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Conservatism Conservatism United States Political culture Political culture United States Politics and government Right and left (Political science) Right and left (Political science) United States United States United States Politics and government United States Politics and government 2017-Frank, Thomas
Summary: "It is a widespread belief among liberals that if only Democrats can continue to dominate national elections, if only those awful Republicans are beaten into submission, the country will be on the right course. But this is to fundamentally misunderstand the modern Democratic Party. Drawing on years of research and first-hand reporting, Frank points out that the Democrats have done little to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Politic FrankGindler, Gary
Summary: "The Left Imperialism is an exercise in a novel field: ideology archaeology. The book takes on a spectrum of ideologies from a brand-new evolutionary perspective. It presents a novel concept in political philosophy called the "individual-state paradigm," which generalizes and extrapolates the Right-Left distinction"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paragon House 2024
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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 KLEHughey, 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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Levin, 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 LEVJones, Van
Summary: "A passionate manifesto that exposes hypocrisy on both sides of the political divide and points a way out of the tribalism that is tearing America apart--by the CNN political contributor and host hailed as "a star of the 2016 campaign" (The New York Times) who coined the term"whitelash" Van Jones burst into the American consciousness during the 2016 presidential campaign with an unscripted,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.5 JONSykes, Charles J.
Summary: In How the Right Lost Its Mind, Sykes presents an impassioned, regretful, and deeply thoughtful account of how the American conservative movement came to lose its values. How did a movement that was defined by its belief in limited government, individual liberty, free markets, traditional values, and civility find itself embracing bigotry, political intransigence, demagoguery, and outright...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.5 SYKBabylon Bee, LLC
Summary: In this tongue-in-cheek guide to the left's intersectional insanity, the writers of the satirical social media site The Babylon Bee teach examine: how to choose pronouns; how to blame everyone else for your problems; how to show the world how wonderful you are; the art of virtue-signaling; the basics of race, gender, and intersectionality; the truth about American history; problematic books and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salem Books, an imprint of Regnery Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817 BABKlein, Edward
Summary: With ferocity not seen since the Civil War, the Washington establishment and the radical Left are joining forces in an attempted coup d'etat to overturn the will of the people and return power to the political and media elites who have never been more unhinged. In All Out War: The Plot to Destroy Trump, investigative reporter and national best-selling author Edward Klein reveals: how the plot...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Publishing, a division of Salem Media Group 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 KLETucker, Garland S.
Summary: ""Conservative Heroes" is the story of fourteen Americans whose lives reflected conservative values and principles as defined by author Garland S. Tucker III. The book surveys the thought and achievement of statesmen ranging from Thomas Jefferson and James Madison through Calvin Coolidge and Andrew Mellon up to Ronald Reagan"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: ISI Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 TUCCarlson, Tucker
Summary: The people who run America now barely interact with it. They fly on their own planes, ski on their own mountains, watch sporting events far from the stands in sky boxes. They have total contempt for you. "They view America the way a private equity firm sizes up an aging conglomerate," Tucker Carlson writes, "as something outdated they can profit from. When it fails, they're gone." And...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2018
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Summary: "While everyday Americans strive to make an honest living by working hard, liberals within the swamp have perfected a way of barely working while elevating themselves above the rest of America. Liberal Privilege will take you behind the scenes of the swamp, just as the nation gears up for the next presidential election. As President Donald J. Trump seeks a second term based on real...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Donald Trump, Jr. 2020
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Summary: The founder of Media Matters describes his battles with right-wing voices for control of the messages that will decide the 2016 presidential election, and discredits the conservative case against Hillary Clinton.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 320.52 BROPirro, Jeanine
Summary: "It's been nearly four years since President Trump took office, and Judge Jeanine Pirro has had enough of the left's countless lies and false accusations. She is now forced to ask: How could anyone vote against President Trump this November? What more could you possibly want? In Don't Lie to Me, Judge Jeanine brings her signature writing style and acute legal mind to topics such as the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 PIRVan 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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Summary: "A short book about the challenges to liberalism from the right and the left by the bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.51 FUKReich, Robert B.
Summary: Argues that real change can only come when party lines are ignored and people from both sides of the aisle band together to enact common sense policies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2012