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This audiobook is an investigation about the idea that Thanksgiving is a dark holiday and what that says about American culture.

This book explores the notion that America had a chance to further the development of its welfare state in the 1972 American presidential election with George McGovern, but would eventually settle for a complete denial of this ambition with the 1980 election of Ronald Reagan.

This book examines the idea that America needs much improvement in applying liberal ideas in its culture.

This book examines sex and repression in American culture. It is a study of how Americans have turned the natural act of sex into a monstrous maze of repression, digression, inhibition, exhibition, and many other dysfunctional psychological states. Here, we have an American society that is at once obsessed with sex and, on the other hand, is also afraid of its openness.

This book is about three situations - guilt,competition, and death - that can trouble the human mind.

This book describes the influence of the American media, specifically how it has become the American government, with the power to select individuals who will occupy high positions of leadership in American society.

This books examines five principles of the leadership style of Franklin Roosevelt and how it contains important lessons for today's leaders.

This book is the fourth volume of a study on the development of the American social welfare state since 1934. This volume covers the first two years of the administration of President Donald Trump and the rise of the Democratic socialist Bernie Sanders and what it means for any further development of America's social welfare state.

This book investigates five political revolutions in recent world history and the phenomenon of how a small band of activists defeated a seemingly much more powerful regime.

This book examines the idea of the phenomenon of how the American working class supports the economic elite. This is in direct contradiction to the notion prevalent in the Western world about the rise of populism, the inaccurate assessment of the American working class being against the economic elite.

This audiobook investigates the idea that perhaps the American presidency is not as powerful as is commonly assumed.

Why hasn't man created that perfect world? Is there something in nature that prevents this? This book examines the question of whether natural forces have prevented humans from creating a perfect society.

This book investigates the thesis that despite America lacking a world-leading welfare state, America and its cultural desire for individual immortality may give Americans more psychological benefits than Europeans get in their welfare states.

This book looks behind the scenes to determine who or what runs American society.

This book examines how the development of the European social welfare state in the post-World War II period has proposed a threat to the American economic and social system.

This audiobook examines democracy, or a representative electoral political system, and the interaction with a nation's economy.

Many commentators believe that America entered a conservative period beginning about 1979, and this has been characterized as a decline in liberalism. However, America has always been a conservative nation and has never embraced the full liberalism as had been conceived of and, to some degree, implemented by the Europeans. This book explores the reasons for this, and how the current populist movement in much of the Western world may be another barrier to the creation of a liberal state in America.

American liberals often look back to the New Deal era in American history as some idealized period and given today’s economic predicament of income inequality and globalization, infer that the New Deal period is a model that could be followed in order to solve America’s current economic problems. But this view hides the fact that the New Deal era was not addressing many of its current economic problems, many that remain unsolved even today in late 2018.

This book discusses the challenges that the American Democratic Party faces in the future.

There is talk in the Western world about a new relevance of Marxist theory. In this book, I show how Marxism can never be an adequate replacement for the admittedly flawed capitalist economic system.