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The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell HappenedOne of the New Yorker's Best Books of 2022 Bill McKibben--award-winning author, activist, educator--is fiercely curious. "I'm curious about what went so suddenly sour with American patriotism, American faith, and American prosperity." Like so many of us, McKibben grew up believing--knowing--that the United States...
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The Fourth Branch: How State Government Can Save Our Union"In a distracted age, focus is a superpower, and this book's supremely persuasive case to focus energy on state government and unlock its power will win you over. If you're upset about what's happening around the country, The Fourth Branch offers a concrete way...
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The Future of Free Speech: Reversing the Global Decline of Democracy's Most Essential FreedomAn incisive examination of free speech's global decline and a framework for preserving expression in democratic societies.The Future of Free Speech confronts a stark truth: the right to speak freely is under siege. Once celebrated as a cornerstone of democratic societies, free expression is...
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The Greatest Sentence Ever WrittenAmerica's bestselling biographer reveals the origins of the most revolutionary sentence in the Declaration of Independence, the one that defines who we are as Americans--and explains how it should shape our politics today. To celebrate America's 250th anniversary, Walter Isaacson takes readers on a...
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The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of LaborNATIONAL BESTSELLER A timely, in-depth, and vital exploration of the American labor movement and its critical place in our society and politics today, from acclaimed labor reporter Hamilton Nolan. Inequality is America's biggest problem. Unions are the single strongest tool that working people have...
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The Heritage Guide to the Constitution: Fully Revised Third EditionA Neutral and Thorough Accounting of the Constitution's Original Meaning Over the past two decades, the federal judiciary has increasingly grounded its cases in the Constitution's original meaning. Students, scholars, lawyers, and judges are now expected to understand and apply the text, history, and...
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The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling ClassThe New York Times-bestselling author looks at the real history of the corrupting influence of oligarchy in America--and how we can fight back. Billionaire oligarchs want to own our republic, and they're nearly there thanks to legislation and Supreme Court decisions that they have...
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The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party PoliticsA major history from the Founding to our embittered present that "explains the void" (Politico) at the center of America's political partiesFeatured on The Ezra Klein Show and The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart America's political parties are hollow shells of what they could...
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The Instigators: How Black Women Have Been Essential to American Democracy (and What We Can Learn from Them)A top Democratic Party strategist and media contributor offers a bold and urgent reminder that young Black women hold the key to saving our democracy and building a truly multi-racial future that benefits all Americans.Agitator. Troublemaker. Motivator. Initiator. Instigator."How can we build a truly...
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The Last American Road Trip: A MemoirUSA Today bestsellerAmerican Booksellers Association bestseller "Kendzior is an absolutely terrific writer." --Sebastian Junger The New York Times bestselling author of They Knew, Hiding in Plain Sight, and The View from Flyover Country navigates a changing America as she and her family embark on...
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The Last American Road Trip: A MemoirUSA Today bestsellerAmerican Booksellers Association bestseller "Kendzior is an absolutely terrific writer." --Sebastian Junger The New York Times bestselling author of They Knew, Hiding in Plain Sight, and The View from Flyover Country navigates a changing America as she and her family embark on...
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The Living Declaration: A Biography of America's Founding TextINDEPENDENCE WAS ONLY THE BEGINNING: A historian and former presidential speechwriter traces the origins and legacy of the words and ideas that made America. Illustrations and close readings of 68 original texts offer new insights on the American Revolution, the Civil War, and other...
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The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring FreedomA timely update to the phenomenal national bestseller.Soon after its quiet release during the height of the Red Scare in 1958, The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom exploded in popularity, selling almost two million copies to date and finding its way into...
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The Next Journalism: How the Press Must Change to Serve DemocracyAn urgent case that the survival of democracy depends on reinventing the press, with ten pioneering reforms to help journalism better serve the public--from the co-author of the classic The Elements of Journalism. The crisis in journalism reflects a crisis in American democracy. Faith...
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The Open Space of DemocracyTerry Tempest Williams presents a sharp-edged perspective on the ethics and politics of place, spiritual democracy, and the responsibilities of citizen engagement. By turns elegiac, inspiring, and passionate, The Open Space of Democracy offers a fresh perspective on the critical questions of our time.Author:...
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The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and DemocracyNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change minds, bridge divisions, and fight for democracy--from disinformation fighters to a leader of Black Lives Matter to Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and more--by the best-selling...
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The Populist DelusionThe 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump unleashed a wave of populism not seen in America since the Nixon era, which carried him into the presidency. Seen widely as a vindication of the people over elites, his failure to bring about any meaningful change...
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The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend ItImagine an American president who imprisoned critics, spread a culture of white supremacy, and tried to upend the law so that he could commit crimes with impunity.In this propulsive and eminently readable history, constitutional law and political science professor Corey Brettschneider provides a thoroughly...
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The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend ItImagine an American president who imprisoned critics, spread a culture of white supremacy, and tried to upend the law so that he could commit crimes with impunity.In this propulsive and eminently readable history, constitutional law and political science professor Corey Brettschneider provides a thoroughly...
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The Reactionary Spirit: How America's Most Insidious Political Tradition Swept the WorldWith keen insight, Vox journalist Zack Beauchamp traces how a reactionary antidemocratic ethos born and bred in America has come to infect democracies around the world. There is a fundamental contradiction at the heart of American politics that has endured since our nation's birth....
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