joe Biden decided he would not play defense. Instead,...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
During the past few years, as our country has faced unprecedented challenges, Senator Klobuchar has been in the room where it happens―on the Senate floor for critical votes during the pandemic, at the debate podium during one of the most critical presidential elections in US history, and in the Capitol on January 6, 2021, when insurrectionists stormed the building, interrupting the certification of the electoral college. It was well past midnight...
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xxxi, 351 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm
Description
Sixteenth-century Europe saw an explosion of female rule. From Isabella of Castile and her granddaughter Mary Tudor, to Catherine de Medici, Anne Boleyn, and Elizabeth Tudor, women wielded enormous power over their territories for more than a hundred years. In the sixteenth century, as in our own, the phenomenon of the powerful woman offered challenges and opportunities. Opportunities, as when in 1529 Margaret of Austria and Louise of Savoy negotiated...
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"Traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful of committed public servants and brave private citizens thwarted far-right plotters trying to steer our nation toward an alliance with the Nazis. Inspired by her research for the hit podcast Ultra, Rachel Maddow charts the rise of a wild American strain of authoritarianism that has been alive on the far-right edge of our politics for the better part of a century"--...
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xv, 228 pages ; 23 cm
Description
Through pandemic, protests, and polarization, Americans went to the polls in 2020, one of the most contentious elections in American history. Continuing an R&L tradition now entering its fourth decade, Divided We Stand book provides the most comprehensive and authoritative account of the national election, as well as congressional and state elections. From the nominating process to the insurrection designed to stop the ratification of the electoral...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xxiii, 814 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
This is the official report of the investigation into the attack--perhaps the most vital congressional investigation in American history--with exhibits, witness testimony, and an exclusive foreword by Congressman Adam Schiff, who offers critical insightsinto this harrowing chapter in American history".
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Pub. Date
2023.
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Women's History 2024
NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction
NYT - Hardcover Nonfiction
Women's History 2024
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"A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers betrayed the American people and the Constitution--leading to the violent attack on our Capitol on January 6th, 2021--by the House Republican leader who dared to stand up to it. In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump and many around him, including certain other elected Republican officials, intentionally breached their oath to...
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Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
279 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
Este es un testimonio sobre los 18 ąos que vi̕v cerca del presidente Andřs Manuel ̤Lpez Obrador, al ser pareja de su entonces jefe de prensa Čsar ̜Ỳez. Ellos dos son los protagonistas de esta historia llena de traiciones po̕lticas, ambiciones personales, infidelidades, abusos laborales, corrupc̤in y autoritarismo. Mi pro̤psito es evidenciar ̤cmo el poder ha sido el gran amor y la obses̤in de ̤Lpez Obrador, y ̤cmo el odio y el resentimiento...
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