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"Three-quarters of Americans believe that a group of unelected government and military officials secretly manipulate or direct national policy in the United States. President Trump blames the 'deep state' for his impeachment. But what is the American 'deep state' and does it really exist? ... This ... exploration examines the CIA and FBI scandals of the past fifty years ... It then investigates the claims and counterclaims of the Trump era, and the...
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One Signal Publishers/Atria
Pub. Date
2024.
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ix, 261 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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"An explosive, first-person account chronicling the rise of the MAGA movement from acclaimed political journalist Tina Nguyen, who began her career--and her education--on the ground levels of the conservative recruiting machine"--
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
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342 pages ; 24 cm
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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"--
84) A magnificent catastrophe: the tumultuous election of 1800 : America's first presidential campaign
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Free Press
Pub. Date
2007
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xi, 335 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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English
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The end of communism and breakup of the Soviet Union was a time of euphoria around the world, but Russia today is violently anti-American and dangerously nationalistic. So how did we go from the promise of those days to the autocratic police state of Putin's new Russia? The Invention of Russia reaches back to the darkest days of the cold war to tell the story of the fight for the soul of a nation. With the deep insight only possible of a native son,...
86) Hooligan sparrow
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Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (81 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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中文(繁體)
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The danger is palpable as maverick activist Ye Haiyan (a.k.a Hooligan Sparrow) and her band of colleagues travel to Hainan Province in southern China to protest the case of six elementary school girls who were sexually abused by their principal. Marked as enemies of the state, the activists are under constant government surveillance and face interrogation, harassment, and imprisonment. Sparrow, who gained notoriety with her advocacy work for sex workers'...
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Pinter & Martin
Pub. Date
2021.
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312 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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This is a book about fear. Fear of a virus. Fear of death. Fear of losing our jobs, our democracy, our human connections, our health and our minds. It's also about how the government weaponised our fear against us – supposedly in our best interests – until we were one of the most frightened countries in the world.But why did the government deliberately frighten us? How has this affected us as individuals and as a country? Who is involved in the...
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
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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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, 54 min.)
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English
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In the summer of 2009, shortly after Barack Obama and a Democratic Congress swept to power promising a new era of hope and change, a citizens protest movement emerged out of nowhere threatening to derail their agenda. Some said this uprising was the epitome of grassroots democracy. Others said it was a classic example of 'astroturfing' -- an elaborate corporate public relations effort designed to create the impression of a spontaneous uprising. Curious...
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Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
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viii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"An honest, inspiring, and laugh-out-loud funny memoir about re-energizing our politics and standing up to corporate America-while carting three kids around in a minivan. Never having run for office before, Katie Porter charted a new path in 2018 when she was elected to Congress as a Democrat in historically conservative Orange County, California. Underestimated as a single mom and chided for her progressive values, Katie defied expectations. Then,...
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"Beautifully wrought and impossible to put down, Daniel Sharfstein's Thunder in the Mountains chronicles with compassion and grace that resonant past we should never forget."—Brenda Wineapple, author of Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848–1877
After the Civil War and Reconstruction, a new struggle raged in the Northern Rockies. In the summer of 1877, General Oliver Otis Howard, a champion of...Author
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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356 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"The story of how Newt Gingrich and his allies tainted American politics, launching an enduring era of brutal partisan warfare When Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, President Obama observed that Trump "is not an outlier; he is a culmination, a logical conclusion of the rhetoric and tactics of the Republican Party for the past ten, fifteen, twenty years." In Burning Down the House, historian Julian Zelizer pinpoints the moment when our country...
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Bombardier Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
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212 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Florida firebrand Matt Gaetz, one of President Trump's key supporters in Congress, ... skewers the 'enemies' of the MAGA revolution and lays out his own vision for the future of the populist movement"--Publisher marketing.
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English
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Portrait of the mid-size city of Chelyabinsk and how it is faring in the new Russia--
A revealing look into the lives of ordinary Russians. More than twenty years ago, the longtime NPR correspondent Anne GMore than twenty years ago, the longtime NPR correspondent Anne Garrels began to visit the region of Chelyabinsk, an aging military-industrial center a thousand miles east of Moscow that is home to the Russian nuclear program. Her goal was to chart...
98) Founding partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the brawling birth of American politics
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
2023.
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451 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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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 Founding Partisans is a lively narrative of the early years of the republic as the Founding Fathers fought one another with competing visions of what our nation would be. To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were an existential threat to republican virtues....
100) Stalin
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2014-
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volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world. It has the quality of myth: a poor cobbler's son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russian empire, reinvents himself as a top leader in a band of revolutionary zealots. When the band seizes control of the country in the aftermath of total world war, the former seminarian ruthlessly dominates the new regime until he stands as absolute ruler...
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