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Handcuffed: What Holds Policing Back, and the Keys to Reform
Malcolm K Sparrow · Brookings Institution Press
Pages: 262
Format: Print book
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The current crisis in policing can be traced to failures of reform."Sparrow surely is right to condemn policing directed only at crime rates rather than community satisfaction." -The New York Times Book ReviewIn the past two years, America has witnessed incendiary milestones in the poor... |
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This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in
MORGAN JERKINS · Harper Perennial
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
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From one of the fiercest critics writing today, Morgan Jerkins' highly-anticipated collection of linked essays interweaves her incisive commentary on pop culture, feminism, black history, misogyny, and racism with her own experiences to confront the very real challenges of being a black... |
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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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Our Lost Constitution: The Willful Subversion of America's Founding Document
Mike Lee · Sentinel
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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The still-unfolding story of America's Constitution is a history of heroes and villains - the flawed visionaries who inspired and crafted liberty's safeguards, and the shortsighted opportunists who defied them. Those stories are known by few today.In Our Lost Constitution, Senator... |
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Searching for booker wright.
Yvette Johnson · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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In this moving memoir, Yvette Johnson travels to Mississippi to uncover the true story of her grandfather and why he was murdered - a case that became the basis for the documentary Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story, which the Los Angeles Times called "a powerful personal portrait.""Have... |
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President Carter: The White House Years
Stuart Eizenstat · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 1024
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive history of the Carter Administration from the man who participated in its surprising number of accomplishments -- drawing on his extensive and never-before-seen notes.Stuart Eizenstat was at Jimmy Carter's side from his political rise in Georgia through four years in the White... |
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Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America
Peter Edelman · The New Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In addition to exposing racially biased policing, the Justice Department's Ferguson Report exposed to the world a system of fines and fees levied for minor crimes in Ferguson, Missouri, that, when they proved too expensive for Ferguson's largely poor, African American population, resulted... |
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How the Poor Can Save Capitalism: Rebuilding the Path to the Middle Class
John Hope Bryant · Berrett-Koehler Publishers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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John Hope Bryant, successful self-made businessman and founder of the nonprofit Operation HOPE, says business and political leaders are ignoring the one force that could truly re-energize the stalled American economy the poor. If we give poor communities the right tools, policies, and inspiration,... |
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The Burr Conspiracy: Uncovering the Story of an Early American Crisis
James E Lewis · Princeton University Press
Pages: 728
Format: Hardcover
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A multifaceted portrait of the early American republic as seen through the lens of the Burr ConspiracyIn 1805 and 1806, Aaron Burr, former vice president of the newly formed American republic, traveled through the Trans-Appalachian West gathering support for a mysterious enterprise, for which... |
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America: Imagine a World without Her
Dinesh D'Souza · Regnery Publishing, a Salem Communications Company, New York, NY
Pages: 289
Format: Print book
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#1 New York Times BestsellerIs America a source of pride, as Americans have long held, or shame, as Progressives allege? Beneath an innocent exterior, are our lives complicit in a national project of theft, expropriation, oppression, and murder, or is America still the hope of the world?Dinesh... |
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They Came for Freedom: The Forgotten, Epic Adventure of the Pilgrims
Jay Milbrandt · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A page-turning story of the Pilgrims, the courageous band of freedom-seekers who set out for a new life for themselves and forever changed the course of history.Once a year at Thanksgiving, we encounter Pilgrims as folksy people in funny hats before promptly forgetting them. In the centuries... |
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Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency
David Greenberg · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 540
Format: Print book
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The most powerful political tool of the modern presidency is control of the message and the image.In Republic of Spin -- a vibrant history covering more than one hundred years of politics -- presidential historian David Greenberg recounts the rise of the White House spin machine, from Teddy... |
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Bad Girls from History: Wicked or Misunderstood?
DEE GORDON · Pen and Sword
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
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You won't be familiar with every one of the huge array of women featured in these pages, but all, familiar or not, leave unanswered questions behind them. The range is extensive, as was the research, with its insight into the lives and minds of women in different centuries, different... |
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Scalia Speaks: Reflections on Law, Faith, and Life Well Lived
ANTONIN SCALIA CHRISTOPHER SCALIA · Crown Forum
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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This definitive collection of beloved Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's finest speeches covers topics as varied as the law, faith, virtue, pastimes, and his heroes and friends. Featuring a foreword by longtime friend Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and an intimate introduction by his youngest... |
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