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1) A magnificent catastrophe: the tumultuous election of 1800, America's first presidential campaign
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"They could write like angels and scheme like demons." So begins Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Larson's masterful account of the wild ride that was the 1800 presidential election -- an election so convulsive and so momentous to the future of American democracy that Thomas Jefferson would later dub it "America's second revolution." This was America's first true presidential campaign, giving birth to our two-party system and indelibly etching the lines...
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Discovering America volume 6
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University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2013.
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First edition.
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English
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English
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Asserts that the liberal class has failed to confront the rise of the corporate state and argues that the five parts of the liberal establishment--the press, liberal religious institutions, unions, universities, and the Democratic Party--are more concerned with status and privilege than justice and progress.
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"An eminent political scientist's brilliant synthesis of social and political trends over the past century that shows how we have gone from an individualistic society to a more communitarian society and then back again -- and how we can use that experience to overcome once again the individualism that currently weakens our country"--
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Wilentz, the eminent Princeton historian, argues that for the past thirty-five years U.S. political history has been defined by the new politics of conservatism brokered by its major powerhorse, Ronald Reagan. Following an analysis of Reagan's presidency, Wilentz concludes that Reagan not only transformed the stage of geopolitics, but also the American judiciary and government bureaucracy, while lifting the hearts of Americans who lived through Vietnam...
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Strong Arm Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
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First Edition.
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English
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Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti are co-hosts of Rising at The Hill TV, one of the fastest growing political shows in America. Theirs is the only book that fuses the populist right and populist left to explain the rise of the Trump and Sanders movements.
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"While much of the country has been focused on Russia, David Frum has been collecting the lies, obfuscations, and flagrant disregard for the traditional limits placed on the office of the presidency. In Trumpocracy, he documents how Trump and his administration are steadily damaging the tenets and accepted practices of American democracy. During his own White House tenure as George W. Bush?s speechwriter, Frum witnessed the ways the presidency is...
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"Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to address climate change, have even modest environmental efforts been defeated again and again? Why have protections for employees been decimated? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax rate than middle-class workers?"--Publisher.
14) It could happen here: why America is tipping from hate to the unthinkable - and how we can stop it
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Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"From the dynamic head of ADL, an impassioned argument about the terrifying path that America finds itself on today--and how we can save ourselves."
15) Trumpocracy
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Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
2018
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Unabridged.
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English
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Best selling author, former White House speechwriter, and Atlantic columnist and media commentator David Frum explains why President Trump has undermined the most important institutions in ways even the most critical media has missed, in this thoughtful and hard-hitting book that is a warning for democracy and America's future.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2020]
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First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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English
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"A sweeping 50-year history of how the Baby Boomers took the reforms of the 1960s too far, leading to a multitude of contradictions in American society and values that caused our current political polarization"--
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Broadside Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
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First edition.
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English
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Now a National Bestseller.
To get ahead today, you have to be a jerk, right?
Divisive politicians. Screaming heads on television. Angry campus activists. Twitter trolls. Today in America, there is an "outrage industrial complex" that prospers by setting American against American, creating a "culture of contempt"-the habit of seeing people who disagree with us not as merely incorrect, but as worthless and defective. Maybe, like more than nine out...
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In this characteristically turbocharged new book, celebrated Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi provides an insider's guide to the variety of ways today's mainstream media tells us lies. Part tirade, part confessional, it reveals that what most people think of as "the news" is, in fact, a twisted wing of the entertainment business.
20) Liar's circus: a strange and terrifying journey into the upside-down world of Trump's MAGA rallies
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Custom House
Pub. Date
[2020]
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First edition.
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English
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"Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail meets a work of daring and immersive contemporary anthropology: Carl Hoffman, who has written about the most dangerous and remote corners of the world, journeys deep inside President Trump's rallies, seeking to understand the strange and powerful tribe that forms the president's base"--
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