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Do the Right Thing: Inside the Movement That's Bringing Common Sense Back to America
Mike Huckabee · Sentinel; 1st edition
Format: Book
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When Governor Mike Huckabee entered the Republican presidential race, he was the ultimate dark horse, with almost no money, no consultants, and no name recognition beyond Arkansas. The so-called experts were highly amused by this former small state governor from blue-collar roots who also... |
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Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America
Cullen Murphy · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1ST edition
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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The rise and fall of ancient Rome has been on American minds from the beginning of our republic. Today we focus less on the Roman Republic than on the empire that took its place. Depending on who's doing the talking, the history of Rome serves as either a triumphal call to action or a dire... |
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. . . and His Lovely Wife: A Memoir from the Woman Beside the Man
Connie Schultz · Random House; 1 edition
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The first time I heard it, I laughed.Oh, come on, I thought. He didn’t just say that.We were at a restaurant in southern Ohio, where a hundred or so Democrats and a handful of young campaign workers had gathered to hear my husband, Sherrod Brown, announce for the seventh time in two days... |
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Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
Jon Meacham · Random House
Pages: 512
Format: Book
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The most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of history's towering leadersFranklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of "the Greatest Generation." In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating... |
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Detroit: A Biography
Scott Martelle · Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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Detroit was established as a French settlement three-quarters of a century before the founding of this nation. A remote outpost built to protect trapping interests, it grew as agriculture expanded on the new frontier. Its industry took a great leap forward with the completion of the Erie... |
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Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Alexandra Fuller · Penguin Press HC, The; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year Alexandra Fuller returns to Africa and the story of her unforgettable family. In Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness Alexandra Fuller returns to Africa and to her unforgettable family. At the heart of this... |
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander · The New Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Jarvious Cottons great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Klu Klux Klan for attempting to vote. His grandfather was prevented from voting by Klan intimidation his father was barred by poll taxes and literacy tests. Today, Cotton... |
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Sharon: The Life of a Leader
Gilad Sharon · Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Drawn from extensive personal archives and filled withstartling revelations, the definitive biography of Ariel Sharon illuminates hislife and work from the penetrating perspective of his youngest son, Gilad Sharon—one of his fathers closest confidants.Readers of George W. Bushs Decision... |
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A Nation Like No Other: Why American Exceptionalism Matters
Newt Gingrich · Regnery Publishing; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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It’s become fashionable among the liberal elite to downplay, deride, even deny America’s greatness. The political correctness police insist that America is “hated” around the world for being too big, too powerful, too rich, too successful, too loud, too intrusive.... |
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Clean House: Exposing Our Government's Secrets and Lies
Tom Fitton · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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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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