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New Titles - Politics
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The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage
Mara Hvistendahl · Riverhead Books
Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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A riveting true story of industrial espionage in which a Chinese-born scientist is pursued by the U.S. government for trying to steal trade secrets, by a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction. In September 2011, sheriff's deputies in Iowa encountered three ethnic Chinese men near... |
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The World's Most Prestigious Prize: The Inside Story of the Nobel Peace Prize
Geir Lundestad · Oxford University Press
Pages: 240 Format: Hardcover
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The World's Most Prestigious Prize: The Inside Story of the Nobel Peace Prize is a fascinating, insider account of the Nobel Peace Prize. Drawing on unprecedented access to the Norwegian Nobel Institute's vast archive, it offers a gripping account of the founding of the prize, as well... |
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Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home
Richard Bell · 37 Ink
Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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A gripping and true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South - and their daring attempt to escape and bring their captors to justice, reminiscent of Twelve Years A Slave and Never Caught. Philadelphia, 1825: five young, free black... |
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Eight Days at Yalta: How Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin Shaped the Post-War World
Diana Preston · ATLANTIC MONTHLY PR
Format: Hardcover
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While some of the last battles of WWII were being fought, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin -- the so-called "Big Three" -- met from February 4-11, 1945, in the Crimean resort town of Yalta. Over eight... |
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Why We're Polarized
Ezra Klein · Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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Discover how American politics became a toxic system, why we participate in it, and what it means for our future - from journalist, political commentator, and cofounder of Vox, Ezra Klein. After Election Day 2016, both supporters and opponents of the soon-to-be president hailed his victory... |
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The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
Kaplan, Fred · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 384 Format: Hardcover
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From the author the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear war - and Presidents' actions in nuclear crises - from Truman to Trump.Fred Kaplan, hailed by The New York Times as "a rare combination of defense... |
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Someone Is Out to Get Us: A Not So Brief History of Cold War Paranoia and Madness
Brian Brown · Twelve
Pages: 512 Format: Hardcover
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From UFOs to Dr. Strangelove, LSD experiments to Richard Nixon, author Brian Brown investigates the paranoid, panicked history of the Cold War.In Someone Is Out to Get Us, Brian T. Brown explores the delusions, absurdities, and best-kept secrets of the Cold War, during which the United... |
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The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
Emma Copley Eisenberg · Hachette Books
Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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A stunningly written investigation of the murder of two young women--showing how a violent crime casts a shadow over an entire community. In the early evening of June 25, 1980 in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, two middle-class outsiders named Vicki Durian, 26, and Nancy Santomero, 19, were... |
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Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law
JeffreyRosen · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 272 Format: Hardcover
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In her own words, Ruth Bader Ginsburg offers an intimate look at her life and career, through an extraordinary series of conversations with the head of the National Constitution Center.This remarkable book presents a unique portrait of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, drawing on more than twenty... |
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