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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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(((Semitism) ) ) : Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump
Jonathan Weisman · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Michael Eric Dyson, author of Tears We Cannot Stop: "With eloquence and poignancy Weisman shows how hatred can slowly and quietly chew away at the moral fabric of society. We now live in an age where more than ever bigotry and oppression no longer need to hide in fear of reproach.... |
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President Carter: The White House Years
Stuart Eizenstat · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 1024
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive history of the Carter Administration from the man who participated in its surprising number of accomplishments -- drawing on his extensive and never-before-seen notes.Stuart Eizenstat was at Jimmy Carter's side from his political rise in Georgia through four years in the White... |
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The Chibok Girls: The Boko Haram Kidnappings and Islamist Militancy in Nigeria
Helon Habila · Columbia Global Reports
Pages: 108
Format: Print book
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On April 14, 2014, 276 girls from the Chibok Secondary School in northern Nigeria were kidnapped by Boko Haram, the world's deadliest terrorist group. Most were never heard from again. Acclaimed Nigerian novelist Helon Habila, who grew up in northern Nigeria, returned to Chibok and gained... |
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein · Liveright
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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A Publisher's Weekly Top 10 Best Books of 2017 Long-listed for the National Book Award "Rothstein has presented what I consider to be the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation." -- William... |
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8 Seconds of Courage: A Soldier's Story from Immigrant to the Medal of Honor
FLO GROBERG · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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A story of valor and the making of a hero - Florent Groberg, who grew up in France, emigrated to the US, and was the first immigrant in forty years to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor after he saved many lives by tackling a suicide bomber in Afghanistan.Florent "Flo" Groberg... |
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Armed in America: A History of Gun Rights from Colonial Militias to Concealed Carry
PATRICK J CHARLES · Prometheus Books
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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This accessible legal history describes the way in which the right to bear arms was interpreted throughout most of American history and shows that today's gun-rights advocates have drastically departed from the long-held interpretation of the Second Amendment. This illuminating study traces... |
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Burden: A Preacher, a Klansman, and a True Story of Redemption in the Modern South
Courtney Hargrave · Convergent Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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THE TRUE EVENTS THAT INSPIRED THE UPCOMING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Forest Whitaker, Garrett Hedlund, and Usher, and produced by Robbie Brenner (Dallas Buyers Club) A harrowing true story of the modern Ku Klux Klan and an act of grace that shook a community in the Deep South.In... |
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Letters to Memory
Karen Tei Yamashita · Coffee House Press
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
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Praise for Karen Tei Yamashita:"It's a stylistically wild ride, but it's smart, funny and entrancing." - NPR"Fluid and poetic as well as terrifying." - New York Times Book ReviewWith delightful plays of voice and structure, this is literary fiction at an adventurous,... |
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Dangerous
Milo Yiannopoulos · Dangerous Books
Pages: 285
Format: Hardcover
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The liberal media machine did everything they could to keep this book out of your hands. Now, finally, Dangerous, the most controversial book of the decade, is tearing down safe spaces everywhere. |
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Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America
Peter Edelman · The New Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In addition to exposing racially biased policing, the Justice Department's Ferguson Report exposed to the world a system of fines and fees levied for minor crimes in Ferguson, Missouri, that, when they proved too expensive for Ferguson's largely poor, African American population, resulted... |
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Heavy: An American Memoir
Kiese Laymon · Scribner
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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*Named a Best Book of 2018 by the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Broadly, Buzzfeed (Nonfiction) , The Undefeated, Library Journal (Biography/Memoirs) , The Washington Post (Nonfiction) , Southern Living (Southern) , Entertainment Weekly, and The New York Times Critics*... |
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Romance of the Rails: Why the Passenger Trains We Love Are Not the Transportation We Need
Randal O'Toole · Cato Institute
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover
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American transportation has undergone many technological revolutions: from sailing ships to steam ships; from canals to railroads; from steam to Diesels; from horse cars to electric streetcars; from passenger trains and urban rail transit to airplanes and automobiles. Normally, the government... |
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