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New Titles - Politics
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Mafia Spies: The Inside Story of the CIA, Gangsters, JFK, and Castro
Thomas Maier · Skyhorse Pages: 424 Format: Hardcover
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From the Bestselling Author and Television Producer of Masters of Sex, a True Story of Espionage and Mobsters, Based on the Never-Before-Released JFK Files, and Optioned by Warner Bros.Mafia Spies is the definitive account of America's most remarkable espionage plots ever - with CIA agents,... |
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Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America
Jared Cohen · Simon & Schuster Pages: 528 Format: Hardcover
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The strength and prestige of the American presidency has waxed and waned since George Washington. Accidental Presidents looks at eight men who came to the office without being elected to it. It demonstrates how the character of the man in that powerful seat affects the nation and world.Eight... |
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The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty
Susan Page · Twelve Pages: 432 Format: Hardcover
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A vivid biography of former First Lady Barbara Bush, one of the most influential and under-appreciated women in American political history. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 15.0px; font: 13.3px Times; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000; background-color: #ffffff}... |
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The Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation
Miles McPherson · Howard Books Pages: 272 Format: Hardcover
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Miles McPherson, founder of The Rock Church in San Diego, speaks out about the pervasive racial divisions in today's culture and argues that we must learn to see people not by the color of their skin, but as God sees them - humans created in the image of God.Miles McPherson has had enough... |
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Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
Stephanie Land · Hachette Books Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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Evicted meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid, a beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in America. Includes a foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich. "My daughter learned to walk in a homeless shelter."While the gap between upper middle-class... |
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American Cipher: Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. Tragedy in Afghanistan
Matt Farwell · Penguin Press Pages: 400 Format: Hardcover
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The explosive narrative of the life, captivity, and trial of Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who was abducted by the Taliban and whose story has served as a symbol for America's foundering war in Afghanistan"A riveting journalistic account of Bowe Bergdahl's disastrous--and weirdly... |
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So Here's the Thing . . .: Notes on Growing Up, Getting Older, and Trusting Your Gut
Alyssa Mastromonaco · Twelve Pages: 240 Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? comes a fun, frank book of reflections, essays, and interviews on topics important to young women, ranging from politics and career to motherhood, sisterhood, and making and sustaining relationships of all kinds... |
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The Good Immigrant: 27 Writers Reflect on America
Nikesh Shukla · Little, Brown and Company Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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An urgent collection of essays by first and second-generation immigrants, exploring what it's like to be othered in an increasingly divided America.From Trump's proposed border wall and travel ban to the marching of White Supremacists in Charlottesville, America is consumed by tensions... |
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