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Scorched Earth: Restoring America after Obama

Michael Savage · Center Street
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"New York Times" bestselling author Michael Savage reveals why we have an infected political system, and what we can now do to nurse the country back to health. Michael Savages says that for the past eight years there has been a retrovirus in the White House, and that the last...
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The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un

Anna Fifield · PublicAffairs
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The behind-the-scenes story of the rise and reign of the world's strangest and most elusive tyrant, Kim Jong Un, by the journalist with the best connections and insights into the bizarrely dangerous world of North Korea.
The Great Successor is an insightful quest to understand...
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The Prize: Who's in Charge of America's Schools?

Dale Russakoff · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

"Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Christie, and Cory Booker were ready to reform our failing schools. They got an education. When Mark Zuckerberg announced in front of a cheering Oprah audience his $100 million pledge to transform the Newark Schools -- and to solve the education crisis in every...
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Alt-Right: From 4Chan to the White House

MIKE WENDLING · Pluto Press
Pages: 204
Format: Paperback

Aside from the election of Donald Trump, the most surprising political development of the past few years has been the rapid rise of the Alt-Right - the white nationalist, anti-feminist, far-right movement that provided much of the ground-level energy for Trump's campaign and has been...
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Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World

BRUCE SCHNEIER · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The internet is powerful, but it is not safe. As "smart" devices proliferate the risks will get worse, unless we act now.

From driverless cars to smart thermostats, from autonomous stock-trading systems to drones equipped with their own behavioral algorithms, the internet...
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Stanton: Lincoln's War Secretary

WALTER STAHR · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 720
Format: Hardcover

Walter Stahr, award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Seward, tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's indispensable Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, the man the president entrusted with raising the army that preserved the Union.

Of the crucial men close to President...
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Beneath the Tamarind Tree: A Story of Courage, Family, and the Lost Schoolgirls of Boko Haram

Isha Sesay · Dey Street Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

"It is no accident that the places in the world where we see the most instability are those in which the rights of women and girls are denied. Isha Sesay's indispensable and gripping account of the brutal abduction of Nigerian schoolgirls by Boko Haram terrorists provides...

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Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency

ANDREW C MCCARTHY · Encounter Books
Pages: 456
Format: Hardcover

The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration.

The media-Democrat "collusion narrative," which paints Donald Trump as cat's paw of Russia, is a studiously...
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The Forgotten: How the People of One Pennsylvania County Elected Donald Trump and Changed America

BEN BRADLEE · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Named one of the "juiciest political books to come in 2018" by Entertainment Weekly.
An up-close look at the voters of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, who decisively swung the state for Donald J. Trump, and an examination of the role of the President's base as the midterm...
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A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History

Nicholas Wade · Penguin Press
Pages: 278
Format: Hardcover

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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Inside the Five-Sided Box: Lessons from a Lifetime of Leadership in the Pentagon

Ash Carter · Dutton
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

The twenty-fifth Secretary of Defense takes readers behind the scenes to reveal the inner workings of the Pentagon, its vital mission, and what it takes to lead it.

The Pentagon is the headquarters of the single largest institution in America: the Department of Defense. The D.O.D....
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Secrets of the Secret Service: The History and Uncertain Future of the U.S. Secret Service

GARY J BYRNE · Center Street
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover


SECRETS OF THE SECRET SERVICE is a unique, behind-the-scenes look at what makes the Secret Service tick and the increasingly reactive strategies and tactics that place presidential security at risk.

The United States Secret Service is tasked with one of the world's most important...
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The Best of Enemies, Movie Edition: Race and Redemption in the New South

Osha Gray Davidson · The University of North Carolina Press
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

C. P. Ellis grew up in the poor white section of Durham, North Carolina, and as a young man joined the Ku Klux Klan. Ann Atwater, a single mother from the poor black part of town, quit her job as a household domestic to join the civil rights fight. During the 1960s, as the country struggled...
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Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

James Jr Forman · Farrar
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

In recent years, America's criminal justice system has become the subject of an increasingly urgent debate. Critics have assailed the rise of mass incarceration, emphasizing its disproportionate impact on people of color. As James Forman, Jr., points out, however, the war on crime that...

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Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years

NELSON MANDELA · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The long-awaited second volume of Nelson Mandela's memoirs, left unfinished at his death and never before available, are here completed and expanded with notes and speeches written by Mandela during his historic presidency, making for a moving sequel to his worldwide bestseller Long...

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