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Migrating to Prison: America's Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants

Hernandez, Cesar Cuauhtemoc Garcia · The New Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

A leading scholar's powerful, in-depth look at the imprisonment of immigrants addressing the intersection of immigration and the criminal justice system For most of America's history, we simply did not lock people up for migrating here. Yet over the last thirty years, the federal...
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Great Society: A New History

Amity Shlaes · Harper
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period of idealism, the 1960s, with burning relevance for our contemporary challenges."Great Society is accurate history that reads like a novel, covering the high hopes...
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Dangerous Charisma: The Political Psychology of Donald Trump and His Followers

Stephanie Doucette · Pegasus Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The long-time head of psychological profiling at the CIA puts President Trump under the psychiatric microscope, examining the unique connection between Trump and his base. Offering an in-depth psychological and political portrait of what makes Donald Trump tick, Dangerous Charisma combines...
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Give Me Liberty: A History of America's Exceptional Idea

Richard Brookhiser
Format: Hardcover

An award-winning historian recounts the history of American liberty through the stories of twelve essential documentsNationalism is inevitable: It supplies feelings of belonging, identity, and recognition. It binds us to our neighbors and tells us who we are. But increasingly -- from the United...
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Manhunters: How We Took Down Pablo Escobar

Steve Murphy · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The explosive memoir of legendary DEA agents and the subject of the hit Netflix series Narcos, Steve Murphy and Javier F. Peña In the decades they spent at the DEA, Javier Peña and Steve Murphy risked their lives hunting large and small drug traffickers. But their biggest challenge was the hunt...
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The Plot to Betray America: How Team Trump Embraced Our Enemies, Compromised Our Security, and How We Can Fix It

Malcolm Nance · Hachette Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

When former FBI Director Robert Mueller III was assigned to the Special Counsel investigation looking into the possibility of Russian interference in the 2016 US election, many Americans felt relieved. But when the report was delivered in April 2019, it was clear that the case was far from...
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With All Due Respect: Defending America with Grit and Grace

Nikki R. Haley · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A revealing, dramatic, deeply personal book about the most significant events of our time, written by the former United States Ambassador to the United NationsNikki Haley is widely admired for her forthright manner ("With all due respect, I don't get confused") , her sensitive...
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Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law

JeffreyRosen · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

In her own words, Ruth Bader Ginsburg offers an intimate look at her life and career, through an extraordinary series of conversations with the head of the National Constitution Center.This remarkable book presents a unique portrait of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, drawing on more than twenty...
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They Don't Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy

Lawrence Lessig · Dey Street Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

With insight and urgency, Harvard law professor and author of the bestselling Republic, Lost Lawrence Lessig argues that our government does not represent us and shows that reform is both essential and possible. America's democracy is in crisis. Along many dimensions, a single flaw...
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This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving

David J. Silverman · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony's founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story.In March 1621, when Plymouth's survival was hanging in the balance, the Wampanoag sachem (or chief)...
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