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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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

Will, George F.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1995

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.929 WIL

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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Carlson, Margaret.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.929 CAR

Raban, Jonathan.

Summary: What does the "war on terror" and a new era of religious ferocity look like to an Englishman living in the Pacific Northwest? Jonathan Raban finds that as he reads the source texts that have inspired modern-day jihad, memories of his own rigidly fundamentalist adolescent atheism help him understand why young people suffering from cultural alienation, spiritual emptiness, and moral uncertainty...

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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review of Books 2005

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