Robin, Corey
Summary: "Most people can tell you two things about Clarence Thomas: Anita Hill accused him of sexual harassment, and he almost never speaks from the bench. Here are some things they don't know: Thomas is a black nationalist. In college he memorized the speeches of Malcolm X. He believes white people are incurably racist. In the first examination of its kind, Corey Robin - one of the foremost analysts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THOMAS, CLARENCE ROBDickson, Sean B.
Summary: "Growing up, he never got the chance to know his mother and father. And he often had no money for new shoes, or even for bus fare. When Thomas Sowell left home at age seventeen, all he had in the world fit into a single suitcase. While he looked for work, he often had nothing to eat save for some stale bread and a little jelly. But Sowell refused to give in to despair or self-pity. He was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heroes of Liberty 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB SOWELL DICCoulter, Ann H.
Summary: Conservative commentator Ann Coulter attacks the immigration issue head-on, flying in the face of La Raza, the Democrats, a media determined to cover up immigrants' crimes, churches that get paid by the government for their "charity," and greedy Republican businessmen and campaign consultants -- all of whom are profiting handsomely from mass immigration that's tearing the country apart....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Publishing, a division of Salem Media Group 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.6 COUGutfeld, Greg
Summary: "Greg Gutfeld is back with a hilarious essay collection about how he destroyed the mainstream late night landscape of heavyweights and became host of the #1 late night show in all of television. With his signature wit and whip-smart humor, Greg reveals never-before-told stories of his upbringing and early career, what it's like going head-to-head with the liberal media, and what it took to flip...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GUTFELD, GREG GUTHemmer, Nicole
Summary: "For decades, Ronald Reagan's name has served as shorthand for the entirety of the modern conservative movement. Contrary to conventional wisdom, however, Reaganism was, from today's vantage point, a brief digression in conservatism's history. In the 1980s, an unusual set of economic and political conditions and an unusually charismatic leader combined to win huge majorities for Reagan's vision...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.52 HEMKruse, Kevin Michael
Summary: "We're often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the idea of 'Christian America' is an invention--and a relatively recent one at that. As Kruse argues, the belief that America is fundamentally and formally a Christian nation originated in the 1930s when businessmen enlisted religious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 KRUSummary: When liberal filmmaker Michael Moore is invited to speak at Utah Valley State College, it creates a firestorm not usually seen in the heart of conservative Mormon country. A media frenzy follows, as does Fox News' Sean Hannity who agrees to speak at UVSC prior to Moore's engagement. Protests, anger, and a bribery attempt by a local businessman to stop Moore's appearance punctuate this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disinformation Co. 2005
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC DIVConason, Joe
Summary: "A sardonic chronicle of how conservatism turned into a racketeering enterprise - and why Donald Trump became the living emblem of the American right's moral decay. The Longest Con tells the fascinating story of the partisan con artists who have corrupted conservative politics in our time, creating a toxic phenomenon that culminated in the election of Donald Trump, a bumptious fraud whose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.52 CONRabb, Steven
Summary: "If the Founding Fathers surveyed our nation today and together composed a single speech to America, what would they say? The prologue begins to answer that question as it chronicles a current-day reunion of America's Founding Fathers at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. Through a stroke of Providence, the Founders have assembled once again to take up their pen and save the country they love....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liberty For All Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Politic RabbSummary: Dead last in the ratings, ABC hired two towering public intellectuals to debate each other during the Democratic and Republican national conventions. William F. Buckley Jr. was a leading light of the new conservative movement. A Democrat and cousin to Jackie Onassis, Gore Vidal was a leftist novelist and polemicist. Armed with deep-seated distrust and enmity, Vidal and Buckley believed each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BESChristie, Chris
Summary: "Enough with the infighting, the truth-denying, the wild conspiracy claims, the looking backward, and the refusal to focus on the dangerous Biden agenda. Here's Chris Christie's urgent guide for recapturing Republican glory and winning elections again, told with all the New Jersey frankness and news-breaking insights that have made the two-term governor, Trump early endorser, and presidential...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.2734 CHRHendershot, Heather
Summary: "Few conservatives are as revered and admired as William F. Buckley. Buckley is best known for founding National Review, the flagship journal of the right. But his long-running talk show Firing Line was equally important, because it allowed him to reach beyond the conservative enclave and engage millions of mainstream Americans. When Firing Line premiered in 1966, only two years after Barry...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadside 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070 HENKleinknecht, William
Summary: "In the wake of Trump's presidency, Republican-led states have joined in an alarming assault on our democratic system. But the drift toward authoritarianism in red states has far deeper roots. We now have a country where tens of millions of people live under regimes that have spent years starving education and health care, empowering polluters, engaging in voter suppression, and neglecting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 352.23 KLESummary: "In this award-winning new documentary, director Jen Senko seeks to discover why her WWII veteran father’s personality radically transformed from that of a non-political Kennedy Democrat to an angry right-wing fanatic after his discovery of Talk Radio and Fox News. In trying to understand how this happened, Senko not only finds this to be a phenomenon, but also comes to a startling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BRASummary: Follows Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater's tumultuous election year, as well as other years in a career that encompassed numerous political and ideological triumphs. Though he never achieved the ultimate prize, the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 vindicated the conservative agenda Goldwater had long championed. Ironically, in later years, Goldwater's support of issues like abortion and gay...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MR.DeSantis, Ron
Summary: "Ron DeSantis describes how he has scored political victories over progressives and how Florida can serve as a model for American governance"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadside Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 352.23 DESKirk, Charlie
Summary: An overview of the tenets of Donald Trump and his supporters, explaining their worldview and goals for the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.52 KIRPeters, Jeremy (Jeremy W.)
Summary: "How, Peters asks, did conservative values that Republicans claimed to cherish, like small government, fiscal responsibility, and morality in public service, get completely eroded as an unshakable faith in Donald Trump grew to define the party? The answer is a tale traced across three decades--with new reporting and firsthand accounts from the people who were there--of populist uprisings that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.2734 PETSavage, Michael
Summary: Argues that progressives and radical Islamists are working toward similar ends by compromising democratic principles to instill a government of absolute power without representation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 320.5109 SAVSchlichter, Kurt
Summary: Has any president been more unjustly vilified than Donald Trump?Yes, he’s brash. Yes, he has an ego. Yes, his ad-libbing sometimes gets him into trouble. But the fact is Donald Trump is the most effective conservative president in decades. That’s why the media hate him. That’s why they lie about him. When they lie about him, they’re really lying about you, because to the media, anyone who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.2734 SCHSykes, Charles J.
Summary: In How the Right Lost Its Mind, Sykes presents an impassioned, regretful, and deeply thoughtful account of how the American conservative movement came to lose its values. How did a movement that was defined by its belief in limited government, individual liberty, free markets, traditional values, and civility find itself embracing bigotry, political intransigence, demagoguery, and outright...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.5 SYKAllitt, Patrick.
Contents: Pt 1. Lecture 1: What is conservatism? -- Lecture 2: Glorious revolution and its heritage -- Lecture 3: Burke, tradition, and the French Revolution -- Lecture 4: Pitt and the wars of the French Revolution -- Lecture 5: American Revolution -- Lecture 6: Federalists -- Lecture 7: Conservatives in the American south -- Lecture 8: Northern Antebellum conservatism -- Lecture 9: Opposing the Great...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.52 CONDallek, Matthew
Summary: "Founded in 1958 by a small band of anti-New Deal businessmen, the John Birch Society held that a vast communist conspiracy existed within America and posed an existential threat to the country. Birchers railed against the federal government, defended segregation, and accused liberal elites of conspiring to destroy the country's core values--Christianity, capitalism, and individual freedom....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.52 DALTucker, Garland S.
Summary: ""Conservative Heroes" is the story of fourteen Americans whose lives reflected conservative values and principles as defined by author Garland S. Tucker III. The book surveys the thought and achievement of statesmen ranging from Thomas Jefferson and James Madison through Calvin Coolidge and Andrew Mellon up to Ronald Reagan"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: ISI Books 2015