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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"A graphic edition of historian Timothy Snyders bestselling book of lessons for surviving and resisting Americas arc toward authoritarianism, featuring the visual storytelling talents of renowned illustrator Nora Krug. Timothy Snyders New York Times bestseller On Tyranny uses the darkest moments in twentieth-century history, from Nazism to Communism, to teach twenty lessons on resisting modern-day authoritarianism. Among the twenty include a warning...
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English
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"What would the founders think? We live in a divided America that is currently incapable of sustained argument and is feeling unsure of its destiny. Joseph J. Ellis, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Founding Brothers and the recent best-selling The Quartet, explores anew four of our most prominent founders, in each instance searching for patterns and principles that bring the lamp of experience to our contemporary dilemmas. Ellis discusses Thomas...
88) How to be right
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Publisher
Crown Forum
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The Fox News star outlines his rules and tricks for winning any argument against a liberal by using patience, research, humor, and creative thinking.
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Thirteen Cracks examines the most vulnerable areas in American democracy in the wake of Donald Trump's presidency. Best-selling author Allen J. Lichtman explains in historical context how President Trump uniquely and outrageously exploited these weak spots and proposes a fix for each challenge"--
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Verso
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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"Alexander Cockburn was one of the most influential journalists of his generation. As the Atlantic noted, he was a towering figure who 'would say all the outrageous things his bland counterparts lacked the wit, courage, erudition, or epater-spirit to utter on their own.' In A Colossal Wreck, written prior to his death in July 2012, Cockburn reveals his great literary spirit, incisive reading of the situation, and campaigning vim into a single volume...
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Redefining our traditional understanding of the New Deal, this book finally examines this pivotal American era through a sweeping international lens that juxtaposes a struggling democracy with enticing ideologies like Fascism and Communism. Historian Ira Katznelson asserts that, during the 1930s and 1940s, American democracy was rescued yet distorted by a unified band of southern lawmakers who safeguarded racial segregation as they built a new national...
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In the wake of the September 11 terror attacks, the American government implemented a wave of overt policies to fight the nations enemies. Unseen and undetected by the public, however, another set of tools were brought to bear on the domestic front. In this riveting book, one of todays leading experts on the US security state shows how these subtle tools
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Publisher
Regnery Publishing, a division of Salem Media Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Outrage has become just another political tactic. A society addicted to outrage is in trouble. It's a seductive yet intoxicating drug that kills reason, nuance, and kindness. Dana Loesch, a former spokesman for the NRA, has been the target of as much outrage as anyone. And as she forthrightly acknowledges here, she has dished it out as well. As passionately attached to faith as ever, she warns that our addiction to outrage has debased our politics...
94) American Marxism
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Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In 2009, Mark R. Levin galvanized conservatives with his unforgettable manifesto Liberty and Tyranny, by providing a philosophical, historical, and practical framework for halting the liberal assault on Constitution-based values. That book was about standing at the precipice of progressivism's threat to our freedom and now, over a decade later, we're fully over that precipice and paying the price. In American Marxism, Levin explains how the core...
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The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"This ... assessment of Civil War monuments unveiled in the United States between the 1860s and 1930s argues that they were pivotal to a national embrace of military values. Americans' wariness of standing armies limited construction of war memorials in the early republic ... and continued to influence commemoration after the Civil War. ... distrust of standing armies gave way to broader enthusiasm for soldiers in the Gilded Age. Some important projects...
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Publisher
NewSouth Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In 1974 John Egerton published his seminal work, The Americanization of Dixie. Pulitzer Prize-winner Cynthia Tucker and award-winning author Frye Gaillard carry Egerton's thesis forward in The Southernization of America, a compelling series of linked essays considering the role of the South in shaping America's current political and cultural landscape. They dive deeper, examining the morphing of the Southern strategy of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan...
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In this explosive new book, New York Times bestselling author and president of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton explains how the Radical Left and the Deep State are trying to destroy the Trump presidency"--
Fitton identifies the four major forces posing a continued threat to American democracy: the Deep State; Hillary Clinton; voter fraud; and illegal immigration. He shows how subversive Deep State collaborators with ties to the Clinton and Obama machines...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Brent Cummings, an Iraq war veteran, has come home feeling he survived one war only to find himself in the midst of another one. The country he loves and defended for twenty-eight years seems to be unraveling in front of his eyes. Raised to believe in a vision of America that values fairness, honesty, and respect for others, Cummings is increasingly engulfed by the fear and anger sweeping through his beloved country as he tries to hold onto hope...
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