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Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty

Hillary Rodham Clinton - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

What would it be like to sit down for an impassioned, entertaining conversation with Hillary Clinton? In Something Lost, Something Gained, Hillary offers her candid views on life and love, politics, liberty, democracy, the threats we face, and the future within our reach.. She describes...
 
 
Countdown 1960: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of the 312 Days that Changed America's Politics Forever

Chris Wallace - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

A riveting new work and fresh take on the lead-up to the presidential election of 1960, drawing timely parallels to the choice Americans face in 2024. It's January 2, 1960: the day that Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy declared his candidacy; and with this opening scene, Chris...
 
 
The Latino Century: How America's Largest Minority Is Transforming Democracy

Mike Madrid - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

An insightful investigation of how and why the two major political parties have failed to appeal to the Latino vote - the second largest ethnic voting group in the country - and the impact it will have on American democracy and politics for decades to come.. In 2020, Latinos became the second...
 
 
War

Bob Woodward - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three wars - Ukraine, the Middle East and the struggle for the American Presidency.. War is an intimate and sweeping account of one of the most tumultuous periods in presidential politics and American...
 
 
Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic

Lindsay M. Chervinsky - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

An authoritative account of the second president of the United States that shows how John Adams's leadership and legacy defined the office for those who followed and ensured the survival of the American republic.. The United States of 1797 faced enormous challenges, provoked by enemies...
 
 
A Return to Common Sense: How to Fix America Before We Really Blow It

Leigh McGowan - Atria/One Signal Publishers
Format: Hardcover

A political book for non-political people from viral TikTok sensation PoliticsGirl. . Something's gone wrong in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. We can all feel it, but if we're being honest, most of us don't understand it. At the end of the day, we don't...
 
 
John Lewis: A Life

David Greenberg - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A comprehensive, authoritative biography of Civil Rights icon John Lewis, "the conscience of the Congress," drawing on interviews with Lewis and approximately 275 others who knew him at various stages of his life, as well as never-before-used FBI files and documents.. Born into...
 
 
Fentanyl Nation: Toxic Politics and America's Failed War on Drugs

Ryan Hampton - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A passionate call to abandon ineffective drug-war policies, reframe addiction as a public health issue, and end the Fentanyl crisis.The American overdose crisis has reached record-breaking heights; preventable overdoses are now responsible for more annual deaths than traffic accidents,...
 
 
Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past

Steve Benen - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover

A searing, vital investigation of the Republican Party's dangerous campaign to rewrite history in real time, from the Emmy Award-winning Rachel Maddow Show producer and bestselling author of The Impostors."There is nobody ... who has more influence on the way I think about politics...
 
 
Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda

Megan Basham - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover

"This may just be the single most important book on modern Evangelicalism in recent years. It is bold, clear, and very well-researched." - John MacArthurHow deeply have leftist billionaires infiltrated America's churches?Liberal theology isn't new. Pastors and theologians...