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How the Right Lost Its Mind
CHARLES J SYKES · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Once at the center of the American conservative movement, bestselling author and radio host Charles Sykes is a fierce opponent of Donald Trump and the right-wing media that enabled his rise.In How the Right Lost Its Mind, Sykes presents an impassioned, regretful, and deeply thoughtful account... |
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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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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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Republican Like Me: How I Left the Liberal Bubble and Learned to Love the Right
KENNETH STERN · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Widening the dialogue begun with Strangers in Their Own Land and Hillbilly Elegy, a former NPR CEO and lifelong Democrat's chronicle of his immersion in Republicanism to understand his fellow Americans across the political divide.Ken Stern doesn't believe that our political world... |
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Republican Character: From Nixon to Reagan
Donald T Critchlow · University of Pennsylvania Press
Pages: 220
Format: Hardcover
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"Politics makes for strange bedfellows," the old saying goes. Americans, however, often forget the obvious lesson underlying this adage: politics is about winning elections and governing once in office. Voters of all stripes seem put off by the rough-and-tumble horse-trading and deal-making... |
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A Bag Worth a Pony: The Art of the Ojibwe Bandolier Bag
Marcia G Anderson · Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
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Bandolier bags, or gashkibidaaganag - the large, heavily beaded shoulder bags made and worn by several North American Indian tribes around the Great Lakes - are prized cultural icons here and around the world. From the 1870s to the present day, Ojibwe bead artists of Minnesota have been... |
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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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First Ladies and American Women: In Politics and at Home
Jill Abraham Hummer · University Press of Kansas
Pages: 269
Format: Hardcover
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Unelected, but expected to act as befits her "office," the first lady has what Pat Nixon called "the hardest unpaid job in the world." Michelle Obama championed military families with the program Joining Forces. Four decades earlier Pat Nixon traveled to Africa as the nation's... |
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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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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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Richard Nixon: The Life
John A Farrell · Doubleday
Pages: 752
Format: Print book
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Brilliantly researched, authoritatively crafted by a prize-winning biographer, and lively on the page, this is the Nixon we've been waiting for. Richard Nixon opens with young Navy lieutenant "Nick" Nixon returning from the Pacific and setting his cap at Congress, an idealistic... |
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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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Spies, Lies, and Citizenship: The Hunt for Nazi Criminals
Mary Barbier · Potomac Books
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
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In the 1970s news broke that former Nazis had escaped prosecution and were living the good life in the United States. Outrage swept the nation, and the public outcry put extreme pressure on the U.S. government to investigate these claims and to deport offenders. The subsequent creation... |
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Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE · ALFRED A KNOPF
Pages: 80
Format: Print book
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From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today--written as a letter to a friend. A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise her baby... |
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