Goodbye America!
Author: Michael Rowbotham
Publisher: J. Carpenter Pub.
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalyses globalisation and the international debt crisis as aspects of Western economic imperialism.
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America: The Farewell Tour
Author: Chris Hedges
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2019-08-27
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1501152688
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChris Hedges’s profound and unsettling examination of America in crisis is “an exceedingly…provocative book, certain to arouse controversy, but offering a point of view that needs to be heard” (Booklist), about how bitter hopelessness and malaise have resulted in a culture of sadism and hate. America, says Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Chris Hedges, is convulsed by an array of pathologies that have arisen out of profound hopelessness, a bitter despair, and a civil society that has ceased to function. The opioid crisis; the retreat into gambling to cope with economic distress; the pornification of culture; the rise of magical thinking; the celebration of sadism, hate, and plagues of suicides are the physical manifestations of a society that is being ravaged by corporate pillage and a failed democracy. As our society unravels, we also face global upheaval caused by catastrophic climate change. All these ills presage a frightening reconfiguration of the nation and the planet. Donald Trump rode this disenchantment to power. In his “forceful and direct” (Publishers Weekly) America: The Farewell Tour, Hedges argues that neither political party, now captured by corporate power, addresses the systemic problem. Until our corporate coup d’état is reversed these diseases will grow and ravage the country. “With sharply observed detail, Hedges writes a requiem for the American dream” (Kirkus Reviews) and seeks to jolt us out of our complacency while there is still time.
JFK
Author: Matthew Smith
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMatthew Smith's explosive book highlights the role of domestic and international business concerns in American government. He scorns the 'lone-gunman' theory and, further, looks to the changes in the government's policy after JFK's assassination and the fact that the Vietnam War alone generated 'business' to the value of $200 billion. Coincidence? Matthew Smith doesn't think so ... Book jacket.
Goodbye, American Dream?
Author: Aaron Jaffe
Publisher:
Published: 2012-03-01
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780985177904
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn these times, change is not an option. It's an imperative. In plain terms informed by four decades in public service, Aaron Jaffe analyzes how the distancing of the people from their politics, our leaders' penchant for taking the easy way out, and the hyperpartisan, shout-fest culture have yielded the current American predicament. Born during the Great Depression, Jaffe has lived his own American dream. His immigrant father told him: "I'm laying the foundation for you, so you can build the first floor and rise in society. Your children will build the second floor, and so on." However, Jaffe writes, unless Americans take action, we will have a harder and harder time keeping our footing on the same floor of the house. And that house is the American dream.
Amerika
Author: Mikhail Iossel
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781564783561
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor half of the twentieth century, there were two superpowers in the world and a gulf of silence between them. Knowledge of Russian culture was based on propaganda and rumour, and their knowledge of the West was no better. When the Soviet Union fell, Russians began to travel to America more regularly, and what they discovered was a very different place to the one they had imagined, but, at the same time, not exactly the one that Americans think they know. This collection of beautifully written and entertaining literary essays by a wide range of Russian writers - young and old, funny and sombre, angry and celebratory, many being translated for the first time - offers readers a unique chance to see Americans in a whole new light, to question how the American dream stands up to the American reality, and to experience the wit and generosity of today's Russian writers.
Goodbye to Good-time Charlie
Author: Larry Sabato
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 270
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdios, America
Author: Ann Coulter
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2015-06-01
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 1621572749
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA National Bestseller! Ann Coulter is back, more fearless than ever. In Adios, America she touches the third rail in American politics, attacking the immigration issue head-on and flying in the face of La Raza, the Democrats, a media determined to cover up immigrants' crimes, churches that get paid by the government for their "charity," and greedy Republican businessmen and campaign consultants—all of whom are profiting handsomely from mass immigration that’s tearing the country apart. Applying her trademark biting humor to the disaster that is U.S. immigration policy, Coulter proves that immigration is the most important issue facing America today.
Stuff That Needs To Be Said
Author: John Pavlovitz
Publisher:
Published: 2020-04-22
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780578682501
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the past few years, John Pavlovitz's blog, Stuff That Needs To Be Said, has become a virtual hub for millions of people from all over the world, drawn there by his clear, compelling words on compassion, equity, love, and justice. This expansive, like-hearted community transcends race, orientation, gender, religious tradition, political affiliation, and nation of origin--and finds its affinity in the deeper place of our shared humanity, which is the True North of his writing. This collection lovingly pulls together some of John's most widely-read and most beloved essays on faith, politics, grief, and the elemental parts of being human. It is an encouraging, inspiring, challenging storehouse of "stuff that needs to be said."
America at Risk
Author: Robert Perrucci
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2009-06-15
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 0742566323
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn America at Risk: The Crisis of Hope, Trust, and Caring, Robert Perrucci and Carolyn C. Perrucci identify the broad economic and technological changes that have led to the loss of high wage jobs, declining opportunity, and increased income and wealth inequality. These changes have altered the way that Americans think about themselves, their future, and the lives of their children and neighbors. Focusing on the erosion of trust, hope, and caring between and among Americans and their social institutions, the authors confront the challenge by proposing policies that will build hope (through jobs and wages) in order to promote greater trust of institutions and more caring for the less fortunate. Examining data from the past thirty-year period, Perrucci and Perrucci apply a critical sociological lens to view the dominant economic, political, and cultural institutions that have shaped the main social problems facing Americans. They challenge Americans to act on behalf of their individual and collective interests by becoming informed and involved in developing new solutions to improve their lives.
American Arsenal
Author: Patrick Coffey
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014-03
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0199959749
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerican Arsenal examines the United States' transformation from isolationist state to military superpower by means of sixteen vignettes, each focusing upon an inventor and his contribution to the cause.
