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Author
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Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Cubantropía (Cubanthropy) is a work of cultural criticism whose title is a neologism coined by the author to describe the energy between anthropology and entropy, the space between the street and the library, the island and the world. These collected essays, written in Iván de la Nuez's trademark ironic, erudite style, range in subject matter from the Berlin Wall to Havana's Malecón. This book examines recent clashes between the market and democracy,...
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Language
English
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Description
"Charles Maier offers a new narrative of the long twentieth century, focused on institutions that shaped politics and societies: project-states, driven by democratic or authoritarian ideologies; capital; and advocates of apolitical values, such as health, human rights, and international law. In this we discern the unfolding of our own troubled time"--
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Language
English
Description
Austin Ruse, president of the Center for Family & Human Rights, argues that the statistics and studies behind today's political causes are often of questionable scientific merit. Tackling issues such as abortion, fracking, and global warming, he maintains that we are living in the age of the low information voter, easily misled by all-too-convincing false information.
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English
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"Truman and Picasso were contemporaries and were both shaped by and shapers of the great events of the twentieth century--the man who painted GUERNICA and the man who authorized the use of atomic bombs against civilians. But in most ways, they couldn't have been more different. Picasso was a communist, and probably the only thing Harry Truman hated more than communists was modern art. Picasso was an indifferent father, a womanizer, and a millionaire....
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Publisher
Salem Books, an imprint of Regnery Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In this tongue-in-cheek guide to the left's intersectional insanity, the writers of the satirical social media site The Babylon Bee teach examine: how to choose pronouns; how to blame everyone else for your problems; how to show the world how wonderful you are; the art of virtue-signaling; the basics of race, gender, and intersectionality; the truth about American history; problematic books and movies; how to tell if a baby is racist; and more.
7) Bannon's war
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Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
President Trump's advisor Stephen Bannon's war, with radical Islam, Washington, and White House rivals. The story of Bannon's fight to deliver on Trump's promises, with a confrontational style based on his personal crusade to dramatically transform America.
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Language
English
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Description
The veteran journalist exposes the practices of opposition research to reveal how political leaders use their influence to shape public opinion, connecting popular misconceptions to strategic smear campaigns that have influenced voters.
"Behind most major political stories there is an agenda: To destroy an idea or the people advancing it. Maybe you watched someone on the news report that Donald Trump is a racist misogynist, read that Hillary Clinton...
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
There is no better record of events then the New York Times and now, The Times of the Seventies captures the history, culture, and personalities of the decade through hundreds of hand-selected articles and compelling original commentary in this unique and fascinating book.
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A major new book by New York Times bestselling author and geopolitical forecaster George Friedman (The Next 100 Years, The Next Decade) with a bold thesis about coming conflict in the world, this provocative work examines the geopolitical flashpoints--particularly in Europe--in which imminent future conflicts are brewing. George Friedman has forecasted the coming trends (politics, technology, population, and culture) of the next century in The Next...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"The legacies of Joseph McCarthy, J. Edgar Hoover, Roy Cohn seem like they might be with us forever. Yet Christopher Elias finds in them startling new connections between gender, sexuality, and national security in 20th-century US politics--a paradigm he christens "security state masculinity." Elias integrates biographies of the trio with a history of gossip magazines and their tactics--such as insinuation, guilt by association, hyperbole, and alarmism,...
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"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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