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What Are We Doing Here?: Essays

Marilynne Robinson · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

New essays on theological, political, and contemporary themes, by the Pulitzer Prize winnerMarilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her renowned novels, including Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National...
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We Shall Bury You!: The Hunt for the Spies Who Changed the World

HOWARD BLUM · Harper
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Dark Invasion and The Last Goodnight once again illuminates the lives of little-known individuals who played a significant role in America's history as he chronicles the incredible true story of a critical, recently declassified counterintelligence...
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A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea

Masaji Ishikawa · AmazonCrossing
Pages: 172
Format: Hardcover

The harrowing true story of one man's life in - and subsequent escape from - North Korea, one of the world's most brutal totalitarian regimes.Half-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa has spent his whole life feeling like a man without a country. This feeling only deepened when...
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It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

David Cay Johnston · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 306
Format: eBook

New York Times Bestseller The Trump administration is remaking the government. It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America tells us exactly how it is making America worse again.Bestselling author and longtime Trump observer David Cay Johnston shines...
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Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations

Amy Chua · Penguin Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Yale Law School Professor Amy Chua offers a bold new prescription for reversing our foreign policy failures and overcoming our destructive political tribalism at home Humans are tribal. We need to belong to groups. In many parts...
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The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War

Benn Steil · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover

The award-winning author of The Battle of Bretton Woods reveals the gripping history behind the Marshall Plan - told with verve, insight, and resonance for today.In the wake of World War II, with Britain's empire collapsing and Stalin's on the rise, US officials under new secretary...
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The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border

FRANCISCO CANT · Riverhead Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

"A beautiful, fiercely honest, and nevertheless deeply empathetic look at those who police the border and the migrants who risk - and lose - their lives crossing it. In a time of often ill-informed or downright deceitful political rhetoric, this book is an invaluable corrective."--Phil...
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Media Madness: Donald Trump, the Press, and the War over the Truth

Howard Kurtz · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

With outrageous examples of left-wing media bias and insider scoops on front-page skirmishes between the Trump White House and reporters, Howard Kurtz's new book is an astonishing exposé of the media industry that is reminiscent of Bernard Goldberg's game changing New York Times...
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Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

MICHAEL WOLFF · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

With extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside storyof the most controversial presidency of our timeThe first nine months of Donald Trump's term were stormy, outrageous -- and absolutely mesmerizing. Now, thanks to his deep access to the West Wing,...
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Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016

Steve Coll · Penguin Press
Pages: 784
Format: Hardcover

Resuming the narrative of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars, bestselling author Steve Coll tells for the first time the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11Prior...
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