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The United States Government Manual
Office of the Federal Register · National Archives & Records Administration Format: Print book
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Comprehensive information on the legislative, judicial, and executive branches, list of officials heading major operating units, history of each agency and a description of its programs and activities, agency organization charts, list defining commonly used federal abbreviations and acronyms,... |
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The Wealth of a Nation: A History of Trade Politics in America
Don Johnson · Oxford University Press Pages: 664 Format: Hardcover
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The United States is entering a period of profound uncertainty in the world political economy--an uncertainty which is threatening the liberal economic order that its own statesmen created at the end of the Second World War. The storm surrounding this threat has been ignited by an issue... |
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Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom
Condoleezza Rice · Twelve Pages: 496 Format: Hardcover
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p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial} From the former secretary of state and bestselling author -- a sweeping look at the global struggle for democracy and why America must continue to support the cause of human freedom.From the end of the Cold War and the collapse... |
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The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
ELAINE F WEISS · Viking Pages: 416 Format: Hardcover
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The nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political battles in American history: the ratification of the constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote. "Anyone interested in the history of our country's ongoing fight to put its founding values into practice--as... |
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Grass Roots: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America
Emily Dufton · Basic Books Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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How earnest hippies, frightened parents, suffering patients, and other ordinary Americans went to war over marijuanaIn the last five years, eight states have legalized recreational marijuana. To many, continued progress seems certain. But pot was on a similar trajectory forty years ago,... |
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We Were Eight Years in Power: A Journey Through the Obama Era
TA-NEHISI COATES · One World Pages: 400 Format: Hardcover
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In these "urgently relevant essays,"* the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me "reflects on race, Barack Obama's presidency and its jarring aftermath"* - including the election of Donald Trump."We were eight years in power" was the lament... |
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Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution
Laurie Penny · Bloomsbury USA Format: Book
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Smart, clear-eyed, and irreverent, Unspeakable Things is a fresh look at gender and power in the twenty-first century, which asks difficult questions about dissent and desire, money and masculinity, sexual violence, menial work, mental health, queer politics, and the Internet.Celebrated... |
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Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency
ANONYMOUS. · Penguin Press Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump - the key to understanding the rise of the alt-right, the fall of Hillary Clinton, and the hidden forces that drove the greatest upset in American... |
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Clean House: Exposing Our Government's Secrets and Lies
Tom Fitton · Simon & Schuster Pages: 288 Format: Print book
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Corruption Chronicles comes a devastating expose of the scandals of Obama's second term. Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton reveals what the largest watchdog agency in America has uncovered in its battles against Obama secrecy.Clean House... |
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Republican Like Me: How I Left the Liberal Bubble and Learned to Love the Right
KENNETH STERN · Harper Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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Widening the dialogue begun with Strangers in Their Own Land and Hillbilly Elegy, a former NPR CEO and lifelong Democrat's chronicle of his immersion in Republicanism to understand his fellow Americans across the political divide.Ken Stern doesn't believe that our political world... |
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Stolen Girls: Survivors of Boko Haram Tell Their Story
Wolfgang Bauer · The New Press Pages: 192 Format: Print book
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One night in April 2014, members of the terrorist organization Boko Haram raided the small town of Chibok in northeast Nigeria and abducted 276 young girls from the local boarding school. The event caused massive, international outrage. Using the hashtag "Bring Back Our Girls,"... |
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Closing the Courthouse Door: How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable
Erwin Chemerinsky · Yale University Press Pages: 280 Format: Print book
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A leading legal scholar explores how the constitutional right to seek justice has been restricted by the Supreme Court The Supreme Court's decisions on constitutional rights are well known and much talked about. But individuals who want to defend those rights need something else as well:... |
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