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Publisher
Feelsales
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
This documentary plunges right into the epicenter of the current crisis in Venezuela through the voices of its true protagonists. THE BROKEN COUNTRY tells five intertwined stories showing how the citizens are making their way through the remains of a run-down government.
Author
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
©2017.
Description
The Broken Country uses a violent incident that took place in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2012 as a springboard for examining the long-term cultural and psychological effects of the Vietnam War. To make sense of the shocking and baffling incident--in which a young homeless man born in Vietnam stabbed a number of white men purportedly in retribution for the war--Paisley Rekdal draws on a remarkable range of material and fashions it into a compelling account...
3) It shouldn't be this hard to serve your country: our broken government and the plight of veterans
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2019
Description
"The former VA secretary describes his fight to save veteran health care from partisan politics and how his efforts were ultimately derailed by a small group of unelected officials appointed by the Trump White House."--
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[1997], ©1997
Description
Neither right nor left but ahead is the only political course for maverick journalist Sam Smith in this entertaining, myth-busting guide to a new American crossover politics. Witty and profound, opinionated and informative, Smith has important things to say to politically disaffected Americans of all stripes. In chapters such as "How to stay alive - a poker player's guide to the environment," "How to find things out - despite the media and other obstacles,"...
Series
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning journalist and New Yorker staff writer Kathryn Schulz. 'The world is abundant even in bad times,' guest editor Kathryn Schulz writes in her introduction. 'It is lush with interestingness, and always, somewhere, offering up consolation or beauty or humor or happiness, or at least the hope of future happiness.' The essays Schulz selected are a powerful time capsule of 2020, showcasing...
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