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We Are The Clash: Reagan, Thatcher, and the Last Stand of a Band That Mattered
MARK ANDERSEN · Akashic Books
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
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"When did the Clash quit being 'the only band that matters'? This fascinating book faces a challenge: documenting the final years of the British band that its record label had promoted with that slogan...The band may no longer have mattered, but its legacy mattered to the authors,... |
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Obama: The Call of History
PETER BAKER · New York Times/Callaway
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Peter Baker's authoritative history of the Obama presidency is the first complete account that will stand the test of time. Baker takes the measure of Obama's achievements and disappointments in office and brings into focus the real legacy of the man who, as he described himself, "doesn't... |
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Rebel Mother: My Childhood Chasing the Revolution
Peter Andreas · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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"[A] luminous memoir" - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Those who enjoyed Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle will find much to admire here." - BOOKLIST (starred review) The intimate true story of a boy on the run with his mother, as she abducts him to South... |
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The Death of Truth
MICHIKO KAKUTANI · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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A stirring and incisive manifesto on America's slide away from truth and reason. Over the last three decades, Michiko Kakutani has been thinking and writing about the demise of objective truth in popular culture, academia, and contemporary politics. In The Death of Truth, she connects... |
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The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right
Michael J. Graetz · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 468
Format: Print book
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A fresh and revelatory look at the Warren Burger Supreme Court finds that it was not a "moderate" or transitional court, as often portrayed, but a conservative one that still defines the constitutional landscape we live in today.When Richard Nixon campaigned for the presidency... |
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We Wear the Mask: 15 True Stories of Passing in America
Brando Skyhorse · Beacon Press
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
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Fifteen writers reveal their diverse experiences with passing - including racial, ethnic, sexual orientation, gender, and economic forms of passing.American history is filled with innumerable examples of "passing." Why do people pass? The reasons are manifold: opportunity, access,... |
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Reconstruction Updated Edition: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-18
Eric Foner · Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Pages: 752
Format: eBook
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From the "preeminent historian of Reconstruction" (New York Times Book Review) , the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period which shaped modern America.Eric Foner's "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New... |
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Fortress America: How We Embraced Fear and Abandoned Democracy
Elaine Tyler May · Basic Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning historian untangles the roots of America's culture of fear, and argues that it imperils our democracyFor the last sixty years, fear has seeped into every area of American life: Americans own more guns than citizens of any other country, sequester themselves in gated communities,... |
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Addicted to Outrage: How Thinking Like a Recovering Addict Can Heal the Country
GLENN BECK · Threshold Editions
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A new and sober Glenn Beck - author of thirteen #1 New York Times bestsellers - issues a startling challenge to people on both sides of the aisle to give up our addiction to hating each other.America is addicted to outrage, we're at the height of a twenty-year bender, and we need an intervention.... |
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Keeping At It: The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government
Paul Volcker · PublicAffairs
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary life story of the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, whose absolute integrity provides the inspiration we need as our constitutional system and political tradition are being tested to the breaking point.Paul Volcker has devoted his life's work to public service... |
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Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward
GEMMA HARTLEY · HarperOne
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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A rousing call to arms, packed with surprising insights, that explores how carrying "the mental load" - the thankless day-to-day anticipating of needs and solving of problems large and small - is adversely affecting women's lives and feeding gender inequality, and shows the way forward... |
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