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Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company

Alice Driver - Atria/One Signal Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, an explosive exposé of the toxic labor practices at the largest meatpacking company in America and the immigrant workers who had the courage to fight back.. On June 27, 2011, a deadly chemical accident took place inside the Tyson Foods...
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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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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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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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Foreign Agents: How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy Around the World

Casey Michel - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A stunning investigation and indictment of a segment of the United States' foreign lobbying industry, and the threat to end democracy.. For years, one group of Americans has worked as foot-soldiers for the most authoritarian regimes around the planet. In the process, they've not only...
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Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health

Marty Makary M.D. - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

From Johns Hopkins medical expert Dr. Marty Makary, the New York Times-bestselling author of The Price We Pay-an eye-opening look at the medical groupthink that has led to public harm, and what you need to know about your health.. More Americans have peanut allergies today than at any point...
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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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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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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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Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

Madhumita Murgia - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction. A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial intelligence, revealing the perils and inequities of our growing reliance on automated decision-making. On the surface, a British poet, an UberEats courier...
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