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Clean House: Exposing Our Government's Secrets and Lies
Clean House: Exposing Our Government's Secrets and Lies

Tom Fitton · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Corruption Chronicles comes a devastating expose of the scandals of Obama's second term. Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton reveals what the largest watchdog agency in America has uncovered in its battles against Obama secrecy.Clean House...
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Decline and Fall: The End of Empire and the Future of Democracy in 21st Century America
Decline and Fall: The End of Empire and the Future of Democracy in 21st Century America

John Michael Greer · New Society Publishers
Format: Paperback

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.Although he was writing nearly a century ago, William Butler Yeats could just as easily be describing the United States today. The decline and fall of America's global empire is the central feature of today's...
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Making the Most of Digital Collections through Training and Outreach: The Innovative Librarian's Guide
Making the Most of Digital Collections through Training and Outreach: The Innovative Librarian's Guide

Nicholas Tanzi · Libraries Unlimited
Pages: 140
Format: Paperback

This book offers a practical template for training patrons to use eBook, streaming video, online music, and journal collections that is practical, adaptable, and most importantly, sustainable.* Introduces librarians to a sustainable approach to teaching or coaching patrons on how to access...
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Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring
Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring

Bassem Youssef · Dey Street Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

"The Jon Stewart of the Arabic World" - the creator of The Program, the most popular television show in Egypt's history - chronicles his transformation from heart surgeon to political satirist, and offers crucial insight into the Arab Spring, the Egyptian Revolution, and the turmoil...
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Sex Scandal: The Drive to Abolish Male and Female
Sex Scandal: The Drive to Abolish Male and Female

Ashley Mcguire · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Welcome to the troubling age of sex-denialism - the age of gender-neutral labels, rigidly enforced equality, unisex spaces, and the systematic eradication of sexual difference. In her debut book Sex Scandal, journalist Ashley McGuire investigates the alarming nationwide push to ignore the natural,...
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The Trump Survival Guide: Everything You Need to Know About Living Through What You Hoped Would Never Happen
The Trump Survival Guide: Everything You Need to Know About Living Through What You Hoped Would Never Happen

Gene Stone · Dey Street Books
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

Don't despair. Don't retreat. Fight back.The stunning election of Donald J. Trump rocked an already divided America and left scores of citizens, including the nearly sixty-five million voters who supported Hillary Clinton, feeling bereft and powerless. Now, Gene Stone, author of The Bush...
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If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty
If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty

Eric Metaxas · Viking
Pages: 260
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas delivers an extraordinary book that is part history and part rousing call to arms, steeped in a critical analysis of our founding fathers' original intentions for America.In 1787, when the Constitution was drafted, a woman asked Ben Franklin...
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The Confessions of Congressman X
The Confessions of Congressman X

Congressman X · Mill City Press, Inc.
Pages: 84
Format: Paperback

A devastating inside look at the dark side of Congress as revealed by one of its own! No wonder Congressman X wants to remain anonymous for fear of retribution. His admissions are deeply disturbing. . . "Most of my colleagues are dishonest career politicians who revel in the power...
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Lenin on the Train
Lenin on the Train

Catherine Merridale · Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

A gripping, meticulously researched account of Lenin's fateful 1917 rail journey from Zurich to Petrograd, where he ignited the Russian Revolution and forever changed the worldIn April 1917, as the Russian Tsar Nicholas II's abdication sent shockwaves across war-torn Europe, the future...
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Game of Thorns: The Inside Story of Hillary Clinton's Failed Campaign and Donald Trump's Winning Strategy
Game of Thorns: The Inside Story of Hillary Clinton's Failed Campaign and Donald Trump's Winning Strategy

Doug Wead · Center Street
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

Here is the first, insider, account of the precipitous fall of Hillary Clinton. How the scandals of a lifetime finally reached critical mass. How, in the last few days of the campaign, some on her staff saw the ghostly shroud of defeat creeping over them but were helpless to act, frozen...
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Richard Nixon: The Life
Richard Nixon: The Life

John A Farrell · Doubleday
Pages: 752
Format: Print book

Brilliantly researched, authoritatively crafted by a prize-winning biographer, and lively on the page, this is the Nixon we've been waiting for. Richard Nixon opens with young Navy lieutenant "Nick" Nixon returning from the Pacific and setting his cap at Congress, an idealistic...
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The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives
The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives

Lisa Servon · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

An urgent, absorbing exposé - why Americans are fleeing our broken banking system in growing numbers, and how alternatives are rushing in to do what banks once did What do an undocumented immigrant in the South Bronx, a high‑net‑worth entrepreneur, and a twenty‑something...
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Ike and McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower's Secret Campaign against Joseph McCarthy
Ike and McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower's Secret Campaign against Joseph McCarthy

David A Nichols · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Revealed for the first time, this is the full story of how President Dwight Eisenhower masterminded the downfall of the anti-Communist demagogue Senator Joseph McCarthy.Behind the scenes, Eisenhower loathed McCarthy, the powerful Republican senator notorious for his anti-Communist witch...
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Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus
Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus

MATT TAIBBI · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 314
Format: Print book

Dispatches from the 2016 election that provide an eerily prescient take on our democracy's uncertain future, by the country's most perceptive and fearless political journalist. In twenty-five pieces from Rolling Stone - plus two original essays - Matt Taibbi tells the story of Western civilization's...
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Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America

ANONYMOUS. · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 228
Format: Print book

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE | NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2017 BY: The Washington Post * Bustle * Men's Journal * The Chicago Reader * StarTribune * Blavity "One of the most frank and searing discussions on race ... a deeply serious, urgent book, which...
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