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Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS · Dey Street Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER"This riveting, courageous memoir ought to be mandatory reading for every American." - Michelle Alexander, New York Times bestselling author of The New Jim Crow"l cried reading this book, realizing more fully what my parents endured." - Amy Tan,... |
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Idiot's Guides: U.S. Government and Politics, 2E
Franco Scardino · Alpha Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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Do you really know how the U.S. government operates? Most Americans have simply forgotten what they learned in their high school government class. Providing an updated history and comprehensive overview, Idiot's Guides: U.S. Government & Politics, Second Edition, is written to help... |
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We Were Eight Years in Power: A Journey Through the Obama Era
TA-NEHISI COATES · One World
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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In these "urgently relevant essays,"* the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me "reflects on race, Barack Obama's presidency and its jarring aftermath"* - including the election of Donald Trump."We were eight years in power" was the lament... |
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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
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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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Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul
JEREMIAH MOSS · Dey Street Books
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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"ESSENTIAL READING FOR FANS OF JANE JACOBS, JOSEPH MITCHELL, PATTI SMITH, LUC SANTE AND CHEAP PIEROGI."--VANITY FAIRAn unflinching chronicle of gentrification in the twenty-first century and a love letter to lost New York by the creator of the popular and incendiary blog Vanishing... |
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The Weeding Handbook: A Shelf-by-Shelf Guide
Rebecca Vnuk · American Library Association
Pages: 218
Format: Paperback
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No! We can t rid of that! Vnuk, author of the popular Weeding Tips column on BOOKLIST Online, is here to show you that yes, you can. A library is an ever-changing organism; when done the right way, weeding helps a library thrive by focusing its resources on those parts of the collection... |
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Redemption: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Last 31 Hours
Joseph Rosenbloom · Beacon Press
Pages: 289
Format: Hardcover
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An "immersive, humanizing, and demystifying" (Charles Blow, New York Times) look at the final hours of Dr. King's life as he seeks to revive the non-violent civil rights movement and push to end poverty in America.At 10:33 a.m. on April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,... |
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The Hostage's Daughter: A Story of Family, Madness, and the Middle East
Sulome Anderson · Dey Street Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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In this gripping blend of reportage, memoir, and analysis, a journalist and daughter of one of the world's most famous hostages, Terry Anderson, takes an intimate look at her father's captivity during the Lebanese Hostage Crisis and the ensuing political firestorm on both her family and the United... |
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All the Presidents' Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power
Nomi Prins · Perseus Books Group
Pages: 521
Format: Print book
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Who rules America?All the Presidents' Bankers is a groundbreaking narrative of how an elite group of men transformed the American economy and government, dictated foreign and domestic policy, and shaped world history.Culled from original presidential archival documents, All the Presidents'... |
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A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History
Nicholas Wade · Penguin Press
Pages: 278
Format: Hardcover
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Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story Fewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of different... |
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The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis
Patrick Kingsley · Liveright Publishing Corp
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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In the humane tradition of Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers comes a searing account of the international refugee crisis. Intrepid and empathetic, Patrick Kingsley has traveled through seventeen countries to bear witness to the largest forced migration since the end of World... |
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