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The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Obligations Towards the Human Being

Simone Weil - Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback

French philosopher Simone Weil's best known work that promotes mindful living and instructs readers how they can once again feel rooted, in a cultural and spiritual sense, to their environment A Penguin Classic. One of the foremost French philosophers of the last century, Simone Weil...
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Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House

Jared Cohen - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author of Accidental Presidents explores what happens after the most powerful job in the world: President of the United States. Former presidents have an unusual place in American life. King George III believed that George Washington's departure after two terms...
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The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump

Clay Cane - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover

Part history and part cultural analysis, The Grift chronicles the nuanced history of Black Republicans. Clay Cane lays out how Black Republicanism has been mangled by opportunists who are apologists for racism.After the Civil War, the pillars of Black Republicanism were a balanced critique...
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We've Got Issues: How You Can Stand Strong for America's Soul and Sanity

Phillip C. McGraw Ph.D. - Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and beloved television host comes We've Got Issues: How You Can Stand Strong for America's Soul and Sanity, a new book on how to come home to our core values, fortify our families and re-embrace self-determination and self-governance.....
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Cancel Culture Dictionary: An A to Z Guide to Winning the War on Fun

Jimmy Failla - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover

You may know Jimmy Failla as the best dressed man in cable news. A force multiplier of positive energy on the radio who sounds like he gets paid in Tequila and Tide Pods. But he's also a former New York City Taxi Driver who's spent countless hours conversing with people from all over...
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The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson

Patrick Weil - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover

"A rich study of the role of personal psychology in the shaping of the new global order after World War I. So long as so much political power is concentrated in one human mind, we are all at the mercy of the next madman in the White House." -- Gary J. Bass, author of The Blood...
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The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians

Carlos Lozada - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize-winning opinion columnist at The New York Times explores how people in power reveal themselves through their books and writings and, in so doing, illuminates the personal, political, and cultural conflicts driving Washington and the nation. As a long-time book critic...
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Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment

Allen C. Guelzo - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

An intimate study of Abraham Lincoln's powerful vision of democracy, which guided him through the Civil War and is still relevant today - by a best-selling historian and three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize. "It is altogether fitting and proper that, with this meditation on democracy...
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Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism

Jenn M. Jackson - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A reclamation of essential history and a hopeful gesture toward a better political future, this is what listening to Black women looks like - from a professor of political science and columnist for Teen Vogue.. This is my offering. My love letter to them, and to us.. Jenn M. Jackson, PhD,...
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American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy

David Corn - Twelve
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author and investigative reporter David Corn tells the wild and harrowing story of the Republican Party's decades-long relationship with far-right extremism, bigotry, and paranoia.. A fast-paced, rollicking, behind-the-scenes account of how the GOP since...
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