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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 Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
Anna Clark · Metropolitan Books Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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The first full account of the Flint, Michigan, water scandal, an American tragedy, with new details, from Anna Clark, the award-winning Michigan journalist who has covered the story from its beginningsWhen the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring... |
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Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence
James R. Clapper · Penguin Audio Format: Audiobook
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The former Director of National Intelligence speaks outWhen he stepped down in January 2017 as the fourth United States Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper had been President Obama's senior intelligence advisor for six and a half years, longer than his three predecessors combined.... |
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Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power
Luis M Botana · Knopf Pages: 480 Format: Hardcover
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The three dazzlingly beautiful, wildly rich Wyndham sisters, part of the four hundred families that made up Britain's ruling class, at the center of cultural and political life in late-Victorian/Edwardian Britain. Here are their complex, idiosyncratic lives; their opulent, privileged world;... |
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The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
JON MEACHAM · Random House Pages: 432 Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear. Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America Meacham shows... |
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The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke
ANDREW LAWLER · Doubleday Pages: 448 Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping account of America's oldest unsolved mystery, the people racing to unearth its answer, and what the Lost Colony reveals about America todayIn 1587, 115 men, women, and children arrived at Roanoke Island on the coast of North Carolina to establish the first English settlement... |
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Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case that Propelled Him to the Presidency
Dan Abrams · Hanover Square Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover
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The true story of Abraham Lincoln's last murder trial, a strange case in which he had a deep personal involvement - and which was played out in the nation's newspapers as he began his presidential campaign.At the end of the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison went... |
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Bones of My Grandfather: Reclaiming a Lost Hero of WWII
CLAY BONNYMAN EVANS CLAY BONNYMAN EVANS · Skyhorse Publishing Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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In November 1943, Marine 1st Lt. Alexander Bonnyman, Jr. was mortally wounded while leading a successful assault on a critical Japanese fortification on the Pacific atoll of Tarawa, and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military honor. The brutal, bloody... |
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Born Trump: Inside America's First Family
EMILY JANE FOX · Harper Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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As a writer at Vanity Fair covering the Trump family, Emily Jane Fox has spent the last year doing a deep dive into the lives of the President's children. She's developed a personal relationship with Ivanka and has cultivated sources close to Eric, Donald Jr., and Tiffany. She has scoured... |
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Trump's America: The Truth about Our Nation's Great Comeback
Newt Gingrich · Center Street Pages: 240 Format: Hardcover
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No one understands the Make America Great Again effort with more insight and more experience than former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. Gingrich helped President Ronald Reagan "Make America Great Again" in 1980. He authored the Contract with America and spearheaded the 1994... |
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Murder Capital: Madison Wisconsin -The Mafia Under Siege
GAVIN SCHMITT · Barricade Books Pages: 266 Format: Paperback
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Murder Capital explores Prohibition-era Madison, Wisconsin. Per capita, Madison was the most violent and deadly city in the United States during the 1920s. Along with the usual suspects (bootleggers) , Madison was unique in its strong Ku Klux Klan presence. In the background was a prominent... |
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Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire
BRET BAIER · William Morrow Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover
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The #1 bestselling author of Three Days in January and Anchor of the #1 rated Special Report with Bret Baier on Fox News Channel reveals as never before President Ronald Reagan's battle to end the Cold War, framed around the historic, three-day 1988 Moscow Summit.In his acclaimed #1 national... |
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