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Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency
ANONYMOUS. · Penguin Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump - the key to understanding the rise of the alt-right, the fall of Hillary Clinton, and the hidden forces that drove the greatest upset in American... |
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder · TIM DUGGAN BOOKS
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
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#1 New York Times BestsellerThe Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy... |
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Stanton: Lincoln's War Secretary
WALTER STAHR · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 720
Format: Hardcover
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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 Lincoln,... |
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Age of Anger: A History of the Present
Pankaj Mishra · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisisHow can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world -- from American shooters and ISIS to Donald Trump, from a rise in vengeful... |
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A Stone of Hope: A Memoir
Jim StGermain · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of The Other Wes Moore and Just Mercy, a searing memoir and clarion call to save our at-risk youth by a young black man who himself was a lost cause - until he landed in a rehabilitation program that saved his life and gave him purpose.Born into abject poverty in Haiti,... |
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Democracy: A Case Study
David A Moss · The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pages: 784
Format: Hardcover
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To all who declare that American democracy is broken -- riven by partisanship, undermined by extremism, and corrupted by wealth -- history offers hope. In nearly every generation since the nation's founding, critics have made similar declarations, and yet the nation is still standing.... |
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Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship
Michelle Kuo · Random House
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A memoir of race, inequality, and the power of literature told through the life-changing friendship between an idealistic young teacher and her gifted student, jailed for murder in the Mississippi Delta Recently graduated from Harvard University, Michelle Kuo arrived in the rural town of Helena,... |
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The Soul of the First Amendment
Floyd Abrams · Yale University Press
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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A lively and controversial overview by the nation's most celebrated First Amendment lawyer of the unique protections for freedom of speech in America The right of Americans to voice their beliefs without government approval or oversight is protected under what may well be the most honored... |
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