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American Values in the Trump Era

Author : Jim Boeglin
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480883506
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book American Values in the Trump Era written by Jim Boeglin and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald J. Trump was elected president after promising to “make America great again,” but what is it that makes America great? The message implies that America was great at one time but is no longer great. One can assume that Trump wants to take us back to a time when white men were in charge, when businesses went unregulated, and when a woman’s place was in the home. Jim Boeglin argues against those ideas in this political treatise, urging Americans to recognize that the true greatness of America comes not from its balance sheet but from having a democratic form of government, a history of moral leadership, and values and traditions based on ethics, morality, and spiritual principles. America was great before Trump arrived on the scene, but it’s in danger of losing its greatness as he seeks to redefine freedom, equality, opportunity, truthfulness, civility, and more. Just as the 1930s were not normal times in Germany, these are not normal times in America. Find out how we can hold on to what truly makes us great with the insights and analysis in American Values in the Trump Era.

Trump's America

Author : Liam Kennedy
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474458890
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Trump's America written by Liam Kennedy and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald J. Trump's presidency has delivered a seismic shock to the American political system, its public sphere, and to our political culture worldwide.

America in the Age of Trump

Author : Douglas E. Schoen
Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 1641770139
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book America in the Age of Trump written by Douglas E. Schoen and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America in the Age of Trump is a bracing, essential look at the failure of a great nation to meet the needs of its people and the challenges of the age—and the resulting collapse of public trust in government, as well as a pervasive crisis of national values, from broken families to a loss of faith in the American idea itself. This crisis of values occurs just as the country faces an unprecedented array of fiscal, economic, social, and national-security challenges: out-of-control federal spending, frighteningly large deficits, massive gaps of income and opportunity, cultural division, and a dangerous world in which American power seems increasingly incidental. In America in the Age of Trump, Douglas E. Schoen and Jessica Tarlov offer a definitive and unique assessment of a nation in turmoil, looking beneath well-known problems to identify underlying yet poorly understood causes. Readers will confront the crises, one by one: of trust, values, and governance; of education, economic opportunity, and fiscal solvency; of national security, domestic tranquility, and race relations. America in the Age of Trump gathers in one place a clear and comprehensive evaluation of the fundamental issues confronting the American future while offering bold, fresh approaches to meeting these challenges. Other books have described the specter of American decline, but none has been so comprehensive in its diagnosis or forward-looking—and non-ideological—in its remedies, explaining how we might yet overcome national self-doubt to reclaim our traditional optimism, reassert our place in the world, and secure a prosperous future for our citizens.

Race, Gender, and Political Culture in the Trump Era

Author : Christine A. Kray
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000432599
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Race, Gender, and Political Culture in the Trump Era written by Christine A. Kray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates the fragility of democratic norms and institutions, and the allure of fascist politics within the Trump era. The chapters consider the antagonistic cultural practices through which divergent political machinations, including white (patriarchal) nationalism, are staged, and examine the corresponding policies and governing practices that threaten the civil rights, security, and wellbeing of racialized minorities, immigrants, women, and gender nonconforming people. The book contributes to social theory on nation-building by delineating processes of exclusion, intimidation, and violence, with a focus on rhetoric, performance, semiotics, music, affectivity, and the power of media. Various chapters also analyze creative, restorative, and at times unruly practices of community building, which reknit the social fabric with expansive visions of the polity. This anthropology-led volume incorporates contributions from a number of disciplines including sociology, American studies, communication, and Spanish, and will be of interest to scholars across the social sciences and humanities.

America Imperiled, Trump and the Restoration of National Values

Author : Donald K. Sharpes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781536154863
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (548 download)

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Download or read book America Imperiled, Trump and the Restoration of National Values written by Donald K. Sharpes and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a partial review of the shift in American politics to a more radical, ultraconservative, far-right posture, among both the people and Republican congressional leadership during the Trump era. There is also a corresponding shift to the left among Democrats, and a dramatic rise, as high as 40% among Independent voters. My theme is simple. The Trump presidency and the 115th Congress was an updated Confederate government enabled by Russia. Trump and ultraconservatives allowed themselves to be sponsored and endorsed by an autocratic dictator, Putin, because Putin and his obedient oligarchs gave Trump money and power to flourish and demolish at least two pillars of democracy-the role of government and the idea of an inclusive society, while also perverting our global alliances. Additionally, and apart from Russia, the ultraconservative and Libertarian aim has always been to reduce any new legislation sponsoring social services and to attempt to disassemble existing social legislation. Other major goals are anti-government regulations and the lessening of taxes. I will describe this tension throughout this book, demonstrate some of this history, and show how it is the central element in our political dysfunction. This book is also partially a chronicle exposing Trump and the Republication-controlled Congress for willful damage to the democracy, and, in the second part, a recipe for restoring lost or mislaid values and ethics to government and its citizen constituents following the exit of Trump.

What Were We Thinking

Author : Carlos Lozada
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982145633
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book What Were We Thinking written by Carlos Lozada and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “crisp, engaging, and very smart” (The New York Times Book Review) work, The Washington Post’s Pulitzer Prize–winning book critic digs into books of the Trump era and finds that our response to this presidency often reflects the same polarization, contradictions, and resentments that made it possible. It is an irony of our age that a man who rarely reads has unleashed an onslaught of books about his tenure and his time. Dissections of the white working class. Manifestos of political resistance. Works on identity, gender, and migration. Memoirs on race and protest. Revelations of White House mayhem. Warnings over the future of conservatism, progressivism, and of American democracy itself. As a book critic for The Washington Post, Carlos Lozada has read just about all of them. In What Were We Thinking, he draws on some 150 recent volumes to explore how we understand ourselves in the Trump era. Lozada’s characters are not the president, his advisers, or his antagonists but the political and cultural ideas at play—and at stake—in America. Just as Trump’s election upended the country’s political establishment, it shocked its intellectual class. Though some of the books of the Trump era skillfully illuminate the challenges and transformations the nation faces, too many works are more defensive than incisive, more righteous than right. Lozada offers a provocative argument: Whether written by liberals or conservatives, activists or academics, true believers or harsh critics, the books of Trump’s America are vulnerable to the same failures of imagination that gave us this presidency in the first place. In What Were We Thinking, Lozada’s selections range from bestselling titles to little-known works, from thoroughly reported accounts of the administration to partisan polemics, from meditations on the fate of truth to memoirs about enduring—or enabling—the Trump presidency. He also identifies books that challenge entrenched assumptions and shift our vantage points, the books that best help us make sense of this era. The result is an “elegant yet lacerating” (The Guardian) intellectual history of our time, a work that transcends daily headlines to discern how we got here and how we thought here. What Were We Thinking will help today’s readers understand America, and will help tomorrow’s readers look back and understand us.

WHAT WE DO NOW

Author : Dennis Johnson
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612196594
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book WHAT WE DO NOW written by Dennis Johnson and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Bestseller The election of Donald Trump to be the 45th President of the United States of America shocked and dismayed progressives across the country. What We Do Now, a collection of passionate manifestos by some of the country's leading progressives, aims to provide a blueprint for how those stunned progressives can move forward. Its powerful contributions -- from economists, environmentalists, activists, artists, politicians, and novelists -- will offer encouragement and guidance to practicing constitutionally protected acts of resistance throughout the unprecedented upcoming administration. Among the contributors are Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Gloria Steinem, Paul Krugman, Robert B. Reich, George Saunders and Dave Eggers as well the heads of the ACLU, the NAACP, the Sierra Club, the Arab American Association, the National GLBTQ Task Force, the Freedom of the Press Association, and other prominent activists.

Trump's America: Destroying the Foundation of America's Values

Author : John M. Cole
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781090745248
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (452 download)

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Download or read book Trump's America: Destroying the Foundation of America's Values written by John M. Cole and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-03-17 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans elected Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States because they wanted change. Tired of career politicians many Americans thought Trump would bring a refreshing change to America. Trump, a successful businessman, promised Americans he would boost wealth and make America strong but instead has increased America's debt by 2 trillion dollars, increased the deficit by 319 billion dollars, passed a tax reform bill which benefited the wealthy, started a trade war with our trade partners causing taxpayers 12 billion dollars to bail out our farmers, further divided our country socially and economically and befriended our worse enemies while berating our allies. In his 2020 budget, he proposes making huge cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and programs which assist the less fortunate areas which he promised not to cut. As Americans, we need to wake up, and realise our country is going down a terrible path and President Trump's policies and actions are destroying the very foundation and core values established by our country's forefathers. Most Americans work hard to try and make a living and a good life for their families. However, for many, this is a struggle with over 42 per cent of Americans making less than a living wage and have to work two or three jobs to survive. Over12 per cent of Americans can't afford health insurance for themselves and their families. Working Americans are not looking for a handout but a way to survive and improve life for their families. Americans want a fair, equitable system. American worker's wages have not substantially increased over the years while their benefits have decreased or eliminated. On the other hand, American CEO's incomes have increased more than 930 per cent since 1978. The system is broke; American workers should not be slaves to the wealthy and greedy. Americans workers should be paid a living wage, have affordable health care and not have to worry about being unable to retire. The majority of Americans would like a universal health care system which will guarantee health care for all Americans. It is sad that we are the only developed country in the world without a universal health care system. We need an educational system which will provide our children with the tools needed to advance in society. Educating the population and providing a working wage will reduce crime and welfare thus saving our country money. If our elected officials work together to cut government fraud, waste and abuse there would be sufficient funds for universal health care and free education for our citizens. We as a country need to work together as a nation with everyone treated equally. We need to get over treating individuals differently due to race, sex and ethnicity but treat everyone the same. There should be no government handouts to anyone who is capable of making a living wage. Our country is in desperate need for a leader who can unify our country not divide it. A leader who will be honest and not continually lie - a leader who has integrity and the best interest of our country and all its citizens. America needs to get back on track and return to the country the world admires and respects. As citizens, we need to elect officials who want what is best for the country and its citizens, not special interest groups. As citizens, we need to come together as we always have in the past to ensure our country remains a country run by the people for the people.

A War for the Soul of America

Author : Andrew Hartman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022662207X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book A War for the Soul of America written by Andrew Hartman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-04-26 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “unrivaled” history of America’s divided politics, now in a fully updated edition that examines the rise of Trump—and what comes next (New Republic). When it was published in 2015, Andrew Hartman’s history of the culture wars was widely praised for its compelling and even-handed account of how they came to define American politics at the close of the twentieth century. But it also garnered attention for Hartman’s declaration that the culture wars were over—and that the left had won. In the wake of Trump’s rise, driven by an aggressive fanning of those culture war flames, Hartman has brought A War for the Soul of America fully up to date, detailing the ways in which Trump’s success, while undeniable, represents the last gasp of culture war politics—and how the reaction he has elicited can show us early signs of the very different politics to come. “As a guide to the late twentieth-century culture wars, Hartman is unrivalled . . . . Incisive portraits of individual players in the culture wars dramas . . . . Reading Hartman sometimes feels like debriefing with friends after a raucous night out, an experience punctuated by laughter, head-scratching, and moments of regret for the excesses involved.” —New Republic

Resist!

Author : Giuliana Monteverde
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 178661572X
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book Resist! written by Giuliana Monteverde and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-09-04 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resist! pays close attention to popular culture; it examines the political ramifications of Kanye West’s support of Donald Trump, the significance of Aaron Sorkin’s language to American political discourse, and the casting of female emotion as a political force in House of Cards and The Handmaid’s Tale. In doing so, the collection traverses the formal world of ‘the political’ as it relates to presidential elections and referenda, while emphasising the sociocultural and political significance of popular texts which have played a critical role in exploring, critiquing and shaping culture in the twenty first century. Popular culture is often considered trivial or irrelevant to more pressing political concerns, and celebrities are often reprimanded for their forays into the political sphere. Resist! pays close attention to texts that are too often excluded when we think about politics, and explores the cultural and political fall-out of a reality TV president and a divisive public vote on increasingly connected global audiences. In examining the cultural politics of popular media, this collection is inherently interdisciplinary, and the chapters utilise methods and analysis from a range of social science and humanities disciplines. Resist! is both creative and timely, and offers a crucial examination of a fascinating and frightening political and cultural moment.

Surviving Autocracy

Author : Masha Gessen
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593332245
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Surviving Autocracy written by Masha Gessen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “When Gessen speaks about autocracy, you listen.” —The New York Times “A reckoning with what has been lost in the past few years and a map forward with our beliefs intact.” —Interview As seen on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and heard on NPR’s All Things Considered: the bestselling, National Book Award–winning journalist offers an essential guide to understanding, resisting, and recovering from the ravages of our tumultuous times. This incisive book provides an essential guide to understanding and recovering from the calamitous corrosion of American democracy over the past few years. Thanks to the special perspective that is the legacy of a Soviet childhood and two decades covering the resurgence of totalitarianism in Russia, Masha Gessen has a sixth sense for the manifestations of autocracy—and the unique cross-cultural fluency to delineate their emergence to Americans. Gessen not only anatomizes the corrosion of the institutions and cultural norms we hoped would save us but also tells us the story of how a short few years changed us from a people who saw ourselves as a nation of immigrants to a populace haggling over a border wall, heirs to a degraded sense of truth, meaning, and possibility. Surviving Autocracy is an inventory of ravages and a call to account but also a beacon to recovery—and to the hope of what comes next.

American Carnage

Author : Tim Alberta
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062896369
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book American Carnage written by Tim Alberta and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times' Top Books of 2019 Politico Magazine’s chief political correspondent provides a rollicking insider’s look at the making of the modern Republican Party—how a decade of cultural upheaval, populist outrage, and ideological warfare made the GOP vulnerable to a hostile takeover from the unlikeliest of insurgents: Donald J. Trump. The 2016 election was a watershed for the United States. But, as Tim Alberta explains in American Carnage, to understand Trump’s victory is to view him not as the creator of this era of polarization and bruising partisanship, but rather as its most manifest consequence. American Carnage is the story of a president’s rise based on a country’s evolution and a party’s collapse. As George W. Bush left office with record-low approval ratings and Barack Obama led a Democratic takeover of Washington, Republicans faced a moment of reckoning: They had no vision, no generation of new leaders, and no energy in the party’s base. Yet Obama’s forceful pursuit of his progressive agenda, coupled with the nation’s rapidly changing cultural and demographic landscape, lit a fire under the right, returning Republicans to power and inviting a bloody struggle for the party’s identity in the post-Bush era. The factions that emerged—one led by absolutists like Jim Jordan and Ted Cruz, the other led by pragmatists like John Boehner and Mitch McConnell—engaged in a series of devastating internecine clashes and attempted coups for control. With the GOP’s internal fissures rendering it legislatively impotent, and that impotence fueling a growing resentment toward the political class and its institutions, the stage was set for an outsider to crash the party. When Trump descended a gilded escalator to announce his run in the summer of 2015, the candidate had met the moment. Only by viewing Trump as the culmination of a decade-long civil war inside the Republican Party—and of the parallel sense of cultural, socioeconomic, and technological disruption during that period—can we appreciate how he won the White House and consider the fundamental questions at the center of America’s current turmoil. How did a party obsessed with the national debt vote for trillion-dollar deficits and record-setting spending increases? How did the party of compassionate conservatism become the party of Muslim bans and walls? How did the party of family values elect a thrice-divorced philanderer? And, most important, how long can such a party survive? Loaded with exclusive reporting and based off hundreds of interviews—including with key players such as President Trump, Paul Ryan, Ted Cruz, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Jim DeMint, and Reince Priebus, and many others—American Carnage takes us behind the scenes of this tumultuous period as we’ve never seen it before and establishes Tim Alberta as the premier chronicler of this political era.

American Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump

Author : Hal Brands
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815732791
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book American Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump written by Hal Brands and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking beyond the headlines to address the enduring grand strategic questions facing the United States today. American foreign policy is in a state of upheaval. The rise of Donald Trump and his "America First" platform have created more uncertainty about America's role in the world than at any time in recent decades. From the South China Sea, to the Middle East, to the Baltics and Eastern Europe, the geopolitical challenges to U.S. power and influence seem increasingly severe—and America's responses to those challenges seem increasingly unsure. Questions that once had widely accepted answers are now up for debate. What role should the United States play in the world? Can, and should, America continue to pursue an engaged an assertive strategy in global affairs? In this book, a leading scholar of grand strategy helps to make sense of the headlines and the upheaval by providing sharp yet nuanced assessments of the most critical issues in American grand strategy today. Hal Brands asks, and answers, such questions as: Has America really blundered aimlessly in the world since the end of the Cold War, or has its grand strategy actually been mostly sensible and effective? Is America in terminal decline, or can it maintain its edge in a harsher and more competitive environment? Did the Obama administration pursue a policy of disastrous retrenchment, or did it execute a shrewd grand strategy focused on maximizing U.S. power for the long term? Does Donald Trump's presidency mean that American internationalism is dead? What type of grand strategy might America pursue in the age of Trump and after? What would happen if the United States radically pulled back from the world, as many leading academics—and, at certain moments, the current president—have advocated? How much military power does America need in the current international environment? Grappling with these kinds of issues is essential to understanding the state of America's foreign relations today and what path the country might take in the years ahead. At a time when American grand strategy often seems consumed by crisis, this collection of essays provides an invaluable guide to thinking about both the recent past and the future of America's role in the world.

On the Road in Trump's America

Author : Daniel Allott
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1645720195
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (457 download)

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Download or read book On the Road in Trump's America written by Daniel Allott and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential part of a journalist's responsibility is to listen, observe, ask good questions, and then listen some more. For too long, too few journalists have taken this responsibility seriously. This has been particularly true in the Trump era. Most political journalists failed to anticipate Donald Trump's rise because they are utterly unable to understand his appeal. From the start, they treated Trumpism as a pathology. They dismissed his voters as being guided by bigotry, ignorance, and fear. Needless to say, this has skewed their coverage.Worst of all, no one seems to have learned anything. The media malpractice that characterized the 2016 presidential campaign has arguably become even worse during the Trump presidency. Most of the media have remained unwilling or unable to understand and objectively report on the people and places that put Trump in the White House. When reporters do venture into “Trump's America,” they typically parachute in for only a few hours in search of evidence to confirm their pre-written narratives. Daniel Allott decided to take a different approach. In the spring of 2017, he left his position at a Washington, D.C. political magazine and began reporting from across the country. He spent much of the following three years living in and reporting from nine counties that were crucial to understanding the 2016 election; they will be equally crucial to determining who will win in 2020. This book is not just a study of Trump voters. Allott spoke with as many people as he could regardless of their politics; farmers and professors; congressmen and homeless people; refugees and drug addicts; students and retirees; progressives, conservatives, and people with no discernible or consistent political ideology. His one preference was for “switchers” — people who voted one way in 2016 and have subsequently changed their minds ahead of the 2020 election. Allot discovered that these voters are like an endangered species in Trump's America. Allott's goal wasn't simply to learn why people had voted the way they did in 2016, or to predict how they might vote in 2020. It was also to chart how their lives and circumstances changed over the course of Trump's first term in office, and how the values and priorities that inform their political views might have changed. The accounts will challenge preconceived ideas about who the people in these places are, what motivates their decisions, and what animates their lives.

Alt-America

Author : David Neiwert
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1786634244
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book Alt-America written by David Neiwert and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the remarkable resurgence of right-wing extremists in the United States Just as Donald Trump’s victorious campaign for the US presidency shocked the world, the seemingly sudden national prominence of white supremacists, xenophobes, militia leaders, and mysterious “alt-right” figures mystifies many. But the American extreme right has been growing steadily in number and influence since the 1990s with the rise of patriot militias. Following 9/11, conspiracy theorists found fresh life; and in virulent reaction to the first black US president, militant racists have come out of the woodwork. Nurtured by a powerful right-wing media sector in radio, TV, and online, the far right, Tea Party movement conservatives, and Republican activists found common ground. Figures such as Stephen Bannon, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Alex Jones, once rightly dismissed as cranks, now haunt the reports of mainstream journalism. Investigative reporter David Neiwert has been tracking extremists for more than two decades. In Alt-America, he provides a deeply researched and authoritative report on the growth of fascism and far-right terrorism, the violence of which in the last decade has surpassed anything inspired by Islamist or other ideologies in the United States. The product of years of reportage, and including the most in-depth investigation of Trump’s ties to the far right, this is a crucial book about one of the most disturbing aspects of American society.

Fundamentally Transformed

Author : Mark Lincoln
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781523442966
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book Fundamentally Transformed written by Mark Lincoln and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-17 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fundamentally Transformed: Conservatism's last chance to Restore, Protect, and Preserve Traditional American Values is a MUST-READ for all conservatives and for that matter, for every American. Every aspect of traditional American society is under relentless assault and this book outlines common-sense solutions to restore traditional American values, preserve conservative principles, and promote national patriotism. There is definitive sense of nationalism pulsating through America in 2017. We love our country and we wish to preserve traditional American values. We have plenty of tolerance, when people respect and obey our laws and do not enter our country illegally and kill our citizens. We already pay more than our fair share, when in some states, nearly 50% of our incomes are confiscated by government tax burdens. We have enough government control, with governmental agencies and institutions that have infiltrated nearly every segment of American society and subjugated all sectors of the American economy. We are sick of political correctness. We are sick of American society being systematically emasculated by over-sensitive groups, who are ostensibly offended by the views, language, positions, and opinions of others. We are sick of traditional American values being relentlessly assaulted. There continues to be a fundamental misunderstanding and underestimation of how absolutely SICK AND TIRED the American people are with the status quo, the way this country was run during the Obama administration, the way the mainstream media does not report the news but rather, creates FAKE news, and with the condescending political correctness permeating every aspect of our society. WE ARE SICK OF IT! One of the key realities underpinning and defining the primary theme of this book is this fact - our country was fundamentally transformed and this fundamental transformation clearly defined the constitutional crisis we were witness to during the Obama/Clinton years. We were on the precipice of living in a post-constitutional era in the United States of America, when and where the electorate allowed a ruling political class and D.C. partisan cartel to fundamentally transform the United States through the massive overreach of executive authority, the usurpation of congressional power, and via illegal and unconstitutional social-engineering tactics. Get this book. Read it. Share it. Help revive the American dream. Together, let's restore traditional American values, reinvigorate conservative principles, and through a Donald Trump presidency, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America

Author : James Poniewozik
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631494430
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)

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Book Synopsis Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America by : James Poniewozik

Download or read book Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America written by James Poniewozik and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Top 10 Politics and Current Events Books of Fall 2019 (Publishers Weekly) An incisive cultural history that captures a fractious nation through the prism of television and the rattled mind of a celebrity president. Television has entertained America, television has ensorcelled America, and with the election of Donald J. Trump, television has conquered America. In Audience of One, New York Times chief television critic James Poniewozik traces the history of TV and mass media from the Reagan era to today, explaining how a volcanic, camera-hogging antihero merged with America’s most powerful medium to become our forty-fifth president. In the tradition of Neil Postman’s masterpiece Amusing Ourselves to Death, Audience of One shows how American media have shaped American society and politics, by interweaving two crucial stories. The first story follows the evolution of television from the three-network era of the 20th century, which joined millions of Americans in a shared monoculture, into today’s zillion-channel, Internet-atomized universe, which sliced and diced them into fractious, alienated subcultures. The second story is a cultural critique of Donald Trump, the chameleonic celebrity who courted fame, achieved a mind-meld with the media beast, and rode it to ultimate power. Braiding together these disparate threads, Poniewozik combines a cultural history of modern America with a revelatory portrait of the most public American who has ever lived. Reaching back to the 1940s, when Trump and commercial television were born, Poniewozik illustrates how Donald became “a character that wrote itself, a brand mascot that jumped off the cereal box and entered the world, a simulacrum that replaced the thing it represented.” Viscerally attuned to the media, Trump shape-shifted into a boastful tabloid playboy in the 1980s; a self-parodic sitcom fixture in the 1990s; a reality-TV “You’re Fired” machine in the 2000s; and finally, the biggest role of his career, a Fox News–obsessed, Twitter-mad, culture-warring demagogue in the White House. Poniewozik deconstructs the chaotic Age of Trump as the 24-hour TV production that it is, decoding an era when politics has become pop culture, and vice versa. Trenchant and often slyly hilarious, Audience of One is a penetrating and sobering review of the raucous, raging, farcical reality show—performed for the benefit of an insomniac, cable-news-junkie “audience of one”—that we all came to live in, whether we liked it or not.