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42) 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.
Language
English
Description
Publisher's 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...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Two award-winning historians explore the origins of a divided America. In the middle of the 1970s, America entered a new era of doubt and division. Major political, economic, and social crises--Watergate, Vietnam, the rights revolutions of the 1960s--had cracked the existing social order. In the years that followed, the story of our own lifetimes would be written. Longstanding historical fault lines over income inequality, racial division, and a...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: The untold story of why America is so culturally and politically divided. America may be more diverse than ever coast to coast, but the places where we live are becoming increasingly crowded with people who live, think, and vote as we do. This social transformation didn't happed by accident. We've built a country where we can all choose the neighborhood-and religion and news show-most compatible with our lifestyle and beliefs....
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Olivia Munn is an actress, comedian and television host, best known for being the face of the G4 network. She also occasionally likes to get dressed up as Wonder Woman. This is her paean to Geeks everywhere. With her trademark humor, she tells what it's really like to live in Hollywood, how to get it on, what to do when the robots invade, a timeline of great moments in Geek history, and her answers to the Unofficial Geek FAQ. Is it any wonder that...
Author
Publisher
ReganBooks
Pub. Date
c2001
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...
Author
Publisher
Dey Street, an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Abby Wambach has always pushed the limits of what is possible. Named by Time magazine as one of the most influential people of 2015, the iconic soccer player captured the nation's heart when she led her team to its recent World Cup Championship. Admired for her fearlessness and passion, Abby is a vocal advocate for women's rights and equal opportunity, pushing to translate the success of her team to the real world. She has become a heavily requested...
58) The 1990s
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Discusses the political, historical, and cultural life of the United States in the 1990s.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
The Culture of Contentment is a keen and striking appraisal of America's current, far from happy state of affairs, written by possibly our wisest and certainly our most lucid and irreverent economist, John Kenneth Galbraith. This major new work goes far beyond Ronald Reagan and George Bush to ultimate and controlling causes--to the rise of a greatly self-satisfied elite that is now dominant in the electoral process. The result: today, a once strong...