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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
Anthony Ray Hinton · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit.In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only twenty-nine... |
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No place to hide : Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. surveillance state
Glenn Greenwald · Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt
Pages: 259
Format: Print book
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Investigative reporter Glenn Greenwald provides an in-depth look into the National Security Agency scandal that has triggered a national debate over national security and information privacy. With further revelations from documents entrusted to Glenn Greenwald by Edward Snowden himself,... |
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The Thunder Before the Storm: The Autobiography of Clyde Bellecourt
Clyde H Bellecourt · Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Clyde Bellecourt, co-founder of the American Indian Movement, provides an intimate narrative of his childhood on the White Earth Reservation, his long journey through the prison system, and the front lines of 1970's social activism, where he went to war against entrenched racism. He addresses... |
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Lenin on the Train
Catherine Merridale · Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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A gripping, meticulously researched account of Lenin's fateful 1917 rail journey from Zurich to Petrograd, where he ignited the Russian Revolution and forever changed the worldIn April 1917, as the Russian Tsar Nicholas II's abdication sent shockwaves across war-torn Europe, the future... |
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Richard Nixon: The Life
John A Farrell · Doubleday
Pages: 752
Format: Print book
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Brilliantly researched, authoritatively crafted by a prize-winning biographer, and lively on the page, this is the Nixon we've been waiting for. Richard Nixon opens with young Navy lieutenant "Nick" Nixon returning from the Pacific and setting his cap at Congress, an idealistic... |
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Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History
KATY TUR · Dey Street Books
Pages: 291
Format: Hardcover
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INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Compelling ... this book couldn't be more timely." - Jill Abramson, New York Times Book Review FROM THE RECIPIENT OF THE 2017 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in JournalismCalled "disgraceful," "third-rate," and "not nice"... |
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Whistleblower at the CIA: An Insider's Account of the Politics of Intelligence
Melvin A Goodman · City Lights Books
Pages: 300
Format: Print book
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"Mel Goodman has spent the last few decades telling us what's gone wrong with American intelligence and the American military . . . he is also telling us how to save ourselves."--Seymour M. Hersh, The New Yorker"Whistleblower at the CIA offers a fascinating glimpse into... |
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The Cold War: A World History
Odd Arne Westad · Basic Books
Pages: 720
Format: Hardcover
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From a Bancroft Prize-winning scholar, a new global history of the Cold War and its ongoing impact around the worldWe tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born out of the ashes of World War II and coming... |
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Love & War: Twenty Years, Three Presidents, Two Daughters and One Louisiana Home
James Carville · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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For twenty years, James Carville and Mary Matalin have held the mantle of the nation's most politically opposed, ideologically mismatched, and intensely opinionated couple. In this follow-up to their groundbreaking All's Fair: Love, War, and Running for President, Carville and Matalin... |
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Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail
Jonathan Chait · Custom House
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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"An unassailable case that, in the eyes of history, Barack Obama will be viewed as one of America's best and most accomplished presidents. Over the course of eight years, Barack Obama has amassed an array of outstanding achievements. His administration saved the American economy from... |
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Old School: Life in the Sane Lane
ANONYMOUS. · Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
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Old School is in session....You have probably heard the term Old School, but what you might not know is that there is a concentrated effort to tear that school down.It's a values thing. The anti-Old School forces believe the traditional way of looking at life is oppressive. Not inclusive.... |
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