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When Colorblindness Isn't the Answer: Humanism and the Challenge of Race

Anthony B Pinn · Pitchstone Publishing
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

The future of the United States rests in many ways on how the ongoing challenge of racial injustice in the country is addressed. Yet, humanists remain divided over what if any agenda should guide humanist thought and action toward questions of race. In this volume, Anthony B. Pinn makes...
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Southern Reconstruction

Philip Leigh · Westholme Publishing
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The Reconstruction Era the years immediately following the Civil War when Congress directed the reintegration of the former Confederate states into the Union remains, as Eric Foner suggested, America s unfinished revolution. But Reconstruction is more than a story of racial injustice;...
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The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation

Rod Dreher · Penguin Publishing Group
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

In a radical new vision for the future of Christianity, NYT bestselling author and conservative columnist Rod Dreher calls on American Christians to prepare for the coming Dark Age by embracing an ancient Christian way of life. The light of the Christian faith is flickering out all over...
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Kingdoms in the Air: Dispatches from the Far Away

BOB SHACOCHIS · Grove Press
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

"Whether he's in Cuba, Mozambique, or attempting to climb Mount Ararat, [Shacochis] vividly places you in both the past and present of his destinations . . . [his] restlessness and recklessness, all couched in a headlong maximalist prose, are impossible to resist." - Boston...
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Our Sister Republics: The United States in an Age of American Revolutions

CAITLIN FITZ · Liveright
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

A major new interpretation recasts U.S. history between revolution and civil war, exposing a dramatic reversal in sympathy toward Latin American revolutions. In the early nineteenth century, the United States turned its idealistic gaze southward, imagining a legacy of revolution and republicanism...
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The Forgotten Flight: Terrorism, Diplomacy and the Pursuit of Justice

STUART H NEWBERGER · Oneworld Publications
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"Gripping, shocking, forensic: a true legal thriller." -- Philippe Sands, author of East West StreetCombining the international intrigue of John le Carré with the courtroom drama of John Grisham, this real-life legal thriller asks how we can bring leaders of sovereign nations...
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The Ideas Industry: How Pessimists, Partisans, and Plutocrats are Transforming the Marketplace of Ideas.

Daniel W Drezner · OXFORD University Press
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover

The public intellectual, as a person and ideal, has a long and storied history. Writing in venues like the New Republic and Commentary, such intellectuals were always expected to opine on a broad array of topics, from foreign policy to literature to economics. Yet in recent years a new kind...
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I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad

Souad Mekhennet · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

The journalist who broke the "Jihadi John" story draws on her personal experience to bridge the gap between the Muslim world and the West and explain the rise of Islamic radicalismSouad Mekhennet has lived her entire life between worlds. The daughter of a Turkish mother and a Moroccan...
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Understanding Trump

Newt Gingrich · Center Street
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

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Young Radicals: In the War for American Ideals

JEREMY MCCARTER · Random House
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

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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