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Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir

Rebecca Solnit · Viking
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

"At the same time that [Solnit] describes her forays into her past, she invites us to connect pieces of her story to our own, as a measure of how far we've come and how far we have left to go." - Jenny Odell, The New York Times Book Review An electric portrait of the artist...
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Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America

Sarah Kendzior · Flatiron Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Sarah Kendzior documents the truth about the calculated rise to power of Donald Trump since the 1980s and how the erosion of our liberties made an American dema­gogue possible.The story of Donald Trump's rise to power is the story of a buried American...
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The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control

Steven Hassan · Free Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

One of America's leading experts in cults and mind-control provides an eye-opening analysis of Trump and the indoctrination tactics he uses to build a fanatical devotion in his supporters.Over the past two years, Trump's behavior has become both more disturbing and yet increasingly...
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The Mueller Report

The Washington Post · Scribner
Pages: 736
Format: Paperback

The Crucial #1 New York Times Bestseller "The Mueller report is that rare Washington tell-all that surpasses its pre-publication hype ... the best book by far on the workings of the Trump presidency." - Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post The only book with exclusive analysis...
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American Cipher: Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. Tragedy in Afghanistan

Matt Farwell · Penguin Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The explosive narrative of the life, captivity, and trial of Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who was abducted by the Taliban and whose story has served as a symbol for America's foundering war in Afghanistan"A riveting journalistic account of Bowe Bergdahl's disastrous--and weirdly...
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Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-year Battle Against Dupont

Robert Bilott · Atria Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Silent Spring meets Erin Brockovich in this eye-opening, riveting true story of the lawyer who spent two decades building a case against DuPont for its use of the hazardous, unregulated chemical PFOA, uncovering a history of environmental contamination that affects virtually every person...
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Guilt by Accusation: The Challenge of Proving Innocence in the Age of #MeToo

Alan Dershowitz · Hot Books
Pages: 168
Format: Hardcover

"Maybe the question isn't what happened to Alan Dershowitz. Maybe it's what happened to everyone else." - PoliticoNew York Times bestselling author Alan Dershowitz, one of America's most respected legal scholars, proves - with incontrovertible evidence - that he is entirely...
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With All Due Respect: Defending America with Grit and Grace

Nikki R. Haley · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A revealing, dramatic, deeply personal book about the most significant events of our time, written by the former United States Ambassador to the United NationsNikki Haley is widely admired for her forthright manner ("With all due respect, I don't get confused") , her sensitive...
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Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America

Ian Haney López · The New Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Dog Whistle Politics, an essential road map to neutralizing the role of racism as a divide-and-conquer political weapon and to building a broad multiracial progressive future "Ian Haney López has broken the code on the racial politics of the last fifty...
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Congress at War: How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America

Fergus M. Bordewich · Knopf
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

The story of how Congress helped win the Civil War--a new perspective that puts the House and Senate, rather than Lincoln, at the center of the conflict.This brilliantly argued new perspective on the Civil War overturns the popular conception that Abraham Lincoln single-handedly led the Union...
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