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The Nixon Tapes: 1971–1972
Douglas Brinkley · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Pages: 758
Format: Print book
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The famous -- and infamous -- Nixon White House tapes that reveal forthe first time President Richard Nixon uncensored, unfiltered, and in hisown wordsPresident Nixon's voice-activated taping system captured every wordspoken in the Oval Office, Cabinet Room, and other key locations... |
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Anatomy of Terror: From the Death of bin Laden to the Rise of the Islamic State
ALI H SOUFAN · W W NORTON
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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A compelling, definitive account of how and why bin Laden's ideology keeps rising from the dead.When Osama bin Laden was killed by a U.S. Navy SEAL, many prophesied al-Qaeda's imminent demise. In reality the opposite has occurred. Why?Watching the Arab Spring from his Pakistani safe house,... |
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Depredation and Deceit: The Making of the Jicarilla and Ute Wars in New Mexico
Gregory Michno · University of Oklahoma Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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The Trade and Intercourse Acts passed by Congress between 1796 and 1834 set up a system for individuals to receive monetary compensation from the federal government for property stolen or destroyed by American Indians. By the end of the Mexican-American War, both Anglo-Americans and Nuevomexicanos... |
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Warrior Diplomat: A Green Beret's Battles from Washington to Afghanistan
Michael G. Waltz · Potomac Books Inc.
Format: Hardcover
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Grappling with centuries-old feuds, defeating a shrewd insurgency, and navigating the sometimes paralyzing bureaucracy of the U.S. military are issues that prompt sleepless nights for both policy makers in Washington DC and soldiers at war, albeit for different reasons. Few, however, have... |
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Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
Bruce Schneier · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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You are under surveillance right now.Your cell phone provider tracks your location and knows who's with you. Your online and in-store purchasing patterns are recorded, and reveal if you're unemployed, sick, or pregnant. Your e-mails and texts expose your intimate and casual friends.... |
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Dressed Up for a Riot: Misadventures in Putin's Moscow
MICHAEL IDOV · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A memoir of revolution, reaction, and Russian men's fashionIn this crackling memoir, the journalist and novelist Michael Idov recounts the tempestuous years he spent living alongside -- and closely observing -- the media and cultural elite of Putin's Russia. After accepting a surprise offer... |
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Where We Go from Here
BERNIE SANDERS · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Senator Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign was a beginning, not an end. In his new book, America's most popular political figure speaks about what he's been doing to oppose the Trump agenda and strengthen the progressive movement and how we go forward as a nation. |
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Hate Crimes in Cyberspace
Danielle Keats Citron · Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Most Internet users are familiar with trolling -- aggressive, foul-mouthed posts designed to elicit angry responses in a site's comments. Less familiar but far more serious is the way some use networked technologies to target real people, subjecting them, by name and address, to vicious,... |
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A Lie Too Big to Fail: The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
LIsa Pease · Feral House
Pages: 678
Format: Hardcover
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In A Lie Too Big to Fail, longtime Kennedy researcher (of both JFK and RFK) Lisa Pease lays out, in meticulous detail, how witnesses with evidence of conspiracy were silenced by the Los Angeles Police Department; how evidence was deliberately altered and, in some instances, destroyed;... |
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Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World
CONDE NAST & THE WOMEN'S MARCH. · Dey Street Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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WITH ESSAYS BY: ROWAN BLANCHARD * SENATOR TAMMY DUCKWORTH * AMERICA FERRARA * ROXANE GAY * ILANA GLAZER * ASHLEY JUDD * VALARIE KAUR * CINDI LEIVE * DAVID REMNICK * JILL SOLOWAY * YARA SHAHIDI * JIA TOLENTINO * CONGRESSWOMAN MAXINE WATERS * ELAINE WELTEROTH * JOSE ANTONIO... |
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The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History
Boris Johnson · Riverhead Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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From London's inimitable mayor, Boris Johnson, the story of how Churchill's eccentric genius shaped not only his world but our own. On the fiftieth anniversary of Churchill's death, Boris Johnson celebrates the singular brilliance of one of the most important leaders of the twentieth... |
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