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#1 New York Times Bestseller
Is America a source of pride, as Americans have long held, or shame, as Progressives allege? Beneath an innocent exterior, are our lives complicit in a national project of theft, expropriation, oppression, and murder, or is America still the hope of the world?
Dinesh D'Souza says these questions are no mere academic exercise. It is the Progressive view that is taught in our schools, that is preached...
Is America a source of pride, as Americans have long held, or shame, as Progressives allege? Beneath an innocent exterior, are our lives complicit in a national project of theft, expropriation, oppression, and murder, or is America still the hope of the world?
Dinesh D'Souza says these questions are no mere academic exercise. It is the Progressive view that is taught in our schools, that is preached...
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The transcontinental railroads of the late nineteenth century were the first corporate behemoths. Their attempts to generate profits from proliferating debt sparked devastating panics in the U.S. economy. Their dependence on public largess drew them into the corridors of power, initiating new forms of corruption. Their operations rearranged space and time, and remade the landscape of the West. As wheel and rail, car and coal, they opened new worlds...
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Scribner
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2022.
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viii, 354 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
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English
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"Popular narratives of American history conceal as much as they reveal. They present a national identity based on harvesting the treasures that lay in wait for European colonization. In Whose Ruins tells another story: winding through the US landscape, from Native American earthworks in West Virginia to the Manhattan Project in New Mexico, this history is a tour of sites that were mined for an empire's power. Showing the hidden costs of ruthless economic...
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Winters Publishing Group
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2014.
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198 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
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English
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In honoration of Navy SEAL Danny Dietz, the Dietz family with the author Jeremy Dunlap consider the values of love, family and a good heart that were all part of the difference Danny made in the world. Danny Dietz joined the Navy at 19 and was killed at age 25. This is a different kind of Navy SEAL book. There are no mentions of major military operations. There are no harrowing battle scenes ... This is a book of essays focused on the values of an...
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HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2023]
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xxv, 352 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"One summer evening in 1916 in Blanchester, Ohio, a sixteen-year-old farm boy was riding his horse past the town cemetery. The horse reared back and whinnied, and Eugene Exman saw God. For the rest of his life, he struggled to recreate that moment. Through a treasure of personal letters and papers, God the Bestseller explores Exman's personal quest. A journey that would lead him in the late 1920s to the Harper religious books department, which he...
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A comprehensive history and analysis of the origins, evolution, and current life, legacy, and impact of conspiracy theories in American culture and politics, from the colonial era to today.
Conspiracies have been woven through America's social tapestry since the beginning of its history. The United States of Paranoia is a unique and fascinating look at how these commonly held beliefs-true or not-have helped shape the American cultural imagination....
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The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
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2014.
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xi, 344 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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Mexicans in the Making of America examines the impact of Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants on U.S. culture, politics, and economy since the 1848 U.S.-Mexican War, when the United States seized the northern half of Mexico--the present-day states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas (annexed in 1846), Nevada, Utah, and parts of Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma. From the moment the United States signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo...
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Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
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[2013]
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xvii, 304 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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The story of how the simple gruel of our forefathers gave way to snack fixes and fast food, Three Squares also explains how Americans' eating habits may change in the years to come.
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The convenient stories we're told to make us think the U.S. is actually a force for good in the world... Did the U.S. really "save the world" in World War II? Should black athletes stop protesting and have more gratitude for what America has done for them? Are wars fought to spread freedom and democracy? Or is this all fake news? American Exceptionalism and American Innocence examines the stories we're told that lead us to think that the U.S. is a...
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Lionsgate
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2014.
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1 videodisc (approximately 105 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In an era where the American Dream seems to have faded into a dark new dawn, filmmakers Dinesh D'Souza and John Sullivan ponder what may have become of the world if the U.S. had never come into being. By creating an alternate history in which British forces kill General George Washington during the American Revolutionary War, the filmmakers lay the groundwork for a thought-provoking meditation on the crucial role of the United States on the world...
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PBS
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[2021]
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1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A documentary film that focuses on the Confederate Battle flag and its impact on the people, politics, and perceptions of South Carolina and beyond. Through firsthand interviews featuring various perspectives and a wealth of historical footage, Downing of a Flag traces the symbol's controversial relationship with the Palmetto State, exploring its true meaning and how an unspeakable tragedy catalyzed its long-debated removal. The story begins with...
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Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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vi, 314 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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""Racism is an existential threat to America," Theodore R. Johnson declares at the start of his profound and exhilarating book, a refutation of the American Promise enshrined in our Constitution-that all men and women are inherently equal. And yet racism continues to corrode our society. If we cannot overcome it, Johnson argues, while the United States will remain a geopolitical entity, the promise that made America unique on earth will have died....
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A. A. Knopf
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2007
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xi, 283 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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An examination of the early years of the American Republic analyzes the eventful last quarter of the eighteenth century, the accomplishments of the American founders, and the triumphs and failures that shaped the early nation and the American character.
37) Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea: Indian women as cultural intermediaries and national symbols
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University of Oklahoma Press
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2016.
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viii, 356 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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The first Europeans to arrive in North America's various regions relied on Native women to help them navigate unfamiliar customs and places. This study of three well-known female cultural intermediaries -- Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea -- examines their initial contact with Euro-Americans, their negotiation of multinational frontiers, and their symbolic representation over time. Well before their first contact with Europeans or Anglo-Americans,...
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University of Oklahoma Press
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[2019]
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xvi, 389 pages, 12 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
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English
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"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"--
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"From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across the life of our country. By reckoning with the big challenges we face together, drawing on the hard-won wisdom and insight from her own career and the work of those who have most inspired her, Kamala Harris offers in The Truths We Hold a...
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