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The World That Wasn't: Henry Wallace and the Fate of the American Century

Benn Steil - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed economist-historian and author of The Marshall Plan, a "timely, riveting" (The Washington Post) new perspective on the political career of Henry Wallace - one that will forever change how we view the making of US and Soviet foreign policy at the dawn of the Cold...
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Partisan Hostility and American Democracy: Explaining Political Divisions and When They Matter (Chicago Studies in American Politics)

James N. Druckman - University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback

An unflinching examination of the effects and boundaries of partisan animosity.For generations, experts argued that American politics needed cohesive parties to function effectively. Now many fear that strong partisan views, particularly hostility to the opposing party, are damaging democracy....
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Terrorists on the Border and in Our Country

Charles A. Marino - Humanix Books
Format: Hardcover

A nationally recognized security expert reveals the REAL Terrorist threat from the U.S. Southern Border and already INSIDE America. Terrorists on the Border and in Our Country reveals how radical, left-wing, liberal politicians and woke, progressive, "defund-the-police," and "stop-the-wall,"...
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Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever

Joseph Cox - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

The inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI made its own tech start-up to wiretap the world, shows how cunning both the authorities and drug traffickers have become, with privacy implications for everyone.. In 2018, a powerful app for secure communications...
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The Hivemind Swarmed: Conversations on Gamergate, the Aftermath, and the Quest for a Safer Internet

David Wolinsky - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

An incisive oral history that brings together the voices of major figures in gaming, tech, media, and politics to reflect on the long shadow of Gamergate. With The Hivemind Swarmed, oral historian and documentary researcher David Wolinsky invites readers to sit in on a series of urgent,...
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Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past

Steve Benen - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover

A searing, vital investigation of the Republican Party's dangerous campaign to rewrite history in real time, from the Emmy Award-winning Rachel Maddow Show producer and bestselling author of The Impostors."There is nobody ... who has more influence on the way I think about politics...
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How to Be a Citizen: Learning to Be Civil Without the State

C. L. Skach - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

An expert on the writing of constitutions argues that the path to a thriving society begins with forgetting about them: "Not James Madison but Bob Dylan or Annie Lennox should be our guide" (Mark Tushnet) . . In 2009, constitutional scholar C. L. Skach went to Iraq to help revise...
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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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Reap the Whirlwind: Violence, Race, Justice, and the Story of Sagon Penn

Peter Houlahan - Counterpoint LLC
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of Norco '80 returns with a riveting story of mid-1980s San Diego that placed one young Black man at the center of a whirlwind of crime and punishment that profoundly altered Southern CaliforniaMarch 31, 1985. Two white patrol officers in search of a gang member...
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All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way

Fred C. Trump - Gallery Books
Format: Audio CD

With revealing, never-before-told stories, Fred C. Trump III, nephew of President Donald Trump, breaks his decades-long silence in this honest memoir and sheds a whole new light on the family name.. For the record ... Fred Trump never asked for any of this. The divisive politics. The endless...
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