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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “amanda dipaolo”
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  • The Politics of Twin Peaks

    by Amanda DiPaolo, Shai Biderman, Darci Doll, Martin Fradley, Ronen Gil, Jamie Gillies, Ashlee Joyce, Benjamin Kruger-Robbins, Ido Lewit0, Jean-Philippe Ranger1, Stacy Rusnak2, John A. Riley3 ...
    Series series Politics, Literature, & Film
    The strange and wonderful place of Twin Peaks captivated audiences for more than two decades before its long-awaited return to television in 2017. David Lynch and Mark Frost created a land that embodies the politics of American culture. With its focus on small-town America and life outside urban centers, rural and suburban values play a big part in the overall Twin Peaks narrative. More than just ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Mad Men

    The Death and Redemption of American Democracy

    by Amanda DiPaolo, T. D. Anderson, Matthew Dinan, Dave Snow, John-Paul Spiro, Barry Craig, Peter Augustine Lawler ...
    Series series Politics, Literature, & Film
    For seven seasons, AMC’s Mad Men captivated audiences with the story of Don Draper, an advertising executive whose personal and professional successes and failures took viewers on a roller coaster ride through America’s tumultuous 1960s. More than just a television show about one of advertising’s “bad boys,” the series investigates the principles of the American regime, exploring whether or not ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Zones of Twilight

    Wartime Presidential Powers and Federal Court Decision Making

    by Amanda DiPaolo ...
    The Bill of Rights was designed to protect the American public from encroachments of liberty by the federal government. During times of war, the president often spearheads efforts to limit rights in the name of national security. When these cases make their way through the federal courts system, it is expected that the judiciary would use rights-based language in their adjudication of cases ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

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  • The Mauritanian (originally published as Guantánamo Diary)

    by Larry Siems ...
    The "profound and disturbing" national bestseller written by a Guantánamo prisoner—now a major feature film starring Tahar Rahim and Jodie Foster ( The New York Times Book Review).When The Mauritanian was first published as Guantánamo Diary in 2015—heavily redacted by the U.S. government—Mohamedou Ould Slahi was still imprisoned at the detainee camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, despite a federal court ... Read more

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  • The Black Presidency

    Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America

    by Michael Eric Dyson ...
    A provocative and lively examination of the meaning of America's first black presidency, by the New York Times-bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop.Michael Eric Dyson explores the powerful, surprising way the politics of race have shaped Barack Obama's identity and groundbreaking presidency. How has President Obama dealt publicly with race—as the national traumas of Tamir Rice, Trayvon ... Read more

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  • Power Wars

    The Relentless Rise of Presidential Authority and Secrecy

    by Charlie Savage ...
    Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie Savage's penetrating investigation of the Obama presidency and the national security state.Barack Obama campaigned on changing George W. Bush's "global war on terror" but ended up entrenching extraordinary executive powers, from warrantless surveillance and indefinite detention to military commissions and targeted killings. Then Obama found himself ... Read more

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  • The Corruption Chronicles

    Obama's Big Secrecy, Big Corruption, and Big Government

    by Tom Fitton ...
    WASHINGTON’S MOST CORRUPT: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMAFLOUTING OF FEDERAL LAW * CORRUPTION * VIOLATING CAMPAIGN FINANCE REGULATIONS * TERRORIST TIES * VOTER REGISTRATION FRAUD * GOVERNMENT CON GAMES * EXTORTIONBECAUSE NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW!In 2008, Barack Obama made a promise to have the “most transparent administration” of any U.S. president; it was the very cornerstone of his campaign. No secrets. ... Read more

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  • The Anti-Inauguration

    Building resistance in the Trump era

    by Anand Gopal, Naomi Klein, Jeremy Scahill, Owen Jones, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ...
    Featuring contributions from Naomi Klein, Jeremy Scahill, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Anand Gopal, and Owen Jones.The five essential speeches presented here are taken from The Anti-Inauguration, held on inauguration night 2017 at the historic Lincoln Theatre in Washington, D.C. The Anti-Inauguration event and ebook are joint projects of Jacobin, Haymarket Books and Verso Books. ... Read more

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  • The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.

    From "Solo" to Memphis

    by David J. Garrow ...
    The author of Bearing the Cross, the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Martin Luther King Jr., exposes the government's massive surveillance campaign against the civil rights leaderWhen US attorney general Robert F. Kennedy authorized a wiretap of Martin Luther King Jr.'s phones by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, he set in motion one of the most invasive surveillance operations in American ... Read more

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  • Sweet Land of Liberty

    The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North

    by Thomas J. Sugrue ...
    The struggle for racial equality in the North has been a footnote in most books about civil rights in America. Now this monumental new work from one of the most brilliant historians of his generation sets the record straight. Sweet Land of Liberty is an epic, revelatory account of the abiding quest for justice in states from Illinois to New York, and of how the intense northern struggle differed ... Read more

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  • Cheating Justice

    How Bush and Cheney Attacked the Rule of Law and Plotted to Avoid Prosecution- and What We Can Do about It

    by Cynthia Cooper, Elizabeth Holtzman ...
    President George W. Bush and Vice President Cheney deceived Congress and the people to drive us into a war in Iraq; they claimed the right to wiretap illegally and to eavesdrop on citizens; and they authorized torture, unilaterally upending laws and violating international treaty obligations. Yet, both Bush and Cheney are audaciously unapologetic about their crimes. In his recent memoir, President ... Read more

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