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The Stranger: Barack Obama in the White House
Chuck Todd · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Chuck Todds gripping, fly-on-the-wall account of Barack Obamas tumultuous struggle to succeed in Washington. Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008 partly because he was a Washington outsider. But if hed come to the White House thinking he could change the political culture, he soon discovered... |
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The People Have Spoken
David Harsanyi · Regnery Publishing
Format: Book
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Democracy may be one of the most admired ideas ever concocted, but what if it’s also one of the most harebrained? After many years of writing about democracy for a living, David Harsanyi has concluded that it’s the most overrated, overused, and misunderstood idea in political... |
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Beyond Snowden: Privacy, Mass Surveillance, and the Struggle to Reform the NSA
Timothy Edgar · Brookings Institution Press
Pages: 166
Format: Hardcover
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Safeguarding Our Privacy and Our Values in an Age of Mass SurveillanceAmerica's mass surveillance programs, once secret, can no longer be ignored. While Edward Snowden began the process in 2013 with his leaks of top secret documents, the Obama administration's own reforms have also helped... |
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Preserving our Heritage: Perspectives from Antiquity to the Digital Age
Michele Valerie Cloonan · ALA Neal-Schuman
Format: Book
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Drawing on historical texts, this accessible volume provides a broad understanding of preservation for librarians, archivists, and museum specialists. Cloonan offers students and professionals an overview of longevity, reversibility, enduring value, and authenticity of information preservation.... |
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School's Out: Gay and Lesbian Teachers in the Classroom
Catherine Connell · University of California Press
Format: Hardcover
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How do gay and lesbian teachers negotiate their professional and sexual identities at work, given that these identities are constructed as mutually exclusive, even as mutually opposed? Using interviews and other ethnographic materials from Texas and California, Schools Out explores how teachers... |
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The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border
FRANCISCO CANT · Riverhead Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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"A beautiful, fiercely honest, and nevertheless deeply empathetic look at those who police the border and the migrants who risk - and lose - their lives crossing it. In a time of often ill-informed or downright deceitful political rhetoric, this book is an invaluable corrective."--Phil... |
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100 Amazing Facts About the Negro
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. · Pantheon
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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The first edition of Joel Augustus Rogers's now legendary 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof, published in 1957, was billed as "A Negro 'Believe It or Not.'" Rogers's little book was priceless because he was delivering enlightenment and pride, steeped in historical... |
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We're still right - and they're still wrong.
James Carville · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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Every politico and pundit has tried to explain the 2016 presidential race, but James Carville - the multiple best-selling Ragin' Cajun and grand strategist of Bill Clinton's rise to the White House - has largely stayed silent. Until now. "He straddled the punch bowl, dropped his pants,... |
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When the Center Held: Gerald Ford and the Rescue of the American Presidency
DONALD RUMSFELD · Free Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing political memoir of the presidency of Gerald Ford as seen through the eyes of Donald Rumsfeld - the New York Times bestselling author, and Ford's former Secretary of Defense and Chief of Staff, and longtime personal confidant.In the wake of Watergate, it seemed the United States... |
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A Brotherhood of Spies: The U-2 and the CIA's Secret War
Monte Reel · Doubleday
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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A thrilling dramatic narrative of the top-secret Cold War-era spy plane operation that transformed the CIA and brought the U.S. and the Soviet Union to the brink of disasterOn May 1, 1960, an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union just weeks before a peace summit between... |
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Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts
David E. McCraw · All Points Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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David E. McCraw recounts his experiences as the top newsroom lawyer for the New York Times during the most turbulent era for journalism in generations.In October 2016, when Donald Trump's lawyer demanded that The New York Times retract an article focused on two women that accused Trump... |
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Let Me Be Clear: Barack Obama's War on Millennials, and One Woman's Case for Hope
Katie Pavlich · Crown Forum
Format: Kindle Edition
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A SEARING INDICTMENT OF THE MASTER OF CHARM, BARACK OBAMA, FOR HIS HISTORIC WAR ON AMERICAN YOUTH "Let me be clear." It was his come-hither call, his winsome whistle, his lingual lure. Barack Obama employed this phrase to sell his lies as maxims and his ineptitude as expertise.... |
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First in Line: Presidents, Vice Presidents, and the Pursuit of Power
KATE ANDERSEN BROWER · Harper
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the New York Times bestsellers First Women and The Residence, an intimate, news-making look at the men who are next in line to the most powerful office in the world - the vice presidents of the modern era - from Richard Nixon to Joe Biden to Mike Pence.Vice presidents... |
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