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The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era

Gary Gerstle - ‎Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

A Financial Times Best Book of 2022. Shortlisted for Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award. The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half century before crashing against the forces of Trumpism on the right and a new progressivism...
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A Worthy Piece of Work: The Untold Story of Madeline Morgan and the Fight for Black History in Schools

Michael Hines - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

The story of Madeline Morgan, the activist educator who brought Black history to one of the nation's largest and most segregated school systemsA Worthy Piece of Work tells the story of Madeline Morgan (later Madeline Stratton Morris) , a teacher and an activist in WWII-era Chicago,...
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To Risk It All: Nine Conflicts and the Crucible of Decision

James Stavridis USN - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

From one of the great naval leaders of our time, a master class in decision-making under pressure through the stories of nine famous acts of leadership in battle, drawn from the history of the United States Navy, with outcomes both glorious and notoriousAt the heart of Admiral James Stavridis's...
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The Constitution Explained: A Guide for Every American

David L. Hudson Jr JD - Visible Ink Press
Format: Paperback

The United States Constitution is a short document, and it is written in general language, which leaves much of the meaning unwritten and open to interpretation. Dig into this important document and watershed in the history of governments!Explore the history, the various clauses, amendments,...
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Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure

Rinker Buck - ‎Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Audacious ... Life on the Mississippi sparkles." - The Wall Street Journal * "A rich mix of history, reporting, and personal introspection." - St. Louis Post-Dispatch * "Both a travelogue and an engaging history lesson about America's...
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River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile

Candice Millard - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The harrowing story of one of the great feats of exploration of all time and its complicated legacy - from the New York Times bestselling author of The River of Doubt and Destiny of the RepublicFor millennia the location of the Nile River's headwaters was shrouded...
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Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda

John Maxwell Hamilton
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the Goldsmith Book Prize by the Harvard Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public PolicyManipulating the Masses tells the story of the enduring threat to American democracy that arose out of World War I: the establishment of pervasive, systematic propaganda as an instrument...
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African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals

David Hackett Fischer - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

In this sweeping, foundational work, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Hackett Fischer draws on extensive research to show how enslaved Africans and their descendants enlarged American ideas of freedom in varying ways in different regions of the early United States.African Founders...
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Supertall: How the World's Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives

Stefan Al - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

The global boom in skyscrapers -- why it's happening now, how they're made, and what they do to cities and people.We are living in a new urban age, and its most tangible expression is the "supertall": megastructures that are dramatically bigger, higher, and more ambitious...
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Facts About the Presidents, Ninth Edition

H.W. Wilson
Format: Hardcover

The authoritative source for information about the lives, backgrounds, and terms of office of every American president, from George Washington onward.Wilson's acclaimed Facts About the Presidents continues with its much-anticipated Ninth Edition. Written for both general readers and researchers,...
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