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The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy

Anna Clark · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The first full account of the Flint, Michigan, water scandal, an American tragedy, with new details, from Anna Clark, the award-winning Michigan journalist who has covered the story from its beginnings

When the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014,...

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Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom

Thomas E Ricks · Penguin Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks, a dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, whose farsighted vision and inspired action preserved democracy from the threats of authoritarianism, from the left and right alike

Both George Orwell and Winston...
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Exploding Data: Reclaiming Our Cyber Security in the Digital Age

MICHAEL CHERTOFF · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The most dangerous threat we -- individually and as a society and country -- face today is no longer military, but rather the increasingly pervasive exposure of our personal information; nothing undermines our freedom more than losing control of information about ourselves. And yet, as daily...
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The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian · Columbia Global Reports
Pages: 162
Format: eBook

The buying and selling of citizenship has become a legitimate, thriving business in just a few years. Entrepreneurs are renouncing America and Europe in favor of tax havens in the Caribbean with the help of a cottage industry of lawyers, bankers, and consultants that specialize in expatriation....
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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...
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IMPROBABLE WENDELL WILLKIE : the businessman who saved the republican party and his country, and... conceived a new world order

DAVID LEVERING LEWIS · Liveright Pub Corp
Pages: 352
Format: Print book


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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

Daniel Immerwahr · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire

We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire," exercising power around the world....

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Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter

Jordan T Camp · Verso
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A probing collection of essays and interviews addressing police brutality and racial injusticePolicing has become one of the urgent issues of our time, the target of dramatic movements and front-page coverage from coast to coast in the United States and across the world. Now a wide-ranging...
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Headcase: LGBTQ Writers & Artists on Mental Health and Wellness

Stephanie Schroeder · Oxford University Press
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover

Headcase is a groundbreaking collection of personal reflections and artistic representations illustrating the intersection of mental wellness, illness, and LGBTQ identity, as well as the lasting impact of historical views equating queer and trans identity with mental illness. The pieces...
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No More Heroes: Grassroots Challenges to the Savior Mentality

Jordan Flaherty · AK Press
Pages: 175
Format: Print book

How can we build a better world? And why do so many people with privilege end up making things worse when they try to help? It's called the savior mentality, and Jordan Flaherty finds it in FBI informants, anti-sex-work crusaders, Teach For America corps members, and out-of-touch journalists....
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Reckless: Henry Kissinger and the Tragedy of Vietnam

Robert K. Brigham · PublicAffairs
Pages: 304
Format: eBook

Henry Kissinger's role in the Vietnam War prolonged the American tragedy and doomed the government of South Vietnam The American war in Vietnam was concluded in 1973 after eight years of fighting, bloodshed, and loss. Yet the terms of the truce that ended the war were effectively identical...
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Children of Monsters: An Inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators

Jay Nordlinger · Encounter Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

What's it like to be the son or daughter of a dictator? A monster on the Stalin level? What's it like to bear a name synonymous with oppression, terror, and evil?Jay Nordlinger set out to answer that question, and does so in this book. He surveys 20 dictators in all. They are the worst...
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Melting Pot or Civil War?: A Son of Immigrants Makes the Case Against Open Borders

Reihan Salam · Sentinel
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Will the America of the future be peaceful and united, or it will be wracked by intense ethnic and class conflicts that will undermine our most cherished ideals? Reihan Salam, one of today's brightest young conservatives, argues that the answer hinges on how we as a society choose to manage...
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A Brotherhood of Spies: The U-2 and the CIA's Secret War

Monte Reel · Doubleday
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A thrilling dramatic narrative of the top-secret Cold War-era spy plane operation that transformed the CIA and brought the U.S. and the Soviet Union to the brink of disasterOn May 1, 1960, an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union just weeks before a peace summit between...
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The Treaty of Versailles: A Concise History

Michael S Neiberg · Oxford University Press
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover

Signed on June 28, 1919 between Germany and the principal Allied powers, the Treaty of Versailles formally ended World War I. Problematic from the very beginning, even its contemporaries saw the treaty as a mediocre compromise, creating a precarious order in Europe and abroad and destined...
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