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The Zelensky Effect (New Perspectives on Eastern Europe and Eurasia)

Olga Onuch - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

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.'...
 
 
Jackie: Public, Private, Secret

J. Randy Taraborrelli - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

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...
 
 
Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy

Brian Stelter - Atria/One Signal Publishers
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author ofHoax - "[a] rare look inside the profoundly influential" (The New Republic) Fox News - returns with an even more explosive account of the network's blatant attempts to manipulate the truth, mislead the public, and influence our elections.....
 
 
Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism

Jenn M. Jackson - Random House
Format: Hardcover

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,...
 
 
The Watchdog: How the Truman Committee Battled Corruption and Helped Win World War Two

Steve Drummond - Hanover Square Press
Format: Hardcover

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...
 
 
Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future

Chun Han Wong - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

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.....
 
 
The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy

Joe Sexton - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

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...
 
 
Love Across Borders: Passports, Papers, and Romance in a Divided World

Anna Lekas Miller - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

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...
 
 
How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement

Fredrik deBoer - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

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...
 
 
The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

Serhii Plokhy - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

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...