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Author
Series
Advise and consent volume 3
Publisher
WordFire Press
Language
English
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Description
It is one of the most fundamental questions facing America today: How justifiably, or irresponsibly, do the volatile and unbiased American media - press, television and radio - attempt to interfere with, and control, the political process and the foreign policy of the nation? In a hotly fought Presidential primary, the news media fractures along ideological lines, supporting and distorting the candidates' records, manipulating the news rather than...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
With unparalleled access to the tight inner circle of advisers who have surrounded Biden for decades, Franklin Foer dramatizes in forensic detail the first two years of the Biden presidency, concluding with the historic midterm elections. The result is a gripping and high-definition portrait of a major president at a time when democracy itself seems imperiled. With his back to the wall, Biden resorted to old-fashioned politics: deal-making and compromise....
4) Founding partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the brawling birth of American politics
Author
Language
English
Description
To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were a fatal threat to republican virtues. They had suffered the consequences of partisan politics in Britain before the American Revolution, and they wanted nothing similar for America. Yet parties emerged even before the Constitution was ratified, and they took firmer root in the following decade. In Founding Partisans, master historian H. W. Brands has crafted a fresh and lively narrative of...
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xvi, 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Russia Gate. The Mueller investigation. Damaging intelligence leaks. The Deep State used every tactic possible to take down Donald Trump. When President Trump needed a trusted lieutenant to take the fight back to the unelected government officials trying to undermine America's constitutionally elected government, he chose the best man he had for the job: Kash Patel. As the chief House investigator on Russia Gate, Patel exposed the truth about the...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"American democracy is in crisis. In 2020, more than half of Americans claimed they were dissatisfied with their political system, and an increasing number are willing to consider alternatives to popular rule-including authoritarianism. We view our political opponents with disdain, if not terror. These fears aren't entirely misguided: democratic debate often puts America's ugliest impulses on display. But in Two Cheers for Politics, renowned political...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Interweaving reportage from the past 15 years with personal essays, a journalist who refused to be silenced offers this intimate and unprecedented portrait of Russia as she crossed the border into Ukraine to ensure the Russians witnessed the horrors Putin was committing in their name"--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A former chief Republican strategist and best-selling author examines the five driving forces on the Right-financers, propagandists, party support, legal theories to legitimize and shock troops-and makes clear how they are working in concert to end our democracy as we know it.
Author
Publisher
Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
vi, 202 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A collection of personal and historical essays at the intersection of 1980s pop culture and the Cold War, examining Star Wars, video games, professional wrestling, Choose Your Own Adventure books, the Satanic Panic, stranger danger, Looney Tunes, and nuclear war"--
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Gingrich, Gaylord and Brodgon take readers behind the scenes of the Republican revolution in 1994, and the rise of the modern GOP. They share never-before-told stories about Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, and other fascinating political figures. They also show how the rise of modern conservatism is immensely relevant today in dealing with the challenges our nation faces. -- adapted from jacket
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xxvii, 276 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"With Ballots & Bullets reveals disquieting relationships between mass partisanship and violence in the Civil War era. The book provides historical insights on the impact of ordinary people in the loyal states, but it also speaks to the nature of partisan conflict across time. It challenges and affirms historical and political scholarship with evidence from America's most costly and consequential conflict, a cataclysm that still resounds in our politics...
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (346 pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Through an examination of the pleas and petitions of ordinary North Carolinians, Downs contends that the Civil War redirected, not destroyed, claims of dependence by exposing North Carolinians to the expansive but unsystematic power of Union and Confederate governments, and by loosening the legal ties that bound them to husbands, fathers, and masters.
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