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Civilization National characteristics, American Politics and government United States United States Civilization United States Civilization 21st century United States Civilization 21st century Forecasting United States Economic conditions 21st century United States Politics and government 21st century United States Social conditions 21st centuryJackson, Maggie
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 JACShapiro, Ben
Summary: Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro argues that Western Civilization is in the midst of a crisis of purpose and ideas. Our freedoms are built upon the twin notions that every human being is made in God's image and that human beings were created with reason capable of exploring God's world. We can thank these values for the birth of science, the dream of progress, human rights, prosperity,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 SHANiedzviecki, Hal
Summary: A roller-coaster tour through our obsession with the future - and what's at stake when we neglect our present. Tech bloggers livecast the launch of the latest Kindle, crowds form serpentine lines outside of Apple stores on the eve of new iPhone releases, stock markets surge and recede on rumours of what Intel and Microsoft have in the pipeline, and, on college campuses across the country,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 NIEWitt, Emily
Summary: In Future Sex, Witt captures the experiences of going to bars alone, dating online, and hooking up with strangers. From her home in San Francisco, she decides to say yes to everything and to find her own path. She observes the subcultures she encounters with a wry sense of humor, capturing them in all of their strangeness, ridiculousness, and beauty. The result is an open-minded, honest account...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7 WITSundeen, Mark
Summary: A work of immersive journalism steeped in a distinctively American social history and sparked by a personal quest, The Unsettlers traces the search for the simple life through the stories of three families of new pioneers and what inspired each of them to look for--or create--a better existence. Captivating and clear-eyed, it dares us to imagine what a sustainable, ethical, authentic future...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640 SUNBuchanan, Patrick J. (Patrick Joseph)
Summary: Buchanan's latest polemic exposes the risks America faces today and what those dangers will mean for the country's future. He warns against not only the dangers that the country faces under Obama, but also the risk of sliding into irrelevancy that the Republican party faces if it chooses to forget its core values.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.932 BUCFriedman, George
Summary: "The master geopolitical forecaster and New York Times bestselling author of The Next 100 Years focuses on the United States, predicting how the 2020s will bring dramatic upheaval and reshaping of American government, foreign policy, economics, and culture"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.83 FRIShenkman, Richard.
Summary: Bestselling historian Rick Shenkman takes aim at the wisdom of the American people. He writes that American voters are misusing, abusing, and abdicating their political power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 SHEHannity, Sean
Summary: Built on principles of freedom, rugged individualism, and self-sufficiency, no country has ever accumulated more power and wealth, abused it less, or used that power more to advance the human condition. Yet as America blossomed, left-wing radicalism and resentment festered beneath the surface, threatening to undermine democracy first in the sixties and now in the form of social justice...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 320.973 HANCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Politic HannityDunkelman, Marc J.
Summary: "Identifies [what the author sees as] an epochal shift in the structure of American life--a shift unnoticed by many. Routines that once put doctors and lawyers in touch with grocers and plumbers--interactions that encouraged debate and cultivated compromise--have changed dramatically since the postwar era. Both technology and the new routines of everyday life connect tight-knit circles and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307 DUNLeDuff, Charlie
Summary: "[This book is] a ... firsthand, and ... unscripted account of crisis in America, from Ferguson to Flint to Cliven Bundy's ranch to Donald Trump's unstoppable campaign for President"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 LEDMartin, Courtney E.
Summary: "Are we living the good life-and what defines 'good', anyway? Americans today are constructing a completely different framework for success than their parents' generation, using new metrics that TEDWomen speaker and columnist Courtney Martin has termed collectively the "New Better Off". The New Better Off puts a name to the American phenomenon of rejecting the traditional dream of a 9-to-5 job,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Business MartinMarche, Stephen
Summary: "On a small two-lane bridge in a rural county that loathes the federal government, the US Army uses lethal force to end a stand-off with hard-right militias, or anti-government patriots. Inside an ordinary diner, a disaffected young man with a handgun takes aim at the American president stepping in for impromptu photo-op, and a bullet splits the hyper-partisan country into violently opposed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2022
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.49 MARSummary: "Some of America's best reporters and thinkers offer an urgent look at a country in chaos in this collection of timely, often prophetic articles from The Atlantic"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 AMEOsnos, Evan
Summary: "After a decade abroad, the National Book Award--and Pulitzer Prize--winning writer Evan Osnos returns to three places he has lived in the United States-Greenwich, CT; Clarksburg, WV; and Chicago, IL--to illuminate the origins of America's political fury"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.93 OSNTolentino, Jia
Summary: A writer at The New Yorker examines the fractures at the center of contemporary culture. In each essay, Tolentino writes about a cultural prism: the rise of the nightmare social internet; the advent of scamming as the definitive millennial ethos; the literary heroine's journey from brave to blank to bitter; and the punitive dream of optimization, which insists that everything, including our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.93 TOLRosas, Julio
Summary: "In the summer of 2020, America was under siege by radical ANTIFA actors across the country. But if you were only reading mainstream headlines, you probably have no idea just how bad it really was. As homes and businesses were being burned to the ground and livelihoods were being destroyed, corporate media engaged in a full-scale attempt to gaslight the American people, pushing Orwellian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DW Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult RosasWill, George F.
Summary: "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George F. Will, his ninth collection of reflections on our culture, examining the many ways in which expertise, reason, and manners are continually under attack in our institutions, courts, political arenas, andsocial venues. George F. Will has been one of this country's leading columnists since 1974. He won the Pulitzer Prize for it in 1977. The Wall...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.93 WILDeMint, Jim
Summary: " In his new role as president and CEO of The Heritage Foundation, Jim DeMint has travelled the country talking to Americans about how to return to our founding principles and restore and protect our economy and culture for future generations. He's realized that he-and all of us as fellow citizens-must fall in love with America-again. In this book, DeMint introduces Americans all across the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 DEMMatt, Samantha
Summary: "Crappy apartments, lame relationships, getting passed over for a great job (again)--not what we expected for our adult lives. Americans tell their children you can become anything! But let's face it--most of us can't. Sure, some of our peers go on to become astronauts or billionaires. But most of us don't. In Average Is the New Awesome, Samantha Matt offers encouragement to us regular humans....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 MATPapa, Tom
Summary: "Comedian and "Live from Here" head writer Tom Papa, author of Your Dad Stole My Rake, tackles the modern condition in a warm (and clean) group of short essays. Exploring his favorite topics-how people really live in modern America and what's truly good and wonderful about our lives-You're Doing Great features 75 quick-take essays, including: You Don't Have to Live Your Best Life Don't Open the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 PAPGingrich, Newt
Summary: The struggle between the defenders of America as an exceptional nation and the forces of anti-Americanism is reaching a fever pitch. These forces have grown so large, so well-financed, so entrenched and aggressive that they must be studied closely and understood completely if America is to survive this imminent civil war. In Beyond Biden, bestselling author Newt Gingrich brings together the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.934 GINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Pol GingrichAndersen, Kurt
Summary: "In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, one of our sharpest observers, Kurt Andersen, demonstrates that what's happening in our country today--this strange, post-truth, 'fake news' moment we're all living through--is not something entirely new, but rather the ultimate expression of our national character and path. America was founded by wishful dreamers, magical thinkers, and true...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 ANDBaker, Gerard
Summary: American breakdown dissects how, in the space of a generation, the pillars that sustained the once-dominant superpower have been dangerously eroded. From government to business, from media to medicine—the strength and security of the American experiment have been weakened by a widening gap between the elites who control these institutions and the public. At the root of this breakdown is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2023