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Summary: Discusses the new political climate in Europe and the United States where xenophobia and racism have voted Britain out of the EU and catapulted Donald Trump to the presidency.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304 POLSowell, Thomas
Summary: "The quest for social justice is a powerful crusade of our time, with an appeal to many different people, for many different reasons. But those who use the same words do not always present the same meanings. Clarifying those meanings is the first step toward finding out what we agree on and disagree on. From there, it is largely a question of what the facts are. Social Justice Fallacies reveals...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023
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Summary: "If the Founding Fathers surveyed our nation today and together composed a single speech to America, what would they say? The prologue begins to answer that question as it chronicles a current-day reunion of America's Founding Fathers at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. Through a stroke of Providence, the Founders have assembled once again to take up their pen and save the country they love....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liberty For All Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Politic RabbLevitsky, Steven
Summary: "A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it's too late-from the New York Times bestselling authors of How Democracies Die. America is undergoing a massive experiment: It is moving, in fits and starts, toward a multiracial democracy, something few societies have ever done. But the prospect of change has sparked an authoritarian backlash that threatens the very foundations...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023
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Summary: "For decades, American politics has been plagued by a breakdown between the Democratic and Republican parties, in which victory has inevitably led to defeat, and vice versa. Both parties have lost sight of the political center of the American electorate, leading to polarization and paralysis. In Where Have All the Democrats Gone?, John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira reveal the tectonic changes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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Summary: "In a divided America, the biggest solvable problem fueling political extremism and dysfunction is hiding in plain party primaries. The Primary Solution shows how to fix them." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2024
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Summary: Journalist David Dalcy's explosive look at the new frontier of political dirty tricks--a coordinated assault on representative democracy through gerrymandering. Here, Daley documents an unprecedented effort by Republican legislators and political operatives to hack American democracy through an audacious redistricting plan called REDMAP. Following the election of President Barack Obama, a group...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 328 DALRothschild, Mike
Summary: A journalist who specializes in conspiracy theories draws on interviews with QAnon converts and victims, as well as psychologists, sociologists, and academics to explain the origin and growth of the movement, its embrace by right-wing media and politicians, and why it is important to understand it rather than mock it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 ROTWuthnow, Robert
Summary: What is fueling rural America's outrage toward the federal government? Why did rural Americans vote overwhelmingly for Donald Trump? And, beyond economic and demographic decline, is there a more nuanced explanation for the growing rural-urban divide? Drawing on more than a decade of research and hundreds of interviews, Robert Wuthnow brings us into America's small towns, farms, and rural...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 WUTShattuck, John H. F.
Summary: "A bold new assessment of the multipronged attack on American rights, and how to push back, from experts at the Fletcher School at Tufts and the Carr Center at Harvard. In fifteen accessible chapters dealing with voting rights, freedom of speech, criminal justice, gun rights, LGBTQ+ rights, disability rights, religious freedom, privacy, immigration, and more, three renowned thought-leaders,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.7308 SHAGreenberg, Leah
Summary: "The co-executive directors of Indivisible tell the story of the movement. They offer a behind-the-scenes look at how change comes to Washington, whether Washington wants it or not. And they explain how voters will win the coming fight for the future of American democracy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: One Signal Publishers/Atria, an imprint of Simon & Schuster 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.8 GREGingrich, Newt
Summary: The struggle between the defenders of America as an exceptional nation and the forces of anti-Americanism is reaching a fever pitch. These forces have grown so large, so well-financed, so entrenched and aggressive that they must be studied closely and understood completely if America is to survive this imminent civil war. In Beyond Biden, bestselling author Newt Gingrich brings together the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.934 GINFrench, David
Summary: "David French examines the depths of the American ideological divide, diagnoses its core causes, and provides a hopeful path forward. Polarization. Tribalization. Division. Some look at the growing political tension in our nation and call it a "cold civilwar." Others say it's nothing more than the culture war of the last three decades, amplified beyond reason by social media. David French...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.2 FRECruz, Ted
Summary: "The left has corrupted the U.S. legal system. Wielding the law as a weapon, arrogant judges and lawless prosecutors are intimidating, silencing, and even imprisoning Americans who stand in the way of their radical agenda. Their "enemies list" even includes parents who dare to speak up for their children at school board meetings. In this shocking new book, Senator Ted Cruz takes readers inside...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 349.73 CRUEmanuel, Rahm
Summary: "At a time of anxiety about the effectiveness of our national government, Rahm Emanuel provides a clear vision, for both progressives and centrists, of how to get things done in America today--a bracing, optimistic vision of America's future from one of our most experienced and original political minds"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 352.23 EMAPeters, Jeremy (Jeremy W.)
Summary: "How, Peters asks, did conservative values that Republicans claimed to cherish, like small government, fiscal responsibility, and morality in public service, get completely eroded as an unshakable faith in Donald Trump grew to define the party? The answer is a tale traced across three decades--with new reporting and firsthand accounts from the people who were there--of populist uprisings that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.2734 PETLevin, Mark R. (Mark Reed)
Summary: Levin explains how the core elements of Marxist ideology are now pervasive in American society and culture: from our schools, the press, and corporations, to Hollywood, the Democratic Party, and the Biden presidency. Often cloaked in deceptive labels like "progressivism" tactics of Marxism include the widespread brainwashing of students, the anti-American purposes of Critical Race Theory and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 LEVPhillips, Steve
Summary: Despite the abundant evidence from Obama’s victories proving that the U.S. population has fundamentally changed, many progressives and Democrats continue to waste millions of dollars chasing white swing voters. Explosive population growth of people of color in America over the past fifty years has laid the foundation for a New American Majority consisting of progressive people of color (23...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323 PHIAlter, Charlotte
Summary: "A new generation is stepping up. There are now twenty-six millennials in Congress--a fivefold increase gained in the 2018 midterms alone. They are governing Midwestern cities and college towns, running for city councils, and serving in state legislatures. They are acting urgently on climate change (because they are going to live it); they care deeply about student debt (because they have it);...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 ALTTomasky, Michael
Summary: Presents a revisionist assessment of the origins of political polarization in America that outlines ambitious recommendations in the areas of ranked-choice voting, at-large congressional elections, and civics education.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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Summary: "In January 2021, thousands descended on the U.S. Capitol to aid President Donald Trump in combating a shadowy cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles. Two women died that day. They, like the millions of Americans who believe that a mysterious insider knownas "Q" is exposing a vast deep-state conspiracy, were members of "pastel QAnon," a subgroup of mostly middle-class educated women that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redwood Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 BLOMamet, David.
Summary: For the past thirty years, David Mamet has been a controversial and defining force in theater and film, championing the most cherished liberal values along the way. His characters have explored the ethics of the business world, embodied the struggles of the oppressed, and faced the flaws of the capitalist system. But in recent years Mamet has had a change of heart. He realized that the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sentinel 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.51 MAMAlbright, Madeleine Korbel
Summary: In 2001, when Madeleine Albright was leaving office as America?s first female secretary of state, interviewers asked her how she wished to be remembered. "I don't want to be remembered," she answered. "I am still here and have much more I intend to do. As difficult as it might seem, I want every stage of my life to be more exciting than the last." In that time of transition, the former...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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Summary: Interweaving deep historical analysis with gripping firsthand reporting on both victims and perpetrators of violence, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist charts the return of the American cycle of racial progress and white backlash and how the federal government has failed to intervene.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023