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Mob Nemesis: How the FBI Crippled Organized Crime

Joe Griffin · Prometheus Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Forget Hollywood's version of the "Mafia"; this is the real inside story from a man who observed the day-by-day behaviour of these 'instinctual killers' and for whom 'it was a matter of principle to destroy them'. FBI Medal of Valour recipient Joe Griffin,...
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Politics Lost: How American Democracy Was Trivialized By People Who Think You're Stupid

Joe Klein · Doubleday; First Edition edition
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

People on the right are furious. People on the left are livid. And the center isn’t holding. There is only one thing on which almost everyone agrees: there is something very wrong in Washington. The country is being run by pollsters. Few politicians are able to win the voters’...
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Loud and Clear

Anna Quindlen · Random House; 1 edition
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In this remarkable book, Anna Quindlen, one of America’s favorite novelists and a Pulitzer Prize– winning columnist, once again gives us wisdom, opinions, insights, and reflections about current events and modern life. “Always insightful, rooted in everyday experience...
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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

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 Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda

Ali H. Soufan · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A book that will change the way we think about al-Qaeda, intelligence, and the events that forever changed America. On September 11, 2001, FBI Special Agent Ali H. Soufan was handed a secret file. Had he received it months earlierwhen it was requestedthe attacks on New York and Washington...
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A Gift from Darkness

Patience Ibrahim · Other Press
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

The inspirational story of a pregnant young Nigerian woman and the horrors she endured to save her unborn child when she was kidnapped by Boko Haram.When she was nineteen, Patience Ibrahim's first husband was murdered by Boko Haram. She fled to the safety of her village and remarried several...
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See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the Cia's War on Terrorism

Robert Baer · Crown Pub
Format: eBook

The author discusses his twenty-year career as a CIA operative in the Middle East and examines how the agency's abandonment of its original mission resulted in a failure to acknowledge the growing threat of militant Islamic terrorist groups.
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No Justice: One White Police Officer, One Black Family, and How One Bullet Ripped Us Apart

ROBBIE TOLAN · Center Street
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Richard Rothstein · Liveright
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A Publisher's Weekly Top 10 Best Books of 2017 Long-listed for the National Book Award "Rothstein has presented what I consider to be the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation." -- William...
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Flyover Nation: You Can't Run a Country You've Never Been To

Dana Loesch · Sentinel
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Blaze TV and top radio host Dana Loesch explains that the biggest political problem today is that the people who run this country have no idea what life is really like for ordinary Americans. In fact, they have contempt for the very people they claim to represent. When the owners of a small...
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Collision 2012: Obama vs. Romney and the Future of Elections in America

Dan Balz · Viking; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Battle for America 2008 and longtime Washington Post correspondent, an inside view and analysis of the Obama-Romney presidential raceFour years ago, a bright young  presidential candidate named Barack Obama campaigned on a theme of hope and change, and made...
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A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917 - 1950

Arthur M Schlesinger · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

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