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The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians

Carlos Lozada - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize-winning opinion columnist at The New York Times explores how people in power reveal themselves through their books and writings and, in so doing, illuminates the personal, political, and cultural conflicts driving Washington and the nation. As a long-time book critic...
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The Primary Solution: Rescuing Our Democracy from the Fringes

Nick Troiano - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

In a divided America, the biggest solvable problem fueling political extremism and dysfunction is hiding in plain sight: party primaries. The Primary Solution shows how to fix them.. Congress has become an unproductive and unaccountable mess. Polls show that only 20 percent of Americans...
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Royal Audience: 70 Years, 13 Presidents--One Queen's Special Relationship with America

David Charter - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

70 years on the throne. 13 American presidents. One extraordinary queen.. From the moment she first enchanted the world as a youthful princess, Queen Elizabeth II found a unique place in American hearts - and she also played an unprecedented role in forging transatlantic ties. Over her seventy-year...
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Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War

Volodymyr Ishchenko - Verso
Format: Hardcover

Ukrainian politics, the Russian invasion and the escalating crisis of the post-Soviet world Towards the Abyss presents searching analysis of a decade of war and upheaval in Ukraine. Volodymyr Ishchenko has been among the left's most significant commentators on Ukraine since 2014, when...
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Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World

Patrick Joyce - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

A landmark new history of the peasant experience, exploring a now neglected way of life that once encompassed most of humanity but is vanishing in our time.. "What the skeleton is to anatomy, the peasant is to history, its essential hidden support." For over the past century and a half,...
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We've Got Issues: How You Can Stand Strong for America's Soul and Sanity

Phillip C. McGraw Ph.D. - Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and beloved television host comes We've Got Issues: How You Can Stand Strong for America's Soul and Sanity, a new book on how to come home to our core values, fortify our families and re-embrace self-determination and self-governance.....
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Cancel Culture Dictionary: An A to Z Guide to Winning the War on Fun

Jimmy Failla - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover

You may know Jimmy Failla as the best dressed man in cable news. A force multiplier of positive energy on the radio who sounds like he gets paid in Tequila and Tide Pods. But he's also a former New York City Taxi Driver who's spent countless hours conversing with people from all over...
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White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy

Tom Schaller - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A searing portrait and damning takedown of America's proudest citizens - who are also the least likely to defend its core principles White rural voters hold the greatest electoral sway of any demographic group in the United States, yet rural communities suffer from poor healthcare...
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Taking Down Trump: 12 Rules for Prosecuting Donald Trump by Someone Who Did It Successfully

Tristan Snell - Melville House
Format: Hardcover

"An indispensable must-read. This is THE book to read to understand what's going on in the cases against Trump." - Joy Reid, MSNBC News anchor and host of The ReidOut . A former prosecutor provides an essential guide to ensuring that Donald Trump, and other oligarchs of his ilk,...
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Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)

Ruha Benjamin - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

In this revelatory work, Ruha Benjamin calls on us to take imagination seriously as a site of struggle and a place of possibility for reshaping the future.A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. Work that doesn't strangle the life...
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