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Autobiographies. bibliography Biographies Biographies. biography Biography. History History. Nonfiction.Brill, 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 BRICaldwell, 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 CALSchoen, Douglas E.
Summary: AMERICA: UNITE OR DIE is a real-time analysis of why American Democracy is crumbling and why both sides – Republicans and Democrats – are responsible for its collapse. This is the first objective, non-partisan analysis of what has happened, and most importantly, explains what we can do to avoid impending doom for our system, and most of all, our nation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regan Arts 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 SCHGiffels, David
Summary: "In the tradition of J.D. Vance, Sarah Smarsh, and Amy Goldstein, BARNSTORMING OHIO is an on-the-ground look at the diverse challenges facing Ohio, and its national significance as the state that has historically sided with the presidential election winner more than any other -- from award-winning lifelong Ohioan author and writer David Giffels, dubbed by the New York Times as "the Bard of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.1 GIFHill, Fiona
Summary: Foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness Fiona Hill reveals how declining opportunity has set America on the grim path of modern Russia--and shows how we can return hope to our forgotten places. In this deeply personal account, she shares what she has learned, and explains that only by expanding opportunity can we save our democracy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320 HILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.2 HILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.2 HILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B HILL HILVan Fleet, Xi
Summary: "A liberty-defending survivor of Mao's Cultural Revolution in China makes a passionate case that history is eerily repeating itself as the Woke Revolution spreads across America. Xi Van Fleet lived through the horrors of the Chinese Cultural Revolution as a schoolgirl. Forced to the countryside with other young Chinese for re-education after high school, she later escaped communism and found...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 306.2 VANGarrels, Anne
Summary: "Portrait of the mid-size city of Chelyabinsk and how it is faring in the new Russia"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 947 GARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947 GARPutnam, Robert D.
Summary: "An eminent political scientist's brilliant synthesis of social and political trends over the past century that shows how we have gone from an individualistic society to a more communitarian society and then back again -- and how we can use that experience to overcome once again the individualism that currently weakens our country"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020