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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Standout syndicated columnist and CNN contributor Salena Zito, with veteran Republican strategist Brad Todd, reports across five swing states and over 27,000 miles to answer the pressing question: Was Donald Trump's election a fluke or did it represent a fundamental shift in the electorate that will have repercussions--for Republicans and Democrats--for years to come. The history of the American electorate is not a litany of flukes; instead it is...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A unique, revelatory portrait of small-town America: the activities, changes, and events that shape this mostly unseen part of our national landscape, and the issues and concerns that matter to the ordinary Americans who make these towns their home. For the last five years, James and Deborah Fallows have been traveling across America in a single-prop airplane, visiting small cities and meeting civic leaders, factory workers, recent immigrants, and...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living. Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. Often asked by major publications to write on subjects related to Jewish culture-and increasingly in response to a recent wave of deadly antisemitic attacks-Horn was troubled to realize what all of these assignments had in common:...
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
1924.
Language
English
Description
The film is a broad satire of American ignorance of the Soviet Union. The naive American, Mr. John West, played by Porfori Podobed as a Harold Lloyd type (complete with enormous round glasses), is a YMCA president who is planning a trip to the newly founded Soviet Union to spread the idea of the YMCA. His wife, Madge, is worried that Russia is full of savage Bolsheviks who wear primitive rags and fur for clothing, as depicted in American magazines....
6) Orientalism
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
Examines the Western world's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East, tracing the origins of orientalism to the centuries-long period during which Europe dominated the Middle and Near East.
Author
Language
English
Description
From Derek Hunter-one of the most entertaining political writers today-comes an insightful, alarming look at how progressives have taken over academia, pop culture, and journalism in order to declare everything liberal great, and everything great, liberal. Progressives love to attack conservatives as anti-science, wallowing in fake news, and culturally backwards. But who are the real denialists here? There are three institutions in American life...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
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 robbing America of its common senseand denying 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 approach...
11) Israel's moment: international support for and opposition to establishing the Jewish State,1945-1949
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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Israel's Moment is a major new account of how a Jewish state came to be forged in the shadow of World War Two and the Holocaust and the onset of the Cold War. Drawing on new research in government, public and private archives, Jeffrey Herf exposes the political realities that underpinned support for and opposition to Zionist aspirations in Palestine. In an unprecedented international account, he explores the role of the United States, the Arab States,...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"From award-winning journalist and filmmaker Stefania Rousselle, a stunning collection of photographs and essays that seek to understand the universality of love Journalist and filmmaker Stefania Rousselle found herself overwhelmed and dejected with the horrors of modern news after years spent covering terrorist attacks, human trafficking, and the rise of extremism. To renew her faith in humanity, she took off on a solo road trip across France, determined...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
A deeply researched exploration of the surprising roots of America's long alliance with Israel and its troubling consequences reveals how the American consensus on Israel and Palestine emerged and why, today, it is fracturing.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Political theorist Justin Lewis examines how polling data presented in the media do not simply reflect what Americans think, but construct public opinion itself. Exploding the myth that most Americans are moderate or conservative, Constructing Public Opinion demonstrates how political elites help to promote militarism, and how mainstream media sustain an electoral system with a built-in bias against the interests of ordinary people.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"American democracy is in crisis. In 2020, more than half of Americans claimed they were dissatisfied with their political system, and an increasing number are willing to consider alternatives to popular rule-including authoritarianism. We view our political opponents with disdain, if not terror. These fears aren't entirely misguided: democratic debate often puts America's ugliest impulses on display. But in Two Cheers for Politics, renowned political...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Description
"For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him--most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear ... In [this book], Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings--moments when he discovered some new truth...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"As an increasingly polarized America fights over the legacy of racism, Susan Neiman, author of the contemporary philosophical classic Evil in Modern Thought, asks what we can learn from the Germans about confronting the evils of the past."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The author looks at twenty well-known paintings, sculptures, and photographs that have left lasting impressions on the general public. The book explains how fame is achieved and ultimately, how a work either retains that fame or passes from the public consciousness -- Book jacket.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"An exuberant, opinionated, stereotype-busting view of contemporary Africa in all its splendid diversity by one of its leading new writers. A lively and diverse continent of fifty-four countries, over two thousand languages, and 1.4 billion people, Africa has long been painted with a broad brush in Western literature, media, and culture, flattening it into a monolith. In Africa is Not a Country, the acclaimed journalist Dipo Faloyin boldly counters...
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