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Growing Up Queer: Kids and the Remaking of LGBTQ Identity
Mary Robertson · NYU Press
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
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LGBTQ kids reveal what it's like to be young and queer today Growing Up Queer explores the changing ways that young people are now becoming LGBT-identified in the US. Through interviews and three years of ethnographic research at an LGBTQ youth drop-in center, Mary Robertson focuses... |
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Real American: A Memoir
JULIE LYTHCOTT-HAIMS · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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"Courageous, achingly honest." -- Michelle Alexander, New York Times bestselling author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness"A compelling, incisive and thoughtful examination of race, origin and what it means to be called an American. Engaging,... |
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Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom
Thomas E Ricks · Penguin Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks, a dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, whose farsighted vision and inspired action preserved democracy from the threats of authoritarianism, from the left and right alikeBoth George Orwell and Winston Churchill... |
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American Apartheid: The Native American Struggle for Self-Determination and Inclusion
STEPHANIE WOODARD · Ig Publishing
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
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In recent years, events such as the siege at Standing Rock and the Dakota Access pipeline have thrust the plight of Native Americans into the public consciousness. Taking us beyond the headlines, American Apartheid offers the most comprehensive and compelling account of the issues and threats... |
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Behold, America: The Entangled History of "America First" and "the American Dream"
Sarah Churchwell · Basic Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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The unknown history of two ideas crucial to the struggle over what America stands forIn Behold, America, Sarah Churchwell offers a surprising account of twentieth-century Americans' fierce battle for the nation's soul. It follows the stories of two phrases--the "American dream"... |
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There Are No Dead Here: A Story of Murder and Denial in Colombia
Maria McFarland Sanchez-Moreno · Nation Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Colombia's drug-fueled cycle of terror, corruption, and tragedy did not end with Pablo Escobar's death in 1993. Just when Colombians were ready to move past the murderous legacy of the country's cartels, a new, bloody chapter unfolded. In the late 1990s, right-wing paramilitary... |
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Trans Figured: My Journey from Boy to Girl to Woman to Man
Brian Belovitch · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
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Imagine experiencing life not as the gender dictated by birth but as one of your own design.In Trans Figured, Brian Belovitch shares his true story of life as a gender outlier and his dramatic journey through the jungle of gender identity. Brian has the rare distinction of coming out three... |
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Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence
BILL O'REILLY · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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The Revolutionary War as never told before.The breathtaking latest installment in Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard's mega-bestselling Killing series transports readers to the most important era in our nation's history, the Revolutionary War. Told through the eyes of George Washington,... |
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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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A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity
Nicholas D. Kristof · Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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An essential, galvanizing narrative about making a difference here and abroad—a road map to becoming the most effective global citizens we can be.In their number one New York Times best seller Half the Sky, husband-and-wife team Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn brought to light struggles... |
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In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power
ALFRED MCCOY · Haymarket Books
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
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In a completely original analysis, prize-winning historian Alfred W. McCoy explores America's rise as a world power - from the 1890s through the Cold War - and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the twenty-first century through a fusion of cyberwar, space warfare, trade pacts, and military... |
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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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The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations
John McCain · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A candid new political memoir from Senator John McCain - his most personal book in years - covering everything from 2008 up to the present.In a time when Washington, DC and the country is more polarized than it has been for decades, John McCain is the rare public figure who has earned the respect... |
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