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Heavy: An American Memoir
Kiese Laymon · Scribner
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies, and deception does to a black body, a black family, and a nation teetering on the brink of moral collapse.Kiese Laymon is a fearless writer.... |
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The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World's Greatest Civilization
Anthony Everitt · Random House
Pages: 592
Format: Print book
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A magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history's most influential civilization, from the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian Filled with tales of adventure and astounding reversals of fortune, The Rise of Athens... |
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Busted: A Tale of Corruption and Betrayal in the City of Brotherly Love
Wendy Ruderman · HarperCollins Canada, Limited
Pages: 242
Format: Hardcover
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In the vein of Erin Brockovich, The Departed, and T. J. English's Savage City comes Busted, the shocking true story of the biggest police corruption scandal in Philadelphia history, a tale of drugs, power, and abuse involving a rogue narcotics squad, a confidential informant, and two veteran... |
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Drain the Swamp: How Washington Corruption is Worse than You Think
Ken Buck · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 218
Format: Hardcover
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Lavish parties. Committee chairmanships for sale. Pay-to-play corruption. Backroom arm-twisting. Votes on major legislation going to the highest bidder. Welcome to Washington, D.C., the swamp that President Donald Trump was elected to drain.Congressman Ken Buck is blowing the whistle on the real-life... |
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The Swamp: Washington's Murky Pool of Corruption and Cronyism?and How Trump Can Drain It
ERIC BOLLING · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 228
Format: Hardcover
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The Instant New York Times and USA Today Bestseller!When Washington D.C. was first built, it was on top of a swamp that had to be drained. Donald Trump says it's time to drain it again. In The Swamp, bestselling author and Fox News Channel host Eric Bolling presents an infuriating, amusing,... |
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Beautiful Country Burn Again: Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution
BEN FOUNTAIN · Ecco
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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In a sweeping work of reportage set over the course of 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Fountain recounts a surreal year of politics and an exploration of the third American existential crisis Twice before in its history, the United States has been faced with a crisis so severe... |
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The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics
SALENA ZITO · Crown Forum
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Standout syndicated columnist and CNN contributor Salena Zito, with veteran Republican strategist Brad Todd, reports across five swing states and over 27,000 miles to answer the pressing question: Was Donald Trump's election a fluke or did it represent a fundamental shift in the electorate... |
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Real American: A Memoir
JULIE LYTHCOTT-HAIMS · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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"Courageous, achingly honest." -- Michelle Alexander, New York Times bestselling author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness"A compelling, incisive and thoughtful examination of race, origin and what it means to be called an American. Engaging,... |
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Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian
Richard Aldous · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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The first major biography of preeminent historian and intellectual Arthur Schlesinger Jr., a defining figure in Kennedy's White House.Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (1917-2007) , known today as the architect of John F. Kennedy's presidential legacy -- and the myth of Camelot -- blazed an extraordinary... |
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An African American and Latinx History of the United States
Paul Ortiz · Beacon Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rightsSpanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history arguing that the "Global South"... |
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The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
Thomas Childers · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 651
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic story of the Third Reich - how Adolf Hitler and a core group of Nazis rose to power and plunged the world into a horrific war, perpetrating the genocidal Holocaust while sacrificing the lives of millions of ordinary Germans.In The Third Reich, Thomas Childers shows how the young... |
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Why We Lost: A General's Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
Daniel P Bolger · Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A high-ranking general's gripping insider account of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and how it all went wrong.Over a thirty-five-year career, Daniel Bolger rose through the army infantry to become a three-star general, commanding in both theaters of the U.S. campaigns in Iraq... |
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The Fighters
C. J. Chivers · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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"A classic of war reporting...The author's stories give heart-rending meaning to the lives and deaths of these men and women, even if policymakers generally have not." - The New York Times Pulitzer Prize winner C.J. Chivers' unvarnished account of modern combat, told through the eyes... |
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