Unpresidented

Unpresidented
Author: Martha Brockenbrough
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2018-12-04
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 1250308038

A riveting, meticulously researched, and provocative biography of Donald J. Trump from the author of Alexander Hamilton, Revolutionary. Born into a family of privilege and wealth, he was sent to military school at the age of 13. After an unremarkable academic career, he joined the family business in real estate and built his fortune. His personal brand: sex, money and power. From no-holds-barred reality TV star to unlikely candidate, Donald J. Trump rose to the highest political office: President of the United States of America. Learn fascinating details about his personal history, including: -Why Trump’s grandfather left Germany and immigrated to America -Why Woodie Guthrie wrote a song criticizing Trump’s father -How Trump’s romance with Ivana began—and ended -When Trump first declared his interest in running for President Discover the incredible true story of America’s 45th President: his questionable political and personal conduct, and his unprecedented rise to power. Richly informed by original research and illustrated throughout with photographs and documents, Unpresidented is a gripping and important read.

Alexander Hamilton, Revolutionary

Alexander Hamilton, Revolutionary
Author: Martha Brockenbrough
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2017-09-05
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 1250123208

Complex, passionate, brilliant, flawed—Alexander Hamilton comes alive in this exciting biography. He was born out of wedlock on a small island in the West Indies and orphaned as a teenager. From those inauspicious circumstances, he rose to a position of power and influence in colonial America. Discover this founding father's incredible true story: his brilliant scholarship and military career; his groundbreaking and enduring policy, which shapes American government today; his salacious and scandalous personal life; his heartrending end. Richly informed by Hamilton's own writing, with archival artwork and new illustrations, this is an in-depth biography of an extraordinary man.

The Radical Right During Crisis

The Radical Right During Crisis
Author: Eviane Leidig
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 486
Release: 2021-09-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3838215761

While the COVID-19 pandemic overshadowed all else and would quickly have a lasting impact on our daily lives, other events related to the radical right in 2020 soon surfaced. From terrorist attacks in Germany and India to anti-mask protests across the U.S. and Europe, radical right violence escalated in the midst of circulating conspiracy theories and disinformation. The yearbook draws upon insightful analyses from an international network of scholars, policymakers, and practitioners who explore the dynamics and impact of the radical right. It explores a wide range of topics including reflections on authoritarianism and fascism, the role of ideology and (counter-)intellectuals, and radical-right responses to the pandemic and calls for police reform in the height of the Black Lives Matter protests. It ends with important assessments on best approaches towards countering the radical right, both online and offline. This timely overview provides a broad examination of the global radical right in 2020, which will be useful for scholars, students, policymakers, journalists, and the public.

Deep Listening

Deep Listening
Author: Robert E. Haskell
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2008-05-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1607528495

What do we really mean when we make embarrassing mistakes in conversation? Is there such a thing as inadvertent insult or a slip of the tongue? Exploring outside influences and the connections to our dream world, Dr. Robert Haskell guides us through the fascinating terrain of the unconscious, showing how our minds use feelings, sounds, and language to simultaneously hide and reveal what we secretly think and feel. Filled with intriguing and amusing illustrations from every day life, Deep Listening provides the key to unlocking the real feelings and meanings behind our interactions with family, friends, and co-workers.

Women’s March on Washington and Other Poems

Women’s March on Washington and Other Poems
Author: Laura Barnes
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2019-06-18
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1796029408

Poetry that resists bigly! This is a collection of poems written in real time during the first two years of the Trump administration to make you think, laugh, or cry—sometimes all at the same time. With a presidency rewriting the norms of the White House with antics defying decorum, convention, and kindness, these seriously funny, timely, beautifully observed poems reflect the suspended disbelief of onlookers around the world. Beginning with the title poem that celebrates the millions who gathered and marched during the weekend of Trump’s inauguration, this collection also touches on the climate change crisis, transgender injustice, covfefe, relentless tweeting, and other key moments that characterize the Trump administration.

Why White Liberals Fail

Why White Liberals Fail
Author: Anthony J. Badger
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2022-06-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674276094

It’s not the economy, stupid: How liberal politicians’ faith in the healing powers of economic growth—and refusal to address racial divisions—fueled reactionary politics across the South. From FDR to Clinton, charismatic Democratic leaders have promised a New South—a model of social equality and economic opportunity that is always just around the corner. So how did the region become the stronghold of conservative Republicans in thrall to Donald Trump? After a lifetime studying Southern politics, Anthony Badger has come to a provocative conclusion: white liberals failed because they put their faith in policy solutions as an engine for social change and were reluctant to confront directly the explosive racial politics dividing their constituents. After World War II, many Americans believed that if the edifice of racial segregation, white supremacy, and voter disfranchisement could be dismantled across the South, the forces of liberalism would prevail. Hopeful that economic modernization and education would bring about gradual racial change, Southern moderates were rattled when civil rights protest and federal intervention forced their hand. Most were fatalistic in the face of massive resistance. When the end of segregation became inevitable, it was largely driven by activists and mediated by Republican businessmen. Badger follows the senators who refused to sign the Southern Manifesto and rejected Nixon’s Southern Strategy. He considers the dilemmas liberals faced across the South, arguing that their failure cannot be blamed simply on entrenched racism. Conservative triumph was not inevitable, he argues, before pointing to specific false steps and missed opportunities. Could the biracial coalition of low-income voters that liberal politicians keep counting on finally materialize? Badger sees hope but urges Democrats not to be too complacent.

Between The Lines

Between The Lines
Author: R. E Haskell
Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Total Pages: 376
Release: 1999-06-03
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

Have you ever wondered what people are thinking or feeling about you or what you are actually saying in the midst of a conversation?Between the Lines is an extraordinary account, as well as a practical and pioneering method, for recognizing, uncovering, and explaining hidden meaning in everyday conversation. Haskell, an expert in unconscious meaning, shows how our mind uses feelings, sounds, and language to simultaneously hide and reveal what we secretly think and feel during conversation. His intriguing book is filled with episodes from everyday life that reveal our true feelings and concerns about friends, family, co-workers, and others that are often suppressed in social situations.Between the Lines is required for anyone who needs to uncover what people are truly thinking and feeling. It is a book for people who not only want to see how language and the unconscious mind work but also to achieve their goals through a better understanding of what is being said during conversation.

Strangeland

Strangeland
Author: Jon Sopel
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2024-09-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1529938422

From Jon Sopel, bestselling author and presenter of hit podcast The News Agents, comes an incisive examination of post-Brexit Britain and what it means for our future. 'I like and trust Jon Sopel and you should too' JOE LYCETT 'A thrilling, nerve-wracking book. You couldn't make the last ten years up; thanks to Jon Sopel, you don't have to' PETER FRANKOPAN 'A hugely entertaining and quite traumatic rollercoaster' ARMANDO IANNUCCI 'Acute and unflinching - Sopel deploys his foreign correspondent skills on home shores as well as far ones, and brings together the story of a tumultuous few years on both sides of the Atlantic' MISHAL HUSAIN Returning to the UK in some ways has been disconcerting – or maybe discombobulating would be a better word. It is, after all, my home; it is where I grew up, a country I love and am proud of. But either it’s changed, or I have. Maybe both. It just feels like a strange land. At the beginning of 2022, after eight years of political reporting in the US, Jon Sopel returned home to the UK – and having spent almost a third of his career abroad, he found a very different place to the one he left. In Strangeland, his first book since launching the global hit podcast The News Agents, he asks: What is the Britain he’s come home to? In the US, Jon was the outsider looking in, firm in the belief that the common language of English masked our fundamental differences; in terms of values and beliefs, it seemed the British had much more in common with our European neighbours. Strangeland is Jon’s account of how much that has changed. The US was a country he thought he knew well but didn’t really; returning home has been in some ways even more disconcerting – either Britain, the country he grew up in, has changed dramatically, or he has. Perhaps it’s both. A trenchant analysis of politics, people, and everything in between, Strangeland is an unforgettable portrait of a country gone through the looking glass.

The Women of Grub Street

The Women of Grub Street
Author: Paula McDowell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1998
Genre: Authors, English
ISBN: 9780198183952

The period 1678-1730 was a decisive one not only in Western political history but also in the history of the British press. Changing conditions for political expression and an expanding book trade enabled unprecedented opportunities for political activity. The Women of Grub Street argues thatwomen already at work in the London book trade were among the first to seize those new opportunities for public political expression.Synthesizing areas of scholarly inquiry previously regarded as separate, and offering a new model for the study of the literary marketplace, The Women of Grub Street examines not only women writers, but also printers, booksellers, ballad-singers, hawkers, and other producers and distributors ofprinted texts. Original both in its sources and in the claims it makes for the nature, extent, and complexities of women's participation in print culture and public politics, it provides a wealth of new information about middling and lower-class women's political and literary lives, and shows thatthese women were not merely the passive distributors of other people's political ideas. The central argument of the book is that women of the widest possible variety of socioeconomic backgrounds and religio-political allegiances in fact played so prominent a role in the production and transmissionof political ideas through print as to belie simultaneous powerful claims that women had no place in public life. R The first full-length study to suggest the degree of involvement of women in the entire process of print creation at this important moment, The Women of Grub Street supports a numberof important revisionary arguments with a broad range of literary and archival evidence. It will be of interest to readers of literature, social and publishing history, women's studies and feminism, and the history of democracy and public discourse.