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"Americans have disabled the government's ability to solve even basic problems, making us vulnerable to the most dangerous demagogue ever to pretend to the White House. Kurt Andersen shows how the masterminds of the economic right rode an unprecedented wave of nostalgia by dressing up their harsh new rich-get-richer system in patriotic old-time drag, making it their mission to take over the government for their purposes alone and convincing the country...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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In the early 20th century, business elites, trade associations, wealthy powerbrokers, and media allies set out to build a new American orthodoxy: down with "big government" and up with unfettered markets. With startling archival evidence, Oreskes and Conway document campaigns to rewrite textbooks, combat unions, and defend child labor. They detail the ploys that turned hardline economists Friedrich von Hayek and Milton Friedman into household names;...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2010
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1st ed.
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390 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Traces the evolution of yoga from a centuries-old spiritual discipline to a multi-billion-dollar industry in America, citing the practice's infamy in the nineteenth century and the contributions of a succession of high-profile instructors and students throughout subsequent decades.
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2012
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685 p. : map ; 25 cm.
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English
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"The first hard-hitting examination of ExxonMobil, this book is the masterful result of Coll's indefatigable reporting. He draws here on more than four hundred interviews, field reporting from the halls of Congress to the oil-laden swamps of the Niger Delta, more than one thousand pages of previously classified U.S. documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, heretofore unexamined court records, and many other sources. A penetrating,...
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