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Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It

Richard V. Reeves · Brookings Institution Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

America is becoming a class-based society.It is now conventional wisdom to focus on the wealth of the top 1 percent - especially the top 0.01 percent - and how the ultra-rich are concentrating income and prosperity while incomes for most other Americans are stagnant. But the most important,...
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Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality

James Kwak · Pantheon
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Here is a bracing deconstruction of the framework for understanding the world that is learned as gospel in Economics 101, regardless of its imaginary assumptions and misleading half-truths.Economism: an ideology that distorts the valid principles and tools of introductory college economics,...
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The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America

Frances FitzGerald · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 752
Format: Hardcover

* Winner of the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award * National Book Award Finalist * Time magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of the Year * New York Times Notable Book * Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2017 "A page turner ... We have long needed a fair-minded overview of this vitally...
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The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty

JonathanMorduch · Princeton University Press
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover

What the financial diaries of working-class families reveal about economic stresses, why they happen, and what policies might reduce themDeep within the American Dream lies the belief that hard work and steady saving will ensure a comfortable retirement and a better life for one's children....
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#NeverAgain: A New Generation Draws the Line

DAVID HOGG · Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

From two students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School comes a declaration for our times, and an in-depth look at the making of the #NeverAgain movement that arose after the Parkland, Florida, shooting.On February 14, 2018, seventeen-year-old David Hogg and his fourteen-year-old sister,...
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Yuval N Harari · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of today's most pressing issues. How do computers and robots change the meaning of being human? How do we deal with the epidemic...
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Addicted to Outrage: How Thinking Like a Recovering Addict Can Heal the Country

GLENN BECK · Threshold Editions
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A new and sober Glenn Beck - author of thirteen #1 New York Times bestsellers - issues a startling challenge to people on both sides of the aisle to give up our addiction to hating each other.America is addicted to outrage, we're at the height of a twenty-year bender, and we need an intervention....
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Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found

Gilbert King · Riverhead Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

"Compelling, insightful and important, Beneath a Ruthless Sun exposes the corruption of racial bigotry and animus that shadows a community, a state and a nation. A fascinating examination of an injustice story all too familiar and still largely ignored, an engaging and essential read."...
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The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies

MICHAEL V HAYDEN · Penguin Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A blistering critique of the forces threatening the American intelligence community, beginning with the President of the United States himself, in a time when that community's work has never been harder or more importantIn the face of a President who lobs accusations without facts,...
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Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

Eliza Griswold · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Prize-winning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold's Amity and Prosperity is an expose on how fracking shattered a rural Pennsylvania town, and how one lifelong resident brought the story into the national spotlight. This is an incredible true account of investigative journalism and a devastating...
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