by
Riel, Bob, author.
Call Number
324.973 23
Publication Date
2022
Summary
""Quest for the Presidency" is an engaging and, at times, amusing popular history of American presidential elections from 1789 to the present that offers insight into the impact past elections have on today's politics"--
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Wirls, Daniel, 1960- author.
Call Number
328.73071 23
Publication Date
2021
Summary
"This accessible book explains the Senate's clash with modern democracy and effective government by exposing this chamber of Congress as a bastion of white supremacy through most of American history"--
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Britto, Lina, author.
Call Number
364.1336509861 23
Publication Date
2020
Summary
"Before Colombia became one of the main producers of cocaine in the world in the 1980s, traffickers from the Caribbean coast partnered with American buyers in the 1970s to make this South American country the principal supplier of marijuana for the largest market in the world at the time, the US counterculture. Marijuana Boom offers a unique and in-depth perspective to this forgotten history. Combining archival research with extensive fieldwork, Lina Britto puts together fragmented pieces of evidence in order to understand the constellation of factors that produced the perfect storm, one that subverted life in a corner of the Caribbean, and changed Colombia for decades to come"--
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by
Moore, Paul S., 1970- author.
Call Number
071.309034 23ENG20220125
Publication Date
2022
Summary
"While the notion of leisurely sitting down with a paper over coffee seems almost quaint by now, the Sunday newspaper was once key to expanding circulation, increasing and expanding readerships. The weekend edition became essential in establishing the newspaper as actively involved in modernity and popular culture. In The Sunday Paper, Paul Moore and Sandra Gabriele trace the emergence of popular culture and mass media to the addition of the leisure reading supplements in weekend newspapers. They do so by tracking how newspapers borrowed from and collaborated with other media between 1888 and 1922--first magazines, later motion pictures, and radio--to transform news reading into media consumption. Under this single media form, North American journalism stewarded consumer society and found its own economic engine, appealing to mass readerships and mass market advertisers alike. Moore and Gabriele examine how the weekend edition maintained a readership commitment, participated in a continental media network, and circulated and animated the news. As readers became spectators and readerships audiences, the Sunday paper formed a visual medium that transformed journalism's written texts into a distinct, lively media supplement to weekday news. As the digitization of the news transforms the newspaper, this book explores the first time that newspapers were faced with multimedia competition and how they seem to anticipate the media world we are settling into in the age of the internet"--
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by
Bruce, Susan, 1960- editor.
Call Number
305.4209 23
Publication Date
2015
Summary
The challenges presented by feminism to traditional understandings of representation, normative values, power relations and the political are not simply the product of late-20th century thinking. Feminist Moments, in examining some of the pivotal texts in the history of feminist thought, demonstrates that these challenges emerge from a long and varied history of feminist writing. The volume brings together texts from literary and analytical works written by women and men, and from inside and outside the Western tradition, including Mary Wortley Montagu, Anna Wheeler and William Thompson, Naz.
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