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Untitled on HRC

Jonathan Allen · Crown
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIt was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the riveting story of a sure thing gone off the rails. For every Comey revelation or hindsight acknowledgment about the electorate,...
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Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City

Tanya Talaga · House of Anansi Press
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
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Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets

Peter Schweizer · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade
Format: Hardcover

A bombshell investigation reveals how Washington really works: politicians extort money from us, then use it to buy each other’s votes. Best-selling author Peter Schweizer reveals: *Obama’s "Protection Money": How the Obama Administration targeted industries for criminal...
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Hillary's America

Dinesh D'Souza · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 294
Format: Print book

Dinesh D'Souza has a warning: We are on the brink of losing our country forever. After eight years of Obama, four years -- or possibly eight years -- of Hillary Clinton as president of the United States would so utterly transform America as to make it unrecognizable. No more will America...
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Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era

Michael Kimmel · Nation Books
Format: Hardcover

We cant come off as a bunch of angry white men.Robert Bennett, chairman of the Ohio Republican Party One of the enduring legacies of the 2012 Presidential campaign was the demise of the white American male voter as a dominant force in the political landscape. On election night, after Obama...
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Supreme Power: 7 Pivotal Supreme Court Decisions That Had a Major Impact on America

Ted Stewart · Shadow Mountain
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A fascinating look at how much power the Supreme Court actually has and how far-reaching the consequences of some of their decisions can be. What do bakers' working hours have to do with abortion rights? What role did the Supreme Court play in sanctioning racism, in moving power away...
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The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life

LAUREN MARKHAM · Crown
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California - fighting to survive, to stay, and to belong.Growing up in rural El Salvador in the wake of the civil war, Ernesto Flores had always had a fascination with the United...
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Understanding Trump

Newt Gingrich · Center Street
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

With this book, Newt Gingrich provides insight and inspiration for Americans as they embrace their new president in office. Donald Trump is a remarkable phenomenon. He is the only person ever elected president without holding office or serving as a general. Trump and "Trumpism "...
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Black and Blue: Inside the Divide between the Police and Black America

Jeff Pegues · Prometheus Books
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover

The recent killings in Dallas, Baton Rouge, Ferguson, and elsewhere are just the latest examples of the longstanding rift between law enforcement and people of color. In this revealing journey to the heart of a growing crisis, CBS News Justice and Homeland Security Correspondent Jeff Pegues...
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The Wikileaks Files: The World According to Us Empire

Julian Assange · Verso, 2015.
Pages: 614
Format: Print book

Published in collaboration with WikiLeaks: What Cablegate tells us about US foreign policyWhen WikiLeaks first came to prominence in 2010 by releasing 2,325,961 top-secret State Department cables, the world saw for the first time what the US really thought about national leaders, friendly...
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The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn’t What It Used to Be

Moises Naim · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

We know that power is shifting: From West to East and North to South, from presidential palaces to public squares, from once formidable corporate behemoths to nimble startups and, slowly but surely, from men to women. But power is not merely shifting and dispersing. It is also decaying....
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The School Revolution: A New Answer for Our Broken Education System

Ron Paul · Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Twelve-term Texas Congressman, Presidential candidate, and 1 New York Times bestselling author Ron Paul returns with a highly provocative treatise about how we need to fundamentally change the way we think about Americas broken education system in order to fix it.Whether or not you have...
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Buck: A Memoir

MK Asante · Spiegel & Grau; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

A rebellious boys journey through the wilds of urban America and the shrapnel of a self-destructing family—this is the riveting story of a generation told through one dazzlingly poetic new voice.   MK Asante was born in Zimbabwe to American parents a mother who led the new nations dance...
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Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age

Amani Al-Khatahtbeh · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

Required reading from the founder of MuslimGirl.com - a harrowing and candid memoir about coming of age as a Muslim American in the wake of 9/11, during the never-ending war on terror, and through the Trump era of casual racism.At nine years old, Amani Al-Khatahtbeh watched from her home...
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Big Agenda: President Trump's Plan to Save America

David Horowitz · Humanix Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 election was more than a historic upset. It was the beginning of a major political, economic, and social revolution that will change America - and the world.One of the nation's foremost conservative commentators, New York Times bestselling author, and a mentor...
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