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Summary: "From the bestselling author of "How Fascism Works", is a searing confrontation with the far right's efforts to rewrite history and undo a century of progress on race, gender, sexuality, and class. The human race finds itself again under threat of a rising global fascist movement. In the United States, democracy is under attack by an authoritarian movement that has found fertile ground among...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One Signal Publishers / Atria, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 320.533 STABrands, 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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3092 BRAMcGraw, Phillip C.
Summary: From a #1 New York Times best-selling author and beloved television host comes a new book on how to come home to our core values, fortify our families and re-embrace self-determination and self-governance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult McGrawFinkel, David
Summary: "Brent Cummings, an Iraq war veteran, has come home feeling he survived one war only to find himself in the midst of another one. The country he loves and defended for twenty-eight years seems to be unraveling in front of his eyes. Raised to believe in a vision of America that values fairness, honesty, and respect for others, Cummings is increasingly engulfed by the fear and anger sweeping...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FINKEL, DAVID FINPayne, Keith
Summary: A leading social scientist explains the psychology of our current social divide and how understanding it can help reduce the conflicts it causes. There has been much written about the impact of polarization on elections, political parties, and policy outcomes. But Keith Payne's goal is more personal: to focus on what our divisions mean for us as individuals, as families, and as communities....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 PAYGanz, John
Summary: In When the Clock Broke, the acclaimed political writer John Ganz tells the story of America's late-century discontents. Ranging from upheavals in Crown Heights and Los Angeles to the advent of David Duke and the heartland survivalists, the broadcasts of Rush Limbaugh, and the bitter disputes between neoconservatives and the "paleo-con" right, Ganz immerses us in a time when what Philip Roth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024
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Summary: "For most of the 2,000-plus years since its foundation as a discipline by ancient Greek thinkers, rhetoric-the art of using language to persuade-was a keystone of a Western education. But in the early 20th century, studying rhetoric fell out of fashion. In The Ancient Art of Thinking for Yourself, Robin Reames, one of the world's leading scholars of rhetoric, argues that it's high time to bring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808 REABrill, Steven
Summary: "As the cofounder of NewsGuard, a company that tracks online misinformation, Steven Brill has observed the rise of fake news from a front-row seat. In The Death of Truth, with startling, often terrifying clarity, he explains how we got here—and how we can get back to a world where truth matters.None of this—conspiracy theories embraced, expertise ridiculed, empirical evidence ignored—has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 BRIReeve, Elle
Summary: "This tour de force of investigative journalism--in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We're Polarized--depicts the United States of America as a country at a crossroads with the battle between the right and left spilling out from the darkest corners of the internet into the real world with often tragic consequences. Award-winning journalist and CNN correspondent Elle Reeve was not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2024
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Summary: "In a divided America, the biggest solvable problem fueling political extremism and dysfunction is hiding in plain party primaries. The Primary Solution shows how to fix them." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.273 TROZakaria, Fareed
Summary: The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions--past and present--that define the polarized and unstable age in which we live.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2024