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Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing that Changed the Course of Civil Rights

Doug Jones · All Points Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The story of the decades-long fight to bring justice to the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, culminating in Sen. Doug Jones' prosecution of the last living bombers. On September 15, 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed. The blast killed...
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Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016

Steve Coll · Penguin Press
Pages: 784
Format: Hardcover

Resuming the narrative of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars, bestselling author Steve Coll tells for the first time the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11Prior...
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Black Looks: Race and Representation

bell Hooks · Routledge
Pages: 212
Format: Paperback

In the critical essays collected in Black Looks, bell hooks interrogates old narratives and argues for alternative ways to look at blackness, black subjectivity, and whiteness. Her focus is on spectatorship -- in particular, the way blackness and black people are experienced in literature,...
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The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age

JAMES CRABTREE · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

A colorful and revealing portrait of the rise of India's new billionaire class in a radically unequal society India is the world's largest democracy, with more than one billion people and an economy expanding faster than China's. But the rewards of this growth have been far from evenly...
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Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

MICHAEL WOLFF · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

With extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside storyof the most controversial presidency of our timeThe first nine months of Donald Trump's term were stormy, outrageous -- and absolutely mesmerizing. Now, thanks to his deep access to the West Wing, bestselling...
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In the Arena: Good Citizens, a Great Republic, and How One Speech Can Reinvigorate America

Pete Hegseth · Threshold Editions
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A vigorous call-to-arms to reignite American citizenship at home and restore American power abroad, using the timeless truths of Teddy Roosevelt's iconic "Man in the Arena" speech, by the Fox News contributor and decorated Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran.Pete Hegseth makes...
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The New American Revolution: The Making of a Populist Movement

KAYLEIGH MCENANY · Threshold Editions
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Hillbilly Elegy comes an exploration of the American heartland - a fascinating and eye-opening collection of interviews and stories about the powerful grassroots populist movement of frustrated Americans left behind by the government that changed the landscape...
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Unholy Alliance: Iran, Russia, and Jihadists' Agenda for Conquering the World

Jay Sekulow · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling author of Rise of ISIS exposes the dangers of radical Islam and the effects it has on the American way of life in this informative and eye-opening new book.The fundamental principle of our system of government is individual liberty. Our forefathers chose to bequeath...
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American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures

TO BE CONFIRMED. · Gallery Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From award-winning actress and political activist America Ferrera comes a vibrant and varied collection of first person accounts from prominent figures about the experience of growing up between cultures.America Ferrera has always felt wholly American, and yet, her identity is inextricably...
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Failures of Imagination: The Deadliest Threats to Our Homeland--and How to Thwart Them

Michael Mccaul · Crown, 2016.
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

From the Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee, a gripping look at the most dangerous and unexpected threats to our national security - and the actions needed to protect us. America's inability to foresee the September 11, 2001 attacks was deemed...
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The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations

John McCain · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A candid new political memoir from Senator John McCain - his most personal book in years - covering everything from 2008 up to the present.In a time when Washington, DC and the country is more polarized than it has been for decades, John McCain is the rare public figure who has earned the respect...
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The Gutfeld Monologues: Classic Rants from the Five

GREG GUTFELD · Threshold Editions
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

An interactive and annotated collection of Fox News star and New York Times bestselling author Greg Gutfeld's sharp, hilarious monologues on everything from politics to pop culture - updated with new commentary for the current day."Wherever I go, I am hit repeatedly by the same question:...
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Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty

Dan Jones · Viking
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

"Dan Jones has an enviable gift for telling a dramatic story while at the same time inviting us to consider serious topics like liberty and the seeds of representative government." - Antonia FraserFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Plantagenets, a lively, action-packed...
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The Harding Affair: Love and Espionage during the Great War

James David Robenalt · Palgrave Macmillan Trade; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Warren Harding fell in love with his beautiful neighbor, Carrie Phillips, in the summer of 1905, almost a decade before he was elected a United States Senator and fifteen years before he became the 29th President of the United States.  When the two lovers started their long-term...
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Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David

Lawrence Wright · Knopf; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARA gripping day-by-day account of the 1978 Camp David conference, when President Jimmy Carter persuaded Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat to sign the first peace treaty in the modern Middle...
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