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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 308 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Discusses how people completely polarized in their views on government all cite the Founding Fathers in defense of their policies and explains why their arguments are out of context and do not make sense within contemporary concerns.
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...
83) The second coming of the KKK: the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American political tradition
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A new Ku Klux Klan arose in the early 1920s, a less violent but equally virulent descendant of the relatively small, terrorist Klan of the 1870s. Unknown to most Americans today, this 'second Klan' largely flourished above the Mason-Dixon Line--its army of four-to-six-million members spanning the continent from New Jersey to Oregon, its ideology of intolerance shaping the course of mainstream national politics throughout the twentieth century...Never...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Can America survive another civil war? According to Michael Savage, our nation is in real trouble and the seeds of a second conflagration have been sown. Not between the states - but between true patriots who believe in our nation's founding principles and those he believes are working every day to undermine them and change the very nature of the country. Not a war of bullets and blood - but one of commitment to freedom and courage of conviction....
Author
Publisher
Oneworld Publications Ltd
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xiv, 370 pages : map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When the Soviet Union collapsed on December 26, 1991, it looked like the start of a remarkable new era of peace and co-operation. But Russia emerged from the 1990s battered and humiliated. Goaded on by a triumphant West, a new Russia has emerged with a large arsenal of upgraded weapons, conventional and nuclear, determined to reassert its national interests in Chechnya, Georgia and Ukraine, as well as fighting a proxy war in the Middle East. Conradi...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
ix, 341 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"These wide-ranging essays--on many individual political, economic, cultural and legal issues--have as a recurring underlying theme the decline of the values and institutions that have sustained and advanced American society for more than two centuries...Whether these essays (originally published as syndicated newspaper columns) are individually about financial bailouts, illegal immigrants, gay marriage, national security, or the Duke University rape...
87) American Marxism
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Levin explains how the core elements of Marxist ideology are now pervasive in American society and culture: from our schools, the press, and corporations, to Hollywood, the Democratic Party, and the Biden presidency. Often cloaked in deceptive labels like "progressivism" tactics of Marxism include the widespread brainwashing of students, the anti-American purposes of Critical Race Theory and the Green New Deal, and the escalation of repression and...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 230 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From the host of television's comedy-punditry show The Colbert Report, comes the book to fill the other 23 hours of your day. This book contains all of the opinions that Stephen doesn't have time to shoehorn into his nightly broadcast, his most deeply held knee-jerk beliefs on The American Family, Race, Religion, Sex, Sports, and many more topics, conveniently arranged in chapter form. Stephen addresses why Hollywood is destroying America by inches,...
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
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 278 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In this wide-ranging and wickedly entertaining book, "New York Times" bestselling journalist David Sirota takes readers on a rollicking DeLorean ride back in time to reveal how so many of our present-day conflicts are rooted in the larger-than-life pop culture of the 1980s.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
448 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This reassessment of the American tradition, from Alexander Hamilton to Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, stresses the strife among elites and the volatile mixes and remixes of the democratic idea that define our history as radical voices search for new conceptions of what self-governance can mean.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xix, 235 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
America is awash with alleged conspiracies. It seems like today, no one with a cell phone escapes the vortex of skepticism, cynicism, paranoia, and fear that occupy our thoughts almost constantly. Seeking out valid answers in this cacophony can be confusing and deeply frustrating. In this book, historian Michael D. Gambone provides case studies of popular conspiracy theories in America from the past 100 years, from Protocol of the Elders of Zion to...
Author
Publisher
Broadside Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
382 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Monica Crowley offers a rollicking, sharp-elbowed tour of the damage caused by Barack Obama's reckless spending and radical political agenda. But she also sets the stage for the inevitable conservative comeback, arguing that the time has come for a revival of the Reaganesque "Happy Warrior' spirit"--
95) The Clinton wars
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
822 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 510 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In the years leading up to the election of Donald Trump, Congressman Adam Schiff had already been sounding the alarm over the resurgence of autocracy around the world, and the threat this posed to the United States. But as he led the probe into Donald Trump's Russia and Ukraine-related abuses of presidential power, Schiff came to the terrible conclusion that the principal threat to American democracy now came from within. In Midnight in Washington,...
Author
Language
English
Description
When he accepted the Republican presidential nomination in Cleveland, Trump promised to restore what he described as a fallen nation. Yet over the subsequent years it has been hard to see beyond the daily chaos of scandal, investigation, and constant bluster. His first term appears to be pure and uninhibited chaos-- but there are patterns to his behavior and that of his associates. The universal value of the Trump administration is loyalty: not to...
Author
Publisher
Crown Forum
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Two of the most recognizable and influential young conservatives in the American media today take on the "Outrage Industry, " revealing how the Left exploits wedge issues and fake outrage to silence their political opponents, helping readers to cut through the noise and find their voices again. --Publisher's description.
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