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<title><![CDATA[KCLS Political titles]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[New Political titles added to the KCLS collection]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20100823]]></pubDate>
<item><title><![CDATA[The next American Civil War : the populist revolt against the liberal elite / Lee Harris.]]></title>
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<author><![CDATA[Harris, Lee, 1948-]]></author>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20100823]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[New threats to freedom  / edited and introduced by Adam Bellow.]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20100823]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The Upper House : a journey behind the closed doors of the U.S. Senate / Terence Samuel.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["They come to Washington for reasons as varied and complex as human motivation itself--driven perhaps by some deep emotional commitment to an issue, or believing that their time in the Senate can make their dream of the presidency a reality. Senators like Jon Tester, Jim Webb, Al Franken and Amy Klouchbar came craving power or out of a need to be in the spotlight. No matter what their motivation or particular route, freshmen have three traits in common: they will be members of one of the most powerful deliberative bodies on the planet; they will have far less leverage and influence than they might have imagined; and finally, none of them--not even the most experienced political hand--will have any idea of exactly what it means to be a United States Senator. The Upper House is about the making of the modern U.S. Senator. Terence Samuel gets to the heart of the Senate and follows the people and the institution through displays of dazzling power, bewildering helplessness, and sacred traditions both ancient and modern"--Provided by publishe]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Samuel, Terence.]]></author>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20100823]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[After the hangover : the conservatives' road to recovery / R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The author outlines an conservative agenda for the "next ascendancy]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Tyrrell, R. Emmett.]]></author>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20100823]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Empires apart  : a history of American and Russian imperialism / Brian Landers ; [foreword by Andreas Whittam Smith].]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Landers shows how the broad sweep of American history follows a consistent path from the first settlers to the present day and, by comparing this with Russia's imperial path, demonstrates the true nature of American global ambition]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Landers, Brian.]]></author>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20100823]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Nullification : how to resist Federal tyranny in the 21st century / Thomas E. Woods, Jr.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Asserts that nullification is the constitutional remedy envisioned by the nation's founders to be used to resist Federal power. Presents documents showing the rationale used by States in historic debate]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Woods, Thomas E.]]></author>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20100823]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Negotiating with Iran : wrestling the ghosts of history / John W. Limbert.]]></title>
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<author><![CDATA[Limbert, John W.]]></author>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20100823]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Understanding global conflict and cooperation : an introduction to theory and history / Joseph S. Nye, Jr., David Welch.]]></title>
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<author><![CDATA[Nye, Joseph S.]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/opac/en-US/skin/kcls/xml/rdetail.xml?rt=isbn&adv=0205778747]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20100823]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The atlas of human rights : mapping violations of freedom around the globe / Andrew Fagan.]]></title>
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<author><![CDATA[Fagan, Andrew, 1966-]]></author>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20100823]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The twilight of the bombs : recent challenges, new dangers, and the prospects for a world without nuclear weapons / Richard Rhodes.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This culminating volume in Richard Rhodes's monumental and prizewinning history of nuclear weapons offers the first comprehensive narrative of the challenges faced in a post-Cold War age from the second war in Iraq to the emerging threat of nuclear terrorism, from the changing roles of the five original nuclear powers to our complicated relationships with North Korea and South Asia. Finally, Rhodes imagines what a post-nuclear world might look like, suggesting what might make it possibl]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Rhodes, Richard.]]></author>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20100901]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Zionism : the real enemy of the Jews. Volume III, Conflict without end? / by Alan Hart.]]></title>
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<author><![CDATA[Hart, Alan, 1942-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/opac/en-US/skin/kcls/xml/rdetail.xml?rt=isbn&adv=0932863698]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20100901]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Progressivism : a very short introduction / Walter Nugent.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["This Very Short Introduction offers an engaging overview of progressivism in America - its origins, guiding principles, major leaders and major accomplishments. A many-sided reform movement that lasted from the late 1890s until the early 1920s, progressivism emerged as a response to the excesses of the Gilded Age, an era that plunged working Americans into poverty while a new class of ostentatious millionaires built huge mansions and flaunted their wealth. As capitalism ran unchecked and more and more economic power was concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, a sense of social crisis was pervasive. Progressive national leaders like William Jennings Bryan, Theodore Roosevelt, Robert M. La Follette, and Woodrow Wilson, as well as muckraking journalists like Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell, and social workers like Jane Addams and Lillian Wald answered the growing call for change. They fought for worker's compensation, child labor laws, minimum wage and maximum hours legislation; they enacted anti-trust laws, improved living conditions in urban slums, instituted the graduated income tax, won women the right to vote, and laid the groundwork for Roosevelt's New Deal." "Nugent shows that the progressives - with the glaring exception of race relations - shared a common conviction that society should be fair to all its members and that governments had a responsibility to see that fairness prevailed. Offering a succinct history of the broad reform movement that upset a stagnant conservative orthodoxy, this Very Short Introduction reveals many parallels, even lessons, highly appropriate to our own time."--BOOK JACKE]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Nugent, Walter T. K.]]></author>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20100903]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Guerrilla USA : the George Jackson Brigade and the anticapitalist underground of the 1970s / Daniel Burton-Rose.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[""We are cozy cuddly/armed and dangerous/and we will/raze the fucking prisons/to the ground/" In an attempt to deliveron this promise, the George Jackson Brigade launched a violent three-year campaign in the mid-1970s against corporate and state institutions in the Pacific Northwest. This campaign, conceived of by a group of blacks and whites, both straight and gay, claimed fifteen attempted bombings, as many bank robberies, and a jaibreak. Drawing on extensive interviews with surviving members of the George jackson Brigade, Daniel Burton-Rose provides an inside-out perspective on the social movements of the 1970s, revealing the whole era in a new and more complex light." ""Guerrilla USA is an engaged and engaging work, an intimate account of a buried piece of American history. Daniel Burton-Rose combines exhaustive scholoarship with passionate partisanship to create an excruciatingly honest portrait. Tacking back and forth between the tiniest of local details and the concentric circles of economic condition, histroical flow, and cultural context, he captures with precision and immediacy the contradictions at the center of a recent radical upsurge." Bill Ayers, author of Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist" ""In this astonishing microhistory, Daniel Burton-Rose Captures the pathos of the new Left's bizarre sequel; the gange who bombed Seattle." Mike Davis, author of in Praise of Barbarians: Essays against Empire and City of Qartz: Excavatin the Future of Los Angeles" ""The members of the George jackson Brigade speak for themselves through interviews with the autor or through their written statements and diaries. The motives, emotions, and commitment of the young self-described revolutionaries come alive, and the era is revealed as in no other work that I have read." Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Outlaw Woman: A Memori of the War years, 1960-1975 and Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico"--BOOK JACKE]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Burton-Rose, Daniel.]]></author>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20100903]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The Arab lobby : the invisible alliance that undermines America's interests in the Middle East / Mitchell Bard.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["In this authoritative history-the first in over twenty-five years to investigate the scope and activities of the Arab Lobby-Mitchell Bard provides a timely and valuable corrective to the unbalanced view of Middle East affairs that is so widely promoted today." "The so-called Israel lobby has been widely denounced and demonized in the media, but its power pales in comparison to the decades-long corruption of American interests by Arab governments. Indeed, for more than seventy years, U.S. policy in the Middle East has been shaped not by the power of a nefarious "Israel lobby" but by a misguided emphasis on pleasing and placating the Arab states. This outlook has ensured that the United States pays disproportionate attention to their demands, assisting Arab countries---all of them dictatorial regimes with abysmal human rights records---that do not share our values, and often work to subvert our interests." "Historically, the Arab lobby consisted of the oil industry, Christian missionaries, and current or former U.S. diplomats. Arabists in the State Department, many of them openly anti-Semitic, tried to prevent America from recognizing Israel in 1948, and have since waged a long bureaucratic war to undermine the alliance between America and the only true democracy in the Middle East, blocking arms and aid to Israel, while seeking larger weapons sales for their Arab friends. Many of these Arabists subsequently found lucrative jobs promoting business with Arab countries, speaking on their behalf and criticizing U.S.-Israel policy." "Today the Arab states influence American policy through numerous hidden and informal channels, including former members of Congress, subsidized think tanks, paid media spokesmen, academics who hold chairs endowed by Arab money, human rights organizations, assorted UN agencies, European diplomats, and Christian groups hostile to Israel. A number of former ambassadors, university professors, and think tank experts routinely opine on Middle Eastern affairs, but never reveal these conflicts of interest." "The most powerful member of the Arab lobby is Saudi Arabia, which has a nearly eighty-year relationship with the United States. From the earliest days, when American companies first discovered oil in the Arabian Peninsula, the Saudis have used a variety of tactics, including threats and bribes, to coerce U.S. policy makers to ignore their human rights abuses, support of terrorism, and opposition to American interests." "Today, Bard shows, the Arab lobby's goals include feeding America's oil addiction, obtaining more sophisticated weaponry, and weakening our alliance with a democratic Israel. It also seeks to influence public opinion through a well-funded publicity campaign, and by injecting distorted views of the Middle East into high school and college textbooks. Bard's detailed political history brings a much-needed balance to a debate fraught with ignorance and propaganda"--Book jacke]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Bard, Mitchell Geoffrey, 1959-]]></author>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20100920]]></pubDate>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[At the dark end of the street : black women, rape, and resistance : a new history of the civil rights movement from Rosa Parks to the rise of black power / Danielle L. McGuire.]]></title>
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<author><![CDATA[McGuire, Danielle L.]]></author>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20100920]]></pubDate>
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