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Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Socialists have taken over the modern Democratic Party, big business, news media, entertainment, and academia. This "Big Government Socialism" is crippling America, and we have serious decisions to make about the future of our nation. Gingrich describes the polling that shows what the American majority wants, and illustrates how we can create a safer, more prosperous, and secure future for America. He lays out a roadmap to save America's future and...
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Two award-winning political scientists provide the psychological key to America's deadlocked politics, showing that we are divided not by ideologies but something deeper: personality differences that appear in everything from politics to parenting to the workplace to TV preferences, and which would be innocuous if only we could decouple them from our noxious political debate. What's in your garage: a Prius or a pickup? What's in your coffee cup:...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"An urgent, historically-grounded take on the four major factors that undermine American democracy, and what we can do to address them. While many Americans despair of the current state of U.S. politics, most assume that our system of government and democracy itself are invulnerable to decay. Yet when we examine the past, we find that the United States has undergone repeated crises of democracy, from the earliest days of the republic to the present....
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Publisher
Hot Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Alan Dershowitz has been called "one of the most prominent and consistent defenders of civil liberties in America" by Politico, and "the nation's most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer and one of its most distinguished defenders of individual rights" by Newsweek. Yet, he has come under intense criticism for living by his principles and applying his famed "shoe on the other foot test." The Price of Principle is about efforts to cancel Alan Dershowitz...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"Something has been going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and are afraid to speak honestly. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising--on campus as well as nationally. How did this happen? First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt show how the new problems on campus have their origins in three terrible...
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