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Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World
Suzy Hansen · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Suzy Hansen left her country and moved to Istanbul and discovered AmericaIn the wake of the September 11 attacks and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Suzy Hansen, who grew up in an insular conservative town in New Jersey, was enjoying early success as a journalist for a high-profile New York... |
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Chosen Country: A Rebellion in the West
James Pogue · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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An extraordinary inside look at America's militia movement that shows a country at the crossroads of class, culture, and insurrection.In a remote corner of Oregon, James Pogue found himself at the heart of a rebellion. Granted unmatched access by Ammon Bundy to the armed occupation... |
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Young Radicals: In the War for American Ideals
JEREMY MCCARTER · Random House
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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From the co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Hamilton: The Revolution, a stunning group portrait of five American radicals fighting for their ideals as the country goes mad around them Where do we find our ideals? What does it mean to live for them - and to risk dying for them?... |
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A Brotherhood of Spies: The U-2 and the CIA's Secret War
Monte Reel · Doubleday
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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A thrilling dramatic narrative of the top-secret Cold War-era spy plane operation that transformed the CIA and brought the U.S. and the Soviet Union to the brink of disasterOn May 1, 1960, an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union just weeks before a peace summit between... |
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The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life
LAUREN MARKHAM · Crown
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California - fighting to survive, to stay, and to belong.Growing up in rural El Salvador in the wake of the civil war, Ernesto Flores had always had a fascination with the United... |
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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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Policing Black Bodies: How Black Lives Are Surveilled and How to Work for Change
Angela Hattery · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 284
Format: Hardcover
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Policing Black Bodies Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith make a compelling case that the policing of Black bodies goes far beyond these individual stories of brutality. They connect the regulation of African American people in many settings, including the public education system and the criminal... |
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A Sovereign People: The Crises of the 1790s and the Birth of American Nationalism
Carol Berkin · Basic Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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Today the United States is the dominant power in world affairs, and that status seems assured. Yet in the decade following the ratification of the Constitution, the republic's existence was contingent and fragile, challenged by domestic rebellions, foreign interference, and the always-present... |
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Washington's Farewell: The Founding Father's Warning to Future Generations
John P Avlon · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 354
Format: Print book
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"A vivid portrait ... A thoughtful consideration of Washington's wisdom that couldn't be timelier." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) George Washington's Farewell Address was a prophetic letter from a "parting friend" to his fellow citizens about the forces he feared... |
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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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Encyclopedia of American Civil Rights and Liberties
Kara Elizabeth Stooksbury · ABC-CLIO
Pages: 1277
Format: Hardcover
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Thoroughly updated and featuring 75 new entries, this monumental four-volume work illuminates past and present events associated with civil rights and civil liberties in the United States.* Offers 686 alphabetically arranged entries, ranging from thoroughly updated entries from the first... |
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Ship of Fate: Memoir of a Vietnamese Repatriate
TR? NH TR?N · University of Hawaii Press
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
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Ship of Fate tells the emotionally gripping story of a Vietnamese military officer who evacuated from Saigon in 1975 but made the dramatic decision to return to Vietnam for his wife and children, rather than resettle in the United States without them. Written in Vietnamese in the years... |
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How the Police Generate False Confessions: An Inside Look at the Interrogation Room
James L. Trainum · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 328
Format: Print book
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Despite the rising number of confirmed false confession cases, most people have a hard time grasping why someone would confess to a crime they did not commit, or even why a guilty person would admit to something that could put them in jail for life. How the Police Generate False Confessions... |
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