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  • Hospital City, Health Care Nation

    Race, Capital, and the Costs of American Health Care

    by Guian A. McKee ...
    Series series Politics and Culture in Modern America
    Hospital City, Health Care Nation recasts the story of the U.S. health care system by emphasizing its economic, social, and medical importance in American communities. Focusing on urban hospitals and academic medical centers, the book argues that the country’s high level of health care spending has allowed such institutions to become vital, if often problematic, economic anchors for communities. ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Hospital City, Health Care Nation

    Race, Capital, and the Costs of American Health Care

    by Guian A. McKee ...
    Series series Politics and Culture in Modern America
    Hospital City, Health Care Nation recasts the story of the U.S. health care system by emphasizing its economic, social, and medical importance in American communities. Focusing on urban hospitals and academic medical centers, the book argues that the country’s high level of health care spending has allowed such institutions to become vital, if often problematic, economic anchors for communities. ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • American Dreams

    Opportunity and Upward Mobility

    Edited by Guian McKee, Cristina Lopez-Gottardi Chao ...
    Series series Miller Center Studies on the Presidency
    In an increasingly polarized political environment, the first year of the new president’s term will be especially challenging. With a fresh mandate, however, the first year also offers opportunities that may never come again. The First Year Project is a fascinating initiative by the Miller Center of the University of Virginia that brings together top scholars on the American presidency and ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • The Color of Law

    A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

    by Richard Rothstein ...
    New York Times Bestseller • Notable Book of the Year • Editors' Choice SelectionOne of Bill Gates’ “Amazing Books” of the YearOne of Publishers Weekly’s 10 Best Books of the YearLonglisted for the National Book Award for NonfictionAn NPR Best Book of the YearWinner of the Hillman Prize for NonfictionGold Winner • California Book Award (Nonfiction)Finalist • Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • "Trickle Down Theory" and "Tax Cuts for the Rich"

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    Unmasking the Truth about Tax CutsIn this essential essay, Thomas Sowell, with his trademark independent-minded approach, challenges the prevailing narratives surrounding tax cuts and "trickle-down" economics. He argues that this often-used term is a distorted simplification, obscuring the nuanced reality of how tax policy impacts economic activity. Sowell provides a clear-eyed perspective, ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Goliath

    The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy

    by Matt Stoller ...
    Series series Must-Read American History
    “Every thinking American must read” (The Washington Book Review) this startling and “insightful” (The New York Times) look at how concentrated financial power and consumerism has transformed American politics, and business.Going back to our country’s founding, Americans once had a coherent and clear understanding of political tyranny, one crafted by Thomas Jefferson and updated for the industrial ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Race for Profit

    How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership

    by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ...
    Series series Justice, Power, and Politics
    LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDFINALIST, 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORYBy the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban uprisings, politicians finally worked to end the practice of redlining. Reasoning that the turbulence could be calmed by turning Black city-dwellers into homeowners, they passed the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, and set about establishing ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • The Great Divergence

    America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It

    by Timothy Noah ...
    For the past three decades, America has steadily become a nation of haves and have-nots. Our incomes are increasingly unequal. This steady growing apart is often mentioned as a troubling indicator by scholars and policy analysts, though seldom addressed by politicians. What economics Nobelist Paul Krugman terms "the Great Divergence" has till now been treated as little more than a talking point, a ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Color of Money

    Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

    by Mehrsa Baradaran ...
    “Read this book. It explains so much about the moment…Beautiful, heartbreaking work.”—Ta-Nehisi Coates“A deep accounting of how America got to a point where a median white family has 13 times more wealth than the median black family.”—The Atlantic“Extraordinary…Baradaran focuses on a part of the American story that’s often ignored: the way African Americans were locked out of the financial engines ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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  • The Hidden History of American Healthcare

    Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich

    by Thom Hartmann ...
    Series Book 6 - The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series
    Popular progressive radio host and New York Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann reveals how and why attempts to implement affordable universal healthcare in the United States have been thwarted and what we can do to finally make it a reality."For-profit health insurance is the largest con job ever perpetrated on the American people—one that has cost trillions of dollars and millions of lives ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Health Care for Some

    Rights and Rationing in the United States since 1930

    by Beatrix Hoffman ...
    "Skillfully chronicles America's struggles to make health care a right from the Depression through Obamacare. . . . beautifully written [and] compelling." —Jonathan Oberlander, author of The Political Life of MedicareNamed by Choice as an Outstanding Academic TitleIn Health Care for Some, Beatrix Hoffman offers an engaging, in-depth look at America's long tradition of unequal access to health care ... Read more

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  • Family Properties

    Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America

    by Beryl Satter ...
    A landmark investigation of segregation and urban decay in Chicago: "The most important book yet written on the black freedom struggle in the urban North." —David Garrow, The Washington Post)Named One of the Top Ten Books of 2009 by The New York Times and The Washington PostWinner of the National Jewish Book AwardWinner of the OAH Liberty Legacy Foundation AwardThe "pr... ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD