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The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
JON MEACHAM · Random House
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear. Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America Meacham shows... |
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The Marginalized Majority: Claiming Our Power in a Post-Truth America
ONNESHA ROYCHOUDHURI · Melville House
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
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"This book is a daring intervention to get us back in the game - and a witty, delightfully personal meditation on collective power." - Naomi Klein, author of No Is Not Enough and This Changes EverythingEver since the 2016 election, pundits have been saying our country has never... |
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Invisible Men: A Contemporary Slave Narrative in the Era of Mass Incarceration
Flores A Forbes · W W Norton
Pages: 208
Format: Print book
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Flores Forbes, a former leader in the Black Panther Party, has been free from prison for twenty-five years. Unfortunately that makes him part of a group of black men without constituency who are all but invisible in society. That is, the "invisible" group of black men in America... |
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Congress, Presidents, and American Politics: Fifty Years of Writings and Reflections
Lee Hamilton · Indiana University Press
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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When Lee H. Hamilton joined Congress in 1965 as a US Representative from southern Indiana, he began writing commentaries for his constituents describing his experiences, impressions, and developing views of what was right and wrong in American politics. He continued to write regularly throughout... |
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Age of Anger: A History of the Present
Pankaj Mishra · Farrar
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisisHow can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world - from American 'shooters' and ISIS to Trump, from a rise in vengeful... |
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Detroit 1967: Origins, Impacts, Legacies
Thomas J. Sugrue · Painted Turtle
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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In the summer of 1967, Detroit experienced one of the worst racially charged civil disturbances in United States history. Years of frustration generated by entrenched and institutionalized racism boiled over late on a hot July night. In an event that has been called a "riot,"... |
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How Propaganda Works
Jason Stanley · ; Oxford
Pages: 353
Format: Print book
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Our democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so, many of us believe that propaganda and manipulation aren't problems for us--not in the way they... |
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Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data
VIKTOR MAYER-SCHONBERGER · Basic Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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For the past century and more, the story of capitalism has been a story of firms and financiers. Thanks to the Big Data revolution, soon, it won't be. As Viktor Mayer-Sch?nberger, bestselling author of Big Data, and Thomas Ramge show, data is replacing money as the driver of market... |
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Women and Politics: The Pursuit of Equality
Lynne E Ford · Routledge
Pages: 445
Format: Paperback
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Women and Politics is a comprehensive examination of women's use of politics in pursuit of gender equality. How can demands for gender equality be reconciled with sex differences? Resolving this paradoxical question has proceeded along two paths: the legal equality doctrine, which emphasizes... |
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The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality
Justin Gest · Oxford University Press
Pages: 249
Format: Print book
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It wasn't so long ago that the white working class occupied the middle of British and American societies. But today members of the same demographic, feeling silenced and ignored by mainstream parties, have moved to the political margins. In the United States and the United Kingdom,... |
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Revolution
Russell Brand · Ballantine Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERWe all know the system isnt working. Our governments are corrupt and the opposing parties pointlessly similar. Our culture is filled with vacuity and pap, and we are told theres nothing we can do Its just the way things are. In this book, Russell Brand hilariously... |
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Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul
Charles King
Pages: 476
Format: Book
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"Intrigue, violence, sex, and espionage, all set against the slow dimming of Ottoman magnificence. I loved this book." -- Simon Winchester At midnight, December 31, 1925, citizens of the newly proclaimed Turkish Republic celebrated the New Year. For the first time ever, they had agreed... |
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