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12 produkter
Why We're Liberals: A Handbook for Restoring America's Most Important Ideals
Häftad, 2009
345 kr
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The Cause: The Fight for American Liberalism from Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama
Häftad, 2013
345 kr
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It Ain't No Sin...Springsteen
...TO BE GLAD YOU'RE ALIVE
Häftad, 2001
225 kr
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Why does Bruce Springsteen mean so much to so many people? Apart from Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley, no contemporary popular musician has had the cultural impact that Bruce Springsteen has on America. Since he was appointed in the late 1970s as "the future of rock and roll" and appeared on the …
What Liberal Media?
The Truth about Bias and the News
Häftad, 2004
326 kr
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Widely acclaimed and hotly contested, veteran journalist Eric Alterman's ambitious investigation into the true nature of the U.S. news media touched a nerve and sparked debate across the country. As the question of whose interests the media protects-and how-continues to raise hackles, Alterman's …
We Are Not One
A History of America’s Fight Over Israel
Inbunden, 2022
340 kr
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Fights about the fate of the state of Israel, and the Zionist movement that gave birth to it, have long been a staple of both Jewish and American political culture. But despite these arguments' significance to American politics, American Jewish life, and to Israel itself, no one has ever …
When Presidents Lie
A History of Official Deception and Its Consequences
E-bok, 2004
80 kr
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“I’ve never read a better explanation of why presidents lie.”—John W. Dean, former counsel to President Nixon, The Washington Monthly By the end of the twentieth century, after decades of demoralizing revelations about the mendacity of their elected officials, most Americans had come to accept the …
Book on Bush
How George W. (Mis)leads America
Av Mark J. Green, Eric Alterman
E-bok, 2004
112 kr
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When George W. Bush became president in January 2001, he took office with a comfortably familiar surname, bipartisan rhetoric, and the promise of calming a public shaken by the convulsions of impeachment and a contested election. Then nine months later, after the tragedy of 9/11, both the country …
Why We're Liberals
A Handbook for Restoring America''s Most Important Ideals
E-bok, 2008
96 kr
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The bestselling author and Newsweek columnist takes a characteristically irreverent look at the rampant mistreatment of liberals and liberalism The "most honest and incisive media critic writing today"( National Catholic Reporter ), Eric Alterman is committed to restoring the liberal tradition to …
Cause
The Fight for American Liberalism from Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama
E-bok, 2012
78 kr
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The definitive history of American postwar liberalism, told through the lens of those who brought it to life. Liberalism stands proudly at the center of American politics and culture. Driven by passion for social justice, tempered by respect for the difficulty of change, liberals have struggled to …
Why We're Liberals
A Political Handbook for Post-Bush America
Ljudbok, 2008
328 kr
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Thanks to the machinations of the right, there is no dirtier word in American politics today than “liberal.” Yet public opinion polls consistently show that the majority of Americans hold liberal views on everything from health care to foreign policy. In this feisty, accessible primer, Eric …
Lying in State
Why Presidents Lie -- And Why Trump Is Worse
Inbunden, 2020
285 kr
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If there's one thing we know about our current president, it's that he lies. Donald Trump's lies are so ubiquitous, so incessant, and so habitual that they have become inescapable -- from his false claims about the size of his inauguration crowd to his whole cloth invention of a terrorist attack in …
Kabuki Democracy
The System vs. Barack Obama
Häftad, 2011
189 kr
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In this agenda-setting essay, journalist and historian Eric Alterman explains what is really happening with the Obama presidency. While Obama's many compromises have disappointed liberals, Alterman argues that these concessions are largely due to a political system that is rigged against …
