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Waging War: The Clash Between Presidents and Congress, 1776 to ISIS
David J Barron · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 576
Format: Print book
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"A first-rate history filled with revealing incidents and informed analysis." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A timely account of a raging debate: The history of the ongoing struggle between the presidents and Congress over who has the power to declare and wage war.The Constitution... |
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This Brave New World: India, China and the United States
Anja Manuel · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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In the next decade and a half, China and India will become two of the world's indispensable powers - whether they rise peacefully or not. During that time, Asia will surpass the combined strength of North America and Europe in economic might, population size, and military spending. Both... |
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Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
James Jr Forman · Farrar
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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In recent years, America's criminal justice system has become the subject of an increasingly urgent debate. Critics have assailed the rise of mass incarceration, emphasizing its disproportionate impact on people of color. As James Forman, Jr., points out, however, the war on crime that... |
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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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The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age
David Callahan · Knopf
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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An inside look at the secretive world of elite philanthropists--and how they're quietly wielding ever more power to shape American life in ways both good and bad. While media attention focuses on famous philanthropists such as Bill Gates and Charles Koch, thousands of donors are at work... |
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100 Days in the Life of Rutherford Hayes
Eric Ebinger · Orange Frazer Pr
Pages: 213
Format: Paperback
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The greatest tragedy in all of American historical biography is that President Rutherford Hayes has been thrown in the trash. Ignored-or worse-dismissed as an average president, Hayes has, since he left office in 1881, become one of the least regarded presidents in United States history.... |
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A Colony in a Nation
Chris Hayes · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times best-selling author and Emmy Award-winning news anchor Chris Hayes argues that there are really two Americas: a Colony and a Nation.America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a postracial world, yet nearly every empirical measure -- wealth, unemployment, incarceration,... |
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St. Petersburg: Madness, Murder, and Art on the Banks of the Neva
JONATHAN MILES · Pegasus Books
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover
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From Peter the Great to Putin, this is the unforgettable story of St Petersburg -- one of the most magical, menacing, and influential cities in the world. St. Petersburg has always felt like an impossible metropolis, risen from the freezing mists and flooded marshland of the River Neva... |
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Sharp
Michelle Dean · Grove Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet Malcolm -- these brilliant women are the central figures of Sharp. Their lives intertwine as they cut through the cultural and intellectual history of America... |
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Advice and Dissent: Why America Suffers When Economics and Politics Collide
Alan S Blinder · Basic Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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A bestselling economist tells us what both politicians and economists must learn to fix America's failing economic policiesAmerican economic policy ranks as something between bad and disgraceful. As leading economist Alan S. Blinder argues, a crucial cultural divide separates economic and political... |
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