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Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest
ZEYNEP TUFEKCI · Yale University Press
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
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A firsthand account and incisive analysis of modern protest, revealing internet-fueled social movements' greatest strengths and frequent challenges To understand a thwarted Turkish coup, an anti-Wall Street encampment, and a packed Tahrir Square, we must first comprehend the power and the weaknesses... |
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Lies, Incorporated: The World of Post-Truth Politics
Ari Rabin-Havt · Anchor Books
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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In Lies, Incorporated, Ari Rabin-Havt and Media Matters for America unravel the distortions of truth that are transformed into "common knowledge" by a powerful network of special-interest groups and politicians.In today's post-truth political landscape, there is a carefully concealed... |
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Good Friday on the Rez: A Pine Ridge Odyssey
David Hugh Bunnell · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Good Friday on the Rez follows the author on a one-day, 280-mile round-trip from his boyhood Nebraska hometown of Alliance to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, where he reconnects with his longtime friend and blood brother, Vernell White Thunder. In a compelling mix of personal... |
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Complete Directory for People with Disabilities, 2017
Laura Mars · Grey House Publishing
Pages: 1000
Format: Print book
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A wealth of information, now in one comprehensive sourcebook. Completely updated for 2013, this eighteenth edition contains more information than ever before, including a new separate section on disability groups, from blind & deaf to dexterity to speech |
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Ratf**ked: How the Democrats Won the Presidency But Lost America
David Daley · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 257
Format: Print book
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The explosive account of how Republican legislators and political operatives fundamentally rigged our American democracy through redistricting. With Barack Obama's historic election in 2008, pundits proclaimed the Republicans as dead as the Whigs of yesteryear. Yet even as Democrats swooned,... |
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The Art of Tough: Fearlessly Facing Politics and Life
Barbara Boxer · Hachette Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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"One goal of this memoir is to inspire people to fight for change. It takes what I call the Art of Tough and I've had to do it all my life."---Senator Barbara BoxerBarbara Boxer has made her mark, combining compassionate advocacy with scrappiness in a political career spanning... |
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Richard Nixon: The Life
John A Farrell · Doubleday
Pages: 752
Format: Print book
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Brilliantly researched, authoritatively crafted by a prize-winning biographer, and lively on the page, this is the Nixon we've been waiting for. Richard Nixon opens with young Navy lieutenant "Nick" Nixon returning from the Pacific and setting his cap at Congress, an idealistic... |
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The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire
Stephen Kinzer · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 306
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of Overthrow and The Brothers brings to life the forgotten political debate that set America's interventionist course in the world for the twentieth century and beyond.How should the United States act in the world? Americans cannot decide. Sometimes we burn with righteous... |
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We're still right - and they're still wrong.
James Carville · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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Every politico and pundit has tried to explain the 2016 presidential race, but James Carville - the multiple best-selling Ragin' Cajun and grand strategist of Bill Clinton's rise to the White House - has largely stayed silent. Until now. "He straddled the punch bowl, dropped his pants,... |
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Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship
Michelle Kuo · Random House
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
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A memoir of race, inequality, and the power of literature told through the life-changing friendship between an idealistic young teacher and her gifted student, jailed for murder in the Mississippi Delta "Reading with Patrick could be the most affecting book you'll read this year."... |
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Man's Better Angels: Romantic Reformers and the Coming of the Civil War
Philip F Gura · The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pages: 328
Format: Print book
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Banks failed, credit contracted, inequality grew, and people everywhere were out of work while political paralysis and slavery threatened to rend the nation in two. As financial crises always have, the Panic of 1837 drew forth a plethora of reformers who promised to restore America to greatness.... |
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