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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Richard Rothstein · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

An explosive, alarming history that finally confronts how American governments in the twentieth century deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide. Lauded by Ta-Nehisi Coates for his "brilliant" and "fine understanding of the machinery of government...
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Richard Nixon: The Life

John A Farrell · Doubleday
Pages: 752
Format: Print book

Brilliantly researched, authoritatively crafted by a prize-winning biographer, and lively on the page, this is the Nixon we've been waiting for. Richard Nixon opens with young Navy lieutenant "Nick" Nixon returning from the Pacific and setting his cap at Congress, an idealistic...
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Beyond the Messy Truth: How We Came Apart, How We Come Together

VAN JONES · Ballantine Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A passionate manifesto that exposes hypocrisy on both sides of the political divide and points a way out of the tribalism that is tearing America apart - by the CNN political contributor and host hailed as "a star of the 2016 campaign" (The New York Times) who tries to "fight...
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The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age

David Callahan · Knopf
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

An inside look at the secretive world of elite philanthropists--and how they're quietly wielding ever more power to shape American life in ways both good and bad. While media attention focuses on famous philanthropists such as Bill Gates and Charles Koch, thousands of donors are at work...
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Ike and McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower's Secret Campaign against Joseph McCarthy

David A Nichols · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 385
Format: Hardcover

Revealed for the first time, this is the full story of how President Dwight Eisenhower masterminded the downfall of the anti-Communist demagogue Senator Joseph McCarthy.Behind the scenes, Eisenhower loathed McCarthy, the powerful Republican senator notorious for his anti-Communist witch...
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Ronald Reagan: New Deal Republican

Henry Olsen · Broadside Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Preface by Jon MeachamIn this sure to be controversial book in the vein of The Forgotten Man, a political analyst argues that conservative icon Ronald Reagan was not an enemy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal, but his true heir and the popular program's ultimate savior.Conventional...
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Taking a Stand: Moving Beyond Partisan Politics to Unite America

Rand Paul · Center Street
Format: Hardcover

Senator Rand Paul, leading national politician and likely contender for the 2016 Presidential bid, presents his vision for America. In his four years since joining the Senate, Rand Paul has risen to the forefront of the national discussion. He's being called "the most interesting...
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Overload: Finding the Truth in Today's Deluge of News

BOB SCHIEFFER · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 190
Format: Hardcover

We are in the midst of a communications revolution. We have access to more information than any people in history. But are we more informed or just overwhelmed by so much information we can't process? In Overload, legendary television journalist Bob Schieffer examines today's journalism...
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The Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life

Jonathan F P Rose · Harper Wave
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

In the vein of Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities and Edward Glaeser's Triumph of the City, Jonathan F. P. Rose - a visionary in urban development and renewal - champions the role of cities in addressing the environmental, economic, and social challenges of the twenty-first...
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The Retreat of Western Liberalism

Edward Luce · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 226
Format: Hardcover

In his widely acclaimed book Time to Start Thinking, Financial Times chief US columnist and commentator Edward Luce charted the course of America's relative decline, proving to be a prescient voice on our current social and political turmoil. In The Retreat of Western Liberalism, Luce...
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Kingdoms in the Air: Dispatches from the Far Away

Bob Shacochis · Grove Press
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

"Shacochis has extended his knowledge and imagination into places most of us have never ventured." - Washington PostBest known for his sweeping international and political fiction narratives, including The Woman Who Lost Her Soul, which won the Dayton Peace Prize and was finalist...
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Library Service Design: A LITA Guide to Holistic Assessment, Insight, and Improvement

Joe Marquez · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 156
Format: Print book

Service design is a holistic, co-creative, and user-centered approach to understanding user behavior for creating or refining services. Use this LITA Guide to help as a toolkit for implementing service design studies and projects at all types of libraries. It begins with directions for how to create...
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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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Winning Marriage: The Inside Story of How Same-Sex Couples Took on the Politicians and Punditsand Won

Marc Solomon · ForeEdge
Format: Book

Ten years ago no state allowed same-sex couples to marry, support for gay marriage nationwide hovered around 30 percent, and politicians everywhere thought of it as the third rail of American politics—draw near at your peril. Today, same-sex couples can marry in seventeen states, polls...
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Encyclopedia of Cyber Warfare

Paul J Springer · ABC-CLIO
Pages: 379
Format: Hardcover

This definitive reference resource on cyber warfare covers all aspects of this headline topic, providing historical context of cyber warfare and an examination its rapid development into a potent technological weapon of the 21st century.* Provides comprehensive coverage of the major individuals,...
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