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When Millennials Rule: The Reshaping of America
David Cahn · Post Hill Press
Pages: 322
Format: Print book
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When Millennials Rule offers an optimistic story about how the generation that grew up through 9/11 and the Great Recession will rise above these setbacks to unify around common-sense solutions and take back America's future.China has swallowed our jobs. Social security is going bankrupt.... |
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8 Seconds of Courage: A Soldier's Story from Immigrant to the Medal of Honor
FLO GROBERG · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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A story of valor and the making of a hero - Florent Groberg, who grew up in France, emigrated to the US, and was the first immigrant in forty years to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor after he saved many lives by tackling a suicide bomber in Afghanistan.Florent "Flo" Groberg... |
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On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope
DERAY MCKESSON · Viking
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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From the internationally recognized civil rights activist/organizer and host of the podcast Pod Save the People, a meditation on resistance, justice, and freedom, and an intimate portrait of a movement from the front lines.In August of 2014, twenty-nine-year-old activist DeRay Mckesson... |
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The United States Government Manual 2016
National Archives And Records Administration · Bernan Press
Pages: 610
Format: Paperback
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Known as the official handbook of the federal government, this annual resource provides comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches, as well as quasi-official agencies, international organizations in which the United States participates,... |
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Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter
Kate Clifford Larson · Houghton Mifflin
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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They were the most prominent American family of the twentieth century. The daughter they secreted away made all the difference. Joe and Rose Kennedy's strikingly beautiful daughter Rosemary attended exclusive schools, was presented as a debutante to the Queen of England, and traveled the world... |
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Media Madness: Donald Trump, the Press, and the War over the Truth
Howard Kurtz · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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With outrageous examples of left-wing media bias and insider scoops on front-page skirmishes between the Trump White House and reporters, Howard Kurtz's new book is an astonishing exposé of the media industry that is reminiscent of Bernard Goldberg's game changing New York Times bestseller... |
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South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s
Kellie Jones · Duke University Press Books
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
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In South of Pico Kellie Jones explores how the artists in Los Angeles's black communities during the 1960s and 1970s created a vibrant, productive, and engaged activist arts scene in the face of structural racism. Emphasizing the importance of African American migration, as well as L.A.'s... |
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Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Reni Eddo-Lodge · Bloomsbury Circus
Pages: 249
Format: Hardcover
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'This is a book that was begging to be written. This is the kind of book that demands a future where we'll no longer need such a book. Essential' Marlon James, Man Booker Prize-Winner 2015'One of the most important books of 2017' Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good ImmigrantA... |
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Bravehearts: Whistle-Blowing in the Age of Snowden
Mark Hertsgaard · Hot Books
Pages: 160
Format: Print book
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Whistleblowers pay with their lives to save ours. When insiders like former NSA analyst Edward Snowden or ex-FBI agent Coleen Rowley or Big Tobacco truth-teller Jeffrey Wigand blow the whistle on high-level lying, lawbreaking or other wrongdoing - whether it's government spying, corporate... |
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The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
MAX BOOT · Liveright
Pages: 784
Format: Hardcover
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In chronicling the adventurous life of legendary CIA operative Edward Lansdale, The Road Not Taken definitively reframes our understanding of the Vietnam War. In this epic biography of Edward Lansdale (1908- 1987) , the man said to be the fictional model for Graham Greene's The Quiet... |
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America: The Farewell Tour
Chris Hedges · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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A profound and provocative examination of America in crisis, where unemployment, deindustrialization, and a bitter hopelessness and malaise have resulted in an epidemic of diseases of despair - drug abuse, gambling, suicide, magical thinking, xenophobia, and a culture of sadism and hate.America,... |
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Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich: Vote Buying and the Corruption of Democracy
Mary Frances Berry · Beacon Press
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
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A timely and nonpartisan book on voter manipulation and electoral corruption - and the importance of stimulating voter turnout and participationThough voting rights are fundamental to American democracy, felon disfranchisement, voter identification laws, and hard-to-access polling locations... |
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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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A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
JEANNE THEOHARIS · Beacon Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Explodes the fables that have been created about the civil rights movementThe civil rights movement has become national legend, lauded by presidents from Reagan to Obama to Trump, as proof of the power of American democracy. This fable, featuring dreamy heroes and accidental heroines, has shuttered... |
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