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Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America
Michael Eric Dyson · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Antiracist demonstrations have been like love notes to the martyrs of racist terror and anti-Blackness. Michael Eric Dyson writes out these love notes in this powerfully illuminating, heart-wrenching, and enlightening book. Long Time Coming is right on time." "Crushingly... |
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Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
Ty Seidule · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Ty Seidule grew up revering Robert E. Lee. From his southern childhood to his service in the U.S. Army, every part of his life reinforced the Lost Cause myth: that Lee was the greatest man who ever lived, and that the Confederates were underdogs who lost the Civil War with honor. Now, as a retired... |
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Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells
Michelle Duster · Atria/One Signal Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Ida B. Wells committed herself to the needs of those who did not have power. In the eyes of the FBI, this made her a "dangerous negro agitator." In the annals of history, it makes her an icon. Ida B. the Queen tells the awe-inspiring story of an inspirational woman who was often... |
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Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice
Ellen McGarrahan · Random House
Format: Hardcover
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In 1990, Ellen McGarrahan was a young reporter for the Miami Herald when she covered the execution of Jesse Tafero, a man convicted of murdering two police officers. When it later emerged that Tafero may have been innocent, McGarrahan was appalled by her unquestioning acceptance of the state's... |
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Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty
Maurice Chammah · Crown
Format: Hardcover
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Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American FamilyWINNER OF THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS WORK-IN-PROGRESS AWARDIn 1972, the United States Supreme Court made a surprising ruling: the country's death penalty system violated the Constitution. The backlash was swift, especially in Texas,... |
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The Crown in Crisis: Countdown to the Abdication
Alexander Larman · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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On December 10, 1936, King Edward VIII brought a great international drama to a close when he abdicated, renouncing the throne of the United Kingdom for himself and his heirs. The reason he gave when addressing his subjects was that he could not fulfill his duties without the woman he loved... |
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Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
Roy Richard Grinker · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A compassionate and captivating examination of evolving attitudes toward mental illness throughout history and the fight to end the stigma.For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody's Normal, anthropologist... |
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A Promised Land
Barack Obama · Crown
Format: Hardcover
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark... |
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