Divided We Fall

Author : David French
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781250201980

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David French warns of the potential dangers to the country—and the world—if we don’t summon the courage to reconcile our political differences. Two decades into the 21st Century, the U.S. is less united than at any time in our history since the Civil War. We are more diverse in our beliefs and culture than ever before. But red and blue states, secular and religious groups, liberal and conservative idealists, and Republican and Democratic representatives all have one thing in common: each believes their distinct cultures and liberties are being threatened by an escalating violent opposition. This polarized tribalism, espoused by the loudest, angriest fringe extremists on both the left and the right, dismisses dialogue as appeasement; if left unchecked, it could very well lead to secession. An engaging mix of cutting edge research and fair-minded analysis, Divided We Fall is an unblinking look at the true dimensions and dangers of this widening ideological gap, and what could happen if we don't take steps toward bridging it. French reveals chilling, plausible scenarios of how the United States could fracture into regions that will not only weaken the country but destabilize the world. But our future is not written in stone. By implementing James Madison’s vision of pluralism—that all people have the right to form communities representing their personal values—we can prevent oppressive factions from seizing absolute power and instead maintain everyone’s beliefs and identities across all fifty states. Reestablishing national unity will require the bravery to commit ourselves to embracing qualities of kindness, decency, and grace towards those we disagree with ideologically. French calls on all of us to demonstrate true tolerance so we can heal the American divide. If we want to remain united, we must learn to stand together again.

Author : Trent Reedy
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780545543699

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Divided We Fall (Divided We Fall, Book 1) by Trent Reedy Pdf

"DIVIDED WE FALL delivers cover-to-cover action, intrigue and suspense, all with a gut-punch of an ending that'll leave you begging for the next installment." -- Brad Thor, author of THE LAST PATRIOT Danny Wright never thought he'd be the man to bring down the United States of America. In fact, he enlisted in the Idaho National Guard because he wanted to serve his country the way his father did. When the Guard is called up on the governor's orders to police a protest in Boise, it seems like a routine crowd-control mission ... but then Danny's gun misfires, spooking the other soldiers and the already fractious crowd, and by the time the smoke clears, twelve people are dead. The president wants the soldiers arrested. The governor swears to protect them. And as tensions build on both sides, the conflict slowly escalates toward the unthinkable: a second American civil war.With political questions that are popular in American culture yet rare in YA fiction, and a provocative plot that asks what happens when the states are no longer united, Divided We FAll is Trent Reedy's very timely YA debut.

Author : Trent Reedy
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780545548762

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Burning Nation (Divided We Fall, Book 2) by Trent Reedy Pdf

In this wrenching sequel to Divided We Fall, Danny and friends fight to defend Idaho against a Federal takeover and the ravages of a Burning Nation. At the end of Divided We Fall, Danny Wright's beloved Idaho had been invaded by the federal government, their electricity shut off, their rights suspended. Danny goes into hiding with his friends in order to remain free. But after the state declares itself a Republic, Idaho rises to fight in a second American Civil War, and Danny is right in the center of the action, running guerrilla missions with his fellow soldiers to break the Federal occupation. Yet what at first seems like a straightforward battle against governmental repression quickly grows more complicated, as more states secede, more people die, and Danny discovers the true nature of some of his new allies. Chilling, powerful, and all too plausible, Burning Nation further establishes Trent Reedy as a provocative new voice in YA fiction.

Author : Trent Reedy
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780545548793

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The Last Full Measure (Divided We Fall, Book 3) by Trent Reedy Pdf

Trent Reedy brings his action-packed, provocative trilogy about the second American Civil War to a stunning and stirring close in The Last Full Measure. In a YA trilogy like no other, Trent Reedy has raised the most primal questions of our national existence: Do we owe our greatest loyalty to our friends? Our state? Our country? Our party? How do we reconcile our individual rights and common needs? What keeps us all united -- and what happens if we fall apart?Now, in this third book, the Second Civil War has come to an end in Idaho. The Feds have taken the fight to other fronts, and Danny and his friends are free of US dominance. But that freedom comes with considerable costs, from Danny's disturbing flashbacks to the war, to the Brotherhood of the White Eagle, whose "security" for Freedom Lake looks more like outright thuggery. After Danny makes a shocking discovery about the Brotherhood's final aims, he and his friends lead a group of townspeople on a dangerous journey across a ravaged Idaho, hoping to build a better society of their own, and fulfill the dreams they had in what once was the United States.

Author : Sheri Rivlin,Alice M. Rivlin,Allan Rivlin
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815735267

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Divided We Fall by Sheri Rivlin,Alice M. Rivlin,Allan Rivlin Pdf

Partisan warfare and gridlock in Washington threaten to squander America’s opportunity to show the world that democracy can solve serious economic problems and ensure widely shared prosperity. Instead of working together to meet the challenges ahead—an aging work force, exploding inequality, climate change, rising debt—our elected leaders are sabotaging our economic future by blaming and demonizing each other in hopes of winning big in the next election. They are weakening America’s capacity for world leadership and the case for democracy here and abroad. Alice M. Rivlin, with decades of experience in economic policy making, argues that proven economic policies could lead to sustainable American prosperity and opportunity for all, but crafting them requires the tough, time-consuming work of consensus building and bipartisan negotiation. In a divided country with shifting majorities, major policies must have bipartisan buy-in and broad public support. Otherwise we will have either destabilizing swings in policy or total gridlock in the face of challenges looming at us. Rivlin believes that Americans can and must save our hyper-partisan politicians from themselves. She makes the case that on many practical economic issues the public is far less divided than partisan politicians and sensationalist media would have us believe. She draws attention to numerous hopeful efforts to bridge partisan and ideological divides in Washington, in state capitols and city governments, and communities around the country, and advocates a major national effort to enable citizens and future leaders to learn and practice the art of listening to each other and working together to find common ground. This book is a practical guide for Americans across the political spectrum who are agonizing over partisan warfare, incivility, and policy gridlock and looking for ways they can help to get our democratic policy process back on a constructive track before it is too late.

Author : Bryce J. Christensen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351521970

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Divided We Fall by Bryce J. Christensen Pdf

In the weeks that followed the horror of September 11, politicians of both major parties resolutely asserted America's national unity. Barely four years later, the illusions of the rhetoric of unity have given way to the divisive oversimplifications of Red vs. Blue electoral cartography. Divided We Fall: Family Discord and the Fracturing of America offers a more nuanced yet more disturbing picture of American disunity, a disunity both social and political, both public and personal. Deeper than the disagreements that separate voter from voter, this disunity increasingly separates man from woman, husband from wife, parent from child, grandparent from grandchild, and sibling from sibling. Though the national turmoil in family life has unquestionably opened new divides in political life (on the questions of abortion and gay marriage, for instance), this analysis explores the bewildering cross-cutting tensions surrounding these fissures. The search for ways to bridge such fissures takes on particular urgency because of the mounting costs of family disintegration--social and legal, cultural and psychological. Because they recognize the often-desperate plight of single mothers and their children, policymakers have often worked together in bipartisan fashion to intensify government efforts to collect child support from non-custodial fathers, to place abused children in foster care, and to provide shelter for the family fragments on the street. But these pragmatic government responses to pressing social needs are no substitute for deeper probing into the cultural causes of these needs. Indeed, as the author probes those causes--including the erosion of the home economy, of restraints on sexual conduct, and of the traditional family wage--he warns that continued reliance on government to compensate for family failure will make matters worse in the long run. While family failure puts ever more burdens on government, this investigation shows how such failure withers the selfless civic impulses that sustain any healthy government.

Author : Blaine Lee Pardoe
Publisher : Catalyst Game Labs
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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BattleTech: Divided We Fall by Blaine Lee Pardoe Pdf

BROTHERS IN ARMS… At long last, the Clans’ campaign for the Inner Sphere is coming to a head. Khan Alaric Wolf is preparing for his biggest moves yet…and is willing to enlist just about anyone who can help him achieve his ultimate goal—the conquest of Terra. To that end, he sends one of his own on a special assignment. Marotta Kerensky is a Clan Wolf warrior unlike any other—the perfect candidate for a mission unlike any other: convince the legendary Wolf’s Dragoons to rejoin the Clan they originally came from. But when Marotta reaches the mercenary unit, he finds them quite different from the storied force of a century ago. Times have changed since then, and the Dragoons have as well…or have they? Driven to accomplish his mission at any cost, Marotta allies with a Dragoons officer on a risky gambit that may help him deliver what his Khan wants…or tear Wolf’s Dragoons apart forever.

Author : Haynes Johnson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0393313069

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Nationwide, Americans faced the legacy of the Reagan '80s with a skepticism that colored their attitudes about politicians and the political system itself. Yet people were eager to take on the challenge of the '90s. Johnson urges us to join together, face the challenge of change and take the brave gamble to reclaim the American Dream.

Author : C. Alexander London
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Detector dogs
ISBN : 1338291645

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Divided We Fall by C. Alexander London Pdf

Andrew believes in the importance of loyalty. He is loyal to his family, his hound dog Dash, and his country the Confederate States of America. Although he's too young to join the Confederate Army, Andrew is welcomed into the Home Guard, a group of men who track down deserters and runaways. He and Dash make a great team. But hunting people is very different from hunting raccoons. And soon Andrew's loyalty will be tested like never before.

Author : C. Alexander London
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545633901

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Divided We Fall (Dog Tags #4) by C. Alexander London Pdf

Man's best friend goes to war. LOYALTY ABOVE ALL ELSE.Andrew believes in the importance of loyalty. He is loyal to his family. He is loyal to his hound dog, Dash. And he is loyal to his country, the Confederate States of America.Although he's too young to join the Confederate Army, Andrew is welcomed into the Home Guard, a group of men who track down deserters and runaways. He and Dash make a great team. But hunting people is very different from hunting raccoons. And soon Andrew's loyalty will be tested like never before.Dog Tags is a series of stand-alone books, each exploring the bond between soldier and dog in times of war.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Marvel
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 0785184163

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Ultimate Comics Divided We Fall, United We Stand by Anonim Pdf

Washington lies in ruins. The president is dead. Sentinels rule the Southwest. But in America's darkest hour, its ultimate hero returns to lead its people back toward the light! Captain America answers his country's call to become its new president! But while Steve Rogers battles to reunite America, another leader embraces her destiny to defeat the Sentinels and save her own kind: Kitty Pryde! And with the nation crying out for heroes, Miles Morales is determined to prove he has what it takes to join the Ultimates! COLLECTING: Ultimate Comics X-Men 13-18, Ultimate Comics Ultimates 13-18, Ultimate Comics Spider-Man 13-18

Author : Jonathan Foley,Charlene Smith,David Joseph Kolb,Paul Lee Thomas,Jennifer C. Berkshire,Steven Singer,Russ Walsh,Kate Lapham,Anne Haas Dyson,Esther Sokolov Fine,Vanessa Barnett,Carolyn Walker,Steve Nelson
Publisher : People & Society
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1942146574

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United We Stand Divided We Fall by Jonathan Foley,Charlene Smith,David Joseph Kolb,Paul Lee Thomas,Jennifer C. Berkshire,Steven Singer,Russ Walsh,Kate Lapham,Anne Haas Dyson,Esther Sokolov Fine,Vanessa Barnett,Carolyn Walker,Steve Nelson Pdf

In United We Stand Divided We Fall Garn Press has gathered together essays by great scholars and renowned teachers who oppose the direction in which President Trump is leading the country. These are essays, to quote George Lakoff, which frame American values accurately and systemically day after day, telling truths by American majority moral values. These are essays of protest against and resistance to Trump's presidency, to his billionaire cabinet, to the privileging in the White House of white supremacists, the promulgation of "alternate facts," the denigration of media sources, the purges of State Department personnel, the gag orders at the EPA and scientists placed on "watch lists," the travel bans on people from wide swaths of U.S. society and on refugees ... the list is long. They are also essays that tackle the question of what we can do to stop Trump from becoming a fast moving catastrophe. When the hands of the Doomsday Clock were moved closer to midnight, President Trump was named specifically as an existential risk to humanity. There is no doubt that we must all act. The writers of conscience who have written this collection of essays are all actively engaged in opposing President Trump and their writings encourage us to participate in the resistance movement. Read with a pencil in hand. Make notes on what you can do to join aspects of the movement that reflects the needs and concerns of your community. Through social media you can go global while acting locally.

Author : Brad Torgersen,Sarah Hoyt,Jon Del Arroz
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798556066991

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Divided We Fall by Brad Torgersen,Sarah Hoyt,Jon Del Arroz Pdf

Political upheavals can be a very dangerous time, especially when ideologies are as far apart as they are now. Divided we Fall presents one possible future, one where powerful forces act behind the scenes to effect the change they've wished to create for decades, and have largely been held back. What happens when a nation is sharply divided, anarchistic forces allowed to run wild, and the police are held at bay or even defunded? Add in a presidential assassination, and you have all the potential for a world changing situation. In this world, Divided we Fall. A collection of talented veteran bestselling authors and several new ones join together to paint a picture of the post 2020 election that none of us hope to see come about. But the more we watch events unfold, the more anything seems possible.

Author : Laurie Pickàrd
Publisher : Avant Courier Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0966697804

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Family Business by Laurie Pickàrd Pdf

Author : Luder G. Whitlock
Publisher : P & R Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Christian union
ISBN : 1596381922

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Divided We Fall by Luder G. Whitlock Pdf

Division. Polarization. Strife. That's life-as-usual in today's world. But it shouldn't describe the church. It's time for Christians to listen, reach out, and work together for the common good. But how can God's people achieve true unity in a fallen world? What sort of cooperation is actually possible? Luder Whitlock has an answer-a good one-and an appeal. He shows how we can learn from studying God's views on church unity and from historical schisms as well as agreements. And, once we embrace the goal of unity, Whitlock points us to specific, realistic steps we can take to realize a united community under God. Book jacket.