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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In the years leading up to the election of Donald Trump, Congressman Adam Schiff had already been sounding the alarm over the resurgence of autocracy around the world, and the threat this posed to the United States. But as he led the probe into Donald Trump's Russia and Ukraine-related abuses of presidential power, Schiff came to the terrible conclusion that the principal threat to American democracy now came from within. In Midnight in Washington,...
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm
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...
Author
Publisher
Broadside Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 242 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
One in six Americans have stopped talking to close friends and family members over politics. Ideological polarization is at higher levels than at any time since the Civil War. America has developed a habit of seeing people who disagree with us not as merely incorrect or misguided, but as worthless. Brooks shows that treating others with contempt and out-outraging the other side is not a formula for lasting success. He offers a new way to lead based...
Author
Publisher
Tim Duggan Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
356 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From a leading journalist in Moscow and a correspondent for The New Yorker, a groundbreaking portrait of modern Russia and the inner struggles of the people who sustain Vladimir Putin's rule"--
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The Storm is Here is the definitive eyewitness account of how-over the course of a year of pandemic, economic collapse, and feral hatred-stoking and conspiracy-mongering by the President and his campaign-a large segment of Americans became convinced that they needed to rise up against dark forces on the Left that were plotting to take their country away, and then did just that. Through vivid and intimate accounts of people and events on the ground,...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 283 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Washington Post national investigative reporter Carol Leonnig and White House bureau chief Philip Rucker, both Pulitzer Prize winners, provide the definitive insider narrative of Donald Trump's unique presidency with shocking new reporting and insight into its implications. I alone can fix it. So went Donald J. Trump's march to the presidency on July 21, 2016, when he accepted the Republican presidential nomination in Cleveland, promising to restore...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
434 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the origins, evolution, legacy, and impact of paranoia in American politics and culture by discussing five conspiracy narratives that keep recurring throughout history.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 449 pages : illustration on endpapers ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
An investigation into the growing radical right reveals a network of wealthy people with extreme Libertarian views, led by the Koch brothers, that has been systematically influencing and controlling academic institutions, the courts, and the United States government.
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Threshold Editions hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 384 pages : illustrations, graphs ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Do you think mainstream America needs to find its voice? If so, you’re not alone. The country is under attack by extremists at the fringes who put ideology before sanity and stoke division for their own gain. They are trying to rob America of its common sense and deny empirical truths, and we’re all suffering the consequences.
In We’ve Got Issues: How You Can Stand Strong for America’s Soul and Sanity, Dr. Phil employs his signature no-nonsense...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Language
English
Description
"Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear. Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America Meacham shows us how what Abraham Lincoln called the "better angels of our nature" have repeatedly won the day. Painting surprising portraits of presidents including, besides...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
411 pages : 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A major history of America' political parties from the country's Founding to our embittered presentAmerica's political parties are hollow shells of what they could be, locked in a polarized struggle for power and unrooted as civic organizations. The Hollow Parties takes readers from the rise of mass party politics in the Jacksonian era through the years of Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Today's parties, at once overbearing and ineffectual, have emerged...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 264 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"For reasons that are made clear in this book, Putin's Russia will collapse just as Imperial Russia did in 1917 and as Soviet Russia did in 1991. The only questions are when, how violently, and with how much peril for the world. The U.S. election complicates everything, including: Putin's next land grab; Exploitations of the Arctic; Cyber-espionage; Putin and China... and many more crucial topics. An essential read for everybody bewildered and dismayed...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Thirty years ago, Tucker Carlson got his first job out of college fact checking for a quarterly magazine, and he went on to write for many other publications before becoming the primetime Fox News host he is today. In The Long Slide, Tucker delivers a few of his favorite pieces&;annotated with new commentary and insight&;to memorialize the tolerance and diversity of thought that the media used to celebrate instead of punish. In snapshots spanning...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration into the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership. Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the man make the times or do the times make the man? Goodwin draws upon four of the presidents she has studied...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
A narrative account of the twentieth president's political career offers insight into his background as a scholar and Civil War hero, his battles against the corrupt establishment, and Alexander Graham Bell's failed attempt to save him from an assassin's bullet.