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Hitler's Secret Army: A Hidden History of Spies, Saboteurs, and Traitors

Tim Tate · Pegasus Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

This dramatic exposé of Allied subterfuge and betrayal uncovers the treachery of undercover fascists and American Nazi spy rings during the height of World War II. Between 1939 and 1945, more than seventy Allied men and women were convicted -- mostly in secret trials -- of working to help...
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Lean Out: The Truth About Women, Power, and the Workplace

Marissa Orr · HarperCollins Leadership
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

More than fifty years since the passage of the Equal Pay Act, the wage gap still hovers at 80 percent. Half a billion dollars are spent annually on corporate diversity programs, yet only 5 percent of CEOs in the Fortune 500 are women. Lean Out is an ambitious attempt to answer the question...
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The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties

PAUL COLLIER · Harper
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

From world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair it.Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of the United States and other Western societies: thriving cities versus rural counties,...
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Young Castro: The Making of a Revolutionary

Jonathan M. Hansen · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

An intimate, revisionist portrait of the early years of Fidel Castro, showing how an unlikely young Cuban led his country in revolution and transfixed the world.This book will change how you think about Fidel Castro. Until now, biographers have treated Castro's life like prosecutors,...
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War and the Rogue Presidency: Restoring the Republic after Congressional Failure

Ivan Eland · Independent Institute
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In War and the Rogue Presidency, Ivan Eland shows that almost immediately after the nation's founding, starting with the first presidency of George Washington, the executive's role in defense and foreign policy began expanding past what the framers of the Constitution had envisioned....
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Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

Jared Diamond · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

A brilliant new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, by the author of the landmark bestsellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse. In his earlier bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what...
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Siege: Trump Under Fire

Michael Wolff · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Michael Wolff, author of the bombshell bestseller Fire and Fury, once again takes us inside the Trump presidency to reveal a White House under siege.With Fire and Fury, Michael Wolff defined the first phase of the Trump administration; now, in Siege, he has written an equally essential...
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Not on My Watch: How to Win the Fight for Family, Faith and Freedom

Elizabeth Johnston · Worthy Publishing
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

News headlines point to a world that has gone stark-raving mad. Right is wrong, and wrong is right. Religious liberty is under attack. Gender identity and fluidity is not only accepted but encouraged. Same-sex marriage is embraced by many churches. Deviant sexual practices are taught in schools....
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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 the life...
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The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century

Clay Risen · Scribner
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The dramatic story of the most famous regiment in American history: the Rough Riders, a motley group of soldiers led by Theodore Roosevelt, whose daring exploits marked the beginning of American imperialism in the 20th century. When America declared war on Spain in 1898, the US Army had just...
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