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Poetry and Power: John F. Kennedy's Vision for America
STEPHEN KENNEDY SMITH · Harper
Pages: 493
Format: Hardcover
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Published in commemoration of the centennial of President John F. Kennedy's birth, here is the definitive compendium of JFK's most important and brilliant speeches, accompanied by commentary and reflections by leading American and international figures - including Senator Elizabeth Warren,... |
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Making Globalization Work
Joseph E. Stiglitz · W. W. Norton & Company; First Edition edition
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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“A damning denunciation of things as they are, and a platform for how we can do better.”—Andrew Leonard, SalonFour years after he outlined the challenges our increasingly interdependent world was facing in Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E. Stiglitz offered... |
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Intellectual Freedom Manual
Office for Intellectual Freedom · Amer Library Assn; 8 edition
Format: Print book
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Updated for the first time since 2005, this indispensable volume includes revised interpretations of the Library Bill of Rights along with key intellectual freedom guidelines and policies, including Newly amended and updated policiesA new chapter, Interactivity and the Internet, and other... |
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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
Doris Kearns Goodwin · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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One of the Best Books of the Year as chosen by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, Time, USA TODAY, Christian Science Monitor, and more. "A tale so gripping that one questions the need for fiction when real life is so plump with drama and intrigue" (Associated... |
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The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America
Andrew C McCarthy · Encounter Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The real threat to the United States is not terrorism. The real threat is Islamism, whose sophisticated forces have collaborated with the American Left not only to undermine U.S. national security but also to shred the fabric of American constitutional democracy—freedom and individual... |
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The Nixon Tapes: 1971-1972
Ken Hughes · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Kindle Edition
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From Barnes & NobleDuring his presidency, Richard Nixon recorded more than 3,700 hours of his White House and Camp David conversations and now thanks to his conspicuous self-destruction, he will probably forever remain the most documented chief executive of all-time. Until now, less than... |
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The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America
David A. Stockman · PublicAffairs; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times bestseller The Great Deformation is a searing look at Washingtons craven response to the recent myriad of financial crises and fiscal cliffs. It counters conventional wisdom with an eighty-year revisionist history of how the American stateespecially the Federal Reservehas... |
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This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class
Elizabeth Warren · Henry Holt
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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The fiery U. S. Senator from Massachusetts and bestselling author offers a passionate, inspiring book about why our middle class is under siege and how we can win the fight to save it
Senator Elizabeth Warren has long been an outspoken champion of America's middle class, and by the time... |
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A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
Jimmy Carter · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The world’s discrimination and violence against women and girls is the most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation of basic human rights: This is President Jimmy Carter’s call to action.President Carter was encouraged to write this book by a wide coalition of leaders of all faiths.... |
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Getting to Green: Saving Nature: A Bipartisan Solution
Frederic C Rich · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 361
Format: Print book
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"The Green movement in America has lost its way. Pew polling reveals that the environment is one of the two things about which Republicans and Democrats disagree most. Congress has not passed a landmark piece of environmental legislation for a quarter-century. As atmospheric CO2 continues... |
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True Stories of Censorship Battles in America's Libraries
Valerie Nye · Amer Library Assn Editions
Format: Book
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Intellectual freedom is a core value of librarianship, but fighting to keep controversial materials on the shelves can sometimes feel like a lonely battle. And not all censorship controversies involve the public objecting to a book in the collection libraries are venues for displays and meetings,... |
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Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War
James Risen · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Pages: 285
Format: Print book
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War corrupts. Endless war corrupts absolutely. Ever since 9/11 America has fought an endless war on terror, seeking enemies everywhere and never promising peace. In Pay Any Price, James Risen reveals an extraordinary litany of the hidden costs of that war: from squandered and stolen dollars,... |
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