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American society is more polarized than ever before. We are strategically being pushed apart by disinformation--the deliberate spreading of lies disguised as truth--and it comes at us from all sides: opportunists on the far right, Russian misinformed social media influencers, among others. It's endangering our democracy and causing havoc in our electoral system, schools, hospitals, workplaces, and in our Capitol. Advances in technology including rapid...
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An extraordinary view into the politics of our times, Tired of Winning explores how Donald Trump remade the Republican Party in his own image--and the wreckage he's left in his wake. Packed with new reporting, Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party tracks Trump's improbable journey from disgraced and defeated former president to the dominant force, yet again, in the Republican Party. From his exile in Mar-a-Lago, Donald...
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2023.
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English
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In the early twentieth century, anarchists like Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman championed a radical vision of a world without states, laws, or private property. Militant and sometimes violent, anarchists were heroes to many working-class immigrants. But to many others, anarchism was a terrifyingly foreign ideology. Determined to crush it, government officials launched a decades-long "war on anarchy," a brutal program of spying, censorship, and...
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Dorling Kindersley
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[2023]
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English
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Making the Rules interweaves historical context, events, and personalities with the experiences of modern Americans to help students understand key social studies topics, including the origins of American institutions and values and their relevance to young people's lives today. The book explores government's impact on daily life, including raising money through taxation, security, protecting citizens' rights, organization, and providing services....
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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A riveting insider account of the progressive movement in Congress centering Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Jamaal Bowman, Cori Bush, Ayanna Pressley, and Ilhan Omar--their rise, their efforts to set an ambitious agenda for the country, and their struggle to find their footing within the Democratic party.
7) Founding partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the brawling birth of American politics
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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. Still, peaceful transfers of power continued, and the nascent country made its way toward global dominance, against all odds. Founding Partisans is a powerful reminder that fierce partisanship is a problem as old as the republic, one we've survived time and time again.
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Harper
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[2023]
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English
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From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay comes an exhilarating collection of her essays on culture, politics, and everything in between. Since the publication of the groundbreaking "Bad Feminist and Hunger," Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling society--state-sponsored violence and mass shootings, womens rights post-Dobbs, online disinformation, and the limits of empathy--alongside more individually personalized matters:...
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The Democratic Party is now controlled by Cultural Marxists. So are our universities and public schools, the media, Big Tech, and Big Business. Corporations push transgenderism down their customers' throats. Banks punish gun shops. Hollywood insults our religious beliefs and grooms our children. The big investment companies use our retirement savings to promote leftist causes. And the Biden administration has turned our military into an indoctrination...
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2023.
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English
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A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers betrayed the American people and the Constitution--leading to the violent attack on our Capitol on January 6th, 2021--by the House Republican leader who dared to stand up to it. In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump and many around him, including certain other elected Republican officials, intentionally breached their oath to...
11) Cold War
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World Book, Inc
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[2018]
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English
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A summary of the history of the Cold War (1945-1991).
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Penguin Press
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2023.
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English
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For much of history, societies have violently oppressed ethnic, religious, and sexual minorities. It is no surprise that many who passionately believe in social justice came to believe that members of marginalized groups need to take pride in their identity to resist injustice. Over the past decades, a healthy appreciation for the culture and heritage of minority groups has transformed into a counterproductive obsession with group identity in all...
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Harvard University Press
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2024.
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English
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After Thomas Jefferson visited Mount Vernon in 1801 to pay his respects to George Washington's widow, Martha Washington remembered the encounter as the second-worst experience of her life--after the death of her husband. The two founders had become estranged by the time that Washington died. But for most of the time that they had known one another, from their first meeting in 1769, they enjoyed a productive and positive relationship. Contrary to the...
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W. W. Norton & Company
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2024.
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English
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We Are Your Soldiers examines seven countries-Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Yemen, and Libya-weaving the epic tale of Nasser's dramatic encounters with each to reassess his impact in the Arab sphere. These engagements were often drenched in blood and destruction, leaving deep scars that endure to the present. Rowell shows how the Nasser years were crucial to the formation of regimes as varied as Bashar al-Assad's Syria, Muammar al-Gaddafi's...
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Penguin Press
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2024.
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English
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When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, its message was clear: Iraq, under the control of strongman Saddam Hussein, possessed weapons of mass destruction which posed grave danger to the world. But when no WMDs were found, the US and its allies were forced to consider that their political and intelligence failures had led to one of the most disastrous conflicts of our time. And a more integral question remained unsolved: Why had Saddam seemingly...
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Historian Matthew Connelly analyzes the millions of state documents both accessible to the public and still under review to unearth not only what the government does not want us to know, but what it says about the very authority we bequeath to our leaders. By culling this research and studying a series of pivotal moments in recent history from Pearl Harbor to drone strikes, Connelly sheds light on the drivers of state secrecy (especially consolidating...
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Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Levin proves that since its establishment, the Democrat Party has set out to rewrite history and destroy the foundation of freedom in America. Here he alerts his fellow Americans to the destruction this country is facing, as the Democrats install Marxist philosophy and plan a new revolution. The Democrat Party must be resoundingly conquered in the next election, and several elections thereafter-- or it will become extremely difficult to under the...
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Warrior Poet Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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As a Christian student navigates the perilous waters of a modern woke university engulfed in student protest, a serial killer captures professors and records his debates with them. The topic of debate: his moral right to kill them. And a criminal psychology professor who knows the killer best must help the cops find him, while facing down his own inner demons.
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Basic Books, Hachette Book Group
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2023.
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English
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Founded in 1958 by a small band of anti-New Deal businessmen, the John Birch Society held that a vast communist conspiracy existed within America and posed an existential threat to the country. Birchers railed against the federal government, defended segregation, and accused liberal elites of conspiring to destroy the country's core values--Christianity, capitalism, and individual freedom. Shunned by the political establishment and mainstream media,...
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ReferencePoint Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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January 6, 2021, was a crisis point for American democracy, where the results of a democratic election were challenged violently. However, the crisis did not end that day. This is an unusual and frightening moment in American history. Many of the democratic norms of American society-like trust in the legitimacy of elections, and the willingness of legislators from different parties to work together-have shifted. American democracy is at a turning...
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