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Christianity and politics Conflit culturel États-Unis Conservatism United States History 20th century Culture conflict United States Political culture United States Political culture United States History 20th century United States United States Politics and government 1945-1989 United States Politics and government 21st century United States Social conditions 21st centuryStein, Joel
Summary: Stein spends a week in Roberts County, Texas, which had the highest percentage of Trump voters in the country. He goes to the home of Trump-loving Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams; meets people who create fake news; and finds the new elitist organizations merging both right and left to fight the populists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 STEHurd, Will
Summary: "From former Republican Congressman and CIA Officer Will Hurd, a bold political playbook for America rooted in the timeless ideals of bipartisanship, inclusivity, and democratic values. It's getting harder to get big things done in America. The gears of our democracy have been mucked up by political nonsense. To meet the era-defining challenges of the 21st century, our country needs a reboot....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 HURBerkshire, Jennifer
Summary: "A guide to the core issues driving the education wars, offering essential information about issues, actors, and potential outcomes"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 371.01 BERMoore, Russell
Summary: "Former Southern Baptist pastor and Christianity Today editor-in-chief Russell Moore calls for repentance and renewal in American evangelicalism. American evangelical Christianity has lost its way. While the witness of the church before a watching world is diminished beyond recognition, congregations are torn apart over Donald Trump, Christian nationalism, racial injustice, sexual predation,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sentinel, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 277.308 MOOWildman, Terry M.
Summary: Terry Wildman writes of a justice long-denied, not only for Native peoples who have suffered the loss of lands, livelihood, and life as the American empire spread across the continent, but also for those who struggle for life and liberty to this very day. Like the prophets of Israel, he seeks to correct our eyesight-to set before us God's vision and God's truth and to expose things that we, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Great Thunder Publishing 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.6 WILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.6 WILJenkins, Philip
Contents: Mainstreaming the sixties -- Going too far : bicentennial America -- Against the grain -- The politics of children : 1977 -- Predators -- Captive America : 1980 -- Into the Reagan era -- Evil empires -- Dark victories -- The abuse epidemic -- Wars without end.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 JENMedved, Michael.
Summary: Reveals the truth about some of the most pernicious and pervasive myths about America, in a provocative look at such "lies" as corporate America oppresses ordinary citizens, and compassionate government programs provide the best escape from poverty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Forum 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 MEDDaum, Meghan
Summary: "A book blending memoir, reporting, and argument, which drills past the obvious political opinions of our moment in an attempt to make sense of our social and political landscape, particularly with regards to feminism and the various layers of the Trump Resistance movement"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 DAUFrench, David
Summary: "David French examines the depths of the American ideological divide, diagnoses its core causes, and provides a hopeful path forward. Polarization. Tribalization. Division. Some look at the growing political tension in our nation and call it a "cold civilwar." Others say it's nothing more than the culture war of the last three decades, amplified beyond reason by social media. David French...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.2 FREStarnes, Todd
Summary: The author, a journalist, broadcaster, author and host of Starnes Country on Fox Nation, shares his insights and predictions on how today's political and cultural trends could affect the United States of the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Post Hill Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 STAKruse, 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