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  • Brutal Campaign

    How the 1988 Election Set the Stage for Twenty-First-Century American Politics

    At 8:00 p.m. eastern standard time on election night 1988, NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw informed the country that they would soon know more about the outcome of “one of the longest, bloodiest presidential campaigns that anyone can remember.” It was a landslide victory for George H. W. Bush over Michael Dukakis, and yet Bush would serve only one term, forever overshadowed in history by the man who ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Ellis Island Nation

    Immigration Policy and American Identity in the Twentieth Century

    Series series Haney Foundation Series
    Though debates over immigration have waxed and waned in the course of American history, the importance of immigrants to the nation's identity is imparted in civics classes, political discourse, and television and film. We are told that the United States is a "nation of immigrants," built by people who came from many lands to make an even better nation. But this belief was relatively new in the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Ellis Island Nation

    Immigration Policy and American Identity in the Twentieth Century

    Series series Haney Foundation Series
    Though debates over immigration have waxed and waned in the course of American history, the importance of immigrants to the nation's identity is imparted in civics classes, political discourse, and television and film. We are told that the United States is a "nation of immigrants," built by people who came from many lands to make an even better nation. But this belief was relatively new in the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    Brutal Campaign

    How the 1988 Election Set the Stage for Twenty-First-Century American Politics

    Narrated by Christopher Douyard ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 53 min

    At 8:00 p.m. eastern standard time on election night 1988, NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw informed the country that they would soon know more about the outcome of "one of the longest, bloodiest presidential campaigns that anyone can remember." It was a landslide victory for George H. W. Bush over Michael Dukakis, and yet Bush would serve only one term. The 1988 presidential race quickly receded into ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • American Insurgents

    A Brief History of American Anti-Imperialism

    "Seymour's obsessively researched, impressive first book holds its place as the most authoritative historical analysis of its kind."—ResurgenceAll empires spin self-serving myths, and in the United States the most potent of these is that America is a force for democracy around the world. Yet there is a tradition of American anti-imperialism which gives the lie to this mythology. Richard Seymour ... Read more

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  • This Will Not Pass

    Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future

    The “blockbuster” (The Guardian) New York Times bestseller, a shocking, definitive account of the 2020 election and the first year of the Biden presidency by two New York Times reporters, exposes the deep fissures within both parties as the country approaches a political breaking point.This is the authoritative, “deeply reported” (The Wall Street Journal) account of an eighteen-month crisis in ... Read more

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  • The People, No

    A Brief History of Anti-Populism

    by Thomas Frank ...
    A "brilliantly written, eye-opening" look at how elites distort the meaning of populism by the bestselling author of What's the Matter with Kansas? ( The Washington Post).Rarely does a work of history contain startling implications for the present, but in The People, No, New York Times-bestselling author Thomas Frank pulls off that explosive effect by showing us that everything we think we know ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • American Psychosis

    A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy

    by David Corn ...
    #1 New York Times bestselling author and investigative reporter David Corn tells the wild and harrowing story of the Republican Party’s decades-long relationship with far-right extremism, bigotry, and paranoia.A fast-paced, rollicking, behind-the-scenes account of how the GOP since the 1950s has encouraged and exploited extremism, bigotry, and paranoia to gain power, American Psychosis offers ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Myth America

    Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

    **In this instant New York Times bestseller, America’s top historians set the record straight on the most pernicious myths about our nation’s past“Outstanding… Wonderfully accessible.” —Washington Post**The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Distortions of the past promoted in the conservative media have led large numbers of Americans to believe in fictions over facts, making ... Read more

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  • The Swing Vote

    The Untapped Power of Independents

    by Linda Killian ...
    As our country's politicians engage in bitter partisan battles, focused on protecting their own jobs but not on doing the nation's business, and political pundits shout louder and shriller to improve their ratings, it's no wonder that Americans have little faith in their government. But is America as divided as the politicians and talking heads would have us believe? Do half of Americans stand on ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • American Rule

    How a Nation Conquered the World but Failed Its People

    From writer and political analyst Jared Yates Sexton comes an eye-opening journey through American history that unearths and debunks the myths we've always told ourselves.Recent years have brought a reckoning in America. As rampant political corruption, stark inequality, and violent bigotry have come to the fore, many have faced two vital questions: How did we get here? And how do we move forward ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Reaganland

    America's Right Turn 1976-1980

    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKFrom the bestselling author of Nixonland**,** The Invisible Bridge**, and** Before the Storm comes the dramatic conclusion of how modern conservatism took control of American political power.Over two decades, Rick Perlstein has published three definitive works about the emergi... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD