Kleinknecht, William

Summary: Since Ronald Reagan left office--and particularly after his death--his shadow has loomed large over American politics: Republicans and many Democrats have waxed nostalgic, extolling the Republican tradition he embodied, the optimism he espoused, and his abilities as a communicator. This carefully calibrated image is complete fiction, argues journalist William Kleinknecht. The Reagan presidency...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.927 KLE

Brill, Steven

Summary: "From the award-winning journalist and best-selling author of America's Bitter Pill: a tour de force examination of 1) how and why major American institutions no longer serve us as they should, causing a deep rift between the vulnerable majority and the protected few, and 2) how some individuals and organizations are laying the foundation for real, lasting change. In this revelatory narrative...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 BRI

Cooper, Ryan

Summary: "A compelling alternative view of the relationship between our politics and our economy. Throughout America, structural problems are getting worse. Economic inequality is near Gilded Age heights, the healthcare system is a mess, and the climate crisis continues to grow. Yet most ambitious policy proposals that might fix these calamities are dismissed as wastefully expensive by default. From the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.973 COO

Caldwell, Christopher

Summary: "A sweeping 50-year history of how the Baby Boomers took the reforms of the 1960s too far, leading to a multitude of contradictions in American society and values that caused our current political polarization"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.24 CAL

Chancellor, John

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1990

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.927 CHA

Kruse, Kevin Michael

Summary: "If you were asked when America became polarized, your answer would likely depend on your age: you might say during Barack Obama's presidency, or with the post- 9/11 war on terror, or the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s, or the 'Reagan Revolution' and the rise of the New Right. For leading historians Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer, it all starts in 1974. In that one year, the nation...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Politic Krause

Murray, Charles A.

Summary: A critique of the white American class structure argues that the paths of social mobility that once advanced the nation are now serving to further isolate an elite upper class while enforcing a growing and resentful white underclass.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Forum 2012

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Della Volpe, John

Summary: "From John Della Volpe, the director of polling at the Harvard Institute of Politics, Fight is an exploration of Gen Z, the issues that matter most to them, and how they will shape the future. 9/11. The war on terror. Hurricane Katrina. The 2008 financialcrisis. The housing crisis. The opioid epidemic. Mass school shootings. Global warming. The Trump presidency. COVID-19. Since they were born,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.242 VOL

Moyers, Bill D.

Summary: From Moyer's third PBS series, this text represents an unparalleled entree into the debates, the intellectual and cultural currents, and above all the fascinating people that have so powerfully shaped modern times.

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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2011

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Bishop, Bill.

Summary: America may be more diverse than ever coast to coast, but the places where we live are becoming increasingly crowded with people who live, think, and vote as we do. We've built a country where we can all choose the neighborhood--and church and news show--most compatible with our lifestyle and beliefs. And we are living with the consequences of this way-of-life segregation. Our country has...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2008

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Kristof, Nicholas D.

Summary: A plea -- deeply personal and told through the lives of real Americans -- to address the crisis in working-class America, while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020

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Laxer, James.

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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2001

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Hayden, Tom.

Summary: Barack Obama would not be possible without the 1960s, Hayden writes in his compelling new book. The author reminds the president that the peace movement was critical to his 2008 victory and only a radical populism will make his economic recovery and health-care promises come to fruition.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Paradigm Publishers 2009

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Kim, Anne

Summary: "For the majority of young adults today, the transition to independence is a time of excitement and possibility. But 4.5 million young people or a stunning 11.5 percent of youth aged sixteen to twenty-four experience entry into adulthood as abrupt abandonment, a time of disconnection from school, work, and family. For this growing population of Americans, which includes kids aging out of foster...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.235 KIM

De Graaf, John.

Summary: Explores the origins, causes, and symptoms of Affluenza, society's compulsive desire to acquire, and discusses such treatment as strengthening immunity against advertising and minimizing the side-effects of over-consumption.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2001

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Bacevich, Andrew J

Summary: "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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 352.23 BAC

Hannity, Sean

Summary: This compelling conservative voice offers a survey of the world--political, social, and cultural--as he sees it.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 306.2 HAN

Hawley, George

Summary: During the 2016 election, a new term entered the mainstream American political lexicon: "alt-right," short for "alternative right." Despite the innocuous name, the alt-right is a white-nationalist movement. Yet it differs from earlier racist groups: it is youthful and tech savvy, obsessed with provocation and trolling, amorphous, predominantly online, and mostly anonymous. And it was energized...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2017

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Wright, Lawrence

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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1987

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Jackson, Maggie

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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2008

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Hill, Marc Lamont

Summary: "Unarmed citizens shot by police. Drinking water turned to poison. Mass incarcerations. We've heard the individual stories. Now a leading public intellectual and acclaimed journalist offers a powerful, paradigm-shifting analysis of America's current state of emergency, finding in these events a larger and more troubling truth about race, class, and what it means to be "Nobody." Protests in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2016

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Berman, Morris

Contents: Liquid modernity -- Economy, technology -- The home and the world -- Pax Americana -- Axis of resentment: Iran, Iraq, and Israel -- The meaning of 9/11 -- The roads not taken -- The state of the union -- Empire falls.

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 BER

Giridharadas, Anand

Summary: An insider's groundbreaking investigation of the ways the global elite's efforts to "change the world" preserve the status quo.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 303.40 GIR