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#NeverAgain: A New Generation Draws the Line
DAVID HOGG · Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
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From two students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School comes a declaration for our times, and an in-depth look at the making of the #NeverAgain movement that arose after the Parkland, Florida, shooting.On February 14, 2018, seventeen-year-old David Hogg and his fourteen-year-old sister,... |
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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
Daniel Immerwahr · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empireWe are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire," exercising power around the world. But what... |
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Proof of Collusion: How Trump Betrayed America
Seth Abramson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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For the first time, the full, explosive record of the unthinkable: how a US president compromised American foreign policy in exchange for the promise of future business and covert election assistance.Looking back at this moment in history, historians will ask if Americans knew they were... |
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The War for the Common Soldier: How Men Thought, Fought, and Survived in Civil War Armies
Peter S. Carmichael · The University of North Carolina Press
Pages: 408
Format: Hardcover
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How did Civil War soldiers endure the brutal and unpredictable existence of army life during the conflict? This question is at the heart of Peter S. Carmichael's sweeping new study of men at war. Based on close examination of the letters and records left behind by individual soldiers... |
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LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media
P W Singer · Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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Two defense experts explore the collision of war, politics, and social media, where the most important battles are now only a click away. Through the weaponization of social media, the internet is changing war and politics, just as war and politics are changing the internet. Terrorists... |
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Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House
Cliff Sims · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The first honest insider's account of the Trump administration. After standing at Donald Trump's side on Election Night, Cliff Sims joined him in the West Wing as Special Assistant to the President and Director of White House Message Strategy.He soon found himself pulled into the President's... |
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John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court
Richard Brookhiser · Basic Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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The life of John Marshall, Founding Father and America's premier Chief Justice In 1801, a genial and brilliant Revolutionary War veteran and politician became the fourth Chief Justice of the United States. He would hold the post for 34 years (still a record) , expounding the Constitution... |
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The Hollywood Jim Crow: The Racial Politics of the Movie Industry
Maryann Erigha · NYU Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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The story of racial hierarchy in the American film industry The #OscarsSoWhite campaign, and the content of the leaked Sony emails which revealed, among many other things, that a powerful Hollywood insider didn't believe that Denzel Washington could "open" a western genre... |
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Henry's Men: And the Men Who Made Him
Tracy Borman · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Henry VIII is best known in history for his tempestuous marriages and the fates of his six wives. However, as acclaimed historian Tracy Borman makes clear in her illuminating new chronicle of Henry's life, his reign and reputation were hugely influenced by the men who surrounded and interacted... |
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