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Democracy Democracy United States Democracy United States History Democracy United States Juvenile literature Political culture Political culture United States Politics and government United States United States Politics and government United States Politics and government Juvenile literatureBrown, Don
Summary: This graphic novel tells the history of American democracy and how it evolved from other forms of government. Explains the fundamental ideas of democracy as liberty, equality, and justice for all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 321.8 BROCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 321.8 BROMeier, Deborah
Summary: "A challenge to narrow, profit-driven conceptions of school success and an argument for protecting public education to ensure that all students become competent citizens in a vibrant democracy MacArthur award-winning educator, reformer, and author Deborah Meier draws on her fifty-plus years of experience in education to argue that the purpose of universal education is to provide young people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371 MEIMara, Wil
Summary: In Democracy at Work, readers will learn about another side of the American government, both past and present. Sidebars include thought-provoking trivia, and ask questions about current events as well as the readers' own lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lake Publishing 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 320.4 MARRichardson, Heather Cox
Summary: "From historian and author of the popular daily newsletter LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN, a vital narrative that explains how America, once a beacon of democracy, now teeters on the brink of autocracy--and how we can turn back. In the midst of the impeachment crisis of 2019, Heather Cox Richardson launched a daily Facebook essay providing the historical background of the daily torrent of news. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 320.43709 RICHanson, Anders
Summary: Teaches kids about the freedom to vote, of religion, to choose where to live, of speech, and to learn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. Company 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.44 HANLitt, David
Summary: Here's something true for almost every American. The democracy you live in today is different, completely different, than the democracy born into. Since 1980, the number of Americans legally barred from voting has more than doubled. Since the 1990s, odds of living in a competitive Congressional district have fallen by more than half. In the twenty-first century alone, the amount of money spent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.8 LITCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 321.8 LITSjonger, Rebecca
Summary: "From its roots in ancient Greece to its revitalization in the Age of Enlightenment and beyond, democracy as a form of government has changed over time. Find out what threats democracy faces today, and how it is a process that requires constant upkeep and renewal."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 321.8 SJORose-Stockwell, Tobias
Summary: "Over the last two decades, there has been an inescapable rise of anger and aggression across our planet. Hate speech has become increasingly prevalent online, Western governments are turning towards authoritarianism and populism, and extremist groups are rising across both the left and the right ends of the political spectrum. Every day, it seems, we're hearing more angry voices and fearful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Legacy Lit, an imprint of Hachette Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 ROSBrown, Laurene Krasny
Summary: Uses accessible dinosaur characters and clear language to explore the civic values that drive voter participation, explaining how today's young readers can practice good citizenship and find guidance in the democratic principles of equality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 321.8 BROCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 321.8 BROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J America BrownKuttner, Robert
Summary: The influential social critic traces the role of global capitalism in current income stagnation, reduced productivity, and minimized social support, arguing how unchecked capitalism in the world is undermining the practices of a healthy democracy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.9 KUTLevitsky, Steven
Summary: "Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have spent more than twenty years studying the breakdown of democracies in Europe and Latin America, and they believe the answer is yes. Democracy no longer ends with a bang--in a revolution or military coup--but with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 321.8 LEVRusch, Elizabeth
Summary: "America is the greatest democracy in the world...isn't it? Author Elizabeth Rusch examines some of the more problematic aspects of our government but, more importantly, offers ways for young people to fix them"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 320.973 RUSSnyder, Timothy
Summary: The author argues that American society is leaning toward despotism and totalitarianism and looks back at the 20th century for examples of how totalitarianism has taken over before.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.9 SNYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 321.9 SNYWest, Cornel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.8 WESSummary: Why do the ancient Greeks occupy such a prominent place in conceptions of Western culture and identity? The Greeks are a source of much that we esteem: democracy, philosophy, tragedy, epic and lyric poetry, history-writing, ideals of athletic competition, aesthetic sensibilities, and more. Spanning roughly 1,000 years, the lectures cover the Late Bronze Age (1500 B.C.E.) to the time of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 1998
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 938 MCICall number: DVD 938 MIC
Cook, William R. (William Robert)
Summary: Professor Cook leads you on an engaging and energetic discussion on Alexis de Tocqueville, his journey, his writing of Democracy in America and, most of all, his thoughts on the young nation he was observing. For Tocqueville, it seems, had opinions about almost everything he encountered in America, and not exclusively politics and "classical" issues such as the nature of the judiciary and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 TOCIsenberg, Nancy
Summary: "John and John Quincy Adams: rogue intellectuals, unsparing truth tellers, too uncensored for their own political good. They held that political participation demanded moral courage. They did not seek popularity (and it showed). They lamented the fact that hero worship in America substituted idolatry for results, and they made it clear that they were talking about Benjamin Franklin, George...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ISELevine, Bruce E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 322.40973 LEVLincoln, Abraham
Summary: "A Cornelia & Michael Bessie book."
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 LINMoss, David A.
Summary: Historian David Moss adapts the case study method made famous by Harvard Business School to revitalize our conversations about governance and democracy and show how the United States has often thrived on political conflict. These 19 cases ask us to weigh choices and consequences, wrestle with momentous decisions, and come to our own conclusions.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.4 MOSPurdy, Jedediah
Summary: "American democracy is in crisis. In 2020, more than half of Americans claimed they were dissatisfied with their political system, and an increasing number are willing to consider alternatives to popular rule-including authoritarianism. We view our political opponents with disdain, if not terror. These fears aren't entirely misguided: democratic debate often puts America's ugliest impulses on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 PURReich, Robert B.
Summary: Reich outlines how the American economic system is failing, with increasing income inequality and a shrinking middle class, and reveals how a market designed for broad prosperity can reverse the trend toward diminished opportunity.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 330.9 REIWeber, Shannon
Summary: With illustrations and humorous first-person text, this is an introduction to political concepts such as the Bill of Rights, impeachment, checks and balances, and the Supreme Court.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kingfisher 2020