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Killing the Messenger: The Right-Wing Plot to Derail Hillary and Hijack Your Government

David Brock · Twelve
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNew York Times bestselling author and founder of Media Matters, David Brock takes readers on his daring and eye-opening odyssey through the maze of political trenches.
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Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling

AMY CHOZICK · Harper
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

For a decade, award-winning New York Times journalist Amy Chozick chronicled Hillary Clinton's pursuit of the presidency. Chozick's front-row seat, initially covering Clinton's imploding 2008 campaign, and then her assignment to "The Hillary Beat" ahead of the 2016 election, took...
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Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found

GILBERT KING · Riverhead Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Devil in the Grove, a gripping story of sex, race, class, corruption, and the arc of justice twisted and bent straight again in the Florida citrus groves.A small town. A big secret.In December 1957, the wife of a Florida citrus baron...
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Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream

Joshua Davis · FSG Originals
Format: Hardcover

Four undocumented Mexican American students, two great teachers, one robot-building contest . . . and a major motion pictureIn 2004, four Latino teenagers arrived at the Marine Advanced Technology Education Robotics Competition at the University of California, Santa Barbara. They were born...
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Billionaire at the Barricades: The Populists vs. The Establishment from Reagan to Trump

ANONYMOUS. · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Americans didn't just go to the polls in 2016. They joined a movement that swept the unlikeliest of candidates, Donald Trump, into the Oval Office. Can he complete his agenda? Or will his opponents in the media, protestor class, and political establishment block his efforts and choke off the movement...
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The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001–2014

Carlotta Gall · Mariner Books; Reprint edition
Format: Book

“An enthralling and largely firsthand account of the war in Afghanistan.”—Financial Times   Few reporters know as much about Afghanistan as Carlotta Gall. She was there in the 1990s after the Russians were driven out. She witnessed the early flourishing of radical...
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God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy

Mike Huckabee · St. Martin's Press
Format: Kindle Edition

The New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestseller from a presidential candidate for the 2016 election!In God, Guns, Grits and Gravy, Mike Huckabee asks, Have I been taken to a different planet than the one on which I grew up? The New York Times bestselling...
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Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide

Joy-Ann Reid · William Morrow
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Barack Obama's speech on the Edmund Pettus Bridge to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery marches should have represented the culmination of Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of racial unity. Yet, in Fracture, MSNBC national correspondent Joy-Ann Reid shows that,...
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On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller

Richard Norton Smith · Random House
Format: Hardcover

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE BOSTON GLOBE AND KIRKUS REVIEWSFrom acclaimed historian Richard Norton Smith comes the definitive life of an American icon Nelson Rockefeller—one of the most complex and compelling figures of the twentieth century.   Fourteen years in the making,...
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Trump / Russia: The Corruption of a Dealmaker and the Takeover of the White House

SETH HETTENA · Melville House
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In the model of David Cay Johnston's MAKING OF DONALD TRUMP, a shocking examination by an acclaimed investigative journalist of the history of collusion between Russia and the President of the United States.Is Donald Trump the most corrupt president in American history? A celebrated investigative...
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The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s

William I Hitchcock · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 672
Format: Hardcover

An original and penetrating assessment of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, showing Ike's enormous influence on modern America, the Cold War, and on the presidency itself.In a 2017 survey, presidential historians ranked Dwight D. Eisenhower fifth on the list of great presidents, behind the perennial...
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Israel: Is It Good for the Jews?

Richard Cohen · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A very personal journey through Jewish history (and Cohen's own), and a passionate defense of Israel's legitimacy.Richard Cohen's book is part reportage, part memoir - an intimate journey through the history of Europe's Jews, culminating in the establishment of Israel. A veteran,...
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No Refuge for Women: The Tragic Fate of Syrian Refugees

MARIA VON WELSER · Greystone Books
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

An exposé of the hidden suffering that over half of Syria's refugees endure and the conflicts they continue to flee.No refuge: this is the harsh reality encountered by the women and children who flee Syria in search of safety. When boatloads of Syrian refugees began arriving on European...
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