Neiman, Susan

Summary: "As an increasingly polarized America fights over the legacy of racism, Susan Neiman, author of the contemporary philosophical classic Evil in Modern Thought, asks what we can learn from the Germans about confronting the evils of the past."--Provided by publisher.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 NEI

Schocket, Andrew M.

Summary: "The American Revolution is all around us. It is pictured as big as billboards and as small as postage stamps, evoked in political campaigns and car advertising campaigns, relived in museums and revised in computer games. As the nation's founding moment, the American Revolution serves as a source of powerful founding myths, and remains the most accessible and most contested event in U.S....

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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 SCH

Fritz, Ben.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2004

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

Thompson, Erin L.

Summary: "A leading expert's exploration of the past, present, and future of public monuments in America. An urgent and fractious national debate over public monuments has erupted in America. Some people risk imprisonment to tear down long-ignored hunks of marble; others form armed patrols to defend them. Why do we care so much about statues? And who gets to decide which ones should stay up and which...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 725 THO

Dunwell, Frances F.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.73 DUN

Wilson, John K.

Summary: Explores the ideas that Illinois senator Barack Obama has about race, religion, and politics and discusses how he has been received as a presidential candidate by the far right, the far left, the media, and everyday Americans.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Paradigm 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OBAMA, BARACK WIL

Abzug, Robert H.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1985

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 ABZ

Chomsky, Aviva

Summary: "Revised and expanded edition of the groundbreaking book which demystifies twenty-one of the most widespread myths and beliefs about immigrants and immigrations. In "They Take Our Jobs!" Aviva Chomsky challenges the underlying assumptions that fuel misinformed claims about immigrants, radically altering our notions of citizenship, discrimination, and U.S. history. Since it was first published,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304 CHO

Kinney, Rebecca J.

Summary: "The first book to analyze how contemporary ideas of Detroit circulate in popular culture in order to map the extension of the mythology of the frontier in American culture. Kinney analyzes a cross-section of twentieth and twenty first century cultural locations--an internet web forum, architectural photography, advertising and commercial culture, documentary film, and print and online...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 KIN

O'Neill, John E.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Pub. 2004

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.931 ONE

Frank, Justin A.

Summary: No president in the history of the United States has inspired more alarm and confusion than Donald Trump. As questions and concerns about his decisions, behavior, and qualifications for office have multiplied, they point to one primary question: Does he pose a genuine threat to our country? The American Psychiatric Association's Goldwater Rule constrains psychiatrists from offering diagnoses on...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 FRA

Medoff, Rafael

Summary: Based on recently discovered documents, The Jews Should Keep Quiet reassesses the hows and whys behind the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration’s fateful policies during the Holocaust. Rafael Medoff delves into difficult truths: With FDR’s consent, the administration deliberately suppressed European immigration far below the limits set by U.S. law. His administration also refused to admit...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 MED

Powers, Thomas

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grossman Publishers 1973

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7 POW

Ashwood, Loka

Summary: A fascinating sociological assessment of the damaging effects of the for-profit partnership between government and corporation on rural Americans. Why is government distrust rampant, especially in the rural United States? This book offers a simple explanation: corporations and the government together dispossess rural people of their prosperity, and even their property. Based on four years of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303 ASH