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Assault and Flattery: The Truth About the Left and Their War on Women
Assault and Flattery: The Truth About the Left and Their War on Women

Katie Pavlich · Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and FOX News contributor Katie Pavlich exposes the truth behind the real war on women—the one being waged by Democrats. Assault and Flattery goes beyond the Democratic Partys rhetoric and exposes its shocking and sustained assault on American women that...
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Closing the Courthouse Door: How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable
Closing the Courthouse Door: How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable

Erwin Chemerinsky · Yale University Press
Pages: 280
Format: Print book

A leading legal scholar explores how the constitutional right to seek justice has been restricted by the Supreme Court The Supreme Court's decisions on constitutional rights are well known and much talked about. But individuals who want to defend those rights need something else as well:...
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The Great Divide: Why Liberals and Conservatives Will Never, Ever Agree
The Great Divide: Why Liberals and Conservatives Will Never, Ever Agree

William D. Gairdner · Encounter Books
Format: Hardcover

The theme of The Great Divide is that the populations of the democratic world, from Boston to Berlin, Vancouver to Venice, are becoming increasingly divided from within, due to a growing ideological incompatibility between modern liberalism and conservatism. This is partly due to a complex...
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Citizen Hollywood: How the Collaboration between LA and DC Revolutionized American Politics
Citizen Hollywood: How the Collaboration between LA and DC Revolutionized American Politics

Timothy Stanley · Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press, 2014.
Pages: 309
Format: Print book

To most Americans, Hollywood activism consists of self-obsessed movie stars promoting their pet causes, whether defending marijuana legalization or Second Amendment rights. There's some truth in that stereotype, and in this book you'll find the close personal friends of Fidel Castro,...
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A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order
A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order

Richard Haass · Penguin Press
Pages: 339
Format: Print book

An examination of a world increasingly defined by disorder and a United States unable to shape the world in its image, from the president of the Council on Foreign RelationsThings fall apart; the center cannot hold. The rules, policies, and institutions that have guided the world since...
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Big Money: 2.5 Billion Dollars, One Suspicious Vehicle, and a Pimp—on the Trail of the Ultra-Rich Hijacking American Politics
Big Money: 2.5 Billion Dollars, One Suspicious Vehicle, and a Pimp—on the Trail of the Ultra-Rich Hijacking American Politics

Kenneth P Vogel · PublicAffairs
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Mark Hanna - the turn-of-the-century iron-and-coal-magnate-turned-operative who leveraged massive contributions from the robber barons - was famously quoted as saying: "There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money, and I can't remember what the second one is."...
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Relic: How Our Constitution Undermines Effective Government--and Why We Need a More Powerful Presidency
Relic: How Our Constitution Undermines Effective Government--and Why We Need a More Powerful Presidency

William G Howell · Basic Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Our government is failing us. From health care to immigration, from the tax code to climate change, our political institutions cannot deal effectively with the challenges of modern society. Why the dysfunction? Contemporary reformers single out the usual suspects, including polarization...
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Captured: The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy
Captured: The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy

Sheldon Whitehouse · New Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

In Captured, U.S. Senator and former federal prosecutor Sheldon Whitehouse offers an eye-opening take on what corporate influence looks like today from the Senate Floor, adding a first-hand perspective to Jane Mayer's Dark Money. Americans know something is wrong in their government....
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America Needs Talent: Attracting, Educating & Deploying the 21st-Century Workforce
America Needs Talent: Attracting, Educating & Deploying the 21st-Century Workforce

Jamie Merisotis · Rosettabooks
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover

"This book should be on the desk of every 2016 Presidential candidate." --Anne-Marie Slaughter, President and CEO, New AmericaWith falling wages and rising inequality, persistent unemployment, failing schools, and broken cities, have America's best days come and gone?In America...
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By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission
By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission

Charles Murray
Pages: 336
Format: Book

The American way of life, built on individual liberty and limited government, is on life support.American freedom is being gutted. Whether we are trying to run a business, practice a vocation, raise our families, cooperate with our neighbors, or follow our religious beliefs, we run afoul...
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To the Far Right Christian Hater...You Can Be a Good Speller or a Hater, But You Can't Be Both: Official Hate Mail, Threats, and Criticism from the ... of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation
To the Far Right Christian Hater...You Can Be a Good Speller or a Hater, But You Can't Be Both: Official Hate Mail, Threats, and Criticism from the ... of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation

Bonnie Weinstein · Rare Bird Books
Pages: 253
Format: Print book

From the six-time Nobel Peace Prize nominated Military Religious Freedom Foundation's official archives comes this jaw-dropping collection of hate mail, threats, and criticisms of the MRFF's efforts to ensure that all members of the United States Armed Forces fully receive the Constitutional...
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Adults Just Wanna Have Fun: Programs for Emerging Adults
Adults Just Wanna Have Fun: Programs for Emerging Adults

Audrey Barbakoff · ALA Editions
Pages: 136
Format: Print book

There are a wealth of resources out there geared towards serving the needs of toddlers, school age children, young adults, and senior citizens. But something's missing. Library users in their 20s and 30s constitute one of the most underserved populations for public libraries, and there's...
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The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis
The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis

Patrick Kingsley · Liveright Publishing Corp
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

In the humane tradition of Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers comes a searing account of the international refugee crisis. Intrepid and empathetic, Patrick Kingsley has traveled through seventeen countries to bear witness to the largest forced migration since the end of World...
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Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial
Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial

Kenji Yoshino · Crown
Format: Hardcover

A renowned legal scholar tells the definitive story of Hollingsworth v. Perry, the trial that will stand as the most potent argument for marriage equalitySpeak Now tells the story of a watershed trial that unfolded over twelve tense days in California in 2010. A trial that legalized same-sex...
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Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education
Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education

Mychal Denzel Smith · Nation Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

How do you learn to be a black man in America? For young black men today, it means coming of age during the presidency of Barack Obama. It means witnessing the deaths of Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Akai Gurley, and too many more. It means celebrating powerful moments of black...
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