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Author
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bill O'Reilly calls the famous and powerful to account, and dares to get personal, questioning just how much our closest friends, families, and lovers do look out for us. He delivers a powerful message about personal responsibility and self-reliance in an uncertain world, forcing us to ask just how much genuine altruism is left in a society that thrives on self-indulgence and ruthless competition.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 434 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Through an examination of the lives of several Americans and leading public figures over the past three decades, Packer portrays a superpower in danger of coming apart at the seams, its elites no longer elite, its institutions no longer working, its ordinary people left to improvise their own schemes for success and salvation.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Nicholas 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 drugs, alcohol, suicide, or reckless accidents. And while these particular stories unfolded in one corner of the country, they are representative of many places the authors write...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 418 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"It is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through ability and effort. Even as the country divides itself at every turn, the meritocratic ideal--that social and economic rewards should follow achievement rather than breeding--reigns supreme. Both Democrats and Republicans insistently repeat meritocratic notions. Meritocracy cuts to the heart of who we are. It sustains the American dream. But what if, both up and down the social...
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 382 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In this New York Times bestselling book, Robert H. Bork, our country's most distinguished conservative scholar, offers a prophetic and unprecedented view of a culture in decline, a nation in such serious moral trouble that its very foundation is crumbling: a nation that slouches not towards the Bethlehem envisioned by the poet Yeats in 1919, but towards Gomorrah.
Slouching Towards Gomorrah is a penetrating, devastatingly insightful exposé of a country...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Since Ronald Reagan left office--and particularly after his death--his shadow has loomed large over American politics: Republicans and many Democrats have waxed nostalgic, extolling the Republican tradition he embodied, the optimism he espoused, and his abilities as a communicator. This carefully calibrated image is complete fiction, argues journalist William Kleinknecht. The Reagan presidency was epoch-shattering, but not--as his propagandists would...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping 50-year history of how the Baby Boomers took the reforms of the 1960s too far, leading to a multitude of contradictions in American society and values that caused our current political polarization"--
Christopher Caldwell has spent years studying the liberal uprising of the 1960s and its unforeseen consequences. Even the reforms that Americans love best have come with costs that are staggeringly highin wealth, freedom, and social stabilityand...
14) Tailspin: the people and forces behind America's fifty-year fall--and those fighting to reverse it
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
441 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Journalist Steven Brill examines how and why major American institutions no longer serve us as they should, causing a deep rift between the vulnerable majority and the protected few. Covering the years 1967 to 2017, Brill shows us how America's core values -- meritocracy, innovation, due process, free speech, and even democracy itself -- have somehow managed to power its decline into dysfunction. They have isolated our best and brightest, whose positions...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
201 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"As a boy, Robert Kaplan recalls his father driving trucks across the country to earn a living for his family, a man who witnessed and understood America from a ground-level perspective. In Earning the Rockies, Kaplan undertakes his own cross-country journey to recapture an appreciation and understanding of American geography that is often lost in the jet age. Along the way, he witnesses both prosperity and decline--increasingly cosmopolitan cities...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A rollercoaster ride of a memoir, by turns hilarious and heartbreaking, by the journalist, playwright, and political activist Wajahat Ali. 'Go back to where you came from, you terrorist!' This is just one of the many warm, lovely, and helpful tips that Wajahat Ali and other children of immigrants receive on a daily basis. Go back where exactly? His hometown in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he can't afford rent? Awkward, left-handed, suffering...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xxii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The author, known for his landmark work in American journalism and for his other books, The Greatest Generation, and Boom!, now turns his attention to the challenges that face America in the new millennium, to offer reflections on how we can restore America's greatness. "What happened to the America I thought I knew?" he writes. "Have we simply wandered off course, but only temporarily? Or have we allowed ourselves to be so divided that we are easy...
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xx, 277 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 2001, the government was seized by a ne'er-do-well rich boy and his elderly henchmen. Our great economic expansion unraveled, our water was poisoned, and SUVs advanced like a plague of locusts.
Michael Moore has a lot to say and isn't holding back. The powerful are the target - particularly a group that laid waste to the world as we know it - and still are: stupid white men. In this bleakly funny work, Moore reveals how the great and the good...