Moyers, Bill D.

Summary: From Moyer's third PBS series, this text represents an unparalleled entree into the debates, the intellectual and cultural currents, and above all the fascinating people that have so powerfully shaped modern times.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2011

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Stelter, Brian

Summary: Featuring unbelievable behind-the-scenes details, the author, using his signature investigative prowess, exposes Fox News' blatant attempts to manipulate the truth, mislead the public and influence our elections, showing the insidious ways the media is damaging our democracy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: One Signal Publishers, Atria 2023

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Schiff, Adam B.

Summary: The congressman who led the first impeachment of Donald Trump, and who became the president's chief antagonist, presents an inside account of American democracy at its darkest hour and how its future is more uncertain than ever.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021

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Kalman, Maira.

Summary: Filled with original art and photographs by the author who is also an illustrator and designer, each chapter represents a month of Kalman's yearlong travel across the U.S. and her reflections on democracy. She starts with a celebration of Barack Obama's Presidential inauguration in Washington, D.C., continues with the month of February and Abraham Lincoln, and explores democracy and the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2010

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Tocqueville, Alexis de

Summary: Describes the unprecedented "equality of conditions" the author found in the United States during his visit in 1831-32, and provides enduring insight into the political consequences of widespread property ownership, the potential dangers to liberty inherent in majority rule, the importance of civil institutions in an individualistic culture dominated by the pursuit of material self-interest,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2004

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Keillor, Garrison.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004

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Buttigieg, Pete

Summary: "In Trust, Pete Buttigieg demonstrates how trust will be essential in order to face the unique challenges of the decades ahead. Trust is essential to the foundation of America's democracy, asserts Pete Buttigieg, the former presidential candidate and South Bend mayor. Yet, in a century warped by terrorism, financial collapse, Trumpist populism, systemic racism, and now a global pandemic, trust...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2020

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Gore, Albert

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007

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Moyers, Bill D.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2004

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