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Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Paretsky explores the traditions of political and literary dissent that have informed her life and work, against the unparalleled repression of free speech and thought in the USA today. In tracing the writer's difficult journey from silence to speech, she turns to her childhood and youth in rural Kansas, then evokes Chicago--the city with which she has become indelibly associated--from her arrival during the civil-rights struggle in the mid-1960s...
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Language
English
Description
Traces the revolutionary spirit that runs through American history, and whose founding father and greatest advocate was Thomas Paine, showing how Paine turned Americans into radicals--and how we have remained radicals at heart ever since. Paine was one of the most remarkable political writers of the modern world, and the greatest radical of a radical age. Through his writings, he not only turned America's colonial rebellion into a revolutionary war...
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Russia Gate. The Mueller investigation. Damaging intelligence leaks. The Deep State used every tactic possible to take down Donald Trump. When President Trump needed a trusted lieutenant to take the fight back to the unelected government officials trying to undermine America's constituionally elected government, he chose the best man he had for the job: Kash Patel. As the chief House investigator on Russia Gate, Patel exposed the truth about the...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
English
Description
"While in the short term--militarily--the North won the Civil War, in the long term--ideologically--victory went to the South. The continual expansion of the Western frontier allowed a Southern oligarchic ideology to find a new home and take root. Even with the abolition of slavery and the equalizing power of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, and the ostensible equalizing of economic opportunity afforded by Western expansion, anti-democratic practices...
Author
Publisher
Crown Forum
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The Fox News star outlines his rules and tricks for winning any argument against a liberal by using patience, research, humor, and creative thinking. Revealing the strategies that have helped him keep a steady job for almost three decades. Gutfield gives readers the tools they'll need to argue, influence, and convince their friends, family and foes throughout the 2016 election cycle. --Publisher's description.
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
WND Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Why would a successful, twelve-year Secret Service agent resign his position in the prime of his career to run for political office? Bongino, assigned to protective duty for George W. Bush and Barack Obama, takes an intimate look at life inside the presidential "bubble:" a haze of staffers, consultants, cronies, acolytes, bureaucrats and lobbyists that creates the "alternate reality" in which monumental policy decisions are made. Uncover why a government...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
℗2007
Language
English
Description
The host of Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" offers his opinions, untarnished by facts or research, on important issues in modern American society, including higher education, pets, religion, sports, sex, and the Hollywood agenda.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"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,...
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In this explosive new book, New York Times bestselling author and president of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton explains how the Radical Left and the Deep State are trying to destroy the Trump presidency"--
Fitton identifies the four major forces posing a continued threat to American democracy: the Deep State; Hillary Clinton; voter fraud; and illegal immigration. He shows how subversive Deep State collaborators with ties to the Clinton and Obama machines...
Author
Publisher
Hot Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The Price of Principle is about efforts to cancel Alan Dershowitz and his career because he has insisted on sticking to his principles instead of choosing sides in the current culture and political war dividing our country. He explains that principled people are actively punished for not being sufficiently partisan. Principle has become the vice and partisanship the virtue in an age when partisan ends justify unprincipled means, such as denial of...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"From the congressman who led the first impeachment of Donald J. Trump, the vital inside account of American democracy in its darkest hour, and a warning that the forces of autocracy unleashed by Trump remain as potent as ever. 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...
Author
Publisher
Hot Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The author presents his insights and perspective on current legal efforts to stop Donald Trump from winning a second term as President of the United States--efforts that in Dershowitz's opinion are unconstitutional and are not an equal application of the law.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Recounts not only the disturbing story of an unprecedented White House conspiracy to assassinate a journalist, but also the larger tale of the bitter quarter-century battle between the postwar era's most embattled politician, Richard Nixon, and its most reviled newsman, Jack Anderson.