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Summary: "An examination of the ways in which grievance has come to define our current culture and politics, on both the right and left. More and more Americans are convinced that they're losing because somebody else is winning. More and more tally their slights, measure their misfortune, and assign particular people responsibility for it. The blame game has become very popular. Grievance needn't be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2024
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Summary: The former Obama White House aides who launched the Pod Save America podcast deliver a guide to becoming involved and making a difference via politics without losing hope. From donating to a campaign to running for office, they suggest ways to have the most impact.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Media Reads 2024
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Summary: "A recounting of protests throughout American history that have shaped our nation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 303.48 KLULevine, Bruce E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 322.40973 LEVGlaude, Eddie S.
Summary: "Based on the Du Bois Lectures delivered at Harvard in 2011, We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For argues for the importance of self-cultivation in pursuit of justice as a critical feature of Black politics, what Eddie S. Glaude Jr. calls Black democratic perfectionism. Building on the political scientist Adolph Reed's work on 'Black custodial politics' Glaude critiques our impulse to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 323.0420973 GLABieschke, Marke
Summary: "Prominently featured photos, artwork, and other visual elements will guide young adult readers through this lively, informative exploration of significant protests, sit-ins, and collective acts of resistance throughout US history."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zest Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 303.48 BIEDaley-Harris, Sam
Summary: The 10th anniversary edition of Reclaiming Our Democracy once again brings to the fore a unique vision to meet this crisis: ordinary people taking extraordinary action, becoming citizen leaders in order to create a democracy "as if people mattered." The story is told through the inspiring action of RESULTS, an international grassroots citizens' lobby committed to healing the break between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Camino Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.4 DALAlinsky, Saul David
Summary: First published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know "the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one." Written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction Alinsky was one of the first to question, this volume exhibits his style at its best. Like...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1971
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303 ALILappé, Frances Moore
Summary: Americans are distraught as tightly held economic and political power drowns out their voices and values. Legendary Diet for a Small Planet author Frances Moore Lappé and organizer-scholar Adam Eichen offer a fresh, surprising response to this core crisis. This intergenerational duo opens with an essential truth: It’s not the magnitude of a challenge that crushes the human spirit. It’s feeling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320 LAPSummary: In How I Resist, readers will find hope and support through voices that are at turns personal, funny, irreverent, and instructive. Not just for a young adult audience, this incredibly impactful collection will appeal to readers of all ages who are feeling adrift and looking for guidance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 320 HOWPhillips, Steve
Summary: Despite the abundant evidence from Obama’s victories proving that the U.S. population has fundamentally changed, many progressives and Democrats continue to waste millions of dollars chasing white swing voters. Explosive population growth of people of color in America over the past fifty years has laid the foundation for a New American Majority consisting of progressive people of color (23...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323 PHISummary: The polar ice caps are melting, hurricanes and droughts ravish the planet, and the earth's population is threatened by catastrophic climate change. Millions of American jobs have been sent overseas and aren't coming back. Young African-American men make up the majority of America's prison population. Half of the American population are poor or near poor, living precariously on the brink, while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 335 GOLHarris, Duchess
Summary: Modern presidents face resistance from a split nation. Political Resistance in the Current Age covers movements that resisted recent presidential administrations from George W. Bush to Donald Trump, what inspired the movements, and the change they brought about. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J909.83 HARDuca, Lauren
Summary: Teen Vogue award-winning columnist Lauren Duca shares a smart and funny guide for challenging the status quo in a much-needed reminder that young people are the ones who will change the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.0835 DUCSummary: "This collection of essays and interviews presents 36 contributors to this emerging movement discussing a broad range of topics--activism, healthcare, education, LGBT issues, the environment, to name a few--affecting the political and cultural environmentof future generations"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 WESummary: This program introduces viewers to Dwight 'Ike' Eisenhower, the man who went from Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe during WWII to Commander-in-Chief of the United States during the early years of the Cold War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Tomasky, Michael
Summary: Presents a revisionist assessment of the origins of political polarization in America that outlines ambitious recommendations in the areas of ranked-choice voting, at-large congressional elections, and civics education.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 TOMCapodice, Nick
Summary: "From the hosts of New Hampshire Public Radio's Civics 101 and New Yorker cartoonist Tom Toro, a lively crash course in everything you should know about how the US government works. Do you know what the Secretary of Defense does all day? Are you sure youknow the difference between the House and the Senate? Have you been pretending you know what Federalism is for the last 20 years? Don't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.473 CAPSmith, Erin Geiger
Summary: "Did you know that voting in any election--from mayor to president--is a privilege and a right? Americans eighteen and older are allowed to vote! But this hasn't always been the case for everyone. From the founders of this country to Jim Crow to women's suffrage to gerrymandering--and everything in between--Erin Geiger Smith takes an in-depth look at the fascinating and complex history of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.60 SMICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.6097 SMIBrettschneider, Corey
Summary: This meticulously researched account of assaults on democracy by five presidents who imprisoned critics, spread a culture of white supremacy and committed crimes with impunity shows how citizens like Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells and Daniel Ellsberg fought back against presidential abuses of power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2024
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Summary: "Historian and civil rights activist proves how progressive movements can flourish even in conservative times." -- From Amazon summary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303 BERNewman, Dan (Dan G.)
Summary: Takes readers behind the scenes--from the sweaty cubicles where senators dial corporate CEOs for dollars, to lavish retreats where billionaires boost their favored candidates, to the map rooms where lawmakers scheme to handpick their voters. It highlights the heroic efforts of those unrigging the system to return power to We the People. -- adapted from back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 NEWButtigieg, Pete
Summary: "In Trust, Pete Buttigieg demonstrates how trust will be essential in order to face the unique challenges of the decades ahead. Trust is essential to the foundation of America's democracy, asserts Pete Buttigieg, the former presidential candidate and South Bend mayor. Yet, in a century warped by terrorism, financial collapse, Trumpist populism, systemic racism, and now a global pandemic, trust...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.51 BUTPinckney, Darryl
Summary: "Blackballed is Darryl Pinckney's meditation on a century and a half of Black participation in US electoral politics. In this combination of memoir, historical narrative, and contemporary political and social analysis, he investigates the struggle for Black voting rights from Reconstruction through the civil rights movement, leading up to the election of Barack Obama as president. Interspersed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2014