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National characteristics, American Political culture United States United States United States History 1969- United States Politics and government 1945-1989 United States Politics and government 1989- United States Politics and government 1993-2001 United States Politics and government 2001- United States Social conditions 1960-1980 United States Social conditions 1980-Kleinknecht, 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 KLEBrill, 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 BRICooper, Ryan
Summary: "A compelling alternative view of the relationship between our politics and our economy. Throughout America, structural problems are getting worse. Economic inequality is near Gilded Age heights, the healthcare system is a mess, and the climate crisis continues to grow. Yet most ambitious policy proposals that might fix these calamities are dismissed as wastefully expensive by default. From the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.973 COOCaldwell, 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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.24 CALWill, George F.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.929 WILLimbaugh, Rush H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 LIMChancellor, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.927 CHAMurray, Charles A.
Summary: A critique of the white American class structure argues that the paths of social mobility that once advanced the nation are now serving to further isolate an elite upper class while enforcing a growing and resentful white underclass.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Forum 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 MURKruse, 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 KrauseLaskas, Jeanne Marie
Summary: "Character-driven stories about the people who make our lives run every day--and yet we barely think of them"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 305.5 LASDella Volpe, John
Summary: "From John Della Volpe, the director of polling at the Harvard Institute of Politics, Fight is an exploration of Gen Z, the issues that matter most to them, and how they will shape the future. 9/11. The war on terror. Hurricane Katrina. The 2008 financialcrisis. The housing crisis. The opioid epidemic. Mass school shootings. Global warming. The Trump presidency. COVID-19. Since they were born,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.2420 DELO'Reilly, Bill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 OREMoyers, 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 MOYBishop, Bill.
Summary: America may be more diverse than ever coast to coast, but the places where we live are becoming increasingly crowded with people who live, think, and vote as we do. We've built a country where we can all choose the neighborhood--and church and news show--most compatible with our lifestyle and beliefs. And we are living with the consequences of this way-of-life segregation. Our country has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305 BISO'Reilly, Bill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 O'REGrant, Bob.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.929 GRAMoyers, 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 Non-fiction, Call number: 973.927 BROKristof, Nicholas D.
Summary: A plea -- deeply personal and told through the lives of real Americans -- to address the crisis in working-class America, while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 KRICopies Available at Peninsula
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Summary: Paints a picture of the last thirty years of life in America by following several citizens, including the son of tobacco farmers in the rural south, a Washington insider who denies his idealism for riches, and a Silicon Valley billionaire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 PACCarlson, 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 CARLeo, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.928 LEOLaxer, James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.929 LAXPollitt, Katha.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Trade Paperbacks 2006