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The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
Chris Whipple · Crown Pages: 384 Format: Hardcover
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The first in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the White House Chiefs of Staff, whose actions - and inactions - have defined the course of our country. What do Dick Cheney and Rahm Emanuel have in common? Aside from polarizing personalities, both served as chief of staff to the president... |
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Progressive Racism
David Horowitz · Encounter Books Pages: 320 Format: Print book
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Progressive Racism is about the transformation of the civil rights movement from a cause opposing racism - the denigration of individuals on the basis of their skin color - into a movement endorsing race preferences and privileges for select groups based on their skin color. It describes... |
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No place to hide : Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. surveillance state
Glenn Greenwald · Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt Pages: 259 Format: Print book
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Investigative reporter Glenn Greenwald provides an in-depth look into the National Security Agency scandal that has triggered a national debate over national security and information privacy. With further revelations from documents entrusted to Glenn Greenwald by Edward Snowden himself,... |
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Wolf Whistle Politics: The New Misogyny in America Today
Naomi Wolf · The New Press Pages: 192 Format: Paperback
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The 2016 election year may be remembered as a year to forget, but for American women in politics and feminists alike it was unforgettably distressing -- a flash point illuminating both the true state of play for women in public life and feminist politics in the early twenty-first century.... |
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October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
CHINA MIEVILLE · Verso Pages: 384 Format: Hardcover
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Acclaimed fantasy author China Miéville plunges us into the year the world was turned upside downThe renowned fantasy and science fiction writer China Miéville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution and here, on the centenary of the revolution, he provides... |
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Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto
Matt Kibbe · HarperCollins Publishers Pages: 262 Format: Hardcover
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In this essential manifesto of the new libertarian movement, New York Times bestselling author and president of FreedomWorks Matt Kibbe makes a stand for individual liberty and shows us what we must do to preserve our freedom.Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff is a rational... |
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The Hybrid Tiger: Secrets of the Extraordinary Success of Asian-American Kids
Quanyu Huang · Prometheus Books, Publishers Pages: 264 Format: Paperback
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Why do Asian and Asian-American students consistently perform so well on standardized tests? Why are students of Asian descent disproportionately admitted to America's top colleges? This informative and entertainingly written comparison of educational methods in America and China answers... |
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The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
Matt Taibbi · Random House Pages: 416 Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, AND KIRKUS REVIEWSA scathing portrait of an urgent new American crisis Over the last two decades, America has been falling deeper and deeper into a statistical mystery: Poverty goes up. Crime... |
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Clean House: Exposing Our Government's Secrets and Lies
Tom Fitton · Simon & Schuster Pages: 288 Format: Print book
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Corruption Chronicles comes a devastating expose of the scandals of Obama's second term. Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton reveals what the largest watchdog agency in America has uncovered in its battles against Obama secrecy.Clean House... |
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Called to Rise
DAVID O BROWN · Ballantine Books Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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The Dallas police chief who inspired a nation with his compassionate, community-focused response to the killing of five of his officers shares his uplifting personal story and a blueprint for the future of policing. |
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Poetry and Power: John F. Kennedy's Vision for America
STEPHEN KENNEDY SMITH · Harper Pages: 493 Format: Hardcover
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Published in commemoration of the centennial of President John F. Kennedy's birth, here is the definitive compendium of JFK's most important and brilliant speeches, accompanied by commentary and reflections by leading American and international figures - including Senator Elizabeth Warren,... |
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I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad
Souad Mekhennet · Henry Holt and Co. Pages: 368 Format: Print book
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The journalist who broke the "Jihadi John" story draws on her personal experience to bridge the gap between the Muslim world and the West and explain the rise of Islamic radicalismSouad Mekhennet has lived her entire life between worlds. The daughter of a Turkish mother and a Moroccan... |
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