Summary: "In Tales of Two Americas, some of the literary world's most exciting writers look beyond numbers and wages to convey what it feels like to live in this divided nation. Their extraordinarily powerful stories, essays, and poems demonstrate how boundaries break down when experiences are shared, and that in sharing our stories we can help to alleviate a suffering that touches so many...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 TAL

Huckabee, Mike

Summary: "In Mike Huckabee's new book God, Guns, Grits and Gravy, he asks the question, "Have I been taken to a different planet than the one on which I grew up?" The New York Times bestselling author explores today's American culture, drawing from his travels as a presidential candidate to present average, small-town people and families, and their optimistic resilience in the face of hard times; their...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 HUC

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 973 HUC

Kaplan, Seth D.

Summary: "The neighborhoods we live in impact our lives in so many ways: they determine who we know, what resources and opportunities we have access to, the quality of schools our kids go to, our sense of security and belonging, and even how long we live. Yet too many of us live in neighborhoods plagued by rising crime, school violence, family disintegration, addiction, alienation, and despair. Even the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.14 KAP

Williams, Juan

Summary: "What would the Founding Fathers think about America today? Over 200 years ago the Founders broke away from the tyranny of the British Empire to build a nation based on the principles of freedom, equal rights, and opportunity for all men. But life in the United States today is vastly different from anything the original Founders could have imagined in the late 1700s. The notion of an...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 WIL

Blair, Tom.

Summary: Tom Blair has written, in the voice of Ben Franklin, an updated-for-today book that draws on the essence of Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack to view America in 2011.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.3092 BLA

Packer, George

Summary: Paints a picture of the last thirty years of life in America by following several citizens, including the son of tobacco farmers in the rural south, a Washington insider who denies his idealism for riches, and a Silicon Valley billionaire.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 PAC

Glassner, Barry.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Partners Pub. Corp. 2003

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 152.46 GLA

Hayes, Shannon.

Summary: "Radical Homemakers is a book that looks at men and women across the United States who have opted to focus their lives on home and hearth as a political and ecological act; who have chosen to center their lives around family and community not only for personal fulfillment, but as a way to bring about cultural change. It explores what domesticity can look like in an era that has benefited from...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Left to Write Press 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.85 HAY

Summary: Long story short: Presents interview segments in which California's poor and homeless discuss the disadvantages of living without adequate resources.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC POR

Summary: Presents the theory that the American dream, all but abandoned in the United States, has been adopted successfully in other countries, including Italy, France, Finland, Slovenia, Germany, Portugal, Norway, Tunisia, and Iceland, looking at such areas as worker benefits, public expenditure for the common good, and state-funded higher education.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2016

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3 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHE

Ingraham, Laura.

Summary: Radio personality Laura Ingraham is fed up with cultural elites on both coasts telling us how to run our lives. The American people are fed up with moral relativism, politicized education, open borders, fiscal excess, and a feckless foreign policy--to name a few. Ingraham calls on her millions of fans from red-state America to send a loud and clear message to the liberal elites: You're fired!...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 306.0973 ING

Reagan, Michael

Summary: The eldest son of the late fortieth president explains how today's political challenges are comparable to those of his father's political career, discussing how Reagan's famous 1976 speech at the Republican National Convention introduced still-applicable principles for a strong Republican party.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.927 REA

Huckabee, Mike

Summary: Huckabee asks the question, 'Have I been taken to a different planet than the one on which I grew up?' He explores today's American culture, drawing from his travels as a presidential candidate to present average, small-town people and families, and their optimistic resilience in the face of hard times. At times lighthearted, at others bracingly realistic, Huckabee discusses the reintroduction...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 HUCKABEE, MIKE HUC

Brokaw, Tom

Summary: The NBC news anchor and former White House correspondent evaluates the American dream of the past, present and future as experienced by four generations of his and other families.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.927 BRO

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.927 BRO

O'Neil, Cathy

Summary: "A clear-eyed warning about the increasingly destructive influence of America's "shame industrial complex" in the age of social media and hyperpartisan politics-from the New York Times bestselling author of Weapons of Math Destruction. Shame is a powerfuland sometimes useful tool: When we publicly shame corrupt politicians, abusive celebrities, or predatory corporations, we reinforce values of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.4 O'NE

Van Gelder, Sarah

Summary: "YES! magazine cofounder Sarah van Gelder was worried about the current state of American society. Environmental destruction, growing poverty, urban decay, rural decline - it's a long list. Can we turn this around, she wondered? Are there answers we haven't found yet? She confided her fears to a friend, who said to her, 'If the universe could deploy the one small person that is you, what would...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 361 VAN

Ehrenreich, Barbara.

Summary: Ehrenreich's second work of satirical commentary reflects on one of the cruelest decades in memory--the 2000's--in which she finds a nation scarred by deepening inequality, corroded by distrust, and shamed by its official cruelty.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.93 EHR

Brokaw, Tom.

Summary: The author, known for his landmark work in American journalism and for his other books, The Greatest Generation, and Boom!, now turns his attention to the challenges that face America in the new millennium, to offer reflections on how we can restore America's greatness. "What happened to the America I thought I knew?" he writes. "Have we simply wandered off course, but only temporarily? Or...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.927 BRO

Brokaw, Tom

Summary: Rooted in the values, lessons, and verities of generations past and of his South Dakota upbringing, Brokaw weaves together inspiring stories of Americans who are making a difference and personal stories from his own family history, to engage us in a conversation about our country and to offer ideas for how we can revitalize the promise of the American dream.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 973.927 Bro

Stossel, John.

Summary: Myths and misconceptions covered in the book include: Is the media unbiased? Are our schools helping or hurting our kids? Do singles have a better sex life than married people? Do we have less free time than we used to? Is outsourcing bad for American workers? Suburban sprawl is ruining America; money makes people happier; the world is too crowded; we're drowning in garbage; profiteering is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 001.96 STO

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Summary: A collection of articles and excerpts from Barbara Ehrenreich's long-ranging career that highlight her social consciousness and wry wit.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 EHR