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New Titles - Politics
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An Unlikely Journey
Julia?n Castro · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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The keynote speaker at the 2012 DNC, former San Antonio mayor and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Julián Castro, tells his remarkable and inspiring life story. In the spirit of a young Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father, comes a candid and compelling memoir about race... |
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Gone Home: Race and Roots through Appalachia
Karida Brown · The University of North Carolina Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Since the 2016 presidential election, Americans have witnessed countless stories about Appalachia: its changing political leanings, its opioid crisis, its increasing joblessness, and its declining population. These stories, however, largely ignore black Appalachian lives. Karida L. Brown's... |
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Asian Waters: The Struggle Over the South China Sea and the Strategy of Chinese Expansion
HUMPHREY HAWKSLEY · The Overlook Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The first book to comprehensively break down the politics and tensions among the countries of the western Pacific, by a foreign correspondent who has witnessed it firsthandIn the sphere of modern international politics, few regions have been as hotly contested as Asia, an area that President... |
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We Can't Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival
JABARI ASIM · Picador
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
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Insightful and searing essays that celebrate the vibrancy and strength of black history and culture in America by critically acclaimed writer Jabari AsimIn We Can't Breathe, Jabari Asim disrupts what Toni Morrison has exposed as the "Master Narrative" and replaces it with... |
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Behold, America: The Entangled History of "America First" and "the American Dream"
Sarah Churchwell · Basic Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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The unknown history of two ideas crucial to the struggle over what America stands forIn Behold, America, Sarah Churchwell offers a surprising account of twentieth-century Americans' fierce battle for the nation's soul. It follows the stories of two phrases--the "American dream"... |
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On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope
DERAY MCKESSON · Viking
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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From the internationally recognized civil rights activist/organizer and host of the podcast Pod Save the People, a meditation on resistance, justice, and freedom, and an intimate portrait of a movement from the front lines.In August of 2014, twenty-nine-year-old activist DeRay Mckesson... |
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Where Did You Get This Number?: A Pollster's Guide to Making Sense of the World
Anthony Salvanto · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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CBS News' Elections and Surveys Director Anthony Salvanto takes you behind the scenes of polling to show you how to think about who we are and where we're headed as a nation.As Elections and Surveys Director for CBS News, it's Anthony Salvanto's job to understand you - what... |
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Money Rock: A Family's Story of Cocaine, Race, and Ambition in the New South
Pam Kelley · The New Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Meet Money Rock -- young, charismatic, and Charlotte's flashiest coke dealer -- in a riveting social history with echoes of Ghettoside and Random Family Meet Money Rock. He's young. He's charismatic. He's generous, often to a fault. He's one of Charlotte's most successful... |
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