John Nichols
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Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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On February 11, 2011, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker announced he would strip collective bargaining rights from public employees and teachers. In response, people rose up in mass protest, and Wisconsin became a reference point for a renewal of labor militancy and radical politics. These protests elicited extensive national media coverage, and drew more attention from the general public than any American labor struggle in decades.
John Nichols's...
John Nichols's...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Fresh from the first 10 billion election campaign, two award-winning authors show how unbridled campaign spending defines our politics and, failing a dramatic intervention, signals the end of our democracy.
Blending vivid reporting from the 2012 campaign trail and deep perspective from decades covering American and international media and politics, political journalist John Nichols and media critic Robert W. McChesney explain how US elections...
Blending vivid reporting from the 2012 campaign trail and deep perspective from decades covering American and international media and politics, political journalist John Nichols and media critic Robert W. McChesney explain how US elections...
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Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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As Madison's Capital Times marks its 100th anniversary in 2017, editors Dave Zweifel and John Nichols recall the remarkable history of a newspaper that served as the tribune of Robert M. La Follette and the progressive movement, earned the praise of Franklin Delano Roosevelt for its stalwart opposition to fascism, battled Joe McCarthy during the "Red Scare," championed civil rights, women's rights, and LGBTQ rights, opposed the Vietnam War
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English
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"A progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billionaires at the expense of the working class, and a blueprint for what transformational change would actually look like. It's OK to be angry about capitalism. Reflecting on our turbulent times, Senator Bernie Sanders takes on the billionaire class and speaks blunt truths about our country's failure to address the destructive nature of a system that is...
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Series
New Mexico trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
[1974]
Physical Desc
445 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Joe Mondragon, thirty-six with not much to show for it, a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble, slammed his battered pickup to a stop, tugged on his gumboots, and marched into the arid patch of ground. Carefully, if impulsively (and also illegally), he tapped into the main irrigation channel. And so began -- though few knew it at the time -- the Milagro beanfield war. But like everything else in the dirt-poor town of Milagro, it would be a patchwork...
16) Detroit Lions
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Series
Pub. Date
2000.
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32 pages : illustrations , some color ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the history of the Detroit Lions from the team's beginnings through 1999.
19) Sport climbing
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Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
20) Buffalo Bills
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Series
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations , some color ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the history of the team from its beginnings through 1999.