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Basic Books
Pub. Date
2011
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"These selections form the many writings of Thomas Sowell over a period of half a century and cover social, economic, cultural, legal, educational and political issues....The topics range from late-talking children to "tax cuts for the rich, " baseball, race, war, the role of judges, medical care and the rhetoric of politicians."--Dust jacket.
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Counterpoint Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
"America has survived a near-economic disaster. While the state of employment and housing will one day improve, we will never return to the false prosperity that defined the first decade of the 21st century. Progressives hold the key to quality of life in our coming post-consumerist society. We need to confront right-wing ideology and how post-industrial capitalism has undermined work, government, and our very way of life. We need to move beyond the...
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Pub. Date
2011
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"I wrote this book because I love my country and I'm concerned about our future, " writes Bill Clinton. "As I often said when I first ran for President in 1992, America at its core is an idea, the idea that no matter who you are or where you're from, if you work hard and play by the rules, you'll have the freedom and opportunity to pursue your own dreams and leave your kids a country where they can chase theirs."
President Bill Clinton gives us his...
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[Distributed by] MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Meet Michael Ruppert, a different kind of American. A former Los Angeles police officer turned independent reporter, he predicted the current financial crisis in his self-published newsletter, From the Wilderness, at a time when most Wall Street and Washington analysts were still in denial. Director Chris Smith has shown an affinity for outsiders in films like American Movie and The Yes Men.
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Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
"Understanding the post-crisis consumer In Spend Shift, John Gerzema, world-renowned expert on consumer values, and Pulitzer prizewinning author Michael D'Antonio document the rise of a vibrant, values-driven post-recession economy. To tell the story of this movement, the authors travel to large cities and small towns across eight bellwether states, to examine the value shifts sweeping the nation. Through in-depth observation, proprietary data from...
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Sentinel
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Libertarian talk-radio host Goyette explains how the growth of federal power and its costly warfare and welfare spending are bankrupting America and strangling our prosperity. Our leaders are ideologically bankrupt. The Obama White House has forced the adoption of bailouts and unnecessary spending programs that do little but destroy wealth. But the Bush administration was no better, with its unending, bankrupting elective war and the largest bailout...
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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Squeezed" weaves together intimate reporting with sharp and lively critique to show how the high cost of parenthood and our increasingly unstable job market have imploded the middle-class American Dream for many families, and offers surprising solutions for how we might change things. Families today are squeezed on every side--from high childcare costs and harsh employment policies to workplaces without paid family leave or even dependable and regular...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Since Alexis de Tocqueville, restlessness has been accepted as a key American trait. Our willingness to move, take risks, and adapt to change has produced a dynamic economy and a tradition of innovation. The problem, according to economist, Tyler Cowen, is that Americans today have broken from this tradition, working harder than ever to avoid change: moving less, marrying people more like ourselves, and making choices as often as possible based on...
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Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
2010
Description
"America has committed billions of dollars to escalate military action in Afghanistan and Pakistan, using war as a tool for peace. ... Bill Moyers considers a different path to peace with humanitarian Greg Mortenson ... as they discuss Mortenson's efforts to build schools and nurture communities in that embattled region. Moyers also speaks with historian and columnist Thomas Frank about the state of the Union when Obama took office and the lessons...
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RDA Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
The next 20 years will be completely different from the past. Current global trends are bleak: weak economic growth, too much debt, declining incomes for the lower 99%, a dangerous addiction to fossil fuels, and ecological destruction - just to name a few. Many of us understandably feel resigned to an eroding standard of living in the years to come. At best. But what if we told you that there are specific, attainable steps you can take today that...
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With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America." The authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the children with whom Kristof grew up, in rural Yamhill, Oregon, an area that prospered for much of the twentieth century but has been devastated in the last few decades as blue-collar jobs disappeared. About one-quarter of the children on Kristof's old school bus died in adulthood from...
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Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"A bold blueprint for moving beyond the "era of institutional failure" by transforming our outmoded political and economic systems to be resilient to twenty-first-century problems, from the entrepreneur, bestselling author, and popular political truth-teller. Despite being written off by the media, Andrew Yang's shoestring 2020 presidential campaign--powered by his proposal for a Universal Basic Income of $1,000 a month for all Americans--jolted the...
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