The American middle class is on its deathbed. People who put in a solid day's work can no longer afford to buy a house, send their kids to college, or even get sick. If you're not a CEO, you're probably screwed. As Air America Radio Host, Thom Hartmann shows, this death is no accident. Like the Founding Fathers, patriots such as Roosevelt, Truman, ...
"Heading into another presidential race, We the People have to face the fact that our election system is a shambles, run by private corporations with a partisan agenda, and largely based on a technology that anyone can rig. This great book will tell you all about it--and, even more important, help us overcome it."--Thom Hartmann"Before Americans ...
Coming from the left, this trenchant analysis of what the author sees as the Bush regime's betrayal of American ideals is by Mark Crispin Miller, whose BUSH DYSLEXICON analyzed the language of George W. in 2001. Here he takes a look at the first presidential term of "Bush & Co." and provides examples of language and behavior that reveal a pattern ...
For Republicans, the 2004 presidential election was little short of miraculous: Behind in the Electoral College tally in the days leading up to the election, behind even on the very afternoon of the vote, the Bush ticket staged a stunning comeback. The exit polls, usually so reliable, turned out to be wrong by an unprecedented 5 percent in the ...
In Fooled Again, renowned media critic Mark Crispin Miller argues that it wasnt moral values that swung the 2004 presidential race-it was theft. A huge array of anomalies, improper practices, and blatant violations of the law in state after state all happened to swing in the Bush tickets favor. Fooled Again not only gives abundant evidence of ...
A large collection of "Bushisms" accompanies this analysis of the role of television in Election 2000. Professor Miller critiques the state of television, television news, and television news bureaus and commentators, with special emphasis on the role they played in the ascendance of George W. Bush to the presidency.
A collection of essays exploring the vast changes in the film industry--the ways in which films have merged into the great publicity spectacle that has become our culture.
Archie Bunker's America discerns what was "in the air" as television networks tried to accommodate cultural and political swings in America from the Vietnam era through the late 1970s. Josh Ozersky's spirited examination of the ways America changed television during a period of intense social upheaval, recuperation, and fragmentation uncovers a ...
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