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Dinner with the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House

Alex Prud'homme - Knopf
Format: eBook

A wonderfully entertaining, often surprising history of presidential taste, from the grim meals eaten by Washington and his starving troops at Valley Forge to Trump's fast-food burgers and Biden's ice cream - what they ate, why they ate it, and what it tells us about the state of the nation...
 
 
Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences

Joan Biskupic - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

"Biskupic, an accomplished and well-sourced journalist, knows the court as well as anyone now covering it... In her new book Biskupic has done something different and a good deal harder. She has written a group narrative that combines close accounts of the court's public business...
 
 
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

Timothy Egan - Viking
Format: Hardcover

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. "With narrative elan, Egan gives us a riveting saga of how a predatory con man became one of the most powerful people in 1920s America, Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, with a plan to rule the country - and how a grisly murder of a woman brought...
 
 
Unlikely Heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made

Derek Leebaert - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

"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...
 
 
Waco Rising: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America's Modern Militias

Kevin Cook - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: eBook

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...
 
 
Kamala Harris: La vida de la primera mujer vicepresidenta de los Estados Unidos (Spanish Edition)

Dan Morain - Roca Editorial
Format: Paperback

Una reveladora biografía de la primera mujer de color en presentarse a la vicepresidencia de Estados Unidos, demostrando cómo la hija de dos inmigrantes en la segregada California se convirtió en una de las políticas más poderosas del país.Kamala Harris es una mujer muy poco convencional,...
 
 
On Killing Remotely: The Psychology of Killing with Drones

Lieutenant Colonel Wayne Phelps (USMC Ret.) - ‎Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

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...
 
 
Poverty, by America

Matthew Desmond - Crown
Format: Hardcover

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."...
 
 
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

Oluf??mi O. Táíwò - Haymarket Books
Format: Paperback

"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...
 
 
The Courage to Be Free: Florida's Blueprint for America's Revival

Ron DeSantis - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover

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...