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Moral Combat: How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics
RMarie Griffith · Basic Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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From an esteemed scholar of American religion and sexuality, a sweeping account of the century of religious conflict that produced our culture wars Gay marriage, transgender rights, birth control--sex is at the heart of many of the most divisive political issues of our age. The origins... |
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The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
Daniel Ellsberg · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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From the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, an eyewitness exposé of the dangers of America's Top Secret, seventy-year-long nuclear policy that--chillingly--continues to this day.Here, for the first time, former high level defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg reveals... |
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Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
NOT AVAILABLE. · Flatiron Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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A deeply moving memoir about the year that would forever change both a family and a country. In November 2014, thirteen members of the Biden family gathered on Nantucket for Thanksgiving, a tradition they had been celebrating for the past forty years; it was the one constant in what... |
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What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism
Dan Rather · Algonquin Books
Pages: 274
Format: Hardcover
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"I find myself thinking deeply about what it means to love America, as I surely do." - Dan Rather At a moment of crisis over our national identity, venerated journalist Dan Rather has emerged as a voice of reason and integrity, reflecting on - and writing passionately about - what... |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life
ROBERT DALLEK · Viking
Pages: 704
Format: Hardcover
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A one-volume biography of Roosevelt by the #1 New York Times bestselling biographer of JFK, focusing on his career as an incomparable politician, uniter, and deal maker In an era of such great national divisiveness, there could be no more timely biography of one of our greatest presidents... |
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Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics
Lawrence O'Donnell · Penguin Press
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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From the host of MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, an important and enthralling new account of the presidential election that changed everything, the race that created American politics as we know it todayThe 1968 U.S. Presidential election was the young Lawrence O'Donnell's... |
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8 Seconds of Courage: A Soldier's Story from Immigrant to the Medal of Honor
FLO GROBERG · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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A story of valor and the making of a hero - Florent Groberg, who grew up in France, emigrated to the US, and was the first immigrant in forty years to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor after he saved many lives by tackling a suicide bomber in Afghanistan.Florent "Flo" Groberg... |
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Bethlehem: Biography of a Town
Nicholas Blincoe · Nation Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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An unforgettable history of the beloved little town published in time for the holidays Bethlehem is so suffused with history and myth that it feels like an unreal city even to those who call it home. For many, Bethlehem remains the little town at the edge of the desert described in Biblical... |
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