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Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You

Greg Gutfeld · Crown Forum; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Behind every awful, dangerous decision lurks one evil beast: the Cool.     From politics to the personal, from fashion to food, from the campus to the locker room, the desire to be cool has infected  all aspects of our lives. At its most harmless, it is annoying. At its worst,...
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The Constitution of the United States of America Modern Edition: Rearranged and Edited for Ease of Reading

Henry Bain · Greenleaf Book Group Press
Format: Hardcover

The Constitution has finally been updated and simplified so that everyone can understand it! For the first time in more than 200 years, a qualified editor has illuminated the Constitution for a modern audience. Here is the result--the document is at last readable! It has been arranged logically,...
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American Statecraft: The Story of the U.S. Foreign Service

J. Robert Moskin · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 932
Format: Hardcover

"This magisterial work on American diplomacy by a veteran journalist and historian is the first complete history of the U.S. Foreign Service American Statecraft is a fascinating and comprehensive look at the unsung men and women of the U.S. Foreign Service whose dedication and sacrifices...
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Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York State

Susan Goodier · Three Hills
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover

Women Will Vote celebrates the 2017 centenary of women's right to full suffrage in New York State. Susan Goodier and Karen Pastorello highlight the activism of rural, urban, African American, Jewish, immigrant, and European American women, as well as male suffragists, both upstate and downstate,...
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Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail

Jonathan Chait · Custom House
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

"An unassailable case that, in the eyes of history, Barack Obama will be viewed as one of America's best and most accomplished presidents. Over the course of eight years, Barack Obama has amassed an array of outstanding achievements. His administration saved the American economy from...
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Blood Feud: The Clintons vs. the Obamas

Edward Klein · Regnery Publishing; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

1 New York Times Bestseller In this highly anticipated follow-up to his blockbuster The Amateur, former New York Times Magazine editor-in-chief Edward Klein delves into the rocky relationship between the Obamas and the Clintons. An old-school reporter with incredible insider contacts, Klein...
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Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power and Public Resistance

Heidi Boghosian · City Lights Publishers
Format: Paperback

"Everyone of us is under the omniscient magnifying glass of the government and corporate spies. . . . How do we respond to this smog of surveillance? Start by reading Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance by Heidi Boghosian"--Bill...
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Nixon's White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever

PATRICK J BUCHANAN · Crown Forum
Pages: 436
Format: Hardcover

From Vietnam to the Southern Strategy, from the opening of China to the scandal of Watergate, Pat Buchanan - speechwriter and senior adviser to President Nixon - tells the untold story of Nixon's embattled White House, from its historic wins to it devastating defeats. In his inaugural...
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Policing Ferguson, Policing America: What Really Happened . . . and What the Country Can Learn from It

Thomas Jackson · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Following the fatal shooting in broad daylight of unarmed African American Michael Brown by a white cop in August 2014, Ferguson, Missouri became the scene of protests that pitted law enforcement against locals and Black Lives matter activists. The media firestorm has not waned, and, in fact,...
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Blood in the Fields: Ten Years Inside California's Nuestra Familia Gang

Julia Reynolds · Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover

The city of Salinas California is the birthplace of John Steinbeck and the setting for his epic masterpiece East of Eden but it is also the home of Nuestra Familia one of the most violent gangs in the United States Born in the prisons of California in the late s Nuestra Familia expanded...
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Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years

NELSON MANDELA · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The long-awaited second volume of Nelson Mandela's memoirs, left unfinished at his death and never before available, are here completed and expanded with notes and speeches written by Mandela during his historic presidency, making for a moving sequel to his worldwide bestseller Long Walk...
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Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You

Greg Gutfeld · Crown Forum
Format: Paperback

Behind every awful, dangerous decision lurks one evil beast: the Cool.     From politics to the personal, from fashion to food, from the campus to the locker room, the desire to be cool has infected  all aspects of our lives. At its most harmless, it is annoying. At its worst,...
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Operation Shakespeare: The True Story of an Elite International Sting

John Shiffman · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

A secret war. A daring sting operation. The great untold national security story of our time: "An impressive and important work ... The book has the glamour of a spy novel and the gravity of a meticulously researched exposé" (Christian Science Monitor).On today's high-tech...
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Hunting Season: Immigration and Murder in an All-American Town

Mirta Ojito · Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

2014 International Latino Awards FinalistThe true story of an immigrant's murder that turned a quaint village on the Long Island shore into ground zero in the war on immigration   In November 2008, Marcelo Lucero, a thirty-seven-year-old undocumented Ecuadorean immigrant, was attacked...
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