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Gaslighting America: Why We Love It When Trump Lies to Us

Amanda Carpenter · Broadside Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A CNN contributor, former Ted Cruz staffer, and "Never Trump" adherent reveals a shocking truth: Donald Trump's lies and fabrications don't horrify America - they enthrall us - and explains how we can avoid falling for them."Can you believe what Donald Trump said?"In...
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Fascism

MADELEINE ALBRIGHT · Harper
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From one of the most admired international leaders, comes a timely, considered, and personal look at the history and current resurgence of fascism today and the virulent threat it poses to international freedom, prosperity, and peace. At the end of the 1980s, when the Cold War ended, many,...
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The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

Timothy Snyder · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the rise of authoritarianism from Russia to Europe and America.With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy was thought to be final. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized...
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Impeachment : a citizen's guide

Cass R Sunstein · Harvard University Press
Pages: 208

As Benjamin Franklin famously put it, Americans have a republic, if we can keep it. Preserving the Constitution and the democratic system it supports is the public's responsibility. One route the Constitution provides for discharging that duty--a route rarely traveled--is impeachment....
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War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence

RONAN FARROW · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

A harrowing exploration of the collapse of American diplomacy and the abdication of global leadership.American diplomacy is under siege. Offices across the State Department sit empty, while abroad the military-industrial complex has assumed the work once undertaken by peacemakers. We're...
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Lady in Red: An Intimate Portrait of Nancy Reagan

SHEILA TATE · Crown Forum
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Lady in Red is the long-awaited collection of behind-the-scenes stories and iconic images of one of the most influential First Lady in modern history -- Nancy Reagan. Lovingly compiled by long-time close confidante and aide, Sheila Tate, the book provides a rare and much-anticipated look...
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

Anthony Ray Hinton · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit.In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only twenty-nine...
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A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership

James B Comey, Jr. · Flatiron Books
Pages: 304
Format: eBook

In his book, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like, and how it drives sound decisions. His journey...
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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...
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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,...
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