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Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics
Lawrence O'Donnell · Penguin Press
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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From the host of MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, an important and enthralling new account of the presidential election that changed everything, the race that created American politics as we know it todayThe 1968 U.S. Presidential election was the young Lawrence O'Donnell's... |
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The List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump's First Year
Amy Siskind · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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The shocking first-draft history of the Trump regime, and its clear authoritarian impulses, based on the viral Internet phenom "The Weekly List."In the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump's election as president, Amy Siskind, a former Wall Street executive and the founder of The New Agenda,... |
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Why Jury Duty Matters: A Citizen's Guide to Constitutional Action
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson · NYU Press
Format: Paperback
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It's easy to forget how important the jury really is to America. The right to be a juror is one of the fundamental rights guaranteed to all eligible citizens. The right to trial by jury helped spark the American Revolution, was quickly adopted at the Constitutional Convention, and is the only... |
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Walk in Their Shoes: Can One Person Change the World?
Jim Ziolkowski · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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THE STORY OF REAL CHANGE CAN START WITH JUST ONE PERSON Twenty-one years ago, Jim Ziolkowski gave up a fast-track career in corporate finance to dedicate his life to buildOn, an organization that turns inner-city teens into community leaders at home and abroad. He set out to show not that... |
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Scorched Earth: Restoring America after Obama
Michael Savage · Center Street
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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"New York Times" bestselling author Michael Savage reveals why we have an infected political system, and what we can now do to nurse the country back to health. Michael Savages says that for the past eight years there has been a retrovirus in the White House, and that the last... |
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Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
Evan Osnos · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; F First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalistWinner of the 2014 National Book Award in nonfiction.An Economist Best Book of 2014.A vibrant, colorful, and revelatory inner history of China during a moment of profound transformationFrom abroad, we often see China as a caricature: a nation... |
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The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For
DAVID MCCULLOUGH · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestseller A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States - winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among many others - that reminds us of fundamental American... |
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Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump
David A Neiwert · Verso
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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The story of the remarkable resurgence of right-wing extremists in the United StatesJust as Donald Trump's victorious campaign for the US presidency shocked the world, the seemingly sudden national prominence of white supremacists, xenophobes, militia leaders, and mysterious "alt-right"... |
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Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment
Andrew C McCarthy · Encounter Books
Format: Hardcover
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We still imagine ourselves a nation of laws, not of men. This is not merely an article of faith but a bedrock principle of the United States Constitution. Our founding compact provides a remedy against rulers supplanting the rule of law, and Andrew C. McCarthy makes a compelling case for using... |
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Travel as a Political Act
Rick Steves · Rick Steves
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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Change the world one trip at a time. In this illuminating collection of stories and lessons from the road, acclaimed travel writer Rick Steves shares a powerful message that resonates now more than ever.With the world facing divisive events and movements like the rise of nationalism, Trump,... |
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Brutal Simplicity of Thought: How It Changed the World
M&C Saatchi · St. Martin's Press; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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The principles of creativity in stunningly simple words and pictures by the man behind the world’s most successful advertising agency How did two wheels emancipate women? How can a pie save thousands of lives? How can a useless piece of fabric determine social status? How can you make... |
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