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At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House

H. R. McMaster - Harper
Format: Hardcover

An Instant New York Times Bestseller!A revealing account of National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster's turbulent and consequential thirteen months in the Trump White House.At War with Ourselves is the story of helping a disruptive President drive necessary shifts in U.S. foreign policy...
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All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way

Fred C. Trump - Gallery Books
Format: Audio CD

With revealing, never-before-told stories, Fred C. Trump III, nephew of President Donald Trump, breaks his decades-long silence in this honest memoir and sheds a whole new light on the family name.. For the record ... Fred Trump never asked for any of this. The divisive politics. The endless...
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By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land

Rebecca Nagle - Harper
Format: Hardcover

A powerful work of reportage and American history that braids the story of the forced removal of Native Americans onto treaty lands in the nation's earliest days, and a small-town murder in the '90s that led to a Supreme Court ruling reaffirming Native rights to that land over a century...
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How Economics Explains the World: A Short History of Humanity

Andrew Leigh - HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover

"If you read just one book about economics, make it Andrew Leigh's clear, insightful, and remarkable (and short) work." - Claudia Goldin, recipient of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics and Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University A sweeping, engrossing history...
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The Bluestockings: A History of the First Women's Movement

Susannah Gibson - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

An illuminating group portrait of the eighteenth-century women who dared to imagine an active life for themselves in both mind and spirit.In England in the 1700s, a woman who was an intellectual, spoke out, or wrote professionally was considered unnatural. After all, as the wisdom of the era dictated,...
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Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation

Brenda Wineapple - Random House
Format: Hardcover

"Brenda Wineapple's wonderful account of the Scopes trial sheds light not only on the battles of the past but on the struggles of the present." - Jon Meacham In this magnificent book, award-winning author of The Impeachers brings to life the dramatic story of the 1925 Scopes...
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Nolo's Patents for Beginners

David Pressman Attorney - NOLO
Format: Paperback

A brilliantly clear and up-to-date patent guide This bestselling primer is packed with what inventors need to know about patent law basics, the patent application process, and the use of technology to get and manage patents. Nolo's Patents for Beginners helps inventors:* document...
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Antidemocratic: Inside the Far Right's 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections

David Daley - HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover

Equal parts Dark Money and Democracy in Chains, Antidemocratic is a riveting yet disturbing history of the fifty-year Republican plot to hijack voting rights in America, its profound implications for the 2024 presidential election, and the crucial role that Chief Justice John Roberts has played...
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Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law

Neil Gorsuch - Harper
Format: Hardcover

America has always been a nation of laws. But today our laws have grown so vast and reach so deeply into our lives that it's worth asking: In our reverence for law, have we gone too far?Over just the last few decades, laws in this nation have exploded in number; they are increasingly...
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Shameless: Republicans' Deliberate Dysfunction and the Battle to Preserve Democracy

Brian Tyler Cohen - Harper
Format: Hardcover

From the first content creator to interview President Biden, leading progressive voice Brian Tyler Cohen takes a step back from the day-to-day news cycle to explain how American politics has turned into such a dumpster fire - and what Democrats need to do to get us out of it.In Shameless,...
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