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Shameless: Republicans' Deliberate Dysfunction and the Battle to Preserve Democracy

Brian Tyler Cohen - Harper
Format: Hardcover

From the first content creator to interview President Biden, leading progressive voice Brian Tyler Cohen takes a step back from the day-to-day news cycle to explain how American politics has turned into such a dumpster fire - and what Democrats need to do to get us out of it.In Shameless,...
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Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II

Elyse Graham - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the war At the start of WWII, the US found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) , a precursor to today's CIA, was quickly...
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Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty

Hillary Rodham Clinton - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

What would it be like to sit down for an impassioned, entertaining conversation with Hillary Clinton? In Something Lost, Something Gained, Hillary offers her candid views on life and love, politics, liberty, democracy, the threats we face, and the future within our reach.. She describes...
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Lies that Kill: A Citizen's Guide to Disinformation

Elaine Kamarck - Brookings Institution Press
Format: Hardcover

"Everyone, whether they work in the public sector or are private citizens, will find this book invaluable." - BOOKLIST , Starred ReviewDisinformation made possible by rapid advances in cheap, digital technology, and promoted by organized networks, thrives in the toxic political...
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Chaos Comes Calling: The Battle Against the Far-Right Takeover of Small-Town America

Sasha Abramsky - Bold Type Books
Format: Hardcover

A harrowing tale of how polarization threatened to break apart two American communities and how one found a way back while the other splintered.. Donald Trump's November 2016 electoral victory was the beginning of four years of demagogy, presidential name-calling, and - ten months into...
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By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land

Rebecca Nagle - Harper
Format: Hardcover

A powerful work of reportage and American history that braids the story of the forced removal of Native Americans onto treaty lands in the nation's earliest days, and a small-town murder in the '90s that led to a Supreme Court ruling reaffirming Native rights to that land over a century...
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Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden

Bill O'Reilly - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Instant #1 New York Times and USA Today nonfiction bestseller!Every American president, from Washington to Biden: Their lives, policies, foibles, and legacies, assessed with clear-eyed authority and wit.. Authors of the acclaimed Killing books, the #1 bestselling narrative history series...
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Reagan: His Life and Legend

Max Boot - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

Son of the Midwest, movie star, and mesmerizing politician -- America's fortieth president comes to three-dimensional life in this gripping and profoundly revisionist biography.From best-selling biographer Max Boot comes this revelatory portrait, a decade in the making, of Ronald Reagan,...
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Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic

Ilan Pappe - Oneworld Publications
Format: Hardcover

Revealed: How pro-Israel lobbying groups influence the Middle East policies of Britain, the US and others. In 1896, a Jewish state was a pipe dream. Today the overwhelming majority of Jews identify as Zionists. How did this happen? Ilan Pappe unveils how over a century of aggressive lobbying...
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Do The Work: A guide to understanding power and creating change.

Dr. Megan Pillow - Leaping Hare Press
Format: Paperback

Challenge your biases and broaden your understanding of power and how we wield it with this essential guide. Power is complex. But Do The Work is a guide to navigating those complexities. From ancient theories of power to contemporary examples, from cultural patterns to personal insights,...
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