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Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil

Michael C. Ruppert · New Society Publishers
Pages: 696
Format: Paperback

The attacks of September 11, 2001, were accomplished through an amazing orchestration of logistics and personnel. Crossing the Rubicon discovers and identifies key suspects—finding some of them in the highest echelons of American government—by showing how they acted in concert...
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Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941

Lynne Olson · Random House
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND KIRKUS REVIEWSFrom the acclaimed author of Citizens of London comes the definitive account of the debate over American intervention in World War II—a bitter, sometimes violent clash...
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A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband, Danny Pearl

Mariane Pearl · Scribner; First Edition edition
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In A Mighty Heart, an astonishingly courageous woman tells the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband's life and death. For five weeks the world watched and worried about Danny Pearl, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan. And then came the news...
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Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

Tom O'Neill · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to shocking new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this riveting reassessment of an infamous case in American history. Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people,...
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Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan

Del Quentin Wilber · Henry Holt and Co.; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

For the first time a minute-by-minute account of the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan On March President Reagan walked out of a hotel in Washington DC and was shot by a would-be assassin For years few people knew the truth about how close the president came to dying and no one has ever...
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The Making of a Dream: How a group of young undocumented immigrants helped change what it means to be American

LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ · Harper
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A journalist chronicles the next chapter in civil rights - the story of a movement and a nation, witnessed through the poignant and inspiring experiences of five young undocumented activists who are transforming society's attitudes toward one of the most contentious political matters roiling...
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Going Rouge: An American Nightmare

Richard Kim · Health Communications; 1 edition
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

Sarah Palin has many faces: hockey mom, fundamentalist Christian, sex symbol, Republican ideologue, fashion icon, "maverick" populist. But, above all, Palin has become one thing: an American obsession that just won't go away. Edited by two senior editors at The Nation magazine,...
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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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Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama

Ann Coulter · Sentinel HC
Format: Hardcover

“This isn’t a story about black people—it’s a story about the Left’s agenda to patronize blacks and lie to everyone else.”  For decades, the Left has been putting on a play with themselves as heroes in an ongoing civil rights move­ment—which...
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A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel

Allis Radosh · Harper
Pages: 428
Format: Print book

"[This] revelatory account of Truman's vital contributions to Israel's founding. . .is told. . . with an elegance informed by thorough research." - Wall Street Journal "Even knowing how the story ends, A Safe Haven had me sitting on the edge of my seat." - Cokie...
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The Return of Marco Polo's World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century

ROBERT D KAPLAN · Random House
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A bracing assessement of U.S. foreign policy and world disorder over the past two decades, anchored by a major new Pentagon-commissioned essay about changing power dynamics among China, Eurasia, and America - from the renowned geopolitical analyst and bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography...
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Starving the Beast: Ronald Reagan and the Tax Cut Revolution

Monica Prasad · Russell Sage Foundation
Pages: 337
Format: Paperback

Since the Reagan Revolution of the early 1980s, Republicans have consistently championed tax cuts for individuals and businesses, regardless of whether the economy is booming or in recession or whether the federal budget is in surplus or deficit. In Starving the Beast, sociologist Monica...
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Good Kids, Bad City: A Story of Race and Wrongful Conviction in America

Kyle Swenson · Picador
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From award-winning investigative journalist Kyle Swenson, Good Kids, Bad City is the true story of the longest wrongful imprisonment in the United States to end in exoneration, and a critical social and political history of Cleveland, the city that convicted them.In the early 1970s, three...
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Messing with the Enemy

CLINT WATTS · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A former FBI Special Agent and leading cyber-security expert offers a devastating and essential look at the misinformation campaigns, fake news, and electronic espionage operations that have become the cutting edge of modern warfare - and how we can protect ourselves and our country against...
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Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia (Nation Books)

Gore Vidal · Nation Books; First Edition edition
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Following the publication of Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace and Dreaming War comes award-winning Gore Vidal's long-awaited conclusion to his landmark, best-selling trilogy. Now, Vidal has written his most devastating exploration of Imperial America to date. "Not since the 1846...
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