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Five Easy Theses: Commonsense Solutions to America's Greatest Economic Challenges
James Martin Stone · Houghton Mifflin Pages: 288 Format: Print book
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A business leader and esteemed economic thinker outlines simple solutions to America's five most pressing public policy issues, from healthcare to education to inequality. America today confronts a host of urgent problems, many of them seemingly intractable,... |
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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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Enough: Our Fight to Keep America Safe from Gun Violence
Gabrielle Giffords · Scribner Format: Hardcover
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Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords-- disabled from an assassination attempt in Tucson, Arizona-- and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, share their impassioned argument for responsible gun ownership and more responsible gun control laws, despite being gun owners and staunch supporters... |
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Poetry and Power: John F. Kennedy's Vision for America
STEPHEN KENNEDY SMITH · Harper Pages: 493 Format: Hardcover
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Published in commemoration of the centennial of President John F. Kennedy's birth, here is the definitive compendium of JFK's most important and brilliant speeches, accompanied by commentary and reflections by leading American and international figures - including Senator Elizabeth Warren,... |
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The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For
DAVID MCCULLOUGH · Simon & Schuster Pages: 176 Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestseller A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States - winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among many others - that reminds us of fundamental American... |
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Battlefield America: The War on the American People
John W. Whitehead · Select Books (NY) Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover
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In Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the follow-up to his award-winning book A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead paints a terrifying portrait of a nation at war with itself and which is on the verge of undermining... |
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The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
H W Brands · Doubleday Pages: 437 Format: Print book
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From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II. At the height... |
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Two Paths: America Divided or United
John Kasich · Thomas Dunne Books Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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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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The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force
Eliot A Cohen · Basic Books Pages: 304 Format: Print book
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In The Big Stick, Eliot A. Cohen argues that the United States must use military power in support of its foreign policy, but that doing so will be increasingly difficult. The United States must continue to assume primary responsibility for maintaining world order, or risk a chaotic international... |
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To End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment
LAURENCE TRIBE · Basic Books Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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The history and future of our democracy's ultimate sanction, presidential impeachment, and a guide to how it should be used nowTo End a Presidency addresses one of today's most urgent questions: when and whether to impeach a president. Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz provide an authoritative... |
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Soar: How Boys Learn, Succeed, and Develop Character
David Banks · Atria / 37 Ink Format: Hardcover
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A respected educator who has advised Hillary Clinton and Cory Booker on scholastic issues presents a plan for teaching the countrys most educationally endangered groupboysDavid Banks knows a few things about at-risk boys In he petitioned New York Citys mayor to allow an all-boys public... |
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Bloodstained Louisiana: Twelve Murder Cases, 1896-1934
Alan G Gauthreaux · Exposit Books Pages: 202 Format: Paperback
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Historian Alan G. Gauthreaux chronicles 12 homicide cases from late 1800s and early 1900s Louisiana--where "unwritten law" justified jilted women who killed their paramours, and police took measures to protect defendants from lynch mobs. Stories include the 1907 kidnapping of seven-year-old... |
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Fascism
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT · Harper Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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From one of the most admired international leaders, comes a timely, considered, and personal look at the history and current resurgence of fascism today and the virulent threat it poses to international freedom, prosperity, and peace. At the end of the 1980s, when the Cold War ended, many,... |
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Old School: Life in the Sane Lane
ANONYMOUS. · Holt, Henry & Company, Inc. Pages: 192 Format: Print book
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Old School is in session....You have probably heard the term Old School, but what you might not know is that there is a concentrated effort to tear that school down.It's a values thing. The anti-Old School forces believe the traditional way of looking at life is oppressive. Not inclusive.... |
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