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Unlikely Heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made
Derek Leebaert - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Leebaert has done the near impossible -- crafted a fresh and challenging portrait of the man and his inner circle." -- Richard Norton Smith, author of An Uncommon Man, former director of the Hoover, Eisenhower, Reagan, and Ford presidential libraries.. "A fascinating and absorbing... |
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Waco Rising: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America's Modern Militias
Kevin Cook - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: eBook
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A news-making account of the war between David Koresh's Branch Davidians and the FBI, and how their standoff launched today's militias. In 1993, David Koresh and a band of heavily armed evangelical Christians took on the might of the US government. A two-month siege of their compound... |
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On Killing Remotely: The Psychology of Killing with Drones
Lieutenant Colonel Wayne Phelps (USMC Ret.) - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A "can't-miss for anyone interested in current military affairs," On Killing Remotely reveals and explores the costs - to individual soldiers and to society - of the way we wage war today (Kirkus Reviews, starred) . "One of the best new Drones books" - BookAuthorityThroughout... |
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Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a "provocative and compelling" (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.. "Urgent and accessible . . . Its moral force is a gut punch."... |
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Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
Oluf??mi O. Táíwò - Haymarket Books
Format: Paperback
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"Identity politics" is everywhere, polarizing discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom and amplifying antagonisms in the media, both online and off. But the compulsively referenced phrase bears little resemblance to the concept as first introduced by the radical Black... |
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The Courage to Be Free: Florida's Blueprint for America's Revival
Ron DeSantis - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover
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No American leader has accomplished more for his state than Governor Ron DeSantis. Now he reveals how he did it.He played baseball for Yale, graduated with honors from Harvard Law School, and served in Iraq and in the halls of Congress. But in all these places, Ron DeSantis learned the same... |
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