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Blood Profits: How American Consumers Unwittingly Fund Terrorists
VANESSA NEUMANN · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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International smuggling has exploded, deepening and accelerating the collaboration of transnational organized crime and terrorist groups. Attacks like the Charlie Hebdo and Bataclan shootings in Paris, the kidnappings and murders by Boko Haram in Nigeria, and the San Bernardino shooting... |
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The Chairman: The Rise and Betrayal of Jim Greer
Peter Golenbock · NewSouth Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Chairman, a Shakespearean tale of friendship and betrayal to rival Hamlet, is the harrowing story of Jim Greer, a man loyal to a fault to Florida governor Charlie Crist, his benefactor. From 2006 to 2010, Greer served as chairman of the Republican Party of Florida. In 2010, controversies... |
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Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear . . . and Why
Sady Doyle · Melville House
Pages: 297
Format: Print book
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She's everywhere once you start looking for her: the trainwreck. She's Britney Spears shaving her head, Whitney Houston saying, "crack is whack," and Amy Winehouse, dying in front of millions. But the trainwreck is also as old (and as meaningful) as feminism itself.... |
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The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past
Shaun Walker · Oxford University Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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In The Long Hangover, Shaun Walker provides a deeply reported, bottom-up explanation of Russia's resurgence under Putin. By cleverly exploiting the memory of the Soviet victory over fascism in World War II, Putin's regime has made ordinary Russians feel that their country is great again.Shaun... |
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Drain the Swamp: How Washington Corruption is Worse than You Think
Ken Buck · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 218
Format: Hardcover
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Lavish parties. Committee chairmanships for sale. Pay-to-play corruption. Backroom arm-twisting. Votes on major legislation going to the highest bidder. Welcome to Washington, D.C., the swamp that President Donald Trump was elected to drain.Congressman Ken Buck is blowing the whistle on the real-life... |
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Southern Reconstruction
Philip Leigh · Westholme Publishing
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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The Reconstruction Era the years immediately following the Civil War when Congress directed the reintegration of the former Confederate states into the Union remains, as Eric Foner suggested, America s unfinished revolution. But Reconstruction is more than a story of racial injustice;... |
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A Brotherhood of Spies: The U-2 and the CIA's Secret War
Monte Reel · Doubleday
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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A thrilling dramatic narrative of the top-secret Cold War-era spy plane operation that transformed the CIA and brought the U.S. and the Soviet Union to the brink of disasterOn May 1, 1960, an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union just weeks before a peace summit between... |
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Suzanne's Children: A Daring Rescue in Nazi Paris
Anne Nelson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A story of courage in the face of evil. The tense drama of Suzanne Spaak who risked and gave her life to save hundreds of Jewish children from deportation from Nazi Paris to Auschwitz. This is one of the untold stories of the Holocaust.Suzanne Spaak was born into the Belgian Catholic elite... |
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The Stranger: Barack Obama in the White House
Chuck Todd · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Chuck Todds gripping, fly-on-the-wall account of Barack Obamas tumultuous struggle to succeed in Washington. Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008 partly because he was a Washington outsider. But if hed come to the White House thinking he could change the political culture, he soon discovered... |
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Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency
ANONYMOUS. · Penguin Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump - the key to understanding the rise of the alt-right, the fall of Hillary Clinton, and the hidden forces that drove the greatest upset in American... |
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Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation
Serhii Plokhy · Basic Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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In 2014, Russia annexed the Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine. While the world watched in outrage, this blatant violation of national sovereignty was only the latest iteration of a centuries-long effort to expand Russian boundaries and create a pan-Russian nation. In Lost... |
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Fractured Continent: Europe's Crises and the Fate of the West
WILLIAM DROZDIAK · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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An urgent examination of how the political and social volatility in Europe impacts the United States and the rest of the world.The dream of a United States of Europe is unraveling in the wake of several crises now afflicting the continent. The single Euro currency threatens to break apart... |
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Chappaquiddick Speaks
Bill Pinney · William A. Pinney
Format: Paperback
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There have been 13 books written about Ted Kennedy and the Chappaquiddick incident of 1969. These support some eight theories as to what may have occurred that night, including the possibility that Kennedy told the truth. There seems little point publishing yet another unless it truly solves... |
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