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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

TIMOTHY SNYDER · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 126
Format: Paperback

#1 New York Times BestsellerThe Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy...
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Social Security, Medicare and Government Pensions: Get the Most Out of Your Retirement and Medical Benefits (Social Security, Medicare & Government Pensions)

Joseph Matthews Attorney · Nolo; Eighteenth Edition edition
Pages: 472
Format: Paperback

Maximize your Social Security, SSI, and Medicare benefits and navigate the complex system with confidence.Everyone wants to get the highest possible retirement and pension income – not to mention the best medical coverage. Turn to the#1 guide to Social Security retirement and medical...
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Keep It Pithy: Useful Observations in a Tough World

Bill O'Reilly · Crown Archetype
Format: Book

O'Reilly offers a classic collection of the most memorable writings from his previous books and columns, topped off with a new introduction, and looks back at how his opinions and ideas have been proven right or wrong by the passage of time.
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Blood, Money & Power: How L.B.J. Killed J.F.K.

Barr McClellan · Hannover House
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Inside details of assassination plot from former LBJ attorney.
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Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad

Peter L. Bergen · Crown; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The gripping account of the decade-long hunt for the world's most wanted man.It was only a week before 9/11 that Peter Bergen turned in the manuscript of Holy War, Inc., the story of Osama bin Laden--whom Bergen had once interviewed in a mud hut in Afghanistan--and his declaration...
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The Return: Russia's Journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev

Daniel Treisman · Free Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Russia has long been a source of puzzlement— and sometimes alarm—for Western observers. Since shaking off communism two decades ago, the country has seemed wobbly at best, thoroughly corrupt and threatening at worst. But in recent years, as noted scholar Daniel Treisman shows...
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Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming

Paul Hawken · Viking; First Edition edition
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

One of the world’s most influential environmentalists reveals a worldwide grassroots movement of hope and humanity Blessed Unrest tells the story of a worldwide movement that is largely unseen by politicians or the media. Hawken, an environmentalist and author, has spent more than...
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Write It When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations With Gerald R. Ford

Thomas M. DeFrank · G. P. Putnam's Sons; First Edition edition
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestsellerand the candid voice of an American presidentIn Newsweek correspondent Thomas M DeFrank was interviewing Gerald Ford when the Vice President blurted out something astonishingly indiscreet He then extracted a promise not to publish it Write it when Im dead Ford...
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The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

NADIA MURAD · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story. Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in northern Iraq. A member of the Yazidi community, she and her brothers and sisters...
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