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Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A respected, long-time Republican strategist, ad-maker, and contributor for The Daily Beast, skewers the disease that is destroying the conservative movement and burning down the GOP: Trumpism. In Everything Trump Touches Dies, political campaign strategist and commentator Rick Wilson brings his darkly funny humor and biting analysis to the absurdity of American politics in the age of Trump. Wilson mercilessly exposes the damage Trump has done to...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In March to the Majority, New York Times bestselling author Newt Gingrich takes readers behind the scenes of the Republican Revolution in 1994 and the rise of the modern GOP. The story of Gingrich’s rise from college professor, to architect of the Contract with America, to Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives is historic. There were many adventures, personalities, missteps, and victories on the road from a seemingly permanent House GOP...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A best-selling author and syndicated columnist for The Washington Post describes the history of the conservative right since the 1960s and discusses his belief that the Tea Party is the direct ideological descendant of the Goldwater movement.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2017].
Language
English
Description
"An inside look at the secretive world of elite philanthropists--and how they're quietly wielding ever more power to shape American life in ways both good and bad. While media attention focuses on famous philanthropists such as Bill Gates and Charles Koch, thousands of donors are at work below the radar promoting a wide range of causes. David Callahan charts the rise of these new power players and the ways they are converting the fortunes of a second...
Author
Publisher
Regnery Gateway
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"We need free minds now more than ever. Reader beware: Kevin D. Williamson--the lively, literary firebrand from national Review who was too hot for The Atlantic to handle---comes to bury democracy, not to praise it. With electrifying honesty and spirit, Williamson takes a flamethrower to mob politics, the 'beast with many heads' that haunts social media and what currently passes for real life. It's destroying our capacity for individualism and dragging...
Author
Publisher
Regnery Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Raising a daughter is hard. Raising her to be a conservative can seem impossible. In a long career devoted to equipping the next generation of conservative women for leadership, Michelle Easton has worked with thousands of students and young professionals. Their backgrounds are as varied as America itself, but in each girl’s life, something went right. How to Raise a Conservative Daughter is an invaluable guide to what works. It’s foolish to...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton and Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A leading journalist and public intellectual explains the long, disturbing history behind the American Right's embrace of foreign dictators, from Kaiser Wilhelm and Mussolini to Putin and Orban. Why do Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, and much of the far Right so explicitly admire the murderous and incompetent Russian dictator Vladimir Putin? Why is Ron DeSantis drawing from Victor Orbán's illiberal politics for his own policies as governor of Florida...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Gun sales have not just surged in the past two years-they have skyrocketed, breaking all-time records from March to July 2020. In this book, Jennifer Carlson examines the three dire crises in the United States in 2020-the pandemic, police murders and subsequent uprisings for racial justice, and the 2020 elections-to examine how Americans have turned to a well-worn tool of security in American life: the gun. While the notion that Americans would turn...
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
With the nation badly divided and the two major parties on a bitter collision course, a former governor and current presidential candidate wonders what Americans can learn from the presidency of Ronald Reagan.
"With the nation badly divided and the two major parties on a bitter collision course, what can we learn from America’s last great president? A lot, says New York Times bestselling author and former New Jersey governor Chris Christie. In...
90) Militant normals: how regular Americans are rebelling against the elite to reclaim our democracy
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Militant Normals, written by one of the conservative movement's wittiest commentators, is a no-holds-barred takedown of the preening elites who have all but made normalcy a crime in America. Donald Trump is only the beginning of a mighty disruption in American politics and culture, thanks to the rise of the militant Normals in America. They built this country, they make it run, and when called on, they fight for it. They are the heart and soul of...
Author
Publisher
Worthy Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017].
Language
English
Description
"America has become increasingly divided and polarized in recent years. With growing racial tension, animosity toward law enforcement professionals, government corruption, and disregard for the constitutional process, there seems to be no easy answer in sight. But Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke knows where we must begin: we must stop blaming others; look at our problems with open eyes; take ownership of our family, community, and country; and...
Author
Publisher
Regnery Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The desperate and never-ending attempts from the establishment to beat down Trump are actually a reflection of what establishment elites think of the average conservative: that they’re racist, stupid, and hateful. In Schlichter's signature fast-paced and hilarious style, he debunks the 21 biggest lies the left is peddling to smear not only President Trump, but hardworking people across the country who are sick and tired of the swamp’s incompetent...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In The Grouchy Historian, Ed Asner leads the charge for liberals to reclaim the Constitution from the right-wingers who use it as their justification for doing whatever terrible thing they want to do, which is usually to comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted. It’s about time someone gave them hell and explained that progressives can read, too.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A Behind-the-Scenes Look at How the GOP Is Out of Touch with Americans Today and Why More Voters Should Consider "No Party" No Hope is for disaffected conservatives and moderates as well as liberals who are fed up with the political party system. Forty-three percent of Americans now identify as Independents. Many of them are right of center and used to be Republicans. In No Hope, former Republican Jimmy LaSalvia, cofounder of GOProud, which was...
Author
Publisher
Regnery Publishing, a division of Salem Media Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Argues that the most important issue facing America is immigration, examining both political parties and the media to provide insights and revelations.
"Coulter touches on the third rail in American politics, attacking the immigration issue head-on and flying in the face of La Raza, the Democrats, a media determined to cover up immigrant's crimes, churches that get paid by the government for their "charity", greedy Republican businessmen, and campaign...
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Enough with the infighting, the truth-denying, the wild conspiracy claims, the looking backward, and the refusal to focus on the dangerous Biden agenda. Here's Chris Christie's urgent guide for recapturing Republican glory and winning elections again, told with all the New Jersey frankness and news-breaking insights that have made the two-term governor, Trump early endorser, and presidential candidate an indispensable voice and instant New York Times...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"How did the party of Lincoln become the party of Trump? From a Washington reporter for The New York Times comes the definitive story of the mutiny that shattered American politics. Jeremy Peters's epic narrative of the fracture and collapse of the Republican Party chronicles the once-in-a-lifetime self-destruction of a major political party through the dark and powerful forces that it wrought. Peters turns his incisive gaze toward the people whose...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The editor of Current Affairs artfully and efficiently debunks a series of common right-wing arguments. Are taxes theft? Is abortion murder? Does regulation destroy jobs? Is white privilege a lie? Conservative talking points are everywhere, and through well-funded media like Fox News, Breitbart, and YouTube's "Prager University," the right has an impressive record of packaging its views for a general audience. Clearly, the left needs to do a better...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
" Most Americans pay little attention to the massive number of elections that occur at the state level every year. Yet cumulatively, a party's success in state-level races across the country can produce major shifts in policymaking and governance. That is precisely what has happened in the US since 2010. In a wave election that year, the Republican Party began their ascendancy in state-level elections, and by 2016 had solidified their dominance. The...
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