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The Drone Memos: Targeted Killing, Secrecy, and the Law
Jameel Jaffer · The New Press
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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The Drone Memos collects for the first time the legal and policy documents underlying the U.S. government's deeply controversial practice of "targeted killing" - the extrajudicial killing of suspected terrorists and militants, typically using remotely piloted aircraft or "drones."... |
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Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life
Jenna Bush Hager · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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The Last 100 Days: FDR at War and at Peace
David B Woolner · Basic Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing portrait of the end of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's life and presidency, shedding new light on how he made his momentous final policy decisionsThe first hundred days of FDR's presidency are justly famous, often viewed as a period of political action without equal in American... |
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The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life
LAUREN MARKHAM · Crown
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California - fighting to survive, to stay, and to belong.Growing up in rural El Salvador in the wake of the civil war, Ernesto Flores had always had a fascination with the United... |
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A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System
T R REID · PENGUIN Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Bestselling author T. R. Reid voyages around the world to solve the urgent problem of America's failing tax code, unraveling a complex topic in plain English and telling a rollicking story along the way.The U.S. tax code is a total write-off. Overstuffed with loopholes and special interest... |
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9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America: And Four Who Tried to Save Her
Brion McClanahan · Regnery History
Format: Hardcover
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Of the forty-four presidents who have led the United States, nine made mistakes that permanently scarred the nation. Which nine? Brion McClanahan, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers and The Founding Fathers Guide to the Constitution, will surprise readers... |
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Our Latest Longest War: Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan
Aaron B O'Connell · The University of Chicago Press
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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The first rule of warfare is to know one's enemy. The second is to know thyself. More than fifteen years and three quarters of a trillion dollars after the US invasion of Afghanistan, it's clear that the United States followed neither rule well. America's goals in Afghanistan were lofty... |
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Media Madness: Donald Trump, the Press, and the War over the Truth
Howard Kurtz · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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With outrageous examples of left-wing media bias and insider scoops on front-page skirmishes between the Trump White House and reporters, Howard Kurtz's new book is an astonishing exposé of the media industry that is reminiscent of Bernard Goldberg's game changing New York Times bestseller... |
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The Education Invasion: How Common Core Fights Parents for Control of American Kids
Joy Pullmann · Encounter Books
Pages: 280
Format: Print book
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In 2009, a conglomerate of unelected, self-appointed officials met behind closed doors to create a set of rules that would outline what children must learn in every grade in core K-12 classes. In 2010, the Obama administration required states to use these rules for curriculum and tests... |
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Age of Anger: A History of the Present
Pankaj Mishra · Farrar
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisisHow can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world - from American 'shooters' and ISIS to Trump, from a rise in vengeful... |
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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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