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Wall Street journal bookPuglionesi, Alicia
Summary: "In this examination of landscape and memory, four sites of American history are revealed as places where historical truth was written over by oppressive fiction-with profound repercussions for politics past and present. Popular narratives of American history conceal as much as they reveal. They present a national identity based on harvesting the treasures that lay in wait for European...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 PUGHarris, Kamala D.
Summary: Harris communicates a vision of shared struggle, shared purpose, and shared values while offering a master class in problem solving, in crisis management, and leadership in challenging times. In examining the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, she shows how our shared efforts will continue to sustain us and this great...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shoemaker & Hoard 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.30492 CONJacoby, Susan
Summary: Traces the current of anti-intellectualism from post-WWII to the present and argues that the nation's cult of unreason is both deadly and destructive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 JACFry, Stephen
Summary: The popular British comic celebrity recounts his visits to all fifty of the United States, where he experienced diverse regional cultures ranging from Hollywood and Silicon Valley to Wall Street and the Deep South.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Entertainment 2010
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV STEKleinknecht, William
Summary: Since Ronald Reagan left office--and particularly after his death--his shadow has loomed large over American politics: Republicans and many Democrats have waxed nostalgic, extolling the Republican tradition he embodied, the optimism he espoused, and his abilities as a communicator. This carefully calibrated image is complete fiction, argues journalist William Kleinknecht. The Reagan presidency...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.927 KLEKaplan, Robert D.
Summary: "As a boy, Robert Kaplan recalls his father driving trucks across the country to earn a living for his family, a man who witnessed and understood America from a ground-level perspective. In Earning the Rockies, Kaplan undertakes his own cross-country journey to recapture an appreciation and understanding of American geography that is often lost in the jet age. Along the way, he witnesses both...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 KAPNoonan, Peggy
Summary: "This is a book about love." So begins Peggy Noonan's enormously moving collection of her post-September 11 Wall Street Journal commentaries. On the morning of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Noonan began writing, and produced at least one essay every week through September 11, 2002. These candid, compassionate and sometimes heart-wrenching pieces are full of insights...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 NOOAllen, Frederick Lewis
Summary: A survey of major changes in American life and ideas during the first half of the twentieth century, focusing on economic expansion and its influence on the American standard of living, thinking, and citizenship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 1952
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 ALLSummary: Declares "the American century", the name Henry Luce gave to an era of American prosperity beginning in 1941, dead, and collects essays explaining what the American century was and meant, and why many believe it has met a premature demise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 SHOJarecki, Eugene.
Summary: In the sobering aftermath of America's invasion of Iraq, documentarian Jarecki launches a penetrating inquiry into how forces within the American political, economic, and military systems have come to undermine the carefully crafted structure of our republic--upsetting its balance of powers, vastly strengthening the hand of the president in taking the nation to war, and imperiling the workings...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 JARNoonan, Peggy
Summary: Witty, incisive, at times prophetic, and always original, this collection offers the best of Peggy Noonan's writing. The book travels the path of her remarkable career, showing how she became one of the most influential voices in America. It begins with an essay about Noonan's motivations as a writer and thinker, followed by a personal talk on the day the space shuttle Challenger exploded and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.5 NOOBrokaw, Tom.
Summary: The author, known for his landmark work in American journalism and for his other books, The Greatest Generation, and Boom!, now turns his attention to the challenges that face America in the new millennium, to offer reflections on how we can restore America's greatness. "What happened to the America I thought I knew?" he writes. "Have we simply wandered off course, but only temporarily? Or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.927 BROBrooks, Colette
Summary: "In a culture trapped in the present tense, how can we keep the past from disappearing? When we lose sight of the past, our ability to understand ourselves on both a national and personal level is inhibited. While exploring the darker constants in modern American life - violence, militarization, rapid technological change, inability to be truly attentive - and the disorientation these elements...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 BROBrokaw, Tom
Summary: Rooted in the values, lessons, and verities of generations past and of his South Dakota upbringing, Brokaw weaves together inspiring stories of Americans who are making a difference and personal stories from his own family history, to engage us in a conversation about our country and to offer ideas for how we can revitalize the promise of the American dream.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 973.927 BroCaputo, Philip.
Summary: Traces the author's 2011 road trip from the southernmost to the northernmost points of the United States to experience firsthand the country's diversity and political tensions in the face of a historic economic recession.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.93 CAPMoyers, Bill D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 MOYBrokaw, Tom
Summary: The NBC news anchor and former White House correspondent evaluates the American dream of the past, present and future as experienced by four generations of his and other families.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.927 BROCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.927 BROBrokaw, Tom.
Summary: Redefines the tumultuous 1960s, a decade that saw the rise of the rebellious children of the greatest generation, to reveal how American social, political, economic, and cultural institutions were transformed by an era of dramatic change.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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Summary: A history of the American meal explains the evolution of traditional fare as a reflection of national identity, describing the midday meals of colonial America, the eating rituals of subsequent generations, and the advent of processed foods.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.1 CARMoyers, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 MOYWalker, Jesse
Summary: Presents a comprehensive history of conspiracy theories in American culture and politics, from the colonial era to the War on Terror.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Pol WalkerWill, George F.
Summary: America's most widely read and most influential commentator casts his gimlet eye on our singular nation. Moving far beyond the strict confines of politics, George F. Will offers a fascinating look at the people, stories, and events--often unheralded--that make the American drama so endlessly entertaining and instructive. With Will's signature erudition and wry wit always on display, One Man's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Forum 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 WILTerkel, Studs
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 1997