Robin, Corey
Summary: "Most people can tell you two things about Clarence Thomas: Anita Hill accused him of sexual harassment, and he almost never speaks from the bench. Here are some things they don't know: Thomas is a black nationalist. In college he memorized the speeches of Malcolm X. He believes white people are incurably racist. In the first examination of its kind, Corey Robin - one of the foremost analysts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THOMAS, CLARENCE ROBSummary: Follows Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater's tumultuous election year, as well as other years in a career that encompassed numerous political and ideological triumphs. Though he never achieved the ultimate prize, the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 vindicated the conservative agenda Goldwater had long championed. Ironically, in later years, Goldwater's support of issues like abortion and gay...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MR.Kirk, Charlie
Summary: An overview of the tenets of Donald Trump and his supporters, explaining their worldview and goals for the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: "For decades, Ronald Reagan's name has served as shorthand for the entirety of the modern conservative movement. Contrary to conventional wisdom, however, Reaganism was, from today's vantage point, a brief digression in conservatism's history. In the 1980s, an unusual set of economic and political conditions and an unusually charismatic leader combined to win huge majorities for Reagan's vision...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.52 HEMCoulter, Ann H.
Summary: Conservative commentator Ann Coulter attacks the immigration issue head-on, flying in the face of La Raza, the Democrats, a media determined to cover up immigrants' crimes, churches that get paid by the government for their "charity," and greedy Republican businessmen and campaign consultants -- all of whom are profiting handsomely from mass immigration that's tearing the country apart....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Publishing, a division of Salem Media Group 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.6 COULakoff, George.
Summary: An analysis of the Bush administration's uses and definitions of the concept of freedom examines how conservatives have reinterpreted beliefs about freedom to promote Republican interests for such issues as the war on terror and abortion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.44 LAKShapiro, Ben
Summary: Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro argues that Western Civilization is in the midst of a crisis of purpose and ideas. Our freedoms are built upon the twin notions that every human being is made in God's image and that human beings were created with reason capable of exploring God's world. We can thank these values for the birth of science, the dream of progress, human rights, prosperity,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 SHABoot, Max
Summary: As nativism, xenophobia, vile racism, and assaults on the rule of law threaten the very fabric of our nation, [this book] presents an urgent defense of American democracy. Pronouncing Mexican immigrants to be "rapists," Donald Trump announced his 2015 presidential bid, causing Max Boot to think he was watching a dystopian science-fiction movie. The respected conservative historian couldn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 320.52 BOOSummary: Dead last in the ratings, ABC hired two towering public intellectuals to debate each other during the Democratic and Republican national conventions. William F. Buckley Jr. was a leading light of the new conservative movement. A Democrat and cousin to Jackie Onassis, Gore Vidal was a leftist novelist and polemicist. Armed with deep-seated distrust and enmity, Vidal and Buckley believed each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BESChavez, Linda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHASeib, Gerald F.
Summary: The executive Washington editor of The Wall Street Journal chronicles the astonishing 40-year rise and decline of the conservative movement in America, sharing insights into the roles of such contributors as the Federalist Society, the NRA and Fox News.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.52 SEISexton, Jared
Summary: "The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore is a firsthand account of the events that shaped the 2016 presidential election and the cultural forces that divided both parties and powered Donald Trump into the White House. Featuring in-the-field reports as well as deep analysis, Sexton's book is not just the story of the most unexpected and divisive election in modern political...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324 SEXKleinknecht, William
Summary: "In the wake of Trump's presidency, Republican-led states have joined in an alarming assault on our democratic system. But the drift toward authoritarianism in red states has far deeper roots. We now have a country where tens of millions of people live under regimes that have spent years starving education and health care, empowering polluters, engaging in voter suppression, and neglecting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 352.23 KLEPerlstein, Rick
Summary: Connects the activities and influence of today's conservative movements to a deliberate shift toward right-wing policies that began during the Carter administration and led to the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.926 PERToobin, Jeffrey.
Summary: Drawing on interviews with the Supreme Court justices and other insiders, a look at the powerful, often secretive world of the Supreme Court offers profiles of each justice and how their individual styles affect the way in which they wield their power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 347.732 TOOSavage, Michael
Summary: Argues that progressives and radical Islamists are working toward similar ends by compromising democratic principles to instill a government of absolute power without representation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 320.5109 SAVSpence, Gerry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.4502 SPEShorris, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton & Co. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.93 SHOFlake, Jeff
Summary: Republican Senator Jeff Flake takes his party to task for embracing nationalism, populism, xenophobia, and the anomalous Trump presidency. The book is an urgent call for a return to bedrock conservative principle and a cry to once again put country before party.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.5 FLASavage, Michael
Summary: The radio host discusses the economic, cultural, and foreign relations failures of the Obama administration, and offers solutions for pulling the United States out of its downward spiral.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.932 SAVHughey, Matthew W. (Matthew Windust)
Summary: "On November 5, 2008, the nation awoke to a New York Times headline that read triumphantly: "OBAMA. Racial Barrier Falls in Heavy Turnout." But new events quickly muted the exuberant declarations of a postracial era in America: from claims that Obama was born in Kenya and that he is not a true American, to depictions of Obama as a "Lyin African" and conservative cartoons that showed the new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.24 HUGDreher, Rod.
Summary: When a colleague teased writer Dreher one day about his visit to the "lefty" local food co-op, he started thinking about the ways he and his conservative family lived that put them outside the bounds of conventional Republican politics. Shortly thereafter, Dreher wrote an essay about "crunchy cons," people whose "Small Is Beautiful" style of conservative politics often put them at odds with GOP...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Forum 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.52 DREMayer, Jane.
Summary: An investigation into the growing radical right reveals a network of wealthy people with extreme Libertarian views, led by the Koch brothers, that has been systematically influencing and controlling academic institutions, the courts, and the United States government.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 320.52 MAYIngraham, Laura.
Summary: Radio personality Laura Ingraham is fed up with cultural elites on both coasts telling us how to run our lives. The American people are fed up with moral relativism, politicized education, open borders, fiscal excess, and a feckless foreign policy--to name a few. Ingraham calls on her millions of fans from red-state America to send a loud and clear message to the liberal elites: You're fired!...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007