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Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
A memoir in which Pat Schroeder recalls her twenty-four years as a member of the House of Representatives, discussing her struggle to balance her family life and career; telling of the presidents, House speakers, and other high-profile people she served with; and reviewing some of the important issues she championed.
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Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"The shocking story of how America became one of the world's safest postwar havens for Nazis. Until recently, historians believed America gave asylum only to key Nazi scientists after World War II, along with some less famous perpetrators who managed to sneak in and who eventually were exposed by Nazi hunters. But the truth is much worse, and has been covered up for decades: the CIA and FBI brought thousands of perpetrators to America as possible...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"An insider's account of how politicians representing a radical minority of Americans are using "the greatest deliberative body in the world" to hijack our democracy. Every major decision governing our diverse, majority-female, and increasingly liberal country bears the stamp of the US Senate, yet the Senate allows an almost exclusively white, predominantly male, and radically conservative minority of the American electorate to impose its will on...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Frye Gaillard has given us a deeply personal history, bringing his keen storyteller's eye to this pivotal time in American life. He explores the competing story arcs of tragedy and hope through the political and social movements of the times - civil rights, black power, women's liberation, the Vietnam War and the protests against it. But he also examines the cultural manifestations of change--music, literature, art, religion, and science--and so...
Author
Pub. Date
c2021.
Description
The story of the dramatic postwar struggle over the proper role of citizens and government in American society. In the 1960s and 70s, an insurgent attack on traditional liberalism took shape in America, built on new ideals of citizen advocacy and the public interest. Environmentalists, social critics, and consumer advocates like Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Ralph Nader, and others crusaded against what they saw as a misguided and often corrupt government....
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Pub. Date
2015.
Description
The American President is an enthralling account of American presidential actions from the assassination of William McKinley in 1901 to Bill Clinton's last night in office in January 2001. William Leuchtenburg, one of the great presidential historians of the century, portrays each of the presidents in a chronicle sparkling with anecdote and wit.
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Pub. Date
2016
Description
"Stone lashes out with a blistering indictment that exposes [what he sees as] the true history and monumental hypocrisy of the Bushes. In his usual 'go for the jugular' style, Stone collaborates with Saint John Hunt--author, musician, and son of legendary CIA operative E. Howard Hunt--to make this a no-holds-barred history of the Bush family ... After detailing the vast litany of Jeb's misdeeds, Stone travels back to Samuel, Prescott, George H.W.,...
74) Tailspin: the people and forces behind America's fifty-year fall--and those fighting to reverse it
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Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Publisher's description: Journalist Steven Brill examines how and why major American institutions no longer serve us as they should, causing a deep rift between the vulnerable majority and the protected few. Covering the years 1967 to 2017, Brill shows us how America's core values -- meritocracy, innovation, due process, free speech, and even democracy itself -- have somehow managed to power its decline into dysfunction. They have isolated our best...
75) The Kennedys
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Television miniseries chronicling the lives of the Kennedys during the 1960s. Dramatizes the scandal, tragedy, public greatness and private frailty of America's first "royal" family during one of the most momentous decades in history.
Follows the relationship between John and Robert Kennedy and their father as he shapes them to become politicians and famous influential men.
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Pub. Date
2014.
Description
The historical significance of Barack Obama's triumph in the presidential election of 2008 scarcely requires comment. Yet it contains an irony: he won a victory as an African American only by denying that he should discuss issues that target the concerns of African Americans. Obama's very success, writes Fredrick Harris, exacted a heavy cost on black politics.
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Pub. Date
2002.
Description
"The growing disparity between rich and poor, the corrupting influence of money on politics, and the rise of mass media run by monied corporate interests virtually guarantee that elections - and the policies of the representatives selected by them - will favor the wealthy few over the poor and middle-class majority. Friedenberg offers real solutions to the problems facing the American election system, including a new focus on improved education for...
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