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Scalia Speaks: Reflections on Law, Faith, and Life Well Lived
ANTONIN SCALIA CHRISTOPHER SCALIA · Crown Forum
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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This definitive collection of beloved Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's finest speeches covers topics as varied as the law, faith, virtue, pastimes, and his heroes and friends. Featuring a foreword by longtime friend Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and an intimate introduction by his youngest... |
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Sh*tshow!: The Country's Collapsing . . . and the Ratings Are Great
CHARLIE LEDUFF · Penguin Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A daring, firsthand, and utterly-unscripted account of crisis in America, from Ferguson to Flint to Cliven Bundy's ranch to Donald Trump's unstoppable campaign for President--at every turn, Pulitzer-prize winner and bestselling author of Detroit: An American Autopsy, Charlie LeDuff was thereIn... |
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The High Cost of Good Intentions: A History of U.S. Federal Entitlement Programs
John F Cogan · Stanford University Press
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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Federal entitlement programs are strewn throughout the pages of U.S. history, springing from the noble purpose of assisting people who are destitute through no fault of their own. Yet as federal entitlement programs have grown, so too have their inefficiency and their cost. Neither tax revenues... |
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The Art of Loading Brush: New Agrarian Writings
Wendell Berry · Counterpoint
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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"Berry's essays, continuing arguments begun in The Unsettling of America 40 years ago, will be familiar to longtime readers, blending his farm work with his interests in literature old and new . . . Vintage Berry sure to please and instruct his many admirers." -- Kirkus Reviews... |
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Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
Joe Biden · Flatiron Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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A deeply moving memoir about the year that would forever change both a family and a country. In November 2014, thirteen members of the Biden family gathered on Nantucket for Thanksgiving, a tradition they had been celebrating for the past forty years; it was the one constant in what... |
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Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
Gordon S Wood · Penguin Press
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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From the great historian of the American Revolution, New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer-winning Gordon Wood, comes a majestic dual biography of two of America's most enduringly fascinating figures, whose partnership helped birth a nation, and whose subsequent falling out did much to fix its course.Thomas... |
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Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America
Vegas Tenold · Nation Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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The dark story of the shocking resurgence of white supremacist and nationalist groups, and their path to political powerSix years ago, when Vegas Tenold began reporting from the inner circle of three white power groups in America -- the KKK, the National Socialist Movement, and the Traditionalist... |
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Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul
JEREMIAH MOSS · Dey Street Books
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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"ESSENTIAL READING FOR FANS OF JANE JACOBS, JOSEPH MITCHELL, PATTI SMITH, LUC SANTE AND CHEAP PIEROGI."--VANITY FAIRAn unflinching chronicle of gentrification in the twenty-first century and a love letter to lost New York by the creator of the popular and incendiary blog Vanishing... |
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Barron's Police Officer Exam, 10th Edition
Donald Schroeder Ph.D. · Barron's Educational Series
Pages: 672
Format: Print book
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This updated manual presents information, practice tests, and strategies for the different question types used by police departments throughout the country. It includes:Four full-length practice exams with all questions answered and explainedTwo official exams given by a large metropolitan... |
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Syria Burning: A Short History of a Catastrophe
Charles Glass · Verso
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
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What are the origins of the Syrian crisis, and why did no one do anything to stop it?Since the upsurge of the Arab Spring in 2011, the Syrian civil war has claimed in excess of 200,000 lives, with an estimated 8 million Syrians, more than a third of the country's population, forced to flee... |
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We Were Eight Years in Power: A Journey Through the Obama Era
TA-NEHISI COATES · One World
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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In these "urgently relevant essays,"* the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me "reflects on race, Barack Obama's presidency and its jarring aftermath"* - including the election of Donald Trump."We were eight years in power" was the lament... |
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Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times
Nancy F Koehn · Scribner
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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From a brilliant historian at the Harvard Business School, here is a masterful, in-depth portrait of five extraordinary figures - Ernest Shackleton, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Rachel Carson - that illuminates how great leaders are made in times of adversity... |
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Under Fire: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Trump White House
APRIL RYAN · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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Veteran White House reporter April Ryan thought she had seen everything in her two decades as a White House correspondent. And then came the Trump administration. In Under Fire, Ryan takes us inside the confusion and chaos of the Trump White House to understand how she and other reporters... |
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