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The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies

JASON FAGONE · Dey Street Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Joining the ranks of Hidden Figures and In the Garden of Beasts, the incredible true story of the greatest codebreaking duo that ever lived, an American woman and her husband who invented the modern science of cryptology together and used it to confront the evils of their time, solving...
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Making David into Goliath: How the World Turned Against Israel

Joshua Muravchik · Encounter Books
Format: Hardcover

During the Six Day War of 1967, polls showed that Americans favored the Israelis over the Arabs by overwhelming margins. In Europe, support for Israel ran even higher. In the United Nations Security Council, a British resolution essentially gave Israel the terms of peace it sought and when...
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Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises

Timothy F. Geithner · Crown Publishers
Pages: 580
Format: Hardcover

New York Times BestsellerWashington Post BestsellerLos Angeles Times BestsellerStress Test is the story of Tim Geithner's education in financial crises. As president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and then as President Barack Obama's secretary of the Treasury, Timothy...
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Hacking ISIS: The War to Kill the Cyber Jihad

Malcolm Nance · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 296
Format: Print book

This book is written by two of the leading terrorist experts in the world - Malcolm Nance, NBC News/MSNBC terrorism analyst and New York Times bestselling author, and Christopher Sampson, cyber-terrorist expert. Malcolm Nance is a 35 year practitioner in Middle East Special Operations...
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Scalia Speaks: Reflections on Law, Faith, and Life Well Lived

ANTONIN SCALIA CHRISTOPHER SCALIA · Crown Forum
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

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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Enough Said: What's Gone Wrong with the Language of Politics?

Mark Thompson · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

There's a crisis of trust in politics across the western world. Public anger is rising and faith in conventional political leaders and parties is falling. Anti-politics, and the anti-politicians, have arrived. In Enough Said, President and CEO of The New York Times Company Mark Thompson...
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Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America

Ari Berman · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Countless books have been written about the civil rights movement, but far less attention has been paid to what happened after the dramatic passage of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) in 1965 and the turbulent forces it unleashed. Give Us the Ballot tells this story for the first time.In this...
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You Need a Schoolhouse: Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald, and the Building of Schools for the Segregated South

Stephanie Deutsch · Northwestern University Press
Pages: 218
Format: Paperback

Booker T. Washington, the founder of Tuskegee Institute, and Julius Rosenwald, the president of Sears, Roebuck, and Company, first met in 1911 at a Chicago luncheon. By charting the lives of these two men both before and after the meeting, Stephanie Deutsch offers a fascinating glimpse...
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Ratf**ked: How the Democrats Won the Presidency But Lost America

David Daley · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 257
Format: Print book

The explosive account of how Republican legislators and political operatives fundamentally rigged our American democracy through redistricting. With Barack Obama's historic election in 2008, pundits proclaimed the Republicans as dead as the Whigs of yesteryear. Yet even as Democrats swooned,...
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Social Security, Medicare and Government Pensions: Get the Most Out of Your Retirement and Medical Benefits

Joseph Matthews · NOLO
Pages: 488
Format: Paperback

Your complete guide to Social Security retirement and medical benefits. Everyone wants the highest possible retirement and pension income, not to mention the best medical coverage. Find out what you're entitled to with Social Security, Medicare & Government Pensions - completely...
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The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014

Carlotta Gall · Houghton Mifflin
Pages: 329
Format: Hardcover

Carlotta Gall has reported from Afghanistan and Pakistan for almost the entire duration of the American invasion and occupation, beginning shortly after 9/11. She knows just how much this war has cost the Afghan people, and how much damage can be traced to Pakistan and its duplicitous government...
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Social Security handbook : Overview of Social Security Programs, 2016

United States. Social Security Administration. · Bernan Press
Pages: 703
Format: Print book

The Social Security Handbook: Overview of Social Security Programs, 2016 provides information about Social Security programs and services, and identifies rights and obligations under the Social Security laws. The Handbook also contains information about related programs administered by agencies...
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Cracking the AP U.S. Government & Politics Exam 2018, Premium Edition

Princeton Review · Princeton Review
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback

PREMIUM PRACTICE FOR A PERFECT 5! Equip yourself to ace the AP U.S. Government & Politics Exam with this Premium version of The Princeton Review's comprehensive study guide - the best value on the market with 5 full-length tests at an affordable price.In addition to all the great...
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Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship That Shaped the Sixties

Kevin M. Schultz · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A lively chronicle of the 1960s through the surprisingly close and incredibly contentious friendship of its two most colorful characters.William F. Buckley, Jr., and Norman Mailer were the two towering intellectual figures of the 1960s, and they lived remarkably parallel lives. Both became...
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Radical Origins: Why We Are Losing the Battle Against Islamic Extremism?And How to Turn the Tide

Azeem Ibrahim · Pegasus Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Piercing and hard-hitting, an international expert pin-points the menacing rise of a radical ideology that is fueling ISIS and terror cells world-wide.More than thirteen years ago after the "War on Terror" was declared, many in the West now feel less secure than ever before. Many...
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