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21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Yuval N Harari · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of today's most pressing issues. How do computers and robots change the meaning of being human? How do we deal with the epidemic...

The Improbable Wendell Willkie: The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country, and Conceived a New World Order

David Levering Lewis · Liveright
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner comes this surprising portrait of Wendell Willkie, the businessman-turned-presidential candidate who (almost) saved America's dysfunctional political system.In the wake of one of the most tumultuous Republican conventions ever, the party of Lincoln...

Frank and Al: FDR, Al Smith, and the Unlikely Alliance That Created the Modern Democratic Party

Terry Golway · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The inspiring story of an unlikely political partnership -- between a to-the-manor-born Protestant and a Lower East Side Catholic -- that transformed the Democratic Party and led to the New DealIn the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Democratic Party was bitterly split between its urban...

The Watchdogs Didn't Bark: How the NSA Failed to Protect America from the 9/11 Attacks

RAY NOWOSIELSKI · Hot Books
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

The Watchdogs Didn't Bark takes a fact-based, character-driven approach to telling the shocking, previously unrevealed story of the NSA's failure to protect America on 9/11. Citing new insider testimony, the book explores how and why the world's most powerful and least understood...

(((Semitism) ) ) : Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump

Jonathan Weisman · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Michael Eric Dyson, author of Tears We Cannot Stop: "With eloquence and poignancy Weisman shows how hatred can slowly and quietly chew away at the moral fabric of society. We now live in an age where more than ever bigotry and oppression no longer need to hide in fear of reproach....

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

Carol Anderson · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

National Book Critics Circle Award WinnerNew York Times BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the YearA Boston Globe Best Book of 2016A Chicago Review of Books Best Nonfiction Book of 2016From the Civil War to our combustible present,...

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Robin J DiAngelo · Beacon Press
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

Groundbreaking book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when discussing racism that serve to protect their positions and maintain racial inequalityIn this groundbreaking and timely book, antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white...

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