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Above and Beyond: John F. Kennedy and America's Most Dangerous Cold War Spy Mission

CASEY SHERMAN · PublicAffairs
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From the authors of the bestselling The Finest Hours, the riveting, deeply human story of President John F. Kennedy and two U-2 pilots, Rudy Anderson and Chuck Maultsby, who risked their lives to save America during the Cuban Missile Crisis. During an infamous thirteen-day stretch of October...
 
 
Armed in America: A History of Gun Rights from Colonial Militias to Concealed Carry

PATRICK J CHARLES · Prometheus Books
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

This accessible legal history describes the way in which the right to bear arms was interpreted throughout most of American history and shows that today's gun-rights advocates have drastically departed from the long-held interpretation of the Second Amendment. This illuminating study traces...
 
 
Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession

Reinier de Graaf · Harvard University Press
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

Architecture, we like to believe, is an elevated art form that shapes the world as it pleases. Four Walls and a Roof challenges this notion, presenting a candid account of what it is really like to work as an architect.Drawing on his own tragicomic experiences in the field, Reinier de Graaf...
 
 
Social Media and Politics

Glenn W Richardson · Praeger
Pages: 567
Format: Hardcover

This two-volume set explores the various ways social media are profoundly changing politics in America.* Covers key political and cultural issues in today's discourse -- such as gay marriage, race, gender, "big data," and hyper-surveillance -- from a variety of perspectives...
 
 
The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right

MAX BOOT · Liveright
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Warning that the Trump presidency presages America's decline, the political commentator recounts his extraordinary journey from lifelong Republican to vehement Trump opponent.As nativism, xenophobia, vile racism, and assaults on the rule of law threaten the very fabric of our nation, The Corrosion...
 
 
Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In

Anonymous. · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Throughout the Presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders galvanized voters with his progressive platform and vision for America. In the book, Sanders shares experiences from the campaign trail and outlines his ideas for continuing a political revolution to fight for a progressive economic,...
 
 
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...
 
 
Invisible Men: A Contemporary Slave Narrative in the Era of Mass Incarceration

Flores A Forbes · W W Norton
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

Flores Forbes, a former leader in the Black Panther Party, has been free from prison for twenty-five years. Unfortunately that makes him part of a group of black men without constituency who are all but invisible in society. That is, the "invisible" group of black men in America...
 
 
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Richard Rothstein · Liveright
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A Publisher's Weekly Top 10 Best Books of 2017 Long-listed for the National Book Award "Rothstein has presented what I consider to be the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation." -- William...
 
 
I Couldn't Even Imagine That They Would Kill Us: An Oral History of the Attacks Against the Students of Ayotzinapa

John Gibler · City Lights Publishers
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback

Harrowing personal narratives describing how Mexican authorities disappeared, killed, and injured scores of students and others in a still-unsolved crime. "In Mexico, John Gibler's book has been recognized as a journalistic masterpiece, an instant classic, and the most powerful indictment...
 
 
We Wear the Mask: 15 True Stories of Passing in America

Brando Skyhorse · Beacon Press
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

Fifteen writers reveal their diverse experiences with passing - including racial, ethnic, sexual orientation, gender, and economic forms of passing.American history is filled with innumerable examples of "passing." Why do people pass? The reasons are manifold: opportunity, access,...
 
 
White House Warriors: How the National Security Council Transformed the American Way of War

John Gans · Liveright
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

"The NSC, part star chamber, part gladiator arena, and part Game of Thrones drama is expertly revealed to us in the pages of Gans' primer on Washington power." -- Kurt Campbell, Chairman of the Asia Group, LLCSince its founding more than seventy years ago, the National Security...
 
 
Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times

Kenneth Whyte · Knopf
Pages: 736
Format: Hardcover

The definitive biography of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century, Herbert Hoover--a revisionist account that will forever change the way Americans understand the man, his presidency, and his battle against the Great Depression. A poor orphan who built a fortune,...
 
 
The Reckonings: Essays

LACY JOHNSON · Scribner
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

This extraordinary, timely new collection of essays by the award-winning writer of The Other Side - rooted in her own experience with sexual assault - pursues questions of justice, sexual violence, and retribution.In 2014, Lacy Johnson was giving a reading from The Other Side, her "instant...
 
 
The Revolution that Failed: Reconstruction in Natchitoches

Adam Fairclough · University Press of Florida
Pages: 406
Format: Hardcover

The chaotic years after the Civil War are often seen as a time of uniquely American idealism--a revolutionary attempt to rebuild the nation that paved the way for the civil rights movement of the twentieth century. But Adam Fairclough rejects this prevailing view, challenging prominent...