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The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin

Douglas Smith · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing, little-known story of an American effort to save the newly formed Soviet Union from disasterAfter decades of the Cold War and renewed tensions, in the wake of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, cooperation between the United States and Russia...
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Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale

Minter, Adam · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Junkyard Planet, a journey into the surprising afterlives of our former possessions.Downsizing. Decluttering. A parent's death. Sooner or later, all of us are faced with things we no longer need or want. But when we drop our old clothes and other items off at a local...
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Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

Ronan Farrow · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost.In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story...
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They Don't Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy

Lawrence Lessig · Dey Street Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

With insight and urgency, Harvard law professor and author of the bestselling Republic, Lost Lawrence Lessig argues that our government does not represent us and shows that reform is both essential and possible. America's democracy is in crisis. Along many dimensions, a single flaw...
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Canyon Dreams: A Basketball Season on the Navajo Nation

Michael Powell · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

The moving story of a Navajo high school basketball team, its members struggling with the everyday challenges of high school, adolescence, and family, and the great and unique obstacles facing Native Americans living on reservations. Deep in the heart of northern Arizona, in a small and isolated...
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A Republic, If You Can Keep It

Gorsuch, Neil · Crown Forum
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Justice Neil Gorsuch reflects on his journey to the Supreme Court, the role of the judge under our Constitution, and the vital responsibility of each American to keep our republic strong. As Benjamin Franklin left the Constitutional Convention, he was reportedly asked what kind of government...
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American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power

Andrea Bernstein · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

A multigenerational saga of two families, who rose from immigrant roots to the pinnacle of wealth and power, that tracks the unraveling of American democracy.In American Oligarchs, award-winning investigative journalist Andrea Bernstein tells the story of the Trump and Kushner families...
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The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control

Steven Hassan · Free Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

One of America's leading experts in cults and mind-control provides an eye-opening analysis of Trump and the indoctrination tactics he uses to build a fanatical devotion in his supporters.Over the past two years, Trump's behavior has become both more disturbing and yet increasingly...
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In Defense of Open Society

Soros, George · PublicAffairs
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

An impassioned defense of open society, academic and media freedom, and human rights.George Soros--universally known for his philanthropy, progressive politics, and investment success--has long been under sustained attack from the far right, nationalists, and anti-Semites in the United...
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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

Erik Larson · Crown
Pages: 608
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz"A bravura performance by one of America's greatest storytellers." - NPRNAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED...
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