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Economic history Hamilton, Alexander 1757-1804 Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) 1913-1994 Political culture Politics and government Social conditions United States United States Politics and government United States Social conditions 1980- United States Social conditions 21st centuryBrill, 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 BRICaldwell, 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 CALLeebaert, Derek
Summary: "Drawing on new materials, Unlikely Heroes constructs an entirely fresh understanding of FDR and his presidency by spotlighting the powerful, equally wounded figures whom he raised up to confront the Depression, then to beat the Axis. Only four people served at the top echelon of President Franklin Roosevelt's Administration from the frightening early months of spring 1933 until he died in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 LEEYoung, Ralph
Summary: "Dissent and protest have been at the heart of the American story from the first days of settlement to the present day. American Patriots highlights many of the ways that dissent has shaped American history and been a force for progress"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 4000 teenagers simulate every facet of their state government including elections, deciding court cases, and passing legislation. Three candidates emerge in the inspiring race for Youth Governor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC YOUAriosto, David
Summary: "An exploration of Cuba's Cold War mindset and a people in the throes of transition, with tales of run-ins with spies, secret backrooms, and empty grocery shelves. Fidel Castro is dead. Donald Trump is in the White House. And to most outsiders, the fate of Cuba has never been more uncertain. But those who look close enough realize the blueprints for the island's next revolution may be etched in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B ARIOSTO ARIBeck, Glenn.
Summary: Radio host, television personality, and author Glenn Beck revisits famous patriot Thomas Paine's Common Sense to reexamine today's political arena and present a case against big government.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mercury Radio Arts/Simon & Schuster Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.3 BECO'Reilly, Bill.
Summary: Makes charges about how politicians, the clergy, and families are failing to protect those in their care, presenting strong statements about personal responsibility and self-reliance in today's uncertain world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.931 O'RESummary: A collection of letters--to ancestors, to children five generations from now, to strangers in grocery lines, to any and all who feel weary and discouraged--written by award-winning novelists, poets, political thinkers, and activists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 816 RADNoonan, Peggy
Summary: Witty, incisive, at times prophetic, and always original, this collection offers the best of Peggy Noonan's writing. The book travels the path of her remarkable career, showing how she became one of the most influential voices in America. It begins with an essay about Noonan's motivations as a writer and thinker, followed by a personal talk on the day the space shuttle Challenger exploded and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.5 NOOBrownstein, Ronald
Summary: Documents the kaleidoscopic year during which transformative talents from Hollywood, Sunset Boulevard, and Beverly Hills heavily influenced pop culture, politics, and social movements.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.4 BROHochschild, Adam
Summary: "A character-driven look at a pivotal period in American history, 1917-1920: the tumultuous home front during WWI and its aftermath, when violence broke out across the country thanks to the first Red Scare, labor strife, and immigration battles"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Huckabee, Mike
Summary: "In Mike Huckabee's new book God, Guns, Grits and Gravy, he asks the question, "Have I been taken to a different planet than the one on which I grew up?" The New York Times bestselling author explores today's American culture, drawing from his travels as a presidential candidate to present average, small-town people and families, and their optimistic resilience in the face of hard times; their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 HUCCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 973 HUCSummary: "A selection of transcribed audio recordings from 1973 covers Nixon and Kissinger's private knowledge of flaws in the 1973 Vietnam peace agreement and the early warnings about the Yom Kippur War in the Middle East,"--Novelist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 BRIMcDonald, Forrest.
Summary: In this critical reinterpretation of Hamilton's life, the first Secretary of the Treasury is perceived as an ambitious man whose self-appointed mission was to create a new social order in America based not on status but on money.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1979
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAMILTON, ALEXANDER MCDWarren, Elizabeth
Summary: "Senator Elizabeth Warren has long been an outspoken champion of America's middle class, and by the time the people of Massachusetts elected her in 2012, she had become one of the country's leading progressive voices. Now, at a perilous moment for our nation, she has written a book that is at once an illuminating account of how we built the strongest middle class in history, a scathing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.5 WARKrogh, Egil
Summary: "The true story of The White House Plumbers, a secret unit inside Nixon's White House, and their ill-conceived plans stop the leaking of the Pentagon Papers, and how they led to Watergate and the President's demise. In a secluded office in President Nixon's White House in 1971, Egil "Bud" Krogh was summoned to a closed-door meeting by his mentor-and a key confidant of the president-John...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 KROHill, Fiona
Summary: Foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness Fiona Hill reveals how declining opportunity has set America on the grim path of modern Russia--and shows how we can return hope to our forgotten places. In this deeply personal account, she shares what she has learned, and explains that only by expanding opportunity can we save our democracy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320 HILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.2 HILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.2 HILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B HILL HILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Politic HillSummary: A deft politician and skillful diplomat, TR's magnetic personality and genius for publicity made him a legend in his own time. Through archival footage and interviews with historians, this is an engaging portrait of the private man and the president who created the modern American presidency.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2008
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PREBrands, H. W.
Summary: "From bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands, a revelatory history of the shocking emergence of vicious political division at the birth of the United States Founding Partisans is a lively narrative of the early years of the republic as the Founding Fathers fought one another with competing visions of what our nation would be. To the framers of the Constitution, political...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3092 BRACook, William R. (William Robert)
Summary: Professor Cook leads you on an engaging and energetic discussion on Alexis de Tocqueville, his journey, his writing of Democracy in America and, most of all, his thoughts on the young nation he was observing. For Tocqueville, it seems, had opinions about almost everything he encountered in America, and not exclusively politics and "classical" issues such as the nature of the judiciary and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 TOCGiffels, David
Summary: "In the tradition of J.D. Vance, Sarah Smarsh, and Amy Goldstein, BARNSTORMING OHIO is an on-the-ground look at the diverse challenges facing Ohio, and its national significance as the state that has historically sided with the presidential election winner more than any other -- from award-winning lifelong Ohioan author and writer David Giffels, dubbed by the New York Times as "the Bard of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.1 GIFHamilton, Alexander
Summary: The smash-hit musical Hamilton presents its central character as a truth-telling immigrant boot-strapper who used his extraordinary intelligence to make good--but what was he really like? Let the man himself, a prolific and extremely effective writer, tell his story in his own words. Organized chronologically, this collection of Alexander Hamilton's personal letters, business and governmental...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.409 HAMRodriguez, Edel
Summary: "A stunning graphic memoir of a childhood in Cuba, coming to America on the Mariel boatlift, and a defense of democracy, here and there Hailed for his iconic art on the cover of Time and on jumbotrons around the world, Edel Rodriguez is among the most prominent political artists of our age. Now for the first time, he draws his own life, revisiting his childhood in Cuba and his family's passage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2023