Gerges, Fawaz A.
Summary: "During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised to distance the United States from the neoconservative foreign policy legacy of his predecessor, George W. Bush, and usher in a new era of a global, interconnected world. More than two years have passed since his inauguration, and the reality of President Obama's approach is in stark contrast to the ebullient and optimistic image that he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 GERAlter, Jonathan.
Summary: A narrative thriller about the battle royale surrounding Barack Obama's quest for a second term amid widespread joblessness and one of the most poisonous political climates in American history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 ALTLeverett, Flynt Lawrence.
Summary: "Less than a decade after Washington endorsed a fraudulent case for invading Iraq, similarly misinformed and politically motivated claims are pushing America toward war with Iran. Today the stakes are even higher: such a war could break the back of America's strained superpower status. Challenging the daily clamor of U.S. saber rattling, Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett argue that America should...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 LEVShiffman, John.
Summary: "A Pulitzer Prize finalist presents the rare and intimate narrative of a daring national security sting designed to protect US soldiers, sailors, and pilots from the greatest danger they face on the battlefield--an enemy equipped with American-made weapons and technology. In Operation Shakespeare, investigative journalist John Shiffman traces an audacious and high-risk undercover...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.93 SHIWoodward, Bob
Summary: The transition from President Donald J. Trump to President Joseph R. Biden Jr. stands as one of the most dangerous periods in American history. Woodward and Costa take readers deep inside the Trump White House, the Biden White House, the 2020 campaign, and the Pentagon and Congress, with vivid, eyewitness accounts of what really happened. They also provide a look at Biden's presidency as he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.933 WOOShapiro, Ben.
Summary: "From the editor-at-large of Breitbart.com, a timely and compelling look at how liberals use bullying toward their opponents on today's top political issues. Bullying is an urgent topic on many minds and lips today. After the "It Gets Better" program was sanctioned by Obama himself, the left turned bullying into one of its most beloved pet issues. But what they seem to have missed is that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 320.51 SHARoithmayr, Daria.
Summary: "This book is designed to change the way we think about racial inequality. Long after the passage of civil rights laws and now the inauguration of our first black president, blacks and Latinos possess barely a nickel of wealth for every dollar that whites have. Why have we made so little progress? Legal scholar Daria Roithmayr provocatively argues that racial inequality lives on because white...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Univ Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 ROIWoodward, Bob
Summary: The Trump Tapes explodes with the exclusive, inside story of Trump's performance as president--in his own words as he is questioned, even interrogated by Woodward, on the president's key responsibilities from managing foreign relations to crisis management of the coronavirus pandemic. This is the job Trump seeks again. How did he do the first time? This is the authentic answer, laying bare his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "An precedented, colorful look at how and why politicians lie - and why republicans do it more." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books
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Summary: "Solving the Climate Crisis is a critical resource that makes a believable and detailed case that there is a path forward to save our environment. Using today's technology and without presuming a dramatically different sociopolitical reality from the one in which we already live, the book focuses on three essential areas for action: the technological dimension: move to 100% clean renewable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.79 BERBamford, James
Summary: "SPYFAIL is about the highly dangerous and growing capability of foreign countries to conduct large-scale espionage within the United States and how the FBI and other agencies have failed to prevent it. These covert operations involve a variety of foreign countries-North Korea, Russia, Israel, China, and others-and include cyberattacks, espionage, psychological warfare, the infiltration of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1273 BAMGopnik, Adam
Summary: An exploration of liberalism profiles the individuals and movements that formed its tradition of radical change through humane measures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.51 GOPHaitiwaji, Gulbahar
Summary: "Born in 1966 in Ghulja in the Xinjiang region, Gulbahar Haitiwaji was an executive in the Chinese oil industry before leaving for France in 2006 with her husband and children, who obtained the status of political refugees. In 2017 she was summoned in China for an administrative issue. Once there, she was arrested and spent more than two years in a re-education camp. Thanks to the efforts of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAITIWAJI, GULBAHAR HAIStone Fish, Isaac
Summary: "A timely, provocative expose of our political and business leadership's deep ties to China: a network of people who believe they are doing the right thing-at a great often hidden cost to our society"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.3 STORendell, Edward G. (Edward Gene)
Summary: "Governor Ed Rendell explains why America's leaders rarely call for sacrifice for the greater good-to avoid making any sacrifices themselves!Rendell has seen job security become the primary consideration of any person with power in America-their own job security! Most politicians and bureaucrats can see no further ahead than the next election, sometimes no further than the next press...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.932 RENRoberts, Kevin
Summary: "An explanation of how conservatives can take back control of America's institutions"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadside Books
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 320.52 ROBBruni, Frank
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: "It's an open secret that voters in smaller, less populous states have more electoral power than their urban counterparts, so why are these same voters the most eager to leave behind democratic principles? In this book, political scientists Thomas Schaller and Paul Waldman explore why, with all of this extra influence, these same voters fail to see real benefits, for instance suffering worse...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024