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This book is the second part of three parts on the development of the American social welfare state from 1933 to 2016. This volume is focused on the action (or inaction) toward a comprehensive social welfare state during the American presidential administrations of Richard Nixon to Barack Obama (until January 2016). This volume is concentrated mainly on American economic philosophy, in particular the common misperceptions around the term neoliberalism.

This book discusses the French philosopher Albert Camus' essay "The Rebel", and what it has to say about contemporary politics. 

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 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 book examines the social and political forces that led to the election of Barack Obama to become the president of the United States in 2008, and the policies and opposition to his subsequent administration that led to the unleashing of populist forces that led to the election of Donald J. Trump as president in 2016. 

This audiobook is about the development of the American social welfare state, from FDR to LBJ, with particular emphasis on the ideas (social, political, and economic) that have formed the basis of America's social welfare state.

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 audiobook examines the question of the so-called neoliberal period in American economic history that is said to have begun in America in the late 1970s. It was actually different from what has been considered a more governmentally regulated economic period from 1946 to 1975.

This book is a study about the inner world of the human female. Sigmund Freud said that he could not understand women. I guess, now we are left with the barbers, hairdressers, and bartenders to understand the human female. How do we get underneath all the propaganda put out by the media and sometimes just our cultural inaccuracies to get at the truth about what the true nature of a woman is?

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.