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Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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He tried to warn us. Ever since the release of the first Trump-for-President trial balloon in 1987, Doonesbury’s Garry Trudeau has tirelessly tracked and highlighted the unsavory career of the most unqualified candidate to ever aspire to the White House. It’s all there--the hilarious narcissism, the schoolyard bullying, the loathsome misogyny, the breathtaking ignorance; and a good portion of the Doonesbury cast has been tangled up in it. Join...
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HarperCollins / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Today's Tea Party activists are motivated by the same ideological desires as our nation's Founding Fathers, argues Michael Patrick Leahy in this illuminating work of political history. Today's political class--in both parties and at all levels of government--shows a blatant disregard for both the letter and spirit of the U.S. Constitution. More and more Americans are fed up, and from this sweeping sense of discontent and anger the Tea Party movement...
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Pitchstone Publishing / Independent Publishers Group
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A handbook for anyone who wants to learn about how to be active in local, state, and federal government, The Citizen Lobbyist shows how to have a voice in creating public policy. More citizen involvement is needed in our government processes to ensure the voices of the people are heard over the money of paid lobbyists, unions, and coalitions, both in Washington, DC, and in state capitals across the country. All too often, public officials seem removed...
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English
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Thom Hartmann, the most popular progressive radio host in America and a New York Times bestselling author, looks at the history of the battle against oligarchy in America-and how we can win the latest round.
Billionaire oligarchs want to own our republic, and they're nearly there thanks to legislation and Supreme Court decisions that they have essentially bought. They put Trump and his political allies into office and support a vast network of...
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Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The second volume of David Herbert Donald's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of the most compelling senator of the Civil War era In the enthralling sequel to Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War, acclaimed historian David Herbert Donald examines the life of the Massachusetts legislator from 1860 to his death in 1874. As a leader of the Radical Republicans, Sumner made the abolition of slavery his primary legislative focus--yet opposed the...
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HarperCollins / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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“Hamilton’s turbulent life, the dramatic birth of a nation, all against the richly evoked gritty background of the 18th century--Randall’s book is propelled with the page-turning intensity of an epic novel.” -- Ronald Blumer, Peabody Award-winning writer A new reissue of this important biography of Alexander Hamilton--arguably one of the most brilliant and complex of our nation’s founders. From his less than auspicious start in 1755 on the...
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Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Why is it that China, despite its size and once advanced culture and technology, did not become a world power centuries ago? Burman traces the answer through Chinese innate sense of superiority which made foreign conquest and trade an irrelevance. This is about to change with the evolution of the "Stealth Empire," characterized by world dominance in the production of consumer goods, a growing share of world manufacturing, and a strong sense of nationalism....
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
An critically-acclaimed Iranian author makes his American literary debut with this powerful and harrowing psychological portrait of modern Iran-an unprecedented and urgent work of fiction with echoes of The Stranger, 1984 , and The Orphan Master's Son -that exposes the oppressive and corrosive power of the state to bend individual lives. Yunus Turabi, a bus driver in Tehran, leads an unremarkable life. A solitary man since the unexpected deaths of...
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Series
Publisher
Abrams / Vearsa Limited
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
Description
"When Charles McCarry's The Better Angels was first published almost 30 years ago, its premise--that terrorists would use passenger-filled airliners as tools of terror--seemed incredible. In retrospect, the novel would prove to be prophetic. The Better Angels takes place in an election year close to the turn of the century in a deeply polarized America. The presidential race matches a tall, lantern-jawed liberal to a far-right former businessman with...
30) Out of crisis
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Publisher
Indigo River Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A pulsating page-turner, Out of Crisis seamlessly blends the thrill of disaster movies such as The Day After Tomorrow and the political maneuvering found in shows like The West Wing ... Readers who enjoy political thrillers or books about natural disasters should definitely grab a copy of Out of Crisis." - Readers' Favorite In the not-too-distant future, a radical new movement is poised to disrupt the corrupt two-party political system that has held...
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English
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The Founding Fathers have been hailed for centuries as shining examples of men who put aside their own agendas to found a nation. But behind the scenes, there were more petty fights and fraught relationships than signatures on the Declaration of Independence. From the violent brawl between Roger Griswold and Matthew Lyon in the halls of Congress, to George Washington's battle against his slave Harry Washington, these less-discussed clashes bring to...
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Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"A collection of essays examining the underlying causes of 2011's Arab uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Syria, and Yemen. The 2011 eruptions of popular discontent across the Arab world, popularly dubbed the Arab Spring, were local manifestations of a regional mass movement for democracy, freedom, and human dignity. Authoritarian regimes were either overthrown or put on notice that the old ways of oppressing their subjects would no longer be tolerated....
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Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"From one of the subcontinent's most important and controversial writers comes this definitive history of post-Partition India, now revised and updated with extensive new material Told in lucid and beautiful prose, the story of India's wild ride toward and since Independence is a riveting one. Taking full advantage of the dramatic details of the protests and conflicts that helped shape the nation, politically, socially, and economically, Ramachandra...
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A devastatingly hilarious satire that cuts closer to the truth of than any nonfiction account: The creator and star of Comedy Central's acclaimed The President Show opens the vault and imagines Donald J. Trump's presidential archives, exposing documents from his childhood in Queens to his toddlerhood in the Oval Office.
The Presidential Archives. Every other president has made a mess of it. Barack Obama is currently spending millions of dollars...
35) Sh*t Trump Says
Author
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"I have a very good brain and I've said a lot of things." Our 45th president has had plenty to say (and tweet) to the American people. His illustrious life has been full of words of "wisdom" -- just imagine life without phrases like "lock her up." This book is a collection of his greatest hits, from his days as a real estate investor to his most interesting (or confounding) presidential utterances.
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Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This book, which begins with what many believe to be a political killing, is an alternative history of Margaret Thatcher's premiership. It looks at the secret campaign that Mrs Thatcher and her government waged before and after the Falklands War against 'subversives': anti-nuclear, new age and ecology campaigners; poll tax protesters; trade unionists at GCHQ and Wapping; Greenham Common women; Scottish nationalists; Ken Livingstone and the GLC; Derek...
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English
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An extraordinary and timeless biography that looks at the influence the natural world played on Theodore Roosevelt. Evaluates Theodore Roosevelt's role in launching modern conservationsim, identifying the contributions of such influences as James Audubon and John Muir while describing how Roosevelt's exposure to natural wonders in his early life shaped his environmental values.
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Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive single volume handbook covers the Nazis rise to power in Germany, complete with photographs from Heinrich Hoffman, Hitler's personal photographer The rise of Hitler's Nazi Party is one of the defining aspects of the 20th century. The manner in which National Socialist ideologies took over life in Germany is difficult to comprehend more than 75 years later. This fully illustrated book is a single-volume encyclopedia on all aspects of...
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Publisher
Arcadia Publishing / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
In his introduction, Ed Gamble points out the intriguing relationship of political cartoonist and politician. It is a relationship that can range from downright antagonistic to one of mutual praise. While political cartoonists would have a hard time making a livelihood without politicians, politicians often do wish that they were living without editorial cartoonists. It is a sentiment one might infer from the forewords by former presidents George...
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Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
China and Iran have featured heavily in the news in recent years. China is both a military and an economic superpower with 20% of the world's population; Iran is suspected of developing nuclear weapons and arming terrorists, and sits on the world's second-largest oil and gas reserves. They are also surprisingly close geographically: Iran is only 700 miles across Afghanistan from China's extreme western border. A 25-year, $100 billion deal for Iran...
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