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The Price of Power: How Mitch McConnell Mastered the Senate, Changed America, and Lost His Party

Michael Tackett - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The first definitive biography of Mitch McConnell, revealing an intimate look at the personal and political life of one of the most powerful senators in American history.. In the long history of American government, few senators have wielded as much power as Kentucky's Mitch McConnell....
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Bandit Heaven: The Hole-in-the-Wall Gangs and the Final Chapter of the Wild West

Tom Clavin - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

From multiple New York Times bestselling author Tom Clavin comes the thrilling true story of the most infamous hangout for bandits, thieves and murderers of all time -- and the lawmen tasked with rooting them out.. Robbers Roost, Brown's Hole, and Hole-in-the-Wall were three hideouts...
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The Last Stand of the Raven Clan: A Story of Imperial Ambition, Native Resistance and How the Tlingit-Russian War Shaped a Continent

Gerald Easter - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

A dynamic history of the Battle of Sitka that recognizes the vital importance of the Tlingit people, their fight against Imperial Russia, and how it changed the fate of the North America.. "If the long-term plans of Peter the Great had been realized, then California never would have...
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Patriot

Alexei Navalny - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs. . Alexei Navalny began writing Patriot shortly after his near-fatal poisoning in 2020. It is the full story of his life: his youth, his call to activism, his marriage and family,...
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Latin America 2024–2025 (World Today (Stryker))

William H. Beezley - Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
Format: Paperback

The World Today Series: Latin America offers the latest available economic, demographic, political, and cultural information. Including solid statistical data expressing freedom, violence, and governmental orientation. Consideration is given to the evolving relationships with the United...
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Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank

Justene Hill Edwards - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A leading historian exposes how the rise and tragic failure of the Freedman's Bank has shaped economic inequality in America.In the years immediately after the Civil War, tens of thousands of former slaves deposited millions of dollars into the Freedman's Bank. African Americans...
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Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative

Isabella Hammad - Grove Press, Black Cat
Format: Paperback

"Extraordinary and amazingly erudite. Hammad shows how art and especially literature can be much, much more revealing than political writing." - Rashid Khalidi, New York Times bestselling author of The Hundred Years' War on PalestineFrom the award-winning author of The Parisian...
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The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler--How War Made Them and How They Made War

Phillips Payson O'Brien - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

Churchill. Hitler. Stalin. Mussolini. Roosevelt. Five of the most impactful leaders of WW2, each with their own individualistic and idiosyncratic approach to warfare. But if we want to understand their military strategy, we must first understand the strategist.. In The Strategists, Professor...
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Exvangelical and Beyond: How American Christianity Went Radical and the Movement That's Fighting Back

Blake Chastain - TarcherPerigee
Format: Hardcover

A pioneer of the "exvangelical" movement examines how toxic right-wing beliefs took over American Christianity - and why people are leaving the church and speaking out against it. With the rise of Trumpism, the American evangelical movement has more political influence than ever...
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Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America

Rebecca L. Davis - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

From an esteemed scholar, a richly textured, authoritative history of sex and sexuality in America -- the first major account in three decades.Our era is one of sexual upheaval. Roe v. Wade was overturned in the summer of 2022, school systems across the country are banning books with LGBTQ...
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