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How to Be an Antiracist

Kendi, Ibram X. · One World
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a bracingly original approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society - and in ourselves. "The only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it - and then...
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America Is Better Than This: Trump's War Against Migrant Families

Merkley, Jeff · Twelve
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

An exposé and cry of outrage at the cruelty and chaos the Trump administration has wrought at the border with child separations, border blockades, and a massive gulag of child prisons housing thousands. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'} p.p2...
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Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America

Leonard, Christopher · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 704
Format: Hardcover

Just as Steve Coll told the story of globalization through ExxonMobil and Andrew Ross Sorkin told the story of Wall Street excess through Too Big to Fail, Christopher Leonard's Kochland uses the extraordinary account of how one of the biggest private companies in the world grew to be that...
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Lincoln's Spies: Their Secret War to Save a Nation

Waller, Douglas · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover

A major addition to the history of the Civil War, Lincoln's Spies is a riveting account of the secret battles waged by Union agents to save a nation. Filled with espionage, sabotage, and intrigue, it is also a striking portrait of a shrewd president who valued what his operatives uncovered....
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Beyond Charlottesville: Taking a Stand Against White Nationalism

McAuliffe, Terry · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

The former governor of Virginia tells the behind-the-scenes story of the violent "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville -- and shows how we can prevent other Charlottesvilles from happening. When Governor Terry McAuliffe hung up the phone on the afternoon of the violent "Unite...
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American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump

Alberta, Tim · Harper
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

Politico Magazine's chief political correspondent provides a rollicking insider's look at the making of the modern Republican Party - how a decade of cultural upheaval, populist outrage, and ideological warfare made the GOP vulnerable to a hostile takeover from the unlikeliest of insurgents:...
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The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats

Clarke, Richard A. · Penguin Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

An urgent new warning from two bestselling security experts--and a gripping inside look at how governments, firms, and ordinary citizens can confront and contain the tyrants, hackers, and criminals bent on turning the digital realm into a war zone. "In the battle raging between offense...
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Double Down: Why America Went All In on Donald Trump-And Why We Must Do It Again

Hurt, Charles · Center Street
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Learn why President Trump is the ideal changemaker that can put an end to America's uncontrollable and corrupt system of government ruled by special interest.Trump Saves America is the story of the unlikeliest of heroes who emerged from the unlikeliest of places to take up the impossible...
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Up in Arms: How the Bundy Family Hijacked Public Lands, Outfoxed the Federal Government, and Ignited America's Patriot Militia Movement

Temple, John · BenBella Books
Pages: 330
Format: Hardcover

"IT'S TIME! They have my cattle and now they have one of my boys. Range War begins tomorrow at Bundy Ranch." These words, pounded out on a laptop at Cliven Bundy's besieged Nevada ranch on April 6, 2014, ignited a new American revolution. Across the country, a certain...
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The Method to the Madness: Donald Trump's Ascent as Told by Those Who Were Hired, Fired, Inspired--and Inaugurated

Salkin, Allen · All Points Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A Rosetta Stone for understanding Donald Trump's style, mindset, and every action, made up of over one hundred interviews with his closest associates over the last 15 years.To his critics, Donald Trump is an impulsive, undisciplined crackpot who accidentally lucked into the presidency....
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