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Pub. Date
2004
Description
Thom Hartmann, the acclaimed author of Unequal Protection and The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, tells a compelling story -- of how a government of, by, and for the people has been replaced by corporate domination. Through brilliant analysis and imaginative illustrations, this fully graphic book illuminates the central dynamics of American politics. He reveals the forgotten history of the Foundersα intent and the devious way that corporations came...
223) The American republic can save American democracy (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)
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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"This is a book that will make you more versed in political theory and political practice. As the political climate is constantly changing, the author, a politician who has worked in Washington, D.C., explores how the American Republic can save American Democracy, in particular from creeping authoritarianism. He examines the basic tenets of republicanism as laid out by America's Founders-popular sovereignty, a sense of the common good, resistance...
224) Dark Money
Description
Examines one of the greatest present threats to American democracy: the influence of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials. The film takes viewers to Montana, a frontline in the fight to preserve fair elections nationwide, to follow a local journalist working to expose the real-life impacts of the US Supreme Court's Citizens United decision.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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Marty Baron took charge of The Washington Post newsroom in 2013, after nearly a dozen years leading The Boston Globe. Just seven months into his new job, Baron received explosive news: Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, would buy the Post, marking a sudden end to control by the venerated family that had presided over the paper for 80 years. Just over two years later, Donald Trump won the presidency.
Now, the capital's newspaper, owned by one of...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Description
In wide-ranging interviews with David Barsamian, his longtime interlocutor, Noam Chomsky asks us to consider a world imperiled by climate change and the growing potential for nuclear war. These twelve interviews, conducted from 2013 to 2016, examine the latest developments around the globe: the devastation of Syria, the reach of state surveillance, growing anger over economic inequality, the place of religion in American political culture, and the...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
In this interpretation of the Declaration of Independence's famous phrase, the president of the National Constitution Center profiles six of the most influential founders to show what pursuing happiness meant in their lives and how it became the foundation of our democracy.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"A history of religion's role in the American liberal tradition through the eyes of seven transformative thinkers. Today we associate liberal thought and politics with secularism. When we argue over whether the nation's founders meant to keep religion out of politics, the godless side is said to be liberal. But the role of religion in American politics has always been far more nuanced and complex than today's debates would suggest and closer to the...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"On December 26, 1941, Secret Service Agent Harry E. Neal stood on a platform at Washington's Union Station, watching a train chug off into the dark and feeling at once relieved and inexorably anxious. These were dire times: as Hitler's armies plowed across Europe, seizing or destroying the Continent's historic artifacts at will, Japan bristled to the East. The Axis was rapidly closing in. So FDR set about hiding the country's valuables. On the train...
Pub. Date
2006
Description
What's the difference between the executive and legislative branches? What makes the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights so important? United States Government takes students on an exciting journey, examining the people, documents, laws and events that have made America's democracy a benchmark the world over. Students will learn about the U.S. government through a lively blend of archival footage, graphics, and interviews with government officials...
232) The McCarthy era
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Discusses the anti-Communist movement in the United States in the mid-twentieth century, spearheaded by Senator Joseph McCarthy, and examines the controversies surrounding the era and personal narrative of the time.
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Pub. Date
p2018
Description
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author provides a provocative, comprehensive analysis of Vladimir Putin and Russia's master plan to destroy democracy in the age of Donald Trump, with a foreword by Rob Reiner.
"A convincing cry that treason is afoot." - Kirkus Reviews
"[E]ven as this plot gets more intricate (and, yes, sometimes it does read like a political thriller), readers will be turning pages quickly, feeling both anxiety and betrayal....
Author
Pub. Date
[2014].
Description
Nader provides a blueprint for how Americans on both sides of the aisle can fight against the corporate state and crony capitalism. He makes the case that large segments of the progressive, conservative and libertarian political camps find themselves aligned in opposition to the destruction of civil liberties, the corporate welfare state, the relentless perpetuation of America's wars, sovereignty-shredding free trade agreements and the unpunished...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
In this short, accessible book, author Jonathan Tasini draws heavily from Sanders' ample public record of speeches, statements, and interviews, and couples his working-class spirit with specific legislation he has championed on a number of core proposals that comprise a broader people's agenda for America. --Publisher's description.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Why the people? Is democracy actually the best form of government? Does it ever work like it’s supposed to? Join Lin and Julie in the middle of an airport, as they wonder aloud how America can ever be a democracy when citizens seem to disagree about everything. With them, we are whisked through political history, and journey through different systems of power, including monarchy, theocracy, dictatorship and oligarchy." --book jacket
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
The lady and the highway man is an adaptation of Barbara Cartland's novel featuring a 17th century adventure romance between an aristocrat and an endangered noblewoman.
The green promise: A stubborn farmer stuck in the past rules his farm and his family with an iron fist, but his unwillingness to move with the times almost causes him to lose everything in this 1940s dustbowl drama. As the story takes an unexpected turn, he is forced to relent and...
238) Merchants of doubt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Tells the story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers, with deep connections in politics and industry, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades that link smoking to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone hole.
239) The story of India
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Its been sixty years since Indian independence. Presented is the tale of the oldest and most diverse civilization and the largest democracy. A nuclear power and a rising giant, India's population will overtake China's within 10 years and its economy is predicted to overtake that of the United States by the 2030s. A journey of sights and sounds, and achievements, go from the deserts of Turkmenistan to the Khyber Pass.