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The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton

Jefferson Morley · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

CIA spymaster James Jesus Angleton was one of the most powerful unelected officials in the United States government in the mid-20th century, a ghost of American power. From World War II to the Cold War, Angleton operated beyond the view of the public, Congress, and even the president. He unwittingly...
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State Legislatures Today: Politics under the Domes

Peverill Squire · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 242
Format: Print book

A concise and provocative introduction to state legislative politics, this book a supplement for state and local government courses and upper level courses on legislative politics. It examines state legislatures and state lawmakers, putting them in historical context, showing how they have...
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Elizabeth Warren: Her Fight. Her Work. Her Life.

ANTONIA FELIX · Sourcebooks
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Elizabeth Warren's rise as one of America's most powerful women is a stirring lesson in persistence. From her fierce support of the middle class to her unapologetic response to political bullies, Warren is known as a passionate yet plain-speaking champion of equity and fairness. In the wake...
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Privacy in the Age of Big Data: Recognizing Threats, Defending Your Rights, and Protecting Your Family

Theresa Payton · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 259
Format: Hardcover

Digital data collection and surveillance gets more pervasive and invasive by the day; but the best ways to protect yourself and your data are all steps you can take yourself. The devices we use to get just-in-time coupons, directions when we're lost, and maintain connections with loved...
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Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian

Richard Aldous · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

The first major biography of preeminent historian and intellectual Arthur Schlesinger Jr., a defining figure in Kennedy's White House.Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (1917-2007) , known today as the architect of John F. Kennedy's presidential legacy -- and the myth of Camelot -- blazed an extraordinary...
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The Undocumented Mark Steyn

Mark Steyn · Regnery Publishing; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Hes brash, brilliant, and drawn to controversy like a moth to a flame. For decades, Mark Steyn has dazzled readers around the world with his raucous wit and brutal honesty. Whether hes sounding off on the tyranny of political correctness, the existential threat of Islamic extremism, the nationalization...
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Flyover Nation: You Can't Run a Country You've Never Been To

Dana Loesch · Sentinel
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Blaze TV and top radio host Dana Loesch explains that the biggest political problem today is that the people who run this country have no idea what life is really like for ordinary Americans. In fact, they have contempt for the very people they claim to represent. When the owners of a small...
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Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power

Howard French · Alfred A Knopf
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

From the former New York Times Asia correspondent and author of China's Second Continent, an incisive investigation of China's ideological development as it becomes an ever more aggressive player in regional and global diplomacy. For many years after its reform and opening in 1978,...
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Two Paths: America Divided or United

John Kasich · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Two paths.One choice -- the path that exploits anger, encourages resentment, turns fear into hatred and divides people. This path solves nothing, demeans our history, weakens our country and cheapens each of us. It has but one beneficiary and that is to the politician who speaks of it.The...
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Written Out of History: The Forgotten Founders Who Fought Big Government

Mike Lee · Sentinel
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Senator Mike Lee tells the story of the Founders whose warnings about the dangers of an all-powerful federal government helped shape our Constitution--but are being ignored today. Today, most Americans are familiar only with the "big names" associated with the Founding - Washington,...
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Right for a Reason: Life, Liberty, and a Crapload of Common Sense

Miriam Weaver · Sentinel HC
Format: Hardcover

“It’s time for a real, snarktastic, humor-filled look at what makes conservatism right. We conservatives have truth and rationality and logic on our side. We just need to remind ourselves why we are right, and we need that reminder delivered in a way that’s not a lecture,...
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God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State

Lawrence Wright · Knopf
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

With humor and the biting insight of a native, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower explores the history, culture, and politics of Texas, while holding the stereotypes up for rigorous scrutiny.God Save Texas is a journey through the most controversial state in America....
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The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry

WENDELL BERRY · Counterpoint
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"Mr. Berry's sentences and stories deliver a great payload of edifying entertainment, which I hungrily consume, but it is the bass note of morality thumping through his musical phrases that guides me with the most constant of hands upon my plow." -- Nick Offerman, New York...
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Fate of the States: The New Geography of American Prosperity

Meredith Whitney · Portfolio Hardcover
Format: Book

“Forget everything you think you know about the direction of the American economy, about our grow­ing need for foreign oil, about the rise of the service economy and the decline of American manufacturing. The story of the next thirty years will not be a repeat of the last thirty.”...
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