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Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration's Response to the Pandemic That Changed History
by
Yasmeen Abutaleb; Damian Paletta
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780063066076
Publication Date: 2021
The 99 Percent Economy: How Democratic Socialism Can Overcome the Crises of Capitalism
by
Paul S. Adler
ISBN: 9780190931889
Publication Date: 2019
Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality
by
Danielle Allen
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780871408136
Publication Date: 2014
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
by
Carol Anderson
ISBN: 9781635571370
Publication Date: 2018
Charlie Brown's America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts
by
Blake Scott Ball
Call Number: Oxford Scholarship Online
ISBN: 9780190090463
Publication Date: 2021
The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
by
John Bolton
Call Number: EBSCO
ISBN: 9781982148058
Publication Date: 2020
Groupthink: A Study in Self Delusion
by
Christopher Booker
ISBN: 9781472959058
Publication Date: 2020
The Politics of Care: From COVID-19 to Black Lives Matter
by
Boston Review
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781839763113
Publication Date: 2020
Resetting Our Future: Empowering Climate Action in the United States
by
Deb Morrison; Tom Bowman (Editors)
ISBN: 9781789048728
Publication Date: 2021
Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right
by
Michael Brooks
ISBN: 9781789042306
Publication Date: 2020
The Trouble with Taiwan: History, the United States and a Rising China
by
Kerry Brown; Kalley Wu Tzu Hui
ISBN: 9781786995223
Publication Date: 2019
Redistricting: The Most Political Activity in America
by
Charles S. Bullock
ISBN: 9781538149652
Publication Date: 2021
Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy
by
Simmons Buntin; Elizabeth Dodd; Derek Sheffield (Editors)
ISBN: 9781595349125
Publication Date: 2020
Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left
by
Ben Burgis
ISBN: 9781789042108
Publication Date: 2019
No One Is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border
by
Justin Akers Chacón; Mike Davis
ISBN: 9781608468492
Publication Date: 2018
The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage
by
Jonathan Cohn
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781250270948
Publication Date: 2021
The Unelected: How an Unaccountable Elite Is Governing America
by
James R. Copland
ISBN: 9781641771214
Publication Date: 2020
The Green New Deal and Beyond: Ending the Climate Emergency While We Still Can
by
Stan Cox
ISBN: 9780872868069
Publication Date: 2020
Grassroots Rising: A Call to Action on Climate, Farming, Food, and a Green New Deal
by
Ronnie Cummins
ISBN: 9781603589758
Publication Date: 2020
Uprising: Who the Hell Said You Can't Ditch and Switch? — The Awakening of Diamond and Silk
by
Diamond and Silk
ISBN: 9781684510924
Publication Date: 2020
100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting
by
E.J. Dionne Jr; Miles Rapoport
ISBN: 9781620976845
Publication Date: 2022
Healing Politics: A Doctor's Journey into the Heart of Our Political Epidemic
by
Abdul El-Sayed
ISBN: 9781419743023
Publication Date: 2020
The Nation City: Why Mayors Are Now Running the World
by
Rahm Emanuel
Call Number: EBSCO eBooks
ISBN: 9780525656388
Publication Date: 2020
The Constitution in Jeopardy
by
Russ Feingold; Peter Prindiville
ISBN: 9781541701526
Publication Date: 2022
Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy
by
David Frum
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780062978431
Publication Date: 2020
American Manifesto: Saving Democracy from Villains, Vandals, and Ourselves
by
Bob Garfield
ISBN: 9781640092808
Publication Date: 2020
14 Miles: Building the Border Wall
by
D. W. Gibson
ISBN: 9781501183423
Publication Date: 2020
How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart
by
Jamal Greene
ISBN: 9781328518118
Publication Date: 2021
The Silicon States: The Power and Politics of Big Tech and What It Means for Our Future
by
Lucie Greene
ISBN: 9781640090712
Publication Date: 2018
Why America Needs Socialism: The Argument from Martin Luther King, Helen Keller, Albert Einstein, and Other Great Thinkers
by
G. S. Griffin
ISBN: 9781632461025
Publication Date: 2019
Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda
by
Jean Guerrero
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780062986733
Publication Date: 2020
AOC: Fighter, Phenom, Changemaker
by
Prachi Gupta
ISBN: 9781523510375
Publication Date: 2019
How We Vote: Innovation in American Elections
by
Kathleen Hale; Mitchell Brown
ISBN: 9781626167780
Publication Date: 2020
Welcome to the Rebellion: A New Hope In Radical Politics
by
Michael Harris
ISBN: 9781789043679
Publication Date: 2020
The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy
by
Thom Hartmann
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781523001040
Publication Date: 2022
Asian Waters: The Struggle Over the South China Sea and the Strategy of Chinese Expansion
by
Humphrey Hawksley
ISBN: 9781468314786
Publication Date: 2018
The Most Human Right: Why Free Speech Is Everything
by
Eric Heinze
ISBN: 9780262046459
Publication Date: 2022
The Women of the 116th Congress: Portraits of Power
by
Elizabeth D. Herman; Celeste Sloman
ISBN: 9781419742460
Publication Date: 2019
Steal This Book (50th Anniversary Edition)
by
Abbie Hoffman
ISBN: 9780306847172
Publication Date: 2021
Hatchet Man: How Bill Barr Broke the Prosecutor's Code and Corrupted the Justice Department
by
Elie Honig
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780063092372
Publication Date: 2021
Dispatches from the Vanguard: The Global International African Arts Movement versus Donald J. Trump
by
Patrick Howell (Editor)
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781912248940
Publication Date: 2020
Use the Power You Have: A Brown Woman’s Guide to Politics and Political Change
by
Pramila Jayapal
ISBN: 9781620971451
Publication Date: 2020
FDR's Gambit: The Court Packing Fight and the Rise of Legal Liberalism
by
Laura Kalman
Call Number: EBSCO
ISBN: 9780197539293
Publication Date: 2022
The Inheritance: America's Military After Two Decades of War
by
Mara E. Karlin
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780815738466
Publication Date: 2021
Build: The Power of Hip Hop Diplomacy in a Divided World
by
Mark Katz
Call Number: Oxford Online
ISBN: 9780190056117
Publication Date: 2019
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
by
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780807000687
Publication Date: 2009
On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal
by
Naomi Klein
ISBN: 9781982129910
Publication Date: 2019
The Three Languages of Politics: Talking Across The Political Divides
by
Arnold Kling
ISBN: 9781948647427
Publication Date: 2019
The Opposite of Hate: A Field Guide to Repairing Our Humanity
by
Sally Kohn
ISBN: 9781616207281
Publication Date: 2018
American Madness: The Story of the Phantom Patriot and How Conspiracy Theories Hijacked American Consciousness
by
Tea Krulos
ISBN: 9781627310963
Publication Date: 2020
Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley
by
Rob Larson
ISBN: 9781642590876
Publication Date: 2020
The Art of the Political Putdown: The Greatest Comebacks, Ripostes, and Retorts in History
by
Chris Lamb; Will Moredock (Eds.)
ISBN: 9781452183855
Publication Date: 2020
Producing Politics: Inside the Exclusive Campaign World Where the Privileged Few Shape Politics for All of Us
by
Daniel Laurison
ISBN: 9780807025062
Publication Date: 2022
American Democracy: 21 Historic Answers to 5 Urgent Questions
by
Nicholas Lemann (Editor)
ISBN: 9781598536621
Publication Date: 2020
How Civic Action Works: Fighting for Housing in Los Angeles
by
Paul Lichterman
ISBN: 9780691212333
Publication Date: 2020
Democracy in One Book or Less: How It Works, Why It Doesn't, and Why Fixing It Is Easier Than You Think
by
David Litt
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780062879387
Publication Date: 2020
Pills, Powder, and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs
by
Antony Loewenstein
ISBN: 9781912854240
Publication Date: 2019
Machiavelli: On Politics and Power
by
Niccolò Machiavelli
ISBN: 9781632062567
Publication Date: 2021
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
by
Jane Mayer
ISBN: 9780307947901
Publication Date: 2017
The Next Pandemic
by
Betsy McCaughey
ISBN: 9781641771580
Publication Date: 2020
Protest!: A History of Social and Political Protest Graphics
by
Liz McQuiston
ISBN: 9780691197319
Publication Date: 2019
China's Asian Dream: Empire Building along the New Silk Road
by
Tom Miller
ISBN: 9781786997418
Publication Date: 2019
Memes to Movements: How the World's Most Viral Media Is Changing Social Protest and Power
by
An Xiao Mina
ISBN: 9780807056585
Publication Date: 2019
Kamala's Way: An American Life
by
Dan Morain
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781982175788
Publication Date: 2021
Folding the Red into the Black: Developing a Viable Untopia for Human Survival in the 21st Century
by
Walter Mosley
ISBN: 9781944869069
Publication Date: 2016
Red Pill, Blue Pill: How to Counteract the Conspiracy Theories That Are Killing Us
by
David Neiwert
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781633886278
Publication Date: 2020
Grand Rapids Grassroots: An Anthology
by
Ashley E. Nickels (Editor); Dani Vilella (Editor)
ISBN: 9780998018829
Publication Date: 2017
Solving Public Problems: A Practical Guide to Fix Our Government and Change Our World
by
Beth Simone Noveck
Call Number: De Gruyter Online Books
ISBN: 9780300230154
Publication Date: 2021
Do Morals Matter? : Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump
by
Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
ISBN: 9780190935986
Publication Date: 2020
Perchance to DREAM: A Legal and Political History of the DREAM Act and DACA
by
Michael A. Olivas
ISBN: 9781479878284
Publication Date: 2020
A Cry from the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land
by
P. J. O'Rourke
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780802157751
Publication Date: 2020
Democracy Unchained: How to Rebuild Government for the People
by
David Orr; Andrew Gumbel; Bakari Kitwana; William Becker (Editors)
ISBN: 9781620975138
Publication Date: 2020
Tax the Rich! How Lies, Loopholes, and Lobbyists Make the Rich Even Richer
by
Morris Pearl; Erica Payne
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781620976647
Publication Date: 2021
The Button: The New Nuclear Arms Race and Presidential Power from Truman to Trump
by
William J. Perry; Tom Z. Collina
ISBN: 9781948836999
Publication Date: 2020
The Case for the Green New Deal
by
Ann Pettifor
ISBN: 9781788738156
Publication Date: 2019
How We Win the Civil War: Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending White Supremacy for Good
by
Steve Phillips
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781620976760
Publication Date: 2022
Un-American: The Fake Patriotism of Donald J. Trump
by
John J. Pitney Jr.
ISBN: 9781538129258
Publication Date: 2020
How Social Movements Can Save Democracy
by
Donatella della Porta
ISBN: 9781509541263
Publication Date: 2020
The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy Around the World
by
Gideon Rachman
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781635422818
Publication Date: 2022
The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
by
Jonathan Rauch
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780815738862
Publication Date: 2021
Girls Resist!: A Guide to Activism, Leadership, and Starting a Revolution
by
KaeLyn Rich; Giulia Sagramola
ISBN: 9781683690597
Publication Date: 2018
How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
by
Heather Cox Richardson
ISBN: 9780190900908
Publication Date: 2020
Empire of Resentment: Populism's Toxic Embrace of Nationalism
by
Lawrence Rosenthal
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781620975114
Publication Date: 2020
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
by
Richard Rothstein
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781631492860
Publication Date: 2017
Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.
by
Arundhati Roy
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781642593808
Publication Date: 2020
No, You Shut Up: Speaking Truth to Power and Reclaiming America
by
Symone D. Sanders
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780062942692
Publication Date: 2020
From the Ground Up: Local Efforts to Create Resilient Cities
by
Alison Sant
ISBN: 9781610918961
Publication Date: 2022
How Trump Happened: A System Shock Decades in the Making
by
Steven E. Schier
ISBN: 9781538122044
Publication Date: 2020
Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could
by
Adam Schiff
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780593231548
Publication Date: 2021
Rise Up: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads
by
Al Sharpton
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781335966629
Publication Date: 2020
Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America
by
John Sides; Michael Tesler; Lynn Vavreck
ISBN: 9780691196435
Publication Date: 2019
Signs of Resistance: A Visual History of Protest in America
by
Bonnie Siegler
ISBN: 9781579658663
Publication Date: 2018
Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream
by
Mychal Denzel Smith
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781541788602
Publication Date: 2020
There's a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters From a Crisis
by
Tracy K. Smith (Editor); John Freeman (Editor)
Call Number: EBSCO
ISBN: 9780593314692
Publication Date: 2021
Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America
by
Will Sommer
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780063114500
Publication Date: 2023
The Bias That Divides Us: The Science and Politics of Myside Thinking
by
Keith E. Stanovich
Call Number: MIT Press Direct
ISBN: 9780262045759
Publication Date: 2021
The Firsts: The Inside Story of the Women Reshaping Congress
by
Jennifer Steinhauer
ISBN: 9781616209995
Publication Date: 2020
Diversifying Power: Why We Need Antiracist, Feminist Leadership on Climate and Energy
by
Jennie C. Stephens
ISBN: 9781642831313
Publication Date: 2020
The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
by
Katherine Stewart
ISBN: 9781635573435
Publication Date: 2020
Which Side of History? How Technology Is Reshaping Democracy and Our Lives
by
James P. Steyer (Editor)
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781797205175
Publication Date: 2020
Citizen Capitalism: How a Universal Fund Can Provide Influence and Income to All
by
Lynn Stout; Sergio Gramitto; Tamara Belinfanti
ISBN: 9781523095650
Publication Date: 2019
Endgame: Inside the Impeachment of Donald J. Trump
by
Eric Swalwell
ISBN: 9781419745409
Publication Date: 2020
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
by
Harsha Walia
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781642592696
Publication Date: 2021
What You Need to Know About Voting—And Why
by
Kim Wehle
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780062974792
Publication Date: 2020
Peril
by
Bob Woodward; Robert Costa
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781982182939
Publication Date: 2021
Rage
by
Bob Woodward
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781982131760
Publication Date: 2020
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
by
Daniel Yergin
ISBN: 9781594206436
Publication Date: 2020
The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World
by
Dave Zirin
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781620976753
Publication Date: 2021
Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
by
Ethan Zuckerman
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781324002611
Publication Date: 2021
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