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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY General Friendship Political aspects HISTORY / United States / General Liberalism POLITICAL SCIENCE / General POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General POLITICAL SCIENCE General United States United States Politics and government 2009- United States Race relationsShaw, Catherine M. (Catherine Marie)
Summary: "Successful campaign manager and three-time mayor of Ashland, Oregon, Catherine Shaw presents a clear and concise, must-have handbook for navigating local campaigns. This handbook gives political novices and veterans alike a comprehensive and detailed plan for organizing, funding, publicizing, and winning local political campaigns. Finding the right message and targeting the right voters are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.7 SHAWest, Allen
Summary: An engrossing account of the inspiring life and uncensored views of a veteran, patriot, former Congressman, conservative icon, and warrior for personal liberty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 328.73 WESMettler, Suzanne.
Summary: "America's higher education system is failing its students. In the space of a generation, we have gone from being the best-educated society in the world to one in which a college degree benefits only to those in the top income brackets. In Degrees of Inequality, acclaimed political scientist Suzanne Mettler explains why the system has gone so horribly wrong and why the American Dream is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378.73 METShiffman, John.
Summary: John Shiffman presents the rare and intimate narrative of a daring national security sting designed to protect U.S. soldiers, sailors, and pilots from the greatest danger they face on the battlefield; an enemy equipped with American-made weapons and technology.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.93 SHIAlter, Jonathan.
Summary: A narrative thriller about the battle royale surrounding Barack Obama's quest for a second term amid widespread joblessness and one of the most poisonous political climates in American history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 ALTGerges, Fawaz A.
Summary: "During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised to distance the United States from the neoconservative foreign policy legacy of his predecessor, George W. Bush, and usher in a new era of a global, interconnected world. More than two years have passed since his inauguration, and the reality of President Obama's approach is in stark contrast to the ebullient and optimistic image that he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 GERWoodward, Bob
Summary: The transition from President Donald J. Trump to President Joseph R. Biden Jr. stands as one of the most dangerous periods in American history. Woodward and Costa take readers deep inside the Trump White House, the Biden White House, the 2020 campaign, and the Pentagon and Congress, with vivid, eyewitness accounts of what really happened. They also provide a look at Biden's presidency as he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.933 WOOShiffman, John.
Summary: "A Pulitzer Prize finalist presents the rare and intimate narrative of a daring national security sting designed to protect US soldiers, sailors, and pilots from the greatest danger they face on the battlefield--an enemy equipped with American-made weapons and technology. In Operation Shakespeare, investigative journalist John Shiffman traces an audacious and high-risk undercover...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.93 SHISummary: Presents three television documentaries that provide an in-depth examination of the presidential campaigns of 1960, 1964, and 1968, based on the books by Theodore H. White, and showing archival footage, behind-the-scenes moments, backroom deals, and scenes from the convention floor that took place during the races between Kennedy and Nixon; Johnson and Goldwater; and Humphrey, Nixon and Wallace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Athena 2011
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MAKCaryl, Christian.
Summary: "After World War II, a secular, progressive consensus defined the international order. That changed in 1979, when a series of counterrevolutions swept the globe, blazing a path for a new era. China launched reforms that would make it the economic powerhouse it is today. Pope John Paul II traveled to Poland, challenging communism in Eastern Europe by reigniting its people's suppressed Catholic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.82 CARLeverett, Flynt Lawrence.
Summary: "Less than a decade after Washington endorsed a fraudulent case for invading Iraq, similarly misinformed and politically motivated claims are pushing America toward war with Iran. Today the stakes are even higher: such a war could break the back of America's strained superpower status. Challenging the daily clamor of U.S. saber rattling, Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett argue that America should...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 LEVHall, Shyima.
Summary: Shyima Hall was born in Egypt on September 29, 1989, the seventh child of desperately poor parents. When she was eight, her parents sold her into slavery. An anonymous call from a neighbor brought about the end of Shyima's servitude-but her journey to true freedom was far from over. A volunteer at her local police department, Hall is passionate about helping to rescue others who are in bondage....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 HALL, SHYIMA HalDarman, Jonathan.
Summary: Jonathan Darman tells the story of two giants of American politics, Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan, and how these two men changed American politics forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 320 DARShapiro, Ben.
Summary: "From the editor-at-large of Breitbart.com, a timely and compelling look at how liberals use bullying toward their opponents on today's top political issues. Bullying is an urgent topic on many minds and lips today. After the "It Gets Better" program was sanctioned by Obama himself, the left turned bullying into one of its most beloved pet issues. But what they seem to have missed is that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.5 SHACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 320.51 SHARendell, Edward G. (Edward Gene)
Summary: "Governor Ed Rendell explains why America's leaders rarely call for sacrifice for the greater good-to avoid making any sacrifices themselves!Rendell has seen job security become the primary consideration of any person with power in America-their own job security! Most politicians and bureaucrats can see no further ahead than the next election, sometimes no further than the next press...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.932 RENStone Fish, Isaac
Summary: "A timely, provocative expose of our political and business leadership's deep ties to China: a network of people who believe they are doing the right thing-at a great often hidden cost to our society"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.3 STORoithmayr, Daria.
Summary: "This book is designed to change the way we think about racial inequality. Long after the passage of civil rights laws and now the inauguration of our first black president, blacks and Latinos possess barely a nickel of wealth for every dollar that whites have. Why have we made so little progress? Legal scholar Daria Roithmayr provocatively argues that racial inequality lives on because white...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Univ Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 ROISchaller, Thomas F.
Summary: "It's an open secret that voters in smaller, less populous states have more electoral power than their urban counterparts, so why are these same voters the most eager to leave behind democratic principles? In this book, political scientists Thomas Schaller and Paul Waldman explore why, with all of this extra influence, these same voters fail to see real benefits, for instance suffering worse...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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Summary: "SPYFAIL is about the highly dangerous and growing capability of foreign countries to conduct large-scale espionage within the United States and how the FBI and other agencies have failed to prevent it. These covert operations involve a variety of foreign countries-North Korea, Russia, Israel, China, and others-and include cyberattacks, espionage, psychological warfare, the infiltration of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1273 BAMGopnik, Adam
Summary: An exploration of liberalism profiles the individuals and movements that formed its tradition of radical change through humane measures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.51 GOPHaitiwaji, Gulbahar
Summary: "Born in 1966 in Ghulja in the Xinjiang region, Gulbahar Haitiwaji was an executive in the Chinese oil industry before leaving for France in 2006 with her husband and children, who obtained the status of political refugees. In 2017 she was summoned in China for an administrative issue. Once there, she was arrested and spent more than two years in a re-education camp. Thanks to the efforts of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAITIWAJI, GULBAHAR HAITalbot, David
Summary: 'By the Light of Burning Dreams' chronicles some of the most important moments of activism from the 60s and 70s, and ties them into the arrival of today's major political players and major progressive movements. David and Margaret Talbot are both very well-connected, with contacts such as Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., George R.R. Martin,Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Klein, and Oliver Stone. From the founder...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 TALBerger, John J.
Summary: "Solving the Climate Crisis is a critical resource that makes a believable and detailed case that there is a path forward to save our environment. Using today's technology and without presuming a dramatically different sociopolitical reality from the one in which we already live, the book focuses on three essential areas for action: the technological dimension: move to 100% clean renewable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 333.79 BERSlahi, Mohamedou Ould.
Summary: "This is the first and only diary written by a still-imprisoned Guantánamo detainee. Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned at the detainee camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. In all these years, the United States has never charged him with a crime. Although he was ordered released by a federal judge, the U.S. government fought that decision, and there is no sign that the United States plans...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015