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We Were Eight Years in Power: A Journey Through the Obama Era
TA-NEHISI COATES · One World
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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In these "urgently relevant essays,"* the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me "reflects on race, Barack Obama's presidency and its jarring aftermath"* - including the election of Donald Trump."We were eight years in power" was the lament... |
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Only One Thing Can Save Us: Why America Needs a New Kind of Labor Movement
Thomas Geoghegan · The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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Is labors day over or is labor the only real answer for our time? In his new book, National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and labor lawyer Thomas Geoghegan argues that even as organized labor seems to be crumbling, a revivedbut differentlabor movement is the only way to stabilize the economy... |
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To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
Evgeny Morozov · PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Notable Book of the YearIn the very near future, “smart” technologies and “big data” will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions in politics, culture, and everyday life. Technology will allow us to solve problems in highly original... |
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American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone
Marco Rubio · Sentinel
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Dear Friends, My parents came to the United States in 1956. The country they found was truly a land of opportunity, where hardworking people with grade school educations could afford a home, a car, and college for their kids. A country where maids and bartenders could raise doctors, lawyers,... |
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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
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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, evidence,... |
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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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Young Radicals: In the War for American Ideals
JEREMY MCCARTER · Random House
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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From the co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Hamilton: The Revolution, a stunning group portrait of five American radicals fighting for their ideals as the country goes mad around them Where do we find our ideals? What does it mean to live for them - and to risk dying for them?... |
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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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Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World
Eileen McNamara · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines the life and times of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, arguing she left behind the Kennedy family's most profound political legacy.While Joe Kennedy was grooming his sons for the White House and the Senate, his Stanford-educated daughter Eunice was tapping... |
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World War Trump: The Risks of America's New Nationalism
HALL GARDNER · Prometheus Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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An expert on global politics details the dangers of Trump's nationalist agenda and its destabilizing effects on the world.How will Donald Trump's "America First" policy impact international stability? This sobering book argues that it will put the country on a path toward war.... |
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The Marginalized Majority: Claiming Our Power in a Post-Truth America
ONNESHA ROYCHOUDHURI · Melville House
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
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"This book is a daring intervention to get us back in the game - and a witty, delightfully personal meditation on collective power." - Naomi Klein, author of No Is Not Enough and This Changes EverythingEver since the 2016 election, pundits have been saying our country has never... |
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The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story
Aaron Bobrow-Strain · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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What happens when an undocumented teen mother takes on the U.S. immigration system?When Aida Hernandez was born in 1987 in Agua Prieta, Mexico, the nearby U.S. border was little more than a worn-down fence. Eight years later, Aida's mother took her and her siblings to live in Douglas, Arizona.... |
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