Imperial Designs : War, Humiliation & the Making of History. by Tripathi, Deepak

Table of Contents: “…THE BETRAYAL OF PALESTINIANS; Epilogue; APPENDIX A: Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776; APPENDIX B: President Barack Obama's Cairo Speech: Remarks on a New Beginning, June 4, 2009; APPENDIX C: President Obama's Acceptance Speech at the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony, December 10, 2009.…”
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The unsustainable American state / edited by Lawrence Jacobs and Desmond King.

Table of Contents: “…Bartels -- Promoting inequality: the politics of higher education policy in an era of conservative governance / Suzanne Mettler -- Moving feminist activists inside the American state: the rise of a state-movement intersection and its effects on state policy / Lee Ann Banaszak -- From Kanye West to Barack Obama: Black youth, the state, and political alienation / Cathy J. …”
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Recapturing the Oval Office : new historical approaches to the American presidency / edited by Brian Balogh and Bruce J. Schulman.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : confessions of a presidential assassin / Brian Balogh -- The unsettled state of presidential history / Stephen Skowronek -- Personal dynamics and presidential transitions : the case of Roosevelt and Truman / Frank Costigliola -- Narrator in chief : presidents and the politics of economic crisis from FDR to Barack Obama / Alice O'Connor -- The Reagan devolution : movement conservatives and the right's days of rage, 1988-1994 / Robert O. …”
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Race & reconciliation in America / edited by William S. Cohen and Janet Langhart Cohen.

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Celebrity and Power : Fame in Contemporary Culture. by Marshall, P. David

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The Unbearable Heaviness of Governing : the Obama Administration in Historical Perspective. by Keller, Morton

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60 minutes. President George H.W. Bush. Part 2 / produced by Keith Sharman, Erin Horan.

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40 Years Later : Our People / by John Washington and Sundog Stovall. by Washington, John, Jr, Stovall, Sundog

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An American conscience : the Reinhold Niebuhr story / Jeremy L. Sabella. by Sabella, Jeremy L., 1981-

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Racial justice in the age of Obama / Roy L. Brooks. by Brooks, Roy L. (Roy Lavon), 1950-

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Almost Madam President : why Hillary Clinton "won" in 2008 / Nichola D. Gutgold. by Gutgold, Nichola D.

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Point made : how to write like the nation's top advocates / Ross Guberman. by Guberman, Ross

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States United : A Survival Guide for Our Democracy. by LYDGATE, JOANNA

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Hit makers : the science of popularity in an age of distraction / Derek Thompson. by Thompson, Derek, 1986-

Table of Contents: “…Popularity and the mind : The power of exposure: featuring Claude Monet, Adele, and Donald Trump -- The Maya rule: featuring ESPN, Spotify, and the first NASA space station -- The music of sound: featuring John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, and ABBA -- Interlude : The chills -- The myth-making mind I: the force of story: featuring Star Wars, Isaac Asimov, and Hollywood psychohistory -- The myth-making mind II: The dark side of hits: featuring Hungarian vampires, Disney princesses, and cable news -- The birth of fashion: featuring Taylor Swift, the printing press, and the laugh track -- Interlude: A brief history of teens -- Part II. …”

"Right makes might" : proverbs and the American worldview / Wolfgang Mieder. by Mieder, Wolfgang

Table of Contents: “…Anthony -- "The American people rose to the occasion" : a proverbial retrospective of the Marshall Plan after seventy years -- "Making a way out of no way" : Martin Luther King's proverbial dream for human rights -- "Keep your eyes on the prize" : Congressman John Lewis's proverbial odyssey for civil rights -- "I'm absolutely sure about the golden rule" : Barack Obama's proverbial audacity of hope -- "Politics is not a spectator sport" : proverbs in the personal and political writings of Hillary Rodham Clinton -- "The rich get richer and the poor get poorer" : Bernie Sanders's proverbial rhetoric for an American sociopolitical revolution -- "M(R)ight makes r(m)ight" : the sociopolitical history of a contradictory proverb pair -- "All men are created equal" : from democratic claim to proverbial game -- "Laissez faire à Georges" and "Let George do it" : a case of paremiological polygenesis -- "To be (all) Greek to someone" : origin, history, and meaning of an English proverbial expression.…”
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Israel and the United States : six decades of US-Israeli relations / edited by Robert O. Freedman.

Table of Contents: “…Freedman 1; 2 The United States and the Arab-Israeli Conflict from 1945 to 2000: WHY THE ARABISTS ARE WRONG David Makovsky 22; 3 George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict from 2001 to 2011 Robert O. …”
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No future for you : salvos from "the Baffler" / edited by John Summers, Chris Lehmann, and Thomas Frank.

Table of Contents: “…Quiet rooms, dead zones -- Follow the money : the Washington Post's pageant of folly / Chris Lehmann -- Omniscient gentlemen of the Atlantic / Maureen Tkacik -- The vertically integrated rape joke : the triumph of vice / Anne Elizabeth Moore -- Party of none : Barack Obama's annoying journey to the center of belonging / Chris Bray -- Graphic art: GTMO National Monument / Mark Dancey.…”
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Communicating marginalized masculinities : identity politics in TV, film, and new media / edited by Ronald L. Jackson II and Jamie E. Moshin.

Table of Contents: “…Joe and black masculinity / Carlos Morrison -- A "vocabulary of feeling": Japanese American masculinity in conscience and the Constitution / Kent Ono -- Fat, sass, and laughs: black masculinity in drag / Stephane Dunn -- Narrating the Presidential "race": Barack Obama and the American dream / Leroy Dorsey -- The man in the box: masculinity and race in popular television / Erica Scharrer -- White masculinity and the TV sitcom dad: tracing the "progression" of portrayals of fatherhood / Cerise Glenn -- From album novel to cowboy soap opera: melancholia, race and carnival in the multi-media works of Mario Prata / George Carlsen -- Smooth and Latin: reflections on Mario Lopez, ballroom dancing, and Latino masculinity / Fernando Delgado -- "State property" and friends: black men's performances of masculinity and race in prison / Eleanor Novek.…”
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Celebrity in chief : a history of the presidents and the culture of stardom / by Kenneth T. Walsh. by Walsh, Kenneth T.

Table of Contents: “…Kennedy: Glitter and Cool; Chapter Five Ronald Reagan: The Role of the Century; Chapter Six Bill Clinton: Pop Icon; Chapter Seven Barack Obama: Making History and Taking New Paths.…”
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Beyond discrimination : racial inequality in a postracist era / Fredrick C. Harris, and Robert C. Lieberman, editors. by Harris, Fredrick C., Lieberman, Robert C., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Warren -- A measure of justice : what policing racial bias research reveals / Phillip Atiba Goff -- The social psychology of symbolic firsts : how Barack Obama's presidency may affect student achievement and perceptions of racial progress in America / Valerie Purdy-Vaughns, Richard P. …”
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