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Author
Publisher
Hot Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Donald Trump isn't a despot. But he is increasingly acting like The Despot's Apprentice, an understudy in authoritarian tactics that threaten to erode American democracy, including:
Attacking the press
Threatening rule of law by firing those who investigate his alleged wrongdoings
Using nepotism to staff the White House
and countless other techniques
Donald Trump is borrowing tactics from the world's dictators and despots. Trump's fascination with...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
German scholar J©œrg Baberowski is one of the world¿́¿s leading experts on the Stalin era, but his work has seldom been translated into English. This book, an unremitting indictment of the mad violence with which Stalin ruled the Soviet Union, depicts Stalinism as a cruel and deliberate attack on Russian society, driven by ¿́¿totalitarian ambitions¿́¿ and the goal of modernizing and rationalizing a backward people. Baberowski takes a twofold...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"In See You Again in Pyongyang, Travis Jeppesen, the first American to complete a university program in North Korea, culls from his experiences living, traveling, and studying in the country to create a multifaceted portrait of the country and its idiosyncratic capital city in the Kim Jong Un Era. Anchored by the experience of his five trips to North Korea and his interactions with citizens from all walks of life, Jeppesen reveals how the North Korean...
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
[1958]
Language
English
Description
The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation explains the startling facts about the major menace of our time, communism: what it is, how it works, what its aims are, the real dangers it poses, and what loyal American citizens must know to protect their freedom. MASTERS OF DECEIT is a powerful and informative book-a firsthand account of American communism from its beginnings to the present, written by a man more intimately familiar with the...
106) Nineteen eighty-four
Series
Criterion collection volume 984
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A man and a woman try desperately to escape the totalitarian regime they live in that bans nearly all free-thinking and love itself.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Writer and performer Wallace Shawn's landmark 1996 play features three characters-a respected poet, his daughter, and her English-professor husband-suspected of subversion in a world where culture has come under the control of the ruling oligarchy. Told through three interwoven monologues, the Orwellian political story is recounted alongside the visceral dissolution of a marriage. The play debuted at the Royal National Theatre in London, in a production...
108) No. 6
Author
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
2011-
Language
English
Description
After sheltering an injured boy from a typhoon, gifted ecology student Shion finds his life thrown into chaos as he begins to discover the appalling secrets behind the superficial perfection of No. 6, the computerized metropolis he calls home.
Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of interviews with the world's leading public intellectual from the time of the rise of Donald Trump to power to the end of his presidency. In The Precipice, Noam Chomsky sheds light into the phenomenon of Trumpism, exposes the catastrophic nature and impact of Trump's policies on people, the environment, and the planet as a whole, and captures the dynamics of the brutal class warfare launched by the masters of capital to maintain and...
Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Blood-Red Lines is a forensic deep-dive into the dark arterial network of the anti-immigrant far-right. In an engaging journalistic method and story-telling style, O'Connor presents a map-like, chronological expos©♭ of the white nationalist origination of restrictionist policy and its comfortable convergence with capitalist political economy. He painstakingly details the methods by which these toxic ideas have enabled opportunists, demagogues,...
112) Eve
Author
Publisher
Virago Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In the near future, in a world that seems just like our own, Eve grows up in a loving family that is increasingly threatened by a society which seems to be sleepwalking into totalitarianism. After a catastrophe that changes everything, Eve must set off on her own to try to survive and find a new way to live. Eve is a book of mothers, daughters, human relationships, trust and community, human weakness, conflict, hopeful futures and painful pasts....
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Do you crave the power to shape the world in your image? Can you tell lies without blinking an eye? Do you see enemies all around you? If you answered yes to all of the above, then this is the job for you! And if becoming a dictator sounds intriguing, well, you've just stumbled upon the playbook that will guide you step by step towards making your big lie a reality. Join Gaslit Nation co-hosts Sarah Kendzior and Andrea Chalupa, with artist Kasia...
Author
Publisher
Columbia Global Reports
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Putin's Exiles is an indispensable work for anyone trying to understand Russia today-to go beyond Putin's propaganda and the tightly controlled nar- rative inside the country and look outside its borders to the diaspora of Russian exiles, who are imagining and fighting for the future of their country"--
Author
Publisher
Chartwell Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Anyone wishing to understand the nature of evil can do no better than look within the pages of this book. The Nazis were a vile collection of criminals, thugs, misfits, sadists, and petty bureaucrats bound together only by their philosophy of hate and their love of plunder. The stronger their stranglehold on power, the more monstrous their crimes. But when Hitler's 'thousand-year Reich' collapsed after twelve years of increasing repression, how were...
Series
Classic adventures collection volume 3
Publisher
Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Animal farm: A political satire in which the animals take over running the farm but find their utopian state turning into a dictatorship.
Moby Dick: Sailor Ishmael tells the story of Captain Ahab, who sails on a vengeful quest to slay the legendary white whale known as Moby Dick.
Author
Publisher
Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In the first decade of the 21st century, few national security challenges facing the United States is as vexing as that posed by North Korea. It is a paradox because it appears to be a very powerful state -- possessing the world's fourth largest armed forces, a sizeable arsenal of ballistic missiles, and a worrying nuclear program -- but it is also an economic basket case in terms of agricultural output, industrial production, and foreign trade exports....