Piketty, Thomas

Summary: As a correspondent for the French newspaper Le Monde, world-renowned economist Thomas Piketty has documented the rise and fall of Trump, the drama of Brexit, Emmanuel Macron's ascendance to the French presidency, the unfolding of a global pandemic, and much else besides, always from the perspective of his fight for a more equitable world. This collection brings together those articles and is...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330 PIK

Paine, Thomas

Contents: Common sense, The crisis, and other pamphlets, articles and letters -- Rights of man -- The age of reason.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1995

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.51 PAI

Beck, Glenn.

Summary: Radio host, television personality, and author Glenn Beck revisits famous patriot Thomas Paine's Common Sense to reexamine today's political arena and present a case against big government.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mercury Radio Arts/Simon & Schuster Audio 2009

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Nichols, Thomas M.

Summary: "Over the past three decades, citizens of democracies who claim to value freedom, tolerance, and the rule of law have increasingly embraced illiberal politicians and platforms. Democracy is in trouble--but who is really to blame? In Our Own Worst Enemy, Tom Nichols challenges the current depictions of the rise of illiberal and anti-democratic movements in the United States and elsewhere as the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2021

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Beck, Glenn.

Summary: Revisits Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" in light of contemporary American issues, and suggests that some of the very freedoms given as reasons that independence was first necessary are again in jeopardy.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 BEC