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Young Radicals: In the War for American Ideals
JEREMY MCCARTER · Random House
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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From the co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Hamilton: The Revolution, a stunning group portrait of five American radicals fighting for their ideals as the country goes mad around them Where do we find our ideals? What does it mean to live for them - and to risk dying for them?... |
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Lincoln and the Democrats: The Politics of Opposition in the Civil War
Mark E Neely · Cambridge University Press
Pages: 248
Format: Print book
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Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War explores the surprising crucial political history of the Northern war effort. It describes the vexatious behavior of a two-party system in war and points to the sound parts of the American system which proved to be the country's salvation: local civic... |
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A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949
KEVIN PERAINO · Crown
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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A gripping narrative of the Truman Administration's response to the fall of Nationalist China and the triumph of Mao Zedong's Communist forces in 1949--an extraordinary political revolution that continues to shape East Asian politics to this day. In the opening months of 1949, U.S. President... |
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Willoughbyland: England's Lost Colony
Matthew Parker · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 294
Format: Hardcover
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At the beginning of the 1650s, wrecked by plague and civil war, England was in ruins. Yet shimmering on the horizon was a vision of paradise called Willoughbyland.When Sir Walter Raleigh set out to South America to find the legendary city of El Dorado, he paved the way for an endless series... |
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Palestine: The Reality: The Inside Story of the Balfour Declaration
J M N Jeffries · Olive Branch Pr
Pages: 758
Format: Paperback
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A comprehensive history and analysis of the Balfour Declaration of 1917, published in the run up to its 100th anniversary.First published by Longman Green, London, this book had a short life; the entire stock and the publisher's premises were destroyed by the German blitz in 1941. The Balfour... |
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Liars, Leakers and Liberals
JEANINE PIRRO · Center Street
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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As host of her own show on Fox for many years, Judge Jeanine Pirro has seen firsthand how narratives take form, whether they are based in truth or not. In her explosive new book, she will write about some of the most egregious lies she's seen, and take on the Liars, Leakers, and Liberals. |
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Beautiful Country Burn Again: Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution
BEN FOUNTAIN · Ecco
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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In a sweeping work of reportage set over the course of 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Fountain recounts a surreal year of politics and an exploration of the third American existential crisis Twice before in its history, the United States has been faced with a crisis so severe... |
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Yes We
DAN PFEIFFER · Twelve
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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From Obama's former communications director and current co-host of Pod Save America comes a colorful account of how politics, the media, and the Internet changed during the Obama presidency and how Democrats can fight back in the Trump era. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font:... |
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Superbugs: An Arms Race against Bacteria
William Hall · Harvard University Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Antibiotics are powerful drugs that can prevent and treat infections, but they are becoming less effective as a result of drug resistance. Resistance develops because the bacteria that antibiotics target can evolve ways to defend themselves against these drugs. When antibiotics fail, there... |
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Six by Ten: Stories from Solitary
Taylor Pendergrass · Haymarket Books
Pages: 345
Format: Paperback
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Six by ten feet. That's the average size of the cells in which tens of thousands of people incarcerated in the United States linger for weeks, months, and even decades in solitary confinement. With little stimulation and no meaningful human contact, these individuals struggle to preserve... |
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The Egyptians: A Radical History of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution
Jack Shenker · The New Press
Pages: 544
Format: Print book
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In The Egyptians, journalist Jack Shenker uncovers the roots of the uprising that succeeded in toppling Hosni Mubarak, one of the Middle East's most entrenched dictators, and explores a country now divided between two irreconcilable political orders. Challenging conventional analyses... |
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The Autonomous City: A History of Urban Squatting
Alex Vasudevan · Verso
Pages: 292
Format: Paperback
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A radical history of squatting and the struggle for the right to remake the cityThe Autonomous City is the first popular history of squatting as practised in Europe and North America. Alex Vasudevan retraces the struggle for housing in Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, Detroit, Hamburg, London,... |
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The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right
MAX BOOT · Liveright
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Warning that the Trump presidency presages America's decline, the political commentator recounts his extraordinary journey from lifelong Republican to vehement Trump opponent.As nativism, xenophobia, vile racism, and assaults on the rule of law threaten the very fabric of our nation, The Corrosion... |
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