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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"From the best-selling author of These Truths, a work that examines the dilemma of nationalism and the erosion of liberalism in the twenty-first century. At a time of much despair over the future of liberal democracy, Harvard historian Jill Lepore makes a stirring case for the nation in This America. Since the end of the Cold War, Lepore writes, American historians have largely retreated from the idea of 'the nation,' in part because postmodernism...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In the entire history of the United States of America, we've never elected a woman as our president. And we've only had one president who was not a white man. After working on two presidential campaigns (for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton), MSNBC political analyst and SiriusXM host Zerlina Maxwell gained first-hand knowledge of everything liberals have been doing right over the past few elections--and everything they are still doing wrong ... Maxwell...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Features wide-ranging essays, grappling with colonialism and human rights and doubling down of liberalism, that provide a vantage point from which to look seriously at the political hysteria plaguing the West, especially the United States and Great Britain.
13) Best of enemies
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Dead last in the ratings, ABC hired two towering public intellectuals to debate each other during the Democratic and Republican national conventions. William F. Buckley Jr. was a leading light of the new conservative movement. A Democrat and cousin to Jackie Onassis, Gore Vidal was a leftist novelist and polemicist. Armed with deep-seated distrust and enmity, Vidal and Buckley believed each other's political ideologies were dangerous for America.
Author
Publisher
Thesis
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"As a card-carrying lesbian, Hillary voter, and New York Times reporter, Nellie Bowles fit right in with her San Francisco neighbors and friends - until she started questioning whether the progressive movement she knew and loved actually helped people. Gently informed that asking these questions meant she was "on the wrong side of history," Bowles did what any reporter worth her salt would do: she started investigating for herself. The answers she...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Since the election of Donald J. Trump, political differences have been ravaging our personal relationships like never before. This already widespread phenomenon will continue to grow unless we can learn to fight it.Drawing from 50 interviews with politically mixed couples and her own experiences as a die-hard liberal happily married to a stalwart conservative, Dr. Jeanne Safer offers us a path forward in this practical guide to maintaining intimate...
Author
Publisher
Inspiria
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Russian
Description
В мире будущего сбылись все пророчества настоящего, и Грета Тунберг стала божеством толпы. Смертельный вирус убивает только мужчин, поэтому каждый редкий представитель бывшего сильного пола — слаб и уязвим. Преступления против животных караются...
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country--a stronghold of the conservative right. As she gets to know people who strongly oppose many of the ideas she famously champions, Hochschild nevertheless finds common ground and quickly warms to the people she meets--among them a Tea Party activist whose...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
The New York TimesA Thousand Small Sanities is a manifesto rooted in the lives of people who invented and extended the liberal tradition. Taking us from Montaigne to Mill, and from Middlemarch to the civil rights movement, Adam Gopnik argues that liberalism is not a form of centrism, nor simply another word for free markets, nor merely a term denoting a set of rights. It is something far more ambitious: the search for radical change by humane measures....
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