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The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

Dalrymple, William · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Return of a King, the story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results of the corporation running a country.In August 1765, the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and set up, in his place, a government...
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1619: Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy

Horn, James · Basic Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

An extraordinary year in which American democracy and American slavery emerged hand in handAlong the banks of the James River, Virginia, during an oppressively hot spell in the middle of summer 1619, two events occurred within a few weeks of each other that would profoundly shape the course...
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Code Red: How Progressives and Moderates Can Unite to Save Our Country

E. J. Dionne Jr. · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne, Jr. sounds the alarm in Code Red, calling for an alliance between progressives and moderates to seize the moment and restore hope to America's future for the 2020 presidential election. Will progressives and moderates...
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The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America

Nicholas Buccola · Princeton University Press
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

How the clash between the civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism continues to illuminate America's racial divideOn February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to witness a historic televised debate between James Baldwin,...
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Free, Melania: The Unauthorized Biography

Kate Bennett · Flatiron Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The first behind-the-scenes look at the life of the most enigmatic First Lady in U.S. historyMelania Trump is an enigma. Regardless of your political leanings, she is fascinating -- a First Lady who, in many ways, is the most modern and groundbreaking in recent history. A former model whose...
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Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles -- and All of Us

Foroohar, Rana · Currency
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A penetrating indictment of how today's largest tech companies are hijacking our data, our livelihoods, our social fabric, and our minds - from an acclaimed Financial Times columnist and CNN analyst "Don't be evil" was enshrined as Google's corporate mantra back in its early...
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Power Grab: The Liberal Scheme to Undermine Trump, the GOP, and Our Republic

Jason Chaffetz · Broadside Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller.How much damage will the Democrats do to our republic in the name of saving it?In the years he served on and eventually chaired the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Jason Chaffetz gained crucial insight into the inner workings...
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Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale

Minter, Adam · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Junkyard Planet, a journey into the surprising afterlives of our former possessions.Downsizing. Decluttering. A parent's death. Sooner or later, all of us are faced with things we no longer need or want. But when we drop our old clothes and other items off at a local...
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The Girl in the Photograph: The True Story of a Native American Child, Lost and Found in America

Byron L. Dorgan · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Through the story of Tamara, an abused Native American child, North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan describes the plight of many children living on reservations -- and offers hope for the future. On a winter morning in 1990, U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota picked up the Bismarck Tribune....
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Desk 88: Eight Progressive Senators Who Changed America

Sherrod Brown · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Since his election to the U.S. Senate in 2006, Ohio's Sherrod Brown has sat on the Senate floor at a mahogany desk with a proud history. In Desk 88, he tells the story of eight of the Senators who were there before him. Despite their flaws and frequent setbacks, each made a decisive...
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