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Women biography, Politics and government, History
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"[The] rare biography of a public figure that's not only beautifully written, but also shockingly revelatory."… -- The AtlanticA vivid biography of former First Lady Barbara Bush, one of the most influential and under-appreciated women in American political history.Barbara Pierce Bush was one of the country's most popular and powerful figures, yet her full story has never been told.THE MATRIARCH tells the riveting tale of a woman who helped define two American presidencies and an entire political era. Written by USA TODAY's Washington Bureau chief Susan Page, this biography is informed by more than one hundred interviews with Bush friends and family members, hours of conversation with Mrs. Bush herself in the final six months of her life, and access to her diaries that spanned decades. THE MATRIARCH examines not only her public persona but also less well-known aspects of her remarkable life. As a girl in Rye, New York, Barbara Bush weathered criticism of her weight from her mother, barbs that left lifelong scars. As a young wife, she coped with the death of her three-year-old daughter from leukemia, a loss that changed her forever. In middle age, she grappled with depression so serious that she contemplated suicide. And as first the wife and then the mother of American presidents, she made history as the only woman to see -- and advise -- both her husband and son in the Oval Office.As with many women of her era, Barbara Bush was routinely underestimated, her contributions often neither recognized nor acknowledged. But she became an astute and trusted political campaign strategist and a beloved First Lady. She invested herself deeply in expanding literacy programs in America, played a critical role in the end of the Cold War, and led the way in demonstrating love and compassion to those with HIV/AIDS. With her cooperation, this book offers Barbara Bush's last words for history -- on the evolution of her party, on the role of women, on Donald Trump, and on her family's legacy.Barbara Bush's accomplishments, struggles, and contributions are many. Now, Susan Page explores them all in THE MATRIARCH, a groundbreaking book certain to cement Barbara Bush as one of the most unique and influential women in American history.
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Politics and government
A stirring, heartfelt manifesto written by a man who fervently believes in what workers with their civil society allies can… achieve for the good of all. Sid Ryan, one of Canada’s most courageous and progressive union leaders, draws on the experience of his varied and colourful life to show what is right with the labour movement, what is wrong, and what has to change if it is to avoid becoming irrelevant. In A Grander Vision, Ryan calls for the adoption of social movement unionism, in which labour forges an alliance with other progressive elements in civil society, taking up the cause of young people, precarious workers, and immigrants. Ryan asserts that a renewed commitment to the NDP — the party that was built by unions — is necessary and that the Leap Manifesto should become the pillar of the movement in Canada.
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Business and economics, Politics and government
Winner of the 2018 Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick Book Award for Non-FictionShortlisted for the 2018 Writers' Trust Shaughnessy Cohen… Prize for Political WritingShortlisted for the 2019 JW Dafoe Book PrizeA timely chronicle of how Canada's oil pipelines have become hotbeds for debate about our energy future, Indigenous rights, environmental activism, and east-west political tensions.Pipe Dreams is the dramatic story of the rise and fall of the Energy East pipeline and the broader battle over climate and energy in Canada. The project was to be a monumental undertaking, beginning near Edmonton, AB, and stretching over four thousand kilometres, through Montreal to the Irving Oil refinery in Saint John, NB. Conceived as a back-up plan for the stalled Keystone XL pipeline, it became the crucible for a national debate over the future of oil. In a cross-country journey, Poitras talked to industry executives, prairie ranchers, First Nations chiefs, mayors, premiers, cabinet ministers, and refinery workers. He also explored Canada's perplexing oil relationship with the United States: our industry is literally tied to its American counterpart with sinews of steel. The Energy East pipeline represented a new direction, designed to get Alberta oil sands crude to lucrative world markets. Yet it was promoted in explicitly nationalist terms: the country was said to be reorienting itself along its east-west axis, tying itself together, again, with a great feat of engineering. By the time the journey ended, the story had become a kind of whodunit: Poitras witnessed the slow-motion killing of the fifteen billion dollar project. Unfolding in tandem with clashes over the Trans Mountain pipeline, Energy East's demise heralded a potential turning point not just for a single proposal, but for Canada's carbon economy.Entertaining, informative, and insightful, Pipe Dreams offers a clear picture of the complicated political, environmental, and economic issues that Canadians face.
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La conquête de la Maison-Blanche est une saga qui s'étire sur de longs mois, qui absorbe des sommes astronomiques et… qui remue les eaux saumâtres du passé des candidats et de leur famille. Elle est désormais suivie, un peu à la manière des Hunger Games, comme une série télévisée où seul le candidat le plus rusé, le plus connecté, le plus nanti ou le plus agressif survivra, au terme de pratiquement une année et demie de joute
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Une enquête sur le fonctionnement des services secrets de Daech, leurs techniques, leurs ressources, mettant en lumière ceux qui ont… organisé depuis Raqqa les attentats du 13 novembre 2015. L'auteur s'appuie sur des milliers de procès-verbaux et une quarantaine d'entretiens menés auprès de magistrats, de policiers, de djihadistes et de victimes
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Dans cet ouvrage, achevé au lendemain de l'élection de Donald Trump, Noam Chomsky offre une vue d'ensemble de la géopolitique… actuelle et une synthèse des rouages politiques qui la sous-tendent : des sanctions américaines contre l'Iran à la politique de torture que pratique l'armée des États-Unis, en passant par la montée en puissance de la Chine et ses conséquences sur les États-Unis et l' ordre mondial , sans oublier la nouvelle guerre froide qui couve en Europe de l'Est et la guerre planétaire contre le terrorisme. De moins en moins contraintes par la structure que l'on dit encore démocratique, les puissances mondiales d'aujourd'hui ont un tel potentiel destructeur qu'il est plus urgent que jamais de prêter attention à leurs détracteurs
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Deux frères du Saguenay, qui pratiquent tous deux le métier de journaliste. Le plus vieux est à Bombay, en Inde,… lorsque son cadet entre en poste à Islamabad, au Pakistan, pays voisin fondé en 1947, lors de la Partition des Indes. Deux pays ennemis, donc, qui séchangent des injures par la bouche de leurs canons. Les frères, eux, séchangent des lettres pendant un an. Trente-cinq lettres au total. Si la fraternité permet de franchir des frontières hautement militarisées, elle rend aussi visibles dautres fractures, concrètes, entre ce sous-continent asiatique et nos contrées riches, dont la liberté paraît relever de lutopie pour cette population de plus dun milliard et demi dhabitants
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Dans cet essai, Hugo Bonin nous rappelle que pendant longtemps, d'Aristote à Montesquieu ou Rousseau, l'élection a été jugée trop… aristocratique et trop élitiste. Pour attribuer des responsabilités politiques, les démocrates avaient recours à un outil oublié de nos jours : le tirage au sort. Retraçant l'histoire perdue du hasard en politique ainsi que différents exemples de son utilisation contemporaine, cet ouvrage fournit des pistes de réflexion pour ceux qui souhaitent transformer notre démocratie représentative. Parce que la politique, c'est l'affaire de n'importe qui
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Après Raison et déraison du mythe, qui proposait une approche sociale du mythe, nous voici sur le terrain des mythes… nationaux. Au-delà de la théorie, le livre propose des aperçus empiriques centrés sur les États-Unis, l'Acadie, le Canada anglais et le Québec. À chaque fois, il s'agit de comprendre comment les mythes nationaux opèrent et comment ces sociétés vivent les changements occasionnés par le néolibéralisme, la diversification ethnoculturelle ou les grands courants culturels transnationaux. Au terme de cet ambitieux parcours, le lecteur aura tôt fait de constater que l'enjeu des mythes nationaux est intimement lié à celui de la démocratie
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Politics and government
The Art of Policymaking: Tools, Techniques and Processes in the Modern Executive Branch, Second Edition is a practical introduction to… the specific tools, techniques, and processes used to create policy in the executive branch of the U.S. government. George E. Shambaugh, IV and Paul Weinstein, Jr. explain how government officials craft policy, manage the policymaking process, and communicate those policies to stakeholders and the public at large. The authors draw on both their academic and government experience to provide real-world advice on writing memos, preparing polling questions, and navigating the clearance process. An abundance of case studies show how actual policies are developed and how and why policies and processes differ across administrations. Practice scenarios allow students to apply the tools and techniques they have learned by working through both domestic and foreign policy situations.
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Politics and government, General non-fiction
As global economic and population growth continues to skyrocket, increasingly strained resources have made one thing clear: the desperate need… for an alternative to capitalism. In Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia, Hans Baer outlines the urgent need to reevaluate historical definitions of socialism, commit to social equality and justice, and prioritize environmental sustainability. Democatic eco-socialism, as he terms it, is a system capable of mobilizing people around the world, albeit in different ways, to prevent on-going human socio-economic and environmental degradation, and anthropogenic climate change.
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Nature, Politics and government
Named a Notable Book for 2005 by the American Library Association, One with Nineveh is a fresh synthesis of the… major issues of our time, now brought up to date with an afterword for the paperback edition. Through lucid explanations, telling anecdotes, and incisive analysis, the book spotlights the three elephants in our global living room-rising consumption, still-growing world population, and unchecked political and economic inequity-that together are increasingly shaping today's politics and humankind's future. One with Nineveh brilliantly puts today's political and environmental debates in a larger context and offers some bold proposals for improving our future prospect.
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Laws and statutes, Politics and government, Customs and cultures, General non-fiction
The miniscule motion of a butterfly’s wings can trigger a tornado half a world away, according to chaos theory. Catharine… A. MacKinnon’s collected work on gender inequality—including new pieces—argues that the right seemingly minor interventions in the legal realm can have a butterfly effect that generates major social and cultural transformations.
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Politics and government
The Art of Policymaking: Tools, Techniques and Processes in the Modern Executive Branch, Second Edition is a practical introduction to… the specific tools, techniques, and processes used to create policy in the executive branch of the U.S. government. George E. Shambaugh, IV and Paul Weinstein, Jr. explain how government officials craft policy, manage the policymaking process, and communicate those policies to stakeholders and the public at large. The authors draw on both their academic and government experience to provide real-world advice on writing memos, preparing polling questions, and navigating the clearance process. An abundance of case studies show how actual policies are developed and how and why policies and processes differ across administrations. Practice scenarios allow students to apply the tools and techniques they have learned by working through both domestic and foreign policy situations.
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Economics, Business and economics, Politics and government
From the author of Aftershock and The Work of Nations, his most important book to date--a myth-shattering breakdown of how… the economic system that helped make America so strong is now failing us, and what it will take to fix it. Perhaps no one is better acquainted with the intersection of economics and politics than Robert B. Reich, and now he reveals how power and influence have created a new American oligarchy, a shrinking middle class, and the greatest income inequality and wealth disparity in eighty years. He makes clear how centrally problematic our veneration of the "free market" is, and how it has masked the power of moneyed interests to tilt the market to their benefit. Reich exposes the falsehoods that have been bolstered by the corruption of our democracy by huge corporations and the revolving door between Washington and Wall Street: that all workers are paid what they're "worth," that a higher minimum wage equals fewer jobs, and that corporations must serve shareholders before employees. He shows that the critical choices ahead are not about the size of government but about who government is for: that we must choose not between a free market and "big" government but between a market organized for broadly based prosperity and one designed to deliver the most gains to the top. Ever the pragmatist, ever the optimist, Reich sees hope for reversing our slide toward inequality and diminished opportunity when we shore up the countervailing power of everyone else. Passionate yet practical, sweeping yet exactingly argued, Saving Capitalism is a revelatory indictment of our economic status quo and an empowering call to civic action.From the Hardcover edition.
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Politics and government, Islam, Religion
In the post-9/11 West, there is no shortage of strident voices telling us that Islam is a threat to the… security, values, way of life, and even existence of the United States and Europe. For better or worse, "the Muslim question" has become the great question of our time. It is a question bound up with others--about freedom of speech, terror, violence, human rights, women's dress, and sexuality. Above all, it is tied to the possibility of democracy. In this fearless, original, and surprising book, Anne Norton demolishes the notion that there is a "clash of civilizations" between the West and Islam. What is really in question, she argues, is the West's commitment to its own ideals: to democracy and the Enlightenment trinity of liberty, equality, and fraternity. In the most fundamental sense, the Muslim question is about the values not of Islamic, but of Western, civilization. Moving between the United States and Europe, Norton provides a fresh perspective on iconic controversies, from the Danish cartoon of Muhammad to the murder of Theo van Gogh. She examines the arguments of a wide range of thinkers--from John Rawls to Slavoj i ek. And she describes vivid everyday examples of ordinary Muslims and non-Muslims who have accepted each other and built a common life together. Ultimately, Norton provides a new vision of a richer and more diverse democratic life in the West, one that makes room for Muslims rather than scapegoating them for the West's own anxieties.
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Known for his network of conservative websites that draws millions of readers everyday, Andrew Breitbart has one main goal: to… make sure the "liberally biased" major news outlets in this country cover all aspects of a story fairly. Breitbart is convinced that too many national stories are slanted by the news media in an unfair way. In RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION, Breitbart talks about the key issues that Americans face, how he has aligned himself with the Tea Party, and how one needs to deal with the liberal news world head on. Along the way, he details his early years, working with Matt Drudge, the Huffington Post, and so on, and how Breitbart developed his unique style of launching key websites to help get the word out to conservatives all over. A rollicking and controversial read, Breitbart will certainly raise your blood pressure, one way or another.
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Sports biography, United States history, Politics and government
Based on more than eighty interviews, this fast-paced, richly detailed biography of Perry Wallace, the first African American basketball player… in the SEC, digs deep beneath the surface to reveal a more complicated and profound story of sports pioneering than we've come to expect from the genre. Perry Wallace's unusually insightful and honest introspection reveals his inner thoughts throughout his journey.Wallace entered kindergarten the year that Brown v. Board of Education upended "separate but equal." As a twelve-year-old, he sneaked downtown to watch the sit-ins at Nashville's lunch counters. A week after Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, Wallace entered high school, and later saw the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts. On March 16, 1966, his Pearl High School basketball team won Tennessee's first integrated state tournament—the same day Adolph Rupp's all-white Kentucky Wildcats lost to the all-black Texas Western Miners in an iconic NCAA title game.The world seemed to be opening up at just the right time, and when Vanderbilt recruited him, Perry Wallace courageously accepted the assignment to desegregate the SEC. His experiences on campus and in the hostile gymnasiums of the Deep South turned out to be nothing like he ever imagined.On campus, he encountered the leading civil rights figures of the day, including Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King Jr., Fannie Lou Hamer, and Robert Kennedy—and he led Vanderbilt's small group of black students to a meeting with the university chancellor to push for better treatment.On the basketball court, he experienced an Ole Miss boycott and the rabid hate of the Mississippi State fans in Starkville. Following his freshman year, the NCAA instituted "the Lew Alcindor rule," which deprived Wallace of his signature move, the slam dunk.Despite this attempt to limit the influence of a rising tide of black stars, the final basket of Wallace's college career was a cathartic and defiant dunk, and the story Wallace told to the Vanderbilt Human Relations Committee and later The Tennessean was not the simple story of a triumphant trailblazer that many people wanted to hear. Yes, he had gone from hearing racial epithets when he appeared in his dormitory to being voted as the university's most popular student, but, at the risk of being labeled "ungrateful," he spoke truth to power in describing the daily slights and abuses he had overcome and what Martin Luther King had called "the agonizing loneliness of a pioneer."
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"Wenn man will, ist der Sinn dieses Buches, daß es die während des vierjährigen Krieges gegen die Regierungen der Mittelmächte… erhobene Schuldfrage systematisch ausdehnt auf die Ideologie der Klassen und Kasten, die diese Regierungen möglich machten und stützten. Die deutsche Staatsidee hat den deutschen Gedanken vernichtet. Die deutsche Staatsidee ist es, die ich mit diesem Buch treffen will. Um sie in all ihrer Macht und volkswidrigen Tradition darzutun, mußte ich sie historisch entwickeln und Gesichtspunkte aufstellen für die Kritik ihrer hervorragendsten Repräsentanten."
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United States history, Laws and statutes, Politics and government, General non-fiction
One of Publishers Weekly's 10 Best Books of 2017 Longlisted for the National Book Award This “powerful and disturbing history”… exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide (New York Times Book Review). Widely heralded as a “masterful” (Washington Post) and “essential” (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law offers “the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation” (William Julius Wilson). Exploding the myth of de facto segregation arising from private prejudice or the unintended consequences of economic forces, Rothstein describes how the American government systematically imposed residential segregation: with undisguised racial zoning; public housing that purposefully segregated previously mixed communities; subsidies for builders to create whites-only suburbs; tax exemptions for institutions that enforced segregation; and support for violent resistance to African Americans in white neighborhoods. A groundbreaking, “virtually indispensable” study that has already transformed our understanding of twentieth-century urban history (Chicago Daily Observer), The Color of Law forces us to face the obligation to remedy our unconstitutional past.