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    How Electric Cooperatives Transformed Rural South Carolina

    Early in the twentieth century, for-profit companies such as Duke Power and South Carolina Electric and Gas brought electricity to populous cities and towns across South Carolina, while rural areas remained in the dark. It was not until the advent of publicly owned electric cooperatives in the 1930s that the South Carolina countryside was gradually introduced to the conveniences of life with ... Leer más

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    The instant New York Times bestseller about one man's battle to save hundreds of jobs by demonstrating the greatness of American business.The Bassett Furniture Company was once the world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer. Run by the same powerful Virginia family for generations, it was also the center of life in Bassett, Virginia. But beginning in the 1980s, the first waves of Asian ... Leer más

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  • Soul City

    Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia

    de Thomas Healy ...
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  • Antitrust

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  • Democracy Inc.

    How Members of Congress Have Cashed In On Their Jobs

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  • Run

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    Run**, Eisner Award Winner for Best Graphic Memoir, is an essential graphic novel, whether for the home or the classroom. First you march, then you run. From the #1 bestselling, award-winning team behind** March.This follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestselling graphic novel series March is the continuation of the life story of John Lewis and the struggles seen across the United States after the ... Leer más

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  • Refinery Town

    Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City

    de Steve Early ...
    The People vs. Big Oil—how a working-class company town harnessed the power of local politics to reclaim their communityWith a foreword by Bernie SandersHome to one of the largest oil refineries in the state, Richmond, California, was once a typical company town, dominated by Chevron. This largely nonwhite, working-class city of 100,000 suffered from poverty, pollution, and poorly funded public ... Leer más

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  • The Company Town

    The Industrial Eden's and Satanic Mills That Shaped the American Economy

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    Company town: The very phrase sounds un-American. Yet company towns are the essence of America. Hershey bars, Corning glassware, Kohler bathroom fixtures, Maytag washers, Spam -- each is the signature product of a company town in which one business, for better or worse, exercises a grip over the population. In The Company Town, Hardy Green, who has covered American business for over a decade, ... Leer más

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  • The Visible Hand

    The role of large-scale business enterprise—big business and its managers—during the formative years of modern capitalism (from the 1850s until the 1920s) is delineated in this pathmarking book. Alfred Chandler, Jr., the distinguished business historian, sets forth the reasons for the dominance of big business in American transportation, communications, and the central sectors of production and ... Leer más

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    The Truth Behind the Trillion-Dollar Stimulus, the Biggest Economic Recovery Plan in History

    The 2012 presidential campaign will, above all else, be a referendum on the Obama administration's handling of the financial crisis, recalling the period when Obama's "audacity of hope" met the austerity of reality. Central to this is the ''American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009'' -- the largest economic recovery plan in American history. Senator Mitch McConnell gave a taste of the ... Leer más

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  • The Privatization of Everything

    How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back

    The book the American Prospect calls “an essential resource for future reformers on how not to govern,” by America’s leading defender of the public interest and a bestselling historian“An essential read for those who want to fight the assault on public goods and the commons.” —Naomi KleinA sweeping exposé of the ways in which private interests strip public goods of their power and diminish ... Leer más

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  • States of Neglect

    How Red-State Leaders Have Failed Their Citizens and Undermined America

    As America continues down its path of polarization, a celebrated journalist tells us the deep story of the red-state/blue-state divideIn the wake of Trump’s presidency, Republican-led states have joined in an alarming assault on our democratic system. But the drift toward authoritarianism in red states has far deeper roots. We now have a country where tens of millions of people live under regimes ... Leer más

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