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In Our Backyard: Human Trafficking in America and What We Can Do to Stop It
Nita Belles · Baker Books
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
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In recent years, Americans have woken up to the reality that human trafficking is not just something that happens in other countries. But what most still do not understand is that neither is it something that just happens to "other people" such as runaways or the disenfranchised.... |
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Growing Up Queer: Kids and the Remaking of LGBTQ Identity
Mary Robertson · NYU Press
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
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LGBTQ kids reveal what it's like to be young and queer today Growing Up Queer explores the changing ways that young people are now becoming LGBT-identified in the US. Through interviews and three years of ethnographic research at an LGBTQ youth drop-in center, Mary Robertson focuses... |
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Impeachment: An American History
JonMeacham · Modern Library
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Four experts on the American presidency examine the three times impeachment has been invoked - against Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton - and explain what it means today.Impeachment is a double-edged sword. Though it was designed to check tyrants, Thomas Jefferson also called... |
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The Unstoppable Ruth Bader Ginsburg: American Icon
Antonia Felix · Sterling
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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On the 25th anniversary of her appointment to the Supreme Court, this unofficial pictorial retrospective celebrates and honors the barrier-breaking achievements of Ruth Bader Ginsburg - the "Notorious RBG." Featuring a foreword by Mimi Leder, award-winning filmmaker and director... |
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The Phoney Victory: The World War II Illusion
Peter Hitchens · I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Was World War II really the 'Good War'? In the years since the declaration of peace in 1945 many myths have sprung up around the conflict in the victorious nations. In this book, Peter Hitchens deconstructs the many fables which have become associated with the narrative of the 'Good... |
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Dark Commerce: How a New Illicit Economy Is Threatening Our Future
Louise I. Shelley · Princeton University Press
Pages: 376
Format: Hardcover
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A comprehensive look at the world of illicit trade Though mankind has traded tangible goods for millennia, recent technology has changed the fundamentals of trade, in both legitimate and illegal economies. In the past three decades, the most advanced forms of illicit trade have broken with... |
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Winter War: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the First Clash Over the New Deal
Eric Rauchway · Basic Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The history of the most acrimonious presidential handoff in American history--and of the origins of twentieth-century liberalism and conservatism When Franklin Roosevelt defeated Herbert Hoover in the 1932 election, they represented not only different political parties but vastly different... |
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The Rise of Andrew Jackson: Myth, Manipulation, and the Making of Modern Politics
David Stephen Heidler · Basic Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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The story of Andrew Jackson's improbable ascent to the White House, centered on the handlers and propagandists who made it possibleAndrew Jackson was volatile and prone to violence, and well into his forties his sole claim on the public's affections derived from his victory in a thirty-minute... |
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