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“tom tresser”

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  • No Games Chicago

    How A Small Group of Citizens Derailed the City’s 2016 Olympic Bid

    by Tom Tresser ...
    Promoted as a prestigious economic opportunity and often aggressively sought by local leaders, hosting a modern Olympics can in fact be a “city-killer” that racks up billions of dollars in over-budget expenses, degrades the environment, and shreds civil liberties. This book recounts the successful efforts of grassroots organization No Games Chicago to derail Chicago's bid for the 2016 Summer ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Chicago Is Not Broke. Funding the City We Deserve

    by Tom Tresser ...
    Do you believe Chicago is broke? Me, neither. I set out to prove by assembling a great team of Chicago experts to write short articles on how can can save and generate MAJOR revenues for Chicago. Revenues that are progressive, sustainable and NOT wrung from those who can least afford to pay. Our goal is to influence the discussions around Chicago's budget and her future. All the details are at www ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

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    Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite

    by Peter Schweizer ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Washington insiders operate by a proven credo: When a Peter Schweizer book drops, duck and brace for impact.For over a decade, the work of six-time New York Times bestselling investigative reporter Peter Schweizer has sent shockwaves through the political universe by exposing high-level political corruption.Clinton Cash revealed the Clintons’ international money flow, ... Read more

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  • The Victory Lab

    The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns

    by Sasha Issenberg ...
    The book Politico calls “Moneyball for politics” shows how cutting-edge social science and analytics are reshaping the modern political campaign—now updated with a new postscript.Renegade thinkers are crashing the gates of a venerable American institution, shoving aside its so-called wise men and replacing them with a radical new data-driven order. We’ve seen it in sports, and now in The Victory ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Lucky

    How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency

    by Jonathan Allen, Amie Parnes ...
    The inside story of the historic 2020 presidential election and Joe Biden’s harrowing ride to victory, from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Shattered, the definitive account of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign.Almost no one thought Joe Biden could make it back to the White House—not Donald Trump, not the two dozen Democratic rivals who sought to take down a weak front-runner, not the ... Read more

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  • The Deficit Myth

    Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy

    by Stephanie Kelton ...
    A New York Times Bestseller**A “clear and vigorously written book” (**Foreign Affairs), from the leading thinker of modern monetary theory, that delivers a bold new understanding for how to build a prosperous societyMyths about deficits have long hobbled us as a country. Supporting the economy, paying for healthcare, creating new jobs, preventing a climate apocalypse: How ... ... Read more

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  • The Problem of the Media

    U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century

    by Robert D. McChesney ...
    The symptoms of the crisis of the U.S. media are well-known-a decline in hard news, the growth of info-tainment and advertorials, staff cuts and concentration of ownership, increasing conformity of viewpoint and suppression of genuine debate. McChesney's new book, The Problem of the Media, gets to the roots of this crisis, explains it, and points a way forward for the growing media reform movement ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Saving Capitalism

    For the Many, Not the Few

    by Robert B. Reich ...
    From the author of Aftershock and The Work of Nations, his most important book to date—a myth-shattering breakdown of how the economic system that helped make America so strong is now failing us, and what it will take to fix it.Perhaps no one is better acquainted with the intersection of economics and politics than Robert B. Reich, and now he reveals how power and influence have created a new ... Read more

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  • The Prize

    Who's In Charge of America's Schools?

    by Dale Russakoff ...
    This New York Times bestseller chronicles how Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Christie, and Cory Booker tried—and failed—to reform education in Newark, NJ.In September of 2010, billionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg went on Oprah to announce a pledge of $100 million to transform the downtrodden schools of Newark, New Jersey. There by his side were the city's Democratic mayor, Cory Booker, and the ... Read more

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  • The System

    Who Rigged It, How We Fix It

    by Robert B. Reich ...
    From the bestselling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, comes an urgent analysis of how the "rigged" systems of American politics and power operate, how this status quo came to be, and how average citizens can enact change.There is a mounting sense that our political-economic system is no longer working, but what is the core problem and how do we remedy it? With the characteristic ... Read more

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  • Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell)

    My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement

    by Jane Mcalevey, Bob Ostertag ...
    See how one militant union organizer fought the bosses—and national labor leaders—in this “breathtaking trip through the union-organizing scene” (Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed).“ . . . renews my faith that organizing works . . . makes a compelling case for a new vision for the American labor movement.” —Van JonesIn 1995, in the first contested election in the history of the AFL ... Read more

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  • Throw Them All Out

    How Politicians and Their Friends Get Rich Off Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals, and Cronyism That Wou

    by Peter Schweizer ...
    THE BOOK WASHINGTON DOES NOT WANT YOU TO READHow is it that politicians often enter office with relatively modest assets, but then, as investors, regularly beat the stock market and sometimes beat the most rapacious hedge funds? How did some members of Congress know to dump their stock holdings just in time to escape the effects of the 2008 financial meltdown? And how is it that billionaires and ... Read more

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