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Founding Fathers of the United States Political culture Political satire, American Politics and government Progressivism (United States politics) Trump, Donald 1946- Trump, Donald 1946- Language United States United States Politics and government 2017-2021 United States Politics and government HumorBaldwin, Alec
Summary: A satirical memoir written in the style of Donald Trump shares lampooning insights into the forty-fifth president's election, disdain for the press, backroom strategy sessions with White House advisers, and world-changing decisions.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 817 BALSummary: Follow a 10-year-old urban revolutionary, Huey, and his hip-hop obsessed little brother, Riley, as they move to the suburbs with their unwise old granddad, Robert Freeman. In this quiet neighborhood, the laughs, pop culture and pretensions, from Martin Luther King to Chicken flu, from Santa Claus to bullying, no taboo is left untouched. Includes a compilation CD "The Boondocks: Music from the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BOOSummary: Shot in his trademark "guerilla video" style, each episode is filled with observations that bridge comedy and controversy and places Michael Moore in the middle of today's hot topics.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2003
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AWFTrudeau, G. B.
Summary: This Doonesbury collection about Donald Trump offers strips from the 1980s to 2016.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing, a division of Andrews McMeel Universal 2016
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TRUOfferman, Nick
Summary: The star of Parks and Recreation and author of the best-selling Paddle Your Own Canoe pays tribute to inspiring mischief makers, from George Washington to Willie Nelson, while expounding on such topics as religion, handcrafting and meat.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 817 OFFCapitol Steps (Comedy troupe)
Contents: Amazing Rick (2:52) -- Love potion 9-9-9 (1:36) -- Three little wives of Newt (2:05) -- Osama and the sea (3:58) -- You can't hide this Biden guy (3:18) -- Help me fake it to the right (1:41) -- Candidates' hello (1:51) -- Midnight ride of Paul, revised (3:15) -- Don't go fakin' you're smart (2:40) -- If I tax a rich man (3:18) -- Occupy Wall Street Journal (4:18) -- Itsy bitsy teeny Weiner...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol Steps 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN CAPHarris, Duchess
Summary: Eleanor Roosevelt is well known for her time as First Lady of the United States, but she also made important contributions to women's rights before, during, and after her husband's presidency. Eleanor Roosevelt Champions Women's Rights examines her efforts from multiple perspectives, including those of Roosevelt herself, her husband, Franklin, and later feminist activists.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, An Imprint of Abdo Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.917 HARKleinknecht, William
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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 352.23 KLEBrands, H. W.
Summary: "From bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands, a revelatory history of the shocking emergence of vicious political division at the birth of the United States Founding Partisans is a lively narrative of the early years of the republic as the Founding Fathers fought one another with competing visions of what our nation would be. To the framers of the Constitution, political...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3092 BRAUygur, Cenk K. (Cenk Kadir)
Summary: "A manifesto that outlines the progressive vision, recent history and worldview-by the founder of The Young Turks and co-founder of Justice Democrats. The media can't stop talking about the gridlock in Washington, as if a handful of stubborn Republicans are the only thing standing between us and a fully-functional democracy. The reality is that our government was taken over by big business and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 UYGMercieca, Jennifer R.
Summary: "Political communication expert Jennifer Mercieca shows how the Trump campaign expertly used the common rhetorical techniques of a demagogue, a word with two contradictory definitions--"a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power" or "a leader championing the cause of the common people in ancient times" (Merriam-Webster, 2019). These...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Texas A&M University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 MERSimpson, Glenn R.
Summary: Fusion GPS was founded in 2010 by Simpson and Fritsch, two former reporters at The Wall Street Journal, decided to use their reporting skills to conduct open-source investigations for businesses and law firms-- and opposition research for political candidates. In the fall of 2015 they were hired to look into the finances of Donald Trump. The deeper Fusion dug, the clearer it became that the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 SIMPurdy, Jedediah
Summary: "American democracy is in crisis. In 2020, more than half of Americans claimed they were dissatisfied with their political system, and an increasing number are willing to consider alternatives to popular rule-including authoritarianism. We view our political opponents with disdain, if not terror. These fears aren't entirely misguided: democratic debate often puts America's ugliest impulses on...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2022