Music has long played a role in American presidential campaigns as a mode of both expressing candidates’ messages and criticizing the opposition. The relevance of music in the 2016 campaign for the White House took various forms in a range of American media: a significant amount of popular music was used by campaigns, many artist endorsements were sought by candidates, ever changing songs were employed at rallies, instances of musicians threatening legal action against candidates burgeoned, and artists and others increasingly used music as a form of political protest before and after Election Day. The 2016 campaign was a game changer, similar to the development of music in the 1840 campaign, when “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too” helped sing William Harrison into the White House. The ten chapters in this collection place music use in 2016 in historical perspective before examining musical messaging, strategy, and parody. The book ultimately explores causality: how do music and musicians affect presidential elections, and how do politicians and campaigns affect music and musicians? The authors explain this interaction from various perspectives, with methodological approaches from several fields, including political science, legal studies, musicology, cultural studies, rhetorical studies, and communications and journalism. These chapters will help the reader understand music in the 2016 election to realize how music will be relevant in 2020 and beyond.

The long-awaited sequel (first volume of four) to the exciting Angel Brings Fire series of superhero / modern fantasy novels, has arrived! After desperate, life-or-death battles on the remote Alaskan island of Amchitka, the tables are turned on the imposter-President of the unstable, misgoverned United States of the 2040s, as the newly-rescued, superhuman Sam Jacobson and Minnie Chu teams depart on conflicted quests to reform America. Both teams aim to save the country from the Storied Watcher – Karéin-Mayréij – who has abundant reason to carry through with threats to “lay this kingdom in ruins, from end to end”. Chu wants to reason with the U.S. government; Jacobson just wants to beat sense into it; but America’s cruel, corrupt leader isn’t in much of a mood to listen, to anybody. Chances are… that will turn out badly for him!

The instant #1 New York Times bestseller | A Washington Post Notable Book | One of NPR's Best Books of 2021 The definitive behind-the-scenes story of Trump's final year in office, by Phil Rucker and Carol Leonnig, the Pulitzer-Prize winning reporters and authors of A Very Stable Genius. “Chilling.” – Anderson Cooper “Jaw-dropping.” – John Berman “Shocking.” – John Heilemann “Explosive.” – Hallie Jackson “Blockbuster new reporting.” – Nicolle Wallace “Bracing new revelations.” – Brian Williams “Bombshell reporting.” – David Muir The true story of what took place in Donald Trump’s White House during a disastrous 2020 has never before been told in full. What was really going on around the president, as the government failed to contain the coronavirus and over half a million Americans perished? Who was influencing Trump after he refused to concede an election he had clearly lost and spread lies about election fraud? To answer these questions, Phil Rucker and Carol Leonnig reveal a dysfunctional and bumbling presidency’s inner workings in unprecedented, stunning detail. Focused on Trump and the key players around him—the doctors, generals, senior advisers, and Trump family members— Rucker and Leonnig provide a forensic account of the most devastating year in a presidency like no other. Their sources were in the room as time and time again Trump put his personal gain ahead of the good of the country. These witnesses to history tell the story of him longing to deploy the military to the streets of American cities to crush the protest movement in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, all to bolster his image of strength ahead of the election. These sources saw firsthand his refusal to take the threat of the coronavirus seriously—even to the point of allowing himself and those around him to be infected. This is a story of a nation sabotaged—economically, medically, and politically—by its own leader, culminating with a groundbreaking, minute-by-minute account of exactly what went on in the Capitol building on January 6, as Trump’s supporters so easily breached the most sacred halls of American democracy, and how the president reacted. With unparalleled access, Rucker and Leonnig explain and expose exactly who enabled—and who foiled—Trump as he sought desperately to cling to power. A classic and heart-racing work of investigative reporting, this book is destined to be read and studied by citizens and historians alike for decades to come.

Broken women are my crack and kryptonite. I've lost too much over the years chasing them to do it again. Until Yarrow Jones. She was raised in the darkness before finding the light. A contradiction of innocence and wisdom, Yarrow knows just how to push my buttons. With my tattoos and temper, I'm no hero. With her stubborn streak and tough chick crew, Yarrow is no damsel in distress. What we are is a match made in messed up heaven. Trigger warning: Devil’s Ruin contains details of past sexual abuse, graphic sexual content, violent situations, and extreme profanity. The book is only appropriate for adult readers age 18+.

The complete plays, including never before published work, from one of the major writers of the twentieth century.

The Confederacy returns to protest a Blue Party victory in the U. S. Supreme Court. The deadly Freedom Camps a euphemism for Muslim concentration camps arrive to America thanks to the Red Party candidate. New laws pass in the Confederacy as women no matter their education level, can only legally panhandle to earn a living. Ingrid is a 17 year old who hates politics. She has to deal with Nathan her father who is a conservative. Her authentic boyfriend Ahmed constantly plays pranks on her. A mysterious woman from a Private Military Corporation offers Ingrid a risky job stealing guns from Confederate homes, stores and anywhere in-between transporting them to the blue states. Now Ingrid’s life is stressful as she leads the state of Texas in the Union Underground Movement against the insidious Confederacy. This is her story, a few months before and after the Confederate States of America returns to our soil. (Word Count 71, 180)

In this somewhat dark, often comic look at how the federal government would function and Americans would react to a total ban on ownership/possession of any and all guns, author Glenn A. Bruce presents a “what if” of extreme behaviors—from relief to joy to panic to violence. Some gun owners are happy to turn over their weapons if it means a safer gun-free America; others will fight to the bitter end to maintain their “right to bear arms”—often with deadly results. Taking on the entirety of the United States government can be hazardous to one’s health!​ Underlying the methodical sweeping up of every gun in America there emerges a shadowy plot to do… something. We are never sure exactly what that is until the tense and exciting climax when secretive dark forces converge on Washington to “finish what we started.” Is it a government-driven “false flag”? Is it an attempted coup? Who are the real players, and what is their intent? What is going on in the hidden basement of an abandoned Federal building in D.C., and what does a loner “idealist” from a compound in Idaho have to do with it? What about the well-meaning new President and his snarky female VP? Are they aware of what is happening? At all?​ Everything, and everyone, is related in some way, whether they realize it or not. They will come together in the end to put a crushing halt to it all. Guns will be gathered, and lives will be lost. The Constitution will be tested, and truth will be moot. Will America survive? Only our hero, the mysterious ex-Marine David Billows knows—and he is not saying. He is clearly on a mission—and he will succeed. But at what cost?