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Feminism's Forgotten Fight: The Unfinished Struggle for Work and Family

Kirsten Swinth · Harvard University Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A spirited defense of feminism, arguing that the lack of support for working mothers is less a failure of second-wave feminism than a rejection by reactionaries of the sweeping changes they campaigned for.When people discuss feminism, they often lament its failure to deliver on the promise...
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The Death of Truth

MICHIKO KAKUTANI · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

A stirring and incisive manifesto on America's slide away from truth and reason. Over the last three decades, Michiko Kakutani has been thinking and writing about the demise of objective truth in popular culture, academia, and contemporary politics. In The Death of Truth, she connects...
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American Radical: Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI Agent

TAMER ELNOURY · Dutton
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The explosive memoir of a Muslim American FBI agent fighting terror from the insideIt's no secret that federal agencies are waging a broad, global war against terror. But for the first time in this memoir, an active, Muslim American federal agent reveals his experience infiltrating and bringing...
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I Like Ike: The Presidential Election of 1952

John Robert Greene · University Press of Kansas
Pages: 254
Format: Paperback

When the 1952 presidential election campaign began, many assumed it would be a race between Harry Truman, seeking his second full term, and Robert A. Taft, son of a former president and, to many of his fellow partisans, "Mr. Republican." No one imagined the party standard bearers...
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Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama

DAVID GARROW · William Morrow
Pages: 960
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERRising Star is the definitive account of Barack Obama's formative years that made him the man who became the forty-fourth president of the United States - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Bearing the CrossBarack Obama's speech at the 2004 Democratic National...
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The Artist's Library: A Field Guide

Erinn Batykefer · Coffee House Press
Pages: 220
Format: Hardcover

Creativity, like information, is free to everyone who steps into a library. The Artist's Library offers the idea that an artist is any person who uses creative tools to make new things, and the guidance and resources to make libraries of all sizes and shapes come alive as spaces for art-making...
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The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies

Jason Fagone · Dey Street Books
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback

NATIONAL BESTSELLERNPR Best Book of 2017 "Not all superheroes wear capes, and Elizebeth Smith Friedman should be the subject of a future Wonder Woman movie." - The New York TimesJoining the ranks of Hidden Figures and In the Garden of Beasts, the incredible true story of the greatest...
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Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense: The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy

Dan Abrams · Hanover Square Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Coming soon! Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense: The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy by Dan Abrams and David Fisher will be available May 21, 2019.
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Our 50-State Border Crisis: How the Mexican Border Fuels the Drug Epidemic Across America

HOWARD G BUFFETT · Hachette Books
Pages: 356
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom one of America's most prominent philanthropists, an eye-opening, myth-busting new perspective on the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. Howard G. Buffett has seen first-hand the devastating impact of cheap Mexican heroin and other opiate cocktails across America....
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When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History

MATTHEW RESTALL · Ecco
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover

A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cortés that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the AmericasOn November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital...
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Everyday Sexism

Laura Bates · St Martin'S Press, 2016.
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

Special Hardcover Library EditionGood Housekeeping has this to say about Everyday Sexism, "a new generation of women is shouting back against everyday sexism, and their leader, Laura Bates, is determined to change the world."In 2012 after having been sexually harassed on London...
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The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace

ALEXANDER KLIMBURG · Penguin Press
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

No single invention of the last half century has changed the way we live now as much as the Internet. Alexander Klimburg was a member of the generation for whom it was a utopian ideal turned reality: a place where ideas, information, and knowledge could be shared and new freedoms found...
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Bobby Jindal

Tom Aswell · Pelican Publishing Co
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

What makes Bobby run? In this new, balanced look at Piyush "Bobby" Jindal, political authority Tom Aswell explores the past and record of this polarizing political figure. He covers the Rhodes scholar's meteoric rise and appointment as secretary of the Louisiana Department...
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Crapitalism: Liberals Who Make Millions Swiping Your Tax Dollars

Jason Mattera · Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and ambush journalist Jason Mattera sets his sights on his next big target: crony liberals, including Al Gore, Carlos Slim, Harry Reid, and Jay Z, whose riches come at taxpayer expense.From billionaire business tycoons like George Soros and Warren Buffett...
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The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty

Susan Page · Twelve
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

A vivid biography of former First Lady Barbara Bush, one of the most influential and under-appreciated women in American political history. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 15.0px; font: 13.3px Times; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000; background-color: #ffffff}...
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