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Windfall: How the New Energy Abundance Upends Global Politics and Strengthens America's Power

MEGHAN L O'SULLIVAN · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

Windfall is the boldest profile of the world's energy resources since Daniel Yergin's The Quest. Harvard professor and former Washington policymaker Meghan L. O'Sullivan reveals how fears of energy scarcity have given way to the reality of energy abundance. This abundance is transforming...
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Secrets of the Secret Service: The History and Uncertain Future of the U.S. Secret Service

GARY J BYRNE · Center Street
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

SECRETS OF THE SECRET SERVICE is a unique, behind-the-scenes look at what makes the Secret Service tick and the increasingly reactive strategies and tactics that place presidential security at risk. The United States Secret Service is tasked with one of the world's most important missions:...
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Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History

KATY TUR · Dey Street Books
Pages: 291
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Compelling ... this book couldn't be more timely." - Jill Abramson, New York Times Book Review From the Recipient of the 2017 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in JournalismCalled "disgraceful," "third-rate," and "not nice"...
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Frank and Al: FDR, Al Smith, and the Unlikely Alliance That Created the Modern Democratic Party

Terry Golway · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The inspiring story of an unlikely political partnership -- between a to-the-manor-born Protestant and a Lower East Side Catholic -- that transformed the Democratic Party and led to the New DealIn the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Democratic Party was bitterly split between its urban...
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How the Poor Can Save Capitalism: Rebuilding the Path to the Middle Class

John Hope Bryant · Berrett-Koehler Publishers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

John Hope Bryant, successful self-made businessman and founder of the nonprofit Operation HOPE, says business and political leaders are ignoring the one force that could truly re-energize the stalled American economy the poor. If we give poor communities the right tools, policies, and inspiration,...
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Scorched Earth: Restoring America after Obama

Michael Savage · Center Street
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"New York Times" bestselling author Michael Savage reveals why we have an infected political system, and what we can now do to nurse the country back to health. Michael Savages says that for the past eight years there has been a retrovirus in the White House, and that the last...
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Toussaint Louverture: A Revolutionary Life

Philippe R Girard · Basic Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Toussaint Louverture's life was one of hardship, triumph, and contradiction. Born into bondage in Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) , the richest colony in the Western Hemisphere, he witnessed first-hand the torture of the enslaved population. Yet he managed to secure his freedom and establish...
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Choosing the Hero: My Improbable Journey and the Rise of Africa's First Woman President

K Riva Levinson · Kiwai Media
Pages: 191
Format: Print book

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Women's Studies. Politics. African Studies. The rise of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to become the president of Liberia and the first woman elected to lead an African nation is one of the most inspiring stories of our time. But Sirleaf could not have done it alone....
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The Making of a Dream: How a group of young undocumented immigrants helped change what it means to be American

LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ · Harper
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A journalist chronicles the next chapter in civil rights - the story of a movement and a nation, witnessed through the poignant and inspiring experiences of five young undocumented activists who are transforming society's attitudes toward one of the most contentious political matters roiling...
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8 Seconds of Courage: A Soldier's Story from Immigrant to the Medal of Honor

FLO GROBERG · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

A story of valor and the making of a hero - Florent Groberg, who grew up in France, emigrated to the US, and was the first immigrant in forty years to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor after he saved many lives by tackling a suicide bomber in Afghanistan.Florent "Flo" Groberg...
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No Justice: One White Police Officer, One Black Family, and How One Bullet Ripped Us Apart

ROBBIE TOLAN · Center Street
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

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Fractured Continent: Europe's Crises and the Fate of the West

WILLIAM DROZDIAK · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

An urgent examination of how the political and social volatility in Europe impacts the United States and the rest of the world.The dream of a United States of Europe is unraveling in the wake of several crises now afflicting the continent. The single Euro currency threatens to break apart...
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Saving Congress from Itself: Emancipating the States and Empowering Their People

James L Buckley · Encounter Books
Format: Hardcover

Saving Congress from Itself proposes a single reform eliminate all federal grants-in-aid to state and local governments. This action would reduce federal spending by over 600 billion a year and have a profound effect on how we govern ourselves. The proliferation of federal grants-in-aid...
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Stolen Sovereignty: How to Stop Unelected Judges from Transforming America

Daniel E Horowitz · WND Books
Pages: 278
Format: Print book

We are confronted with a jarring reality that the Left has succeeded in growing the power of the courts. Obama has replaced roughly 30 percent of the district and appellate judges on the federal benches. We are now facing a judicial time bomb, the likes of which we've never seen before....
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Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

BRITTNEY COOPER · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

With searing honesty, intimacy and humor too, America's leading young black feminist celebrates the power of rage.Melissa Harris Perry says: "I was waiting for an author who wouldn't forget, ignore, or erase us black girls as they told their own story...I was waiting and she has come...
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