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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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Leadership in Turbulent Times
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration of the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership.Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does... |
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The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
Brad Meltzer · Flatiron Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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Taking place during the most critical period of our nation's birth, The First Conspiracy tells a remarkable and previously untold piece of American history that not only reveals George Washington's character, but also illuminates the origins of America's counterintelligence movement that... |
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Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
Eric Foner · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom.More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of Americas history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prizewinning... |
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Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
Angela Davis · Haymarket Books, 2015.
Pages: 180
Format: Print book
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In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world.Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality,... |
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Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Arlie Russell Hochschild · New Press
Pages: 351
Format: Print book
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2016 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR NONFICTIONA 2016 NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF 2016One of "6 Books to Understand Trump's Win" according to the New York Times the day after the election"This is a smart, respectful and compelling... |
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Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World
Eileen McNamara · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines the life and times of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, arguing she left behind the Kennedy family's most profound political legacy.While Joe Kennedy was grooming his sons for the White House and the Senate, his Stanford-educated daughter Eunice was tapping... |
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The Death of Truth
MICHIKO KAKUTANI · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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A stirring and incisive manifesto on America's slide away from truth and reason. Over the last three decades, Michiko Kakutani has been thinking and writing about the demise of objective truth in popular culture, academia, and contemporary politics. In The Death of Truth, she connects... |
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Sacred Liberty: America's Long, Bloody, and Ongoing Struggle for Religious Freedom
Steven Waldman · HarperOne
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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Sacred Liberty offers a dramatic, sweeping survey of how America built a unique model of religious freedom, perhaps the nation's "greatest invention." Steven Waldman, the bestselling author of Founding Faith, shows how early ideas about religious liberty were tested and refined... |
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Reckless: Henry Kissinger's Responsibility for the Tragedy in Vietnam
ROBERT K BRIGHAM · PublicAffairs
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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This disturbing new account of Henry Kissinger's Vietnam years shows a blundering, self-serving man who led America to tragedy and Vietnam to waste in an unnecessarily dragged-out, ill-conceived war. The American war in Vietnam was concluded in 1973 under the terms of a truce that were... |
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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 Truths We Hold: An American Journey
KAMALA HARRIS · Penguin Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across the life of our country.Senator Kamala Harris's commitment to speaking truth... |
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Operation Whisper: The Capture of Soviet Spies Morris and Lona Cohen
Barnes Carr · Foreedge
Pages: 338
Format: Print book
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Meet Morris and Lona Cohen, an ordinary-seeming couple living on a teacher's salary in a nondescript building on the East Side of New York City. On a hot afternoon in the autumn of 1950, a trusted colleague knocked at their door, held up a finger for silence, then began scribbling a note:... |
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