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Language
English
Description
Donald Trump's niece, Mary L. Trump, examines America's national trauma, rooted in our history but dramatically exacerbated by the impact of current events and the Trump administration's corrupt and immoral policies. Our failure to acknowledge this trauma, let alone root it out, has allowed it to metastasize. Whether it manifests itself in rising levels of rage and hatred, or hopelessness and apathy, the stress of living in a country we no longer...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In America, having a mental illness has become a crime. One in four fatal police shootings involves a person with mental illness. The country's tree largest providers of mental health care are not hospitals, but jails. As many as half the people in US jails and prisons has a psychiatric disorder. In [this book], journalist Alisa Roth goes deep inside the criminal justice system to reveal how America's tough-on-crime policies have transformed it...