Bradley, Bill

Summary: "Politics is stuck," writes Bill Bradley, in this insightful, informative, and provocative book about America at a crossroads, but "idealism isn't dead. It can be reawakened." Bradley believes that America is at a teachable moment when we are compelled to reevaluate our political system, our leadership, our agenda as a nation, and ourselves as citizens. He explores what changes need to be made...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007

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Carlson, Margaret.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.929 CAR

Gore, Albert

Summary: "At the time George W. Bush ordered American forces to invade Iraq, 70 percent of Americans believed Saddam Hussein was linked to 9/11. Voters in Ohio, when asked by pollsters to list what stuck in their minds about the 2004 presidential campaign, most frequently named two Bush television ads that played to fears of terrorism. We live in an age when the 30-second television spot is the most...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2007

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Gore, Albert

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007

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Shorris, Earl

Summary: A account of the events, ideas, and beliefs about the role of religion in today's government discusses how, after the September 11th attacks, there is a more glaring pervasiveness of religious doctrine throughout both major parties and in the formulating of key political decisions.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Norton & Co. 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.93 SHO

Raban, Jonathan.

Summary: What does the "war on terror" and a new era of religious ferocity look like to an Englishman living in the Pacific Northwest? Jonathan Raban finds that as he reads the source texts that have inspired modern-day jihad, memories of his own rigidly fundamentalist adolescent atheism help him understand why young people suffering from cultural alienation, spiritual emptiness, and moral uncertainty...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review of Books 2005

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Didion, Joan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.53 DID