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3) Rage
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
An essential account of the Trump presidency draws on interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, diaries, and confidential documents to provide details about Trump's moves as he faced a global pandemic, economic disaster, and racial unrest.
Author
Language
English
Description
From his exile in Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump has become more extreme, vengeful, and divorced from reality than he was on January 6, 2021. His meddling damaged the GOP's electoral prospects for third consecutive election in 2022. His legal troubles are mounting. Yet he's re-emerged as the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. Jonathan Karl has known Donald Trump since his days as a New York Post reporter in the 1990s, and he covered...
6) The bees
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive, Flora 717, due to her courage and strength, finds her way into the Queen's inner sanctum where she discovers secrets about the hive that cause her to challenge authority and perform unthinkable acts.
Publisher
Ideas Roadshow
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Five experts (John Dunn, Karl Gerth, Martin Jay, Josiah Ober, and Quentin Skinner) give their perspectives on different aspects of democracy: its meaning in different cultures and in different times, and possible ways to improve the way it works today.
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
Washington insiders operate by a proven credo: when a Peter Schweizer book drops, duck and brace for impact.
For over a decade, the work of five-time New York Times bestselling investigative reporter Peter Schweizer has sent shockwaves through the political universe.
Clinton Cash revealed the Clintons' international money flow, exposed global corruption, and sparked an FBI investigation. Secret Empires
...Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The popular FOX News star of Tucker Carlson Tonight offers his signature fearless and funny political commentary on how America's ruling class has failed everyday Americans but answers the all-important question: How do we put the country back on course?
11) The Presidents
Publisher
A&E®
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
See the minorities that have influenced politics.
Author
Publisher
House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Argues that deceptive utopias, political cynicism, and public apathy have given rise to major human rights abuses, but also reflects on the inspiring resilience of the human spirit and the reality of our inextricable interdependence to liberate us, whether from hateful ideologies that deny the humanity of others or an empty consumerist culture that worships greed and self-indulgence.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Study the system of federalism, where sovereign power is divided between the national and state governments. Trace the history of federalism in the United States, as it checks government power, and allows for the resolution of political conflicts. Note how the balance shifted in the 20th century, from greater state authority to a much-expanded power of the federal government.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Follow the very politicized process that takes place when a president appoints a justice to the Supreme Court. Then look at four categories of influences that bear on the Court and its decisions. Examine how the Court plays a role in policymaking through its decisions and precedents. Finally, trace how the Court's role in politics and government has changed over the course of US history.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Why do political parties exist? Dig into this question, and grasp how parties solve three categories of problems for three different groups of political "actors." Investigate why it is that the United States has two, and only two, major political parties. And, trace the history of political parties in the United States, and how they have changed and realigned over time.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Trace the many campaign finance reforms enacted since the 1970s, which aim to curb corruption and unequal influence on elections. Take account of the problems that arise when sources of campaign funding do not represent the broader population, and the repeating cycle of reforms followed by attempts to work around campaign finance limits.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Understanding The Federalist Papers starts with understanding who wrote them and why they were written. In this opening episode, go back to 1787 to meet Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay to find out what challenges they faced in communicating the need for the new US Constitution.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Probe the concept of civil liberties, as they delineate restrictions that government cannot impose. Learn about "selective incorporation," the process through which civil liberty protections at the state level have been guaranteed through Supreme Court rulings. Then look at how the judicial system has interpreted and upheld freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press.
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