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Heavy: An American Memoir
Kiese Laymon · Scribner
Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies, and deception does to a black body, a black family, and a nation teetering on the brink of moral collapse.
Kiese Laymon is a fearless... |
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Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution
Amber Tamblyn · Crown Archetype
Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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A passionate and deeply personal exploration of feminism during divisive times by actor, filmmaker, and activist Amber Tamblyn
In her late twenties, Amber Tamblyn experienced a crisis of character while trying to break out of the confines of the acting career she'd forged as a child... |
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The Bill of Rights: A User's Guide
Linda R Monk · Hachette Books
Pages: 288 Format: Paperback
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With a foreword by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court.An Engaging, Accessible Guide to the Bill of Rights for Everyday Citizens.In The Bill of Rights: A User's Guide, award-winning author and constitutional scholar Linda R. Monk explores the remarkable history of the Bill... |
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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 Jobs
The New Orleans mayor who removed... |
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Trump vs China: America's Greatest Challenge
Newt Gingrich · Center Street
Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover
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Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich sounds the warning bell that China poses the biggest threat to the United States. Every American needs to understand the threat to America's safety and prosperity posed by China's reemergence as a world power. Unlike our other economic and military... |
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One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps
ANDREA PITZER · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 480 Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking, haunting, and profoundly moving history of modernity's greatest tragedy: concentration camps
For over 100 years, at least one concentration camp has existed somewhere on Earth. First used as battlefield strategy, camps have evolved with each passing decade, in the scope... |
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Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics
Lawrence O'Donnell · Penguin Press
Pages: 496 Format: Hardcover
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From the host of MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, an important and enthralling new account of the presidential election that changed everything, the race that created American politics as we know it today
The 1968 U.S. Presidential election was the young Lawrence... |
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Open Season: The Systemic Legalization of Discrimination
BENJAMIN CRUMP · Amistad
Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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Foreword by Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowAfterword by Eric Holder, former U.S. Attorney GeneralThe president of the National Bar Association and one of the most distinguished civil rights attorneys working today reflects on the landmark cases he has battled - including... |
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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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The Theft of a Decade: How the Baby Boomers Stole the Millennials' Economic Future
Joseph C. Sternberg · PublicAffairs
Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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A Wall Street Journal columnist delivers a brilliant narrative of the mugging of the millennial generation-- how the Baby Boomers have stolen the millennials' future in order to ensure themselves a comfortable presentThe Theft of a Decade is a contrarian, revelatory analysis of how one generation... |
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The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s
William I Hitchcock · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 672 Format: Hardcover
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An original and penetrating assessment of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, showing Ike's enormous influence on modern America, the Cold War, and on the presidency itself.
In a 2017 survey, presidential historians ranked Dwight D. Eisenhower fifth on the list of great presidents, behind... |
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Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World
Timothy Garton Ash · Yale University Press
Pages: 504 Format: Print book
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Never in human history was there such a chance for freedom of expression. If we have Internet access, any one of us can publish almost anything we like and potentially reach an audience of millions. Never was there a time when the evils of unlimited speech flowed so easily across frontiers:... |
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