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The Road Taken: A Memoir

PATRICK LEAHY - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A historic, sweeping memoir from United States Senator Patrick Leahy, currently the chamber's longest-serving senator and President Pro Tempore. In his landmark memoir The Road Taken, Patrick Leahy looks back on a life lived on the front lines of American politics. As the senior-most...
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Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends

LINDA KINSTLER - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

A few years ago Linda Kinstler discovered that a man fifty years dead - a former Nazi who belonged to the same killing unit as her grandfather - was the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation in Latvia. The proceedings threatened to pardon his crimes. They put on the line hard-won...
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Munich 1923

John Dornberg - Harpercollins
Format: Hardcover

The pivotal point in the rise of the Nazis in Germany: the Beerhall Putsch
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The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan

Elliot Ackerman - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its desperate endgame, and the war's echoing legacyElliot Ackerman left the American military ten years ago, but his time in Afghanistan and Iraq with the Marines and later as a CIA paramilitary officer...
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Putin

PHILIP SHORT - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

The first comprehensive, fully up-to-date biography of Vladimir Putin, woven into the tumultuous saga of Russia over the last sixty years Vladimir Putin is the world's most dangerous man. Alone among world leaders, he has the power to reduce the United States and Europe to ashes in a nuclear...
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The Big Lie: Election Chaos, Political Opportunism, and the State of American Politics After 2020

Jonathan Lemire - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

A probing and illuminating analysis of the current state of American politics, focusing on Donald Trump's lie about election fraud, by the White House Bureau Chief of Politico and the host of MSNBC's Way Too Early.Jonathan Lemire uncovers that "The Big Lie," as it's...
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The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party

Dana Milbank - Doubleday
Format: Kindle Edition

A scathing history of twenty-five years of Republican attempts to hold on to political power by any means necessary, by a hugely popular Washington Post political columnistIn 1994, more than 300 Republicans under the command of obstructionist and rabble-rouser Congressman Newt Gingrich...
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Political Prisoner: Persecuted, Prosecuted, but Not Silenced

PAUL MANAFORT - Skyhorse
Format: Hardcover

A riveting account of the HOAX that sent a presidential campaign chairman to solitary confinement because he wouldn't turn against the President of the United States. The chief weapon deployed by the government-corporate-media Establishment against the Trump presidency was propaganda....
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Why I Stand

Jonathan Isaac - DW Books
Format: Hardcover

Facing public criticism, peer hostility, and widespread disapproval, would you compromise your principles to blend in with the crowd, or would you stand for what you believe?On July 31, 2020, the Orlando Magic starting forward Jonathan Isaac was the lone NBA player not to kneel for the national...
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Asian American Histories of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY)

Catherine Ceniza Choy - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

An inclusive and landmark history, emphasizing how essential Asian American experiences are to any understanding of US historyOriginal and expansive, Asian American Histories of the United States is a nearly 200-year history of Asian migration, labor, and community formation in the US. Reckoning...
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