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Summary: "An examination of the ways in which grievance has come to define our current culture and politics, on both the right and left. More and more Americans are convinced that they're losing because somebody else is winning. More and more tally their slights, measure their misfortune, and assign particular people responsibility for it. The blame game has become very popular. Grievance needn't be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2024
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Summary: "American democracy is in crisis. In 2020, more than half of Americans claimed they were dissatisfied with their political system, and an increasing number are willing to consider alternatives to popular rule-including authoritarianism. We view our political opponents with disdain, if not terror. These fears aren't entirely misguided: democratic debate often puts America's ugliest impulses on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 PURRabb, Steven
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 RabbMcGraw, Phillip C.
Summary: From a #1 New York Times best-selling author and beloved television host comes a new book on how to come home to our core values, fortify our families and re-embrace self-determination and self-governance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult McGrawHurd, Will
Summary: "From former Republican Congressman and CIA Officer Will Hurd, a bold political playbook for America rooted in the timeless ideals of bipartisanship, inclusivity, and democratic values. It's getting harder to get big things done in America. The gears of our democracy have been mucked up by political nonsense. To meet the era-defining challenges of the 21st century, our country needs a reboot....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 HURFriend, Stephen
Summary: A suspended special agent explains his decision to turn whistleblower and expose FBI politicization and abuse against conservative America. Stephen Friend had his dream job as an FBI special agent. After nearly a decade of combating violent crime, human trafficking, and child predators, he was reassigned to the FBI's unprecedented investigation of the political unrest at the United States...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Post Hill Press 2023
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Summary: Exposing how oppressive cultural codes-encapsulated in buzzwords such as inclusion, diversity, social justice, appropriation-are constricting the vibrant intellectual life of the world's freest country, a renowned author and playwright examines how politics and cultural attitudes about rebellion have shifted in the U.S. throughout history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadside Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.5 MAMCarlson, Tucker
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 CarlsonGiridharadas, Anand
Summary: "An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change minds, bridge divisions, and save democracy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 GIRFox, Josh
Summary: The Truth Has Changed captures the rapid-fire shocks that are changing the fabric of our lives--from 9/11 and the Iraq war, to fracking and the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, to Hurricane Sandy, to relentless smear campaigns against climate scientists, to the fight for 100% renewable energy, to Standing Rock, to the 2016 presidential campaign, to Cambridge Analytica. Our normal isn't normal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.2 FOXChua, Amy
Summary: Discusses the failure of America's political elites to recognize how group identities drive politics both at home and abroad, and outlines recommendations for reversing the country's foreign policy failures and overcoming destructive political tribalism at home. "Humans are tribal. We need to belong to groups. In many parts of the world, the group identities that matter most--the ones that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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Summary: "For decades, Ronald Reagan's name has served as shorthand for the entirety of the modern conservative movement. Contrary to conventional wisdom, however, Reaganism was, from today's vantage point, a brief digression in conservatism's history. In the 1980s, an unusual set of economic and political conditions and an unusually charismatic leader combined to win huge majorities for Reagan's vision...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.52 HEMD'Souza, Dinesh
Summary: In this blockbuster follow-up to the "New York Times"-bestseller "The Roots of Obama's Rage," D'Souza reveals how President Obama's recent actions prove his anti-colonialist roots and predicts how much worse America will be if President Obama wins a second term.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Pub. 2012
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Summary: Andy Puzder, the former CEO of Carl's Jr. and Hardee's, says that "capitalism" is not a dirty word, and thankfully President Trump understands this; his pro-business policies will bring back economic growth and secure our future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street, a division of Hachette Book Group 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.9 PUZFrench, 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 FREMalik, Nesrine
Summary: "A rigorous examination of six political myths used to deflect and discredit demands for social justice. In 2016, presidential candidate Donald Trump declared: "I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct." Reeling from his victory, Democrats blamed the corrosive effect of "identity politics." When banned from Twitter for inciting violence, Trump and his supporters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 MALTomasky, 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: 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 LEVMamet, 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 MAMGreenberg, 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 GREBradlee, Ben
Summary: "Luzerne County Pennsylvania, as Ben Bradlee describes it, is a microcosm of the nation. While it boasts its own police, firemen, schools and municipal services, Luzerne has few urban centers and is fundamentally rural in character. And like so many of the 3,000 other counties that resemble it across America, Donald J. Trump won Luzerne County in 2016. But President Obama had carried Luzerne in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.973 BRACarlson, Margaret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.929 CARBryant, Howard
Summary: "Full Dissidence is a collection of essays focusing on the corporate assault on civil liberties, collisions of race and identity, and the kleptocracy of the Trump White House has forced America to ask itself if its beliefs of freedom and democracy are more than just words"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.2 BRYVan Fleet, Xi
Summary: "A liberty-defending survivor of Mao's Cultural Revolution in China makes a passionate case that history is eerily repeating itself as the Woke Revolution spreads across America. Xi Van Fleet lived through the horrors of the Chinese Cultural Revolution as a schoolgirl. Forced to the countryside with other young Chinese for re-education after high school, she later escaped communism and found...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2023