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American essays 21st century COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- United States Public opinion Dissenters Attitudes Open letters Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) United States United States Politics and government United States Politics and government 2017- Public opinion United States Social conditions 1980- Public opinion United States Social conditions 21st centurySummary: This new look at Founding Fathers such as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton goes beyond their common depictions as American saints to expose the sometimes selfish motives behind their actions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2023
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Summary: From the host of Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News and the New York Times best-selling author of Ship of Fools, a collection of nostalgic writings that underscore America's long slide from innocence to orthodoxy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult CarlsonSummary: 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 RADKrauthammer, Charles
Summary: A collection of the influential columnist's most notable works and writings includes never-before-published speeches on his political philosophy and personal history and a major, new essay about the state of global democracy. "Created and compiled by Charles Krauthammer before his death, [this book] is a powerful collection of the influential columnist's most important works. Spanning the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Forum 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 KRADu Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
Summary: A definitive edition of the landmark book that forever changed our understanding of the Civil War's aftermath and the legacy of racism in America. Upon publication in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois's now classic Black Reconstruction offered a revelatory new assessment of Reconstruction--and of American democracy itself. One of the towering African American thinkers and activists of the twentieth century,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.81 DU BHofstadter, Richard
Summary: "Here for the first time in a single authoritative annotated edition are two masterworks by one of America's greatest historians, Richard Hofstadter (1916-1970). In the Pulitzer Prize-winning Anti-intellectualism in American life (1963) and in The paranoid style in American politics (1965), Hofstadter offered groundbreaking and still urgent analyses of deep undercurrents in American life: a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 HOFHughley, D. L. (Darryl L.)
Summary: Legendary satirist D. L. Hughley here uses humor to draw attention to injustice, sardonically offering advice on a number of lessons--a much-needed antidote in these distressing times.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 817 HUGSummary: "This kaleidoscopic portrait of an unprecedented time brings together some of our most treasured writers today--Edwidge Danticat, Layli Long Soldier, Monica Youn, Julia Alvarez, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor--to give voice to the unthinkable grief and hopeful possibilities born in an era of revolution and change." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC 2021