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Stanton: Lincoln's War Secretary
WALTER STAHR · Simon & Schuster Pages: 720 Format: Hardcover
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Walter Stahr, award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Seward, tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's indispensable Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, the man the president entrusted with raising the army that preserved the Union.Of the crucial men close to President Lincoln, Secretary... |
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Media Madness: Donald Trump, the Press, and the War over the Truth
Howard Kurtz · Regnery Publishing Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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With outrageous examples of left-wing media bias and insider scoops on front-page skirmishes between the Trump White House and reporters, Howard Kurtz's new book is an astonishing exposé of the media industry that is reminiscent of Bernard Goldberg's game changing New York Times bestseller... |
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Gorbachev: His Life and Times
WILLIAM TAUBMAN · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 852 Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of the transformational world leader by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev.When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the USSR was one of the world's two superpowers. By 1989, his liberal policies of perestroika and glasnost... |
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The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth
Orlando Patterson · Harvard University Press Format: Hardcover
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The Cultural Matrix seeks to unravel a uniquely American paradox: the socioeconomic crisis, segregation, and social isolation of disadvantaged black youth, on the one hand, and their extraordinary integration and prominence in popular culture on the other. Despite school dropout rates over... |
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Library Services for Adults in the 21st Century
Elsie Okobi · Libraries Unlimited Pages: 300 Format: Paperback
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Public librarians are directly responsible for providing a large proportion of the American population with access to the Internet and guidance in obtaining important government information. Effectively servicing today's adult library users is already a pressing need, and will only... |
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The Netanyahu Years
BEN CASPIT · Thomas Dunne Books Pages: 512 Format: Hardcover
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Benjamin Netanyahu is currently serving his fourth term in office as Prime Minister of Israel, the longest serving Prime Minister in the country's history. Now Israeli journalist Ben Caspit puts Netanyahu's life under a magnifying glass, focusing on his last two terms in office. Caspit... |
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The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine
Nathan Thrall · Metropolitan Books Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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In a myth-busting analysis of the world's most intractable conflict, a star of Middle East reporting, "one of the most important writers" in the field (The New York Times) , argues that only one weapon has yielded progress: force.Scattered over the territory between the Jordan... |
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What Unites Us
Dan Rather · Algonquin Books Pages: 274 Format: Hardcover
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"I find myself thinking deeply about what it means to love America, as I surely do." - Dan Rather At a moment of crisis over our national identity, venerated journalist Dan Rather has emerged as a voice of reason and integrity, reflecting on - and writing passionately about - what... |
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Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
MICHAEL WOLFF · Henry Holt and Co. Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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With extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside storyof the most controversial presidency of our timeThe first nine months of Donald Trump's term were stormy, outrageous -- and absolutely mesmerizing. Now, thanks to his deep access to the West Wing, bestselling... |
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Washington's Farewell: The Founding Father's Warning to Future Generations
John P Avlon · Simon & Schuster Pages: 354 Format: Print book
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"A vivid portrait ... A thoughtful consideration of Washington's wisdom that couldn't be timelier." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) George Washington's Farewell Address was a prophetic letter from a "parting friend" to his fellow citizens about the forces he feared... |
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