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Dignity Group identity Political aspects Identity politics Political culture Washington (D.C.) Political participation Social aspects POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General Politicians United States Resentment United States Politics and governmentTalbot, David
Summary: 'By the Light of Burning Dreams' chronicles some of the most important moments of activism from the 60s and 70s, and ties them into the arrival of today's major political players and major progressive movements. David and Margaret Talbot are both very well-connected, with contacts such as Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., George R.R. Martin,Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Klein, and Oliver Stone. From the founder...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 TALShaw, Catherine M. (Catherine Marie)
Summary: "Successful campaign manager and three-time mayor of Ashland, Oregon, Catherine Shaw presents a clear and concise, must-have handbook for navigating local campaigns. This handbook gives political novices and veterans alike a comprehensive and detailed plan for organizing, funding, publicizing, and winning local political campaigns. Finding the right message and targeting the right voters are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.7 SHAMettler, Suzanne.
Summary: "America's higher education system is failing its students. In the space of a generation, we have gone from being the best-educated society in the world to one in which a college degree benefits only to those in the top income brackets. In Degrees of Inequality, acclaimed political scientist Suzanne Mettler explains why the system has gone so horribly wrong and why the American Dream is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378.73 METLeibovich, Mark.
Summary: "One of the nation's most acclaimed journalists, the New York Times' Mark Leibovich, presents a blistering, penetrating, controversial - and often hysterical - look at Washington's incestuous "media Industrial complex.""--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 306.2 LEILeibovich, Mark.
Summary: "A book about contemporary political culture in Washington, DC"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.2 LEICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 306.209753 LEILevin, Yuval.
Summary: "In The Great Debate Yuval Levin explores the origins of the familiar left/right divide in American politics by examining the views of the men who best represent each side of that debate: Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine. In a groundbreaking exploration of the origins of our political order, Levin shows that our political divide did not originate (as many historians argue) in the French...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.5 LEVMuasher, Marwan
Summary: "This important book is not about immediate events or policies or responses to the Arab Spring. Instead, it takes a long, judicious view of political change in the Arab world, beginning with the first Awakening in the nineteenth century and extending into future decades when--if the dream is realized--a new Arab world defined by pluralism and tolerance will emerge. Marwan Muasher, former...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.0974 MUAAlter, Jonathan.
Summary: A narrative thriller about the battle royale surrounding Barack Obama's quest for a second term amid widespread joblessness and one of the most poisonous political climates in American history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 ALTFukuyama, Francis
Summary: "A provocative examination of modern identity politics: its origins, its effects, and what it means for our democracy and international affairs of state"--Dust jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018