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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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World Book
World Book, Inc. · World Book
Pages: 304
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"Examines the United States presidency and its historical importance. Includes biographical information about every U.S. president and information and photos of every first lady. Discusses the duties, privileges, and the broad power of the president, and examines the people who have... |
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The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
ELAINE F WEISS · Viking
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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The nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political battles in American history: the ratification of the constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote. "Anyone interested in the history of our country's ongoing fight to put its founding values into practice--as... |
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Upside Down: How the Left Turned Right into Wrong, Truth into Lies, and Good into Bad
Mark Davis · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Fossil fuels are bad. Illegal immigration is necessary for the economy. Free markets are arbitrary and cruel. Christians are intolerant. Men and women are exactly the same.The dogma preached by the far left has gone mainstream and the results are frightening: Most of what you hear these... |
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A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
Masaji Ishikawa · AmazonCrossing
Pages: 172
Format: Hardcover
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The harrowing true story of one man's life in - and subsequent escape from - North Korea, one of the world's most brutal totalitarian regimes.Half-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa has spent his whole life feeling like a man without a country. This feeling only deepened when his family... |
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Hacked: The Inside Story of America's Struggle to Secure Cyberspace
Charlie Mitchell · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 260
Format: Print book
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The spectacular cyber attack on Sony Pictures and costly hacks to Sony, Target, Home Depot, Neiman Marcus, and databases containing sensitive data on millions of U.S. federal workers have shocked the nation. Despite a new urgency for the president, Congress, law enforcement, and corporate... |
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Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech
KEITH E WHITTINGTON · Princeton University Press
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
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Why free speech is the lifeblood of colleges and universitiesFree speech is under attack at colleges and universities today, with critics on and off campus challenging the value of open inquiry and freewheeling intellectual debate. Too often speakers are shouted down, professors are threatened,... |
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Contempt: A Memoir of the Clinton Investigation
KEN STARR · Sentinel
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Twenty years after the Starr Report and the Clinton impeachment, former special prosecutor Ken Starr finally shares his definitive account of one of the most divisive periods in American history.You could fill a library with books about the scandals of the Clinton administration, which... |
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In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History
MITCH LANDRIEU · Viking
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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"An extraordinarily powerful journey that is both political and personal...An important book for everyone in America to read." --Walter Isaacson,#1 New York Times bestselling author of Leonardo Da Vinci and Steve JobsThe New Orleans mayor who removed the Confederate statues confronts... |
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Social Security Handbook 2018: Overview of Social Security Programs
Social Security Administration · Bernan Press
Pages: 712
Format: Paperback
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The Social Security Handbook: Overview of Social Security Programs, 2018 provides information about Social Security programs and services, and identifies rights and obligations under the Social Security laws. The completely updated Handbook, organized by section number, is a readable, easy-to-understand... |
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The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
MASHA GESSEN · Riverhead Books
Pages: 515
Format: Hardcover
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WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTIONThe essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy. Hailed for her "fearless indictment of the most... |
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How Democracies Die
STEVE LEVITSKY · Crown
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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For readers of On Tyranny and Why Nations Fail, a bracing look at the demise of liberal democracies around the world - and a roadmap for rescuing our own. Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Harvard... |
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Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
YOSSI KLEIN HALEVI · Harper
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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Attempting to break the agonizing impasse between Israelis and Palestinians, the Israeli commentator and award-winning author of Like Dreamers directly addresses his Palestinian neighbors in this taut and provocative book, empathizing with Palestinian suffering and longing for reconciliation... |
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