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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"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 their lives. By reading the classical Greek and Roman moral...
Author
Publisher
National Center for Constitutional Studies
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"Discover the 28 Principles of Freedom our Founding Fathers said must be understood and perpetuated by every people who desire peace, prosperity, and freedom. Learn how adherence to these beliefs during the past 200 years has brought about more progress than was made in the previous 5000 years"--Page 4 of cover
Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The fascinating story behind the most consequential presidential transition in US history, from Franklin Roosevelt to Harry Truman, and the legacy Truman struggled to overcome to lead America into a new, post-war world."--
Author
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Tells the story of African Americans' response to the atomic threat in the postwar period. Examines the anti-nuclear writing and activism of figures such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Lorraine Hansberry as well as the placement of black characters in white-authored doomsday fiction and nonfiction"--Provided by publisher.
11711) American spirits
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Three interlocking stories focusing on the residents of a town called Sam Dent, the undercurrent of the Trump movement in America, and a series of local tragedies"--
A husband sells property to a mysterious, temperamental stranger, and is hounded on social media when he publicly questions the man's character. A couple grows concerned when an enigmatic family moves next door, and the children start sneaking over to beg for help. Two dangerous criminals...
11712) The crusade years, 1933-1955: Herbert Hoover's lost memoir of the New Deal Era and its aftermath
Author
Series
Hoover Institution Press publication volume no. 641
Publisher
Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Millions of Americans have lost confidence in our political and economic system. After years of stagnant wages, volatile job markets, and an unwillingness to deal with profound threats such as climate change, there is a mounting sense that the system is fixed, serving only those select few with enough money to secure a controlling stake. With the characteristic clarity and passion that has made him a central civil voice, Robert B. Reich shows how...
11716) Make Russia great again
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Herb Nutterman, a long-time Trump Organization employee, unexpectedly becomes President Trump's White House chief of staff and finds himself entangled in Russian intrigue and leading the president's reelection campaign.
Author
Publisher
Regenery Publishing, a division of Salem Media Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When China attacks is a fire bell in the night--a warning about a war that we are already losing. It offers a frightening, and well-founded, blow-by-blow account of what might happen next"--
11718) Lady Bird
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"Featuring interviews with Mrs. Johnson's daughters, Luci Baines Johnson and Lynda Johnson Robb; the late Washington post publisher Katharine Graham; Mrs. Johnson's former staff director Liz Carpenter; and other acquaintances and historians, Lady Bird offers a unique vantage point from which to fiew this extraordinary woman."--Container.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From the pioneering co-founder of cliodynamics, the ground-breaking new interdisciplinary science of history, a brilliant big-picture explanation for America's civil strife and its possible endgames. Peter Turchin, one of the most interesting social scientists of our age by any measure, has infused the study of history with approaches and insights from other fields for over a quarter century. End Times is the culmination of his work to understand...