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Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 489 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An exposé of the neo-conservative movement throughout the past four decades documents its role in undermining the Nixon administration, supporting Reagan, and promoting the war in Iraq, in a report that draws on declassified documents and other official sources.
Author
Publisher
Sentinel
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
x, 273 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The left is waging war against Donald Trump. The very people who once mocked right-wingers for (allegedly) overreacting are now hatching insane conspiracy theories. During the campaign, and even more so after his victory, the left became the very embodiment of their own caricature of conservatives. Everything Trump does sends them into a moral panic. Everything is a constitutional crisis. Members of the self-proclaimed "Resistance"--journalists, politicians,...
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Threshold Editions hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 312 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The governor of Louisiana explores how fourteen different lessons from U.S. history have influenced and defined current affairs, including the Louisiana Purchase, the conflict between the Federalists and the anti-Federalists, and Reagan and Nixon's welfare fight.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First Vintage Books edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 151 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Argues that real change can only come when party lines are ignored and people from both sides of the aisle band together to enact common sense policies.
Author
Language
English
Description
You have probably heard the term Old School, but what you might not know is that there is a concentrated effort to tear that school down. It's a values thing. The anti-Old School forces believe the traditional way of looking at life is oppressive. Not inclusive. The Old School way may harbor microaggressions. Therefore, Old School philosophy must be diminished. Those crusading against Old School now have a name: Snowflakes. You may have seen them...
Author
Publisher
Regnery Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xviii, 362 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"'Political correctness' has taken politeness and turned it into a weapon of censorship and intimidation. In the workplace, on social media, and even at the dinner table, Americans are confronted daily with a laundry list of words they're 'not allowed' to say--and that list is updated constantly and without warning. How did so absurd a concept become so dangerous--and come to dominate our public discourse over the last quarter-century? [This book]...traces...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
xl, 246 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Charges the Bush administration with using religious morality and propaganda-like tactics to promote big business interests and silence alternate perspectives at the expense of the nation's constitutional foundations.
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Robin--one of the foremost analysts of the right--delves deeply into both Thomas's biography and his jurisprudence reading his Supreme Court opinions against the backdrop of his autobiographical and political writings and speeches. The hidden source of Thomas's conservative views, Robin argues, is a skepticism that racism can be overcome"--Publisher marketing.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 295 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Ken Stern watched the increasing polarization of our country with growing concern. As a longtime partisan Democrat himself, he felt forced to acknowledge that his own views were too parochial, too absent of any exposure to the "other side." In fact, his urban neighborhood is so liberal, he couldn't find a single Republican--even by asking around. So for one year, he crossed the aisle to spend time listening, talking, and praying with Republicans of...
100) Best of enemies
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dead last in the ratings, ABC hired two towering public intellectuals to debate each other during the Democratic and Republican national conventions. William F. Buckley Jr. was a leading light of the new conservative movement. A Democrat and cousin to Jackie Onassis, Gore Vidal was a leftist novelist and polemicist. Armed with deep-seated distrust and enmity, Vidal and Buckley believed each other's political ideologies were dangerous for America.
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