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The Zelensky Effect (New Perspectives on Eastern Europe and Eurasia)
Olga Onuch - Oxford University Press Format: Hardcover
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With Russian shells raining on Kyiv and tanks closing in, American forces prepared to evacuate Ukraine's leader. Just three years earlier, his apparent main qualification had been playing a president on TV. But Volodymyr Zelensky reportedly retorted, 'I need ammunition, not a ride.'... |
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Jackie: Public, Private, Secret
J. Randy Taraborrelli - St. Martin's Press Format: Hardcover
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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!. From the New York Times bestselling author of Jackie, Janet & Lee comes a fresh and often startling look at the life of the legendary former first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.Based on hundreds of interviews with friends, family, and lovers over... |
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Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism
Jenn M. Jackson - Random House Format: Hardcover
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A reclamation of essential history and a hopeful gesture toward a better political future, this is what listening to Black women looks like - from a professor of political science and columnist for Teen Vogue.. This is my offering. My love letter to them, and to us.. Jenn M. Jackson, PhD,... |
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The Watchdog: How the Truman Committee Battled Corruption and Helped Win World War Two
Steve Drummond - Hanover Square Press Format: Hardcover
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The story of how a little-known junior senator fought wartime corruption and, in the process, set himself up to become vice president and ultimately President Harry Truman.. Months before Pearl Harbor, Franklin D. Roosevelt knew that the United States was on the verge of entering another... |
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Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future
Chun Han Wong - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover
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From one of the most admired reporters covering China today, a vital new account of the life and political vision of Xi Jinping, the authoritarian leader of the People's Republic whose hard-edged tactics have set the rising superpower on a collision with Western liberal democracies..... |
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The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy
Joe Sexton - Scribner Format: Hardcover
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From the award-winning journalist Bob Woodward calls "one of the truly great reporters working today," a searing, no-holds-barred account of two linked and tragic deaths stemming from the 2020 George Floyd protests that explores the complex political and racial mistrust and division... |
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Love Across Borders: Passports, Papers, and Romance in a Divided World
Anna Lekas Miller - Algonquin Books Format: Hardcover
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One of The Boston Globe's Best Books of 2023 * "Powerful and unforgettable" - Qian Julie Wang, author of the New York Times bestseller, Beautiful Country. We are told that love conquers all, but what happens when you don't have the right passport? With deep empathy, rigorous... |
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How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement
Fredrik deBoer - Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening exploration of American policy reform, or lack thereof, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement and how the country can do better in the future.. In 2020, while the Covid-19 pandemic raged, the United States was hit by a ripple of political... |
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The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
Serhii Plokhy - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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An authoritative history of Europe's largest military conflict since World War II, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Gates of Europe.Despite repeated warnings from the White House, Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. Why did Putin start... |
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