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The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House
BEN RHODES · Random House
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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From one of Obama's closest aides comes a revelatory, behind-the-scenes account of his presidency - and how idealism can confront harsh reality and still survive - in the tradition of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.'s A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. For nearly ten years,... |
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Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America
Vegas Tenold · Nation Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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The dark story of the shocking resurgence of white supremacist and nationalist groups, and their path to political powerSix years ago, when Vegas Tenold began reporting from the inner circle of three white power groups in America -- the KKK, the National Socialist Movement, and the Traditionalist... |
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First in Line: Presidents, Vice Presidents, and the Pursuit of Power
KATE ANDERSEN BROWER · Harper
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the New York Times bestsellers First Women and The Residence, an intimate, news-making look at the men who are next in line to the most powerful office in the world - the vice presidents of the modern era - from Richard Nixon to Joe Biden to Mike Pence.Vice presidents... |
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The Wealth of a Nation: A History of Trade Politics in America
Don Johnson · Oxford University Press
Pages: 664
Format: Hardcover
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The United States is entering a period of profound uncertainty in the world political economy--an uncertainty which is threatening the liberal economic order that its own statesmen created at the end of the Second World War. The storm surrounding this threat has been ignited by an issue... |
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The China Mission: George Marshall's Unfinished War, 1945-1947
DANIEL KURTZ-PHELAN · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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A spellbinding narrative of the high-stakes mission that changed the course of America, China, and global politics -- and a rich portrait of the towering, complex figure who carried it out.As World War II came to an end, General George Marshall was renowned as the architect of Allied victory.... |
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In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History
MITCH LANDRIEU · Viking
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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"An extraordinarily powerful journey that is both political and personal...An important book for everyone in America to read." --Walter Isaacson,#1 New York Times bestselling author of Leonardo Da Vinci and Steve JobsThe New Orleans mayor who removed the Confederate statues confronts... |
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American Values: Lessons I Learned from My Family
ROBERT F JR KENNEDY · Harper
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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In this moving, thoughtful family history, the son and namesake of Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy shares memories of his turbulent childhood and the lessons that have shaped his enduring values.Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the third of eleven children born to Bobby Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy,... |
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Tyrant
STEPHEN GREENBLATT · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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World-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright's insight into bad (and often mad) rulers.As an aging, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social causes, the psychological roots, and the twisted consequences of tyranny.... |
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