Posts Tagged ‘political’
The Patch
“In its heyday, the oilsands represented an industrial triumph and the culmination of a century of innovation, experiment, engineering, policy, and finance. Fort McMurray was a boomtown, the centre of a new gold rush, and the oilsands were reshaping the global energy, political, and financial landscapes. The future seemed limitless for the city and those…
Read MoreFantasyland
A razor-sharp thinker offers a new understanding of our post-truth world and explains the American instinct to believe in make-believe, from the Pilgrims to P. T. Barnum to Disneyland to zealots of every stripe . . . to Donald Trump. In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, Kurt Andersen demonstrates that what’s happening in our…
Read MoreWhat Happened
A collection of essays describes the former secretary of state’s exeperiences in the 2016 presidential campaign and shares inspirational quotes that have shaped her life and work.
Read MoreThe Devil’s Bargain
Based on dozens of interviews conducted over six years, Green spins the master narrative of the 2016 campaign from its origins in the far fringes of right-wing politics and reality television to its culmination inside Trump’s penthouse on election night.
Read MoreLove Among the Ruins
92-year activist and author of the acclaimed Harry’s Last Stand presents a unique memoir.
Read MoreStrangers in Their Own Land
2016 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR NONFICTION A 2016 NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEWSDAY TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR A KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF 2016 One of “6 Books to Understand Trump’s Win” according to the New York Times the day after the election “This is a smart,…
Read MoreThis Changes Everything
#1 bestseller, winner of the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-Fiction, and Naomi Klein’s most important book yet–about the economic drivers that are warming our planet and how the climate crisis can yet spur economic, cultural and political transformation. Klein argues that our current growth-based economic model is waging war on the life support…
Read MoreAl Franken Giant of the Senate
From the #1 bestselling author – the story of an award-winning comedian who decided to run for office and then discovered why award-winning comedians tend not to do that. AL FRANKEN, GIANT OF THE SENATE is a book about an unlikely campaign that had an even more improbable ending: the closest outcome in history and…
Read MoreNo Is Not Enough
“Remember when it all seemed to be getting better? Before Trump happened? What went wrong, and what can we do about it? Naomi Klein – scourge of brand bullies, disaster capitalists and climate liars – shows us how we got to this surreal and dangerous place, how to stop it getting worse and how, if…
Read MoreTruth About Trump
“Admirably straightforward, even-handed, but nonetheless damning.” —The New York Times Book Review. For all those who wonder, “Just who is Donald Trump?”, The Truth About Trump supplies the answer. Drawing upon exclusive interviews and exhaustive research, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Michael D’Antonio presents Trump’s full story, from his beginnings as a businessman to his juggernaut presidential…
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