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The U.S. House of Representatives: Fundamentals of American Government
Matthew Spieler · Thomas Dunne Books Pages: 192 Format: Hardcover
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The third book in the Fundamentals of American Government civics series explores the inner workings of this important part of the legislative branch. As with Selecting a President and The U.S. Senate, this book is written for all audiences, but voiced toward high school seniors and college... |
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Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency
ANONYMOUS. · Penguin Press Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump - the key to understanding the rise of the alt-right, the fall of Hillary Clinton, and the hidden forces that drove the greatest upset in American... |
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Eleanor and hick : the love affair that shaped a first lady
Susan Quinn · Penguin Press Pages: 404 Format: Hardcover
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A warm, intimate account of the love between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok - a relationship that, over more than three decades, transformed both women's lives and empowered them to play significant roles in one of the most tumultuous periods in American historyIn 1932, as her husband... |
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Substitute : going to school with a thousand children.
Nicholson Baker · Penguin Books Pages: 736 Format: Print book
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In 2014, after a brief orientation course and a few fingerprinting sessions, Nicholson Baker became an on-call substitute teacher in a Maine public school district. He awoke to the dispatcher's five-forty a.m. phone call and headed to one of several nearby schools; when he got there, he did his best... |
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67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence
Howard B Means · Da Capo Press Pages: 288 Format: Print book
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At mid-day on May 4, 1970, after three days of protests, several thousand students and the Ohio National Guard faced off at opposite ends of the grassy campus Commons at Kent State University. Just after noon, the Guard moved out. Twenty-five minutes later, Guardsmen launched a 13-second,... |
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Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Secret Plan for America
Nancy Maclean · Viking Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover
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"[A] vibrant intellectual history of the radical right . . ." - The Atlantic "This sixty-year campaign to make libertarianism mainstream and eventually take the government itself is at the heart of Democracy in Chains. . . . If you're worried about what all this means for America's... |
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Divided: The Perils of Our Growing Inequality
David Cay Johnston · New Press Pages: 324 Format: Hardcover
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The issue of inequality has irrefutably returned to the fore, riding on the anger against Wall Street following the 2008 financial crisis and the concentration of economic and political power in the hands of the super-rich. The Occupy movement made the plight of the 99 percent an indelible... |
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America: Imagine a World without Her
Dinesh D'Souza · Regnery Publishing, a Salem Communications Company, New York, NY Pages: 289 Format: Print book
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#1 New York Times BestsellerIs America a source of pride, as Americans have long held, or shame, as Progressives allege? Beneath an innocent exterior, are our lives complicit in a national project of theft, expropriation, oppression, and murder, or is America still the hope of the world?Dinesh... |
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Herbert Hoover in the White House: The Ordeal of the Presidency
Charles Rappleye · Simon & Schuster Pages: 554 Format: Print book
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"A deft, filled-out portrait of the thirty-first president...by far the best, most readable study of Hoover's presidency to date." - Publishers Weekly Rappleye's surprising portrait of a Depression-era president Herbert Hoover reveals a very different figure than the usual Hoover,... |
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The Industries of the Future
Alec Ross · Simon & Schuster Pages: 304 Format: Print book
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Leading innovation expert Alec Ross explains what's next for the world: the advances and stumbling blocks that will emerge in the next ten years, and how we can navigate them.While Alec Ross was working as Senior Advisor for Innovation to the Secretary of State, he traveled to forty-one... |
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Ratf**ked: How the Democrats Won the Presidency But Lost America
David Daley · Liveright Publishing Corporation Pages: 257 Format: Print book
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The explosive account of how Republican legislators and political operatives fundamentally rigged our American democracy through redistricting. With Barack Obama's historic election in 2008, pundits proclaimed the Republicans as dead as the Whigs of yesteryear. Yet even as Democrats swooned,... |
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The Contractor: How I Landed in a Pakistani Prison and Ignited a Diplomatic Crisis
Raymond Allen Davis · BenBella Books Pages: 240 Format: Print book
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On January 27, 2011, on the streets of Lahore, Pakistan, US Government Security contractor Raymond Davis found himself staring down the barrel of a gun. Defending himself, he shot and killed two men who were - depending upon who you ask - illiterate robbers or Pakistani intelligence agents.The... |
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A Good Month for Murder: The Inside Story of a Homicide Squad
Del Quentin Wilber · Henry Holt and Company Pages: 273 Format: Print book
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Bestselling author Del Quentin Wilber tells the inside story of how a homicide squad---a dedicated, colorful team of detectives -- does its almost impossible jobTwelve homicides, three police-involved shootings and the furious hunt for an especially brutal killer--February 2013 was a good... |
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Crowds and Party
Jodi Dean · Verso Pages: 288 Format: Print book
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How do mass protests become an organized activist collective? Crowds and Party channels the energies of the riotous crowds who took to the streets in the past five years into an argument for the political party. Rejecting the emphasis on individuals and multitudes, Jodi Dean argues that... |
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