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White House Daze
The Unmaming Domestic Policy in the Bush Years
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Throughout his presidency, George Bush was accused by both Republicans and Democrats of having an administration utterly without a domestic policy agenda. Kolb, who served as the President's Deputy Assistant for Domestic Policy, tried to push the Bush administration toward a more vigorous reform agenda....
The Mommy Myth
The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined Women
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2004
Susan Douglas first took on the media's misrepresentation of women in her funny, scathing social commentary Where the Girls Are. Now, she and Meredith Michaels, have turned a sardonic (but never jaundiced) eye toward the cult of the new momism: a trend in American culture that is causing women to...
American Fascists
The Christian Right and the War On America
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
Twenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists first spoke of the United States becoming a Christian nation that would build a global Christian empire, it was hard to take such hyperbolic rhetoric seriously. Today, such language no longer sounds like hyperbole but poses,...
by George F. Will
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Biblical Christianity was originally a sect of Judaism that believed in Jesus and revered the Torah as the core of her scriptures. Restoration is a riveting argument for a return to that original biblical expression of faith in Jesus.
Discover for yourself the profound beauty of Torah life, the celebration...
In the Shadow of the Dam
The Aftermath of the Mill River Flood of 1874
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2004
Early one May morning in 1874, in the hills above Williamsburg, Massachusetts, a reservoir dam suddenly burst, sending an avalanche of water down a narrow river valley lined with factories and farms. In just thirty minutes, the Mill River flood left 139 people dead and 740 homeless -- and a nation...
Rabble-Rouser for Peace
The Authorized Biography of Desmond Tutu
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
To be a rabble-rouser for peace may seem to be a contradiction in terms. And yet it is the perfect description for Desmond Tutu, Nobel laureate and spiritual father of a democratic South Africa. Tutu understood that justice -- a genuine regard for human rights -- is the only real foundation for peace....
Made from Scratch
Reclaiming the Pleasures of the American Hearth
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
A stunning celebration and reappraisal of the importance of “women’s work,” Made from Scratch addresses the tug that many Americans feel between our professional and private lives.
In this stunning celebration and reappraisal of the importance of "women's work," acclaimed journalist Jean...
The American Way of War
Guided Missiles, Misguided Men, and a Republic in Peril
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
In the sobering aftermath of America's invasion of Iraq, Eugene Jarecki, the creator of the award-winning documentary Why We Fight, launches a penetrating and revelatory inquiry into how forces within the American political, economic, and military systems have come to undermine the carefully crafted...
The Rehnquist Choice
The Untold Story of the Nixon Appointment That Redefined the Supreme Court
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
The explosive, never-before-revealed story of how William Rehnquist became a Supreme Court Justice, told by the man responsible for his candidacy.
by Joyce Antler
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
A unique, positive collection of essays profiles a number of forgotten female Jewish leaders who played key roles in various American social and political movements, from suffrage and birth control to civil rights and fair labor practices.
Arguing the World
The New York Intellectuals in Their Own Words
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2000
From cafeterias to cocktail parties to the pages of influential journals of opinion, few groups of friends have argued ideas so passionately and so publicly as the writers and critics known as the New York intellectuals. A brilliantly contentious circle of thinkers, they wielded enormous influence...
The Future and Its Enemies
The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise,
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Today we have greater wealth, health, opportunity, and choice than at any time in history. Yet a chorus of intellectuals and politicians laments our current condition -- as slaves to technology, coarsened by popular culture, and insecure in the face of economic change. The future, they tell us, is...
The Woman Who Changed Her Brain
And Other Inspiring Stories of Pioneering Brain Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Barbara Arrowsmith-Young was born with severe learning disabilities that caused teachers to label her slow, stubborn—or worse. As a child, she read and wrote everything backward, struggled to process concepts in language, continually got lost, and was physically uncoordinated. She could make no...
No Crueler Tyrannies
Accusation, False Witness, and Other Terrors of Our Times
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2003
In 1742, Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, wrote, "There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice." Two hundred forty-three years later, in 1985, Dorothy Rabinowitz, a syndicated columnist and television commentator, encountered...