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Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
211 p. ; 19 cm.
Description
Follows the experiences of four siblings as they grow up in rural Pennsylvania under the guidance of devoutly hippie parents who believe in life without limits, a situation that involves innocence-compromising freedoms.
Author
Publisher
Harper Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
424 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Description
A seemingly unassuming and sensible community treasurer uses embezzled funds to finance a spiraling art habit that immerses her in the identity of a wealthy collector and renders her increasingly indebted to her unsuspecting neighbors.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
585 pages ; cm
Description
"Benefiting from the extraordinary number of people from the underground and the FBI who speak about their experiences for the first time, Days of Rage is filled with revelations and fresh details about the major revolutionaries and their connections and about the FBI and its desperate efforts to make the bombings stop. The result is a mesmerizing book that takes us into the hearts and minds of homegrown terrorists and federal agents alike and weaves...
8) The Onion book of known knowledge: mankind's final encyclopedia from America's finest news source
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
p2012
Physical Desc
3 CDs (3.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Just in time for the death of the print industry comes the final book ever published: the Onion's compendium of all things known. Replete with an astonishing assemblage of facts, maps, charts, threats, blood, and additional fees to edify even the most simple-minded book-buyer, the 'Onion book of known knowledge' is packed with valuable information, such as the life stages of an Aunt, places to kill one's self in Utica New York, and the dimensions...
Author
Description
Borowitz argues that over the past fifty years, American politicians have grown increasingly allergic to knowledge, and mass media have encouraged the election of ignoramuses by elevating candidates who are better at performing than thinking. Starting with Ronald Reagan’s first campaign for governor of California in 1966 and culminating with the election of Donald J. Trump to the White House, Borowitz shows how, during the age of twenty-four-hour...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
x, 428 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"Two award-winning historians explore the origins of a divided America. In the middle of the 1970s, America entered a new era of doubt and division. Major political, economic, and social crises--Watergate, Vietnam, the rights revolutions of the 1960s--had cracked the existing social order. In the years that followed, the story of our own lifetimes would be written. Longstanding historical fault lines over income inequality, racial division, and a...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
viii, 434 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Through an examination of the lives of several Americans and leading public figures over the past three decades, Packer portrays a superpower in danger of coming apart at the seams, its elites no longer elite, its institutions no longer working, its ordinary people left to improvise their own schemes for success and salvation.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
108 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
"Learn how the United States ended up fighting for twenty years in a remote country on the other side of the world. The Vietnam War was as much a part of the tumultuous Sixties as Flower Power and the Civil Rights Movement. Five US presidents were convinced that American troops could end a war in the small, divided country of Vietnam and stop Communism from spreading in Southeast Asia. But they were wrong, and the result was the death of 58,000 American...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of John Lennon's evolution from beloved Beatle to an outspoken artist and activist to iconic inspiration for peace, and how, in the midst of one of the most tumultuous times in American history, Lennon stood his ground, refused to be silenced and courageously won his battle with the U.S. Government.
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
275 pages; 22 cm
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Harry Turtledove, the modern master of alternate history, a novel of alien contact set in the tumultuous year of the Watergate scandal. It's 1974, and Jerry Stieglitz is a grad student in marine biology at UCLA witha side gig selling short stories to science fiction magazines, just weeks away from marrying his longtime fiancaee. Then his life is upended by grim-faced men from three-letter agencies who want him...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
236 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A thought provoking and penetrating account of the post-Cold war follies and delusions that culminated in the age of Donald Trump, from the bestselling author of The Limits of Power. When the Cold War ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Washington establishment felt it had prevailed in a world-historical struggle. Our side had won, a verdict that was both decisive and irreversible. For the world's 'indispensable nation,' its 'sole superpower,'...
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Formats
Description
It's 1977. Ike and Lucy, the kids of Senator Charlie and Margaret Marder, are grown up--and in trouble. US Marine Ike has gone AWOL after a military operation gone horribly wrong. Now he's off the grid, working on the pit crew of the moody stunt masterEvel Knievel and hanging in the roughest dive bar in Montana. His sister Lucy has become the star reporter of a brand-new Washington, DC tabloid breaking stories about a serial killer and falling in...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (23 hr., 26 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Be an eyewitness to the conflict that divided our nation and changed the very fabric of society. This collection of harrowing and compelling footage traces the evolution of this conflict from a regional military engagement to an ever-expanding war that ultimately spanned three U.S. Presidents. From strategic political move to the immediacy of jungle warfare and the weapons with which the war was waged, Vietnam: America's Conflict captures the sweep...
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