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Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic
David Frum · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Builds on the author's March 2017 "How to Build an Autocracy" column in The Atlantic to explain how Donald Trump has undermined America's most important institutions as part of a carefully crafted plan to institute authoritarianism, in an account that explains how ongoing changes... |
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We're still right - and they're still wrong.
James Carville · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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Every politico and pundit has tried to explain the 2016 presidential race, but James Carville - the multiple best-selling Ragin' Cajun and grand strategist of Bill Clinton's rise to the White House - has largely stayed silent. Until now. "He straddled the punch bowl, dropped his pants,... |
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A Disappearance in Damascus: Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War
DEBORAH CAMPBELL · Picador
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for NonfictionWinner of the Freedom to Read AwardWinner of the Hubert Evans PrizeIn the midst of an unfolding international crisis, renowned journalist Deborah Campbell finds herself swept up in the mysterious disappearance of Ahlam, her guide... |
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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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The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
Daniel Ellsberg · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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From the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, an eyewitness exposé of the dangers of America's Top Secret, seventy-year-long nuclear policy that--chillingly--continues to this day.Here, for the first time, former high level defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg reveals... |
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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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Keep Marching: How Every Woman Can Take Action and Change Our World
Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner · Hachette Books
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
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From the cofounder of MomsRising.org and a speaker at the Women's March on Washington, KEEP MARCHING is an action-oriented, hands-on guide that will give all women the tools, incentive, and information they need to create political change in their communities--and in the country as a whole.... |
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
Anthony Ray Hinton · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit.In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only twenty-nine... |
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Putin: His Downfall and Russia's Coming Crash
Richard Lourie · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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An electrifying and timely book, by leading Russian expert Richard Lourie, that explores Putin's failures and whether Trump's election gives Putin extraordinarily dangerous opportunities in our mad new world.For reasons that are made clear in this book, Putin's Russia will collapse just... |
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The Retreat of Western Liberalism
Edward Luce · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 226
Format: Hardcover
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In his widely acclaimed book Time to Start Thinking, Financial Times chief US columnist and commentator Edward Luce charted the course of America's relative decline, proving to be a prescient voice on our current social and political turmoil. In The Retreat of Western Liberalism, Luce... |
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