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The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World

Robert Kagan · Knopf
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

A brilliant and visionary argument for America's role as an enforcer of peace and order throughout the world--and what is likely to happen if we withdraw and focus our attention inward.Recent years have brought deeply disturbing developments around the globe. American sentiment seems...
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Back in the Game: The Majority Whip's Remarkable Fight for His Life

Steve Scalise · Center Street
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Back in the Game is the inspiring story of how a massive political assassination at baseball practice for Republican members of Congress was narrowly avoided, and how the Majority Whip fought his way back to the People's House. On the morning of June 14, 2017, at a practice field for the annual...
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Undaunted: Surviving Jonestown, Summoning Courage, and Fighting Back

Jackie Speier · Little A
Format: Hardcover

An inspiring and powerful memoir of surviving the Jonestown massacre and becoming a fearless voice against injustice and inequality by California congresswoman Jackie Speier.Jackie Speier was twenty-eight when she joined Congressman Leo Ryan's delegation to rescue defectors from cult...
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Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants

HW BRANDS · Doubleday
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how America's second generation of political giants--Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John Calhoun--battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and decide the shape of our democracy.In...
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The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism

STEVE KORNACKI · Ecco
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

From MSNBC correspondent Steve Kornacki, a lively and sweeping history of the 1990s - one that brings critical new understanding to our current political landscapeIn The Red and the Blue, cable news star and acclaimed journalist Steve Kornacki follows the twin paths of Bill Clinton and Newt...
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Where We Go from Here

BERNIE SANDERS · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Senator Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign was a beginning, not an end. In his new book, America's most popular political figure speaks about what he's been doing to oppose the Trump agenda and strengthen the progressive movement and how we go forward as a nation.
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Trump's Enemies: How the Deep State Is Undermining the Presidency

Corey R. Lewandowski · Center Street
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Corey R. Lewandowski and David N. Bossie, the authors of the blockbuster, Let Trump Be Trump: the Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency, are back with their next New York Times bestseller. This book will reveal the heart of the hostile bureaucratic network that has been operating in the shadows...
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The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It

Yascha Mounk · Harvard University Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

"We can no longer assume that liberal democracy is the wave of the future ... This splendid book is an invaluable contribution to the debate about what ails democracy, and what can be done about it." -- Michael J. Sandel, author of Justice"Everyone worried about the state...
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The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War

Andrew Delbanco · Penguin Press
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

The devastating story of how fugitive slaves drove the nation to Civil WarFor decades after its founding, America was really two nations--one slave, one free. There were many reasons why this composite nation ultimately broke apart, but the fact that enslaved black people repeatedly risked...
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Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook

Mark Bray · Melville House
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

The National Bestseller"Focused and persuasive... Bray's book is many things: the first English-language transnational history of antifa, a how-to for would-be activists, and a record of advice from anti-Fascist organizers past and present." - THE NEW YORKER"Insurgent...
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