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Examines the abortion laws in the United States, and argues that state laws are systematically eroding a woman's rights to have an abortion.

"... argues that the story of Christian America begins with the Great Depression, when a coalition of businessmen and religious leaders united in opposition to the New Deal. As Kruse shows, corporations from General Motors and Kraft Foods to J.C. Penney and Hilton Hotels poured money into the coffers of conservative religious leaders, who in turn used those funds to attack FDR's New Deal administration as a program of 'pagan statism' that perverted the central tenet of Christianity: the salvation of the individual"--Provided by publisher.

In his book, Moustafa Bayoumi reveals what the War on Terror looks like from the vantage point of Muslim Americans, highlighting the profound effect their surveillance has had on how they live their lives. To be a Muslim American today often means to exist in a space between exotic and dangerous, victim and villain, simply because of the assumptions people make. In his essays, Bayoumi exposes how contemporary politics, movies, novels, media experts and more have together produced a culture of fear and suspicion that not only willfully forgets the Muslim-American past, but also threatens all of our civil liberties in the present.

Traces the history of the Tasaday people, discussing how the ancient culture lived, worked, ate, communicated, and hunted.

Examines the image of what the author calls the Ecological Indian--the Native North American as ecologist and conservationist, and considers how faithfully that image reflects Native North American cultures and behavior through time.

A study of the 1980s campaign against women who used drugs during pregnancy, examining the question of how and with what consequences a powerless category of women emerged as a threatening symbol of disorder, and an enemy in the domestic war on drugs.

Examines the ecological and political controversy over the American bison, and explores the problems that have risen to property, people, and livestock by allowing the animals to roam wild.

Discusses the rise of the Islamist totalitarian movement and examines problems the media has with understanding and covering it.