We though it might be interesting to provide a list of selected titles your patrons asked for after, let’s say, November 8, 2016. We’ve handled over 7,000 requests since the election, and have noticed a few interesting patterns. Let us know if any of the titles pique your interest, or if we missed anything!
Achieving our country : leftist thought in twentieth-century America
Actively caring for people : cultivating a culture of compassion
Against democracy and equality : the European New Right
Ages of discord : a structural-demographic analysis of American history
America, the owner’s manual : you can fight City Hall–and win
The American anomaly : U.S. politics and government in comparative perspective
The American people : creating a nation and a society
The American promise : A history of the United States
America’s counter-revolution : the Constitution revisited
The anxiety handbook : the 7-step plan to understand, manage and overcome anxiety
The architecture of neoliberalism : how contemporary architecture became an instrument of control and compliance
The art of American health care
Baseball as a second language : explaining the game Americans use to explain politics!
The best democracy money can buy
Bridging multiple worlds : case studies of diverse educational communities
Changing poverty, changing policies
The complete book of emigrants, 1607-1776
Considering counter narratives : narrating, resisting, making sense
Counter-insurgency warfare : theory and practice
Defending free speech : selected commentary by the Ayn Rand Institute
The deliberate dumbing down of America : a chronological paper trail
Determinants of democratization : explaining regime change in the world, 1972-2006
The devil in DC : winning back the country from the beast in Washington
Disaster capitalism : making a killing out of catastrophe
Economic risks of climate change : an American prospectus
Eight steps to happiness : the Buddhist way to loving kindness
Election law : cases and materials
The emperor has no clothes : teaching about race and racism to people who don’t want to know
The end of inequality : one person, one vote, and the transformation of American politics
Ensuring intellectual freedom and access to information in the school library media program
First in the nation : New Hampshire and the premier presidential primary
Four crises of American democracy : representation, mastery, discipline, anticipation
Framing the modern constitution : a checklist
Freedom of speech in the United States
Gender, race and class in media : a critical reader
Give us the ballot : the modern struggle for voting rights in America
Great again : how to fix our crippled America
Growing up between two cultures : problems and issues of Muslim children
Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a culture and family in crisis (many requests)
Immigration and nationality laws of the United States
The imperiled cutthroat : the fate of Yellowstone’s wild trout
The imperiled presidency : leadership challenges in the twenty-first century
In Trump we trust : e pluribus awesome!
Information literacy and social justice : radical professional praxis
The inner enemies of democracy
The kindness of the hangman : even in hell, there is hope
Libraries, human rights, and social justice : enabling access and promoting inclusion
Many heads and many hands : James Madison’s search for a more perfect union
Mastery of your anxiety and worry
Narcissism and politics : dreams of glory
No neutral ground : standing by the values we prize in higher education
The party is over : how Republicans went crazy, Democrats became useless, and the middle class got shafted
Pendulum : how past generations shape our present and predict our future
Perspectives on libraries as institutions of human rights and social justice
The places that scare you : a guide to fearlessness in difficult times
The plot to hack America : how Putin’s cyberspies and WikiLeaks tried to steal the 2016 election
A political history of the Bible in America
The politically incorrect guide(tm) to the Constitution
The politics of resentment : rural consciousness in Wisconsin and the rise of Scott Walker (seven requests)
Power to the people : Russian strength training secrets for every American
Putin vs Putin : Vladimir Putin viewed from the right
Selfish, whining monkeys : how we ended up greedy, narcissistic and unhappy
Shouting fire : stories from the edge of free speech
Sons of Wichita : how the Koch brothers became America’s most powerful and private dynasty
Soul of a citizen: Living with conviction in challenging times
The spiritual president
State and local politics : institutions and reform, the essentials
Static: government liars, media cheerleaders, and the people who fight back
Strategic relocation : North American guide to safe places
Stress-free chicken tractor plans
The struggle for your mind : conscious evolution and the battle to control how we think
Trump : the art of the deal
Trumped! A nation on the brink of ruin…and how to bring it back
War with China : thinking through the unthinkable
What is populism?
What Washington gets wrong : the unelected officials who actually run the government and their misconceptions about the American people
When chocolate isn’t enough
Why Civil Resistance Works
The world order : a study in the hegemony of parasitism