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King of Spies: The Dark Reign of America's Spymaster in Korea
BLAINE HARDEN · Viking Pages: 272 Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Escape from Camp 14, the shocking, gripping account of the most powerful American spy you've never heard of, whose role at the center of the Korean War - which gave rise to the North Korean regime - is essential to understanding the most intractable... |
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Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror
Michael V. Hayden · Penguin Press, 2016. Pages: 464 Format: Print book
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An unprecedented high-level master narrative of America's intelligence wars, from the only person ever to helm both CIA and NSA, at a time of heinous new threats and wrenching change For General Michael Hayden, playing to the edge means playing so close to the line that you get chalk... |
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Obama: An Oral History
Brian Abrams · Little A Format: Hardcover
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The first ever comprehensive oral history of President Obama's administration and the complex political machine that created and powered a landmark American presidency.In this candid oral history of a presidential tenure, author Brian Abrams reveals the behind-the-scenes stories that illuminate... |
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Who Rules the World?
Noam Chomsky · Metropolitan Books Pages: 307 Format: Print book
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The world's leading intellectual offers a probing examination of the waning American Century, the nature of U.S. policies post-9/11, and the perils of valuing power above democracy and human rightsIn an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky argues... |
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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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Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
BRITTNEY COOPER · St. Martin's Press Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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With searing honesty, intimacy and humor too, America's leading young black feminist celebrates the power of rage.Melissa Harris Perry says: "I was waiting for an author who wouldn't forget, ignore, or erase us black girls as they told their own story...I was waiting and she has come... |
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Tyrant
STEPHEN GREENBLATT · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 208 Format: Hardcover
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World-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright's insight into bad (and often mad) rulers.As an aging, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social causes, the psychological roots, and the twisted consequences of tyranny.... |
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Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt
Hasan Kwame Jeffries · NYU Press; First Edition edition Pages: 372 Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2010 Clinton Jackson Coley Award for the best book on local history from the Alabama Historical AssociationEarly in 1966, African Americans in rural Lowndes County, Alabama, aided by activists from the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) , established an all-black,... |
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Yes We
DAN PFEIFFER · Twelve Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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From Obama's former communications director and current co-host of Pod Save America comes a colorful account of how politics, the media, and the Internet changed during the Obama presidency and how Democrats can fight back in the Trump era. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font:... |
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The Long Game: A Memoir
Mitch Mcconnell · Sentinel Pages: 278 Format: Print book
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In October 1984, a hard-charging Kentucky politician waited excitedly for President Ronald Reagan to arrive at a presidential rally in Louisville. In the midst of a tough Senate campaign against an incumbent Democrat, the young Republican hoped Reagan's endorsement would give a much-needed... |
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The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
MAX BOOT · Liveright Pages: 784 Format: Hardcover
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In chronicling the adventurous life of legendary CIA operative Edward Lansdale, The Road Not Taken definitively reframes our understanding of the Vietnam War. In this epic biography of Edward Lansdale (1908- 1987) , the man said to be the fictional model for Graham Greene's The Quiet... |
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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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George H. W. Bush: Character at the Core
Curt Smith · Potomac Books Format: Hardcover
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George H. W. Bush ranks among America’s most distinguished men of the last century. A war hero, businessman, politician, and the forty-first president of the United States, Bush has spent most of his life dedicated to public service.Curt Smith worked with Bush for more than twenty... |
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