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The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present
John Pomfret · Henry Holt and Company Pages: 704 Format: Print book
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A remarkable history of the two-centuries-old relationship between the United States and China, from the Revolutionary War to the present dayFrom the clipper ships that ventured to Canton hauling cargos of American ginseng to swap Chinese tea, to the US warships facing off against China's... |
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United
Cory Booker · Ballantine Books Pages: 223 Format: Print book
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"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER A passionate new voice in American politics, United States Senator Cory Booker makes the case that the virtues of empathy, responsibility, and action must guide our nation toward a brighter future. Raised in northern New Jersey, Cory Booker went to Stanford... |
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Willoughbyland: England's Lost Colony
Matthew Parker · Thomas Dunne Books Pages: 294 Format: Hardcover
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At the beginning of the 1650s, wrecked by plague and civil war, England was in ruins. Yet shimmering on the horizon was a vision of paradise called Willoughbyland.When Sir Walter Raleigh set out to South America to find the legendary city of El Dorado, he paved the way for an endless series... |
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Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca
John McWhorter · Bellevue Literary Press Pages: 192 Format: Print book
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"One of our sharpest explainers of linguistics." - Steven Pinker"In Talking Back, Talking Black, John McWhorter, the maestro at communicating linguistics to the public, succeeds in helping the reader to 'actually hear Black English in a new way,' while hipping linguists... |
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Herbert Hoover in the White House: The Ordeal of the Presidency
Charles Rappleye · Simon & Schuster Pages: 554 Format: Print book
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"A deft, filled-out portrait of the thirty-first president...by far the best, most readable study of Hoover's presidency to date." - Publishers Weekly Rappleye's surprising portrait of a Depression-era president Herbert Hoover reveals a very different figure than the usual Hoover,... |
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The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis
Patrick Kingsley · Liveright Publishing Corp Pages: 368 Format: Print book
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In the humane tradition of Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers comes a searing account of the international refugee crisis. Intrepid and empathetic, Patrick Kingsley has traveled through seventeen countries to bear witness to the largest forced migration since the end of World... |
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
TIMOTHY SNYDER · TIM DUGGAN BOOKS Pages: 128 Format: Print book
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"The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism,... |
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The Year of Voting Dangerously The Derangement of American Politics
Maureen Dowd · Twelve Pages: 320 Format: Print book
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Maureen Dowd's incendiary takes and takedowns from 2016--the most bizarre, disruptive and divisive Presidential race in modern history. Trapped between two candidates with the highest recorded unfavorables, Americans are plunged into The Year of Voting Dangerously. In this perilous and shocking... |
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