|
In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History
MITCH LANDRIEU · Viking Pages: 240 Format: Hardcover
|
"An extraordinarily powerful journey that is both political and personal...An important book for everyone in America to read." --Walter Isaacson,#1 New York Times bestselling author of Leonardo Da Vinci and Steve JobsThe New Orleans mayor who removed the Confederate statues confronts... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Common Good
Robert B Reich · Knopf Pages: 208 Format: Hardcover
|
From the best-selling author of Saving Capitalism and The Work of Nations, a passionate, clear-eyed manifesto on why we must restore the idea of the common good to the center of our economics and politics.With the warmth and lucidity that have made him one of our most important public voices,... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
ELAINE F WEISS · Viking Pages: 416 Format: Hardcover
|
The nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political battles in American history: the ratification of the constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote. "Anyone interested in the history of our country's ongoing fight to put its founding values into practice--as... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
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... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
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... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
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... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
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... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
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... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Treating People Well: The Extraordinary Power of Civility at Work and in Life
Lea Berman · Scribner Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
|
A guide to personal and professional empowerment through civility and social skills, written by two White House Social Secretaries who offer an important fundamental message - everyone is important and everyone deserves to be treated well.Former White House social secretaries Lea Berman,... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
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... |
|
|
|
|
|