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Under Fire: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Trump White House
APRIL RYAN · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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Veteran White House reporter April Ryan thought she had seen everything in her two decades as a White House correspondent. And then came the Trump administration. In Under Fire, Ryan takes us inside the confusion and chaos of the Trump White House to understand how she and other reporters... |
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The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America
Sarah Kendzior · Flatiron Books
Pages: 239
Format: Paperback
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NEW YORK TIMES and MIBA BESTSELLERFrom the St. Louis-based journalist often credited with first predicting Donald Trump's presidential victory."A collection of sharp-edged, humanistic pieces about the American heartland...Passionate pieces that repeatedly assail the inability of many... |
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Exploding Data: Reclaiming Our Cyber Security in the Digital Age
MICHAEL CHERTOFF · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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The most dangerous threat we -- individually and as a society and country -- face today is no longer military, but rather the increasingly pervasive exposure of our personal information; nothing undermines our freedom more than losing control of information about ourselves. And yet, as daily... |
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Federal Benefits for Veterans, Dependents, and Survivors: Updated Edition
The US Department of Veterans Affairs · Skyhorse Publishing; Updated edition
Format: Book
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Veterans of the United States armed forces may be eligible for a broad range of benefits and services provided by the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). If you’re looking for information on these benefits and services, look no further than the newest edition of Federal Benefits... |
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Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations
Amy Chua · Penguin Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Yale Law School Professor Amy Chua offers a bold new prescription for reversing our foreign policy failures and overcoming our destructive political tribalism at home Humans are tribal. We need to belong to groups. In many parts... |
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A Covert Action: Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War Struggle in Poland
SETH G JONES · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In this gripping narrative history, Seth G. Jones reveals the CIA's involvement in a landmark victory for democracy during the Cold War. In 1983, while Soviet- backed Polish prime minister Wojciech Jaruzelski worked to crush a budding opposition movement through martial law, the CIA launched... |
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The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics
SALENA ZITO · Crown Forum
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Standout syndicated columnist and CNN contributor Salena Zito, with veteran Republican strategist Brad Todd, reports across five swing states and over 27,000 miles to answer the pressing question: Was Donald Trump's election a fluke or did it represent a fundamental shift in the electorate... |
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Blood Year: The Unraveling of Western Counterterrorism
David Kilcullen · Oxford University Press
Pages: 312
Format: Print book
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2014 has the potential to go down as a crucial year in modern world history. A resurgent and bellicose Russia took over Crimea and fueled a civil war in Eastern Ukraine. Post-Saddam Iraq, in many respects a creature of the United States because of the war that began in 2003, lost a third... |
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8 Seconds of Courage: A Soldier's Story from Immigrant to the Medal of Honor
FLO GROBERG · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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A story of valor and the making of a hero - Florent Groberg, who grew up in France, emigrated to the US, and was the first immigrant in forty years to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor after he saved many lives by tackling a suicide bomber in Afghanistan.Florent "Flo" Groberg... |
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In Search of A Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey
Payam Akhavan · House of Anansi Press
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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A work of memoir, history, and a call to action, In Search of a Better World is a powerful and essential work on the major human rights struggles of our times.Renowned UN prosecutor and human rights scholar Payam Akhavan has encountered the grim realities of contemporary genocide throughout... |
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Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic
David Frum · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Builds on the author's March 2017 "How to Build an Autocracy" column in The Atlantic to explain how Donald Trump has undermined America's most important institutions as part of a carefully crafted plan to institute authoritarianism, in an account that explains how ongoing changes... |
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The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives
Bryant Simon · The New Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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For decades the small, quiet town of Hamlet, North Carolina thrived thanks to the railroad. But by the 1980s, it had become post-industrial backwater, a magnet for businesses looking for cheap labor with little or almost no official oversight. One of these businesses was Imperial Foods,... |
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Future Right: Forging a New Republican Majority
Donald T Critchlow · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Contrary to those who argue that demographics are political destiny, social trends are transforming identity categories of race, gender, and youth - all of which provide rich opportunities for Republicans to create a new majority. To accomplish this, Republicans will need imagination and political... |
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