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Untitled on HRC
Jonathan Allen · Crown
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIt was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the riveting story of a sure thing gone off the rails. For every Comey revelation or hindsight acknowledgment about the electorate,... |
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Separate and Unequal: The Kerner Commission and the Unraveling of American Liberalism
Steven M Gillon · Basic Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive history of the Kerner Commission, whose report on urban unrest reshaped American debates about race and inequalityIn Separate and Unequal, historian Steven M. Gillon offers a revelatory new history of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders--popularly known as the Kerner... |
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American Dialogue: The Founding Fathers and Us
Joseph J Ellis · Knopf
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The award-winning author of Founding Brothers and The Quartet now gives us a deeply insightful examination of the relevance of the views of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John Adams to some of the most divisive issues in America today.The story of history is a ceaseless... |
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What Happened
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 494
Format: Hardcover
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"In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I've often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without a net. Now I'm letting my guard down." - Hillary Rodham Clinton, from the introduction of What HappenedFor the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals... |
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Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America
ALISSA QUART · Ecco
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Squeezed weaves together intimate reporting with sharp and lively critique to show how the high cost of parenthood and our increasingly unstable job market have imploded the middle-class American Dream for many families, and offers surprising solutions for how we might change thingsFamilies... |
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The China Mission: George Marshall's Unfinished War, 1945-1947
DANIEL KURTZ-PHELAN · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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A spellbinding narrative of the high-stakes mission that changed the course of America, China, and global politics -- and a rich portrait of the towering, complex figure who carried it out.As World War II came to an end, General George Marshall was renowned as the architect of Allied victory.... |
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Age of Anger: A History of the Present
Pankaj Mishra · Farrar
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisisHow can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world - from American 'shooters' and ISIS to Trump, from a rise in vengeful... |
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A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
JEANNE THEOHARIS · Beacon Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Explodes the fables that have been created about the civil rights movementThe civil rights movement has become national legend, lauded by presidents from Reagan to Obama to Trump, as proof of the power of American democracy. This fable, featuring dreamy heroes and accidental heroines, has shuttered... |
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The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
MAX BOOT · Liveright
Pages: 784
Format: Hardcover
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In chronicling the adventurous life of legendary CIA operative Edward Lansdale, The Road Not Taken definitively reframes our understanding of the Vietnam War. In this epic biography of Edward Lansdale (1908- 1987) , the man said to be the fictional model for Graham Greene's The Quiet... |
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Congressional Directory, 2017-2018, 115th Congress
JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING. · Bernan Press
Pages: 1260
Format: Paperback
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The official Congressional Directory, published by the United States Congress, is the official source for making the right connections to members of Congress, their key staff, and important contacts throughout the federal government. This authoritative and comprehensive reference source,... |
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