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Summary: "We're often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the idea of 'Christian America' is an invention--and a relatively recent one at that. As Kruse argues, the belief that America is fundamentally and formally a Christian nation originated in the 1930s when businessmen enlisted religious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 KRUSmith, Hedrick.
Summary: Recounts how the American dream has been dismantled over the past forty years by legislative, electoral, and corporate decisions that have compromised the middle class and minimized individual economic and political power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 SMIHummer, Jill Abraham
Summary: "This book is a history of first ladies beginning with Lou Henry Hoover and ending with Michelle Obama, discussing how they defined their role with a focus on how they related to women's issues and how they participated in politics. Hummer explores the intersection of personality and the first ladies' personal ambition and relationship with their presidential spouse, with the social and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kansas 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320 HUMHorowitz, David
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spence Pub. Co. 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 HORLichtblau, Eric.
Summary: "The shocking story of how America became one of the world's safest postwar havens for Nazis. Until recently, historians believed America gave asylum only to key Nazi scientists after World War II, along with some less famous perpetrators who managed to sneak in and who eventually were exposed by Nazi hunters. But the truth is much worse, and has been covered up for decades: the CIA and FBI...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 324.1 LICHendershot, Heather
Summary: "Few conservatives are as revered and admired as William F. Buckley. Buckley is best known for founding National Review, the flagship journal of the right. But his long-running talk show Firing Line was equally important, because it allowed him to reach beyond the conservative enclave and engage millions of mainstream Americans. When Firing Line premiered in 1966, only two years after Barry...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadside 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070 HENPhillips, Kevin
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.928 PHIJenkins, Philip
Contents: Mainstreaming the sixties -- Going too far : bicentennial America -- Against the grain -- The politics of children : 1977 -- Predators -- Captive America : 1980 -- Into the Reagan era -- Evil empires -- Dark victories -- The abuse epidemic -- Wars without end.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 JENMeacham, Jon.
Summary: "Advance praise for Destiny and Power: 'Altogether fair, insightful. A portrait made especially compelling by the author's remarkable access to Bush's private White House diaries. This is a timely, first-rate book!'--David McCullough; 'What a spectacular and moving portrait this is--not only of a remarkably classy man but of the era that shaped him! It is hard to imagine a biographer more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio BushHumes, James C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Pub. 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 HUMSabin, Paul
Summary: "The story of the dramatic postwar struggle over the proper role of citizens and government in American society. In the 1960s and 70s, an insurgent attack on traditional liberalism took shape in America, built on new ideals of citizen advocacy and the public interest. Environmentalists, social critics, and consumer advocates like Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Ralph Nader, and others crusaded...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.5 SABWilford, Hugh
Contents: Introduction -- Innocents' clubs : the origins of the CIA front -- Secret army : emigres -- AFL-CIA : labor -- A deep sickness in New York : intellectuals -- The cultural cold war : writers, artists, musicians, filmmakers -- The CIA on campus : students -- The truth shall make you free : women -- Saving the world : Catholics -- Into Africa : African Americans -- Things fall apart : journalists...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1273 WILCorey, Shana
Summary: "Acclaimed author Shana Corey and New York Times Best Illustrated artist R. Gregory Christie deliver a fresh look at Kennedy, underscoring the greatness and fallibility of our leaders and how each one of us, no matter who we are, have the power to make adifference. With quotes from JFK's speeches, detailed back matter, and a thought- provoking author's note, this biography offers a sensitive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NorthSouth 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KENSummary: "In this volume, a distinguished group of experts - prize-winning presidential biographers, historians, and journalists examines how an array of twentieth-century presidents have commanded, wielded, and sometimes dissipated the enormous influence conferred upon the nation's highest office."--book jacket
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.09 POWJeffries, Donald
Summary: Examines what the author sees as "the amount of effort over the past fifty years that our government has dedicated to lying and covering up the truth to the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.922 JEFThompson, Hunter S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 THOLemann, Nicholas
Summary: "A history of three economic and social thinkers and their impact on the American economy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.973 LEMRappaport, Doreen.
Summary: A brief account of the life and accomplishments of Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion Books 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: J 921 ROOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ROOStevens, Stuart
Summary: "An indictment of the Republican Party from one of the most successful Republican political operative of his generation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 324.2734 STECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.2734 STEHalberstam, David.
Summary: "The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that David Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. It is the decade of Joe McCarthy and the young Martin Luther King, the Korean War and Levittown, Jack Kerouac and Elvis Presley. Halberstam not only gives us the titans of the age - Eisenhower, Dulles, Oppenheimer,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Villard Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 HALKruse, Kevin Michael
Summary: "If you were asked when America became polarized, your answer would likely depend on your age: you might say during Barack Obama's presidency, or with the post- 9/11 war on terror, or the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s, or the 'Reagan Revolution' and the rise of the New Right. For leading historians Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer, it all starts in 1974. In that one year, the nation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Politic KrauseBrill, Steven
Summary: "From the award-winning journalist and best-selling author of America's Bitter Pill: a tour de force examination of 1) how and why major American institutions no longer serve us as they should, causing a deep rift between the vulnerable majority and the protected few, and 2) how some individuals and organizations are laying the foundation for real, lasting change. In this revelatory narrative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 BRIWhite, Theodore H. (Theodore Harold)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1982
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 WHICaldwell, Christopher
Summary: "A sweeping 50-year history of how the Baby Boomers took the reforms of the 1960s too far, leading to a multitude of contradictions in American society and values that caused our current political polarization"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020