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Howard, Philip K. Lewandowski, Corey R. Rohde, David W. Sabin, Paul Wilkes, StephanySabin, 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 SABRohde, David W.
Summary: A two- time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's eye-opening investigation of the so-called deep state. A recent poll found that 74 percent of Americans believe that a group of unelected government and military officials is secretly manipulating or directing national policy. But does an American deep state really exist? This sweeping exploration of the intelligence community and FBI scandals of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 364.1 ROHHoward, Philip K.
Summary: Everyday Freedom, in the tradition of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense , offers a radical vision for Re-empower Americans in their everyday choices. The massive legal structures erected since the 1960s were based on flawed notions that human judgment could be replaced by elaborate dictates. Area by area, these failed structures must be replaced with simpler frameworks activated by human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodin Books 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 349.73 HOWRohde, David W.
Summary: "A two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's investigation of the "deep state." Three-quarters of Americans believe that a group of unelected government and military officials secretly manipulate or direct national policy in the United States. President Trump blames the "deep state" for his impeachment. But what is the American "deep state" and does it really exist? To conservatives, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1 ROHHoward, Philip K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 349.73 HOWLewandowski, Corey R.
Summary: This book will reveal the heart of the hostile bureaucratic network that has been operating in the shadows until the American people voted Trump into office. Trump's determination to transform the government, wipe out the swamp, and reduce the power of the bureaucratic machine has set him on a collision course with agencies populated by a workforce resistant to the American people's agenda....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 LEWWilkes, Stephany
Summary: "In Raw Material, Stephany Wilkes tells not only her own story, but also that of American wool. What begins as a knitter's search for local yarn becomes a dirty, unlikely, and irresistible side job. Wilkes become a certified sheep shearer and wool classer, working at the very first step in the textile supply chain, ultimately leaving her high-tech job for a new way of life considered long dead...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oregon State University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILKES, STEPHANY WILHoward, Philip K.
Summary: A darkly humorous assessment of what the author identifies as a loss of freedom to make sense of daily choices in America cites such dilemmas as inane safety warnings and the growing powerlessness of business and educational leaders, in a call-to-action that argues for more empowering, common-sense boundaries of law.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2009