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65) America 51: a probe into the realities that are hiding inside "the greatest country in the world"
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A skewering of the American underbelly by the New York Times bestselling author of Seven Deadly Sins , A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Heaven , and You're Making Me Hate You The always-outspoken hard rock vocalist Corey Taylor begins America 51 with a reflection on what his itinerant youth and frequent worldwide travels with his multiplatinum bands Slipknot and Stone Sour have taught him about what it means to be an American in an increasingly...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"With Dark Carnivals, author W. Scott Poole, an expert in horror and its impact on American history, reveals how the horror genre as a way of seeing the world has become one of the most incisive critiques of America and its history and influence around the globe"--
Series
American gods volume 1
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Shadow Moon gets out of jail only to discover his wife is dead. Defeated, broke, and uncertain where to go from here, he meets the mysterious Mr. Wednesday, who employs him to serve as his bodyguard--thrusting Shadow into a deadly world where ghosts of the past come back from the dead, and a god war is imminent."-- cover page 4.
Author
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A literary and cultural milestone, Spoon River Anthology captured an idea of the rural Midwest that became a bedrock myth of life in small-town America. Jason Stacy places the book within the atmosphere of its time and follows its progress as the poetry took root and thrived. Published by Edgar Lee Masters in 1915, Spoon River Anthology won praise from modernists while becoming an ongoing touchstone for American popular culture. Stacy charts the ways...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The former speaker of the House reveals how "Big Government" socialism is crippling America--and offers strategies and insights for everyday citizens to overcome its influence.
Socialists have taken over the modern Democratic Party, big business, news media, entertainment, and academia. This "Big Government Socialism" is crippling America, and we have serious decisions to make about the future of our nation. Gingrich describes the polling that shows...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Traces the author's 2011 road trip from the southernmost to the northernmost points of the United States to experience firsthand the country's diversity and political tensions in the face of a historic economic recession.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Examines the American obsession with self-reliance and how it has led to inequality, self-blame, and shifted the responsibility for survival onto the backs of ordinary people.
"The promise that you can "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" is central to the story of the American Dream. It's the belief that if you work hard and rely on your own resources, you will eventually succeed. However time and again we have seen how this foundational myth,...
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Bestselling author Ellis Cose's groundbreaking latest work interrogates pivotal decisions from enslavement to the New Deal to the handling of Covid that established the United States discriminatory practices for centuries to come. Numerous racialized decisions have solidified America's, and people of color's, fate at different points in history. The first were race-based slavery and the removal of Indigenous peoples from their land. More have proliferated...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tony Kushner presents an original audiobook performance of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, starring the cast of the National Theatre's 2018 Broadway revival. In this production, adapted especially for the listening experience, Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane, and the entire cast recreate their acclaimed performances from the 2018 Tony Award-winning National Theatre revival of Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. With narration by Bobby...
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Analyzes the ways in which public monuments to early white settlers in the western United States were erected, forgotten, and rediscovered from the late 1880s to the early 21st century in response to western race relations, shifting gender norms, and religious and regional identity"--
Series
American gods volume 3
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The new and old gods agree to meet in the center of America to exchange the body of the old gods' fallen leader--heading towards to the inevitable god war in this final arc to the bestselling comic series!"-- cover page 4.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
On January 6, 1941, the Greatest Generation gave voice to its founding principles, the Four Freedoms: Freedom from want and from fear. Freedom of speech and religion. In the name of the Four Freedoms they fought the Great Depression. In the name of the Four Freedoms they defeated the Axis powers. In the process they made the United States the richest and most powerful country on Earth. And, despite a powerful, reactionary opposition, the men and women...
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