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Conservatism United States Founding Fathers of the United States National characteristics, American Political culture Political culture United States Politics and government U.S. states Politics and government United States United States Politics and government Philosophy États-Unis Politique et gouvernement PhilosophieRabb, 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 RabbRamaswamy, Vivek
Summary: In Truths: The Future of America First, Ramaswamy shows exactly how honesty about the most important issues will get our country back on track. The America First movement emphasizes the issues that bring us together, not what divides us. It asks that we put our country over politics, merit over grievance, and truth over lies. Ramaswamy tells us the truth about our political system, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions
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Summary: A memoir by the former Secretary of State and White House Chief of Staff describes his experiences during his thirty-five-year career in politics, discussing the Iran-Contra scandal, the Reagan assassination attempt, and other important events.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BAKER, JAMES A. BAKPaul, Ron
Summary: Congressman Ron Paul (TX-R)--presidential candidate, popular ideologue, debate favorite, and creator of one of the largest grassroots campaigns in history--sets forth his revolutionary manifesto and challenges America to make the tough changes needed to survive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931092 PAULevin, Mark R. (Mark Reed)
Summary: "'I often wonder what Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, James Madison ..., and the other Founders would think about today's America .... Of course, they would be mesmerized by all the modern inventions and conveniences of everyday life; but what of the ubiquitous nature of the federal government? Surely they would object.' So begins Rediscovering Americanism, a searing plea by ......
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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.5 LEVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 320.520973 LEVMagnet, Myron.
Summary: Discusses the history of America's Founding Fathers through their words and actions but also through the architectural treasures of the homes they built while they conspired to change the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.2 MAGFoner, Eric.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.01 FONRosen, Jeffrey
Summary: "The Declaration of Independence identified "the pursuit of happiness" as one of our unalienable rights, along with life and liberty. Jeffrey Rosen, the president of the National Constitution Center, profiles six of the most influential founders--Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton--to show what pursuing happiness meant in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 ROSIsenberg, Nancy
Summary: "John and John Quincy Adams: rogue intellectuals, unsparing truth tellers, too uncensored for their own political good. They held that political participation demanded moral courage. They did not seek popularity (and it showed). They lamented the fact that hero worship in America substituted idolatry for results, and they made it clear that they were talking about Benjamin Franklin, George...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ISELepore, Jill
Summary: "From the best-selling author of These Truths, a work that examines the dilemma of nationalism and the erosion of liberalism in the twenty-first century. At a time of much despair over the future of liberal democracy, Harvard historian Jill Lepore makes a stirring case for the nation in This America. Since the end of the Cold War, Lepore writes, American historians have largely retreated from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 LEPHarris, Kamala D.
Summary: Harris communicates a vision of shared struggle, shared purpose, and shared values while offering a master class in problem solving, in crisis management, and leadership in challenging times. In examining the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, she shows how our shared efforts will continue to sustain us and this great...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B HARRIS HARRamaswamy, Vivek
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of Woke Inc. makes the case that the essence of true American identity is to pursue excellence unapologetically and reject victimhood culture." -- Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 RAMHarris, Kamala
Summary: Now adapted for young readers, Senator Kamala Harris's empowering memoir about the values and inspirations that guided her life. As the first woman, African American, and South Asian American to become attorney general of California, and the second black woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate, Kamala Harris has blazed trails on her path to the national stage. But how did she achieve her goals?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HARKreitner, Richard
Summary: From journalist and historian Richard Kreitner, a "powerful revisionist account"of the most persistent idea in American history: these supposedly United States should be broken up (Eric Foner). The novel and fiery thesis of Break It Up is simple: the United States has never lived up to its name -- and never will. The disunionist impulse may have found its greatest expression in the Civil War,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 KRESchlesinger, Arthur M Jr.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 SCHLevin, Mark R. (Mark Reed)
Summary: The nationally syndicated conservative talk radio host discusses how we can fix our "broken" government.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.7308 LEVLevin, Mark R. (Mark Reed)
Summary: A nationally syndicated talk radio host and author of Rescuing Sprite presents a volume of essays for today's conservative leaders that recommends specific approaches to such issues as immigration, health care, and foreign policy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.52 LEVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: 320.5209 LevEllis, Joseph J.
Summary: "What would the founders think? We live in a divided America that is currently incapable of sustained argument and is feeling unsure of its destiny. Joseph J. Ellis, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Founding Brothers and the recent best-selling The Quartet, explores anew four of our most prominent founders, in each instance searching for patterns and principles that bring the lamp of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.3 ELLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Pol EllisKleinknecht, 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 KLEBrands, H. W.
Summary: "From bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands, a revelatory history of the shocking emergence of vicious political division at the birth of the United States Founding Partisans is a lively narrative of the early years of the republic as the Founding Fathers fought one another with competing visions of what our nation would be. To the framers of the Constitution, political...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023